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Woodside’s new Scarborough gas project is risky business
Many employees see Scarborough as the wrong path for Woodside The Scarborough gas project is a deep-sea gas mine project that will drill into the heart of prime marine habitat off Western Australia’s coast. This is a shocking and terrible idea – and many people working at Woodside feel the same way about this disaster-in-waiting.…
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IPCC CLIMATE REPORT: NO MORE EXCUSES, NO MORE DELAYS – ACT NOW, YOU IDIOTS
Sydney, 9 August 2021: The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group 1 report on the Physical Science Basis warns of the devastating climate impacts faced by Australia and the Pacific unless the world makes deep, rapid cuts to greenhouse gas emissions, which Greenpeace Australia Pacific says provides a clear message to Australia’s…
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Heaps Better Episode 1: How can we be better planet savers?
How can we start saving the planet – right here, right now? And how do we even figure out what to focus on? We’ve found experts and activists who can tell us what works best, and put your questions to them. We begin to make sense of this climate mess with help from climate scientist Sarah…
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Heaps Better Episode 2: How can we speed up renewables?
In this episode, we chat with Simon Holmes à Court, a Director of the Smart Energy Council, and Lindsay Soutar, Greenpeace’s Campaigner for renewable energy and lead of the REenergise campaign. We’re also visiting a carbon neutral kinder and a solar powered brewery. You might be thinking, how exactly can we ditch the biggest coal, oil, and gas…
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Heaps Better Episode 3: How can we stop funding the climate crisis?
How can we stop funding the climate crisis? We hit up Munira Chowdhury, a Market Forces analyst, to learn how we can easily divest from dirty power and invest in the clean energy future ⚡ It’s so easy that Ash switched her super while we were working on the episode. Boom. Done. We’ll also learn how…
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Greenpeace welcomes NT ban on seabed mining
SYDNEY, Friday 5 February 2021 – Greenpeace Australia Pacific has welcomed the Northern Territory government’s ban on seabed mining, calling it a win for our oceans and for common sense.A moratorium on mining activities in the sea and coastal waters of the Territory is due to expire on 5 March 2021, and will now be…
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REPORT: Deep Trouble
The murky world of the deep sea mining industry.
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An ode to my nieces
I have two little nieces, aged one and four, the daughters of my twin sister. They are very cheeky and can apparently be quite exhausting. They love building things and knocking them down again, they love singing and dancing, and teasing each other, and spraying water on people and things around them. They really love…
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REPORT: Invisible killer – Toxic sulfur dioxide hotspots revealed in Australia
A new Greenpeace report has revealed that Australia is ranked 12th on the list of the top human-caused sulphur dioxide hotspots as tracked by NASA satellites.
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Invisible killer: Coal-burning hubs Latrobe, Hunter Valley named among world’s top air pollution hotspots
SYDNEY, 19 Aug 2019 – Some of the world’s biggest hotspots for toxic air pollution emissions are in Australia and cover a population of more than two million people, according to NASA satellite data in a new report released today by Greenpeace. The alarming new report has found that power stations and industries burning coal…