Fury after Exxon chief says public to blame for climate failures

Fury after Exxon chief says public to blame for climate failures
The world is off track to meet its climate goals and the public is to blame, Darren Woods, chief executive of oil giant ExxonMobil, has claimed – prompting a backlash from climate experts. As the world’s largest investor-owned oil company, Exxon is among the top contributors to global planet-heating greenhouse gas emissions. But in an interview, published on Tuesday, Woods argued that big oil is not primarily responsible for the climate crisis.

Australians aren’t equal when it comes to climate change vulnerability
Across Australia, our communities have different characteristics that make them either more susceptible or more resilient to harms from climate change and extreme weather events. Now, researchers have developed a new index to identify the areas and people most at risk.

Rare hope for ‘forest fairies’ whose numbers have dwindled to the dozens
In some rare good news for the critically endangered lowland Leadbeater’s possum, found only in Victoria’s Yellingbo Nature Conservation Area, conservationists have identified 34 possums in the wild – an increase of 10 possums on the last count.

In a dangerously warming world, we must confront the grim reality of Australia’s bushfire emissions
In the four years since the Black Summer bushfires, Australia has become more focused on how best to prepare for, fight and recover from these traumatic events. But one issue has largely flown under the radar: how the emissions produced by bushfires are measured and reported.

Alarm as 40,000 koalas face grim future in remote corner of Australian state
In a remote corner of Australia thousands of wild marsupials face starvation and death as their homes are cut down and turned into woodchips for export, a veteran ecologist is warning.

Dozens of koalas allegedly killed or injured during plantation logging on Kangaroo Island
Dozens of koalas have been killed or injured and left for dead during logging of blue gum plantations in South Australia, according to former employees of the harvesting company and a conservation organisation that tried to save the marsupials.

Yabby traps and discarded fishing tackle can kill platypuses - it’s time to clean up our act
Recreational fishing is a popular pastime in Australia’s inland rivers and streams. Unfortunately in the process, many people are unwittingly killing platypuses.