The Washington Post
How climate experts think about raising children who will inherit a planet in crisis
· “It makes me look at the present and be incredibly resolved.” · Shared by 52, including Liv 😷, Dr. Jacquelyn Gill, Mark Little, Thomas Power, Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson 🐙
The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand
Plants safely store toxic mercury. Bushfires and climate change bring it back into our environment
3 min · · Plants can store mercury and keep it from contaminating waterways, air and soils. Unfortunately, that mercury is released when plants burn. · Shared by 11, including Liv 😷
ABC News
The burning bush is talking
· Just before the fire hit, the trees' leaves turned red and fell to the ground, and it left Adrian wondering - did they know they were just about to burn? · Shared by 8, including Liv 😷
climate.mit.edu
Australia’s fires have pumped out more emissions than 100 nations combined
· Massive wildfires on the eastern coast of Australia are not only an unfolding climate disaster, writes James Temple, MIT Technology Review's senior editor for energy. They're also an example of… · Shared by 6, including Liv 😷
The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand
Conservation scientists are grieving after the bushfires
5 min · · The destruction of recent fires is challenging our belief that with enough time, love and money, every threatened species can be saved. But there is plenty we can, and must, now do. · Shared by 11, including Liv 😷
ABC News
Golf ball-sized hail, a dust storm, two people struck by lightning — and that's just 24 hours in Australia
2 min · · From rain and hail pelting recently razed firegrounds to a fast-moving dust storm blocking out the sun in western New South Wales, the weather across parts of Australia over the last 24 hours has been… · Shared by 10, including Liv 😷
The New York Times
We Can’t Slow Climate Change Without the Energy Companies
4 min · · Bigger and faster emissions reductions are possible if environmentalists and industry work together. · Shared by 20, including Katja Evertz, Liv 😷
BBC News (World)
New generation of climate heroes
· Schoolchildren lead the way in the fight against climate change · Shared by 6, including Liv 😷
The Sydney Morning Herald
Cattle have stopped breeding, koalas die of thirst: A vet's hellish diary of climate change
3 min · · The paddocks are bare, the dams dry. A veterinarian describes the devastation of climate change in the northern NSW community of Inverell. · Shared by 33, including Liv 😷, Hiroko Tabuchi, Adrian Roselli (no blue check) 🗯, Rico Grimm, Noely ⚡️🏐, The Age
adelaidereview.com.au
There are no climate denialists on the end of a fire hose
5 min · · There’s a saying in the CFS, oft-repeated these days, that there are no denialists on the end of a fire hose. But we don’t talk much about the climate emergency in my brigade. · Shared by 6, including Liv 😷
The Sydney Morning Herald
Dear Angus Taylor ... let me remind you of our encounter at Oxford and why it matters
3 min · · There's a giant lie at the heart of your story about Naomi Wolf where you cast yourself as the underdog. · Shared by 7, including Liv 😷
Financial Review
No more room for excuses on climate
2 min · · Company directors can no longer hide behind flaky excuses for failing to take account of climate risks and take steps to reduce those risks. · Shared by 6, including Liv 😷
ABC News
Trees 'ripped out of ground' as dust storms continue at record-breaking frequency
5 min · · Dust haze and storms continue to impact parts of Australia at record-breaking levels, with one town in far-west NSW recording 230 hours of dust in October alone. · Shared by 6, including Liv 😷
sbs.com.au
The world's 'war against nature must stop,' UN chief says ahead of global climate summit
1 min · · UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has pleaded for countries to fight climate change, saying the "war against nature must stop", ahead of a major summit. · Shared by 9, including Liv 😷
The Guardian
Scott Morrison and the big lie about climate change: does he think we're that stupid?
8 min · · Australians everywhere are ready to get on with the job of dealing with the climate crisis. We just need a prime minister to lead us · Shared by 16, including Helen De Cruz, Liv 😷
The New York Review of Books
Lessons in Survival
16+ min · · My grandmother Mabel Raboteau fled the coastal town of Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, and the terror of Jim Crow along the northern pathway of the Great Migration, to Michigan, in order to save her life… · Shared by 17, including Eric Holthaus, Liv 😷