I wish science could explain what’s happening.

These 'readers' created in remote NT are unlike those in most schools More than 40 years ago, a program was created to help Papunya children in remote NT learn to read in Pintupi-Luritja languages. Those books are now an insight into the people, stories, history and cul...

But unlike most school readers, these books were created in collaboration with local pioneers in the celebrated Western Desert art movement

The result was a collection of Pintupi-Luritja bilingual literacy tools that tell stories of first contact, Dreamings, community life, plants, animals and more

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Opinion | The Great Salt Lake is running out of water — and time Utah’s ambitious plan to save it could be a blueprint for the West.

The idea that voluntary water markets will save the Great Salt Lake is comforting….and wrong,

The lake doesn’t need persuasion.
It needs water; ~ 800,000 acre-feet per year.

Voluntary programs delivered ~163,000.

That gap tells you everything. Math can be so inconvenient.

Global patterns of commodity-driven deforestation and associated carbon emissions - Nature Food By integrating the best available spatial and statistical datasets, this analysis estimates the deforestation associated with the production of 184 agricultural and forestry commodities across 179 cou...

A 2026 Nature Food study confirms beef is the leading driver of global deforestation, causing at least four times more forest loss than any other food commodity over the past two decades.
www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Pastoralists blocking pathways to federal funding for buffel management
Start invoicing them for the costs of buffel management
Grazing doesn’t reduce buffel risks unless you flog it continuously to bare ground
Travel east to see how effective grazing is!
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Legitimising toxic policies is literally the ISC role.
Their interference in our communities buffel grass campaign is a clear case in point.
Those interested in why biosecurity continues to fail and lack community support need to take a good long look into the biosecurity collective.

Trump to revoke protections for endangered species in Gulf of Mexico President is convening so-called ‘God squad’ to override provisions of Endangered Species Act for ‘national security’

‘Only about 51 Rice whales remain, and they and other wildlife are largely on the brink of extinction because of the 2010 Horizon Deepwater oil.’
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"Fortescue took about US$80 billion in revenue from Solomon Hub since 2013. Yindjibarndi are asking for only a tiny portion — A$1.8 billion — to account for damage done over a decade."
They've received nothing.
#AndrewForrest

At the Alice Springs Markets this morning! #1080 #dingo #water #buffelgrass

And still most environmental, social justice groups etc will not criticise the pastoral industry.

Maximum temperature for March 21, 2026 in the continental United States ranked against the last 30 years (1997–present).

Red = hottest year (rank 1), blue = coldest (rank 30).

#Climate

All ready to go at the Central Australian Travel Expo to talk to tour operators, visitors and local explorers about #buffelgrass invasion
#cate26

The BBC Censored Me ... YouTube video by Rutger Bregman

The BBC censored one of its own Reith Lectures, deleting a criticism of Trump by the famous historian and humanitarian Rutger Bregman. Shameful.

To quote from the clip: "Democracies don't collapse overnight. They gradually erode in acts of fear."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHhb...

‘Robbing Peter to pay Paul’? reducing groundwater extraction is the most obvious approach.

Buffel grass plan 'a farce' | Alice Springs News [object Object]

NT Environment Minister ignored evidence and community submissions and lies about buffel being ‘managed’ on pastoral leases.

www.alicespringsnews.com.au/posts/buffel...

Carrying country - the unseen emotional labour of environmental defence - Overland literary journal Daniel Garlett is a Noongar cultural educator and community advocate who has spent decades opposing logging, mining, and large-scale land clearing in Western Australia’s forests and catchments. He liv...

What is lost is not only forest cover or water quality, but time, emotional bandwidth, and the ability to rest. The labour of constantly translating grief into acceptable language, of remaining calm, generous & persuasive, is carried by those least able to set it down
overland.org.au/2026/03/carr...

We bite our thumbs at the Invasive Species Council

We bite our thumbs at outsourcing / contracting federal biosecurity governance to the ‘biosecurity collective’

We bite ourthumbs hardest at local ‘peak environmental orgs’ who claim to be community led but are anything but.

#buffelgrass

Rodeos are cruel.

Please find our case card and letter writing tips here:

www.lettersfortheenvironment.com/wp-content/u...

#qldpol #auspol

These pricks!

Blanket calls to deny all qld native title from chrisafulli gov

Survey here: forms.office.com/r/88viiedibj

Renewable energy isn’t getting off oil, it’s doubling down on supplying our insatiable demand.

Please complete this important survey.

forms.office.com/pages/respon...

(NB this is not the evaluation the beef industry is intending to make up - we can all predict the results of that one).

Come to the Alice Springs Markets on the Town Council lawn and take action to protect our wonderful environment!
#water #dingo #buffelgrass

The pastoral industry is fighting for the area their companies pastoral leases are in to be exempt from the NT buffel grass weed declaration.

100% Agree. Although that’s probably a good thing as I was an author :)

What to know about 'black rain' that fell in Iran after strikes on oil reserves The "black rain" that fell in Tehran as a result of air strikes on major oil storage facilities could have lasting impacts on human health and the environment.

abcnews.com/Internationa...