When we need broad public consent for the green transition, and should be able to allay concerns that corporate power is using it as an excuse to get what it wants, Starmer’s team treats it as a holy war against the landscape-loving infidel. Beating us into submission on behalf of power.

The government’s new assault on the right to challenge planning decisions is another example of its authoritarian reflex. We very much need a fast green transition, which means large-scale renewables. But instead of bringing people along, it goes straight for coercion.🧵1/8 www.gov.uk/government/n...

High levels of PFAS - linked to cancers, liver, kidney + thyroid disorders - found in the sea in the Solent strait. The main source is thought to be treated sewage. They're present in sewage because we're surrounded by them in our daily lives. share.google/yLF9gGRNyKok... 🧵 1/6

🐝 Wild bee species at risk of extinction in Europe have DOUBLED in just 10 years. Yet EU lawmakers are weakening pesticide rules and ripping open nature protections as we speak. On #WorldBeeDay, defend nature - not polluters. Sign now✍️ handsoffnature.eu#take-action #HandsOffNature

This, by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social, is a brilliant, fascinating and definitional article. If you want to understand what's happening around the world, you should read it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

📣 Our ‘A Well‑Adapted UK’ report is live. How do we protect our way of life from the biggest climate risks we face today? www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLU7... ⬇️

Rainforests being pushed to breaking point by new demands for resources, report says. The living biosphere is being murdered on *our* watch, so every one of us is living at probably THE most crucial moment in human history. Get into the fight to save nature 💪🏽 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This, in full, is the detailed plan for adaptation to protect us from the unavoidable consequences of a boiling planet that the UK government set out in its manifesto less than two years ago. 🫤 Reform, of course, don’t even believe there’s a problem. #WeWantToLive

I think we can say now that we’ve investigated “how far can we push the destructive cruelty, before reactionaries are satisfied” as deeply as we need to, to conclude the answer is “they will never be satisfied, they will always want more”.

Another “landmark” report. Let’s see if any of this comes up even once during the next three weeks of the Makerfield by-election. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I can't stop thinking about this story: "No modern American city has ever run out of water. But chances are rising that Corpus Christi could be the first." www.kut.org/energy-envir...

Elon identified that the toxic history might cause the candidate a problem, so dealt with it. Sanitising the individual comments wasn't really a viable option, full deep clean implemented. Nothing to see here.

Some of my climate media colleagues are suddenly hating on solar in rural areas without realizing it's the newest fossil fuel disinformation talking point aimed at getting landowners to stop leasing their land to solar developers. Y'all, we need solar EVERYWHERE.

This is the thing, the divide between the disciplines started out as useful cataloguing to make knowledge transmission more efficient but turned into an all consuming myth about the nature of knowledge and its use.

Turns out, if you stop tearing up the seabed, wildlife thrives: ten years after banning bottom trawl fishing, there are 3 times the number of sea creatures + double the number of species in the South Arran MPA, Scotland, than there were before the ban 👏🦪🐟 share.google/2M5WqP3CXwSH...

The news cycle now gets bored and jaded so quickly it is able to move on from 'there's about to be a self-inflicted global economic disaster of historic proportions' within a matter of days. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

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Currently, sewage treatment plants in England don't treat sewage enough times to remove all bacteria + meds. The EU is trying to introduce standards of sewage treatment high enough to remove these, but many member states object saying this will be too costly. youtu.be/zQQIrFMO5AU?...

Euronews reporting on under-investment in new antibiotics to prevent the rise of untreatable infections. At the same time, our inadequate sewage systems create ideal conditions to cultivate new resistant strains, as Leana reports, here, for the BBC: www.euronews.com/business/202...

“Those promoting the rush for hyperscale AI datacentres seem to be living in a parallel reality where the last 50 years of climate science hasn’t happened, and where we aren’t already experiencing the signs of climate breakdown.” www.theguardian.com/business/202...

"The total average shows people have never had it so good" latest

NEW – Factcheck: US and Iran are world’s only major emitters without net-zero targets | @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org w/ comment from @johnlang.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/PxQKIqG

I cannot believe this video griping about the 'atom bombs' metaphor for heat effects of the Box Elder data centre project while skipping breezily past how it involves NINE GIGAWATTS OF NEW FOSSIL GAS POWER There is truly no way to explain how bonkers this project is without also sounding bonkers

So much about this has me screaming into my motonormativity cushion. Why further subsidise all the wealthy people who drive? Why NOT subsidise the poorer people who don't drive?

The Religious Right is desperate these days to pretend that "Christian Nationalism" is (1) a recently-invented term and (2) a pejorative invented by their enemies, but neither of those claims is remotely true. Here's a short thread, but I'm sure other historians will have examples too.

Yesterday’s far-right rally had the energy of a networking convention for aspiring racist influencers. Everybody livestreaming, performing and acting like they were documenting the collapse of Rome instead of standing in the drizzle near a Pret. It was genuinely just a bit… cringe.

Bit weird. Last time we did this we were fighting the fuckers, not promoting them.

When meaningful restrictions are in place in MPAs, the results are clear: nature bounces back. Charities including @oceanauk.bsky.social argue bottom trawling shouldn't be allowed in any Marine 'Protected' Areas, + that oil + gas drilling in UK waters harms wildlife. share.google/3JgdJacLlpwT...

Oil + gas drilling is permitted in many Marine 'Protected' Areas in the UK, as illustrated in our Watershed Pollution Map, below. Bottom trawl fishing is allowed in many MPAs. All of which begs the question - what's 'protected' about a Marine Protected Area? share.google/LiNhOTjTO4hY... 1/4

Every year now, the pre-monsoon heat (the hottest time of year in South Asia with temperatures well over 40°C) starts earlier & lasts longer - due to human-induced climate change - exposing 1billion people to deadly heat. @wwattribution.bsky.social www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...

We've underestimated sea level rise (again) ▶️ youtu.be/A6eiYhyx084

To keep track of the rapidly growing field of attribution research, Carbon Brief has mapped every published study on how climate change has influenced extreme weather. Explore the interactive map here ⬇️ interactive.carbonbrief.org/attribution-...

'Don't swim' at 12 of 14 river bathing sites, as more locations announced Ah www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Oil pollution can cause terrible harm to wildlife. In seals, it can cause breathing conditions + damage to the nervous system. It affects seals' ability to regulate body heat, making them more vulnerable to starvation + hypothermia. Report by @oceanauk.bsky.social: uk.oceana.org/reports/sea-...

Labour's processes for changing leader are hopelessly, catastrophically unsuited to government. More than half of all prime ministers since 1945 have taken over between general elections. This is not an unusual procedure. So it really matters when parties screw this system up... 🧵

King Charles: 'An increasingly dangerous and volatile world threatens the United Kingdom...' Really striking to hear it stated so starkly, especially when set against the political backdrop of the past week.

"Government says climate litigation undermines business." Buddy, just wait till you find out what climate change does to business.

There is no way any British government should make any use of a company that opposes pluralism and believes it must help the state to "hunt its enemies".

Sing along at the back, lads: the system can always destroy anything and anyone that arises organically from the public, but it cannot create and sustain anything the public like or want. They could not do it if given one thousand years and infinite resources to try.

Research reveals how much harm regular, low level spills of oil + chemicals around pipelines + rigs can cause wildlife, including whales+ dolphins who can endure: - lung lesions - liver damage - reduced ability to produce offspring Report by @oceanauk.bsky.social uk.oceana.org/reports/sea-...

If the lobby journos invited to Morgan McSweeney’s secret wrecking campaign launch in 2018 had reported “there’s a new Labour wrecking campaign in town with shitloads of cash, sending terrifying-sounding vexatious horseshit to the Times”, then it would’ve exploded on the launchpad.

We just won a landmark case to protect one of Europe’s most important marine sanctuaries: the Dogger Bank. 💫 The court ruling sets a precedent for governments across Europe and sends a clear message: protected must mean protected.

It's not just big spills: Seabirds exposed to ongoing, lower levels of oil + chemical pollution near rigs + pipelines can endure: - lesions in their digestive tracts - harm to lungs, liver, thyroid - can be less able to fly or hunt Report by @oceanauk.bsky.social uk.oceana.org/reports/sea-...

Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain *needs* a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily *need* universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.

They “misstate” it by a factor of 5 But hey look, they wanna plant a few trees around the data centres so please turn your brains off and don’t ask too many questions www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

“It’s fantastic that so many people in Cardiff voted Green and chose hope over hate in this election.” Paul Rock after being elected to the Senedd in Caerdydd Ffynnon Taf.

The thing about Reform's success is this: whatever their political future, whether they have peaked or not, it is hard to express just how unpleasant the resurgence of their sentiments actually is. I grew up in Greater London in the 1990s, and a lot o that time was very grim. And it's back.

As with every easily avoidable disaster, there’s a great profusion of “Oh no everything is completely fucked” and absolutely zero “It was me, I fucked it, and here’s how I’m going to change my behaviour in future as a consequence”.

It took a two-year screaming all-channels hate campaign and a secret internal wrecking operation funded via illegal donations from a zillionaire, to hammer Sir Keir’s predecessor to a far better position than the one these geniuses achieved just by being themselves and doing what they think is good.