Our Fave Climate, Environment & Science Articles in 2023

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December 28, 2023

We’ve loved sharing our favourite articles, unhinged Twitter threads and analysis Tik Toks in our Weekend Recommendations every Sunday – it's become a beloved series for both you and us. With so much valuable content shared throughout the year, we want to give each recommendation its well-deserved spotlight.

If you’re looking for some great reading material over the slow summer weeks, scroll down for the links to every Climate & Environment article we recommended in 2023. Feel like something different? Why not try our fave pieces on:

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The Best Climate, Environment & Science Articles from 2023

Drilled podcast on Spotify
This is not entry-level stuff. Drilled really gets into how big business, big politics, big everything can get away with the climate crimes they commit. 

The Sciku Project on Twitter
A spoonful of sugar to help the dense medicine of climate reports go down... Scientist Andy Reisinger has turned the latest IPCC climate report into a set of haiku poems that explain the main points & they really just hit. This one made my eyes water.

Hollywood Has a Climate Problem on Mother Jones
“The goal isn’t for everyone to make stories that are about climate change, but rather that writers and showrunners don’t ‘pretend that this change isn’t happening, and that it isn’t affecting every aspect of human life on the planet.’”

Your stupid little ChatGPT interactions are destroying the planet. Stop. on LitHub
The numbers behind this one made my head spin a lil. “Are you fucking telling me that each adorable little ChatGPT interaction uses a half-liter of fresh water? Your experiments aren’t that interesting. And they certainly aren’t worth the water you’re pissing away to cool a server farm while half the planet struggles to adjust to deeper, longer cycles of drought.”

Climate criminal Woodside gets value for money from its political donations on Crikey
"The confected outrage over a protest outside the home of Woodside CEO Meg O’Neill, and the fact that the ABC was present to film it, is a perfect example of Woodside’s state capture and dogged support of a compliant media."

Remember the CovidLive website by data analyst Anthony Macali that gave us realtime case numbers during the pandemic? He’s also behind new site OnlyFacts.io which brings the same approach to Australia’s emissions & net-zero target data.