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Black lung outbreak a reminder of ransom coal has always taken from workers and the community
In severe cases someone with black lung suffocates, unable to draw breath into organs left looking like a blackened sponge. It is a terrible disease, long thought eradicated in this country. But now it’s back [1]. Originally published on HuffPost In severe cases someone with black lung suffocates, unable to draw breath into organs…
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I don’t need a drill, I just need a hole in the wall – The Brisbane Tool Library
What if you could borrow some tools just as you would borrow books from a library? What if instead of buying your camping gear, you could just borrow it for the weekend? What if you could borrow a baby stroller? Born in 1992, the year of the first global Earth Summit in Rio de…
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Exposing Canavan’s Coal Slush Fund
The Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility: secretive, compromised and currently considering giving $1 billion of public money to the climate-wrecking Carmichael coal mine. But the good news is that the Federal Parliament has just authorised a Senate inquiry into the NAIF, to get to the bottom of the conflict of interest and secrecy at the heart…
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Trump abandons the Paris Climate Agreement. How bad is that?
In short, yes it’s bad. But the world moves on. Greenpeace International Executive Director Jennifer Morgan answers your questions. In short, yes it’s bad. But the world moves on. Greenpeace International Executive Director Jennifer Morgan answers your questions. What does Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement mean for the fate of the climate?…
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16 (Adorable) Reasons to Protect Canada’s Boreal Forest
Canada’s boreal forest is home to stunning landscapes and a spectacular array of wildlife. But corporate logging giant Resolute Forest Products wants to intimidate and silence people like you fighting to protect forests. |Black bear (Ursus americanus) in the Great Bear Rainforest. Black bears live in forests across Canada. These omnivores have better eyesight and…
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Australia’s politicians have betrayed the Great Barrier Reef and only the people can save it
Once upon a time, in the distant 60s and 70s, the Great Barrier Reef faced imminent destruction. Tenement applications for drilling and mining covered vast swathes of the reef, with both government and industry enthusiastically backing the plans for mass exploitation. Aerial view showing lagoon detail. Wistari Reef, Southern Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia. In…
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A woman’s place is in the movement
We, as a nation, celebrated International Women’s Day for 2017. It is safe to say that for many of us this particular day means a lot. Not only to celebrate the growth of equality us women have achieved throughout the decades but to shine a bright light on the issues society as a whole have…
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Climate change doubled the likelihood of the New South Wales heatwave
The heatwave that engulfed southeastern Australia at the end of last week has seen heat records continue to tumble like Jenga blocks. On Saturday February 11, as New South Wales suffered through the heatwave’s peak, temperatures soared to 47 °C in Richmond, 50km northwest of Sydney, while 87 fires raged across the state amid catastrophic…
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The good, the Baird, and the ugly
Mike Baird is gone – and on his last day, it’s worth reflecting on the last two years: the good, the bad and the ugly. The good After many years of pressure from thousands of Greenpeace supporters and our friends at the Boomerang Alliance, the New South Wales government finally announced a container deposit scheme,…
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Top 5 Alternatives to Shark Nets
The NSW Government has allowed for more lethal beach nets to be dropped in NSW beaches. Ineffective nets which don’t protect people but do indiscriminately kill marine life such as dolphins, turtles, dugongs, rays and endangered sharks. So if nets aren’t the answer to beach safety, what is? Scalloped Hammerhead shark (Sphyrna lewini) cought in…