Mark Horstman

Q: What happens when #Antarctic summer sea ice hits record lows in 2017, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025?

A: aapp.shorthandstories.com/a-world-with...

Skates and salmon farms: science is part of the equation Can the threatened Maugean skate coexist with Tasmania’s salmon industry?

“Large, vertebrate, carnivorous micro-endemics are incredibly rare all around the world. In Tasmania, we are very lucky to have had three: the Tasmanian devil, the Maugean skate and the thylacine.” — David Moreno, @imas-utas.bsky.social

cosmosmagazine.com/nature/marin...

This is like when someone gets bitten in The Last of Us.

Following a massive die-off, two major #salmon companies operating 14 fish farms in the D’Entrecasteaux Channel in southern Tasmania have been ordered to prevent its pollution by dead fish.

Read more -- tasmanianinquirer.com.au/news/mass-pr...

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‘A dream experiment’: our Australian icebreaker is on a crucial mission to Antarctica | Nathan Bindoff As an oceanographer, I’m excited about the prospect of getting ocean, ice and climate data from a region where few observations have been collected

🌊 "As an oceanographer, I’m excited about the prospect of getting ocean, ice and climate data from a region where few observations have been collected.

The only way to get information like this is to be there."

— Prof Nathan Bindoff, AAPP/@utas.edu.au

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Hard yakka

Feels a bit jinxy to say it out loud. Of course the old gendered term is ‘widow maker’. But … BROKE. HIS. NECK?

Featuring the inspiring and redoubtable Geoff Law

Who gets to shape the story? Reporting on the conflict in the Middle East — with The Guardian’s Nour Haydar - ABC listen There's been a move by Australian newsrooms to foster and champion the diversity of their staff. But when it comes to covering the conflict between Israelis & Palestinians, and the war in Gaza, does t...

Searing – Nour Haydar from @australia.theguardian.com critiques reporting on the conflict in the Middle East: Who gets to shape the story?
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Sooooo proud to see Jarra Reynolds Horstman graduate from Uni of Melb with Masters of Science in Physics (Distinction) — must be the one day of your life when they use your full name 🤩

NEW – COP29: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Baku

#COP29

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Aerial shot of a beach where people have formed the words TAX COAL FUND NEW jobs Caption:170 people arrested 14 being under 18 years Stopping a coal ship from getting into the port

Yesterday we did it! Brave people ('kayaktivists', to borrow a US term) successfully stopped coal ship from the port of Newcastle - and 170 of these legends were arrested. Today we are supporting those who face court on this day. It's not over – join us in Canberra for action this week, 26-28th!

How to drill an ice shelf — and why A mission to reach the ocean under the Shackleton Ice Shelf in East Antarctica

Helluva way to spend Christmas
aapp.shorthandstories.com/how-to-drill...