The mesmerizing courtship display of a hummingbird. [📹 venueearth] x.com/i/status/18178…

Did you know that Aussie charity shops were able to use the profits from sales to fund $961 million worth of programs and services each year? Charity shops also divert over a million tonnes of goods away from landfill and save around 880,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions a year. 🌿 🌿

"Ending youth homelessness in Aus is possible. It requires investing in housing supply, ensuring adequate rental subsidies, implementing prevention measures & expanding youth housing options like Youth Foyers,” Mission Australia CEO Sharon Callister GAICD, MBA, BHA, RN. Hope 103.2 hope1032.com.au/stories/life/s…

These “bad behaviors” might actually be worth encouraging! 🙌 Here’s how one elementary teacher encourages enthusiasm and curiosity in her classroom—while maintaining order: edut.to/468mV2P

The "CO2 is Plant Food" fallacy explained: "All our domestic plants were bred in lower CO2 levels than today, and they have evolved over the past 100,000 years to be optimized to lower temperatures and CO2 than we have currently. Which helps explain why CO2 is still rising.

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For thousands of families home education isn’t a lifestyle choice - it’s a crisis. “I meet families where the child’s anxiety is sky-high, and they can’t manage attending..They’re trying to avoid getting fined, living in poverty, desperate for help.” theguardian.com/education/2024…

Today, girl activists and I stood outside the UN building calling on leaders to listen to girls and prioritize their demands at the Summit of the Future.

Signed secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/pe…

We're calling on CCAMLR to ban all industrial fishing in Antarctica after the shocking news of another four whale deaths in Antarctica due to industrial #krill fishing and toothfish longlining. bobbrown.org.au/whale-deaths-c…

Just wait until conspiracy theorists discover they’re part of a conspiracy to use conspiracy theorists to spread disinformation via conspiracy theories.

Our latest report presents a rigorous analysis of the world’s trajectory toward 3°C warming—a level of change with catastrophic implications for human societies and ecological systems. Download the full report: breakthroughonline.org.au/collisioncourse

Attended a very informative seminar about the BoM–CSIRO State of the Climate 2024 report. A finding that hit me hard was that the extreme year of 2019, Australia's hottest and driest on record, will become an average year between 2021-2040. As a reminder, 2019 looked like this...

Protesters have today occupied forests in Tasmania’s Eastern Tiers where Swift Parrots are currently nesting but logging destruction has continued. Logging machines are now idle. #politas

You could be the best at verbal questioning IN THE WORLD and you still aren't getting as many students thinking as much as that. They are thinking, they are generating and formulating thoughts, and you are getting huge amounts of feedback. Unbeatable

The three-year-old girl was hospitalised with respiratory complications and later died from multiple organ failures. However, it remains unknown how she contracted bird flu. ab.co/42jOTXS

Thanks to Silvan Schuppisser for making this photo available on Unsplash 🎁 unsplash.com/photos/a-woman…