Koalas in NSW were predicted to be extinct in the wild by 2050 after the Black Summer fires. Now they’re officially endangered.
Meanwhile, it’s not governments leading the charge — it’s small local groups planting trees and rebuilding habitat, one patch at a time.
This is what real action looks like.
Smoky Sydney as 5,000 hectares burned in hazard reduction blitz
By Declan Bowring
Smoky conditions across Greater Sydney are tipped to ease tomorrow as the wind picks up, after firefighters had a productive week burning hazards around Sydney's fringes.
#Fires #Weather #Bushfires #EmergencyServices #DeclanBowring
'Mini Strait of Hormuz closure': Victoria could feel petrol price impact of Geelong fire
By Gina Rushton
As Australians woke to the news that a substantial fire was underway in Geelong at one of the nation's remaining two oil refineries, many were left wondering what this could mean for petrol prices.
#OilandGas #GovernmentandPolitics #BusinessEconomicsandFinance #Industry #Utilities #DisastersAccidentsandEmergencyIncidents #Fires #Bushfires #StateandTerritoryGovernment #Environment #GinaRushton
Some reading on our climate:
The Journal of Environmental Research Letters - Editor's Choice Awards
https://iopscience.iop.org/journal/1748-9326/page/Best_article_awards
Some random choices:
Estimating the sea level rise responsibility of industrial carbon producers
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/adb59f
Potential impacts of marine carbon dioxide removal on ocean oxygen
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ade0d4
Interplay between climate and carbon cycle feedbacks could substantially enhance future warming
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/adb6be
Weather disasters and their underreported transboundary impacts on Amazonian communities
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae20a7
Key drivers and pressures of global water scarcity hotspots
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ad3c54
Dams and tribal land loss in the United States
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/acd268
Achieving net-zero emissions in agriculture: a review
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/acd5e8
Extreme heatwave over Eastern China in summer 2022: the role of three oceans and local soil moisture feedback
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/acc5fb
Existing fossil fuel extraction would warm the world beyond 1.5°C
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac6228
Unmasking the impunity of illegal deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: a call for enforcement and accountability
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac5193
Global warming and population change both heighten future risk of human displacement due to river floods
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/abd26c
Climate change is increasing the likelihood of extreme autumn wildfire conditions across California
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab83a7
Feedback between drought and deforestation in the Amazon
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab738e
The effects of climate extremes on global agricultural yields
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab154b
#ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #freshwater #ecosystems #ocean #deoxygenation #IndigenousePeoples #dispossession #GHG #deforestation #heatwaves #bushfires #agriculture #extractivism
Study finds Tasmanian native forest logging increases potential for more severe bushfires
"Logging worsens bushfires because regrowth eucalyptus trees are highly flammable in comparison to mature trees, which act as "green fire breaks...A fire expert says mature forests can "act as a buffer" to slow bushfires, whereas regrowth eucalypts are more flammable."
"The study has found around a fifth of Tasmanian tall wet forest is regrowth under 40 years old, largely a result of intensive logging and recent fires."
"Professor Bowman said this raised concerns around community safety and the sustainability of the state's timber industry."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-10/bushfire-risk-worsened-by-regrowth-after-logging-study-finds/106546528
Landscape-scale experimental proof that tall wet Eucalyptus regrowth burns more severely than mature forest >>
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae4d62
#bushfires #LoggingImpacts #NSWLogging #LoggingIndustry #BellingenLogging #FCNSW #risks #harm #forests #biodiversity #CommunitySafety #Bellingenshire #RegrowthHazard
Australia’s alpine ash forests are now officially endangered.
"Intensifying fire seasons are threatening this balance to the extent the Federal Government has just officially listed this forest type as an endangered ecosystem. This means these forests face a high risk of collapse or extinction. "
"It is also an important part of First Nations cultural landscapes – in north-east Victoria, the Taungurung people harvested Bogong moths (or Deberra) when the moths migrated to mountain forests where alpine ash is a key part of the landscape. " >>
https://theconversation.com/australias-alpine-ash-forests-are-now-officially-endangered-can-we-save-them-279099
Image: Eugène von Guérard, Warrenheip Hills near Ballarat, 1854 "The name "Warrenheip" is derived from the Aboriginal word "warrengeep," meaning "trees on mountain top" or "emu feathers on top".
https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/essay/a-brush-with-fidelity-three-works-by-eugene-von-guerard/
#AlpineAsh #BogongMoths #LeadbeatersPossums #GreaterGliders #LoggingImpacts #Bushfires #extinction #ecosystem #collapse #biodiversity #FossilFuel #climate #IndigenousPeoples
After 60 years, the proof is in: logging Tasmania’s wet forests makes them MORE flammable, not less.
Regrowth from clearfells burns hotter and more intensely than old-growth — denser canopies, drier microclimates, leaves closer to the fuel on the ground. A 2019 bushfire gave scientists the perfect natural experiment, and the data is clear.
Old-growth forests are our best defence against worsening bushfires. Time to end native forest logging in Tassie. Protect what’s left.
We have the proof that logging makes Tasmania’s forests more flammable
#tasmania #nativeforestlogging #oldgrowthforests #bushfires #climateaction #endlogging #forests
We have the proof that logging makes Tasmania’s forests more flammable
Lots of regrowth, lots more fire
"Regrowth does indeed burn more intensely than mature forests. Some experts suggested forests regrowing from logging were a key factor in the huge area burned during the notorious 2019–20 fire season, though others have disputed this."
"Recent research has shown commercial thinning of regrowth in Tasmania doesn’t reduce the risk of fire, because bark, limbs and smashed trunks left after logging act as fuel." >>
https://theconversation.com/we-have-the-proof-that-logging-makes-tasmanias-forests-more-flammable-279103
Landscape-scale experimental proof that tall wet Eucalyptus regrowth burns more severely than mature forest >>
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae4d62
#bushfires #loggingimpacts #FCNSW #forests #WetEucalyptus #forestry #thinning #NSWlogging #BellingenLogging #harm
State of the Global Climate 2025
The World Meteorological Organization "State of Climate report confirms
2015-2025 hottest 11 years on record
Earth’s energy imbalance is highest in sixty five-year record.
The ocean has been absorbing about eighteen times the annual human energy use each year for the past two decades.
Extreme weather impacts millions and costs billions."
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https://wmo.int/publication-series/state-of-global-climate/state-of-global-climate-2025
#FossilFuels #climate #GHG #ExtremeWeather #Extremes #heatwaves #ocean #MassMortalities #cryosphere #atmosphere #WMO #ClimateDisruption #bushfires #floods #droughts #heatwaves #instability #war #pollution
WMO’s State of the Global Climate report 2025 confirms that 2015-2025 are the hottest 11-years on record, and that 2025 was the second or third hottest year on record, at about 1.43 °C above the 1850-1900 average. Extreme events around the world, including intense heat, heavy rainfall and tropical cyclones, caused disruption and devastation and highlighted the vulnerability of our inter-connected economies and societies.The ocean continues to warm and absorb carbon dioxide. It has been absorbing the equivalent of about eighteen times the annual human energy use each year for the past two decades. Annual sea ice extent in the Arctic was at or near a record low, Antarctic sea ice extent was the third lowest on record, and glacier melt continued unabated, according to the report.For the first time, the report includes the Earth’s energy imbalance as one of the key climate indicators.
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