My column.

Finally! youtu.be/FvR2_CCoX60?si…

“We’ve got a problem. It think it’s fair to say that most open cut coal mines have got more emissions than are being reported. I don’t think there’s any other conclusion you can reach than that.” Aussie coal mines pass way too much gas & it’s a big problem afr.com/policy/energy-…

A fascinating and at times alarming interview between ⁦Phillip Adams⁩ and ⁦James Bradley⁩ abclisten.page.link/oMTxBm2b9sait3…

So delighted to see Lev Grossman' brilliant The Bright Sword get a starred review in Publishers Weekly. I read it last year and it's utterly wonderful: incredibly smart, original, deeply felt but self-aware. I loved it. Penguin Books Aus publishersweekly.com/9780735224049

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1. On Friday we came together at the USyd SFP | Join the Gaza Solidarity Camp! Gaza Solidarity encampment at Sydney University to offer our children a space of comfort, healing and community.

Almost half of Gaza’s population are children. In the last 7 months, almost 15,000 children have been…

Your regular reminder that the salmon companies currently undermining Tas world heritage status are entirely foreign owned, including by wildly corrupt Brazilian firm, and pay no tax.

theaustralian.com.au/nation/uns-ple…

'Everyone outside the Amazon... are the locusts. Through our consumption patterns—the voracious global appetite for red meat, construction materials, new furniture, new paper created from pulped trees—most of us are preying on the Amazon.'
nybooks.com/articles/2024/…

“The empirical evidence indicates at least a realistic possibility of conscious experience in all vertebrates (including all reptiles, amphibians and fishes) and many invertebrates (including... cephalopod mollusks, decapod crustaceans and insects).”
quantamagazine.org/insects-and-ot…

'Our bodies still hold memories of our ancestors’ arboreal lives.'

Another fantastic piece from Cosmos - the Science of Everything, this time by Lauren Fuge.

cosmosmagazine.com/nature/plants/…

“You’ve got people that’s been here from the start and you want to get rid of them? That’s dumb. You should be the one to go. Leave them people here. They’re more important than you will ever be.’’
theguardian.com/culture/2024/a…

'The chytrid fungus is a serial killer: by some estimates, it may be responsible for the greatest disease-driven loss of biodiversity in recorded history.'

A fantastic piece of writing by Amalyah Hart. Cosmos - the Science of Everything

cosmosmagazine.com/nature/animals…

'The most pressing environmental matter facing the shipping industry is compliance with international climate change objectives.'

Fantastic piece about the immense human and environmental impacts of shipping by vanessa ogle in The New York Review of Books.

nybooks.com/online/2024/04…

'What’s left out of these nonstop discussions of campus safety is this: there isn’t a single safe campus left in Gaza. Israel, with the unconditional aid of the US, has destroyed almost every kindergarten, school, and university in Gaza.'
theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a…

The world’s oceans are not incidental to terrestrial life but rather have sustained it from time immemorial.

That’s what James Bradley’s first sole-authored book of nonfiction,  'Deep Water',  synthesises with an impressive wealth of research. satpa.pe/mzbTdOX

On Monday 13 May I'll be talking to Jo Riccioni about Deep Water and the ocean at Avalon Library. Tickets are free, and everybody is welcome! Penguin Books Aus
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'Deep Water transforms... the ocean from a distant, unknowable portion of the world to an entity that is intricately connected to every aspect of our lives.'

Incredibly grateful for this beautiful review of Deep Water. Penguin Books Aus Scribe UK

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Alexis Wright spoke to Stella about her shortlisted book, Praiseworthy, described by the judges as a ‘canon-crushing Australian novel for the ages.’

Read the interview: stella.org.au/the-stella-int…

Pity Goyder survived, but fantastic to see the ecocidal shits on the Woodside board humiliated. All power to the activists and organisers who made this happen, and to the investors who did the right thing. Hopefully it’s just the beginning. theguardian.com/australia-news…