Typhoon Kalmaegi left a trail of death and devastation as it tore through the central Philippines this week, reducing entire neighborhoods to rubble and displacing tens of thousands of people. https://cnn.it/47FIZD5

Worrying reports of bird flu (avian influenza) are coming in, including an outbreak in Whooper Swans in the Fens. Other waterbirds are also being affected, and cases are rising. 📷 Sick Whooper Swan by Kane Brides #UKBirding #BirdingWales #BirdingScotland

That's paying Musk 9 times the total turnover of Tesla in 2024 (which was 1% higher than that in 2023). Sounds a bit over the top. It's also more than $100 for every person on earth. The combined result of the greediness of Musk and the craziness of Tesla's shareholders.

A) No one is worth $87.8 billion (€76 billion) per year. B) Musk could recruit and equip a very large private army with that kind of money.

Q: There is this significant buildup of military forces in the region. There are public threats by Trump to launch attacks. How should Americans interpret that? Pentagon spokeswoman: This is historic. We're used to seeing these aircraft in the Middle East, not necessarily in our backyard.

Nov 2 Russian subsea sabotage/intel vessel YANTAR was allegedly operating just off the Netherland coast, among a good chunk of European critical infrastructure. The ship is specialized in subsea missions and ran by highly secretive GUGI, Main Directorate of Deep-Sea Research.

I would sooner cut my own legs off than buy anything Tesla.

“It is better to build resilience now than retrofit under fire,” argues Mauritz Kop.

This is exactly it 👇 The standard analytical lenses don't do it. And this applies much more broadly than to Trump. We need to innovate new frameworks and lenses. Exciting times for academics and practitioners alike.

Swiss-based trading house Gunvor said it was withdrawing its offer to buy the international assets of Russia's largest private oil firm after the U.S. said it would "never" approve the deal.

A metal once used primarily as a coloring agent in ceramics is now a sought-after commodity for the U.S. military, which wants to add up to $500 million worth of cobalt to defense stockpiles.

the clip of this cuts into the SMPTE color bars and tone just as the staffers are trying to shoo off the photogs and Trump is just standing there without a single active thought in his brain

" #China Tightens the Screws on Key Metals After Rare Earth Truce With #Trump" - #REE #REM oilprice.com/Energy/Energ...

From the politician (one of many) who has done b*gger all whilst in office to harness Ireland's massively abundant wind and wave resources to power not only Ireland but the entire NW of Europe. More #COP30 horse shit.

❗️🇧🇬Bulgaria plans to nationalize and then sell the 🇷🇺Russian oil refinery LUKOIL Neftochim Burgas

A good use of money, hopefully. And not just spitting on the fire.

When even harsh penalties, from mass arbitrary detentions to criminal charges, couldn’t stop Georgians from blocking Rustaveli Avenue night after night, the regime has now decided to physically flood the street with an unprecedented number of police officers. #GeorgiaProtests

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

it's the same picture

"Man down! Man down!" ("Damn. It's the wrong man down.")

Make America Healthy Again

The US government must be punished for no attendance. #COP30

And things are getting heated at the conference already. The UN secretary general said that missing the 1.5 degree limit on climate change is a "moral failure and deadly negligence."

Just a quick look at today's oil & gas industry news goes to show that fossil fuels exploration and production is NOT in decline. That should be the ONLY focus of #COP30. Until we cease ALL new oil & gas projects, discussion of everything else is horse shit.

ConocoPhillips' Q3 2025 earnings declined to $1.7 billion due to lower commodity prices, but the company increased production and reduced operating costs, raising its dividend by 8%. #COP30

Arcius Energy, an affiliate of the UK’s BP and the UAE’s ADNOC, has signed a deal with several partners enabling it to get exploration rights in a concession in the Mediterranean Sea offshore Egypt. #COP30

The Bul Hanine oil & gas project is crucial to Qatar’s strategy of maintaining and expanding production at the nation’s largest offshore oilfield. #COP30

Libya's National Oil Corporation announced the discovery of oil in the Ghaddams basin. #COP30 www.rigzone.com/news/libya_n...

Exxon Mobil has signed a deal to explore for natural gas offshore Greece, increasing the U.S. presence in the eastern Mediterranean just as the Trump administration seeks to replace Russian energy flows into Europe. #COP30 www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Data centre related carbon emissions are a real problem. #COP30 energynow.com/2025/11/hsbc...

Doom scrolling: How Elon Musk is boosting the British right

🌊 Deep-sea mining discharge can disrupt midwater food webs Isotope data show >6 µm natural particles fuel zooplankton diets, but mining adds inert particles of the same size, diluting nutrition and triggering bottom-up impacts that reach predators Just say no www.nature.com/articles/s41...

BREAKING 🚨: @zackpolanski.bsky.social has joined 250+ organisations calling on Keir Starmer to reject the controversial Rosebank oil field. Rosebank is a defining test of this government’s credibility on climate change. They must reject this disaster project.

After years of political failure, the world can still rescue 1.5°C – if countries pursue the “highest possible ambition”, starting now. New report from Climate Analytics and @pik-potsdam.bsky.social shows how it’s possible. Read more: climateanalytics.org/publications...

South Wales this morning. More rain ahead. We're nowhere near building landscape resilience to meet the new-normal, let alone what's coming.

Typhoon Kalmaegi made landfall in Vietnam's already storm-battered central belt today, where thousands have been evacuated from areas in the path of one of the world's deadliest cyclones this year

Ahead of the climate summit, concern about the capacity of Europe's forests, degraded by wildfires and droughts, to absorb CO2 emissions was a key reason European Union governments agreed to water down their new 2040 emissions-cutting goal this week reut.rs/3LwANxv

424.33 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 05-Nov-2025 keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

Where's Flash Gordon when you need him? In this case to deal with Emperor Bling the Tasteless, ruler of the planet Maga.

Oh my god listen to him he is dying at the microphone this is like a comedy act he's the least healthy person on the planet he's fucking WHEEZING into the mic

Starmer: "Our mission is to make energy a source not of vulnerability but of strength, an engine to bring down household bills and end our exposure to volatile fossil fuels and dictators like Putin"

Guterres: "In 2024 investors put $800 billion more into clean energy than fossil fuels. The investment is there. What is still missing is political courage. Fossil fuels still command vast subsidies, taxpayers' money. Fossil fuel companies spend billions on lobbying and obstructing progress."

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres: "If we act now at speed and scale we can make overshoot [of 1.5C] as small, short and safe as possible and bring temperatures back below 1.5C by the end of the century." "To do that, we need to accelerate the phase out of fossil fuels, slash methane, ..."

The #COP30 world leaders summit is about to start, and on this thread I'll be tracking how world leaders address energy transition (specifically fossil fuels) in their speeches. Let's go!

Trump administration officials told lawmakers on Wednesday that the US is not currently planning to launch strikes inside Venezuela and doesn’t have a legal justification that would support attacks against any land targets right now, sources say. https://cnn.it/49ALXv9

UN chief Antonio Guterres says the inability to limit the rise in global temperatures is a 'moral failure'.

Producing too much dirt? No problem. Sweep it under the carpet. And keep on producing dirt. That's the way to be "dirt neutral" by 2045. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Rep. Brian Mast says Trump is developing "concepts of operations" for Venezuela

1.5°C still achievable – if the world pursues ‘highest possible ambition’. #ParisAgreement #ClimateAction @climateanalytics.org www.csofutures.com/news/1-5degc...

Dropped everything to publish this new op-ed to @mongabay.com by former President of Ireland, Mary Robinson She calls Bill Gates' new essay on #climatechange dangerous & false “The great challenge of our time is to build a future where every person can thrive on a healthy planet,” Robinson argues: