Orchids aren’t just beautiful or rare – they’re ecological time capsules that offer clues to the long-term health of ecosystems.
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Kia announces Australian pricing for its PV5 Cargo electric van, undercuts rivals Kia has announced pricing for its first electric van in Australia, coming in below competitor offerings from the likes of Renault, Ford, VW, Mercedes, Farizon and LDV.

#Kia has announced pricing for its first electric van in #Australia, coming in below competitor offerings from the likes of #Renault, Ford, VW, #Mercedes, Farizon and LDV.

Australia needs to rapidly electrify as much as possible, as fast as possible The biggest policy question in Australia right now is this: what will the government do to rapidly electrify everything?

The biggest #policy question in #Australia right now is this: what will the #government do to rapidly electrify everything?

First time in my life I've seen diesel over $4 a litre. This is going to sting for all of us. I wish we'd electrified all our trucks & trains ages ago. I've been saying it for years. 😕

Human-caused climate change is unmistakably distinct from Earth’s natural climate variability Five independent fits across four independent archives and 66 million years — the empirical case in two figures

"Clark et al. (2016) showed that decisions made in the next few decades will lock in sea level rise, ice sheet loss, and temperature change that persist for thousands of years — well beyond any planning horizon human civilization has ever contemplated."

Electric car registrations ahead of petrol models in Germany Cars Clean Energy Wire Electric cars have overtaken petrol models in monthly new car registrations in Germany, following the introduction of a new subsidy programme and the sharp increase in oil prices caused by the war in Iran. Registrations of pure electric cars rose 66 percent in March 2026 compared to a year ago to almost 71,000, the country’s motor vehicle authority KBA said.

How you know we are in truly unprecendented, unfathomable and historic times: Germans are buying more EVs than petrol cars

Truly uncharted waters here

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Chevron's CEO made $104 million while America bombed Iran America's oil executives have pocketed $1.4 billion selling stock during the Iran war, a new investigation shows. Emily Atkin Apr 08, 2026

" In the first three months of this year, oil CEOs sold $1.4 billion worth of their own stock—the fastest pace of selling in 15 years. At a dozen companies, the selling broke all-time records"

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Why Petrol Is So Hard to Quit EV hostility is often grief in disguise. Grief for a tactile, mechanical world that felt comprehensible. But it's time to accept reality.

Margaux Parker, breakfast host on Triple M Brisbane, announced last week that she would rather pay ten dollars a litre for petrol than drive an electric car. She’d also had enough of smug EV drivers.
#auspol #EVs #renewables
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Kia PV5 #EV Van pricing released for Australia, and its GOOODDD...
416km range, which is more than enough for almost all van use cases.
priced from $55K! for the Cargo S Long range.

Kia takes on Toyota HiAce with Australia's cheapest electric van Kia's first van in Australia in 20 years is the country's cheapest EV van, slightly smaller than a diesel HiAce for similar money.

The 2026 Kia PV5 van has been priced for Australia. From $55990 + ORC. It's now the cheapest EV van on the market and should scare the pants off the Hiace.

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287km work run today. Tesla $5.70 vs Navara $89. ~2c/km vs ~31c/km. ~$7.8k/yr → ~$630 + $2.5k servicing gone. ~15.5× cheaper. Even at $1.70/L diesel it’s ~$46—still not close. Sold Navara $16k → ~$8k now. Tesla +$7k. Same driving—new system. #Bettrification

Fortescue adds another electric excavator, says it is saving a million litres of diesel per unit Fortescue adds a 15th electric excavator, each of them saving a million litres of diesel a year, as it advances towards its target of "real zero" by the end of the decade.

#Fortescue adds a 15th electric excavator, each of them saving a million litres of #diesel a year, as it advances towards its target of “real zero” by the end of the decade.

Is Australia's EV sales surge a one-off or a structural shift? The clue is in the order backlog Australia enjoyed record EV sales in March, but how long will it last? The answer may lie in the growing backlog of electric car orders, and the federal government's policy choices.

#Australia enjoyed record #EV sales in March, but how long will it last? The answer may lie in the growing backlog of #electric car orders, and the federal government's policy choices.

4 people are flying around that Moon today.
The first since 1972, and the first-ever with digital cameras, to see better into the dark craters and textures.
The crew will have perfect quiet when the Moon blocks out Earth - a time of peace, alone, together.

👀 Behind the scenes tour of @esa.int's Eagle #Artemis II mission control room 🌙

Spectacular high-resolution image of our home planet viewed through the Orion Crew Module window by the Artemis II astronauts as they continue their journey to the Moon on Flight Day 2, 3 April 2026 (pic: NASA)

A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)

😮 Awesome views from Day 2 of #Artemis II this morning.

@exploration.esa.int @esaearth.esa.int

A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)

More context on this #Artemis II image:

* This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right

* The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon:
☀️🌍🚀🌕

Severe Tropical Cyclone Maila on track to hit far north Queensland three weeks after Narelle tore through While path and strength of storm remain uncertain, BoM warns Cape York could again take direct hit if cyclone makes landfall * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Another cyclone may hit the Queensland coast less than three weeks after the same area was smashed by Severe Tropical Cyclone Narelle, the Bureau of Meteorology says. But a meteorologist warned forecasts predicting the path and strength of Severe Tropical Cyclone Maila remained uncertain, with the storm likely to make landfall over the weekend. Continue reading...

Severe Tropical Cyclone Maila on track to hit far north Queensland three weeks after Narelle tore through

[RSS] Security Bulletin: IBM i is Affected by Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key, Cross-site Scripting, and Prototype Pollution Vulnerabilities in IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty [CVE-2025-14923, CVE-2025-12635, CVE-2026-29063]
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Artemis Accords - NASA NASA, in coordination with the U.S. Department of State and seven other initial signatory nations, established the Artemis Accords in 2020.  With many

In the #ArtemisII official flight kit, there are flags of all the nations who have signed the Artemis Accords - a set of principles "to enhance the governance of the civil exploration and use of outer space". Australia was an early signatory to the Accords.

"20 yrs ago the world took a year to add 1 gigawatt of solar.
Now it takes just half a day.

Solar costs have fallen by around 90% over past decade, & as costs fall, installations accelerate.

Nowhere is this clearer than in China 🇨🇳. It now accounts for well over half of global solar installations"

Canberrans encouraged to consider alternate transport amid fuel price hike The ACT transport minister says there's "never been a better time" to consider purchasing an electric vehicle or using alternative transport modes as high petrol prices bite.

The ACT transport minister says there's "never been a better time" to consider purchasing an electric vehicle or using alternative transport modes as high petrol prices bite.

This kiwi car dealer only sells electric cars and all their inventory is gone. Never seen that before.

March 2026, fully electric cars on the roads in the U.K. hit a staggering total of 1,804,878. Thats 5.13% (or 1 in 19). In Feb 21,840 EV cars were registered, that’s 24% of all cars. The transition to EVs is really visible now on the roads. I’m seeing also dozens of BYD brands👏
Roll in 2 Million !

“With rising levels of government, corporate and private borrowing, fears of a global financial crisis are rising," writes Allen Behm, Advisor to The Australia Institute’s International & Security Affairs Program.

Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/3PlHRzb

Soaring petrol prices have exposed a 'rotten core' in Australia The existential already became real for people when fuel prices increased almost overnight and then interest rates followed.

This isn’t 2020 as we can’t just turn the global economy off and then on like what happened with Covid - the level of capital destruction that is happening at the moment means there is no switch to turn back on. 2020 doesn’t apply here.

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Just for fun, let me tell you about somebody you've probably never heard of, but who was once one of the most famous people in England, a national hero, a disgraced fraudster, and an astonishingly accomplished piratical maniac.

He led quite a life. (1/53)

Breaking - the PM has asked for modelling on a potential new gas tax. That's great news! And, fortunately, we've released analysis on the topic just this morning.

Read more: https://theaus.in/3NympWU

Remember these low fuel prices from yesteryear?
All those $3k Nissan Leaf drivers you see this morning be like, "But I pay less than that for my fuel 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺"