'infrastructure is aging, and maintaining it is expensive...trimming branches that grow over power lines and inspecting equipment in rural areas, are also expensive.' In the West, utilities are shifting the cost of wildfires to customers | Grist share.google/Rq9HGxFFt46r...

Well said, @stormwater-jo.bsky.social Addressing road drainage issues doesn't just protect rivers from filthy road runoff pollution, it saves money on road repair in the long run.

Better drainage, filtration systems, public transport, walking + cycling routes, cleaning roads - just some of the ways we can stop this filth entering our rivers every time it rains. More information on preventing runoff at: www.stormwatershepherds.org.uk/2022/04/25/t...

1.5 million homes could be built on brownfield sites so why is the government hell bent on weakening planning rules to allow so much greenbelt development. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Turkey is experiencing its worst drought in over half a century, with rainfall dropping by 27 percent compared to the last three decades and even more in some regions, according to data published this week. https://www.europesays.com/2437316/ Turkey is experiencing its worst drought in over …

Bottom trawling to continue in English protected waters‼️ Defra says blanket ban on ‘destructive’ fishing practice disproportionate. We argue it's disproportionate to claim MPAs provide actual protection. The myth of MPAs continues. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Desde 2014, la #PoliticaPesqueraComun (art. 17) requiere que España reparta cuotas premiando la pesca de bajo impacto y alto valor social. Pero esta herramienta apenas se ha usado. El borrador del Real Decreto sobre cuotas es la oportunidad para aplicarla de verdad. ⬇️

No European tax payers money for violating human rights!

🚨 Big water news from Brussels: EU institutions have just struck a deal on updated water pollution rules. It includes tougher standards for PFAS, pesticides like glyphosate, and pharmaceutical pollution - but there's a catch. The deal delays action until 2039… Press release in comments ⬇️

Yes. "Mean people" invented it? The good people BP were only pushermen?

I passed four different sets of infrastructure upgrades on my cycle to work this morning. Excellent stuff.

More bad news, but the headline is not strictly correct Via #climate breakdown, fossil fuel burning threatens the health and well-being of all 8 billion + of us www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A national park should mean clean water and thriving wildlife. Instead, 94% of Broads rivers are failing. Owen Sennitt reports

Research - The drying of the Ganga river, of great economic and cultural importance to millions of people in India, Nepal and Bangladesh, is “unprecedented in the last 1,300 years” #climatecrisis HT @carbonbrief.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New research has suggested the behaviour of female crabs could be influenced by underwater electric power cables.The University of Portsmouth study found the crustaceans were attracted to the electromagnetic fields,similar to those in cables used by offshore wind farms www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🚨 MUST-READ! Powerful piece on the urgent need to ban #BottomTrawling in protected waters, by @greenjennyjones.bsky.social & @hugotagholm.bsky.social: www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti... @politicshome.bsky.social This destruction has NO PLACE in ocean havens ✊ 👉 ACT NOW: only.one/act/uk-mpa-c...

Collaboration 🤝 Conservation Thanks to an extraordinary donation, we're partnering with Athens Conservancy to protect nearly 3,000 acres of forested land in Ohio's Appalachian foothills.

A new study reveals that although they are often overlooked, dried fish are critical to helping feed millions of people across Africa. Read more: https://bit.ly/4nItEIj @lancasteruni.bsky.social

Raise your hand if you want the expansion of offshore drilling to stop! ✋🦦 Off the coast where sea otters play, eat, rest, & raise their young, there are active oil rigs – posing threats to the future of these animals. Help us save sea otters: http://oceana.ly/47Mo7vJ

If this came to pass, it would be absolutely devastating for National Parks and National Landscapes. The Protected Landacapes duty is the main power they have to secure action for nature. But the Times is reporting Ministers considering scrapping it. 1/3 www.thetimes.com/uk/history/a...

National Parks are the Crown Jewels of our countryside, loved by millions, and world-famous as Britain’s most special and iconic landscapes. Why on earth would any Government want to make it easier to pollute the Lake District or bulldoze the New Forest?   (2/3)

Global investment in renewable energy up 10% on 2024 despite Trump rollback www.theguardian.com/environment/...

EA allowing factory to produce products with banned PFAS – and release it to air... www.endsreport.com/article/1932...

Troubling scenes from an Arctic in full-tilt crisis The heat that hit Svalbard in February was so intense that scientists could dig into the ground with spoons, "like it was soft ice cream." grist.org/climate/trou... #Arctic #Climate #Heat #Ice #Svalbard #Environment #Geography

NEW (and shocking): Our FOI request shows AGC Chemicals Europe, which is located near Blackpool, is still producing products containing PFOA and is releasing it to the air. www.endsreport.com/article/1932...

"We’re trying to tie things together." The art of making traditional acorn soup survives today because the Miwok and Nisenan made sure that each child was taught these kinds of ancient customs. @sleavenworth.bsky.social @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/s...

A recent paper led by Wallenberg postdoctoral fellow Jean-Baptiste Jouffray summarizes industrial impacts on the ocean & compares them with what leading companies in the ocean economy disclose — revealing major gaps in disclosures. naturalcapitalproject.stanford.edu/news/corpora...

I reckon a fossil fuel being heavily promoted at climate week is a bad thing

The U.S. renewables retreat goes far beyond the tax bill that is winding down more than $400 billion in estimated subsidies.Federal agencies have tightened rules for new development. www.wsj.com/economy/glob...

Climate change & illegal fishing threaten the ocean & food security. At PECH Committee today, our campaign director @vanyalovesfish.bsky.social stressed that the EU should: ✅Promote sustainable fisheries ✅Trace all seafood, incl. processed ✅Improve consumer information ✅Make fisheries transparent

Defense Department Delays Cleanup of ‘Forever Chemicals’ Nationwide https://www.europesays.com/2435264/ Defense Department Delays Cleanup of ‘Forever Chemicals’ Nationwide https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/climate/military-defense-pfas-forever-chemicals-cleanup-delay.html by misana123

Shares in Danish renewables firm Ørsted jumped after a US judge ruled it can resume work on the Revolution Wind project off the Rhode Island coast. District judge Royce Lamberth granted Ørsted’s request for an injunction to block a “stop work order” issued by Trump against the $1.5bn project.

Every drain pipe the World over is undersized for torrential rains. We must have separate storm & sewer drains as well as containment tunnels to hold untreated flows. Start digging.

🪸 Our seas have been scraped & scarred by bottom trawlers for centuries, making it difficult to establish a baseline of ocean health 🌊 There are, however, clues...🦪 Professors Emma Sheehan & Martin Attrill delve into this in Oceanographic Magazine 🔽 oceanographicmagazine.com/features/beh...

Well said, @stormwater-jo.bsky.social Addressing road drainage issues doesn't just protect rivers from filthy road runoff pollution, it saves money on road repair in the long run.

On Sunday, Chicago hosted an organised swim in the Chicago River - once so polluted it was 'untouchable', decades of environmental protections brought the river back to life - now those protections are in peril. share.google/MlGYSEx4kSv2...

EU chemical firms plan to export rising quantities of ‘toxic’ pesticides, documents show

In the late 80s the Conservative (!) government brought in stronger clean water rules in the UK. Through the 90s + 00s river health rose. Salmon returned to rivers like the Thames. Then, in 2010, the Cameron government, told regulators to ease up on enforcing environmental rules... 🧵 1/4

....wanting to give businesses as much freedom as possible. Fast forward - our rivers are full of turd + Atlantic salmon are endangered in Britain. That's the reality when politicians talk about 'ripping up the red tape'. 2/4

Tearing up environmental rules isn't even universally good for business. When huge corporations pollute waterways, it hits the myriad small businesses - cafés, pubs, hotels, angling clubs, shellfish farms, fishers, boat clubs - who depend on clean rivers. 3/4

The government's own figures show small + medium size businesses provide 61% of UK jobs + 55% of GDP. Yet their interests, the interests of the public, the interests of wildlife are continually sacrificed on the altar of letting big business do whatever they want. 4/4

Most coral reefs in the Caribbean could stop growing, and even start eroding away, by 2040 if global warming continues unchecked, a new study finds.

São Tomé and Príncipe will establish eight marine protected areas covering 93 square kilometers (36 sq miles) of coastal habitats in the Gulf of Guinea. The island nation aims to protect its marine environment while improving the lives of fishing communities, who rely heavily on fish for protein.

More than 100,000 people marched through Cuenca, a city in southern Ecuador, on Sept. 16, demanding that federal authorities revoke an environmental license for a gold mining project that may impact an important freshwater source.

New research analyzing more than 3,000 tropical forest sites reveals that areas with fewer seed-dispersing animals store up to four times less carbon than forests with healthy wildlife populations. The study found that 81% of tropical trees rely on animals to disperse their seeds.

Researchers found that Indigenous territories can effectively reduce the risk of vector-borne or zoonotic diseases if they’re located in municipalities with at least 40% forest cover.

California’s native jewelflowers, a group of plants that belong to the mustard family, grow in widely diverse landscapes and microclimates across the state. But until now, scientists didn’t understand what allowed their wide distribution.

Every year in the Gulf of Panama, between December and April, trade winds from the north push warm surface water away from the coast, allowing cool, nutrient-rich water from the depths to rise, in a process called upwelling. For the first time in 40 years, this upwelling failed in 2025.

[COMMENTARY] Since 2014, Samoa’s “little dodo” has been listed as critically endangered on the IUCN Red List. But an underfunded conservation effort could still snatch this fascinating species from the extinction list, a new commentary argues. ** The views expressed are those of the author.

Axolotls may enjoy celebrity status among pet owners, but their wild populations have been dealt huge blows by habitat loss, water pollution, invasive species and the pet trade. Now, the success of reintroduction programs in their native ranges in Mexico brings new hope for their comeback.