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Australian-born novelist and coastal geomorphologist migrated to Aotearoa New Zealand. Climate change technical advisor; curator of http://climatechange.org.nz
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Marketing photo of the Great Barrier Reef in 2025, featuring a reef crest that has lost almost all of its coral.

This week on Mongabay’s podcast, celebrated author and repeat Nobel Prize in Literature candidate Robert Macfarlane discusses his fascinating new book, Is a River Alive?, which both asks and provides answers to this compelling question, in his signature flowing prose. Listen: buff.ly/uMT460t.

Well the “NOAA Climate” and “NASA Climate” social media feeds - a key tool to communicate the massive challenge of climate change to the world - are now gone.

Meanwhile, everywhere: "Things aren't just getting worse. They are getting worse faster." The Extreme Weather Report, Jun 26, 2025.

We are now two resignations away from having an MP who suggested dead vaccinated people emit bluetooth signals and confessed she once "genuinely thought 9/11 was real” www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

Nailed it.

For anyone near a hurricane-prone area, this is alarmingly bad news. www.local10.com/weather/hurr... [1/5]

The fcukwittery on display here is mind-boggling. The NZ government is a bunch of ignorant, mendacious liars. #nzpol newsroom.co.nz/2025/06/26/n...

Really excellent new piece from @kbrigham.bsky.social on the first certification and issuance of Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement carbon removal credits heatmap.news/carbon-remov...

A study confirms what we have long argued: the spectacular Atlantic 'cold blob' is the result of a slowing of the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC, which transports warm waters into that region. That's the only part of Earth that resisted #globalwarming. 🌊 www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

So far since install last October my system has generated 8.1 MWh of electricity including 3.4MWh exported to the grid I've also (because battery) not noticed several power outages

Dame Anne Salmond on a lame but personally abusive campaign launched by Deputy Prime Minister David Seymour against academic critics of his Regulatory Standards Bill

It's #worldrainforestday too not just Iran war day 1, so @mongabay.com's CEO has an update 2024 saw record breaking forest loss, Brazil had 42% of that, while Bolivia's own spiked 200% Reversing this requires strong action, governance & Indigenous leadership, @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social reports:

Lies, damned lies and Trans Tasman Resources www.kasm.org.nz/post/lies-da... via @cindybax.bsky.social #nzpol

Ensuring fat dividends are generated from the power sector instead of more, cheaper, more secure and cleaner generation is a massive policy and leadership fail by successive NZ govts. Is not a technology issue, but a greed one. Subsidise distributed solr/batt ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing. My Stuff #cartoon today #Trump #USA #Iran #Israel #War

Aotearoa New Zealand. #showyourstripes

The Regulatory Standards Bill creates an expectation that if governments act in the public interest, they would have to pay out corporations whose 'property rights' are affected. In short, corporations could demand compensation any time the government tries to protect people or the planet.

Our new paper updating key metrics in the IPCC is now out, and the news is grim: ⬆️ Human induced warming now at 1.36C ⬆️ Rate of warming now 0.27C / decade ⬆️ Sharp increase in Earth's energy imbalance ⬇️ Remaining 1.5C carbon budget only 130 GtCO2 essd.copernicus.org/...

Mōrena Aotearoa NZ Mānawatia a Matariki #Matariki (Pleiades | Subaru) above That Wānaka Tree #NZ #Māori #Holiday #NewYear #Nikon #Photography

www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

Do you have a PlayStation? If so, Climate Station has launched as a free immersive and compelling data-driven experience of our planet: blog.playstation.com/2025/06/18/c... (and @playstation.com have joined #ShowYourStripes!)

21st June: #ShowYourStripes day 1) Download your warming stripes: www.ShowYourStripes.info 2) Use the graphics to start conversations about climate change risks, how you are already experiencing the consequences and what you are doing about it 3) Encourage others to do the same

Climate crisis could hit yields of key crops even if farmers adapt, study finds www.theguardian.com/environment/...

On June 20th, destruction and terror have a new name:

This guy REALLY can't read the room. NOBODY wants seabed mining in Taranaki. Chris Hipkins and the Labour Party should now commit to overturning any fast-tracked consent given. That would stop them in their tracks. Petition below👇 #BanSeabedMining www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3607...

Comment: The Government wants to make it simpler to do things like build housing on Land Use Capability III land while making it harder to earn carbon credits by planting trees on land that has more than limited agricultural potential, says Eric Crampton

Revealed: the astonishing greenhouse gas emissions that will result from the North West Shelf project www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Yeah. We noticed. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

More than half of mangroves worldwide may face high or severe risk by 2100 due to increased tropical cyclones and sea level rise, with experts predicting Southeast Asia to be hardest hit under all emissions scenarios.

When climate deniers argue that atmospheric CO₂ was higher in the past, it's idiotic. Humans evolved to live in the current climate, and we built our society and infrastructure accordingly. The atmosphere didn't have oxygen billions of years ago, and we certainly don't want to return to that.

Next week it is time to #ShowYourStripes again. We encourage everyone to download their warming stripes graphics and use them to start climate conversations on Friday 20th and Saturday 21st June. www.ShowYourStripes.info Graphic: Change in global average temperature from 1850-2024.

Climate disasters can alter kids’ brains — before they’re even born. "What we are seeing is compelling evidence that the climate crisis is not just an environmental emergency, it is potentially a neurological one." grist.org/health/clima... #Kids #Science #Health #Climate #Hurricanes #Environment

Wikipedia wanted to use AI summaries at the top of article pages. Editors said please please don't www.404media.co/wikipedia-pa...

Energy Minister ‘very happy’ with agency’s performance but its taxpayer funding is being slashed

Super awesome paper I helped on about where bird names come from!

Electrifying news: someone in government might be listening to common sense. newsroom.co.nz/2025/06/10/t...

Anthropogenic Global Warming & Hail 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Anthropogenic Global Warming: Fossil Fuel Pollution, Severe Weather, CO2, Plants, Food, Nutrients, Food Chains, & Supply Chains 🧵 www.scientificamerican.com/article/corr...

Ecological assemblages may be spatially organized by both context dependency and general processes. A study in Nature Ecology & Evolution finds general patterns in the organization of regional biodiversity in biogeographical regions. go.nature.com/3FILzhN 🧪

The world’s oceans are in worse health than realised, scientists said today, as they warn a key measurement shows we are “running out of time” to protect marine ecosystems. There are many reasons to #ProtectTheOceans. Our own survival is one of them.