Fiona Broom
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Fiona Broom
@fifiboom.bsky.social
Food, land, and seas reporter | AAAS Kavli 🥈 winner | Amateur mycologist | Now on Gunaikurnai country, previously in 🇬🇧🇳🇵🇮🇳🇱🇧
Folks in Canada allege athleisure giant Lululemon misled consumers with its Be Planet campaign, which claimed its products contribute to restoring a healthy planet. Company's 2022 impact report shows Lululemon’s supply chain emissions increased since that campaign. From @thenarwhalca.bsky.social
Lululemon using fossil fuel-linked PR firm in greenwashing battle | The Narwhal
Edelman has a ‘pattern of behaviour’ showing ‘disregard for global environmental crises,’ climate communications expert says
thenarwhal.ca
February 24, 2024 at 8:06 PM
Summer for farmers in Australia's south-east usually means bracing for bushfires. 
No-one expected the storm that ripped through the region this week. 
The power of the winds felled gum forests, tore through steel sheds, and crippled power and telecoms infrastructure.
Storm that no-one expected leaves death and devastation behind as community faces days without power, phones
Powerful winds felled gum forests, tore through steel sheds, and crippled power and telecoms infrastructure, leaving weeks of repairs in their wake.
www.abc.net.au
February 16, 2024 at 2:41 AM
A crazy wet summer followed by hot, dry days has led to an anthrax outbreak at a beef farm in southern Australia.

Anthrax bacteria can survive in soils for half a century.

Could climate change lead to more frequent / worse anthrax outbreaks?

www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2...
Farm under quarantine after cattle deaths attributed to anthrax
A property north-east of Shepparton has been quarantined after anthrax — a disease caused by spore-forming bacteria that naturally occur in soil — was confirmed as the cause of death of several animal...
www.abc.net.au
February 12, 2024 at 2:16 AM