Every day, more children discover they are living in a climate crisis. This makes many children feel sad, anxious, angry, powerless, confused and frightened about what the future holds. The climate change burden facing young people is inherently unfair. But they have the potential to be the most powerful generation when it comes to creating…
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Tinny Of Soon To Be Deported Blokes Arriving In WA Eclipses Housing Crisis, Climate Change, Buckling Health System And Cost Of Living Pressures As The Most Pressing Issue On National Agenda
WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT After a tumultuous few years, the political landscape might just be returning to normal this week. Following a glut of stories about a variety of issues directly impacting everyday Australians, a semblance of normality returned to the news cycle on Friday afternoon. That came in the form of a tinny…
Laundry is a top source of microplastic pollution. Here’s how to clean your clothes more sustainably
Judith Weis, The Conversation Judith Weis, The Conversation Leave your feedback Microplastics are turning up everywhere, from remote mountain tops to deep ocean trenches. They also are in many animals, including humans. The most common microplastics in the environment are microfibers – plastic fragments shaped like tiny threads or filaments. Microfibers come from many sources,…
Australia’s Environmental Awaking is Changing Sustainability – realestate.com.au
In an era where sustainable living often conjures images of lavish, architecturally designed homes with hefty price tags, a quiet revolution is underway. At the heart of this movement are Earthships — affordable, off-grid homes that merge sustainability with financial sensibility. “Earthships are a concept developed by American architect Michael Reynolds in the 1970s,” explains…
Offal is making a comeback among meat-eating Australians, due to its health benefits and sustainability – ABC News
Whether it’s tripe, liver, tongue or cheek, billions of people around the world regularly eat offal, the edible internal organs of an animal. It is widely consumed in many European and Asian countries. For example, restaurants in Indonesia often boast a plethora of offal-based dishes, like coconut milk offal soup, intestine curry or stir-fried tripe, while…
UN warns humanity facing threats from space, climate change, but it’s not too late to act – ABC News
Numerous global systems humans rely on for survival — including ecosystems, groundwater, insurance and the space industry — are on the precipice of catastrophic tipping points, according to a new report by the United Nations University. The report says the world is “perilously close” to triggering these tipping points that could have “irreversible, catastrophic impacts for people and the…
I’ll tackle climate change – but I will NOT punish Sun readers to get to Net Zero
HARD-PRESSED families shouldn’t have to pay an unaffordable price to reach net zero. That’s my guiding principle when it comes to tackling climate change. Rishi Sunak explains how his guiding principle when it comes to tackling climate change is to make sure hard-pressed families don’t pay an unaffordable priceReuters It was the message of The…
One in eight cases of asthma in US kids caused by gas stove pollution – study | Pollution | The Guardian
About one in eight cases of asthma in children in the US is due to the pollution given off by cooking on gas stoves, new research has found, amid moves by Joe Biden’s administration to consider the regulation, or even banning, of gas cookers sales to Americans. Around a third of US households have gas…
Computer modelling predicts climate change causing cascading animal ‘co-extinctions’ – ABC News
Computer modelling has shown the variety of vertebrate animal species found in locations across the globe could be cut by 27 per cent by the end of the century. Key points: The simulation conducted on one of Europe’s most powerful supercomputers also found that one extinction caused a cascade of extinctions that have been coined “co-extinctions”….
Computer modelling predicts climate change causing cascading animal ‘co-extinctions’ – ABC News
Computer modelling has shown the variety of vertebrate animal species found in locations across the globe could be cut by 27 per cent by the end of the century. Key points: The simulation conducted on one of Europe’s most powerful supercomputers also found that one extinction caused a cascade of extinctions that have been coined “co-extinctions”….
