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COP29 Australian Pavilion, Discussion Thread (aussie.zone)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone to c/environment@aussie.zone
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This discussion thread is for all things COP29, with a particular focus on Australia and our close partners New Zealand and the Pacific. So state your objectives for this COP29, along with your personal and professional links to the fossil fuel lobby to gain entry here! /j

Main Link is to the Australian online Pavilion, for the Pavilion Event Calendar for anybody interested. It looks like a lot, if not all, are being streamed and uploaded on YouTube.

To watch talks live, follow the YouTube link below, DCCEEW YouTube channel

Moana Blue Pacific Pavilion

Sorry this is late, those things called work and life got in the way.

Event times are given for Baku, not the user :p the place. So if you plan to watch live, remember to adjust for time difference. Differences should be...

  • +6hrs for Brisbane
  • +7hrs for Melbourne
  • +6.5hrs for Adelaide
  • +7hrs for Hobart
  • +9hrs for Auckland
  • +7hrs for Sydney
  • +4hrs for Perth
  • +7hrs for Canberra
  • +8hrs for Fiji
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Federated Communities/Magazines and Users for the "Outside" (aussie.zone)
submitted 4 months ago by unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone to c/environment@aussie.zone
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This is a replication of the creator of this community who has since removed their account

This will be a living document (and is a Work In Progress) so if readers are aware of instances/communities/magazines that suit the umbrella of the "environment", including "gardening" etc., please comment to add them. Use the browsers at the bottom to find your own. This was originally a Lemmy list but has expanded to the 'Fediverse'.

Lemmy Instances (visit to check their communities for suitability, the first 2 have a massive list of related spaces, far too many to list here):

  • Mander.xyz- An instance dedicated to nature and science.
  • SLRPNK.net - Solarpunk imagines a world in which today’s existential threat - the climate crisis - is being approached with camaraderie and adaptive ingenuity.
  • https://thegarden.land/ - This is a home for gardeners and plant-lovers and anyone else who wants a warm place to thrive.
  • lemmy.srv.eco - Self-sufficiency, mutual aid, collapse, and other subjects related to the environment and our place and role(s) within it.

Lemmy Communities:

  • https://aussie.zone/c/environment - An Australian community for everything from your backyard to beyond the black stump.
  • https://aussie.zone/c/gardeningaustralia - A community for all things relating to Aussie gardens. No problem too small. No question too unimportant. Come in and brag about your garden, show us what you’re doing, share that flower, ask that question.
  • https://beehaw.org/c/greenspace - All things green, outdoors, and nature-y. Whether it’s animals in their natural habitat, hiking trails and mountains, or planting a little garden for yourself (and everything in between), you can talk about it here.
  • https://beehaw.org/c/environment - Environmental and ecological discussion, particularly of things like weather and other natural phenomena (especially if they’re not breaking news).
  • https://midwest.social/c/environment - A community about our environment (Editor's note: the midwest America I presume)
  • https://lemmy.ml/c/green - This is the place to discuss environmentalism, preservation, direct action and anything related to it!
  • https://lemmy.ml/c/gardening
  • https://lemmy.ml/c/nolawns - A community devoted to alternatives to monoculture lawns, with an emphasis on native plants and conservation. Rain gardens, xeriscaping, strolling gardens, native plants, and much more!
  • https://lemmy.world/c/homestead - Ponds, barns, livestock, gardens, food preservation, fishing, hunting, tractors, pigs, chickens, cattle, worms, 4H, permaculture, organic, grazing, canning, aquaculture, trees, woodland, farmers, agriculture, agronomy, horticulture, wwoofers, bees, honey, wildcrafting, dairy, goats, nuts, berries, vegetables, sustainability, off grid, wood stoves, chainsaws, wood heat, tools, welding, green woodworking, farmers markets, composting toilets, straw bale homes, cob building…
  • https://chat.maiion.com/c/environment - A community dedicated to environmental topics discussing climate change, renewable energy, ecosystems across the biosphere, and more.
  • https://lemmy.world/c/gardening - Your Ultimate Gardening Guide.
  • https://lemmy.world/c/permaculture - Permaculture theory and practice.
  • https://lemm.ee/c/permaculture - Caring about the earth, that is what it’s about.
  • https://lemmy.ml/c/naturalgardening - Natural gardening is for all; permaculture is often for upper middle class hipsters.
  • https://lemmygrad.ml/c/eco_socialism - A community for talking about gardening, Eco news, and all things Mother Earth!
  • https://lemmy.ml/c/beekeeping - Beekeeping, bee gardens, bee research, bee pictures, and honey appreciation.
  • https://lemmy.world/c/vegan_gardening - A community for vegan gardeners to share their successes and learnings. Vegan gardening (or veganic gardening) is gardening without the use of animal agriculture including common inputs like manure, bone and blood. It also avoids chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Instead of these elements veganic gardening uses crop rotation, mulching, compost, green manures, etc to replenish the soil and minimize loss to pests.
  • https://lemmy.ca/c/outdoors - A community dedicated to all things outdoors. Hiking, backpacking, cycling, camping, gardening, walking, any discussions surrounding outdoor activities you can think of are welcome here! Write properly, behave politely, encourage a respectful community, and most importantly, GO OUTSIDE!!
  • https://lemmy.ml/c/collapse - This is the place for discussing the potential collapse of modern civilization and the environment. (Editor's Note: has frequently posted environmental articles of worldwide issues.)
  • https://sopuli.xyz/c/collapse - A place to share news, experiences and discussion about the continuing climate crisis, societal collapse, and biosphere collapse. Please be respectful of each other and remember the human.
  • https://www.hexbear.net/c/gardening - (Editor's Note: defederated? Use as a single instance if so.)

kbin Magazines (same as Communities - list needs work):

Mastodon Instances (click here for Instance descriptions - word count issue):

Mastodon User Lists:

Credit for Instances and User Lists to @GlennMagusHarvey@mander.xyz - https://scicomm.xyz/@glennmagusharvey/

Mastodon Tips:

  • Use #tags in areas of interest and search for @users that are posting your favourite content and follow. Search and favourite a list of #tags to populate your feed while you locate @users.
  • You can follow Lemmy/kbin communities from Mastodon (e.g. search "@environment@aussie.zone" and follow, posts will come in from that point, including every comment which fills your feed poorly), post back into Lemmy (there is a specific way to do this), and reply to threads also. Federation isn't pretty between Mastodon and Lemmy, it's up to the user if they want to persist. Recommended to have 2 separate accounts for full usability at this point. kbin has "microblogging" built in which is Mastodon "tooting", only one account required if you are a kbin user.

The Lemmy instances listed have some activity, until Lemmy matures the list may grow or shrink. Please review the communities as you desire and let me know if you find something better or the listed ones have died.

Search Engines for Lemmy:

Bookmarklet:

A screenshot of how to create a bookmarklet in Firefox

javascript:(function() { const home = 'aussie.zone'; /*replace this with your local instance's host name */ const url = window.location.href; let community = url.split('/c/')[1]; if( !community.includes('@') ) { community += '@' + url.split('/')[2]; } if( community.endsWith( '@' + home ) ) { community = community.substring(0, community.length - 1 - home.length); } window.location.href = 'https://' + home + '/c/' + community; })();

Click on the above bookmarklet once you've created it and placed on your toolbar (search on how to make one) when browsing another instance's community. It should open up the page where you can subscribe directly from the aussie.zone instance (or change your instance in code above). If "Subscribe" isn't working, ~~"Create Post" and back out immediately~~ click on the community name and reload page, Subscribe should now be clickable (give it a couple of clicks as per Lemmy 0.18).

An alternative to a bookmarklet on a desktop or mobile browser, install 'Violentmonkey' and a Userscript such as this: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/469273-lemmy-universal-link-switcher

An extension for modern browsers: https://github.com/cynber/lemmy-instance-assistant

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Links for Aus Environmental Articles and News (aussie.zone)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone to c/environment@aussie.zone
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Original Post [archive] - This is a replication of the creator of this community who has since removed their account

Please comment if you know of more

News

Science

Conservation

Government

Energy/Industry

Special Interest/Other

Unis

The Conversation Topics + others

Wildlife, Biodiversity, Trees, Carbon Dioxide, Forests, Plants, Drought, Carbon Dioxide Removal, Forestry, Global Warming, Climate Change, Agriculture, Conservation, Gardening, Botany, Insects, Algae, Trees and Forests - The Guardian, Biochar - phys.org

Blogs

Summarisers

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Prescribed burns are used to reduce bushfire risk. A new study suggests it has the opposite effect (www.abc.net.au)
submitted 2 days ago by NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org to c/environment@aussie.zone
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Interesting, certainly runs counter to prevailing narrative.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08174-6

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Chemicals banned for almost 40 years detected in bodies of magpies (www.abc.net.au)
submitted 3 days ago by Zagorath@aussie.zone to c/environment@aussie.zone
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Plans to extend anti-protest laws in NSW labelled 'a rampage against free speech' by climate activists - ABC News (www.abc.net.au)
submitted 4 days ago by hanrahan@slrpnk.net to c/environment@aussie.zone
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CO2 in bubbles locked away in Antarctic ice suggest Earth has almost reached 1.5C warming limit [based on new pre-industrial temperature estimate] (www.abc.net.au)
submitted 4 days ago by zero_gravitas@aussie.zone to c/environment@aussie.zone
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In short:

Scientists say data from Antarctica ice core shows world has already warmed 1.49 degrees Celsius due to human activity.

The study calculates a pre-1700 baseline based off carbon content in the ice.

What's next?

Researchers behind the study want politicians and scientists to use their modelling as a baseline rather than a commonly used 1850-1900 time period when the Industrial Revolution had already started.

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‘Death hotspot’: we found 145 koalas killed along a single Queensland highway last year (theconversation.com)
submitted 5 days ago by hanrahan@slrpnk.net to c/environment@aussie.zone
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Fifty-year extension for one of Australia’s biggest CO2 emitters likely after WA ditches emissions-reduction rules (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone to c/environment@aussie.zone
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The Western Australian Labor government appears all but certain to give one of Australia’s biggest greenhouse gas emitters the green light to operate until 2070 after it announced it would abolish state emissions-reduction requirements.

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The WA Environment Protection Authority recommended in 2022 that the state approve a 50-year extension for the plant, which is run by the oil and gas company Woodside, as long as it progressively reduced its operating emissions. It could do that by either making cuts onsite or paying for carbon offsets.

But the WA government last month announced it would change rules so that the EPA would no longer regulate emissions from development proposals that released significant climate pollution.

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Sustainable Plastic Solutions becomes world leader in farm waste recycling (www.abc.net.au)
submitted 1 week ago by hanrahan@slrpnk.net to c/environment@aussie.zone
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Around me here in NE Tassie, they just burn it :(

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Tar ball theory debunked as Sydney’s mystery beach globules found to be ‘fatbergs’ containing human faeces (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 1 week ago by maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone to c/environment@aussie.zone
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Thousands of mystery balls that washed up on Sydney beaches last month were gunk globules made of products such as motor oil, hair, food waste, animal matter and wastewater bacteria – but their source is yet to be traced.

A statement from the NSW Environment Protection Authority on Wednesday confirmed the balls comprised fatty acids, petroleum hydrocarbons and other organic and inorganic materials – and were not tar balls as previously theorised.

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Aussie Vanadium unveils vision for a 100MW modular vanadium flow battery (themarketonline.com.au)
submitted 1 week ago by hanrahan@slrpnk.net to c/environment@aussie.zone
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Red flows Zinc Flow batteries just went bankrupt unfortunately, maybe this will be a goer ? Vanadium Flow batteries seem to be chemically superior... I think?. A comment from somone more in the know would be appreciated

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I took a Perth kid to the Queensland rainforest. Was I doing something wrong? (www.watoday.com.au)
submitted 1 week ago by Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone to c/environment@aussie.zone
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Nature Tourism is it a good thing to engage in? Or no longer appropriate?

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From desert to oasis : The defiant grazier running a radical regeneration experiment using feral donkeys (www.abc.net.au)
submitted 1 week ago by Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone to c/environment@aussie.zone
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Grazier using wild donkeys to regenerate land in legal battle.

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Australia reaches record monthly renewable share of 47.4 per cent (reneweconomy.com.au)
submitted 1 week ago by Eyekaytee@aussie.zone to c/environment@aussie.zone
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CSIRO's new printing facility could put a solar panel in your pocket (www.abc.net.au)
submitted 1 week ago by Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone to c/environment@aussie.zone
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The four steps needed to align Australia’s environmental laws and policies with a nature positive future. | Biodiversity Council Australia (biodiversitycouncil.org.au)
submitted 1 week ago by Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone to c/environment@aussie.zone
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From the article,

The four steps recommended are:

  1. Legislate for ‘absolute net gain’: Australian law must ensure that any biodiversity loss from development is fully compensated and that conservation efforts result in an absolute net gain in biodiversity, not just improvements relative to ‘business as usual’. Currently, the Australian definition of nature positive deviates from the internationally accepted definition, which would allow biodiversity to continue to decline.

  2. Limit and compensate for biodiversity loss: The study warned against allowing developers to compensate for environmental damage through payments that may not directly benefit the impacted ecosystems, which risks replacing more threatened and harder to replace habitats with ecosystems that are less threatened and/or easier to replace. Further, some biodiversity is irreplaceable, and so it is important to limit, and if possible, avoid negative impacts to irreplaceable biodiversity in the first place.

  3. Secure net gains beyond development impacts: Australian law must address and reverse biodiversity decline beyond simply compensating for the loss of nature from development impacts. This will require a significant boost to conservation funding and resourcing.

  4. Enforce transparent monitoring: Effective and transparent implementation of biodiversity policies is crucial. Dr Ward highlighted that many threatened species in Australia lacked proper monitoring, making enforcement of biodiversity protection laws difficult.

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AstraZeneca supports mass revegetation of native forests on Eyre Peninsula - Greening Australia (www.greeningaustralia.org.au)
submitted 2 weeks ago by Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone to c/environment@aussie.zone
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Australia’s thirst for power drives a rise in coal and gas-led emissions for third quarter in a row (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by hanrahan@slrpnk.net to c/environment@aussie.zone
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Greenhouse gas emissions from Australia’s main electricity grid increased for a third quarter in a row as higher power demand drove more use of black coal and gas plants, the Australian Energy Market Operator says.

Vote Green :(

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Trees and land absorbed almost no CO2 last year. Is nature’s carbon sink failing? | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by zero_gravitas@aussie.zone to c/environment@aussie.zone
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In 2023, the hottest year ever recorded, preliminary findings by an international team of researchers show the amount of carbon absorbed by land has temporarily collapsed. The final result was that forest, plants and soil – as a net category – absorbed almost no carbon.

There are warning signs at sea, too. Greenland’s glaciers and Arctic ice sheets are melting faster than expected, which is disrupting the Gulf Stream ocean current and slows the rate at which oceans absorb carbon. For the algae-eating zooplankton, melting sea ice is exposing them to more sunlight – a shift scientists say could keep them in the depths for longer, disrupting the vertical migration that stores carbon on the ocean floor.

“None of these models have factored in losses like extreme factors which have been observed, such as the wildfires in Canada last year that amounted to six months of US fossil emissions. Two years before, we wrote a paper that found that Siberia also lost the same amount of carbon,” says Ciais.

“Another process which is absent from the climate models is the basic fact that trees die from drought. This is observed and none of the models have drought-induced mortality in their representation of the land sink,” he says. “The fact that the models are lacking these factors probably makes them too optimistic.”

In Australia, huge soil carbon losses from extreme heat and drought in the vast interior – known as rangelands – are likely to push its climate target out of reach if emissions continue to rise, a study this year found. In Europe, France, Germany, the Czech Republic and Sweden have all experienced significant declines in the amount of carbon absorbed by land, driven by climate-related bark beetle outbreaks, drought and increased tree mortality.

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Australia's greatest exports: REXplained (www.acf.org.au)
submitted 3 weeks ago by Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone to c/environment@aussie.zone
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Short run down of some potential renewables opportunities the Future Made in Australia legislation could support.

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Six fun facts you might not know about wombats (www.acf.org.au)
submitted 3 weeks ago by Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone to c/environment@aussie.zone
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Western Australia is tearing up environmental protections – and taking a bet the rest of the country won’t notice (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by hanrahan@slrpnk.net to c/environment@aussie.zone
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The state Labor government is steering Australia’s climate policy, letting emissions soar unbridled as it paves the way for massive fossil fuel projects

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Grey area: questions over Sunshine State's green future - Michael West (michaelwest.com.au)
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‘Refugees in their own country’: Starving [Carnaby's] cockies flood Perth Zoo vets amid food crisis (archive.is)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by zero_gravitas@aussie.zone to c/environment@aussie.zone
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Original URL: https://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/refugees-in-their-own-country-starving-cockies-flood-perth-zoo-vets-amid-food-crisis-20241004-p5kfwv.html

Perth black cockatoo rehabilitation centres and Perth Zoo are dealing with an influx of starving and emaciated specimens of the endangered species.

[Professor Kingsley Dixon] said what Perth was now witnessing with the drying climate was “a catastrophic failure of the banskias to be setting seed, leading to the mass starvation of the bird.”

Dixon said 2 million banksias must be planted as soon as possible and meanwhile the government should set up an urgent multidisciplinary taskforce.

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Topics may include Aussie plants and animals, environmental, farming, energy, and climate news and stories (mostly Aus specific), etc.

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Australia Institute
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Nature Australia
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Australian Conservation Foundation ACF

Biodiversity Council
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Greening Australia

WWF, World-Wide Fund for Nature

WWF, World-Wide Fund for Nature
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