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Large old trees store substantial amounts of carbon and provide essential nesting and denning hollows for hundreds of Australian animal species.Logging removes these trees directly and increases the risk that surviving trees will be damaged by wind and regeneration burns.In this commentary, David Lindenmayer of the Australian National University argues that protecting large old trees is essential because they take centuries to replace.This article is a commentary. The views expressed are those of the author, not necessarily of Mongabay.See All Key Ideas Large old trees are among the most important structures in native forests, in Australia and around…

Chalmers ‘simply making things up’: HumeThe deputy Liberal leader, Jane Hume, has responded to Jim Chalmers’ claim that the Coalition would end the super guarantee, accusing him of making stuff up.Before heading out to Googong with Angus Taylor for a press conference, Hume rejected Chalmers’ comments and told reporters at parliament: double quotation markI think the treasurer has a leaf out of the Mad Men Don Draper book: if you don’t like what they’re saying about you, change the conversation. The super guarantee is here to stay and the treasurer is simply making things up. ShareUpdated at 02.23 CESTKey eventsAlan Jones…

After trying and failing to delay the matter, Apple on Thursday submitted its proposal for the commissions it wants to charge on purchases made using external links inside apps on its iOS devices. In a new filing in the U.S. District Court of Northern California, Apple proposed new commissions of 15% for standard apps, with further discounts for developers who are enrolled in special Apple programs. Under the proposed structure, small business developers would pay a 5% commission on payments, while those in the Video Partner Program, News Partner Program, and Mini Apps Partner Program would pay 10%. Subscription renewals…

Cryptocurrency hardware wallet provider SafePal is warning of a data breach affecting about 39,798 customers after a flaw was exploited to steal customer order information, and a threat actor is now claiming to be selling the stolen data. SafePal says the breach impacts customers who placed orders between March 2, 2025, and April 11, 2026, exposing their names, email addresses, shipping addresses, phone numbers, and purchase information. The company says the breach did not expose customers’ wallet seed phrases, private keys, passwords, bank account information, payment card numbers, government-issued identification numbers, or other credentials. “No evidence has been found that the…

Claim: Scott Yenor, chairman of a Heritage Foundation initiative, said in 2021: “Every effort must be made not to recruit women into engineering but rather to recruit and demand more of men who become engineers. Ditto for med school and the law and every trade. If every Nobel Prize winner is a man, that’s not a failure.” Rating: Context Popular posts on Facebook and Threads correctly attribute to Yenor most of an excerpt of a speech given by him, though the final few sentences of the quote meme actually consist of someone else’s commentary on Yenor’s remarks. In August 2026,…

President Donald Trump has said the US will “substantially reduce” joint military exercises with South Korea, citing his “very good relationship” with North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un.He also noted on Truth Social that South Korea had recently declined to join the US in the “denuclearisation” of Iran.”These exercises are not only costly, with much of these costs paid for by the United States of America (as usual!), but send a signal that is totally inappropriate and hostile,” Trump posted.Seoul said the drills with the US would proceed “as scheduled”. Pyongyang has not yet commented. It comes after North Korea…

POLITICO is now live in Australia — welcome to our community!Our flagship Playbook franchise drives the conversation with urgent, in-depth reporting across the United States, London, Brussels, Berlin, Paris and Ottawa — and we’re thrilled now to be launching in Canberra.Consider Playbook your guide to the day ahead in Canberra — a neutral place to gather for every decision-maker with a stake in Canberra, and those who aspire to become one.We don’t take sides, we won’t waste your time, and we’ll spotlight the best journalism, whoever produces it.Timing is everything. Over the next month we’ll be marking five years of…

“Like” counts, for instance, have been part of Meta since its early years, when it was still called Facebook and that was its only platform.Today, likes are omnipresent on social media platforms. It is the main way in which people engage with text, photos and videos they see online. Yet, likes are increasingly viewed as a way to foster negative feelings, particularly among young people.Kaley, a young woman who prevailed in her lawsuit against Meta earlier this year, described during court testimony how she created dozens of accounts on YouTube and Instagram.She would use the system of accounts to create…

CLARITY odds narrow as bill enters the final straightGalaxy Digital has lowered its estimate of the CLARITY Act’s chances of passing in 2026 to just 10%. In May it had estimated the chance of passage at 75%.Multiple political issues remain unresolved and the Senate only has 14 days in session to pass the bill after it reconvenes on Sept. 14.Unless an initial motion to proceed vote occurs immediately upon lawmakers’ return to Washington, there would only be enough time for the CLARITY Act to pass if it “dominates basically the entire working session,” wrote Galaxy head of research, Alex Thorn.If the bill…

For seven years, my youngest constituents were abused at Bright Horizons nursery in West Hampstead, London. Earlier this year, Vincent Chan was jailed for 18 years for his horrific crimes.It is every parent’s worst nightmare to discover that their child has been subject to abuse. For this to have happened in a nursery, where parents trusted their children would be safe, is truly abhorrent. Tragically, many families will probably never know whether their child was a victim. The lack of evidence about what was happening in the nursery, in the rooms where Chan was in charge, means that some parents…