Linda Vergnani
@ecowrite
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Freelance journalist and editor. Tweets on environment, climate crisis, wildlife, media and human rights. https://t.co/HX6z0jRXco
Sydney, Australia
Joined June 2009
The majority of earth's scientists now believe we are headed for at least 2.5°C of warming. We're in a climate emergency. No time to wait. #ActOnClimate
#climate #energy #renewables #go100re
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Angry at proposed shooting of 430 #elephants as trophies in Botswana. @DonPinnock says a foreign #hunting lobby is “at the centre of Botswana’s #wildlife policy machinery” influencing how many elephants, leopards and lions can be killed each year.”
africanelephantjournal.com
By Don Pinnock - Daily Maverick If Botswana carries out its proposal to permit the world’s largest elephant hunt quota, it will provoke a fierce reckoning over science, politics and the fate of...
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For those out there who still think of anthropogenic climate breakdown as a blip It takes around 400,000 years for nature to completely remove a tonne of CO2 released by human activities
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Dismayed that once enlightened New Zealand has decided to adopt the Trumpian approach of ignoring the deadly perils of climate change and reject emissions targets. #climatecrisis
theconversation.com
The International Court has set out clear rules for addressing climate change – and the rights of states to take legal action against others for breaching them.
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Science isn’t a belief space like religion or politics. Atmospheric physics doesn’t care about what climate denialists think and say. Climate chaos is here and will accelerate until emissions go down.👇🏽 https://t.co/ruPHmnTUzr
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Two-thirds of Ningaloo Reef wiped out. A World Heritage site turned to graveyard in months. Remember this every time a politician tells you we’re “on track”. https://t.co/pZ1xxfvz8Q
theguardian.com
One expert says she is ‘starting to visualise the point where all we have left of corals and reefs is memories’
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Encrypting lobbyist-to-Cabinet ministers so interactions are un-FOI-able. Unminuted verbal communications preferred. Our duopolist PM @AlboMP has no intention of reforming the Commonwealth culture to TRUST through ethical transparency. See also distressing failure of @NACCgovau
Multiple sources confirm the Albanese government has pushed lobbyists and industry groups to use encrypted messages and verbal briefings when proposing policy ideas, to avoid FOI and disclosure requirements. Read more: https://t.co/vbPcpcwcKy
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Why does the Albanese govt seem to have so much to hide & seem so afraid of scrutiny? Transparency, different perspectives & robust policy debates build a stronger democracy. This culture of secrecy is deeply concerning & risks repeating failures of administrations past like
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Disgraceful that the @AlboMP government keeps shrugging off its responsibility to asylum seekers and ships them off to starve or suffer endless imprisonment. Cruel and lacking all humanity. Refugees should be processed fast onshore. #humanrights
theguardian.com
Forbidden from working, people sent to the island by Australia say they are struggling to survive because food is so expensive
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This is the sort of funding cut I would expect from climate science denying Coalition, not the Labor Party. Environment is so low on their priority list. Our kids future is at stake with lack of action on climate and biodiversity crisis.
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Albanese government blindness when it comes to saving #nature shown in cuts to critical CSIRO environment research. As one scientist said direction appears to be “to drop the ball on our #extinction crisis, our global leadership in #biodiversity science.”
theguardian.com
Ever decreasing funding for the globally respected government agency mirrors an industry-wide trend that could hinder scientific breakthroughs
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Shocking that Sydney protester might lose sight in one eye after police arrest. Her “crime”? Taking part without police permission in small peaceful protest against firm# allegedly supplying material for Israeli jets. #rights #constitution
theguardian.com
Hannah Thomas, who ran against Anthony Albanese in the Sydney electorate of Grayndler, sustained facial injuries
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No baby formula has entered Gaza for four months because of Israel’s genocidal blockades. There is nothing left to feed babies and their mothers can not produce milk as they themselves are starving. There is no defending what Israel is doing. No justification.
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Climate crisis censorship. Top NOAA #climatechange website staff fired in Trump purge. “Hiding the impacts of climate change won’t stop it from happening, it will just make us far less prepared when it does,” says former NOAA spokesperson. #globalheating
theguardian.com
Exclusive: Climate.gov, which supports public education on climate science, will soon no longer publish new content
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Ningaloo #coral catastrophe should give “environment” minister Watt nightmares. His granting Woodside permission to operate its highly polluting gas plant to 2070 will further devastate the region, our lives and all life on earth. Change the laws! #climate
theguardian.com
Usually alive with colour and fish, Ningaloo reef and the Rowley Showls now look as though they are ‘painted white’ as temperatures rise
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Energy efficiency standards to be axed in USA. Why? ‘Trump has long targeted efficiency standards for appliances, blaming showerhead guidelines in particular for ruining his “perfect” hair.’ So vain, so dumb! #carbon #environment #energy #climatecrisis
washingtonpost.com
Since 1992, the popular Energy Star program has helped American families and businesses save more than $500 billion in energy costs.
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Following Trump pattern of trashing reputable mainstream #media, Australian opposition leader tells supporters not to listen to ‘hate media’, listing our @abc, and @GuardianAus. Disgraceful. Vote right-wing reactionary out. #Journalism #auspol #trumplite
theguardian.com
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Saddest tale on unnecessary destruction of reefs. If so-called world leaders had acted sooner on climate crisis we might have saved reefs from terrible impact of global warming.
theguardian.com
An ashen pallor and an eerie stillness all that remains where there should be fluttering fish and vibrant colours in the reefscape, one conservationist says
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Cataclysmic bleaching hits 80% of world’s reefs, with “graveyard of dead corals” across northern #GreatBarrierReef. @GuardianAus @abcnews ask PM and Dutton their policy on #climatecrisis, #coral catastrophe, risk to our kids. #auspol
theguardian.com
An ashen pallor and an eerie stillness all that remains where there should be fluttering fish and vibrant colours in the reefscape, one conservationist says
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📣 NEWS: What if we told you that nearly 2m hectares of forests suitable for endangered koalas have been destroyed since the iconic species was declared a threatened species in 2011?
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