@chrisgeeuk.bsky.social Globally, antibiotics are mostly used to produce food cheaply and to compensate for poor living conditions. Meanwhile, UK farmers and vets continue to maintain some of the lowest rates in antibiotic sales and use across Europe and we don’t celebrate them enough.

"Imagine if we reverted to a world without antibiotics. We would lose modern medicine as we know it." - The King's Fund share.google/Qu5vv3GlYtSU... 🧵1/4

Antibiotics should be used only when necessary in all settings. Overuse can lead bacteria to develop resistance to these meds, risking a return to a world where a simple infection can become untreatable, even fatal. 2/4

In England + Wales, antibiotics are used less on farms than in the US, nevertheless, when @alistairboxall.bsky.social tested water from the River Wye, he found antibiotic resistance genes that could be traced back to veterinary meds for pigs. share.google/AB7vc9vD5tVh... 3/4

When we allow sewage or slurry to enter rivers, we risk antibiotics + pathogens entering a waterway together, in a warm growing medium where bacteria can develop resistance to medicines. So, as well as reducing use, we need to consider treatment of waste: youtu.be/zQQIrFMO5AU?... 4/4

The UK’s largest planned data centre—a project by US firm QTS—is understating its true water consumption by a factor of 50, says new analysis by @watershed-i.bsky.social & @aiarmsracebook.bsky.social @digiconomist.bsky.social No mistake; AI is a heavy, polluting industry. shorturl.at/KXQxJ

During its worst drought in a century, Iraq signs a water security for oil deal with Turkey. The once rich Tigris & Euphrates rivers are drying up from climate change & mismanagement, leading to crop losses & a water crisis. edition.cnn.com/2025/12/21/c...

🚨 SIGN THE PETITION 🚨 We're backing MP Helena Dollimore's petition to end the use of bio-beads across the UK. Modern, safer alternatives exist – water companies must use them. 👉 Sign now: https://f.mtr.cool/ktkpksyvix Every signature counts. Together we can protect our coastline.

A new study has revealed that even modest levels of road traffic across Iceland's lowlands can significantly reduce the abundance of breeding birds, including globally important populations of waders:

The ponies at West Blean have been looking especially majestic this winter... ❄️ But they're not just a pretty sight - these fell ponies are conservation grazers, controlling competitive plants & creating patches of bare ground for wildflowers to seed: kwtg.uk/fell-ponies

🌱 The EU has banned the #PFAS #pesticide flufenacet because it’s harmful to human health and contaminates groundwater. Yet, it will continue to be used on Europe’s crop fields for up to 18 months, according to the official EU decision. www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...

Big news from our #ArcticDeep expedition with @UiTNorgesarktis and @rev_ocean. Deepest gas hydrate cold seep ever discovered in the Arctic 👇 Read more: uit.no/nyheter/arti...

Ideas included in the report include more solar panels on schools and stricter fines for those who fly-tip. But poverty has made tackling climate change feel out of reach for some. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tapanuli orangutan, devastated by cyclone, now faces habitat loss under zoning plans... news.mongabay.com/2025/12/tapa...

As power-guzzling data centers proliferate across the country and drive electricity prices up, batteries could be a part of the solution.

For those who actually care about evidence-based city-making, there’s a ton of evidence that decongestion pricing has been a massive success in New York City, by every measure of success, and many ways that can’t be measured.

Devastating that 2 more homes may need to be demolished in Thorpeness. The coastal erosion risk - just to the north of Thorpeness at Sizewell must be acknowledged as a burden on future generations over Sizewell C's full lifetime till the late 2100s! #SayNo2SizewellC www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Join us on a journey to save the last southern resident killer whales, in whatever format you prefer 📝 text www.scientificamerican.com/article/thes... 🎥 video www.scientificamerican.com/video/the-pr... or www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PLK... 🎧 audio www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis...

A Hidden Energy Source Was Found Underneath Texas ->Popular Mechanics | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai

Lake Powell is so f-----.

📺How to talk to your family and friends about climate change With many of us heading home for the holidays, this event offers timely guidance on how to approach conversations about the climate crisis with empathy, clarity and confidence. Watch it here: buff.ly/k8CkO9f

🧑‍⚖️ The @EU_Commission is dragging its feet to act on #PFAS #pesticides. We have taken the first legal steps to remind the Commission that they have to meet the legal obligations under EU law to protect groundwater and public health. www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...

You can’t drink oil

Oil for water deals. I don't know my Mad Max lore but isn't this a thing in that world?

Reminder: you have until midnight CET on Christmas Eve to submit feedback to @ec.europa.eu on the formats for submission of beneficial ownership information to central registers. ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet... My feedback: ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet... #beneficialownership #openstandards

Using CO2 to push more oil out of old oilfields (enhanced oil recovery[EOR]) is a bad idea for many reasons but one of the biggest is that much of the CO2 doesn't stay in the ground and even worse, some can be converted to methane. Issue could use much more attention.

Via Unwaste The Planet

"Imagine if we reverted to a world without antibiotics. We would lose modern medicine as we know it." - The King's Fund share.google/Qu5vv3GlYtSU... 🧵1/4

Sales of Antibiotics For Use in Animals Shot Up Last Year. This is bad news for animal health and human health since overuse of antibiotics leads to difficult to treat antibiotic resistant superbugs. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Sales of medically important antibiotics for use in U.S. food animals rose more last year than in any other year since FDA began reporting data. Use in chickens shot up by almost 80% eliminating years of effort to reduce overuse.

Is the USA meat industry risking human health? Antibiotics need to be used sparingly and only when really needed. 70% of these precious medicines are spaffed away in meat and fish farming because of terrible conditions. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

We made major progress this year, thanks to you: ✅Landmark climate justice rulings ✅Major wins for the plastics treaty ✅New accountability for corporate polluters ✅Stronger remedies for communities harmed ⏳ Only days left to DOUBLE your impact for environmental justice: https://bit.ly/4aSGBvV

"The key question for 2026 is whether China will, and can, continue to buy excess crude when prices drop, effectively providing a floor." While the US is issuing threats and tariffs to try to implement global energy policy, China has legit economic levers it controls.

Ted Cruz on the EU methane regulations. "The EUMR represents a non-tariff trade barrier that could effectively end U.S. LNG exports to Europe" It would only end US LNG exports to Europe if those exports had high methane emissions. Which they do. Ted knows that. Or, at least the lobbyists do.

"Cicio noted that for every $1 increase in the Henry Hub price, U.S. consumers pay roughly $34 billion more for natural gas and $20 billion more for electricity — about $54 billion annually." (paywalled)

“Prices are already increasing,” Cicio told NGI. “Comparing the Dec. 1 Henry Hub price of $5.08/MMBtu to the December 2024 price of $2.90, prices have increased 75%.”

Think carbon pricing is just a tax? I used to think so too. It’s not about punishing people who pollute. It’s about flipping the system: making the rich and the biggest polluters pay, and using that money to help everyone else ditch fossil fuels. It’s a powerful wealth redistribution instrument

Tigris and Euphrates, two of the four Rivers of Paradise said to flow out of Eden... are drying up from climate change and mismanagement. #ParadiseLost

SERIOUSLY, WATCH THIS: If you really want to understand how huge SUVs and pick-up trucks have ended up being MOST of the vehicles out there in our cities, and the absolutely INSANE consequences of that, watch this easy-to-watch video by #NotJustBikes. Then please share it as much as you can.

Tired of the fake “climate vs wallets” debate? 😪 ETS2 (the EU carbon price for 🚗 & 🏠) is under heavy attack. But the facts are clear: carbon pricing can lower pollution, fund clean heating & transport, and stop the poor from subsidising the rich. This piece debunks economic myths 👇

It's not hard to find examples of the cost for closing old oil wells is much higher than the estimates we are given. Here is another example in California. My favorite example is the $40 million it cost to close the 19 oil wells on the Beverly Hills high school campus.

Guess who paid for that? "The school district was left in the position of having to clean up decades of oil extraction after energy company Venoco Inc., which siphoned its last barrel of oil from BHUSD land on Dec. 31, 2016, filed for bankruptcy in April 2017."

If you want to learn all of the details on this tragedy, there is a book. www.goodreads.com/book/show/17...

One in five people have witnessed large-scale illegal fly tipping in their areas, grim new polling from [email protected] shows. "From our riversides to our rural lanes, criminal gangs are turning this country into an environmental wild west." Tim Farron said. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

The day after Trump's ongoing efforts to create more economic hardship for Americans by stopping wind projects with an absurd "national security" argument, the NYT runs a big piece on how Trump's team of geniuses are putting the country at risk by not supporting battery tech.

aka lying on official planning documents

Oil for water

Pwysigrwydd dŵr wrth i’n hinsawdd newid: Iran yn barod i dalu olew amdano.

Keep that oil flowin'......