100 Fossil Fuel CEOs directly and knowingly threaten all life on Earth. As a medical oncologist and palliative care physician I feel a strange resonance with the modern killing fields of petromachy (the oils wars), where the true enemies, behind the mephitic black liquid, are the demonically evil, amoral, virulent, cunning, banal, and totally self-obsessed Continue reading »
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The magnificence of the continent that’s changing our world.
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“… but they can be sure that they won’t be recorded for their crimes in history — because there won’t be any history” (Noam Chomsky, 2023, in a letter to the author) Extreme planetary heating, the failure of effective mitigation and the rise of denial around the world combine to lead to a seventh mass Continue reading »
They sense the buzzing sounds of pollinators, the vibrations of the wind.
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Proposed laws to curtail the use of PVC plastics have failed amid heavy lobbying.
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The state’s far-right government is escalating its fight against environmental protection with a rare use of public records law.
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Sunak's freshly minted Business Council, tasked with boosting the UK's economy, includes corporations fined for offences from bribery to money laundering and environmental violations
Several serving MPs work for oil and gas firms, while many more accept gifts or take jobs for big-polluting sectors after leaving Parliament
The aurora sizzles with sound, and we can hear it on Earth.
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Canadians are destroying their boreal forests. Kelp forests need help worldwide. Advice for Australian company directors on preparing for climate change. New uses for old wind turbine blades. I thought I’d finalised my first column for 2024; it was going to open with the next two tree-related stories. However, an article in last Saturday’s Sydney Continue reading »