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...

NEW: Solar plus batteries cheaper than gas. “A new report finds that 24/7 ‘firm’ clean energy is cheaper than coal & gas in many parts of the world. The Iran War may catalyze faster adoption.” It’s just really dumb not to lean in on renewables. Unless your personal profit requires oil dependency…

As the gov't accelerates the switch to renewables, campaigners call on ministers to act now to conserve remaining oil. @dougparr.bsky.social argues "lowering speed limits + banning private jets + short-haul flights would...avoid much more painful decisions later": share.google/K7eWdAreuqEW...

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

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...

Analysis by @oceanauk.bsky.social finds oil + chemical spills at sea occur much more frequently than officially reported. share.google/dWXSlNVpHdfY... 3/4

They discuss the harm this can cause wildlife in their Sea Slick report: uk.oceana.org/reports/sea-... 4/4

Energy Independence Bill aims to: - speed up rollout of measures such as heat pumps + insulation for people's homes, to shield households from spiralling energy costs driven by the Iran war - build large scale infrastructure projects + deploy renewable power share.google/BJLxMCFCtVUu...

🚨 Annual Report Highlight! In 2025, IPEN’s work helped deliver progress on toxic chemicals through coordinated action across our global network. 🔜 More highlights coming soon. 📄 Read more: https://ipen.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/ipen-2025-annual-report.pdf

Hell of a sentence. "The Science Based Targets initiative has decided to drop proposed rules that would have made it harder for a data centre group, running mostly on fossil fuels, to claim its energy needs were entirely met by concurrent renewable power"

Good news, America! Trump promised to sell more American oil to other countries which means you will be paying higher prices at the pump. Oligarchs First!

"In short, prices at the pump are poised to keep rising if the U.S. exports more oil and gas and drains its inventories." WSJ

"China at $54/MWh firm solar and $59/MWh firm wind is already at price points that make new fossil generation absurd. By 2030, Hebei Province solar hits $37/MWh including storage. There is no fossil fuel on earth that competes with that."

Spain trying not to look smug about the whole "we began the switch to renewables before there was an energy crisis" thing

UK Energy Performance Certificates never recommend a heat pump. Those who install one often get downgraded. Why? I was on BBC Morning Live to shed light on what is completely counterintuitive as we try to incentivise heat electrification. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTLE...

Meanwhile in Helsinki: “Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Denmark built a system featuring massive amounts of renewable energy, highly stable infrastructure, and a deeply integrated regional market.” www.zmescience.com/science/news...

All the car parks to the supermarkets and hyper markets in this area are done. Plus quite a few much smaller parking areas. All new agricultural buildings have solar panel roofs as well.

Not a bad thing.

El Niño is emerging even faster than expected in the Pacific Ocean and odds are increasing that it could become historically strong — a rare “Super” El Niño — by fall or winter. www.cnn.com/2026/05/14/w...

You have to wonder at what point people will start questioning why we have been poisoning the environment & ourselves for so long www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Trees have a cooling effect, this is quite easy to understand. But their effect is considerble, especially in summer's heat waves: they can reduce the cities' surface temperature in the summer by a significant level.

"The structure of the oil and gas economy concentrates and exports wealth while leaving African governments and communities to bear the costs" Privatize the profits, socialize the losses. It's how the oil and gas industry works the world over!

1/4 Govt needs to get ahead of upcoming fuel crisis in UK & elsewhere Climate & transport groups are calling for ban on private jets, a frequent flyer levy and ban on main short haul routes where direct train exists Would save nearly 1 M tonnes jet fuel per yr www.theguardian.com/environment/...

2/4 Also a call for a change to the speed limit on motorways from 70mph to 60mph for cars & vans, where internal combustion engines are much more efficient This would save around 0.4 M tonnes of diesel & petrol Diesel is more important fuel saving, because that's where shortage is likely to be

3/4 Given we're already hearing about jet fuel shortages this is less about saving CO2 - because that 'saved' jet fuel will be burnt elsewhere - and more about fairness in how we allocate scarce resources Energy shocks, with associated raised prices, shouldn't just be allowed to hammer the poorest

4/4 The groups who made the call are Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, Possible, Transport and Environment, and Safe Landing Thanks to those who helped make it happen This is about govts getting ahead of events, not just letting them happen to us ENDS

“Solar is so cheap, batteries are so cheap and EVs are getting so cheap that this is the first energy crisis where people say, ‘but there’s an alternative,’” Turner said. 💡 paywalled

“Renewables create a set of capital assets, which once you’ve got them, are just not susceptible to somebody cutting off a pipeline or somebody sending the LNG elsewhere because they got a better offer,” Turner said.

The Iran war has turbocharged the clean energy transition. Fossil fuel systems transmit shocks, clean energy absorbs them. Gas-dependent countries are paying the price. Clean energy is "structurally immune" to future shocks, says the Energy Transitions Commission. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Energy Independence Bill aims to: - speed up rollout of measures such as heat pumps + insulation for people's homes, to shield households from spiralling energy costs driven by the Iran war - build large scale infrastructure projects + deploy renewable power share.google/BJLxMCFCtVUu...

Each year nuclear adds only as much net global power capacity as renewables add every two days. The long-standing argument that renewables lack reliability no longer holds. Today, renewables can deliver reliable, round‑the‑clock power. www.irena.org/News/pressre...

Verbannt endlich die Grundschleppnetz-Fischerei

"CONCRETE Concrete is responsible for around **8%** of global CO2 emissions, more than any other building material".🧵#LESSCARBONMORETRUTH

TIMBER Timber stores carbon instead of releasing it. A cubic metre of wood locks in roughly 1 tonne of CO2. 🧵 #LESSCARBONMORETRUTH

STRAW Straw bale construction has up to **90%** lower embodied carbon than conventional builds. 🧵#LESSCARBONMORETRUTH

DID YOU KNOW The most sustainable building is the one that already exists. Retrofitting saves up to 75% of the carbon compared to building new. 🧵 #LESSCARBONMORETRUTH

As many other people are saying... Duuuuuhhh... Now let's make the whole of the British isles coastline a protected marine reserve. No commercial fishing companies allowed, at all. Only private individuals and small businesses should be allowed to fish, with pots and lines and small nets.

We've built - and are now maintaining - a unique resource, as my colleague @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org explains here...

Germany has 2.5 GW of grid batteries operational and a 10.5 GW pipeline. If that pipeline had been online in 2025, it could have avoided a third of wind and solar curtailment and saved ~€0.8bn. New @ember-energy.org analysis asks whether upcoming capacity auctions will treat batteries fairly.

Indeed.

🚨 #Britain’s gas share suffered historic back-to-back lows, while #wind provided a record monthly high of 42% of all British power in March 2026 🌪️🏆 Monthly gas shares in both March (27%) and April (19%) were the lowest in over 10 years 📉 ember-energy.org/lat...

Let's hold the Government to its promise! No new oil and gas in our seas. Offshore drilling causes hundreds of toxic spills, deafens whales, and won't even lower our energy bills. It's time to stop letting Big Oil profit at the expense of our ocean Add your name: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Warning of record global temperatures as chance of very strong El Niño grows www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...

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-...

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

To no surprise to anyone...

A huge thank you to the SNP government, which designated the South Arran Nature Conservation Marine Protected Area in 2014. Tremendous efforts by local advocacy groups like COAST (Community of Arran Seabed Trust) lay behind the solid work by civil servants and politicians in Edinburgh.

Arizona, Nevada and California would still have to take massive cuts in their Colorado River water supplies under a new, preliminary plan devised by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. #water #ColoradoRiver #California #Nevada #Arizona tucson.com/news/local/e...