If the UK is “backing the transition to EVs,” then why is it considering a tax on miles driven in an EV, to be paid for the year in advance!? The whole point of an EV is it costs slightly more but is cheaper to operate. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The UK failing to invest any money in the forest fund *it helped to create* because of domestic political pressures is so, so 2025 www.edp24.co.uk/news/nationa...

Absolutely nuts for Norwegian media to report on Brazil's 'hypocrisy' without mentioning Equinor SPINNING UP THE LARGEST FIELD IN BRAZIL SINCE 2000 - literally days after Equinor celebrated its production start Another day in the petrostate!!!!! COP30's going to be cool www.nrk.no/klima/krafti...

The remarkable thing about enshittification isn’t that it happens, but that people keep using the products. Ahem…Twitter.

In just six months, China added 256 gigawatts (GW) of new #solar capacity — more than the entire solar infrastructure ever built by the United States. That’s enough clean energy to power over 40 million homes, marking the fastest renewable expansion in human history.

Really interesting analysis - you don't have to be big to make money on Substack, which unlike so many other platforms is not winner-takes-all components.news/the-desire-d...

That's odd—the carbon footprint of your flight is 5x higher than the airline industry's been telling you, according to researchers ... www.newscientist.com/article/2502...

Preach, Professor Jones! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This year Halloween is especially grim

Who needs Halloween when America is an actual horror-show?

The problem with Bill Gates climate reframing, @katharinehayhoe.com says: “People often think of climate change as a separate bucket at the end of a long row of other buckets of problems … The reason we care about climate change is that it's the hole in every bucket." www.axios.com/2025/10/30/b...

Been up all night and struggling to concentrate this morning? Your brain may be desperately trying to get clean www.newscientist.com/article/2501...

Big oil being given as much as is being taken from us: "Governments gave out $2.5bn a day in direct subsidies to fossil fuels companies...while people lost about the same amount because of high temperatures preventing them from working on farms and building sites" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Yale researchers: Elon Musk's "polarizing and partisan actions” cost Tesla 1-1.26 million US car sales. This despite the valiant efforts of obnoxious Cybertruck buyers … www.axios.com/2025/10/28/e...

fund real journalism, restore media consolidation limits, teach media literacy, and back public media, dumbasses

Hurricane Melissa, a Category 5 storm, is forecast to bring catastrophic damage to parts of the Caribbean The mountains of Jamaica could receive 1 metre of rain, resulting in life-threatening flash flooding and landslides Destructive winds and storm surges are also likely

It’s a double win: wind generates power more cheaply than gas, & it forces gas producers to cut their prices. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes

Congratulations to the 2025 winners of the National Academies Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications given by @nationalacademies.org in partnership with @schmidtsciences.bsky.social ! Learn more about the winners: www.nationalacademies.org/news/2025/10... #scicomm

Congratulations to this year's winners of our Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications! Follow @scicommexcellence.nationalacademies.org to learn more about the winners and their work.

All week commentators have been wondering whether Trump bullying the IMO out of a carbon tax was a one-off or a trend. Now we have the answer: www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

The @schmidtfellows.bsky.social & @nationalacademies.org have announced the Schmidt awardees for 2025. I was lucky enough to receive this honor in 2024 & was blown away by the community these awards have created www.nationalacademies.org/news/2025/10...

a live look this morning at the demolished East Wing of the White House

Fortunate that @climatecentral.org is keeping the billion-dollar climate-related disaster list going, as the first half of 2025 was a doozy. You can read more here: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Food for thought: The five biggest meat and dairy producers are generating more methane than the five largest oil and gas companies e360.yale.edu/digest/meat-...

Agrivoltaics are cool, but sounds like this trend is not going to be a trend: “The experiment [was] funded by a $1.3 million grant from the Energy Department … Similar federal research projects at state universities in Ohio, New Jersey and Arizona, have been paused.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/c...

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase. The President is building an army to attack his own country.

Please forgive the tweets, but GM Nihal Sarin is extremely on the nose about Daniel Naroditsky's passing. I hope more of the chess community will make their feelings known about Vladimir Kramnik so we can protect other players and the game itself

Rather than subsidizing meat, governments should be subsidizing Beyond Meat

UK food inflation is being driven by climate change-induced extreme weather, driving up price of butter, milk, beef, chocolate & coffee The price rises in those staples is contributing 40% of overall food inflation Climate change is hitting peoples' pockets, right now www.ft.com/content/ced8...

It looks even worse by video 😢

Lula said next month's COP30 climate conference "will be the COP of truth." Turns out it's an ugly truth: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

40+ glaciologists just published a paper calling geoengineering to save the Arctic & Antarctic a dangerous distraction. But other scientists argue that with ice melting we at least need to research them. My report about a sea ice thickening experiment in Nunavut, on CBC www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

"We have killed all the journalists. They died once. But we brought you here and you will die hundreds of times." Chilling evidence of torture at an Israeli detention center near Gaza, as bodies are returned with hands tied behind their backs or crushed by tanks www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Not all environmental issues should be seen through the lens of CO₂. While coral death could increase ocean CO₂ uptake—since calcification releases CO₂ and dissolution releases alkalinity and allows the ocean to take up CO₂—reefs are vital for biodiversity, food, coastal protection, and livelihoods.

This is good reporting on the disaster in Alaska if you're looking for a reliable summary. This is a bigger disaster than I think most are realizing. 1500 people have been displaced by the flooding with an exceptionally complicated response and recovery. www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5kz...

Trump’s EPA canceled a $20m grant to fortify the Alaska Native village of Kipnuk against flooding. Now 121 houses in Kipnuk have been destroyed by flooding, & a total 1,800 people have been evacuated in one of the biggest airlifts in Alaska history. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Last year a fire occurred in 18% of the forests used for carbon offsets. It seems like that should make us a bit skeptical about carbon offsets ... www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

A useful reminder: A Human on a Bicycle Is among the Most Efficient Forms of Travel in the Animal Kingdom | Scientific American share.google/PItKvNJhK84F...

Today's column is about the government's huge, unprecedented assault on nature ... and about the eerie, astonishing silence of the big nature groups. The RSPB, National Trust, Wildlife Trusts have 7.5m members between them. A vast force, completely unmobilised. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Holy wow, +3.5 ppm CO₂ last year, up from +2.4 ppm average the past decade, and +0.6 ppm in the 1960s. It gets scarier the closer you look at it. All this is a stress test for the planet, and it's buckling. Two big reasons for the massive increase: wildfires, and the ocean sinks are shutting down.

Rachel Reeves said: “The Lower Thames Crossing planning application has got 350,000 pages in it. That is longer than the complete works of Shakespeare.” True — but it’s probably for the best that Shakespeare wasn’t in charge of digging a massive tunnel under a tidal river.

Is there a bigger downgrade than OpenAI going from "we're building the machine god" to "the computer is horny now"?

Since tweets like this continue to travel and I get similar responses every time I post something positive about China, it's maybe good to point out where China's progress on clean energy is and isn't world-leading and/or game-changing. 🧵

Probably best to chase it indefinitely

CBS aired a segment by Olivia Reingold—a reporter for the Weiss-founded Free Press—in which NYPD officers are worried about Mamdani, with some “considering retiring.” The evidence? Four unnamed officers quoted out of ~33,000. The story is thinly sourced, fearmongering, tabloid drek. trib.al/hfqsrL0

The Guardian view on the rising risk from flooding: uninsurable buildings should focus minds on climate adaptation | Editorial

Mamdani might not only win, he might be a good mayor: “I want to emphasize how unprecedented this is — the first nominee in memory that has made a concerted effort to reach out to people who were against him in the primary.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/m...

Somehow I didn’t realize we were at the “telepathic brain implant” stage already www.newscientist.com/article/2499...

No. Even if we wouldn’t have moved to Bluesky, we’d be fighting a losing battle for impact with trolls, bots & fake blue tick accounts