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Peter Sainsbury

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Environment: A hotter Middle East, a warming Arctic and heatwaves that won’t retreat

Environment: A hotter Middle East, a warming Arctic and heatwaves that won’t retreat

Arab nations face a very hot future, more severe heatwaves will continue for 1,000 years after we reach net zero, and changing land use has...

28.02.2026 10

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Environment: State-owned fossil fuel companies dominate CO2 emissions

16 state-owned fossil fuel companies top the CO2 emission charts, nations need to be rich to electrify and need to electrify to get rich, and Norway...

21.02.2026 90

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Environment: The energy transition is underway – nuclear is not part of it

Nuclear is going nowhere, fossils are facing a bleak future and renewables are surging to the future. A Rich Polluter Profit Tax and an Excess Profit...

14.02.2026 50

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Environment: Small-bodied and short-lived, tiny freshwater fish play big roles in ecosystems

07.02.2026 10

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Environment: Agricultural emissions are roasting the planet

31.01.2026 7

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Environment: It’s official - Australia’s extreme weather events will get more severe

24.01.2026 10

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Environment: More good recycling is needed – emphasis on good

20.12.2025 10

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Degrowing the economy for people and planet

13.12.2025 10

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Bill Gates knows the climate and poverty facts but misses the politics

06.12.2025 10

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Environment: It’s official – we aren’t winning the climate fight

29.11.2025 10

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No COP for Australia. No tears from me

22.11.2025 10

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Environment: Paris 2015 generated hope, but not enough climate action

15.11.2025 7

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Environment: The reformed EPBC Act – will the environment or business have priority?

08.11.2025 10

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Environment: Six strategies will simultaneously reduce emissions and help communities prepare

01.11.2025 10

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Environment: Arctic and Europe warming at double the global average

28.09.2025 10

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Environment: Technological revolutions revolutionise society

20.09.2025 8

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Environment: Earth is getting hotter faster thanks to humans

13.09.2025 10

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Environment: Australian Government misleading people about our emissions reductions

06.09.2025 10

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Environment: Too much and too little water causing problems from the tropics to the poles

30.08.2025 10

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Environment: Humanity’s big success: turning forests from saviours to spoilers

23.08.2025 10

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Environment: 18th century vicar describes controlled burning in English countryside

16.08.2025 10

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Environment: Decisive action needed to avoid unmanageable climate tipping points

09.08.2025 10

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Environment: Humans are the wisest mammals, but which have the most biomass?

02.08.2025 8

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Environment: Judge says advocate and protest to make government responsible for climate damage

26.07.2025 10

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Environment: Forget 1.5 degrees C, even 2 degrees C, while forests and peat disappear and natural gas booms

19.07.2025 10

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Environment: Ocean acidification has left the safe zone for humans

12.07.2025 10

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Environment: Ken Henry and Xi Jinping agree nature is critical to productivity

05.07.2025 10

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Environment: Australia declared climate change ‘rogue actor’

28.06.2025 9

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Environment: Murray-Darling Plan delivers profits, but not environmental improvement

21.06.2025 8

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Environment: WA addicted to producing, burning and exporting gas

14.06.2025 10

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Environment: 5% of animal species currently threatened by climate change

07.06.2025 10

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Environment: Freshwater systems and grasslands, forgotten nature and climate heroes

31.05.2025 10

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Environment: Australians must defend our right to protest

24.05.2025 10

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Environment: Nations ignoring the need for a just transition to zero carbon

17.05.2025 10

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Environment: Will Labor now protect our environment? If not now, probably never

10.05.2025 10

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Environment: Australia’s exported fossil fuel emissions are treble our total domestic emissions

04.05.2025 9

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Environment: Australian Governments sacrifice the environment for dollars and votes

26.04.2025 10

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Environment: Adopt a tapeworm. Love your lice. Give a leech lunch

12.04.2025 10

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Environment: Coal, oil and gas still produce three-quarters of all greenhouse gases

06.04.2025 10

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Environment: Humans’ contempt for the natural world drives environmental destruction

29.03.2025 10

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Environment: Building nuclear involves killing more people

22.03.2025 10

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Environment: The folly of focusing on net zero

16.03.2025 10

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Environment: Albanese sacrifices the marine environment for Tasmanian votes

08.03.2025 10

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Never has violence been initiated by the oppressed

06.03.2025 10

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Environment: Governments like docile populations, that’s why they intimidate activists

01.03.2025 10

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Environment: Australia’s exported greenhouse gas emissions are double our domestic emissions

22.02.2025 10

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Environment: States and territories to reduce their emissions by 44% by 2030

15.02.2025 9

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Environment: Australia unlikely to play its proper part in keeping warming under 1.5°C

08.02.2025 10

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Environment: One giant leap for mankind was nothing compared with today’s challenges

01.02.2025 10

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Environment: Accelerating towards a collision with the climate

25.01.2025 10

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