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Rebecca Huntley (pictured) appeared on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation&#39;s television program Q&amp;A, questioning the viability and value of Australia&#39;s National Party.&quot;Even as emissions level off, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is growing faster than ever. Here’s why&quot;;&quot;These 3 climate misinformation campaigns are operating during the election run-up. Here’s how to spot them&quot;;&quot;How to talk about climate change&quot;;&quot;The Women’s Climate Congress&quot;;&quot;About one third of young adults are skeptical about democracy&quot;;&quot;Woodside commits $18bn to US project that climate advocates warn ‘would export harmful gas until the 2070s’&quot;;&quot;New study compares growing corn for energy to solar production. It’s no contest.&quot;;&quot;Renewables, coal or nuclear? This election, your generation’s energy preference may play a surprising role&quot;;&quot;James Hansen and the scientific contest about accelerated warming: 2025 is the crunch year&quot;;&quot;Yosemite scientists now forced to clean bathrooms&quot;;&quot;Hawaii Sues Big Oil for Alleged Climate Deception After Trump Administration Tried to Block the Litigation&quot;;&quot;Unleashing the 89% of People Who Want Climate Action Could Lead to ‘Social Tipping Point’ and More Government Action, Experts Say&quot;;&quot;‘The World Is Moving Forward’: UN Chief Says Fossil Fuel Interests and Hostile Governments Can’t Stop Clean Energy Future&quot;;&quot;How a Changing Climate Is Reshaping the Spread of Infectious Diseases&quot;;&quot;London councils yet to spend £130m in local climate funds&quot;;&quot;Why Australia’s most prominent climate change deniers have stopped talking about the climate&quot;;&quot;Greening the Hill Mk2&quot;;&quot;Writing to the future is one of the most powerful climate actions you can take&quot;;&quot;The World Seems to Be Surrendering to Climate Change&quot;;&quot;Australia is set to be a renewables nation. After Labor’s win, there’s no turning back&quot;;&quot;Ocean warming is accelerating, scientist warns&quot;;&quot;83 per cent of 5-year-olds will be exposed to ‘unprecedented’ extreme heat in their lifetime&quot;;&quot;Europeans want homegrown renewable energy over fossil fuels from Trump or Putin, poll confirms&quot;;&quot;More Frequent Fire Weather&quot;;&quot;Millions of People Depend on the Great Lakes’ Water Supply. Trump Decimated the Lab Protecting It.&quot;;&quot;Banning cars in city centres has worked around the world. Why isn’t London’s Oxford Street pedestrianised yet?&quot;;&quot;Climbing Shoes Can Release Potentially Harmful Chemicals Into the Air of Bouldering Gyms, Study Says&quot;;&quot;Climate Essentials&quot;;&quot;Fossil fuels are bad business&quot;;&quot;Puerto Rico drops climate lawsuit after DoJ sues states to block threats to big oil&quot;;&quot;Climate Risk Map of Australia&quot;;&quot;Trump has cut global climate finance. China is more than happy to step in.&quot;;&quot;Logging and palm oil plantations are expanding in Malaysia.&quot;:&quot;We talk a lot about being ‘resilient’. But what does it actually mean?&quot;;&quot;House Votes to Block California’s Plan to Ban New Gas-Powered Cars&quot;;&quot;Scientific societies to do climate assessment after Trump administration dismissed authors&quot;;&quot;‘Protest shapes the world’: Rebecca Solnit on the fight back against Trump&quot;;&quot;Mark Carney’s Climate Strategy: Balancing Carbon Policy, Trade, and Energy Security&quot;;&quot;Wyoming Has Been Slow to Transition From Fossil Fuels, but Is Moving Fast Toward New Nuclear Technologies&quot;;&quot;<a href="https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/04/30/new-rmas-chilling-effect-on-councils-threatened-with-court-action/?utm_source=New

Professor David Lindenmayer (pictured). from The Fenner School of Environment &amp; Society at the Australian National University, was the guest on a May 1 webinar organised by the &quot;Victorian Forest Alliance&quot;.Professor Lindenmayer discussed &quot;Disturbance and flamability: how logging and burning makes forests more flammable&quot;.His understanding of Australian forests, their history and how our interference with them, along with the challenges with the quickly unfolding dilemma of climate change, makes them significantly more susceptible to fire,

Sue B. Inches (pictured) wants to build a better world, so she is doing what she can in that she has written a book about "Environmental Advocacy", she teaches on that topic, and also has been giving sermons about hope in challenging times, and beyond, that she advocates for people, corporations and governments at all levels to take action on the mitigation of climate change.Sue's thoughts about climate change can be found on her weekly Substack.She admires the University of Maine, which she says is doing wonderful work with floating wind turbines.

Simon Molesworth (pictured far from the austerity of a courtroom, working on his far western New South Wales property) sees the exhibitions of old (&quot;fun fares&quot; as he describes them) as a means to bring an understanding of climate change to as many people as possible.The Melbourne-based barrister, who has long been involved with climate and environmental movements throughout Australia, was the keynote speaker on Wednesday, April 30, at the Australian Cleantech Showcase 2025.

A kitchen table discussion, during Victoria&#39;s 2020 Covid-19 lockdown, resulted in the design and construction of the first Frankenstein-like &quot;Power-Droid&quot; by former film and television stuntman, Purven Pather, aided by his business partner and wife, Jessica Gower.The arrival of the Power-Droid was followed by the creation of the company, Equoria, which is about &quot;Powering your production with portable, renewable power sources&quot;.The Power-Droid, a mobile box of just over 80 kilograms, looking smart in its new finery and remote from its Frankenstein-like elder, was on show at the recent &quot;Australian Cleantech Showcase 2025.&quot;

The City of Greater Shepparton followed the earlier lead of other municipalities, declaring a &quot;climate emergency&quot; in 2020, passing the motion on the casting vote of the then mayor, Cr Seema Adullah.Shepparton climate activists are concerned that the new council, elected last year and whose climate credentials are unknown, will move to see that 2020 reversed, just as has been the case at Mornington: &quot;Mornington Peninsula council scraps climate emergency plan&quot;.On April 22, the organisation that has been set up by journalists for journalists, &quot;Covering Climate Now&quot;, organised and staged a webinar with a panel of three, moderated by the Audience Editor from Covering Climate Now, Theresa Riley, which discussed &quot;The Future of Climate Activism&quot;.A poem from Ashanti Kunene stunned the audience with her act of provacation and the opening of the &quot;Systemic Investing Summit 2025&quot;.Former U.S. Vice President, Al Gore, ignited the San Francisco &quot;Climate Week Conference&quot; when he compared some Trump administration actions to those of Nazi Germany.And The Guardian covered the same issue: &quot;Al Gore draws parallels between Trump 2.0 and early Nazi Germany in speech&quot;.From The Washington Post: &quot;For Earth Day 2025, here are simple planet-friendly activities that people can incorporate into their lives, starting with their morning shower.&quot;Again from The Washington Post: &quot;This Earth Day, there are some reasons to be hopeful about the climate&quot;.

Rob Bakes from Vote Climate One, which includes the Traffic Light Election Guide, says, "The only thing we've got left is one another; we can't rely on government."He also says, "When you look at the science, we are in real troubles, We're buggered".Rob, whose passion is as wide as it is deep, finds comfort in talking with Geelong's Mik Aidt, who runs the bay City's "The Sustainable Hour".The Traffic Light Election Guide has already proved its worth, and Rob has urged people to take the advice it offers and make certain that, come Saturday, May 3, Australia will have a minority government.

Daniel Lancefield (pictured), who manages the &quot;Victorian Clean Tech Cluster&quot;, worked in community organisations and not-for-profits for more than 15 years in sport and the arts before joining the Victorian Cleantech Cluster as Manager in 2022. Since then, Daniel has developed a deep passion and appreciation for all things clean and green, and has an extensive network of people across clean technology, climate technology, circular economy and sustainability. He&#39;s now overseeing the staging of the group&#39;s &quot;Australian Cleantech Showcase 2025&quot; on Wednesday, April 30, at &quot;The Timber Yard&quot; in Port Melbourne.The event is sponsored by the &quot;Fishermans Bend Ideas Group&quot;, &quot;Earth Systems&quot;, the &quot;City of Melbourne&quot;, and the &quot;Melbourne Climate Network&quot;.

Taking the nuclear conversation to the people: &quot;Online Citizen Assembly&quot;;&quot;The Climate Council&#39;s Climate Risk Map of Australia&quot;;&quot;Weather tracker: north-west Italy braces for thunderstorms and snow&quot;;&quot;One brick higher&quot;;&quot;Victorian Liberal leader distances state party from Peter Dutton’s nuclear proposal: ‘Our focus is gas&quot;;&quot;Coalition scores just 1/100 points for environment and climate policies from conservation organisation&quot;;&quot;How climate change could disrupt the construction and operations of US nuclear submarines&quot;;&quot;Ten things we learned from Peter Dutton’s speech at the Liberal party campaign launch&quot;;&quot;Can climate scientists save the world?&quot;;&quot;Sudden closure of Story Bridge to cyclists shows ‘car is still king in Brisbane’&quot;;&quot;Peter Dutton’s climate policy backslide threatens Australia’s clout in the Pacific – right when we need it most&quot;;&quot;Most bike lanes in inner Melbourne have less than 40% tree cover – that’ll get worse, new maps show&quot;;&quot;Outback publican finds hostelry coated in mud as residents return to tiny Queensland outpost after flooding&quot;;&quot;Layoffs at NOAA Signal Setback for Climate Research and National Security&quot;;&quot;Big Oil Seeks to Shield Itself From Climate Liability While Trump Is in Power&quot;;&quot;Deadly floods and storms affected more than 400,000 people in Europe in 2024&quot;;&quot;Climate Change Is Helping Heartworm Spread to Pets in the Mountain West&quot;;&quot;Is AUKUS a priority when climate change - which should be the focus - is about to upend our region?&quot;.

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