Commented - environment

Meat-loving Australia has no appetite for vegetarian diet to help planet, study finds (www.abc.net.au)

A study shows Australians would rather take other actions to help the environment than give up meat....

Andrew Forrest calls for fossil fuel bosses' 'heads on spikes' in extraordinary outburst (www.abc.net.au)

Australian mining magnate Andrew Forrest is attending the COP28 climate conference in the United Arab Emirates....

Rooftop PV takes a bite out of everyone’s lunch as minimum demand records tumble again (reneweconomy.com.au)

Rooftop solar continues to take a big bite out of the business and operating model of Australia’s main grid, hitting new output records on Sunday and sending minimum demand records tumbling across the country....

Electric garbage truck trialled in regional Australia drives 'like a limousine' (www.abc.net.au)

Study uncovers 'horrifying' loss experienced by people whose dogs died from 1080 baiting (www.deakin.edu.au)

This is the first qualitive study to give voice to people whose dogs have been harmed by 1080....

Untapped rooftop solar: Australian homes could save $9.3 billion a year, UNSW study finds - One Step Off The Grid (onestepoffthegrid.com.au)

Australian households could save $9.3 billion on energy bills each year by investing in the untapped solar potential of residential rooftops across the nation, a new report has found....

If you’ve got a dark roof, you’re spending almost $700 extra a year to keep your house cool - One Step Off The Grid (onestepoffthegrid.com.au)

The Thunberg Effect: Why Some Australians Overheat At The Mere Mention Of Swedish Climate Activist - New Matilda (newmatilda.com)

Thunberg is a Swedish resident who speaks English as a second language....

Koala lover here still looking for any discussions on conserving koala habitat (lemmy.world)

Greetings, I have discovered this Australian community while I was looking for any discussions on what is going on in regards to conserving koala habitat in the Land Down Under. I haven’t decided yet on whether or not I should go ahead and create my own koala community on here as I recently have came here from Reddit....

Antarctic research stations have polluted a pristine wilderness (www.nature.com)

Parts of the sea floor near Australia’s Casey research station are as polluted as the harbour in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, according to a study published in PLOS One in August1....

Four reasons rooftop solar will grow to dominate Australia’s electricity market (reneweconomy.com.au)

'Eco-friendly' straws contain potentially toxic chemicals – posing a threat to people and wildlife. (theconversation.com)

Going on a hike? Here’s why you shouldn't pick up sticks to use as walking aids (www.abc.net.au)

When hiking through a national park, it may seem harmless to pick up a stick from the bush and use it as a type of walking aid....

Marine heatwave off north-east Australia sets off alarm over health of Great Barrier Reef (www.theguardian.com)

A marine heatwave has broken out along more than 2,000km of the Queensland coast, raising concerns for the health of corals on the Great Barrier Reef and other ocean life....

El Niño is laying the foundations for unprecedented global temperatures next year (www.abc.net.au)

Escaping underground: the eerie new age of bushfire bunkers (www.theguardian.com)

Nationals threaten to tear up wind and solar contracts as nuclear misinformation swings polls (reneweconomy.com.au)

National leader David Littleproud has reportedly threatened to tear up contracts for wind and solar farm developments, in the latest broadside against large scale renewable energy from the federal Coalition....

Bark dwelling microbes have the capacity to regulate the methane emissions from trees [Edited Title] (www.scu.edu.au)

Two Southern Cross University researchers, Dr Luke Jeffrey and Dr Judith Rosentreter, have secured Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award grants worth a total of $891,197 to further their studies on methane emissions from vegetation, soils and water, which have already turned up some game-changing...

A farmer set a trap to catch whatever was killing his chooks. He caught a quoll extinct in SA for 130 years (www.abc.net.au)

When farmer Pao Ling Tsai set a trap to catch the predator that had been killing his chooks, he expected he would catch a feral cat or fox. “I’ve given the video to National Parks and Wildlife to see what animal took the food, but I think it was another quoll or quolls.”...

'Thrown to the wind' -- are wind farms really killing whales? (www.youtube.com)

cross-posted from: aussie.zone/post/7289659...

Greed trumps climate as Origin bid voted down by dividend hungry shareholders (reneweconomy.com.au)

A bold plan to spend $30 billion over ten years on wind, solar and storage and drag at least one of Australia’s big energy utilities into the promised green energy future has been formally laid to rest – a triumph, if that’s the word, of greed over climate concerns....

The super-rich are getting away with murder (independentaustralia.net)

The planet’s wealthiest people are putting Earth on a countdown to extinction. Wealth inequality is a global crisis and taxing the super-rich is a pathway to saving the planet from environmental catastrophe, writes Robert Gordon....

What you should know about green waste (www.brisbane.qld.gov.au)

Did you know that approximately 18% of the average Brisbane household bin is garden waste, meaning tonnes of garden waste is sent to landfill each year?...

Federated Communities/Magazines and Users for the "Outside"

This will be a living document (and is a Work In Progress) so if readers are aware of instances/communities/magazines that suit the umbrella of the “environment”, including “gardening” etc., please comment to add them. Use the browsers at the bottom to find your own. This was originally a Lemmy list but has expanded to...