🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

Giant waves, monster winds and Earth’s strongest current: here’s why the Southern Ocean is a global engine room theconversation.com/giant-waves-mo…

Carbon dioxide (CO₂) averaged 425.5 ppm in July 2024 10 years ago July averaged about 399 ppm Preliminary data: gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/

Trees 🌲 = good Using trees to offset fossil fuel CO₂ emissions 🔥 = bad Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

This is comprehensively appalling. Cosmos Let's be clear "short factual articles" are vital, bill-paying bread & butter for freelance science journalists in Australia. They take work. So did the source material these LLMs were trained on. 1/3 abc.net.au/news/science/2…

Love to see this. We need to reclaim the narrative around migration which has been driven by far-right and populist leaders. Migration is normal; we can’t stop it. Our nation is built by and depends on immigrants. Time for honesty. Read #NomadCentury theguardian.com/uk-news/articl…

Countries will be competing for migrants soon, and they will go where they feel welcome #NomadCentury

New: A bone cancer patient found out he was no longer eligible for a stem cell transplant just six days before the scheduled operation. His cancer had returned after he spent seven months on a waitlist – a practice nearly unique to New Zealand. newsroom.co.nz/2024/08/09/can…

Last week, after months of hard work and lots of conversations, Science Magazine launched a new series—spearheaded by News from Science's Elizabeth Culotta, Shraddha Chakradhar and me—about how researchers are #decolonizing science. science.org/toc/science/38…

From a New Zealand perspective, where agricultural methane emissions are a major issue, I would say the same about farmers.

“Essentially, humans have released in excess of 3bn tonnes of methane into the atmosphere in the past 20 years. Quashing those emissions within a decade or two would save us 0.5C of warming. No other greenhouse gas gives us this much power to slow the climate crisis.”

“There are few constitutional limits on the actions thegovernment has taken, some of which have abused democratic processes and represent a misuse of power.” — The tenth annual report of the Aotearoa Independent Monitoring Mechanism. e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-an…

Brazil acts. The rest of the world should follow Brazil’s lead theguardian.com/technology/art…

📣 IPCC is calling for authors to contribute to the Special Report on #ClimateChange & Cities, scheduled for release in 2027. 📺 #IPCC Vice-Chair Diana Urge-Vorsatz stresses the need for diversity of scientific disciplinary & regional perspectives. 🔗 bit.ly/PR24AC

New Zealand has been too slow to adapt to the impacts of climate change and must now act with urgency, the Climate Commission has found. newsroom.co.nz/2024/08/16/pro…

Just six companies produce half of New Zealand's emissions, according to the latest data, but the Government aims to stop agricultural firms from reporting their emissions next year: newsroom.co.nz/2024/08/19/nzs…

Just went to pick up my various ageing-dude prescriptions. $30. Add in the $25 repeat fee from the GP and it's not hard to see why stretched households might give medicine a miss. What a stupid false economy reimposing those charges was.

40 degree heat. In winter. Summer is going to be brutal.

"From photosynthesis to philosophy" – I like the title of this Living on Earth review by Veronika Meduna - is no longer here 🌏. The message (with exaggeration): "give me oxygenic photosynthesis and a planet with a good mix of land & sea, and in time you can expect philosophy." nzherald.co.nz/the-listener/b…

Wind speeds, associated rainfall and surrounding conditions of typhoon Gaemi all made worse by climate change, new World Weather Attribution study finds. worldweatherattribution.org/climate-change… our most comprehensive tropical cyclone study so far. Early warnings & refuge needs to be accessible to all.