Warburton Environment

27/08/2026

"A narrow class of people is profiting from our anguish. They know they’re setting our world on fire. They persist because they love neither the Earth nor its people. What they care about is money. Not just enough to get by on. Not even enough to become grotesquely rich with. They want the kind of money that bends others to their will. They seek power, buy it, co-opt it, leverage it and always thirst for more of it. As far as they’re concerned, the rest of us can go to hell – so long as we bend the knee and keep paying them as we stagger towards the flames."

Global heating is an outrage, not a tragedy. We deserve the facts about the climate crisis – I choose the Guardian because it’s one of the few places left to share them honestly

26/08/2026

“Planned datacentres around Australia may avoid strict new rules being proposed by Anthony Albanese if they can secure approvals in the coming months, amid growing calls for a moratorium”

Regulations will require new sites to avoid pushing up power prices by building renewable energy plants and minimising water use

23/08/2026

“The petition of the Asháninka people comes amid growing concerns about the nexus of drug trafficking and environmental crime, which Brazilian climate scientist Carlos Nobre has described as the greatest new threat to the Amazon Forest”

Delegation sent to Brasília after gunmen from organised crime group enter homes in western Amazon

22/08/2026

"This looked like a logging operation, not a road management operation"

The Forestry Corporation of NSW avoids strict environmental protection for threatened species by calling a logging operation "road maintenance".

20/08/2026

"Almost one in five Australian bird and mammal species is at high, very high or extreme risk from the bird flu virus now spreading in Australia"

Bird flu could decimate everything from pelicans and ibises to penguins and quolls, a horrifying risk analysis shows.

07/08/2026

"average bicarbonate levels in this population show an increasing trend which parallels rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations"

"If these trends continue, blood bicarbonate values could be at the limit of the accepted healthy range in half a century"

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11869-026-01918-5?

01/08/2026

“worst wildfires Europe has seen in modern history”

Stefan Rahmstorf was holidaying in southern France when he came face to face with the climate future he has tried to fight.

31/07/2026

"A critically endangered mammal was filmed just metres from where an ancient tree was felled"

One of Australia's rarest animals was filmed just metres from the find.

29/07/2026

"As the economic and ecological ruin of native forest logging is exposed, evidence of illegal surveillance and threats adds to the case for a royal commission"

ANALYSIS: As the economic and ecological ruin of native forest logging is exposed, evidence of illegal surveillance and threats adds to the case for a royal commission.

19/07/2026

“A recent push for a plebiscite into the issue has already attracted more than 60,000 signatories and continues to grow”

The Australian Labor Party looks set to include a new tax regime for the export gas industry in their party platform at next week’s ALP National Conference in Adelaide, according to reporting in the Australian Financial Review over the weekend.