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New Zealand man filmed trying to ‘body slam’ an orca in actions described as ‘idiotic’ (www.theguardian.com)

Wot ?

Popular car uses 31% more fuel than advertised while other makes fare poorly in Australian efficiency test (www.theguardian.com)

No surprises there I guess :(

Coastal property owners warned of growing extreme weather risks as insurance costs soar - ABC News (www.abc.net.au)

Australia’s largest insurer, IAG, is calling for property buy-backs and an end to new housing in high-risk zones....

As NZ unemployment rises, Kiwis are making their way across the Tasman (www.abc.net.au)

Bad in NZ or hyperbole ?

Qualcomm goes where Apple won't, readies official Linux support for Snapdragon X Elite | Tom's Hardware (www.tomshardware.com)

Most of the functionality is present but many important bits are still being developed.

‘Magical thinking’: hopes for sustainable jet fuel not realistic, report finds | Greenhouse gas emissions (www.theguardian.com)

cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/9550904...

Brutal heatwaves and submerged cities: what a 3C world would look like (www.theguardian.com)

cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/9429920...

UN expert attacks ‘exploitative’ world economy in fight to save planet (www.theguardian.com)

Outgoing special rapporteur David Boyd says ‘there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand how grave this is’

‘The cheap option’?: why the Gold Coast may be on track to build the most expensive light rail in the world (www.theguardian.com)

Alon Levy, co-lead of the transportation and land use program at New York University’s Marron Institute, has spent years studying why some countries are able to build transport infrastructure cheaply and others aren’t....

Dmitry Petrov – The Path of an Anarchist (avtonom.org)

cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/9430955

Melbourne man 'dumbfounded' after finding out he lost Australian citizenship 33 years ago (www.abc.net.au)

Wtf ?

Supercharged thunderstorms: have we underestimated how climate change drives extreme rain and floods? (theconversation.com)

I just used to accept the 7% increase per c figure but as indicated...

Red handfish deaths recorded as specimens released back into wild (slrpnk.net)

Another one on the way … to extinction! Not one mention of climate change in the article :)...

Tire toxicity faces fresh scrutiny after salmon die-offs (phys.org)

“You’ve got a chemical cocktail in these tires that no one really understands and is kept highly confidential by the tire manufacturers,” said Nick Molden, CEO of Emissions Analytics. “We struggle to think of another consumer product that is so prevalent in the world and used by virtually everyone, where there is so...

Parched south-west is 'canary in the coal mine' reflecting Australia’s climate change reality (www.abc.net.au)

So certainly for Australia, it’s south-west WA where that declining rainfall trend is going to be most acute," Australian National University climate scientist Nerilie Abram said....

I couldn't get past the foreword and not be horrified (slrpnk.net)

Glacing out my window here in rural NE Tas, we’re still warring with nature and nature is loosing....

160 pilot whales stranded and 26 confirmed dead in Western Australia – video (www.theguardian.com)

World | Free Full-Text | The Human Ecology of Overshoot: Why a Major Population Correction Is Inevitable (www.mdpi.com)

Homo sapiens has evolved to reproduce exponentially, expand geographically, and consume all available resources. For most of humanity’s evolutionary history, such expansionist tendencies have been countered by negative feedback. However, the scientific revolution and the use of fossil fuels reduced many forms of negative...