Aussie Enviro
**This is a replication of the creator of this community who has since removed their account** *This will be a living document (and is a Work In Progress) so if readers are aware of instances/communities/magazines that suit the umbrella of the "environment", including "gardening" etc., please comment to add them. Use the browsers at the bottom to find your own. This was originally a Lemmy list but has expanded to the 'Fediverse'.* **Lemmy Instances (visit to check their communities for suitability, the first 2 have a massive list of related spaces, far too many to list here):** - [Mander.xyz](https://mander.xyz/communities)- An instance dedicated to nature and science. - [SLRPNK.net](https://slrpnk.net/communities) - Solarpunk imagines a world in which today’s existential threat - the climate crisis - is being approached with camaraderie and adaptive ingenuity. - https://thegarden.land/ - This is a home for gardeners and plant-lovers and anyone else who wants a warm place to thrive. - [lemmy.srv.eco](https://lemmy.srv.eco/communities) - Self-sufficiency, mutual aid, collapse, and other subjects related to the environment and our place and role(s) within it. **Lemmy Communities:** - https://aussie.zone/c/environment - An Australian community for everything from your backyard to beyond the black stump. - https://aussie.zone/c/gardeningaustralia - A community for all things relating to Aussie gardens. No problem too small. No question too unimportant. Come in and brag about your garden, show us what you’re doing, share that flower, ask that question. - https://beehaw.org/c/greenspace - All things green, outdoors, and nature-y. Whether it’s animals in their natural habitat, hiking trails and mountains, or planting a little garden for yourself (and everything in between), you can talk about it here. - https://beehaw.org/c/environment - Environmental and ecological discussion, particularly of things like weather and other natural phenomena (especially if they’re not breaking news). - https://midwest.social/c/environment - A community about our environment (*Editor's note: the midwest America I presume*) - https://lemmy.ml/c/green - This is the place to discuss environmentalism, preservation, direct action and anything related to it! - https://lemmy.ml/c/gardening - https://lemmy.ml/c/nolawns - A community devoted to alternatives to monoculture lawns, with an emphasis on native plants and conservation. Rain gardens, xeriscaping, strolling gardens, native plants, and much more! - https://lemmy.world/c/homestead - Ponds, barns, livestock, gardens, food preservation, fishing, hunting, tractors, pigs, chickens, cattle, worms, 4H, permaculture, organic, grazing, canning, aquaculture, trees, woodland, farmers, agriculture, agronomy, horticulture, wwoofers, bees, honey, wildcrafting, dairy, goats, nuts, berries, vegetables, sustainability, off grid, wood stoves, chainsaws, wood heat, tools, welding, green woodworking, farmers markets, composting toilets, straw bale homes, cob building… - https://chat.maiion.com/c/environment - A community dedicated to environmental topics discussing climate change, renewable energy, ecosystems across the biosphere, and more. - https://lemmy.world/c/gardening - Your Ultimate Gardening Guide. - https://lemmy.world/c/permaculture - Permaculture theory and practice. - https://lemm.ee/c/permaculture - Caring about the earth, that is what it’s about. - https://lemmy.ml/c/naturalgardening - Natural gardening is for all; permaculture is often for upper middle class hipsters. - https://lemmygrad.ml/c/eco_socialism - A community for talking about gardening, Eco news, and all things Mother Earth! - https://lemmy.ml/c/beekeeping - Beekeeping, bee gardens, bee research, bee pictures, and honey appreciation. - https://lemmy.world/c/vegan_gardening - A community for vegan gardeners to share their successes and learnings. Vegan gardening (or veganic gardening) is gardening without the use of animal agriculture including common inputs like manure, bone and blood. It also avoids chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Instead of these elements veganic gardening uses crop rotation, mulching, compost, green manures, etc to replenish the soil and minimize loss to pests. - https://lemmy.ca/c/outdoors - A community dedicated to all things outdoors. Hiking, backpacking, cycling, camping, gardening, walking, any discussions surrounding outdoor activities you can think of are welcome here! Write properly, behave politely, encourage a respectful community, and most importantly, GO OUTSIDE!! - https://lemmy.ml/c/collapse - This is the place for discussing the potential collapse of modern civilization and the environment. (*Editor's Note: has frequently posted environmental articles of worldwide issues.*) - https://sopuli.xyz/c/collapse - A place to share news, experiences and discussion about the continuing climate crisis, societal collapse, and biosphere collapse. Please be respectful of each other and remember the human. - https://www.hexbear.net/c/gardening - (*Editor's Note: defederated? Use as a single instance if so.*) **kbin Magazines (same as Communities - list needs work):** - https://kbin.social/m/gardening - https://kbin.social/m/houseplants - https://kbin.social/m/Plants - https://kbin.social/m/VegetableGardening - https://kbin.social/m/environment - https://kbin.social/m/climate **Mastodon Instances** ([click here](https://aussie.zone/comment/388180) for Instance descriptions - word count issue): - https://regenerate.social/ - https://climatejustice.social/ - https://flipping.rocks/ - https://birds.town/ - https://urbanists.social/ - https://rail.chat/ - https://outdoors.lgbt/ - https://mountains.social/ - https://scicomm.xyz/ - https://ecoevo.social/ - https://fediscience.org/ - https://mastodon.green/ - https://eu.mastodon.green/ - https://sunbeam.city/ - https://growers.social/ - https://beekeeping.ninja/ **Mastodon User Lists:** - https://fedi.directory/tag/botany/ - https://fedi.directory/tag/entomology/ - https://fedi.directory/tag/evolutionary-biology/ - https://fedi.directory/tag/earth-science/ - https://fedi.directory/tag/ecology/ - https://fedi.directory/tag/weather-and-meteorology/ - https://fedi.directory/tag/fishing/ - https://fedi.directory/tag/gardening/ - https://fedi.directory/tag/homegrown-food/ - https://fedi.directory/nature-animals/ - https://fedi.directory/tag/agriculture/ - https://fedi.directory/tag/urban-planning/ - https://fedi.directory/tag/environment-and-green-issues/ - https://communitywiki.org/trunk/grab/Animals - https://communitywiki.org/trunk/grab/Environmentalists - https://communitywiki.org/trunk/grab/Nature - https://communitywiki.org/trunk/grab/Outdoors - https://communitywiki.org/trunk/grab/Plants - https://communitywiki.org/trunk/grab/Science - https://communitywiki.org/trunk/grab/Sustainability - [@notjustbikes](https://social.notjustbikes.com/@notjustbikes) - @gardening@a.gup.pe - https://github.com/immers-space/guppe/wiki/Guppe-Groups-FAQ - @plants@a.gup.pe - https://github.com/immers-space/guppe/wiki/Guppe-Groups-FAQ *Credit for Instances and User Lists to [@GlennMagusHarvey@mander.xyz](https://mander.xyz/u/GlennMagusHarvey) - https://scicomm.xyz/@glennmagusharvey/* **Mastodon Tips**: - Use #tags in areas of interest and search for @users that are posting your favourite content and follow. Search and favourite a list of #tags to populate your feed while you locate @users. - You can follow Lemmy/kbin communities from Mastodon (e.g. search "@environment@aussie.zone" and follow, posts will come in from that point, including every comment which fills your feed poorly), post back into Lemmy ([there is a specific way to do this](https://hachyderm.io/@maegul/110483509521476095)), and reply to threads also. Federation isn't pretty between Mastodon and Lemmy, it's up to the user if they want to persist. Recommended to have 2 separate accounts for full usability at this point. kbin has "microblogging" built in which is Mastodon "tooting", only one account required if you are a kbin user. The Lemmy instances listed have *some* activity, until Lemmy matures the list may grow or shrink. Please review the communities as you desire and let me know if you find something better or the listed ones have died. **Search Engines for Lemmy:** - https://lemmyverse.net/ - Search by Instance or Community - Click on the 'House' icon to set your 'home instance' e.g. aussie.zone - https://browse.feddit.de/ - https://www.search-lemmy.com/ - using the "Find Communities" search by keyword will find active communities with more matches per word. **Bookmarklet:**  `javascript:(function() { const home = 'aussie.zone'; /*replace this with your local instance's host name */ const url = window.location.href; let community = url.split('/c/')[1]; if( !community.includes('@') ) { community += '@' + url.split('/')[2]; } if( community.endsWith( '@' + home ) ) { community = community.substring(0, community.length - 1 - home.length); } window.location.href = 'https://' + home + '/c/' + community; })();` Click on the above bookmarklet once you've created it and placed on your toolbar (search on how to make one) when browsing another instance's community. It should open up the page where you can subscribe directly from the aussie.zone instance (or change your instance in code above). If "Subscribe" isn't working, ~~"Create Post" and back out immediately~~ click on the community name and reload page, Subscribe should now be clickable (give it a couple of clicks as per Lemmy 0.18). An alternative to a bookmarklet on a desktop or mobile browser, install 'Violentmonkey' and a Userscript such as this: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/469273-lemmy-universal-link-switcher An extension for modern browsers: https://github.com/cynber/lemmy-instance-assistant
[**Original Post** [archive]](https://web.archive.org/web/20231126151110/https://aussie.zone/post/228212) - This is a replication of the creator of this community who has since removed their account *Please comment if you know of more* **News** - https://theconversation.com/au/environment - https://www.theguardian.com/au/environment - https://www.abc.net.au/news/environment - https://www.abc.net.au/news/science - https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural - https://independentaustralia.net/environment/environment-news/ - https://thefifthestate.com.au/ - https://michaelwest.com.au/ - https://thenewdaily.com.au/life/science/environment/ - https://www.sbs.com.au/news/topic/environment - https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/environment - https://newmatilda.com/category/environment/ - https://www.themonthly.com.au/topic/environment - https://johnmenadue.com/category/enviroment/ - https://johnmenadue.com/category/public-policy/climate/ - https://inqld.com.au/news/ - https://indaily.com.au/news/science-and-tech/ - https://theaimn.com/category/environment/ - https://westender.com.au/discussing/environment-and-climate/ - https://www.crikey.com.au/environment/ - https://theshot.net.au/ - https://4zzz.org.au/news/ - https://www.sunshinecoastnews.com.au/category/news/ - https://nofibs.com.au/ - https://www.smh.com.au/environment - https://www.eurekastreet.com.au/search/section/australia - https://www.openforum.com.au/ - https://nit.com.au/search-results/environment - https://theindependents.org.au/category/environment/ **Science** - https://phys.org/tags/Australia/ - https://phys.org/search/?search=Australia+environment - https://phys.org/biology-news/plants-animals/ - https://www.science.org/news - https://particle.scitech.org.au/category/earth/ - https://www.nature.com/ - https://www.csiro.au/en/news - https://www.aims.gov.au/information-centre/news-and-stories - https://botany.one/ - https://www.sciencedaily.com/news/top/environment/ - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/doSearch?SeriesKey=14429993&sortBy=Earliest - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/loi/1526100x - https://media.bom.gov.au/releases/ - https://media.bom.gov.au/social/ - https://australiainstitute.org.au/media/ - https://australiainstitute.org.au/about/branch/environment/ - https://www.scienceinpublic.com.au/category/media-releases **Conservation** - https://www.natureaustralia.org.au/newsroom/ - https://www.wilderness.org.au/news-events/ - https://www.acf.org.au/media-releases - https://biodiversitycouncil.org.au/#stories - https://www.ccwa.org.au/news - https://www.marineconservation.org.au/media-releases-2/ - https://www.greeningaustralia.org.au/news-media/ - https://wwf.org.au/news/ - https://wwf.org.au/blogs/ - https://www.australianwildlife.org/news/ - https://www.nature.org.au/media - https://bobbrown.org.au/media/ - https://www.bushheritage.org.au/news - https://tsx.org.au/updates/ - https://www.queenslandconservation.org.au/blog - https://www.greenpeace.org.au/news/ - https://www.minderoo.org/news - https://www.tangaroablue.org/category/features/ - https://www.edo.org.au/the-latest/ - https://www.nefa.org.au/media - https://aussiebirdcount.org.au/media/ **Government** - https://www.dcceew.gov.au/about/news/all - https://www.climatechangeauthority.gov.au/latest-news - https://climateextremes.org.au/briefing-notes/ - https://environment.des.qld.gov.au/ - https://www.des.qld.gov.au/our-department/news-media/mediareleases - https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/newsroom - https://www.deeca.vic.gov.au/media-centre/home - https://www.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au/news?category=environment - https://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/clean-and-green/green-home-and-community/clean-and-green-blog **Energy/Industry** - https://reneweconomy.com.au/ - https://www.ecogeneration.com.au/ - https://www.innovationaus.com/news/ **Special Interest/Other** - https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news - https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/ - https://australian.museum/blog/ - https://www.climatecouncil.org.au/resource/media-releases/ - https://www.ecovoice.com.au/ - https://takvera.blogspot.com/ - https://envirojustice.org.au/latest/media/ - https://www.friendlyjordies.com/news - https://www.getup.org.au/media - https://www.caha.org.au/news - https://www.jagunalliance.org.au/our-fire-yarns - https://redflag.org.au/category/climate - https://www.oxfam.org.au/news-and-media/ - https://www.aycc.org.au/news - https://news.mongabay.com/list/australia/ - https://www.rewildingmag.com/ - https://www.treehugger.com/ - https://www.ecowatch.com/?s=Australia - https://www.veganaustralia.org.au/news - https://plantbasednews.org/all/ - https://regenfarming.news/ - https://farmersforclimateaction.org.au/news/ - https://modernfarmer.com/ - https://www.carbonbrief.org/ - https://www.resilience.org/ - https://www.tern.org.au/news/ - https://techxplore.com/tags/Australia/ - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/search/?q=Australia - https://www.greenleft.org.au/sections/news - https://carbon-pulse.com/category/australia/ - https://carbon-pulse.com/category/biodiversity/ - https://www.motherjones.com/?s=Australia - https://afsa.org.au/news/ - https://www.thejuicemedia.com/honest-government-ads/ **Unis** - https://www.anu.edu.au/news - https://science.anu.edu.au/news-events/news - https://fennerschool.anu.edu.au/news-events/news - https://www.uq.edu.au/news/ - https://www.usc.edu.au/about/unisc-news - https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news.html - https://www.uts.edu.au/news - https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/ - https://www.qut.edu.au/news - https://news.griffith.edu.au/ - https://www.unisq.edu.au/news - https://www.unimelb.edu.au/newsroom - https://lens.monash.edu/ - https://www.scu.edu.au/news/?newsAreaOfInterest=Science%2C Environment %26 Marine - https://www.rmit.edu.au/news - https://www.cdu.edu.au/news - https://lighthouse.mq.edu.au/for-media - https://www.jcu.edu.au/news - https://www.jcu.edu.au/this-is-uni/natural-and-built-environments - https://blogs.adelaide.edu.au/environment/ - https://www.deakin.edu.au/about-deakin/news-and-media-releases - https://www.newcastle.edu.au/newsroom# - https://www.une.edu.au/connect - https://www.uwa.edu.au/news - https://news.flinders.edu.au/ - https://www.murdoch.edu.au/news/ - https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/newscentre/news_centre - https://www.curtin.edu.au/news/ - https://www.ecu.edu.au/newsroom/overview - https://news.csu.edu.au/home - https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories - https://www.unisa.edu.au/news/ **The Conversation Topics + others** Wildlife, Biodiversity, Trees, Carbon Dioxide, Forests, Plants, Drought, Carbon Dioxide Removal, Forestry, Global Warming, Climate Change, Agriculture, Conservation, Gardening, Botany, Insects, Algae, Trees and Forests - The Guardian, Biochar - phys.org **Blogs** - https://worldsendweb.wordpress.com/ - https://zeroinputagriculture.substack.com/ **Summarisers** - https://smmry.com/ - https://www.smry.ai/ - https://www.anysummary.app/ - https://resoomer.com/en/ - https://sloppyjoe.com/summarize/ - https://chat.openai.com/ - https://claude.ai - https://chat.lmsys.org/ - https://perplexity.ai - https://chat.petals.dev/ - https://lite.koboldai.net/ - AI Horde - [Random List of free AI alternatives](https://technomagnus.vercel.app/posts/gpt-for-all--hacked-no-signups-logging-in) - `@ChatGPT@lemmings.world` - Call in as hyperlinked Lemmy user and ask a question, it will reply with answer - works as of 7/2023
theconversation.com
Kind of inspirational, kind of reminds us humanity has always been a bit crap, but we know that, so can do something about it.
theconversation.com
Conclusion, broad and ongoing community support and participation could lead to better organisational outcomes.
www.theguardian.com
>Once all upstream stages were factored in – extraction, piping to a processing facility, compression from gas into liquid form, shipping, decompression back to gas and burning for energy – he estimated the total climate pollution from LNG was 33% greater than that from coal over a 20-year period. >This is not an entirely new idea – previous studies have suggested the gas industry is dirtier than often claimed – but it is nevertheless a potentially extraordinary finding
> Each count takes just 20 minutes and helps BirdLife Australia’s scientists track how our urban bird populations are faring – and just by counting, you’ll go into the running to win some incredible prizes!
The weather is warming up and it’s good to put out water. Especially now I’ve got magpies here. However I stopped doing it because of potential disease transmission with avian flu. (Especially owning a vulnerable elderly cat - who is kept indoors but could get sick if I tracked something in.) I’m physically disabled so would have trouble cleaning and disinfecting the water containers daily. What’s everyone else’s plan for managing this?
www.theguardian.com
>Invasive Species Council says 5 million native mammals, birds, reptiles and frogs are killed by feral and roaming pet cats a day in Australia Keep your cat indoors...please.
> Contrary to the legal method requirements, 95% of credited area cells are located on land that has not previously been comprehensively cleared, meaning the projects are trying to regenerate native forests on uncleared land which may have never contained forests.
www.theguardian.com
>What we have discovered is that even after almost five years, the trajectory is still in reverse. The impacts are accumulating and it hasn’t stabilised.” Well, that was another horrific read :( We lived just down the road at the time and had visited the area to hike and swim many times in the years prior.
cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/14438566 > This is important I think. Show a bit of love for inseks.
hakaimagazine.com
cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/16468312 > > Over the past decade, however, scientists have become reacquainted with the historical reach of Australian flat oyster reefs, which decorated about 7,000 kilometers of the country’s coastline from Perth to Sydney and down around Tasmania. Australian flat oysters—not to be confused with the far more common European flat oyster, commonly known as the native oyster—form gigantic reefs comprised of billions of individuals that can be found as deep as 40 meters. “They’re like the trees in a forest or the coral in a tropical sea,” McAfee says. Besides providing habitat and boosting biodiversity, oyster reefs are known to filter water and bolster fish production. > > > > On the back of this learning, scientists have been working to restore these lost ecosystems—an endeavor that got a major boost in 2020 when the nonprofit the Nature Conservancy Australia teamed up with the government of South Australia on an ambitious project to bring flat oyster reefs back to the coastline near Adelaide, one of the country’s biggest cities. That project, as McAfee and his team show in a recent study, has been a resounding success so far, with the restored reef now hosting even more Australian flat oysters than the last remaining natural reef in Tasmania. “It’s quite astonishing,” says McAfee.
[Big Brother. Glider Edition](https://wwf.org.au/get-involved/greater-glider-live-stream/)
theconversation.com
>Evidence is mounting that modern medicines present a growing threat to ecosystems around the world. The chemicals humans ingest to stay healthy are harming fish and other animals.
[SMaRT @UNSW](https://www.smart.unsw.edu.au/) Choice quote from the article, > creates economies of purpose. I haven't had a chance to read Hanrahan@solarpunk.net 's article about the acceptance of sufficiency yet, but i suspect the microfactorie concept pushes our production systems along a similar path.
australiainstitute.org.au
George Monbiot and hosts Ebony Bennet and Polly Hemming get stuck into neoliberalisms insidious effect on climate, the folly of carbon offsets, and why incrementalism will never lead to systemic change. As Ebony Bennet says, the discussion leaves you hopeful change could be just arpund the corner.
botany.one
Published: 27 September 2024 ## Protected areas, drought, and grazing regimes influence fire occurrence in a fire-prone Mediterranean region _Máire Kirkland, Philip W. Atkinson, Sara Aliácar, Deli Saavedra, Mark C. De Jong, Thomas P. F. Dowling & Adham Ashton-Butt_ ## Abstract ### Background Extreme fire seasons in the Mediterranean basin have received international attention due to the damage caused to people, livelihoods, and vulnerable ecosystems. There is a body of literature linking increasingly intense, large fires to a build-up of fuel from rural land abandonment exacerbated by climate change. However, a better understanding of the complex factors driving fires in fire-prone landscapes is needed. We use a global database based on the MODIS Fire CCI51 product, and the Greater Côa Valley, a 340,000-ha area in Portugal, as a case study, to investigate the environmental drivers of fire and potential tools for managing fires in a landscape that has undergone changing agricultural and grazing management. ### Results Between 2001 and 2020, fires burned 32% (1881.45 km2) of the study area. Scrublands proportionally burnt the most, but agricultural land and forests were also greatly impacted. The risk of large fires (> 1 km2) was highest in these land cover types under dry conditions in late summer. Areas with higher sheep densities were more likely to burn, while cattle density had no apparent relationship with fire occurrence. There was also a 15% lower probability of a fire occurring in protected areas. ### Conclusion Future climatic changes that increase drought conditions will likely elevate the risk of large fires in the Mediterranean basin, and abandoned farmland undergoing natural succession towards scrubland will be at particularly high risk. Our results indicate that livestock grazing does not provide a simple solution to reducing fire risk, but that a more holistic management approach addressing social causes and nature-based solutions could be effective in reducing fire occurrence.
theconversation.com
>Humanity’s rapacious consumption is more than Earth and its climate can handle, which is driving an ecological crisis. >Australians are the worst offenders per person due to our excessive resource use.
reneweconomy.com.au
> The Albanese government has given the green tick to three major thermal coal mine expansions in New South Wales, in a move that critics say lays bare the blatant disregard of climate change in Australia’s federal environmental laws. > But it is the “reckless disregard” for the effects of catastrophic climate change that has been the most jarring, with the three projects estimated to lock in as much as 1.5 billion tonnes of lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions – more than double Australia’s total annual emissions.
> **In short:** > > A group of Rising Tide protesters have stopped and climbed onto a coal train at Sandgate near Newcastle. > > The group is protesting over federal approval of three coal mine expansions in NSW. > > The company behind one of the expansions says it will support hundreds of regional jobs.
> **In short:** > > The largest known population of night parrots, around 50 birds, is believed to live in a remote Indigenous Protected Area in Western Australia. > > A new study suggests the rare parrots may be protected by dingoes. > > **What's next?** > > Change is coming to the region with the first piece of industrial development in the area, a potash mine and 350-kilometre sealed haul road, seeking environmental approval.
> The time has come to introduce our uninvited guests. We're looking at the top 10 most destructive introduced animals (and plants) in Australia. But why are they so devastating? And how did they end up here? All this and more will be explored as we delve into the world of the ferals.
> **In short:** > > Laura Davy was sentenced to three months in jail for her involvement in coal protests that blocked trains from reaching the Port of Newcastle. > > She lodged an appeal and was granted bail. > > **What's next?** > > The appeal was upheld on the condition Davy does not re-offend.
westernindependent.com.au
A (student) article reminding people to rethink using the baits. What kinds of traps do people use? I'll out myself as using a medieval wooden snap trap, with a peanut butter bait. Its nasty, but i've not had much luck with humane traps, and baits are awful in so so many ways. It is used inside the house only.
Slightly modified version of the original banner---see if you can spot the difference!
In today's news of a continually deteriorating environment (depressing story before this was more roads being built) >The native bushland on Western Australia's central coast would normally be bursting with springtime blooms but after four years of increasingly dry winters, only a handful of plants are starting to bud.
theconversation.com
> > > The Great Barrier Reef will continue to deteriorate, largely to climate change, and the window to secure its future is rapidly closing. That is the sobering conclusion of a major new report into the state of the reef. > > > > The [report was released](https://www2.gbrmpa.gov.au/our-work/outlook-report-2024) by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority. It confirms what scientists have long known: humanity is killing the Great Barrier Reef, and other reefs around the world, by failing to curb the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming. > >
