I wrote about what could end up being a deliberate decision to extinct a whale species www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Imagine basing the entire viability of your music festival on the availability of an artist who released a song called 'Heil Hitler' less than a year ago

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will.” Look, I don't want to rule him out but you have to wonder if he will get back to back FIFA Peace Prizes at this rate.

I can’t believe there are really people like this

good news exists! www.theguardian.com/environment/...?

$10 trillion - the amount of economic damage the US has inflicted upon the world since 1990 due to its planet-heating emissions. A quarter of this damage was done to itself, according to a new research paper. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Spain Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez: "Trump is someone who will set the world on fire and then blame smoke caused by that. He has been wrong for 18 days of war. I urge everyone to call him out"

God, this is amazing. I wish a single US city had this vision or courage.

The first week of Iran war cost the US taxpayer $11.3bn. This could fund, for a whole year - - The EPA - or the CDC - or all federal cancer research - or all federal science research The cost of the war has raised stark questions about US priorities. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I went inside Colossal Biosciences, the much-hyped company that says it's resurrecting the dodo, woolly mammoth and other extinct species. The CEO says he doesn't mind comparisons to Jurassic Park as the movie "did a lot more right than did wrong.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

“They are also lying! Like the regime has been lying to us,” said Amir*, a student at the University of Tehran. “You are all worse than each other.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

National Science Foundation: $9 billion total in FY2026

"We started a war of aggression for no reason & commenced it by accidentally bombing an elementary school & killing over 100 kids." That simple fact is so horrific that it's just kind of bouncing on the surface of our collective consciousness. We can't absorb its full implications & significance.

probably the first time a World Cup host has said that the lives of a certain team might be at risk if they take part. Certainly the first time a FIFA peace prize winner has said this www.theguardian.com/football/202...

You have to make sacrifices for the very clear and articulated objectives of our War in Iran that is also not a war that we’ve also already won

Every single professional journalist who uses the phrases “Department of War” or “Secretary of War” without scare quotes should be lined up on a public viewing stage and bopped on the head with a giant inflatable hammer that says DUMB DUMB on the handle and makes fart sounds.

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26 NO - 41% YES - 38% UNSURE - 21%

"The co‑host of the Fifa World Cup finals this summer is currently bombing one of its participating nations. The co‑host of the tournament has murdered the head of state of the third‑ranked team in Group G." www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Eisenhower

This reminds me of that Frankie Boyle joke about how Americans not only come to your country and kill your people, they also come back twenty years later to make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers sad.

Just wait until FIFA and the Board of Peace hear of all this!

"A Gallup poll last year found 40% of American women, ages 15-44, would like to permanently move overseas, if possible. By comparison, in 2023, the same pollster found that a slightly smaller proportion of sub-Saharan Africans—37%—wished to do the same." www.wsj.com/us-news/amer...

it's molting season for RFK Jr

It’s ski season in NYC

Guardian US is hiring a new climate justice reporter. If you think you are able to join me and Dharna in covering the most important beat on this unusual planet of ours, the job listing is here workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/e...

“Exposure to nature can lower our blood pressure, slash the risk of diabetes, improve our mental health & treat ADHD in a way that’s similar to a dose of Ritalin,” @olliemilman.bsky.social writes. What could it do on a larger scale for society as a whole? #nature #society #wellness

I truly feel sorry for every American smart enough to realize that this makes the United States look like the dumbest nation on the planet.

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.

I was wondering when nessun dorma was going to pop up. The legacy of Italia 90 never ends

Number of petrol (gasoline) powered cars sold in the whole of Norway last month: 7 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Incredibly, the first high level politician to offer an apology to the victims of Jeffrey Epstein is...Keir Starmer www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I don't say this often but: I'm so proud to be a climate and environment reporter. We cover an issue that is vitally important to humanity and the natural world. 14 of my climate colleagues at the Post were laid off today and I'm devastated. www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

Junior Walk is one of the most interesting characters I've ever reported on - raised in a coal mining family in West Virginia but now a one-man watchdog of a coal industry that is blowing up mountains. He has written a book on what such a life is like - mixam.com/print-on-dem...

this all so, so sad www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/d...

2026 to be record year for new gas-fired power globally - thanks to AI and the US. In the US, a third of all these new gas plants will be situated on-site at data centers. The lifetime planet-heating emissions of all this new gas will be 12.1bn tonnes of CO2. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star) Does this look like a big laser to anyone else

Sepp Blatter - the voice of conscience!

Obviously this is a setback but I think it's important not to let it discredit the concept of building a long, extremely narrow glass city in the middle of the desert. www.ft.com/content/036b...

“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment

makes sense

New meat-heavy dietary guidelines released by RFK Jr would require 100m acres of additional agricultural land each year, an area about the size of California, and add hundreds of millions of tons of extra planet-heating pollution, experts say. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

RFK’s dietary guidelines will wreak havoc on the planet. Even a 25% increase in protein consumed would need 100m more acres of farm land each year, about the size of California — plus hundreds of millions of tons more pollution writes @olliemilman.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

National parks staff have told of chaos and anger at parks as foreigners face new $100 entry fee. - Long lines at parks, many visitors flee rather than pay - New annual pass has Trump's face on it and costs $250 - Green groups claim this is all illegal www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Great @olliemilman.bsky.social + @dharna.bsky.social piece feat @patrickgaley.bsky.social and others “So long as governments continue to rely on fossil fuels in energy systems, their constituents will be hostage to the whims of autocrats" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

We had a good run

re-upping this piece on Trump's history of claiming oil from other countries, for obvious reasons www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Things America needs to adopt, no.685: Boxing Day

This entire weekend

"Authoritarian China is a nation now run by engineers, he points out; democratic America has become a nation of lawyers, litigating development and delaying or derailing big heaves like California’s high-speed train." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/a...