#ExtinctionRebellion #Sheffield left a notice at Sheffield University @sheffielduni.bsky.social who are in a CCS (Carbon Capture and Storage) research partnership with #DRAX @xrsheffield.bsky.social #ABetterWorldIsPossible #DoDisturb

Sometimes fiction is better at getting the climate breakdown message across than strings of facts and figures Here is one of my short stories - THE WALL - published in Emerging Worlds just over a year ago emergingworlds.co.uk/2024/02/08/t...

Tell the Truth Sheffield, Review of 2025 by Graham Wroe As 2025 draws to a close, it's good to review what TelltheTruthSheffield.org has achieved in the last 12 months. It's been a year of steady growth for the blog, with increasing numbers of subscribers (if you aren't one yet, please click the…

It's deeply immoral for people to be help in prison for so long without trial. Release the hunger strikers on bail now. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...

BREAKING: Major Insurers drop Elbit Systems Following a sustained direct action campaign, initiated by Palestine Action before the group was proscribed, Allianz and Aviva no longer insure Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer. Direct Action gets results. 🧵1/4

Once in Royal David's City youtu.be/3xA-tpRSQJo?...

Here's our Angler Fish raising awareness about our Rescue our Rivers campaign.

How a Palestine Action hunger striker was left on her cell floor Qesser Zuhrah was experiencing worsening chest pains and was told by a nurse ‘you don’t decide if you go to hospital, I do' www.middleeasteye.net/news/can-you...

I’m accused of being a doomsayer! I have replied as follows to a letter in the Yorkshire Post accusing me of being a doomsayer. Dear Editor Neil Bryce accuses me of being a doomsayer (Yorkshire Post 13/12/25). My motivation for writing about climate change is not to frighten people, but to do the…

The climate emergency IS a health emergency and it’s about time we started treating it as one. by Dr Karine Knor In 2019, supported by all Parties, the Government declared ‘a climate and ecological ’emergency’. But any ‘emergency’ response has been woefully inadequate. When we compare this to the…

Looks like it could be another devastating wildfire season in Oz Wildfires are one of the signature hazards of climate breakdown However they start, there is nothing natural about these any longer as heat and drought hugely amplify impacts www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The media are completely failing in their duty to report the hunger strikes.

Please sign this open letter.

Typical fossil fuel company taking as long as possible to clear up its mess.

Both are worth reading!

Unfortunately far too many.

Children’s Picture Book Review by Darcy Whaite We are approaching the season of winter festivities and gift-giving, a time when grown-ups often enjoy gifting picture-books to the youngest members of our circle. I have been looking at the best of this year’s crop for those relevant to the difficult…

17 people arrested in Sheffield for holding a placard. News from Sheffield Defend our Juries 29th November was the United Nations International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people since 1977. A rally was held in Tudor Square to mark the occasion on Saturday, and Sheffield and Rotherham…

'These findings “underscore the need for stricter journal policies to screen and retract ghostwritten papers, in order to safeguard science integrity, as well as public health and safety,” Kaurov and @naomioreskes.bsky.social wrote'

UN compares UK’s Palestine Action ban with human rights restrictions in Russia UN special rapporteur on human rights says the ban is ‘an unnecessary and disproportionate restriction’ on fundamental human rights www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home... Lift The Ban: wedonotcomply.org

Santa Claus has been arrested under the Terrorism Act in Norwich after it turns out Santa oppo-ho-ho-ses genocide and supports Palestine Action. These four officers will be having their names checked twice this year. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action. wedonotcomply.org

Sign the letter ✍️ NOW!! www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-...

The Government is right now deciding whether to approve Rosebank. Listen to find out more It’s not too later to ask your MP to let the government know how much people want them to make the right decision to stop #rosebank for good Visit www.stopcambo.org.uk #StopRosebank

Three of the five worst harvests on record in the UK have occurred since 2020, exposing the link between extreme weather and climate breakdown. #NoFoodNoFuture www.farminguk.com/news/drought...

Want to kill billions of people & render most of the planet uninhabitable for millennia? Then why not try capitalism!

COP 30 leaves us on track to a totally uninhabitable planet. As expected, COP 30 was another massive let-down. Every year I try to tell myself, perhaps this year will be different, but after 29 failed COPs I really shouldn't be surprised that we've had another one. It's time to completely change…

Well done Stop Rosebank www.thestar.co.uk/community/st...

Two more speeches from Sheffield's Climate Justice march on Saturday.

Here are the first 3 speeches from Sheffield's Global Day of Action for Climate Justice. 1/4

Levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere soared by a record amount in 2024. We’ve hit another high. Storm Amy hit harder than expected, 42,000 homes had no power. So why are we still stepping away from climate commitments? When those in power fail to act, we must stand and be counted.

"In the last three decades, we’ve lost 10% of arable lands. By 2050, the projection is that we are likely to lose another 8-10% of land" - Nuzhat Jabin, Christian Aid’s Country Director in Bangladesh #Bangladesh 🇧🇩 #ClimateEmergency

Sheffield March for Palestine calls for Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions. Yesterday's Sheffield March for Palestine passed two shops in particular that protesters say are complicit in Genocide. Lidl on High Street and Marks and Spencer on Fargate. The owner of Lidl is a Zionist and a huge…

"Viewpoint diversity" about whether human activity is warming the planet, or whether vaccines work, is like "viewpoint diversity" about whether the sky is blue or whether the Earth is round. It falls outside the range of good faith scientific and academic discourse. #ScienceUnderSiege

Active Hope by Rosalind Dean Active Hope is a free on-line training course designed for those who are deeply troubled - even despairing - about the state of the world.  The course starts with a “Problemometer” which asks people to rate the seriousness of our world situation on a scale of 1 to 10. …

Forget Halloween, this is the stuff of nightmares. Off the chart.

Biodiversity Loss and Shifting Baseline Syndrome By Darcy White Over the course of my life, I’ve had several stark wakeup calls about the profound loss of biodiversity we are facing. One was about 25 years ago whilst on holiday on the remote Llyn Peninsular in north Wales. Another was this summer…

China installed more than twice as much solar capacity in the first half of 2025 as the rest of the world combined.

Make Them Pay and Palestine protests at the weekend. In a busy weekend for protests the Make Them Pay demo in London saw thousands take to the streets to demand the Government Tax the super-rich Protect workers, not billionaires Make polluters pay Make Them Pay is supported by more than 50…

The #mega-rich are treating the planet like their personal playground:
🤑 dodging taxes 💨 mega-polluting our planet 📈 driving up prices 🏘️ buying up houses 🏥 crumbling the #NHS #BILLIONAIRES EMIT MORE CARBON POLLUTION IN UNDER 3 HOURS THAN THE AVERAGE BRIT DOES IN A LIFETIME

NEW: Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN commission of inquiry Commission’s 72-page legal analysis cites examples including scale of killings, aid blockages and forced displacement www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s... The UK government is complicit. wedonotcomply.org

Boycott AIG! youtu.be/qNJ646BqVng

Aurora joining with 200 people who joined at Equinor, Norway’s largest refinery. ‌@extinctionrebellion.no have created the largest action in Norwegian history. Only when the last tree has been cut down, the last fish been caught, and the last stream poisoned, will we realise we cannot eat money.

This is about survival. Our future depends on dismantling the violent and exploitative systems wrecking our planet. Insures sell us protection while secretly financing harm. Insure Our Survival are targeting AXA and AIG two insurers responsible, 8th-22nd September. 💗We will take back the power.

Feeling overwhelmed by the endless waves of bad news? That’s not an accident, it’s a tactic! Authoritarians flood us with chaos to wear us down. They want us to stop paying attention. But we can fight back. 💥 Resistance isn’t always loud. 🌿 Softness isn’t surrender, it’s strategy.

Elon Musk addresses over 100,000 fascists in London. What is happening to our country?

"My school saves thousands of pounds every year from those solar panels." The TUC directly takes on Reform, a party funded by the fossil fuel Industry. Posted on IG by tradesunioncongress

Average sea ice thickness across the #Arctic Ocean dropped to a record low for the month of August. Current conditions show higher extent, but very thin ice to end the summer warm season. More at zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i.... Data simulated by PIOMAS.

Spanish schools to teach pupils how to cope with climate crisis disasters: Children as young as three will have lessons on wildfires and flooding under 10-point emergency response plan Spanish children will be taught how to respond to floods, wildfires, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions ...

Mourning the dead children of Gaza THE names of around 18,500 children who have all been killed in Gaza by Israel’s onslaught are being be read out loud at Sheffield Train Station today, Friday, September 5, 2025, in an event predicted to take at least 18 hours. Gaza-born Sheffield resident…