“In the short & long term, more [biodiversity] indicators are deteriorating or not changing than improving, highlighting ongoing pressures” While some moan about bad news, good news stories about small successes really need to be set against the reality of nature loss www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med...

Capitalism tomes at the double... Prospect Magazine (UK) reviewed Capitalism and Its Critics alongside Sven Beckert's Capitalism: A Global History. Thanks to Tom Clark for a thoughtful article. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/7184...

f you can separate the terms, you can reframe the debate to reduce action! #climatechange and #netzero - theconversation.com/we-analysed-...

There's the key sentence: "For brave leaders, there could be real political capital to be gained from reducing this mobility as feelings run high over waste, pollution and emissions." Brave leaders anyone? theconversation.com/the-politics...

Rewilding, or how to live well with your beavers - www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I'll admit it's tough keeping up with the brief but very rewarding. My latest 6 of the best in #ecology for @britishecologicalsociety.org

Happy to review this one - close to my research heart - @britishecologicalsociety.org

Fascinating look at a less theoretical perspective in introductory #ecology - @britishecologicalsociety.org

Interesting text on the ways in which ecology can be a career rather than just science - @britishecologicalsociety.org

We need to put #climatechange into a planetary perspective rather than an isolated box called weather! theconversation.com/ecological-m...

Getting #climatechange adverts that actually work - theconversation.com/how-climate-...

When survivors reacted to this so-called Epstein Files transparency, they didn’t sound shocked. They sounded validated. Because even with a law, even with a deadline, even with the entire country watching, this pedocracy behaved exactly the way it always has.

I might be missing something here, but it seems that areas with greater opioid issues are more likely to vote Republican? Another vote for Big Pharma - academic.oup.com/qje/advance-...

To make change, you need to change the system! - [ESD]...should be less about adding modules and more about reshaping the social and material conditions of learning, so that sustainable ways of living become ordinary, not optional.: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Cost-benefit has been applied before e.g. Stirling uni. Always shows a net positive impact. This needs to be more widely appreciated - theconversation.com/ucl-presiden...

Before we take even more #greenfield land, let's see what #brownfield sites can offer - theconversation.com/how-abandone...

The global reach of companies over food production - theconversation.com/who-owns-you...

Still massive rates of #deforestation - theconversation.com/millions-of-...

Negotiations fail not just through power and politics but also in the language that is allowed to be used. This is the hidden dimension of failure - theconversation.com/why-global-e...

December 14, 1973 – Canberra Times on melting ice caps (Albeit the guy warning abt this was worried abt waste heat, not CO2) allouryesterdays.info/2025/12/13/d...

30 yrs ago; Dec 14, 1995 – Monbiot nails it with “it’s happening” article, after release of 2nd IPCC report. The “data should be enough to throw us all into a muck sweat.” Atmospheric CO2 was roughly 361ppm. As of 2025 it is 425ppm, allouryesterdays.info/2024/12/14/d...

Forty years ago today (Dec 10,1985) in the aftermath of the Villach climate meeting, Carl Sagan lays out the facts to some US senators.

December 9, 1955 – “On a Mathematical Model of the Carbon Cycle in Nature” submitted. The Swedes knew what was up... allouryesterdays.info/2025/12/08/d...

December 9, 1955 – UK left wing paper Tribune writes on carbon dioxide and weather control allouryesterdays.info/2025/12/08/d...

This book is out and open access here: academic.oup.com/book/61469?l...

FIFA President Gianni Infantino, the reputation-launderer of murderous regimes, and Qatari private jet-using greenwasher of petrostates is a mighty disgrace to football 👇This is the 🧵 to learn ALL about this human rights-trashing & climate-wrecking "face of football"

20 yrs ago today, Dec 6, 2005 – James Hansen gives speech about imminent climate tipping points, at American Geophysical Union meeting allouryesterdays.info/2025/12/05/d...

Another day, another move towards authoritarianism - www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

#corals and #climate - theconversation.com/coral-reefs-...

Media representations impact #conservation efforts (think also, sharks, snakes etc.) theconversation.com/how-hollywoo...

Follow the money, follow the network - www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

November 30, 1978 – House of Lords debate on Atmospheric Changes… allouryesterdays.info/2022/11/29/n...

The problems with #invasive species - www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Fascinating research on how the fossil fuel industry orchestrates public narratives to maintain its own status in society and delay our transition to a safer energy system www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Obviously be careful of reposting this if you work for the ABC

57 yrs ago today (Nov 29, 1968), a warning from Arnold Marsh, chair of the National Clean Air Society "...a melting of the polar ice-caps so that the level of the sea would rise... if the arguments are correct, it could become catastrophic at some future date” allouryesterdays.info/2025/11/28/n...

30 years ago today, the IPPC second assessment report was agreed thebulletin.org/2025/11/a-cl...

Honestly, when will unis and other research orgs collectively say enough is enough, and invoice them for all our unpaid labour that drives publishers MASSIVE profits? The Money in Scientific Publishing danielroelfs.com/posts/the-mo... @danielroelfs.com #KnowledgeSlavery

It's not just temperature. #climatechange impacts #water supply - www.theguardian.com/environment/...

When ecologists argue that nature underpins the economy, they are over-simplifying Nature underpins the survival of humans on Earth www.frontiersin.org/journals/con...

As Xmas approaches, 4.3 children in the UK - almost 1 in 3 - live in poverty In the world's 4th richest nation, this is an obscenity, and politicians who are allowing this to continue should hang their heads in shame Always remember, maintaining poverty is a political choice

Sadly, it's already happening here! A fiery attack on the need to do more - www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Not your usual #climatechange image but equally possible - www.theguardian.com/environment/...

So reporting a public speech is now off limits? Not #journalism #BBC - www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

Not sure these 2 are compatible - "The Aus parliament has done its job and passed C21st reforms that support a modern economy, enable the creation of new and sustainable jobs while promising not to destroy, but in fact improve, the health of the natural world. " www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

First take on EPBC amendments in the compromise deal struck to get it passed Justine Bell-James, @euanritchie.bsky.social, @drphilmccormack.bsky.social & me in @aunz.theconversation.com #NativeForestLogging #MinisterialDiscretion #UnacceptableImpacts #PayToDestroy #NationalEnvironmentalStandards

Sad to see even the tiniest move towards understanding reality is considered a breakthrough. - #climatecrisis - www.theguardian.com/environment/...

These are not solitary problems. They are all linked - triple planetary crisis - www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

Yet another sad example of reality being denied by vested interests. Such omissions of language have a long history; this is just the latest example. @doctorvive.bsky.social - www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Pulling a few shreds of improvement from an underwhelming meeting. So many delegates, so little action #COP30 - theconversation.com/this-years-c...