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The collapse of trust in facts: making sense of verification on the internet
5+ hour, 13+ min ago (384+ words) The modern fact-checking movement launched 25 years ago is in retreat – just as it’s needed more than ever. For society and democracy to function we used to depend on shared facts and a system of informed discussion and decision making. People…...
The coming Super El Niño could push a hotter world towards food crisis
6+ day, 5+ hour ago (517+ words) A super El Niño could intensify heat, drought, fire and crop losses across Australia and Asia, while fertiliser shortages raise the risk of a wider food crisis. The world is heading into a burst of global heating with a developing…...
Australia knows the climate risk – and keeps waiting
1+ week, 2+ day ago (501+ words) Australians increasingly accept that climate change is real, yet governments continue approving fossil fuel expansion and development in known risk zones. The longer action is delayed, the harder and costlier it becomes. Climate change has been in the public mind…...
Five Fijian sparkies and the real challenge of remote renewable energy
1+ week, 2+ day ago (660+ words) A remote solar and battery system can replace diesel, but lasting energy independence depends on something less easily shipped – local people with the skills and confidence to maintain it. When I was sent to the Yasawa Islands in Fiji to…...
Environment: Australia’s diesel use increasing despite the harm it causes
1+ week, 3+ day ago (465+ words) Australia is subsidising rising diesel use, personal carbon footprints distract from systemic change, forest loss is accelerating and feral cats are killing even more native wildlife than we thought. Our taxes subsidise diesel’s killing ways Motor vehicles have as much…...
Who should build the low-carbon economy?
1+ week, 5+ day ago (303+ words) Clean technologies are spreading rapidly, but the ability to design, manufacture and profit from them remains concentrated in a handful of countries. A just transition requires developing nations to build their own capacity to innovate. Unfortunately, humankind has tended in…...
Hothouse Earth is arriving faster than predicted
2+ week, 2+ day ago (677+ words) New climate data and risk modelling suggest global heating is accelerating far faster than expected, with catastrophic consequences unless fossil fuel use is rapidly reduced. Hothouse Earth, the state of the planet in which civilisation and possibly even humans can…...
Why I support a carbon method for limiting the emissions from native forest logging
2+ week, 3+ day ago (282+ words) Carbon offsets have rightly earned distrust, but the new Improved Native Forest Management method could protect native forests, store carbon and penalise future logging rather than delay decarbonisation. The repeated practical failure of carbon offsets, both in Australia and elsewhere,…...
Environment: Shoddy impact assessments satisfy fossil fuel companies and governments
2+ week, 3+ day ago (490+ words) Oil and gas risks in the Arafura and Timor Seas are being underplayed, small bushland remnants deserve protection, and solar’s rapid growth still has not displaced fossil fuels. Oil and gas wells threaten Australia’s northern seas The report is primarily…...
The AI arms race is putting safety last
2+ week, 5+ day ago (608+ words) The US and China are racing to build ever more powerful AI, but speed without safeguards risks catastrophic failure, political instability and dangers no country can contain. The AI race between the United States and China is accelerating at a…...