We can only dream of fossil fuel companies paying for climate damage in Australia, but it’s happening in New York! One community’s win in court will ensure safe drinking water for other remote communities.
New York is the second Northeast state to require fossil fuel companies to pay for climate damage (Inside Climate News) and (New York Times)
Laramba Aboriginal community wins the right to safe drinking water for remote communities after a five-year legal battle with the NT government. (National Indigenous Times)
Anti-logging protesters’ trespass charges in Tasmania are being dropped with no evidence against them. (ABC News)
Transplanted kelp forests reviving on the seafloor in Port Phillip Bay (ABC Video)
‘Solar Mamas empower our people by giving them electricity’: the women lighting up Zanzibar (The Guardian)
‘Rotten egg gas’ from Western Sydney landfill to be converted into renewable electricity (ABC News)
The ‘kidneys’ of the Great Barrier Reef, a once-unliveable wetlands now attracts birds and fish and provides training and jobs for the Indigenous community. (Reasons to be Cheerful)
Sheep farmers are helping save Tasmania’s native grasslands: ‘We’re better off working together’ (The Guardian)
Giant pink slug makes a comeback on extinct volcano in NSW national park (The Guardian)
Researchers pave the way for climate-ready crops with potatoes that thrive in heat (Anthropocene)
Building materials designed to store CO2 could be the key to meeting global climate targets (Anthropocene)
Finland is fast becoming a global climate leader (Talking Climate)