For all the fans of Australia’s amazingly diverse native wildflowers, vote now for your favourite 🌿🌸🌺 #ozflora #wildoz #abc #scienceweek #nativeplants #bloomscrolling www.abc.net.au/news/science...

These 10 Aussie wildflowers have superpowers. Pick your favourite

Move over waratahs and banksias! These 10 flowers from the unsung understorey are not just pretty faces, they have surprising tricks up their sleeves.

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War! What is it good for? Absolutely humongous oil company profits | First Dog on the Moon

War! What is it good for? Absolutely humongous oil company profits | First Dog on the Moon

Mission accomplished * Sign up here to get an email whenever First Dog cartoons are published * Get all your needs met at the First Dog shop if what you need is First Dog merchandise and prints Continue reading...

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The Latest Snow Forecast For Bluff Knoll Now Shows Snow Friday Night, Saturday Afternoon And Monday Afternoon And Night 🏔️ #BluffKnoll #GreatSouthern #StirlingRange #WesternAustralia

This week’s Guest Recipe from the #CookbookCorner archive is the Apricot and Muscat Tart from 'Fruitful: Sweet and Savoury Fruit Recipes Inspired by Farms, Orchards and Gardens' by Sarah Johnson! www.nigella.com/recipes/gues...

The is taking nominations for the 2026 Tree of the Year! Find your favourite Victorian tree on the Trust's Significant Tree Register and submit your nomination by the 30th of August:https://www.nationaltrust.org.au/treeoftheyear/ Bonus points if you nominate a eucalypt 😉 📸: @nationaltrustvic

Victorian Tree of the Year – National Trust

Nominate a tree for the 2026 Victorian Tree of the Year Competition

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This 👇 must watch for Aussies

Census – Not Religious? Mark 'No Religion'.@censusnotreligious.bsky.social · 4d ago

In a message for our campaign, media personality and assisted dying advocate Andrew Denton speaks about the importance of helping to deliver more accurate Census data for the religion question. Watch his full video on our website: censusnotreligious.org.au/2026/08/01/a... #Census26 #NotReligious

Family violence gun use in Tasmania is up 100% on four years ago. What does the police minister do? Pose with a gun. Smiling.

This is so deeply disturbing to read, If it eventuates it would in essence be One Nation now running immigration policy for the Albanese Government and them abandoning migrants and refugees in a desperate attempt to win votes. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...

Tony Burke delays speech expected to reveal sweeping migration cuts

The ABC understands the cuts to migration numbers are contentious within Labor, but no reason for the delay is given.

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Forest fire last night in the Netherlands.

Wouter van Bernebeek@woutervanbernebeek.bsky.social · 2d ago

⛈️🔥 Surrealistisch beeld uit de eigen omgeving! Buienwolken in de verte stijgen boven een #bosbrand uit, gisteravond op de grens tussen Brabant en Limburg. Ik was onderweg naar onweersbuien in het zuiden en kwam dit tegen langs snelweg A73. Bizarre sfeer rond zonsondergang...

Snow Is Forecast For Bluff Knoll Friday Night And Sunday Night 🏔️ #BluffKnoll #GreatSouthern #StirlingRange #WesternAustralia

This article is excellent. It speaks volumes about how governments take so many in the environmental and conservation sectors and communities for granted theconversation.com/australia-ha.... As H5N1 begins to spread and devastate Australian wildlife the dire consequences of this are evident.

Australia has long relied on volunteers and wildlife carers. As bird flu spreads, they will need support

Volunteers have been a mainstay of conservation in Australia. As bird flu spreads, they must be supported – and kept safe.

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Multiscale #strategies to enhance plant #resilience under #climate change academic.oup.com/jxb/article/... #PlantSci @jxbotany.bsky.social @sebiology.bsky.social @plant-sci.bsky.social @theplantinitiative.bsky.social @plantbasednews.bsky.social @plantmatt.bsky.social @plantbiotechuji.bsky.social

Multiscale strategies to enhance plant resilience under climate change

Climate change is no longer a distant projection but an ongoing process redefining the boundaries of plant survival and ecosystem stability. Rising global

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'1/2 of all trees surveyed were dead, most with signs of dieback.' The loss of the snow gums will be as significant as loss of the Gt Barrier Reef. But we just got 2 more knockbacks from enviro funders - we can't get anyone interested in funding this issue. themountainjournal.com/2026/08/03/s...

Snow gum survey at Mt Stirling reveals disturbing loss of trees

During the month of August, Friends of the Earth is inviting people to join a series of surveys to help determine the health of snow gum forests. Snow gums are the iconic vegetation species of the …

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Fuck all the way off with this. Howard has never liked multiculturalism. Not because it denotes ‘different tribes’ but because he can’t imagine anyone but someone who looks and thinks like him as ‘Australian’.

Pterostylis barbata - Bird Orchid The Bird Orchid has to be one of our more unique looking orchids but you can certainly see where its common name comes from. Endemic to the southwest of Western Australia, flowering July to September. #orchids #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #bloomscrolling 🌿

Land & marine heatwaves, droughts, fires, floods, landslides, sea-level rise, super-charged typhoons, weather whiplash Climate change is harmful, fossil fuels cause it, we know who's responsible👇, non-fossil alternatives are viable

Yann Quilcaille@yannquilcaille.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🚨 Important paper in Nature: "Systematic attribution of heatwaves to the emissions of carbon majors". www.nature.com/articles/s41...

As climate change destabilizes the ground beneath our feet, geology is becoming a real-time science, Christian Elliott reports:

Climate Change Is Destabilizing the Ground Beneath Our Feet

Mountains are shifting, permafrost is melting, and the risk of landslides is rising.

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Highly informative article about the recent record-breaking heat and wildfires in Europe. It dives into the science about the causes, quoting several experts. Worth reading! www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...

Europe pays the price in a summer where heat went off the charts

Stefan Rahmstorf was holidaying in southern France when he came face to face with the climate future he has tried to fight.

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Still astounds me that the Federal basic wage in the U.S hasn't been raised since July 2009... 17 years go. Still $7.25 per hour. (In some states $15 or above.) Australia's latest national minimum wage is $26.44 per hour or $1,004.90 per week... as of 1 July 2026.

The whole thread.

Prof Phoebe Barnard@phoebebarnard.bsky.social · 4d ago

I am angry. 1. Wars do not end well on their own. Men convinced of their ideological superiority or the strategic importance of their wars do not back down. We need to force them. War is brutal. It’s almost always completely unnecessary. #Ukraine #Gaza #Iran #Sudan #war #malignancy 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇮🇷 🇸🇩 🧵 /2

This is INCREDIBLE news

Ada Palmer@adapalmer.bsky.social · 5d ago

Endometriosis takes nine years to diagnose. That’s about to change. NICE has approved two tests: a saliva test reading microRNA markers, and a gut-sensor test returning results in 45 minutes, sparing women the keyhole surgery currently needed. buff.ly/QX3jHk8 #ShareGoodNewsToo

Serious wildland-urban interface (WUI) fire situation in Spokane, WA amid "extremely critical/Particularly Dangerous Situation" fire weather conditions. Two separate fires, #OldTrailsFire & #FairViewFire, are actively burning near/in neighborhoods; mass evacs ongoing. #WAwx

I have a PhD project to look at the impact of climate change on an endangered WA skink 🦎. Applicants interested in herpetology, thermal ecology and collaborating with First Nations are encouraged to apply. Apply now: www.murdoch.edu.au/study/schola... Lab website: www.nicholaswulab.com

Some excellent reporting from @tomsaundersabc.bsky.social and @news.abc.net.au on what the developing El Niño event might mean for Australia. Short answer: the prospect of the hottest spring on record and a summer of extreme heat, with a heightened risk of drought and fires.

Record-smashing El Niño points to spring of drought and fires

Despite El Niño being months away from peaking, it could potentially trigger Australia's hottest spring on record.

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Crotalaria cunninghamii all finished! Such a stunning flower on this plant!

good grief.

Margaret Morgan 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇦🇺@margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 6d ago

What happens when you combine the slop of AI with the slop of human ignorance. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

“global temperatures are on a trajectory which may even see 2027 nearing 2C warming above pre-industrial levels for the first time.” Not in 2100, not in 2050, but in freaking 2027. #climatecrisis www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...

Record-smashing El Niño points to spring of drought and fires

Despite El Niño being months away from peaking, it could potentially trigger Australia's hottest spring on record.

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If the latest FIRIS perimeter for #WoodsideFire is accurate, this would be one of the stranger fire footprints & trajectories I've seen. Under strong NWly winds parallel to coastline, it appears fire has spotted *over oceanic coves* & into downwind forest...twice!! Whoa.

Tribble Lab & University of Washington Herbarium crew at #Botany2026!

More amazing #conservation work from the scientists at Kings Park Botanic Gardens which works towards securing a future fir Western Australia’s stunning Queen of Sheba orchid 💜💛 #orchids #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants 🌿 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...

Cloning technique could save rare Queen of Sheba orchid from extinction

There are only 30 critically endangered Queen of Sheba orchids left on earth, but scientists at Kings Park have made a breakthrough that could save them from extinction.

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