This week humans returned to the Moon - something I've waited my life to witness. But watching the Artemis II launch left me feeling strangely unmoved. I was looking forward to something, and when it arrived I realised I had changed. And so had the Earth. www.technosphere.earth/dont-fly-me-...

Nations can't reach climate goals without rethinking humanity’s relationship to the Earth, per a new paper out in @frontiersin.bsky.social. The authors say societies should adopt an Indigenous framework of interconnection. I report for @insideclimatenews.org: insideclimatenews.org/news/0904202...

More sustainable diets = mostly more plant foods and less meat, dairy, eggs and fish

In London, UK #ExtinctionRebellion stands in solidarity with the #StandUpMoanda campaign for Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) communities impacted by oil expansion and exploitation. #StandUpMuanda #PerencoOut #NotreTerreSansPetrole 1/3

Cliftonville (Kent) Council By-Election Result: 🌍 GRN: 38.8% (+26.7) ➡️ RFM: 33.1% (-7.0) 🌳 CON: 15.2% (-4.5) 🌹 LAB: 10.4% (-11.6) 🙋 Ind: 1.3% (New) 🔶 LDM: 1.2% (-1.9) No Ind (-3.0) as previous. Green GAIN from Reform UK. Changes w/ 2025.

Sailing for a #FossilFuelTreaty!⛵🌎 The Flotilla has departed from #SintMaarten toward #SantaMarta to push for a just transition. Join the global community at @wedonthavetime.bsky.social to follow their journey and the conference. Be part of the change 👇 app.wedonthavetime.org/posts/ca6f8e...

The focus on jury trials is a distraction. The root causes of the court backlog are historic underinvestment and systematic inefficiencies, writes Labour MP @cateccles.bsky.social

🗳️ The local elections are weeks away—and we need to elect candidates who stand up for climate and nature. 📝 By 20 April: Register to vote 📨 By 21 April (5pm): Apply for a postal vote 🆔 By 28 April (5pm): Apply for a proxy vote or free Voter ID ➡️ 7 May: Elections ✅ Register, sort your ID, and vote!

If we push the #AMOC ocean current to collapse, experts warn that the UK will become largely unfit for agriculture. Just let that sink in. This new data calls for a new plan. It's no good working to 'net zero by 2050' devised nearly 20 years ago, before policymakers even knew of this threat.

The Atlantic’s “conveyor belt” is slowing. New observations from 16.5°–42.5°N show a two-decade, basin-wide decline in deep western overturning, the first robust observational evidence that the AMOC is weakening, confirming long-standing model predictions. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Banks have allocated over $40 billion to companies developing new gas plants, locking Europe into more fossil fuel dependence. The worst offenders ⬇️ Barclays BNP Paribas Santander Banks: stop funding gas. Invest in renewables for affordable energy & cleaner air. reclaimfinance.org/site/en/2026...

NEW: A major supplier of ‘green’ airline fuel to the UK has sourced beef fat linked to illegal Amazon deforestation Our new investigation 🐄 🌳 ✈️: unearthed.greenpeace.org/2026/04/10/u...

"We only grow 62% of what we consume. We import 83% of the dreadfully low amount of fruit we consume. Rebuilding a regional horticulture sector cd be the real growth the Treasury wants... Food insecurity is now reaching these shores… The urgency of this moment must not be ducked by the government."

"Climate science is not innately politically charged, whatever the administration says. ... It was our job to study the laws of physics, which remain true no matter who’s in power." - Kate Marvel, Sr. Scientist, Project Drawdown 📰 Full article in the @newyorktimes: nyti.ms/4tBNtEf

We grow enough food to feed the world — so why are 733 million people still going hungry? A new study co-authored by Project Drawdown scientists finds that more than half of global crop calories never reach a human plate, diverted instead to livestock feed and biofuels. 🌽 🔗 https://bit.ly/4vch2h4

Ed Miliband hold firm! North sea oil and gas drilling won’t help anyone other than Nigel Farage | Zoe Williams

Campaigners demand action to break UK’s ‘addiction’ to herbicides

Climate change has far-reaching impacts on society and our environment. Latest report on birds by @climatecentral.org: www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt... 🐦 "Shorter winters, spring warming, and earlier first spring leaves can disrupt the annual cues that birds rely on to begin their migrations"

Why Greenpeace is sending a ship to help the Global Sumud Flotilla sail to Gaza www.greenpeace.org/internationa...

Insurance is one of the systems pressure points. Our workshops are about bringing people together, joining things up, and getting into action. If it works, people don’t just leave informed, they get involved. We're launching 4 workshops about bringing people together and getting into action.

EARTH DAY LONDON 22 April 10:30 Assemble at Trafalgar Square, march to Parliament Square Then walking meditation, sacred ceremony, rally, & shared plant-based lunch With XR UK, Fossil Free London, FoE, Green Party, Greenpeace, Red Rebels, Sacred Earth Activists, Stay Grounded & many more!

On June 17th, I'm interviewing one of the greatest thinkers of our time, Jeremy Lent, about all the big stuff. In London. Do please come: www.thersa.org/events/2026/...

The combination of a very strong #ElNiño - which should reduce harvests across Asia, Australia, Africa, and parts of the Americas - with soaring fertilizer and fuel prices, owing to the ongoing closure of the Strait of #Hormuz, could make for a devastating year of food shortages and social unrest.

This could be the UK too, if Labour sorted itself out. Instead, it's gambled heavily on the hydrogen and carbon capture and storage boondoggles, with a bit of Drax thrown in. Spain went all out on renewables after Russia attacked Ukraine. It has Europe's cheapest electricity.

The gov is considering banning or limiting social media for under 16s - but is banning the answer? Or just leaving the platforms to billionaires? Under 30? @justtreatment.org are bringing young people together in London on 30 April to discuss - sign up 👇🏽 actionnetwork.org/events/beyon...

These updates have in turn bumped up my annual projection for 2026 temperatures to 1.53C (±0.11C), which puts it on track to be somewhere between the 1st and 4th warmest year on record, with a best estimate of second warmest:

Wonderful description from @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social of the North Sea as ‘the oil bed equivalent of the last people standing when the nightclub closes’. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Your frequent reminder that Farage wants to frack the UK - in multiple ways - and that doing so won’t make a blind bit of difference to energy bills It would, however, make us more dependent on volatile fossil fuels, make the climate crisis worse & industrialise the countryside Don’t vote Reform

Measurements by buoys at four latitudes in the western Atlantic provide the strongest evidence yet that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation is weakening

New study finds the "canary in the coal mine" for the #AMOC: a consistent decline of the western overturning circulation, down from 20 to 15 Sv during 2004-2023 at 26° N. 🌊 AMOC "could be at or near a critical tipping point, potentially leading to its collapse". www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

EVERYONE DAY - THIS SATURDAY Thousands will show up in Trafalgar Square at 1pm this Saturday, April 11th, to oppose the Home Secretary’s unlawful ban on Palestine Action. Will you join them to defend our rights and freedoms in the UK? Everyone counts. www.EveryoneDay.uk

Not long to go till 'Resisting Big Tech Empires', our conference in London on Saturday 25 April! Join us to hear from incredible speakers including Cory Doctorow on how we can build resistance against Big Tech. Free tickets - get them before they're gone: www.globaljustice.org.uk/event/resist...

Only half the calories that croplands produce are available for human consumption. A new study in Environmental Research: Food Systems found the inefficiency is baked into the system — with many crops being grown to feed livestock and vehicles rather than people. Read more 👉 https://bit.ly/4c391U6

World held hostage by reliance on fossil fuels, Christiana Figueres warns – and climate health impacts are ‘mother of all injustices’ www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...

Summary of latest London recycling rates from CPRE London: www.cprelondon.org.uk/news/new-dat... Pretty poor from London boroughs but not seen anything on this as an issue in borough elections this year. In the past, opposition parties have used this as a proxy for quality of council management.

Global super-rich may have hidden $3.55tn from tax officials. 0.1% of households have more wealth than the poorest half of the global population. Govts funded by the super rich, don't shut down tax havens and the tax abuse industry or levy wealth tax. HMRC goes easy on wealthy individuals.

Tomorrow night! Join us, @southwarkls.bsky.social, @solveschoolrun.bsky.social, @farefreelondon.bsky.social and Southwark Cyclists at the #Southwark transport hustings, ahead of the local elections. Come and hear from candidates about their vision for travel in Southwark over the next 4 years.

“At a moment when science is unequivocal about the need for a rapid transition away from fossil fuels, new oil exploration by a historic emitter is as contradictory as it is regressive. It also risks setting a dangerous precedent for other countries to follow” www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🧪

Flights between Newquay & London have been axed due to fuel shortages. The real story is that flights between Newquay & London even EXIST. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In case anyone was lying awake at night wondering if the oil executives were going to be alright during this conflict: share.google/IxdrUkDYHiYt...

Upcoming in #Woking. A screening of The Earth’s Greatest Enemy, a film which “challenges audiences to re-think the hidden costs of a global military empire and its planetary consequences.” The US military is the largest institutional consumer of fossil fuels in the world.

youtu.be/hLQbPCvV8W8?... @abbymartin0.bsky.social has a point, don't you think?

“Right now, the biosphere is great. It’s taking out about ½ of human-emitted carbon dioxide. Which is awesome! Thank you, plants, trees, plankton. But there’s no guarantee that’s going to continue into the future, because it’s incredibly hard to take CO2 out of the atmosphere when you’re on fire.”

Scary article and scary quote: "Trump had previously shown respect for the devastating consequences of nuclear use, but [the nuclear weapons expert] added: 'I don’t know how strong that respect is when he is losing the war and his mind at the same time.'" www.theguardian.com/law/2026/apr...

RAF Lakenheath shut down by protesters at both gates The action comes amidst growing public backlash over the use of RAF Lakenheath to facilitate illegal US-Israeli bombardment of Iran www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2026...

An interactive map to help you find a screening near you of our new film hosted by @chrisgpackham.bsky.social… The People’s Emergency Briefing, launching tomorrow. www.nebriefing.org/screening-map #PEBuk #NationalEmergencyBriefing

🔥 Retour à chaud de la marche pour un Printemps Bruyant sur #Paris 🌺 🐦‍⬛ Pour que le Vivant ne se laisse plus étouffer par les pesticides ☠️ #PrintempsBruyant #StopPesticides

The biggest problem with the food system is that it is no longer a *food* system. More than half the calories we grow on croplands aren't food; they're lost in inefficient feedlots or to biofuels. Project Drawdown scientists highlight this disturbing trend: sentientmedia.org/more-crops-g...

Almost everyone understands that the current global #OilAndGas crisis shows the urgent need to transition to renewable energy. But Reform UK's Scottish Manifesto pledges to scrap all Scottish Govt net zero targets & fast track planning for new fossil fuel projects, including open cast coal mining🤡🤑

The Artemis programme will cost £73 billion to fly to the Moon and back. 🚀 Launched from Florida coastline that climate change is actively drowning. 🚀 Cheered on by Trump whose Mar-a-Lago property will end up under water. We don’t need to escape this planet. We need to save it.