Joy McCann

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Our sky turned red. In black summer, Australia stepped off ‘some kind of precipice’ The black summer bushfires heralded the beginning of a time when we realised the world as we knew it was gone. Five years later, we still space for grief, anger and political action

Our sky turned red. In black summer, Australia stepped off ‘some kind of precipice’
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Surveys show widespread Great Barrier Reef coral loss Researchers say warming oceans threaten world’s reefs

Due to the impeccable timing of a delayed official press release, you probably haven’t heard that 40% of corals on the southern Great Barrier Reef died in 2024 due to record-breaking heat exposure.

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Protesters decorate 80-metre-tall Christmas tree to stop it from getting logged When an 80-metre gum tree in the Tasmanian forest was due to be cut down for logging, conservationists turned it into the world’s tallest Christmas tree.

The audacious plan to decorate the world's tallest Christmas tree in remote Tasmania

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Sheep farmers are helping save Tasmania’s native grasslands: ‘We’re better off working together’ Critically endangered grasslands in Tasmania’s Midlands were being destroyed by agriculture, but an innovative partnership has protected the remaining ecosystem – and local farmers’ profits

Critically endangered grasslands in Tasmania’s Midlands were being destroyed by agriculture, but an innovative partnership has protected the remaining ecosystem

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Some news from down under! The Unruly Ocean (coauthored with Erika Techera) has just been published by Routledge! Also my plans for a quieter 2025 have been quietly shelved with a Tasmanian State Library & Archives research fellowship on Tasmania’s Antarctic connections.
#envhist #envhum #antarctic

Good news from Hobartisan Books - the Southern Ocean anthology will be available for sale from bookshops in March 2025.

Rare glimpse at stunning reef near Woodside’s gas plans Scott Reef is, in the words of author Tim Winton, the last “unspoiled” clear-water coral reef in Australia.

Scott Reef’s a rare, unspoiled gem home to endangered sea snakes, turtles & manta rays.

But Woodside’s mammoth Browse gas project threatens it all.

The Environment Minister must act to protect this natural wonder, not to allow further damage to our climate.
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"In the last year
Israel has killed
17,500 children in Gaza
In Launceston
there are 17,000 under 20's
Imagine
this city
with no children
Stand up, Speak out
Stop the Genocide"

Dr. Helen Scales is my favorite marine biologist! Please buy anything she writes for holiday giving if you can!! #naturewriting #science #oceans

Documents reveal plans to make 39,000 hectares of native Tasmanian forest available for logging Right to information documents have revealed that parcels of native forest that could soon be available for logging in Tasmania contain vast swathes of "old growth" forest and threatened species. The ...

FFS!

Still, I suppose the Tasmanian government needs stadium funding from somewhere... 🤔

We need federal protections for old-growth forests across the country.

#politas
#auspol
#environment
#sustainability

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I’m an Antarctic and Southern Ocean historian from lutruwita Tasmania. Would love to be included thanks! #envhist #envhum

YouTube video by thejuicemedia Honest Government Ad | 2025 Election

Australia! Don't become America. It's time for some serious election propaganda. Please share.

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You could try the publisher Hobartisan Press - I think they are planning to reprint for wider distribution.

Please add me to the Lutruwita Tasmania starter pack! Thanks for pulling it together!

#naturewriting

#envhist #envhum

Unprecedented changes in Antarctica ice prompt researchers to issue emergency statement Hundreds of polar researchers issue an emergency statement calling for urgent action to deal with the impacts of climate change in Antarctica.

🌊 "Nowhere on Earth is there a greater cause of uncertainty in sea-level rise projections than from East Antarctica, in Australia’s backyard. The East Antarctic Ice Sheet alone holds enough water to raise global sea levels by approximately 50m if completely melted."
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A brilliant ‘talk’ from one of the world’s Antarctic sea ice experts as part of the Australian Antarctic Research Conference in Hobart this week.

The City of Hobart (lutruwita Tasmania) has just released ‘Voices of the Southern Ocean’ (Hobartisan Books 2024), an anthology celebrating Hobart’s designation as a UNESCO City of Literature. Initially sent to CCAMLR delegates and other ocean decision makers. Honoured to be part of this project.

The City of Hobart (lutruwita Tasmania) has just released ‘Voices of the Southern Ocean’ (Hobartisan Books 2024), an anthology celebrating Hobart’s designation as a UNESCO City of Literature. Initially sent to CCAMLR delegates and other ocean decision makers. Honoured to be part of this project.