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

10 years of this shit

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

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

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...

This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.

Donald Trump awarded inaugural Fifa peace prize at World Cup draw in Washington... theguardian.com/football/202... ...on the same day his administration faces scrutiny over possible war crimes www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The US region of New England is heating up faster than almost any other area on Earth, new study finds. Average temperature rise is far higher than the global average - and it appears to be accelerating. Snow cover, meanwhile, is in retreat. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Steve Cropper was my favorite guitarist, he added a distinct groove to songs and was a champion of soul singers at Stax at a time when that wasn't always easy www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/a...

I wrote about the dirty, demeaning, absolutely booming business of turning something like a shitty bigoted college essay into a shitty public career as a bigot, and also estimated how old Marine Todd would be today. defector.com/the-conserva...

Zillow deletes climate risk data from property listings after complaints it harms sales www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Protests, tears and a baby: Five key images that tell the story of Cop30 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"At its most basic, they turned a figure of love into a figure of hate who blesses precisely the cruelties that he condemned in the Gospel; we went from “the meek shall inherit the Earth” to “the meek shall die of cholera.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Don’t do this with leaves. Just, don’t

the nuzzi story is fun and all but at the center of it is the elevation of a man who has dedicated his life to making children catch preventable diseases to a position where he can enact harm at enormous scale

this is...quite something www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Divide over fossil fuels phaseout can be bridged, Cop30 president says www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Must read perspective: ‘The haste feels contagious … I fear it’: a Xipaya journalist on attending Cop30 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

There is a big push at Cop30 to reframe AI as a way to cut, rather than add to, planet-heating emissions. But is 'AI for good' really a force that will help confront the climate crisis? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Every country at Cop30 has avoided criticizing Trump. All except for Maina Vakafua Talia, of tiny Tuvalu, who told me Trump provides "doom." “We can’t remain silent while our islands are sinking. We can’t remain silent while our people are suffering." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

By me: Yellow fever and dengue cases surge in South America as climate crisis fuels health issues. Disease spike, heat deaths and advance of dengue into Europe prompts UN to unveil new health and climate plan at Cop30 in Belem, Brazil. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Extraordinary scenes at Cop30 this morning as protestors from the Munduruku people blockaded the entrance for several hours, only leaving after being persuaded by do Lago, the Cop president (who held a baby for a while)

Belem is a pretty cool place to come and talk about climate change

Latest from me and colleagues at Cop30 - World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise www.theguardian.com/environment/... as Al Gore slams both Bill Gates and Donald Trump on their climate stances www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

California governor calls Trump ‘an invasive species’ at #COP30 climate talks - Gavin Newsom is most senior US politician at annual UN talks, heading alternate delegation in Trump’s absence www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Climate people - I'll be in Belem to cover Cop30 from Saturday onwards. If you're there and have a story, or just a desire to chat, please do get in touch.

Yes, the people on your screen observing on the election should know that there's an alternative model for how to do it. It's called the citizens agenda. I have been writing about it, and advocating for it, since 2010. pressthink.org/2010/08/the-... Errol Louis was alluding to it last night:

the New York Post is taking the news well

The US will have no high-level representatives at UN climate talks in Brazil next month, White House confirms www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I spoke to Harrison Ford about the climate crisis and he said - - Trump's axing of climate policies “scares the shit out of me” - of Trump: "I don’t know of a greater criminal in history” - that the world is "teetering on the edge" due to the loss of nature www.theguardian.com/environment/...