'A colossal own goal’: Trump’s exit from global climate treaties will have little effect outside US #climatecrisis By @fionaharvey.bsky.social and @olliemilman.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🔴 NEW - Reform ‘Cosying Up to Authoritarian Petrostate’ Key members of Nigel Farage’s pro-oil party have been forging financial ties to the UAE. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social & @writesbright.bsky.social

More than 1,400 'shadow fleet' tankers move sanctioned oil for Russia, Venezuela and others. There's a sudden trend for them to sail under the Russian flag, like the ship seized near to UK waters last week, an analysis shows www.theguardian.com/business/202...

“If you want to know how much the Earth has warmed or how fast we will warm into the future, the answer is in the oceans” - new research finds they are heating at record rates

A 22-year-old woman is dead, 12 workers are injured and 30 people remain missing after a huge landfill collapsed in the Philippines www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Microplastics are inhibiting the capacity of oceans to absorb carbon dioxide Oceans are our largest natural carbon sink, absorbing about a quarter of the CO2 released by human activity every year

US oil companies want “serious guarantees” from Washington to invest in Venezuela, with its aging infrastructure, volatility, and dense oil

Some of 2025's excellent new species discoveries: - a spider-eating zombie fungus from Brazil's Atlantic rainforest - a "blood-stained" orchid that attracts aroused flies - a tiny UK snowdrop hiding in plain sight

US to withdraw from key UN climate crisis treaty and 66 other international organisations, says Trump, calling them “contrary to the interests of the United States”

US attack on Venezuela will influence direction of South America’s vast mineral wealth, says @jonathan-watts.bsky.social

Packing planes, cutting premium seats, and flying more efficient aircraft could slash aviation emissions by 50%, new research shows.

The central government of Japan faces a landmark lawsuit over its "unconstitutional" inaction on climate change, jeopardising the health and livelihoods of approximately 450 plaintiffs

Winter is being 'redefined’ say scientists, as 2025 sees record Arctic heat

A group of endangered “galaxy frogs” are missing, presumed dead, after trespassing photographers reportedly destroyed their microhabitats for photos.

NEW on Unearthed: Our last investigation with @fr.publiceye.ch showed how the EU's export trade in banned pesticides had expanded, despite promises to end it This new interactive map lets you to explore the data from that investigation, country by country unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/12/16/i...

Beavers are coming to East London!! 🦫 💚 🦫 💚 🦫 💚 🦫 💚 🦫 💚 🦫 💚 🦫

Amazon accused of threatening green energy group with funding withdrawal, after dispute over data centre emissions www.ft.com/content/4bbd...

The government agreed "not to launch the first tenders for deep-sea mining during the current legislative term", which ends in 2029 www.france24.com/en/live-news...

“Some of the chemicals were banned for use decades ago and their presence suggests that they are really persistent … so soils are a long-term sink of these pollutants.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

BP scraps its plans to build a carbon capture project in north-east England. The site will now be used for a 500,000 square metre AI data centre, the FT reports www.ft.com/content/6d3b...

Water shortages could derail UK’s net zero plans, study finds

“These bonds issued by water companies, given their environmental records, are not helping with the reputation or growth of green bonds in the UK." (Water companies issued 1 in 3 of the UK's corporate bonds this year) unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/11/30/w...

The UK government is to withdraw $1.15bn in financing to Total's controversial Mozambique LNG project. The project has been stalled since an Islamist insurgency attacked a nearby town in 2021, killing an estimated 800 people.

Water companies have borrowed over £10 billion in 'green' bonds since 2017. This year they were responsible for a third of all UK corporate bonds issued. But the sewage crisis shows no sign of stopping. Our latest investigation: unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/11/30/w...

Tropical cyclones and heavy monsoon rains have combined to cause catastrophic flooding across swathes of southern and south-eastern Asia, killing more than 1,000 people and displacing 300,000

Water companies have borrowed over £10bn in 'green' bonds - and keep borrowing more. We analysed Bloomberg data & found that the industry issued a third of the UK corporate green bonds so far this year. And still the sewage crisis goes on. unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/11/30/w...

NEW: Water companies have borrowed over £10bn in 'green' bonds, while failing to tackle the sewage crisis. Our analysis found that the industry issued more than a quarter of all UK corporate green bonds in three of the last four years unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/11/30/w...

NEW from Unearthed: England's water companies have borrowed over £10bn in 'green' bonds, while failing to tackle the sewage crisis unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/11/30/w...

Floods in Thailand have killed at least 33 people, with the city of Hat Yai - a major hub - experiencing its heaviest rainfall in 300 years www.independent.co.uk/asia/southea...

A debate is raging as to whether Cop30 was a success, a failure or a fudge. But any judgment needs to take into account the geopolitical minefield in which these talks took place www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Industry estimates put the number of data centres used by Amazon between 100 and 475 — but leaked figures show more than 900 in use, with many more in development www.source-material.org/amazon-data-...

UK wildfires have devastated more nature areas, including moorland and forests, this year than at any time since records began, figures show www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

NEW: Documents uncovered by Unearthed reveal that as PR giant Edelman was gearing up to play its advisory role at COP30, it was also lobbying for its Brazilian fossil fuel client Vibra Energia to help power the climate summit Full story by @desmog.com below: www.desmog.com/2025/11/21/e...

NEW: Documents uncovered by Unearthed reveal that as PR giant Edelman was gearing up to play its advisory role at COP30, it was also lobbying for its Brazilian fossil fuel client Vibra Energia to help power the climate summit Full story by @desmog.com below: www.desmog.com/2025/11/21/e...

A mystery of broken crab traps in Canada has been solved by this of a wolf dragging the submerged cage out of the water to eat the bait meat. (n.b. This kind of sneaky food thievery may not surprise dog owners)

“The sheer numbers are horrifying. These are people with lives, with families, with hopes and dreams. They are people like us, even if they happen to live in a different part of the world.” www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Trump’s moves to boost fossil fuels and slashing efforts to reduce emissions will substantially increase the death toll from soaring temperatures, mostly in poor, hot countries in Africa and South Asia, a new @propublica.org analysis concludes

We already know what happens when a government guts insulation and clean energy programmes. It cost households billions in higher bills, and delays the transition to a cheaper and greener energy system. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Brazil’s meat industry is mounting a campaign to convince the world it can produce beef with low carbon emissions www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Powerful farming interests in Brazil, backed by a group of Brazilian politicians, are pushing to overturn a ban on growing soya on recently deforested land in the Amazon www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Bayer's sponsorship of the agriculture pavilion at COP30 is "a golden opportunity to greenwash its image" says @corporateeurope.org

Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber every single country's delegation at this year's Cop30 climate negotiations, apart from the host Brazil www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"When a fire is really big, all the animals find this small spot where it’s not burning. Then it burns and they all die together." A heartbreaking story of climate breakdown from where the #COP30 talks are taking place. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I'm tracking how minerals needed for the energy transition are finally making it into the UN climate talks at #COP30 in Belém. This is mostly happening under negotiations to ensure that the shift from fossil fuels to clean energy is fair, sustainable and doesn't foster new social injustices. 🧵

An influential team called the Independent High-Level Expert Group on Climate Finance has laid out what it calls an "entirely feasible path" to mobilising $1.3tn by 2035. This was the aspirational goal agreed at last year's COP. Half of the finance in their pathway comes from the private sector.

The world is expected to build more renewable energy projects in the next five years than in the previous 40, according to a new report by the International Energy Agency. Despite the green backlash, the transition is now inevitable, it says. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Almost half a billion people now live within 1km of fossil fuel sites, such as drilling wells, processing plants or pipelines. Such proximity can increase health risks such as from cancer, respiratory conditions and heart disease. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Bayer - sponsor of the "Agrizone" at COP30 - also sponsors a podcast which in 2023 interviewed a notorious climate change denier On the episode, Luiz Carlos Molion says the IPCC spreads “climate terrorism” and CO2's effect is too small to measure. More: unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/11/11/c...

NEW: The "Agrizone" at COP30 is supposed to be a showcase for sustainable agriculture 🌳 But its sponsors are powerful agribusiness interests linked to deforestation and anti-conservation lobbying who have paid for visibility and "image gain" Read more 👇:

🔴 NEW 🔴 Mapped: Big Food’s Routes to Influence at COP30 Interactive map shows the food & farming corporations, trade groups and initiatives at COP30 in Brazil and how these are set to navigate the summit 📝 @rachelsherrington.bsky.social & Gil Alessi👇 www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/m...