Enviro Law
This 2015 agreement saw nearly every country commit to “net zero” emissions
What is the Paris Agreement?
This Australian marsupial once inhabitated all of mainland Australia, but is now confined to Tasmania as of approximately 3,500 years ago
What is the Tasmanian Devil?
This massive, woolly relative of the elephant went extinct around 4,000 years ago, possibly due to climate change and human hunting
What is the Woolly Mammoth?
This gas is the most abundant greenhouse gas, but carbon dioxide is the biggest contributor to climate change from human activity
What is Water Vapor?
This living fossil fish was thought extinct for over 65 million years, until it was caught recently near South Africa in 1938
What is the Coelacanth?
This case involved a state suing the Australian Government for blocking the development of a dam
What is the Tasmanian Dam Case?
This small bird must consume 1.5 - 3 times its bodyweight in nectar, daily, or else its high metabolism will cause it to starve to death
What is a Hummingbird?
This flightless bird from Mauritius went extinct in the 1600s after humans and invasive species arrived on the island
What is the Dodo?
The loss of this reflective surface, especially in the Arctic, accelerates warming due to the albedo effect
What is Sea Ice (or Polar Ice)?
This deep-sea predator, capable of living over 400 years, has been suggested by some as a real world inspiration for the Loch Ness Monster
What is the Greenland Shark?
This dog breed requires authorisation in order to own one in Australia
What is an American Pitbull Terrier?
The male counterpart of this bony fish is known to host the breeding pair’s offspring in its “brood pouch”, until the young are ready to fend for themselves
What is a Seahorse?
These famous fossilized footprints found in Tanzania provide some of the earliest evidence of bipedalism in human ancestors
What are the Laetoli Footprints?
This process, caused by increased CO₂ absorption, is making oceans more acidic
What is Ocean Acidification?
These massive geoglyphs in the Peruvian desert shaped like animals, plants and geometric patterns can only be seen from the air and their purpose remains unknown
What are the Nazca Lines?
This 2023 bill aimed to allow for the use of marijuana in Australia
What is the Legalising Cannabis Bill 2023?
This member of the weasel family is now under threat due to orcas needing alternative food sources
What are Sea Otters?
This early human species, discovered in a South African cave, had a mix of ape and human traits and is considered a key link in our evolution
What is Australopithecus?
This international panel, made up of scientists from around the world, publishes major climate assessment reports every few years
What is the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)?
These mysterious barren patches of land, found in Namibia and Australia, form strange polka-dot-esq patterns across the desert or outback
What are Fairy Circles?
This country allowed a dog to sue their owner and found them guilty
What is Brazil?
This crustacean is known to create cavitation bubbles - which reach temperatures equivalent to the surface of the sun - as a result of the force it uses to propel it's raptorial appendage under the immense pressure of the ocean
What is the Mantis Shrimp?
This extinct predator, sometimes called the “saber-toothed tiger,” roamed North and South America during the Ice Age
What is the Smilodon?
This term describes a tipping point where thawing permafrost releases large amounts of methane, accelerating climate change in a potentially irreversible feedback loop
What is the permafrost feedback loop?
In 1908, an explosion leveled over 2,000 square kilometres of Siberian forest, but no impact crater was ever found. This famous event has fuelled theories from meteors to aliens
What is the Tunguska Event?