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Woodside oil spill plan under fire as approval decision nears
By Alistair Bates

With final advice due by the end of the year, critics point to Woodside's own modelling to sink the $30 billion gas project.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-24/experts-scrutinise-oil-spill-risk-woodside-browse-gas-project/107009342

#OilandGas #EnvironmentalImpacts #EnvironmentalPolicy #WaterPollution #NaturalResources #AlistairBates

DATE: August 14, 2026 at 08:21AM
SOURCE: SOCIALPSYCHOLOGY.ORG

TITLE: How Europe Can Prevent a Repeat of This Year's Devastating Wildfires

URL: http://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?from=rss_feed&id=191026&url=https://www.science.org/content/article/how-europe-can-prevent-repeat-year-s-devastating-wildfires

Source: Science

A wave of wildfires across Southern Europe has so far this year burned more than half a million hectares—an area equivalent to Grand Canyon National Park—far exceeding the area burned by August 2025, the worst year on record. Indeed, since the 1980s, the number of "fire weather" days—scorching, dry, breezy days—has more than doubled across much of the region, exacerbated by climate change. What, then, can be done to avoid more years like 2026?

URL: http://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?from=rss_feed&id=191026&url=https://www.science.org/content/article/how-europe-can-prevent-repeat-year-s-devastating-wildfires

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Students seek protection order vs San Miguel’s tree-cutting

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.rappler.com/philippines/metro-manila/students-seek-temporary-environment-protection-order-vs-san-miguel-tree-cutting/

[OPINION] A massacre of trees and people

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/opinion-massacre-trees-people/

Bangkok Post – Activists slam delay on clean air bills

PUBLISHED : 13 Apr 2026 at 07:18 Smog hangs over the Chao Phraya River in Bangkok in January.…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Environment #airqualitylegislation #bangkokairpollution #cleanairbill #Climate #environmentalpolicy #Health #parliamentarydissolution #pollutantreleaseandtransferregister #publichealththailand #Science #Thailand #toxicair
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/581014/

A storm in Mt. Daguldol

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.rappler.com/environment/climbing-mount-daguldol/

Rappler Talk: What the world can learn from Philippine seas

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.rappler.com/philippines/interview-challenges-fisheries-sector/

Proof that #EnvironmentalPolicy works: "During the peak of #ozone depletion season, the 2024 area of the #OzoneHole ranked the seventh smallest since recovery began in 1992, when the #MontrealProtocol, a landmark international agreement to phase out ozone-depleting chemicals, began to take effect."

https://www.earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/153523/ozone-hole-continues-healing-in-2024

#Environment

#introduction Hi everyone! I am a researcher based at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in Pretoria, South Africa. I am interested in #airpollutionscience #climatechange #publichealth #environmentaljustice and #environmentalpolicy . I've been doing policy type of work for awhile and it's become apparent that #scicom should be a big part of that, so I'm here for those conversations too. Also keen on #opendata for #airquality applications and innovative monitoring methods such as #lowcostsensors and currently dabbling in using #earthengine for #airquality research. That was super long, hope you're still reading! Anyway, I'm really sad about twitter (which I'll still be on until it dies) but hoping to find a new global community on here. Also keen on second hand book shopping, the "idea" of hiking (haven't gotten around to actual hiking yet) and #slowfashion. Okay I'll stop now :) Still figuring this out!

Adding to my #Introduction now that I've been here a couple of weeks...
Professional interests:
#ClimateChangePolicy
#EnvironmentalPolicy

Personal life includes:
#LanguageLearning #Ukrainian #German
#GermanShepherds #Dogs
#CulturalExchange #InternationalEducation #HighSchoolExchange