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Guardian environment correspondent
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Judith Casselberry
6 months ago
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Dark Laboratory is here!
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ma...
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Dark Laboratory: groundbreaking book argues climate crisis was sparked by colonisation
Tao Leigh Goffe argues climate breakdown is the mutant offspring of European scientific racism and colonialism
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/mar/28/dark-laboratory-groundbreaking-book-argues-climate-crisis-was-sparked-by-colonisation?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Nina Lakhani
7 months ago
âA new phaseâ: why climate activists are turning to sabotage instead of protest - via
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www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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âA new phaseâ: why climate activists are turning to sabotage instead of protest
Tougher laws said to be inspiring clandestine attacks on the âproperty and machineryâ of the fossil fuel economy
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/08/a-new-phase-why-climate-activists-are-turning-to-sabotage-instead-of-protest?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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GlisGlis
8 months ago
Really useful article. The idea that we should be giving long sentences to climate activists is absurd! We should be encouraging many more people to become activists to pressure the gov into faster and more meaningful action.
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Sixteen jailed UK climate activists to appeal against âunduly harshâ sentences
Protesters will gather outside court of appeal in support of activists, who say judges defied decades of precedent
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/29/sixteen-jailed-uk-climate-activists-to-appeal-against-sentences
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Apparently the main reason that China had a near monopoly on the extraction of rare earth metals for so long is that the process of mining and refining them is so environmentally destructive that no one else wanted to do it
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Climate change is a class war
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Worldâs richest use up their fair share of 2025 carbon budget in 10 days
Emissions caused by wealthiest 1% so far this year would take someone from poorest 50% three years to create
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/10/worlds-richest-use-up-their-fair-share-of-2025-carbon-budget-in-10-days
9 months ago
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Every passing day just gets more dystopian, doesnât it?
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9 months ago
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Joan Meiners, PhD
9 months ago
Hi. Journalist/ecologist here: We canât stop wildfires that have been worsened by drying, warming climate change by JUST âcleaning up forestsâ without also losing the essential ecosystem services like seed dispersal and watershed filtering that allow us to survive on this planet.
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More corporate knee bending to Donald Trump as America's six biggest banks abandon the UN's net zero group for the global banking industry ahead of the inauguration in a fortnight
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Six big US banks quit net zero alliance before Trump inauguration
Exodus from net zero target-setting group is bid to head off âanti-wokeâ attacks from rightwing US politicians, say analysts
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jan/08/us-banks-quit-net-zero-alliance-before-trump-inauguration
9 months ago
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Molly Scott Cato
9 months ago
So many things could be said about this graph But perhaps the most important is that if you want people to use buses you have to invest in them The climate crisis demands more money for public transport outside the cities
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"all types of vape contain lithium-ion batteries which are dangerous if crushed or damaged because they can cause fires"
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
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More than a million vapes a day in UK thrown away, says research
From June 2025 it will be illegal to sell single-use vapes to combat environmental damage
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/dec/16/more-than-a-million-vapes-a-day-in-uk-thrown-away-says-research
9 months ago
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Extreme weather once again strikes where people are least able to hand it. One third of the 320,000 people on Mayotte live in shantytowns
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
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Mayotte cyclone: health services in ruins as rescuers race to reach survivors
Medical supplies airlifted to French Indian Ocean territory after Cyclone Chido leaves hundreds feared dead
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/16/mayotte-cyclone-health-services-in-ruins-with-death-toll-feared-to-reach-thousands
9 months ago
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Ketan Joshi
10 months ago
Hello everyone, this is all playing out exactly as we warned: nuclear gets used as a rhetorical empty future promise while big tech companies actively and knowingly increase the climate damage they're enabling today
www.theregister.com/2024/12/05/m...
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Western Hills Garden
10 months ago
We only grow a few edibles, like blackberries and Chinese quince and Flying Dragon orange, Citrus trifoliata, (which really isn't edible, though we've tried some things. But we loved this
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story from
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on "the Legumati."
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âItâs like a secretâ: why do the leguminati want to change the way we eat?
Fans of legumes say a worldwide shift towards eating beans rather than meat would hugely benefit human health and the environment
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/22/its-like-a-secret-why-do-the-leguminati-want-to-change-the-way-we-eat
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Donnachadh McCarthy
10 months ago
Beans Can Help Save The World! Useful article by
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in Guardian re how beans insert nitrogen into soils naturally. Artificial fertiliser NO2 is 300 times more polluting than CO2!
#YesWeCan
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David Ho
12 months ago
"Private equity firms are using US public sector workersâ retirement savings to fund fossil fuel projects pumping more than a billion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere every year, according to an analysis." Latest from
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Private equity firms ploughing billions into fossil fuels, analysis reveals
US public sector workersâ retirement savings invested in projects that pump out a billion tonnes of emissions a year
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/oct/01/private-equity-firms-us-pensions-fossil-fuel-projects
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New report exposes Western governments' hypocrisy in their approach to climate protests
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Rich countries silencing climate protest while preaching about rights elsewhere, says study
Report says governments in global north increasingly using draconian measures while criticising similar tactics in global south
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/sep/10/climate-rights-report-draconian-measures-protest
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Israeli tanks, jets and bulldozers bombarding Gaza and razing homes in the occupied West Bank are being fueled by a growing number of countries signed up to the genocide and Geneva conventions ...
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Countries fueling Israelâs Gaza war may be complicit in war crimes, experts warn
Exclusive: research tracks dozens of oil and fuel shipments that could have aided Israelâs war on Gaza
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/20/israel-war-gaza-fuel-war-crimes-warning
about 1 year ago
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Hello world
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