Environment and Climate Change
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Huge numbers attend Aust climate rallies
The Global Strike 4 Climate took place in 110 towns and cities across Australia on Friday, with organisers demanding a…
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‘Such brutality’: tricked into slavery in the Thai fishing industry
In 2006, a young Cambodian sculptor, Vannak Anan Prum, left his village to look for labouring work. Steve Dow The…
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German coalition agrees to 50 billion euro climate package
The German government has agreed to a major package of measures to cut greenhouse gas emissions after weeks of coalition…
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Be excellent: how ancient virtues can guide our responses to the climate crisis
Making big personal changes can appear costly in terms of happiness. Roger Crisp The Conversation And anyway, why should I…
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For the sake of life on Earth, we must put a limit on wealth
It is not quite true that behind every great fortune lies a great crime. George Monbiot The Guardian Musicians and…
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Bird populations in US and Canada down 3bn in 50 years
The first concludes there are three billion fewer birds in the US and Canada today compared to 1970 – a…
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Everything you are told is a lie’: Craig Kelly hits out at climate strike students
Coalition MP Craig Kelly has told the thousands of Australian students planning to join Friday’s climate strike that “everything you…
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The West is losing the battle for the Arctic
But the resulting bewilderment provided a useful service: It yanked back the curtain on the international scramble for the Arctic, which has…
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Climate activist Greta Thunberg meets with Barack Obama
Former US president Barack Obama has met with 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg as part of her visit to Washington…
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The Impact of Climate Change on Kivalina, Alaska
Joe Raedle, a photographer for Getty, recently flew to Kivalina to spend some time with the villagers and photograph their…
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‘Adults Have Made the World a Worse Place, so Now I’m Here for Revenge.’
Eco-anxiety is likely to affect more and more people as the climate destabilizes. Caroline Hickman Newsweek Already, studies have found…
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Greens’ challenge aptly described by Paddy Manning, but with no solutions in sight
Manning’s exhaustive (but never exhausting) Inside the Greens pulls the reader through almost half a century of battles over development…
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Shane Warne urges cricket to be proactive about climate crisis dangers
• Players wearing shorts among the recommendations Shane Warne has called for cricket to be “proactive, not reactive” about the…
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Council weighs up fifth bin for recycling, while SKM clean-up continues
Surf Coast Shire, which covers Torquay, Anglesea and Lorne, has been forced to dump 350 tonnes of recycling a month…
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The bizarre fabrics that fashion is betting on
“When I was 16 or 17 I would buy a new outfit for a party and on every payday, stocking…
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John Hewson urges Liberal conscience vote on climate emergency motion
The former Liberal leader John Hewson has called on Scott Morrison to grant government MPs a conscience vote on a…
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