Delighted to see my @source-material.org colleagues on this list! Congratulations Costanza and Leigh, and our partners at @lemonde.fr — their story revealed how TotalEnergies knew troops it funded stood accused of torture, rape and killing, but kept paying them

A British water company ordered tankers to halt deliveries to the English countryside estate of the American billionaire Stephen A. Schwarzman, after local residents complained that some of the water was being used to fill a newly constructed lake on his property during a dry-weather period.

The NUJ has renewed calls for global action to end the Israeli government’s war on journalism and truth after at least 20 people, including five journalists, were killed in strikes on Nasser hospital on Monday. www.nuj.org.uk/resource/pal...

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

BREAKING: Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital in Gaza killed at least 15 people, including three journalists, one of whom worked for Reuters, Palestinian health officials said reut.rs/45OFPfr

They're coming for our jobs?... You can get a robot to write AI op-ed slop, but you can’t get a robot to do on-the-ground, source-developed reporting pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...

Urgent ideas for defending press freedom in Gaza, the world’s deadliest place for journalists. By @azmatzahra.bsky.social, @meghnadbose.bsky.social, and @laurenwatsonjourno.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/feature/urge...

A new documentary casts a spotlight on dissenting Russian journalists as the invasion of Ukraine unfolds. The film is propelled “by a spirit of journalistic community that feels fragile, resilient, and hard-won,” @justincchang.bsky.social writes.

“We did not get where we wanted, but people want a deal. This work will not stop, because plastic pollution will not stop.” UNEP Executive Director @ingerandersen.bsky.social at the close of the second part of #INC5 in Geneva. Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMMe... #PlasticsTreaty

Plastic pollution talks fail as negotiators in Geneva reject draft treaties

Starting in 5 mins: FINAL PLENARY at the #INC52! Tune in to follow the #PlasticTreaty negotiations, as they spill over to the early hours of day 10. We hope to see a new dawn for the 3+ years of negotiations with strong, legally binding text: 📽️: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1z... (1/🧵)

Nothing to see here, just the planet edging ever closer to deadly hot & humid conditions www.newscientist.com/article/2492...

$80bn of *subsidies* provided to plastic producers, rising to $150bn by mid-century Governments in 71 nations examined provided that $80bn through tax breaks, revenue certainty, support for process energy, grants, in-kind contributions, and below-market financing rates www.edie.net/plastics-ind...

Anas al-Sharif, prominent Al Jazeera correspondent, among five journalists killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

"“If this volume just grows even more, we simply have a societal situation that is not bearable anymore because it is just too much risk that is no longer covered,” Thallinger told CNBC..." whatever politicians pretend to believe about climate, this is what they know www.cnbc.com/2025/08/08/c...

NEW: SourceMaterial's investigation into a World Bank-backed plastic credits scheme shows it has sparked controversy in Accra, Ghana. Waste picker associations say they are 'sick and tired' of the 'false solution'. With @ajenglish.bsky.social: www.aljazeera.com/features/lon...

Friends, are you headed to Switzerland for the UN #PlasticsTreaty? I’ll be in Geneva next week, and I want to chat! If you’re involved in plastics advocacy, science, industry or policymaking, I’m eager to meet you. Please drop a message in my DMs and let’s find a time to get coffee 🇨🇭

The @theguardian.com view on plastic pollution: global action is desperately needed to deal with this scourge - Delegates at UN treaty talks must not allow negotiations to be derailed again by fossil fuel interests #plasticstreaty www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Early-career reporters in the UK, be sure to check out the John Schofield Trust mentoring scheme — applications are open now! I've loved mentoring young journalists on this program, which offers bespoke one-to-one coaching and access to a variety of masterclasses. More details here →

UK journalist friends: the NUJ, along with our colleagues in the IFJ and Palestinian Journalists' Syndicate, have organised an open letter calling for the government to exert pressure for international journalists to be allowed into Gaza. Please consider signing: www.warchild.org.uk/protecting-j...

The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu could be submerged in 25 years due to rising sea levels, so a plan is being implemented to relocate its population to Australia. www.wired.com/story/the-fi...

The UN’s highest court has said countries are legally obliged to fight climate change, in a decision that could increase the chance of nations hit by extreme weather claiming damages from other governments

Shell, Aker BP, and Enbridge have all quit the expert advisory group of the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) because the draft standards for net zero require them to refrain from developing new oil and gas fields and significantly reduce their oil and gas production. 🙄

Donald Trump has a long-held disdain for wind farms and previously complained about a development offshore spoiling the views from his golf course in Aberdeenshire

As President Trump heads to Texas to see the impact of last week’s deadly flash floods, the White House has backed away from plans to abolish FEMA, officials said.

NEW: our investigation reveals former Trump associates are cashing in as the US cuts aid. Lobbyists linked to the Tump administration struck $17 million in deals with fragile states, many trading minerals, military access & more. globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...

Scientists have long insisted that we can and must limit global warming to 1.5 degrees—a grim milestone one activist group calls a “point of no return.” But one problem with points of no return is that they don’t tell you much about what comes afterward.

While warehouses in the U.S. overflow with ready-to-use therapeutic foods (known as RUTFs), designed to treat severe malnutrition, children in places like South Sudan are going hungry.

Scoop: The Energy Department has hired at least three scientists who are well-known for their rejection of the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change, according to records reviewed by @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/c...

Pakistan is very very rapidly embracing solar, and just like here, utilities are fighting it www.npr.org/2025/07/08/n...

UK bosses to be banned from using NDAs to cover up misconduct at work

Our latest story about a major coltan exporter in Rwanda ... www.reuters.com/world/africa...

Breaking news: Boston Consulting Group modelled the costs of 'relocating' Palestinians from Gaza and entered into a multimillion-dollar contract to help launch a new aid scheme for the shattered enclave https://on.ft.com/3TrfEpn

🗒️ Elisa Morgera, the UN special rapporteur on human rights and climate change, is calling for criminal penalties for those spreading fossil fuel disinformation, as well as a total ban on industry lobbying and advertising. Read more via @guardian: buff.ly/TY7gdlC

After a decade on the run from the Italian justice system, how far would you go to obtain a diplomatic passport? Read our @alphaville.ft.com story on the life and death of the fugitive carbon credit broker who worked with Dubai royalty and Liberia’s fallen hero. www.ft.com/content/84d9...

How much water do Britain's data centres use? Bafflingly, there is no official figure. So here's my best estimate after weeks of reporting: circa 10 billion litres of water a year. And that's before any big UK AI boom. Story in @thetimes.com 👇 www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

‘It’s death by a thousand cuts’: marine ecologist David Obura shares his anger on the collapse of coral reefs. “You, in the global north, have to change what you’re doing." My latest interview in the series, Tipping Points: On the Edge www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The top 7 fossil fuel firms & their networks held 1,000+ meetings with MEPs in under a year. @transparency-eu.bsky.social has analysed 31,000+ MEP meetings since June 2024, revealing a sharp rise in fossil fuel lobbying. Learn more ⬇️

The Trump administration said on Monday that it would open up 58 million acres of back country in national forests to road construction and development, removing protections that had been in place for a quarter century. https://trib.al/VQXR96o

Only 5 states have heat protection rules for workers, and now there's a question as to whether Trump will block the first federal ones, initiated only last year. Meanwhile, in 2024, Florida passed a law preemptively *banning* any heat protection rules for workers www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

Ancient trees are shipped to the UK, then burned – using billions in ‘green’ subsidies. Stop this madness now | Dale Vince

“For me, it’s all about collaboration and solidarity. That’s really what this is a gesture of,” says @jonathan-watts.bsky.social, who led a group of expert writers to finish Phillips’ book. ‪@andrew.intercept.com.br My latest for @mongabay.com bit.ly/44lC8OG

Mario Guevara fled El Salvador after facing violence for his journalism. Now, he risks deportation from the #USA after being arrested by ICE while covering the "No Kings" protest, a disturbing escalation in the targeting of the press: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/u...

Investigative reporting in 2025 is realising the Trump administration has laid off every US official you want to speak to...

Good news for women non-fiction writers — who, as the Guardian points out, are paid less on average, receive fewer reviews and win fewer prizes than men... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I didn't write the headline, but I do think some truly wild stuff is now on the table and we can't pretend otherwise www.wsj.com/science/envi...

Kemi Badenoch will today announce that she would ditch the windfall tax on fossil fuel companies that have amassed massive profits in recent years. In other news, the Conservative Party recently received £250k from oil investors and climate science deniers…

US power plants will be able to emit more dangerous toxins such as mercury and unlimited greenhouse gases under major new rollbacks by Trump. Health experts say this will cause "the biggest pollution increases in decades" and many thousands of deaths. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Detaining journalists for doing their jobs is unconstitutional and inexcusable. Press coverage of protests is essential — especially now in Los Angeles.

*NEW* 24 countries condemn deep-sea mining in international waters when done outside of the multilateral frameworks set by the Law of the Sea treaty 🌊 Signed by France, Germany, Sweden and others. This is a shot across the bow directed at the Trump administration’s recent move to do exactly that.