This question!
After the 2021 inquest, the WA Coroner made several recommendations, one of which was related to the lack of lighting on the train, which the coroner described as constituting a very serious hazard.
Why has the coroner’s recommendation still not been actioned?

Minister Tanya Plibersek, long-standing deficiencies in the EPBC Act that allow these travesties👇 need to be fixed. Urgently! (theconversation.com/australias-lon…)

A “chill pill” is no answer to large-scale habitat clearing that destroys our precious environment & biodiversity

A climate & ecological emergency

'Perth’s gardens have been kept alive with desalinated water over the driest 6 months in the city’s history, but beyond the reach of sprinklers native vegetation from Kalbarri to Albany is dying from a summer without end'
watoday.com.au/national/weste…

I’ve just seen that West Australia’s carbon emissions have jumped by more than 10% since the last reporting period!!

WA is only state with no 2030 target or a credible plan to bring emissions down, it’s not what we should be seeing on #EarthDay2024 or any day for that matter.

Imagine how scary it’d be if we didn’t know why global temperatures were rising. #420day

Those of us in the Australian climate, oceanography, cryosphere communities need to step up here. Very limited expertise currently on the college of experts despite their heavy influence on outcomes of EOIs and proposals.

The Cup Gum (Eucalyptus cosmophylla) is a small tree or mallee from South Australia.

Learn more: apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/en… #LoveAGum #eucbeaut

This 🌏 #EarthDay2024 🌎 we're reminded of how important water is around the world, with more global cycle disruption than ever before.

🤝Let's bring science, people, and water together to tackle this problem. 🤝

Catch our latest research: tinyurl.com/ysx8m426.

#UWA #UNSDGs

Google's graphic this #EarthDay is Satellite images across the globe! Including the #Pilbara coast intertidal area as the #Google 'e' - #mangroves , cyanobacterial mats, and saltmarsh all visible! #remotesensing #landsat #sentinel #earthobservation doodles.google/doodle/earth-d…

How is this even possible?

🏖 Ruth Reef is the first guest speaker for our upcoming #webinar . Ruth is head of the Coastal Research Group at the School of Earth, Atmosphere, & Environment and a leading authority on Australia's #coastalecosystems .

Register now: uqz.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

A PNAS Special Feature gathers recent research on biodiversity and climate change in Indonesia. The collection highlights accomplishments in biodiversity as well as the need for greater support and funding for scientific research in Indonesia. In PNAS: ow.ly/Cigj50RkKO0

'To have known what Buffalo was, even through the thinnest thread of a single memory, is to carry a lifelong ache for the loss of a loved one. An early casualty of the climate crisis, Mt Buffalo should set off alarm bells for all of us who love winter'.

themountainjournal.com/2024/04/21/mou…

This really is madness.

‘It could be the death of the museum’: why research cuts at a South Australian institution have scientists up in arms theconversation.com/it-could-be-th… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

We have extended the abstract submission and grant application deadline for TROPQUA 2024 to 30th April. Don't miss the chance to present your research, network, collaborate and take a deep dive into the ocean of Quaternary research. Submit here inquaecr.wixsite.com/tropqua
#tropqua

Australians should not be lectured on free speech by Elon Musk.

Musk, Zuckerberg profit from hate and Australia should regulate these platforms to stem the flow.

Hate is not free.

It kills.

Are u interested in #modelling of 🌾 #root 🫧 #water #uptake from #soil & model performance? Christian Kuppe & Johannes Postma contributed to this benchmarking of 5 functional-structural root architecture models: DuMux, CPlantBox, R-SWMS, OpenSimRoot and SRI.academic.oup.com/insilicoplants…

The fate of the Duke Herbarium is upsetting, unsettling. “It’s obscene,” Hughes says.bostonglobe.com/2024/04/03/opi… via The Boston Globe

💥NEW in #CATENA
Microbial groups affect #soil organic #carbon accrual & mineralization depending on #litter quality
doi.org/10.1016/j.cate…
Free: authors.elsevier.com/c/1izCp1Dk5Ad3…

#SoilOrganicMatter #SoilOrganicCarbon #CO2 #microbialbiomass 🦠 #aminosugars #13Clabeling #isotopes

One of the joys of late summer/early autumn
#firewheeltree #Stenocarpus