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Lucky we're doing something about it /s

Nickel is commonly used in renewable energy infrastructure, such as in batteries and corrosion-resistant steel, and demand is expected to double by 2050 to support low-carbon technologies," Dr. Mervine said.

"However, the biomass carbon emissions from vegetation clearing for nickel mines are almost always overlooked in carbon accounting, sustainability reports, and sourcing decisions.

Dr. Evelyn Mervine from UQ's School of the Environment analyzed data from 481 international nickel mine sites and undeveloped deposits and found the land footprint of nickel mining could be four to 500 times greater than previously reported.

The number of Australian animals, plants and unique ecological communities officially recognised as being in danger of extinction rose to 2,245 last year.

Australia has one of the world's highest rates of extinctions with about 100 species of flora and fauna lost since European colonisation.

There were 42 new additions to the national list of threatened species, including 21 animals, 20 plants and one threatened ecological community — the King Island scrub complex.

WTF? Hers a better jdea, ban on steeet parking. Prove you have somewhere to park the car or not be allowed to buy it.

Grattan's modelling shows that Australians who draw down their super at the minimum rate when they retire will leave the equivalent of 65 per cent of their original super balance unspent by the age of 92.

Tax payer subsidy for inheritance?

that many retirees are net savers, with their super balances growing for decades after they retire, for fear of outliving their savings.

"This is not how it was meant to be.

Isn't it ? How a something works is surely representative of how it was designed.

tl;dr Pumped the shit out to sea after an initial filtering only, no other city in Aus does this (they use secondary processes after the initial filtering), did it because it was cheaper.

back to the article...

The environmentalists Dr Richard Gosden and Prof Sharon Beder take a different view – Gosden accuses the EPA and Sydney Water of knowing “exactly what’s happening”.

Gosden and Beder were part of a group called Stop the Ocean Pollution (Stop) who campaigned in the 1980s to have “secondary” treatment added to the Bondi, Malabar and North Head plants before the outfall pipes were built.

Stop garnered significant support, including from the 250,000 people who Gosden said attended the Turn Back the Tide protest concert in Bondi in 1989, but ultimately were unsuccessful.

Sydney invented beach culture,” Gosden says. “It’s Australia’s single cultural invention that’s been properly exported. And all the time, it’s been conducted in diluted sewage.”

Must be disappointing to them, in the 1980s they protested (as experts!) and pointed out this will lead to a "shitty" future (pun intended) FF 40 years and here we are, swimming in our own shit.

Reminds me of the climate debate really.

A rare Sun-skirting comet will be visible from the southern hemisphere this week as it flies past Earth for the first time in around 100,000 years.

Post some pics Lemmy Aus users as they come in!

He was ready to go front line, no armour, no weapon, and just there to kill Russians and keep Ukrainians safe," he told the ABC in December.

Brave man than I.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/17323287

This ability to infect, spread between, and kill such a wide range of creatures has prompted some scientists to call H5N1 a “panzootic”: an epidemic that leaps species barriers and can devastate diverse animal populations, posing a threat to humans too. As shrinking habitats, biodiversity loss and intensified farming create perfect incubators for infectious diseases to jump from one species to another, some scientists say panzootics could become one of the era’s defining threats to human health and security.

Something to look foward to /s

This ability to infect, spread between, and kill such a wide range of creatures has prompted some scientists to call H5N1 a “panzootic”: an epidemic that leaps species barriers and can devastate diverse animal populations, posing a threat to humans too. As shrinking habitats, biodiversity loss and intensified farming create perfect incubators for infectious diseases to jump from one species to another, some scientists say panzootics could become one of the era’s defining threats to human health and security.

Something to look foward to /s

One in 10 properties in Australia are expected to be uninsurable within the next decade, according to climate change risk analysis modelling.

The latest calculations from Climate Valuation analysts found about 380,000 properties in Australia were either uninsurable or unaffordable to insure, equating to about one in every 20 homes.

That figure was expected to increase to one in 10 within the next decade, according to the firm's latest data.

Having done everything we can to make climate change worse, the dildo of consequence has arrived.