Museum fossil reveals that extinct giant echidnas once roamed Australia Paleontologists have used an Ice Age fossil found 120 years ago in an underground cave to reveal that extinct giant echidnas roamed southeastern Australia during the Pleistocene Epoch, filling a major...

Museum fossil reveals that extinct giant echidnas once roamed Australia phys.org/news/2026-04...

Suspect in Hacking of Climate Activists Is Extradited to New York

A lobbying group for “one of the world’s largest oil and gas corporations, with headquarters in Irving, Texas,” was a client of a massive hacking-for-hire scheme that targeted climate advocates, according to a grand jury indictment.

One suspect's lawyers "identified...the company as Exxon Mobil."

The cleanest air on Earth holds a powerful lesson about our climate Perched on Tasmania's wild north-west coast, Cape Grim has been quietly tracking the world's cleanest air for 50 years. Its data tell an interesting story about how our world has changed over half a c...

Cape Grim's 50-year air record reveals true scale of humans' impact on planet www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

How are Australia's island mammals going these past 30 years? Scientists have updated data from 1995 to assess trends of mammal populations on hundreds of Australian islands.The analysis is published by retired biologists Andrew Burbidge and Ian Abbott in CSIRO ...

How are Australia's island mammals going these past 30 years?
Scientists have updated data from 1995 to assess trends of mammal populations on hundreds of Australian islands.
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King penguin's arrival in WA prompts 'high-level' biosecurity response The king penguin, known for being the second-largest penguin species and living on ice-free parts of the sub-Antarctic, was rescued near Esperance on WA's south coast.

Antarctic penguin appears on remote WA beach, 4,000km from home

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Still wondering if inequality is out of control?

A joy to see the wild Rock parrots (Neophema petrophila) come in for bath time and a drink.

Australian native christmas bush Bursaria spinosa in sweet full bloom. The heady honey scent pulling in a swag of insects.
#Australiaflora
#flora

Watching the elegant grass seed-heads disperse in the summer afternoon coastal breeze, southern Eyre Peninsula.
#Australianflora #nativegrasses #EyrePeninsula
#SouthAustralia

Bronze plaque saying "A Letter to the Future. Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it. August 2019. 415ppm CO2"

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

Tiahni Adamson on stage in front of a large photo of her younger self swimming on Palm Island

#esa2025
Q's to guide us as we do the hard work amidst ecological & climate grief:
How do I honour my younger self?
How do I honour my ancestors?
How do I honour future generations?
And how will I care for and rejuvenate myself to maintain this energy for life?
Beautiful talk from Tiahni Adamson

Eamonn on stage, giving his talk, with an dingo plus prey on the slide behind him

Congrats to @predator-smarts.bsky.social on winning the @ecolsocaus.bsky.social Next Gen award!
#ESA2025 🌏

Exploring landscape of fear, Eamonn looked at fox, dingo & human interaction.

Humans + dingos = terrified foxes

Levels of human disturbance change predator-prey interactions & animal traits!

'We don't have time to despair'. Great thoughts from @drphilmccormack.bsky.social at #esa2025 Rocking talk, and so important that we influence the laws on how we treat and manage nature

Enjoying the watching thr black swans foraging on southern Eyre Peninsula, South Australia.

🚨2025 #RedList Update🚨

We have reassessed 1,360 bird species. Out of the 11,185 species assessed worldwide: 

⚠️11.5% are globally threatened.

📉61% have declining populations.

But restoring habitats will help put these species on a path to recovery.🌱

Read more👉 www.birdlife.org/red-list-upd...

Go you good things!! Welcome from the Syd Knitting Nannas @knitnannasSYD.
There’s plenty to outrage everyone.
#listentoyournannss #gasfreefuture #noCSG#dontfracktheNT

✍️ ADD YOUR NAME: Phase out fossil fuels Emissions reduction targets won’t solve the climate crisis if they’re built on fiction. It's time for the government to tackle the biggest source of carbon emissions in Australia – fossil fuels.

Australian citizens idlf the phasing out of fossil fuels is something you want to put your voice behind consider signing this #Australia nb.australiainstitute.org.au/phase-out-fo...

Climate change forces BOM to overhaul El Niño and La Niña analysis The Bureau of Meteorology is making a major change to how they assess El Niño and La Niña, the world's most dominant drivers of weather variability.

Climate change forces BOM to overhaul El Niño and La Niña analysis www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Forming up on the art desk currently, someone marine and amazing to showcase the Port Lincoln Art Group next themed exhibition - Kaleidoscope. #art #eyrepeninsula

The 1891 opening of Port Pirie / Broken Hill lead mine and Smelter in South Australia showed up almost immediately in Antarctic Ice. theconversation.com/lead-polluti... #anthropocene

Small selection of favourite native #SouthAustralia flora in bloom on southern #EyrePeninsula curently - myrtle wattle (Acacia myrtifolia), Port Lincoln grevillea (Grevillea pauciflora), dropping velvet bush (Lasiopetalum schulzenii) and native lilac (Hardenbergia violacea). #plantlover #plants

SA's algal bloom devastation like watching 'Uluru being destroyed' An Indigenous elder calls on the government to take more action on SA's toxic algal bloom as Environment Minister Murray Watt and Opposition Leader Sussan Ley both visit the state.

Fossil fuel company sponsored and controlled political representatives, Murray Watt and Sussan Ley, visit to observe the consequences of Labor's and the LNP's deception, obfuscation and ongoing ecocide. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Today 2pm is the opening of our #SouthAustralianLivingArtists #SALA 2025 'Blue' exhibition. If you are in Port Lincoln during August, call in for a look. A vibrant collection of sculpture, handmade items and clothing, and art from the hearts and minds of eight Eyre Peninsula based artist friends.

Little brake from brumation for some in-house foraging of this handsome lad. Terrarium warmth is up as South Australia's ambient day temperature is way down, and we are finally getting some beautiful rainfall. Even still, the sound of the rain often sets off an indoor frog chorus.

Heading to Court tomorrow in Sydney for this important climate ruling!!

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A vibrant pink gum nut blossom on the pavement Look up, pause. Get lost in a brief moment of awe. Beautiful street-side Eucalypt #PortLincoln gently releasing oxygen, taking in carbon dioxide.

Ceduna late afternoon winters light. Fresh breeze makes my hand cold as I dive them into pockets and ignore the crisp chill on my nose, cheeks, and ears and lean into the beauty of the cold.
#Ceduna #SouthAustralia

Industrial looking lighthouse standing in background against large white-grey rain clouds and a 1/3 bright sunny blue sky. Arid South Australia coastal mallee heath vegetation in various shades of green in the foreground with a thin dirt and rock walking trail centre of image leading to the lighthouse.

Donnington Loop Track, Lincoln National Park, Eyre Peninsula, #SouthAustralia

That sinking feeling: Australia’s Limestone Coast is drying up Groundwater levels are plunging in a rich agricultural region dubbed the Green Triangle. It’s a slowly unfolding disaster

That sinking feeling: Australia’s Limestone Coast is drying up
Groundwater levels are plunging in a rich agricultural region dubbed the Green Triangle. It’s a slowly unfolding disaster
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...