This year has been brutal for the #climate movement. Rollbacks, repression, & outright denial, especially in the US, have made progress feel fragile & uneven. Which is exactly why it matters to pause & look back at what did move forward in 2025. Here are 12 real wins 🏆, one for each month 🧵⬇️

This must be better than just building dams and reservoirs? mar-1.itrcweb.org/introduction...

Excitement over Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR), while often justified, should also be tempered by acknowledgment of MAR’s limitations. This article identifies policy changes that can help MAR succeed. #cawater legal-planet.org/2025/11/18/t...

the existential threat of groundwater depletion is even more urgent during this AI boom and increased lithium mining to fuel EV batteries. this july 2025 story by @propublica.org explains what's at stake if we continue pulling from aquifers at current rates. www.propublica.org/article/wate...

One of the major dams feeding the Iranian capital's water has reached the dead storage level and unless significant rainfall arrives in the upper catchment this month, even limited withdrawals will soon become impossible. Bne IntelliNews #Iran #Drought #WaterCrisis #KarajDam #AmirKabirDam

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Good to have NPAP’s Jake White and @natreswales.bsky.social Duncan Dumbreck introducing NRW River Restoration Seminar delegates to the river restoration & peatland work in the Teifi catchment yesterday. This followed a day of focusing on catchment-scale working. #4AfonLife #4RiversLife

The planetary boundaries framework highlights the rising risks from human pressure on nine critical global processes that regulate the stability and resilience of the Earth. Seven Crossed.

The River South Esk Catchment Partnership’s work to "re-wiggle" a historically straightened 250m stretch of the March Burn at Glen Clova re-meandered and return the surrounding land to a more natural state has been completed https://orlo.uk/3DZqB

📗 Our #CRC1502 most-cited series continues with Post #4 (46 citations): Rahmati et al., Reviews of Geophysics (2024) — “Soil Moisture Memory: State-Of-The-Art and the Way Forward”, on how soils “remember” wet/dry #extremes and shape land–climate #feedbacks. #SoilMoisture 📝 doi.org/10.1029/2023...

🌊 Wetlands regulate the planet’s hydrological rhythm, storing & releasing water in ways that sustain ecosystems. To meet global climate goals, wetlands must move from the margins of discussion to the centre of action. Details: www.ramsar.org/news/cop30-e... #WetlandsWednesday #COP30

Man-made disasters and their long-lasting impact on 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿, human health and the environment. Pollution is not the only disaster that can affect groundwater. Subsidence because of over-extraction is a worldwide phenomenon. Let's take a look at Beijing. 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗕𝗲𝗶𝗷𝗶𝗻𝗴 (𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮)

...cont. "Beaver dams and ponds widen water courses and raise water tables to irrigate larger, lusher, more diverse and productive riparian habitats and gallery forests." Just one of our website stories incl. beavers & assisted natural regeneration: rediscoveringthegoldenstate.com/fire-in-the-...

YES! An experiment run by the non-profit Tree People has shown that landscaping designed to slow rainfall down so it can be absorbed into the ground, rain barrels, and water catchment basins created in individual cities can stop flooding and increase rain replenishing vital underground water tables!

Feargal Sharkey "Bucks chalk streams have seen over 24hours of sewage discharged into them by Thames Water in a week." So how's all that banning bonuses, sending executives to jail bulls*t working out I wonder?

Is this the same Thames Water that was fined by the regulator for breaking dividend payment rules? www.ofwat.gov.uk/ofwat-finds-...

Probe announced by Thames Water after 1,000 fish die in pond #Oxon #Oxfordshire 🔗: https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/...

WTF? "...plan would see 25% of debt written off, > £4bn of new cash injected, but requires years of leniency on fines for pollution incidents. If Thames Water collapses into administration, those debts could be written off by a greater amount" Why not let it collapse?? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Huh! Try being a customer.

Billionaire Pears family who own Castle Water bought a village in Cornwall Now they want to buy Thames Water's 16 million so-called "customers" NOT FOR SALE Government must bring Thames Water into special administration and PERMANENT PUBLIC OWNERSHIP www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Thames Water bidder offering £1bn extra cash injection. 30%+ of the customer bill covers interest payments. Any private owner would want profit, dividends, sewage dumping will continue, customers will be fleeced. Must end the profit motive. Nationalise water industry.

‘The interests of the British public’… It’s perhaps worth bearing in mind that major shareholders in Thames Water are the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and the China Investment Corporation..

The leader of Vale of White Horse District Council has demanded government intervention over escalating reservoir costs. In a letter to the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Cllr Bethia Thomas requested a meeting & public inquiry. www.southandvale.gov.uk/app/uploads/...

The Labour Gov could bring Thames Water back into public ownership. Instead Castle Water is bidding for it: Castle Water is backed by the Pears Family, a billionaire property group, and owned by Tory treasurer and mega-donor Graham Edwards. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Follow the money .....

Struggling to imagine what Trees on your farm will look like? These factsheets help explain the benefits & differences between 6 different #Agroforestry systems (suitable for all habitats): 🌳Hedgerows 🌳Shelterbelts 🌳Alley planting 🌳Silvoarable 🌳In-field trees 🌳Riparian planting ⬇️

Our food systems are on the brink. Over a 100 orgs call on govts at #COP30: ❌ Move away from Big Ag ❌ Stop methane-counting tricks that let Big Meat and Dairy off the hook ✅ Transition to #Agroecology Join 👉 reimaginefoodsystems.org #StopBigAg #AgAmbition

And the rest of the climate crisis is mostly the responsibility of industrial farming – especially where it destroys forests and other natural areas to expand plantations and ranches Industrial farming is pushing nature and human rights to the brink, and they lobby to keep doing it #COP30

#StopFactoryFarming 🐄🥛🐖🥓🦃🐔🐣🥚 #stopanimalcruelty 🐮🐷🐗🐑🐭🐰🐔🦊🦃🐥 #BanFarmChemicals 🚱 #savepollinators 🐝🦇🐜🪲🦗🦟 #StopSoilDegridation 🌿🦠🌱🪱🍀🪳 #SaveOurFarmlandWildlife 🦌🐁🐇🐿🦫🦔🦇🦡🐦🕊🦅🦆🦢🦉🪿🐌🦋🐛🐜🐝🪲🐞 #regenerativefarming 🌱🐄🌲🐖🌳🐑🌾🐐🌿🐇☘️🐿🍀🦫🌻🦔🌼🦇🌱🐝🌳🐞🌾🦦🌿🦡☘️🐓🍀🦅🍁🦉 #StopFarmPollution 💩🐮💩🐷💩🐔💩 #ClimateActionNow 🚨 #COP30 🚨🙈⏰️🙉📣🙊

🌍🔥 #StopFalseSolutions #LaViaCampesina #COP30Alert La Via Campesina #COP30 Manifesto: LAND AND RIGHTS FOR THOSE WHO COOL THE PLANET 👉 viacampesina.org/en/2025/10/c... #PeasantAgroecology achieves #ClimateJustice & #SocialJustice #PeasantAEachievesCJ #PeasantsRightsNOW #UNDROP #FoodSovereigntyNOW

As EU ministers meet to discuss food security, our message is clear: redirecting feed crops like soy & wheat to people could feed 2 billion more every year🌱 Our #FoodnotFeed report shows it’s time to rethink the system - to feed people not factory farms: bit.ly/3M0n3eE

More than 500 farmers, victims of pesticides, local residents, scientists and supporters shut down a BASF pesticide production site in Normandie 🇫🇷 - a corporation that is a champion in manufacturing pesticides banned in Europe. More about this toxic export trade 👉 www.publiceye.ch/en/topics/pe...

Three ways the desert grows back – Andrew Millison #permaculture #regeneration #reforestation

With #FossilFuel lobbyists obstructing #ClimateAction at #COP30, delegates need to know: #Agrichemicals are driving #ClimateChange. See PAN's new briefing on #GHGemissions from #pesticides. #Agroecology = #ClimateSolution @pesticideaction.bsky.social @corporateeurope.org @futureoffood.bsky.social

#LaViaCampesina Campaign Against Agrotoxics and For Life https://viacampesina.org/en/campaigns/campaign-against-agrotoxics 💢 It is possible to produce food without agrotoxics ! 🌱 Peasant Agroecology is the way to protect our health, soil, air, water and […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

The United Nations Food Systems Summit highlights the role of UTT's Agroecological Colonies in Argentina ->Noticias Ambientales | #food system #sustainable agriculture | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai

Discover how #trees, water management, and farmer-led innovation come together across DE, BE, and the NL💧 🌱 #AFaktive shows how agroforestry systems can protect against #floods, generate products for new value chains, and support local #farming communities. 🧑‍🌾👩‍🌾 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwvC...

Fine, but at what cost to the health of the oysters?

“Is this government science-led or not?” Powerful stuff from Ariane Burgess yesterday, speaking in the Scottish Parliament. At the debate on Supporting Scotland’s Fishing Industry, the Highlands and Islands MSP made the case for sustainable decision-making over the future of Scotland's fisheries ⬇️🐟

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Did you know multi-million pound fishing companies are overfishing UK waters? Leaving nothing for more sustainable small-scale local fishermen. The UK government has total control over how many fish are caught and who gets to catch them. They’re choosing corporate greed over our national heritage.

🌱 “This year, the Pantanal community will be here together as a clear reminder of how vital the Pantanal and other wetlands are for climate stability.” At COP30, we are working with the Pantanal delegation, calling for wetlands and Indigenous leadership to be placed at the heart of climate action.

"The impact was dramatic. Water use fell by more than 55% in under two years, from 1.2 billion liters per day to about 500 million.When rains finally returned in 2018, the reservoirs refilled. But the deeper lesson endured: transparent, collective action can shift behavior on a massive scale"

Help make the industry clean up its act: 📝 Leave reviews calling out the environmental harm these products cause 📧 Email your supermarket or retailer 📣 Write to your MP and demand faster protections for our rivers. @sussex.ac.uk

"Landowners have locked the public out, cutting off access to these magical places"

Can marinelife recover from climate extremes? Dr Katie Smith is helping to uncover the answers. “We're looking at the extreme warming over the last couple of years… Even the last 12 months of really, really hot temperatures - there have been huge impacts to fisheries and losses of species .”

These increasingly intense heatwaves push marine ecosystems to their limits. These findings are vital to COP30’s focus on Blue Resilience and Adaptation, helping coastal industries and conservation managers prepare for a warmer, more variable ocean. 🔗 www.mba.ac.uk/ocean-under-... #COP30

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145 MEPs tabled a motion to refer the EU-Mercosur deal to the Court of Justice of the EU The EPP wants to block that motion at a key meeting TONIGHT Why? If the deal is legal, let the courts say so What’s the EPP afraid of? Is it because they think the court will find an issue? #StopEUMercosur

🚫 For years, wet wipes have clogged sewers, fuelled fatbergs & choked our rivers. Removing plastic wipes from shelves is progress — but a partial ban won’t fix the problem. Plastic or not, wet wipes don’t belong in our waterways. 🗑️Bin the wipes; protect our rivers! #RescueBritainsRivers