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Dbytes #709 (11 March 2026) In this issue of Dbytes 1. Blueprint for a healthy Country and thriving regions 2. A framework for designing multi-objective landscapes for conservation 3. Offsetting is no substitute for emissions…

Dbytes #709 (11 March 2026)
News in environmental decision making

1. Blueprint for thriving regions
2. Multi-objective landscapes for conservation
3. Offsetting is no substitute for emissions cuts
4. Earth baiting for fire ants

And more
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Dbytes #708 (4 March 2026) In this issue of Dbytes 1. The effectiveness of prescribed burning for protecting houses during wildfires in Australia 2. Large-scale forest thinning has limited benefits but major financial and ec…

Dbytes #708 (4 March 2026)
News in environmental decision making

1. Prescribed burning for protecting houses
2. Large-scale forest thinning has limited benefits
3. Safeguarding climate-resilient mangroves
4. Intense heatwaves directly threaten native species

And more
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Time for global governance to prioritize people and planet over profits, don't you think? 🌎

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Dbytes #707 (26 February 2026) In this issue of Dbytes 1. State of Global Environmental Governance 2025 2. Women’s local knowledge: An important factor in effective community-based wildlife management 3. Extreme weather is…

Dbytes #707 (26 Feb 2026)
News in environmental decision making

1. Global Environmental Governance 2025
2. Women's local knowledge & wildlife management
3. Extreme weather transforming world’s rivers
4. Economists & environ science see differently

& more
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Dbytes #706 (18 February 2026) In this issue of Dbytes 1. In the most cleared state in Australia, Victoria’s native wildlife needs our help after fires 2. Australia’s new Nature Repair Market 3. Biodiversity-harmful subsidies in…

Dbytes #706 (18 Feb 2026)
News in environmental decision making

1. Native wildlife need help after fires
2. Australia’s new Nature Repair Market
3. Biodiversity-harmful subsidies in Australia
4. Money destroying Nature Positive

And more
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Dbytes #705 (11 February 2026) In this issue of Dbytes 1. A Typology of Australian Terrestrial Bird Communities 2. Household rat poisons found to be ‘unacceptable risk’ to native animals. So why aren’t they banned? 3. Tasmania i…

Dbytes #705 (11 Feb 2026)
News in environmental decision making

1. Typology of Aust Bird Communities
2. Household rat poisons ‘unacceptable risk’ to native animals
3. Conservation Learning in Tassie
4. The lower Murray is officially on life support.

And more
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Dbytes #704 (4 February 2026) In this issue of Dbytes 1. Extinction wrapped 2025 2. Dataset of Biodiversity Loss in Global Staple Food Trade, 1995-2022 3. Carbon capture does not reduce emissions: these three case studies prove…

Dbytes #704 (4 Feb 2026)
News in environmental decision making

1. Extinction wrapped 2025
2. Biodiversity Loss in Global Food Trade
3. Carbon capture does not reduce emissions
4. Overshoot: The Point of No Return on Climate

And more
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#Mozambique is facing its worst #floods in decades. Nearly 700,000 people have been affected, over 100 are dead and many remain missing. Homes and critical infrastructure have been destroyed.
The video shows #Copernicus #Sentinel2 before and after the #flood. #climateemergency

Doomsday Clock at 85 seconds to midnight amid threats from climate crisis and AI Planet closer to destruction as Russia, China and US become more aggressive and nationalistic, says advocacy group

It is 85 seconds to midnight. With [waves hands] everything going on, scientists have advanced the Doomsday Clock, saying Earth is closer than it has ever been to destruction

Chart ranking countries by their general reputations.
Notice anything?
Thanks, MAGA.
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

Tony Abbott (the mad monk), ex PM who was removed from the leadership of the LNP and as PM of Australia at the same time, losing his seat to a highly regarded woman, he's a climate change denialist and misogynist and he is giving the LNP advice.

You can't make this shit up.

What Americans Lose If Their National Center for Atmospheric Research Is Dismantled - Eos Five ways dismantling NCAR will cost the American people, and two ways to save it.

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Rare Aussie reptile carried to fenced-off mountain location to fight against deadly threat Fewer than 3,500 remain and numbers have been continuing to drop. Find out what is being done to save the endangered population.

Fewer than 2,500 Guthega skinks likely survive.

Climate change and bushfires are pushing them to the brink. Because they live on mountain peaks, there's no escape to higher ground.

This story examines the radical plan to prevent their extinction.
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Why billionaires building doomsday bunkers can’t predict the next global catastrophe Reports of billionaires building doomsday bunkers are often read as signs of looming catastrophe. Psychology suggests they reveal something else entirely.

Reports of billionaires building doomsday bunkers are often read as signs of looming catastrophe. Psychology suggests they reveal something else entirely.

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It would be great if the take away here is that substacks are blogs and blogs are essays without editors and editors are important and substacks should be read with their absence in mind

But alas, no, I don’t see that being the lesson learned

Tony Abbott intervenes in Liberal leadership battle Former prime minister Tony Abbott has intervened in the Liberal leadership race, urging conservatives to unite behind either Angus Taylor or Andrew Hastie in their bid to oust Sussan Ley from the top ...

It's though they never want to be in government again.

"Former PM Tony Abbott has intervened in the Liberal leadership race, urging conservatives to unite behind either Angus Taylor or Andrew Hastie in their bid to oust Sussan Ley from the top job." #auspol

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Gelatinous horde of red stinging jellyfish washes into Melbourne beaches A ‘massive smack’ of lion’s mane jellyfish has appeared in Port Phillip Bay, but experts say fears of a ‘jellygeddon’ are overblown

www.theguardian.com/environment/... These guys used to come into Swan River in Perth (near Matilda Bay) when we had an easterly many years ago. White vinegar applied immediately helps stings.

Rocks Formed by Microbes Absorb Carbon Day and Night - Eos Microbialite ecosystems in South Africa stored an “astonishing” amount of carbon, according to new research.

Rocks Formed by Microbes Absorb Carbon Day and Night
Microbialite ecosystems in South Africa stored an “astonishing” amount of carbon, according to new research
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Science Under Siege And why saving science is saving democracyThe other night I fired off a quick tweet about the Albanese Government allowing CSIRO to shed another 350 scientists and research staff. The comments, forwar...

Fear of science is curtailing data collection and helping vested interests ruin the planet faster. www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/science...

Thanks @susbites.bsky.social for this one

When put in economic terms, human dependence on wetlands amounts to, on global average, US$39 trillion in ecosystem services and functions. [See item 1; Image by David Salt] Dbytes is a weekly eNewsletter presenting news and views on biodiversity conservation and environmental decision science. ‘D’ stands for ‘Decision’ and refers to all the ingredients that go into good, fair and just decision-making in relation to the environment. Sign up at https://sustainabilitybites.com/dbytes/ (and tell your friends, IT’S FREE!)

Dbytes #703 (28 Jan 2026)
News in environmental decision making

1. Ramsar Convention on Wetlands COP15
2. Cats and foxes did it
3. Biodiversity loss – A security assessment
4. Prioritizing bat roosts for conservation

And more
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Water Justice: What is it Good For? - Global Water Forum Safa Fanaian, Quentin Grafton and Mai Nguyen will be presenting at the Second International Day for Water Justice on 26-27 January in Mexico. In this piece, they present their perspectives on water ju...

Water Justice: What is it Good For?

Only one in three people in low- and middle-income countries have access to safely managed drinking water services.

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Dbytes #702 (21 January 2026) In this issue of Dbytes 1. Most of the world just agreed on something: a new treaty to protect our oceans 2. Trap Cropping to Maximize Agricultural Yield: Balancing Land Allocation Trade-Offs Betwe…

Dbytes #702 (21 Jan 2026)
News in environmental decision making

1. New treaty to protect oceans
2. Trap Cropping to Maximize Ag Yield
3. Biodiversity education matters for next gen
4. Putting nature on the balance sheet

And more
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There are growing signs that the water cycle is being increasingly destabilised by global warming with big consequences of natural and human systems.(Image is of the Witches Circle, Meroo National Park, NSW; Image by David Salt) Dbytes is a weekly eNewsletter presenting news and views on biodiversity conservation and environmental decision science. ‘D’ stands for ‘Decision’ and refers to all the ingredients that go into good, fair and just decision-making in relation to the environment. Sign up at https://sustainabilitybites.com/dbytes/ (and tell your friends, IT’S FREE!)

Dbytes #701 (14 Jan 2026)
News in environmental decision making

1. Global Catastrophic Risks 2026
2. Climate change killing forest trees faster
3. Global water cycle amplifying climate disasters?
4. Scientists ditch fieldwork in the age of AI

And more
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This Christmas, may all your birds come home to roost. To all my fabulous subscribers, wishing you a great end of year break. I hope to see you in the new year. The Ed (Image: David Salt) Dbytes is a weekly eNewsletter presenting news and views on biodiversity conservation and environmental decision science. ‘D’ stands for ‘Decision’ and refers to all the ingredients that go into good, fair and just decision-making in relation to the environment. Sign up at https://sustainabilitybites.com/dbytes/ (and tell your friends, IT’S FREE!)

Dbytes #700 (17 Dec 2025)
News in environmental decision making

1. World Inequality Report 2026
2. Global Environment Outlook 7
3. Deliberative Engagement in Aust Democracy
4. Operationalising critical natural capital

And more
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Dbytes #699 (10 December 2025) In this issue of Dbytes 1. Criteria and indicators for tropical peatland restoration 2. Integrated fire management as an adaptation and mitigation strategy to altered fire regimes 3. The Earth4All …

Dbytes #699 (10 Dec 2025)
News in environmental decision making

1. Tropical peatland restoration
2. Integrated fire management for altered fire regimes
3. The Earth4All scenarios
4. Small Acts, Big Change?

And more
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Dbytes #698 (2 December 2025) In this issue of Dbytes 1. Green finance was supposed to contribute solutions to climate change. So far, it’s fallen well short 2. If ecosystems go, we go 3. ‘Brumby Bill’ protecting he…

Dbytes #698 (3 Dec 2025)
News in environmental decision making

1. Green finance has fallen well short
2. If ecosystems go, we go
3. Heritage value of wild horses to be scrapped in NSW
4. Nature doesn't have an offset account

And more
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The Delta #95 (2 December 2025) - The Delta In the wash up of this issue of The Delta 1.* Pakistan’s Climate Crisis: From COP pledges to fiscal reality 2. Can fluoride in water affect kids' cognition or IQ? Large studies conclude there's no evi...

The Delta #95 (2 Dec 2025)
GWF news from the wide world of water

1. Pakistan’s Crisis: COP pledges to fiscal reality
2. Can fluoride in water affect kids' IQ?
3. Himalayas - Where Faith Guards the Flow
4. Europe’s water reserves drying up

and more
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Pakistan’s Climate Crisis: From COP pledges to fiscal reality - Global Water Forum In 2022, the UN Climate Conference (COP27) established a Loss and Damage Fund to provide financial assistance to nations most vulnerable and impacted by the effects of climate change. Pledges to the f...

Pakistan’s Climate Crisis: From COP pledges to fiscal reality

A fairer global order that does not treat vulnerability as destiny.

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Dbytes #697 (26 November 2025) In this issue of Dbytes 1. Natural capital enhances farm production, profitability and financial resilience: findings from a study on 230,000 ha of farmland in Australia 2. Biodiversity market doub…

Dbytes #697 (26 Nov 2025)
News in environmental decision making

1. Natural capital enhances farms
2. Biodiversity market doublespeak
3. An alternative to GDP now
4. Win-win for climate, farming and biodiversity

And more
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