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Nathan Laurent
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MA (res.) political & environmental journalism, QUT (Australia). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/view/person/Laurent,_Nathan.html
“In 2017, the Aust. Gov. introduced legislation to phase down refrigerants with a high global warming impact, on the assumption that industry would gradually transition to newer, lower-impact alternatives”. The only problem? It really didn’t happen. www.climatecontrolnews.com.au/refrigeratio...
Prepare for refrigerant shortages - Climate Control News
Refrigerants Australia has warned of widespread refrigerant shortages and significant price increases over the upcoming summer period.
www.climatecontrolnews.com.au
November 12, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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The US is set to shut down a crucial satellite that monitors how much carbon is in the atmosphere.
Record-breaking CO₂ rise shows the Amazon is faltering — yet the satellite that spotted this may soon be shut down
The US is set to shut down a crucial satellite that monitors how much carbon is in the atmosphere.
tcnv.link
October 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
October 21, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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The direct trade in F-35 fighter jet parts to Israel is substantial and continuing.

Declassified Australia’s new investigation lifts the lid…

declassifiedaus.org/2025/10/01/s...
SECRET CARGO: INSIDE AUSTRALIA’S COVERT F-35 PARTS PIPELINE TO ISRAEL  - Declassified Australia
At least 68 shipments of F-35 fighter jet parts have been flown on commercial passenger planes to Israel from Australia as recently as last month, leaked documents reveal.
declassifiedaus.org
October 1, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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The silencing continues...

The National Press Club of Australia, caving to the Israel lobby, Cancels My Talk on Our Betrayal of Palestinian Journalists open.substack.com/pub/chrished...
The National Press Club of Australia, caving to the Israeli lobby, Cancels My Talk on Our Betrayal of Palestinian Journalists
The National Press Club of Australia cancelled my talk on how the media, by amplifying Israeli lies, have betrayed Palestinian journalists, 278 of whom have been assassinated by Israel.
open.substack.com
October 4, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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The onus is on the party committing genocide to stop committing genocide. The onus is not on the victims of the genocide to sign agreements in the hope of saving themselves from the genocide. This is obvious to anyone who isn't a psychopath.
September 30, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Israel has killed 26 more journalists, this time in Yemen, @dropsitenews.com reports.

Israel launched airstrikes at two newspaper offices in Yemen's capital city Sanaa on Wednesday, killing at least 35 people total and wounding at least 165.

www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-kil...
Israel kills 25 journalists in Yemen newspaper bombing, Hundreds detained in forced march in the West Bank, Alleged Kirk shooter in custody
Drop Site Daily: September 12, 2025
www.dropsitenews.com
September 12, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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21 Questions About The Claim That Iran Orchestrated Antisemitic Attacks In Australia

6. Please explain how orchestrating antisemitic attacks in Australia would advance Iranian interests more than the interests of some other state, say, just for example, Israel?
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/21-questio...
21 Questions About The Claim That Iran Orchestrated Antisemitic Attacks In Australia
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):
www.caitlinjohnst.one
August 27, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Seems odd: out of all the synogogues in Melbourne to choose from, Adass Israel had a lot of members opposed to Zionism/Settlers & the creation of a Jewish state. For these reasons, you'd think Iran (if behind it) would have chosen a different target.

#auspol

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Iranian ambassador expelled over ‘credible intelligence’ Iran directed antisemitic attacks on Australian soil
Australia’s spy agency finds Iran behind incidents including arson attack on Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne
www.theguardian.com
August 26, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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Lot of media organisations and journalists glad they now can move on from having to talk about Israel bombing another hospital.
August 26, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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#Palestine: We strongly condemn the latest war crime perpetrated by Israel. To date, the #IFJ has recorded at least 217 Palestinian journalists killed by Israeli forces since the war started on 7 October 2023. We demand JUSTICE and an end to this unprecedented massacre.
Palestine: At least 217 journalists and media workers killed in Gaza / IFJ
[UPDATED 25.08.2025] At least 217 Palestinian journalists and media workers have been killed, several have been injured and others are missing during the war in Gaza. The International Federation of J...
www.ifj.org
August 25, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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“Frankly, I’m losing words to describe the horror of this. The worst conflict for journalists that CPJ has ever documented, and the abject failure of the international community to do anything to address it,” CPJ’s CEO @jodieginsberg.bsky.social told @aljazeera.com.

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August 25, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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The heart-shaped mangrove formation fading due to rising seas
The heart-shaped mangrove formation fading due to rising seas
The Heart of Voh is a symbol of New Caledonia’s pristine environment but its outline is changing due to the climate crisis
www.theguardian.com
August 15, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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The lethal legacy of Aukus nuclear submarines will remain for millennia – and there’s no plan to deal with it.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
The lethal legacy of Aukus nuclear submarines will remain for millennia – and there’s no plan to deal with it
Australia’s future nuclear submarines will produce highly radioactive waste, and allies in the UK and the US still don’t have a safe place to store their own
www.theguardian.com
August 10, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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Terracotta Is a 3,000-Year-Old Solution to Fighting Extreme Heat www.scientificamerican.com/article/terr...
Terracotta Is a 3,000-Year-Old Solution to Fighting Extreme Heat
Companies are adapting this humble clay-based ceramic to keep people cool—without electricity
www.scientificamerican.com
August 5, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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In Indonesia, activists who recently won a court ruling requiring mandatory labelling on asbestos products are now being sued for defamation by a global industry lobby group representing the world's biggest asbestos producers, including those in Russia and China.
Legal dust-up as asbestos industry sues Indonesian activists
In Indonesia, activists who recently won a court ruling requiring mandatory labelling on asbestos products are now being sued for defamation by a global industry lobby group representing the world's biggest asbestos producers, including those in Russia and China.
www.abc.net.au
August 6, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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For the sake of Australia’s much-loved wildlife, we need to move to a post-RFA world. Environment minister Murray Watt should bring native forest logging under the national nature law as part of his reform of the Act. No more industry carve-outs. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Albanese government plotted to maintain native forest logging in NSW if court battle was lost, documents show
Exclusive: Anthony Albanese sought ‘advice on strategy’ as federal and state governments prepared for ‘potential impacts of an adverse decision’
www.theguardian.com
July 24, 2025 at 1:22 AM
How much world healing can a broken heart make room for?
July 26, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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This fuel is 50% plastic — and it’s slipping through a loophole in international waste law.

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#Plastic #Energy #Climate #Fuel #Climate #Environment
This fuel is 50% plastic — and it’s slipping through a loophole in international waste law
Environmental groups are concerned that rich countries are exporting plastic to poor countries in the form of “refuse-derived fuel.”
grist.org
July 15, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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In an age of failing economies and a neofascist backlash, what we need is Marxism. To free ourselves from our technofeudal overlords, we must think like Karl Marx. The corporations are asset-stripping our brains, but we can take back control. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
July 3, 2025 at 8:50 AM