Tim Hammer

Australians could cut power bills by 90% if they made their homes more energy efficient, report finds Debate on how to generate energy ‘important but misses the point’, analyst says, when you can get such savings by using solar, batteries and efficient appliances

Australians can cut their power bills by 90% if they make their homes more energy efficient, a new report finds. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Angry peas

Countries must protect human right to a stable climate, court rules Costa Rica-based inter-American court of human rights says states have obligation to respond to climate change

It shouldn't take a court saying so, but the time has long come to act.

Fighting over a Banksia

Cost of emissions from five major Australian resource companies more than $900bn, study finds US researchers link BHP, Rio Tinto, Santos, Whitehaven Coal and Woodside Energy to specific climate harms over three decades

Scientists have linked fossil fuel companies to specific climate harms for the first time, with five Australian oil, gas and coal companies potentially responsible for $900bn in loss and damage from extreme heat alone.

Latest from me in The Guardian this morning.

Accurate reporting by the Chaser. #auspol #AusVotes25 #LaborWins

What is iNaturalist? The citizen science app playing an unlikely role in Erin Patterson’s mushroom murder trial

iNaturalist might turn out to be an important part of the murder trial, but how else can observations of plants and animals be used?

As election day nears, one topic has been largely ignored: the environment With Australia in the grip of what many consider a biodiversity crisis, here's what the major parties have promised when it comes to nature laws and the environment.

The environment has been largely ignored at every election for as long as I can remember. Instead of more party policy comparisons, where are the analyses on why the environment is still not considered a major political issue worth voting for? www.abc.net.au/news/science...

YouTube video by thejuicemedia Honest Government Ad | How To Vote 2025

This. If you don’t understand preferential voting, and most Aussies don’t in my experience, watch and share this, please. youtu.be/zXHq04W0kBs

Thank you, @thejuicemedia.bsky.social! #AusVotes25

This triangle helps explain a titanic shift in how Australia votes This triangle is going to help us explain how Australian politics has fundamentally changed over the past five decades.

Very cool data visual work by ABC on the changing way we vote www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

Including Jordan Peterson…

‘De-extinction’ of dire wolves promotes false hope: technology can’t undo extinction Claims of ‘bringing back’ any species take away focus from proven solutions that can actually fix the extinction crisis.

"Would we consider a chimpanzee, with which we share 98.8% of our genome, to be human after 20 edits?" De-extinction risks distracting us from the protection of our current living species. 🌏🧪

Mr Dutton, denying climate change puts people and nature in harm’s way Peter Dutton’s responses on climate change in last night’s leaders’ debate, along with a string of climate damaging policies, reveal the Coalition is out of touch on a major issue affecting voters’ li...

Mr Dutton’s responses on climate change in last night’s leaders’ debate, along with a string of climate damaging policies, reveal the Coalition is out of touch on a major issue affecting voters’ lives. #auspol #ausvotes #ausvotes25 www.acf.org.au/denying-clim...

So dry here though

There’s hope for the future

Seed dispersal by Martu peoples promotes the distribution of native plants in arid Australia Many Indigenous peoples recognise that the abundance and fertility of some local ‘wild’ plants are dependent on their intervention. The loss of these types of ecological services due to the spread of ...

This is how homelands are built go.nature.com/4eXyApf

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.

I know. I was there in those camps.

Will the Anthony Albanese Government give the community what they want? A new study has revealed that 75% of Australians want strengthened environmental laws to protect nature, and only 4% are opposed.

Learn more: biodiversitycouncil.org.au/news/an-incr...
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Many perennial Ptilotus species are the same.

Sentinel-2 imagery of the Grampians fire on Friday, in 'false-colour urban', showing the burnt area (brown) and the infrared fire hotspots (flame colours). Was pretty hot there for a while.

Looks close to H. ovata. One of the key characters to split it from close relatives is distinct marginal hairs on the base of the sepals. Photos not close enough to see that.

Phylogenetics confirms it comes out alone and sister to subgenus Hibbertia. Morphologically it is quite distinct too, especially with its stamens that cohere to form a cone shape around the gynoecium.

I had to trek into a densely vegetated swamp in Royal National Park to find this beauty. It’s Hibbertia salicifolia, which is restricted to near-coastal areas of eastern Australia. Previously it was the only member of the genus Adrastaea, now considered a subgenus of Hibbertia. #ozplants #hibbertia

Hibbertia hermanniifolia subsp. hermanniifolia is a very distinctive taxon only known from near Bents Basin in NSW.

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They conflate race and culture. This ignores that people name their children names from other cultures, and also that people can have mixed backgrounds. I tried NamePrism for people I know in the US and they get misclassified - just an anecdote but not promising for the robustness of the method.