Invasive species No 1 driver of biodiversity loss in Australia

Advocates are calling for an urgent and coordinated national response to the threat of invasive species after the co-authors of a major international report identified it as the leading driver of biodiversity loss in Australia. Scientists and medical experts have launched a report that demonstrates the many risks of oil and gas development for human health and wellbeing in Australia. With over 90% of the heat trapped by greenhouse gasses going into our oceans, marine heatwaves are becoming more intense and more frequent. 

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Invasive species No 1 driver of biodiversity loss in Australia – and feral cats have biggest impact, report finds
Advocates are calling for an urgent and coordinated national response to the threat of invasive species after the co-authors of a major international report identified it as the leading driver of biodiversity loss in Australia. More than 37,000 alien species have been introduced by human activities to regions around the world. Of these, 3,500 are considered invasive alien species, causing negative impacts on nature and humans through their establishment and spread.

Health evidence against gas and oil is piling up, environment experts report
Scientists and medical experts have launched a report that demonstrates the many risks of oil and gas development for human health and wellbeing in Australia.

Marine heatwaves don’t just hit coral reefs. They can cause chaos on the seafloor
With over 90% of the heat trapped by greenhouse gasses going into our oceans, marine heatwaves are becoming more intense and more frequent. They do their worst damage in summer, when the ocean is already at its warmest, but they can occur any time of year.

‘Adapt or die’: Nightmare weather coming for unprepared Australia
It’s blighted the Northern Hemisphere for months but now “the summer from hell” could be heading this way and evidence shows we’re not ready. Our new normal is increasingly frequent, severe extreme events.

Climate crisis poses greatest risk to people with respiratory illnesses, experts warn
The climate crisis may pose the greatest risks to people with respiratory illnesses, with high temperatures and changing weather patterns exacerbating lung health problems, experts have said.

Australia’s ‘battery of the nation’ plan now hangs by just one undersea cable amid cost blowout
A plan to turn hydropower-rich Tasmania into the “battery of the nation” is now hanging by one 750MW undersea cable rather than two after spiraling inflation forced the Australian government to scale back the multibillion-dollar mega-project.

Maina Talia says climate change ‘a matter of life and death’
Pasifika climate activist Mainu Talia says that the effects of climate change and related sea level rising are intensifying, and it is having a negative impact on his people, especially in Tuvalu, where the highest point of the island is not two meters above the sea.

Mining billionaire Andrew Forrest said business ‘will kill your children’ if it doesn’t act on climate change
Iron ore miner Dr Andrew Forrest has turned the old idiom into a dire warning about climate change in a speech to business leaders.