Tag: Australia
Australian telecommunications company pays phone bills for volunteer firefighters
"We want to do this to show our thanks to firefighters for their efforts in helping keep communities safe."
To help Australia, look to Aboriginal fire management
Cultural burning is proactive, while Western-style controlled burning, also called hazard reduction burning, is reactive.
Debunked Australian bushfire conspiracy theories were pushed by Alex Jones, Murdoch...
“There is currently no intelligence to indicate that the fires in East Gippsland and the North East have been caused by arson or any other suspicious behavior.”
Australia wildfire coverage is long on koalas, short on causes
Though coverage of the Australian fires was slow to take off, it’s begun to capture more international attention, while highlighting the effects of climate change.
Raging bushfires wipe out indigenous fauna, leave thousands of Australians homeless
"Climate change is influencing the frequency and severity of dangerous bushfire conditions in Australia and other regions of the world."
Helping the homeless: Australian charity turns empty parking lots into safe...
"By providing a safe, secure and comfortable place to get a good night’s rest, we help restore health, dignity and respect for our guests."
80,000 left on the continent: Koalas are ‘functionally extinct’ in Australia
"Formerly thought to be common and widespread, koalas are now vulnerable to extinction across much of its northern range."
New corals in the Great Barrier Reef on the decline after...
"We've gotten to the point now where local solutions for the reef are almost pointless – the only thing that matters is action on climate change."
Guns, climate denial and conspiracies: Al Jazeera captures Australian far right...
The exchange with the petrochemical giants, from September 2018, is part of a blockbuster hidden-camera investigative series released by Al Jazeera.
Australia plans to dump more than 1 million tons of sludge...
"The last thing the reef needs is more sludge dumped on it, after being slammed by the floods recently. One million tonnes of dumping dredged sludge into world heritage waters treats our reef like a rubbish tip."
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Is there a crack in Western support for genocide?
The shift in political rhetoric among Israel's traditional Western allies continues as it ratchets up its campaign to make life in Gaza so impossible for Palestinians that they will submit to ethnic cleansing.
Oceans in peril as governments stall on promises ahead of UN summit in Nice
With coral bleaching, illegal fishing, and fossil fuel expansion threatening marine ecosystems, global leaders gather in France amid mounting criticism over broken pledges and underfunded protections.
The far right’s tipping point
Over the last decade, the world has suffered bouts of political whiplash as right-wing populists and their opponents have battled it out at the ballot box.
DOGE developed error-prone AI tool to ‘munch’ veterans affairs contracts
“AI is absolutely the wrong tool for this.”
Where is the AI safety movement?
There’s the prospect of super intelligent AI outpacing human control altogether. So where are the humans in all this?