The author on losing his home to wildfire, finding strength in solitude, and his new book Aflame
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“The consistent defunding of other city programs in order to give the LAPD billions a year has consequences,” said a local activist.
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The Government is 'absolutely not going to save us... 2025 needs to be the year we start to save ourselves'
Wetlands in film are overwhelmingly associated with discomfort, misery, and death
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How the desert taught me to smell
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John Larison’s new novel The Ancients suggests some societies are built for cataclysm
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Food waste collection services have dominated the discussion around landfill emissions recently. With a lot of things happening in the organic waste sector, I have recently mapped and met with many small-scale composters around Australia, to get an idea of the contribution that decentralised organic waste processing could make towards landfill reduction targets. The pattern Continue reading »
Hundreds of scientists gathered in Australia for an “emergency summit” within the auspices of the inaugural Australian Antarctic Research Conference d/d November 2024. This gathering of 450 mostly “early-career” polar scientists flexed scientific muscles to alert the world to the what’s happening to our planet, taking off the gloves and coming out swinging. They claim Continue reading »
Prudent public policy seeks to protect us against black swan events. Black Swan Theory (BST) is a metaphor that describes a rare, unexpected event that has a huge impact and is difficult to predict. These events are considered outliers because there is no past data to indicate when they could occur. Governments already invest in Continue reading »
Insights from a geophysicist.
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