Our new paper, based on data from 1,705 studies, shows that pesticides are toxic to organisms they are not intended to harm, including fungi, microbes, plants, insects, & vertebrates such as ourselves. Questions the wisdom of applying over 3 million tonnes of them every year...

I’m not naive, I realise that due to historical circumstances we in Oz are in a “forced” marriage with the US. Times have changed & we now need to divorce Perhaps instead of gifting $380 billion to the US we could invest the money in our own drone research and manufacturing.

Timelapse: Tropical Cyclone Alfred; Lower athmosphere: clockwise-spiral inflow (from South to North); Upper athmosphere: counter-clockwise outflow (from North to South);

There is no country/zone with a) high prices and low carbon emissions or b) with low prices and high emissions. The higher the carbon emissions from electricity generation in 2024, the higher the prices and vice versa. HT Esko Heinonen

The European Commission has just made it clear that the rigid constraints they had placed on public finance were totally artificial. They have now lifted them to enable massive military production. The EC could have done the same thing to achieve rapid decarbonization and

USA bombs. China builds.

'Just as the computer does for our mind, the bicycle amplifies our inherent abilities to spectacular magnitudes' —Steve Jobs Scientific American measured the efficiency of locomotion for various species on the planet. Humans on foot are mediocre. Humans on bikes blew all away!

What's striking about capitalist civilization is that it has no real direction. There's no vision for social progress, no commitment to improving human welfare or ecology. All we get is the chaos of profit-oriented production and accumulation as the world burns around us.

Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD You forgot the perhaps most important one: tragedy of the commons. If you reduce your emissions, you don’t see any benefit, as the benefit is diluted across the entire planet. (Which leads to the subsequent free rider problem.)

Alle wissen alles besser als qualifizierte Wissenschaftler ... 🤦 gfz.de/presse/meldung…

"Liberal parties have failed and we need a real democratic socialist alternative that can advance the interests of working-class communities, environmentalists and other progressive forces with a shared vision for a better world." nowthenmagazine.com/articles/jason…

It is comforting how vast and wonderful the universe will remain even after we’ve wrecked this planet.

An example of why the world needs geoscientists. They can bring the death toll of an event from hundreds down to a few to none.

New open-access 'Issue Article' on the increase in saline groundwater pumping from coastal aquifers to support on-land aquaculture operations -> guidelines & legislation should be better grounded in coastal hydrogeological science and engineering ngwa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gw…

This is spot on 🎯

"The US entered yet another war in the Middle East without any clear motive, strategy, objectives, popular support, succession plan or exit arrangement, leading to suspicions it has no fucking idea what it is doing" Read the full story: theshovel.com.au/2025/06/23/rea…

Marten Scheffer’s appeal to media and scientists: reveal the invisible hand of vested interest players! It is this ‘invisible hand’ of lobby power which so far has prevented us from tackling the #ClimateCrisis, despite having the solutions. #GlobalTippingPoints2025

Writing is thinking. Don't let AI do it all.

Wow. Check this out. Politicians actually trying to solve problems can achieve a lot! washingtonpost.com/climate-soluti…

If only Australia valued a deep tech industry, we'd be able to benefit from inventions such as solar. But yeah nah, it's too hard. Instead, we dig up rocks and trade glorified tents.