Mark Ward
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The CO2 emissions of just five oil & gas corporations since 2015 are estimated to have caused over US$5 TRILLION in economic damages.
However, these costs are falling on outdoor workers, small farmers, informal settlements and public budgets in the Global South.
Sound fair to you?
However, these costs are falling on outdoor workers, small farmers, informal settlements and public budgets in the Global South.
Sound fair to you?
Make Climate Polluters Pay: South Asia’s Workers Are Bearing the Heat of a Crisis They Did Not Create - The Diplomat Nepal
Over the past decades, South Asia has been struck by a relentless chain of extreme weather events- 2015 and 2014 heatwaves in India to Nepal’s 2024 floods,
bit.ly
November 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
The CO2 emissions of just five oil & gas corporations since 2015 are estimated to have caused over US$5 TRILLION in economic damages.
However, these costs are falling on outdoor workers, small farmers, informal settlements and public budgets in the Global South.
Sound fair to you?
However, these costs are falling on outdoor workers, small farmers, informal settlements and public budgets in the Global South.
Sound fair to you?
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This weekend, @greenpeaceeastasia.bsky.social was at the @jama_jpn Japan Mobility Show to see the latest in zero-emission mobility.
While most automakers showcased their electric vehicles, @Toyota had none on display.
Toyota needs to go zero-emission and help drive the change our climate needs.
While most automakers showcased their electric vehicles, @Toyota had none on display.
Toyota needs to go zero-emission and help drive the change our climate needs.
November 10, 2025 at 1:19 AM
This weekend, @greenpeaceeastasia.bsky.social was at the @jama_jpn Japan Mobility Show to see the latest in zero-emission mobility.
While most automakers showcased their electric vehicles, @Toyota had none on display.
Toyota needs to go zero-emission and help drive the change our climate needs.
While most automakers showcased their electric vehicles, @Toyota had none on display.
Toyota needs to go zero-emission and help drive the change our climate needs.
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Sunday night, time to relax. No, time to get furious after hearing about the sponsors of WA's recent Biodiversity Conference, which included Alcoa, Woodside and South 32. These destructive companies are the enemies of biodiversity and should be blacklisted. But instead...
November 9, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Sunday night, time to relax. No, time to get furious after hearing about the sponsors of WA's recent Biodiversity Conference, which included Alcoa, Woodside and South 32. These destructive companies are the enemies of biodiversity and should be blacklisted. But instead...
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Here's how to fix your woefully inadequate environmental law reform package, @australianlabor.bsky.social!
👉 biodiversitycouncil.org.au/resources/ge...
👉 biodiversitycouncil.org.au/resources/ge...
November 8, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Here's how to fix your woefully inadequate environmental law reform package, @australianlabor.bsky.social!
👉 biodiversitycouncil.org.au/resources/ge...
👉 biodiversitycouncil.org.au/resources/ge...
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Sign me up @vanbadham.bsky.social
I will donate to a development fund for Bluesky to build a Facebook equivalent. Please share this skeet if you would, too.
It would be so good if the bsky team had funding to build a fb competitor
November 8, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Sign me up @vanbadham.bsky.social
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Many say UN climate summits are pointless. They’re wrong.
The UN climate summits are working – just not in the way their critics think
Many say UN climate summits are pointless. They’re wrong.
tcnv.link
November 8, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Many say UN climate summits are pointless. They’re wrong.
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In NSW, white supremacist neo-nazis are allowed to run free with their hate, racism and anti-semitism, while those standing up for justice for Palestine are relentlessly attacked, policed and vilified.
Shame on the Minns Labor government.
Shame on the Minns Labor government.
Police allowed Nazi rally outside NSW parliament
More than 60 people attended Saturday morning’s rally after notifying police more than a week ago. The police commissioner said he had no idea it was going to happen.
www.smh.com.au
November 8, 2025 at 9:36 AM
In NSW, white supremacist neo-nazis are allowed to run free with their hate, racism and anti-semitism, while those standing up for justice for Palestine are relentlessly attacked, policed and vilified.
Shame on the Minns Labor government.
Shame on the Minns Labor government.
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JFC
Google plans to build a large artificial intelligence data centre on Australia’s remote Indian Ocean outpost of Christmas Island after signing a cloud deal with the Department of Defence this year, according to documents reviewed by Reuters and interviews with officials www.afr.com/technology/g...
Google to build data centre on Christmas Island
The search engine giant signed a cloud deal with the Department of Defence this year to build the facility, whose details remain secret, on Christmas Island.
www.afr.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:52 AM
JFC
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
www.abc.net.au
October 31, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Austin Baker and his team at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County are leading an ambitious effort to DNA-barcode every insect species in California as part of the statewide CalATBI initiative to “discover it all, protect it forever.”
California’s grand insect census
California has a way of exaggerating things—mountains, deserts, and egos. But its insects? They take excess to another level. Somewhere between the redwoods and the Salton Sea live perhaps 60,000,…
news.mongabay.com
October 31, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Austin Baker and his team at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County are leading an ambitious effort to DNA-barcode every insect species in California as part of the statewide CalATBI initiative to “discover it all, protect it forever.”
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"More than a quarter of the National Press Club’s sponsors are part of the global arms industry or working on its behalf"
Investigation by Michelle Fahy #auspol
michaelwest.com.au/weaponising-...
Investigation by Michelle Fahy #auspol
michaelwest.com.au/weaponising-...
Weaponising media. National Press Club and its arms industry sponsors - Michael West
More than a quarter of the National Press Club’s sponsors are part of the global arms industry or working on its behalf.
michaelwest.com.au
October 31, 2025 at 6:54 AM
"More than a quarter of the National Press Club’s sponsors are part of the global arms industry or working on its behalf"
Investigation by Michelle Fahy #auspol
michaelwest.com.au/weaponising-...
Investigation by Michelle Fahy #auspol
michaelwest.com.au/weaponising-...
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Read the inside story of how the movement to stop Zohran Mamdani fell apart:
www.salon.com/2025/10/30/p...
www.salon.com/2025/10/30/p...
Panic in the Hamptons: The fight to stop Zohran Mamdani
Behind closed doors, wealthy donors plotted to stop a movement reshaping New York politics — and exposed their deepest fears.
www.salon.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Read the inside story of how the movement to stop Zohran Mamdani fell apart:
www.salon.com/2025/10/30/p...
www.salon.com/2025/10/30/p...
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The dishonesty around the use of Robodebt in prosecuting the government’s Freedom of Information secrecy drive is galling in the extreme. I set out some facts that deflate the specious claims being used as cover. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi...
‘Absurdist leaps of logic’: Robodebt misused in FOI reforms
I am furious. Angry, certainly, about the federal government’s proposed freedom of information laws, which mock the very idea of transparency, but seething especially about the justification for them,...
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
October 25, 2025 at 8:18 AM
The dishonesty around the use of Robodebt in prosecuting the government’s Freedom of Information secrecy drive is galling in the extreme. I set out some facts that deflate the specious claims being used as cover. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi...
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A wee little thing we have been working on over the past few month is now up and going - @thepointau.bsky.social.
Where to go for @amyremeikis.bsky.social's live blog, for analysis, fact checks, and details about things that might not be in "the news" but should be
thepoint.com.au
Where to go for @amyremeikis.bsky.social's live blog, for analysis, fact checks, and details about things that might not be in "the news" but should be
thepoint.com.au
The Point
The point.com.au
thepoint.com.au
October 23, 2025 at 5:25 AM
A wee little thing we have been working on over the past few month is now up and going - @thepointau.bsky.social.
Where to go for @amyremeikis.bsky.social's live blog, for analysis, fact checks, and details about things that might not be in "the news" but should be
thepoint.com.au
Where to go for @amyremeikis.bsky.social's live blog, for analysis, fact checks, and details about things that might not be in "the news" but should be
thepoint.com.au
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Queenslanders miss out on $400 million in royalty payments as Adani sells coal offshore at "mates rates"
Queenslanders miss out on $400 million in royalty payments as Adani sells coal offshore 'for cheap'
At a time where Queenslanders are struggling with record energy prices, Queensland has missed out on a staggering amount of royalties due to mining giant Adani selling coal essentially at “mates rates...
thepoint.com.au
October 23, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Queenslanders miss out on $400 million in royalty payments as Adani sells coal offshore at "mates rates"
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Climate change, the gift that keeps on giving.
Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country
Three specimens discovered in what was previously one of the few places in the world without the insects
www.theguardian.com
October 22, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Climate change, the gift that keeps on giving.
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Brazil has taken a dangerous step against the climate crisis and granted oil company Petrobras permission to drill oil wells into the Amazon Sea, one of the most diverse regions on the planet.
But we keep fighting✊ Sign the petition for an oil free Amazon >> act.gp/3XTSCtT
But we keep fighting✊ Sign the petition for an oil free Amazon >> act.gp/3XTSCtT
October 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Brazil has taken a dangerous step against the climate crisis and granted oil company Petrobras permission to drill oil wells into the Amazon Sea, one of the most diverse regions on the planet.
But we keep fighting✊ Sign the petition for an oil free Amazon >> act.gp/3XTSCtT
But we keep fighting✊ Sign the petition for an oil free Amazon >> act.gp/3XTSCtT
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Shocking.
Our planet has passed its first 'tipping point' with widespread coral reef die-off, a new report says, and other environmental systems including the Amazon, major ocean currents and ice sheets aren't far behind.
Our planet has passed its first 'tipping point' with widespread coral reef die-off, a new report says, and other environmental systems including the Amazon, major ocean currents and ice sheets aren't far behind.
The planet has entered a ‘new reality’ as it hits its first climate tipping point, report finds | CNN
The widespread death of coral reefs is the first in a series of catastrophic and potentially irreversible tipping points the world may hit, according to a landmark report produced by 160 scientists ac...
edition.cnn.com
October 19, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Shocking.
Our planet has passed its first 'tipping point' with widespread coral reef die-off, a new report says, and other environmental systems including the Amazon, major ocean currents and ice sheets aren't far behind.
Our planet has passed its first 'tipping point' with widespread coral reef die-off, a new report says, and other environmental systems including the Amazon, major ocean currents and ice sheets aren't far behind.
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Pentagon reporters could be seen leaving the sprawling U.S. military headquarters with boxes after at least 30 news organizations declined to sign a new Pentagon access policy for journalists, warning of the potential for less coverage of the world's most powerful military.
October 16, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Pentagon reporters could be seen leaving the sprawling U.S. military headquarters with boxes after at least 30 news organizations declined to sign a new Pentagon access policy for journalists, warning of the potential for less coverage of the world's most powerful military.
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The first of Earth's ecosystems has passed a 'tipping point', a new report says, with other environmental systems including the Amazon, major ocean currents and ice sheets not far behind.
October 13, 2025 at 9:27 AM
The first of Earth's ecosystems has passed a 'tipping point', a new report says, with other environmental systems including the Amazon, major ocean currents and ice sheets not far behind.
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