Water companies are issuing increasing amounts in 'green' bonds - over £10bn since 2017. We found cases where funds have refinanced completed projects & others where the money was used for activities that companies are obliged by law to deliver My latest: unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/11/30/w...

• ”In exchange for a share of the profits, the Americans will be tasked with marketing Russian gas in Europe.” • ”For the Russians, the capitulation of Ukraine is merely a prelude to the vassalization of Europe.”

Europe’s water reserves are drying up because of climate change www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We still need to get from a situation where Russia pretends to negotiate to a situation where they need to negotiate. Extract from my press remarks following today’s informal Foreign Affairs Council ↓

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

"As a new generation of Labour MPs grapple with their unease...Taverne’s example reminds us of the importance of having independently minded MPs with the shrewdness and elegance of the 'Victor of Lincoln'." Words by our Manager Tom Chidwick in the latest @thehousemag.bsky.social! shorturl.at/BeTPd

Vous assistez, quasiment en direct à la formation d'un cratère sur la Lune, avec un impact filmé ce matin !

BBC has a case against Trump. WhiteHouse Chief Press Officer called the BBC ‘100% fake news.’ Which is defamatory and untrue.

It seems this Government is determined to miss just about every opportunity to actually make life better for the country.

In 1972, a cat commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These kittens promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government they survive as soldiers of fortune @[email protected]

How do we, as a society, let companies get away with this behaviour?

Quisling

The Panorama edit was poor journalism, not sure how it happened (more than 15 yo when I worked there we all had to go on a course because someone made the Queen look grumpy about something in the wrong order). But of all of it, this is the only piece I’ve read that properly nails the issue…

4,000 m below the surface lives the Casper octopus — fragile, unseen, irreplaceable. Machines are being built to mine its world. Protect the unseen ocean before it’s too late. World View article in Nature: 🔗 rdcu.be/eIQyN 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/d41... #DeepSea #OceanImpact #30x30

Even in these most challenging times river restoration in Ukraine is ongoing: freshwaterblog.net/2025/11/04/u...

Monarchs need milkweed. Bees need flowers. Solar fields can provide both – while generating renewable power. 🌞🦋🐝

Our Comms Director, Tessa, and Eva from @beavertrust.bsky.social met the Senior Special Advisor for the Policy Unit at No.10. We’re asking Government to help #farmers undertake essential work required to help our #rivers heal. Will you? 🙏 Sign the petition: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

Extract from more recent Goodwin post. He really should never be allowed on the BBC - or any other reputable broadcaster - again.

This is for Trump. A recent study reveals that energy costs in Britain has been reduced by 104 billon pounds the last 15 years because of wind power. The Biden administration knew this and introduced the IRA which Trump rolled back to make Americans pay more. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The story of the climate crisis told in two numbers: $2.5 billion a day in direct subsidies to fossil fuels companies. 1440 deaths per day from extreme heat. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Adam Douglas Thompson. #NewYorkerCartoons Sign up for our humor newsletter at the link in our bio to get more cartoons and other funny stuff right in your inbox: https://www.newyorker.com/newsletter/humor

Polluting waterways is a crime. However, it is a remarkable state of affairs that it is a crime that is overlooked when the people doing so are water company executives earning millions in annual salaries (paid for by the public). And it is government policy to turn a blind eye.

The Conservative Party cannot be considered a responsible party of government again until and unless Ms Lam is forced to drop her Idi Amin migration proposal and apologise to those it threatens, or has the whip removed. It is as simple as that.

Inspiring things happening in Cutteslowe, north Oxford: "restore and reopen Cutteslowe’s historic greenhouses to create a thriving community space where people connect with nature, food, and each other." More info for those who might volunteer or support: www.cutteslowegreenhouse.org

This is so wrong. Ministers should protect the public interest, not a handful of creditors clinging on to their bad investments @ofwat.bsky.social and the government must prioritise households and the environment, cut Thames Water's debt in half right now with Special Administration

Back on the #southwestcoastpath #devonandcornwall

By 2050, the UK is predicted to be short an estimated 4-5 billion litres of water a day. Clearly, Thames Water's desalination plant hasn't proven an efficient way of making us water secure. But which approaches might work? 🧵 1/10 www.theguardian.com/business/202...

www.reuters.com/sustainabili... China is halting the expansion of the gobi desert by planting goji berries beneath solar panels. The shade reduces heat and water stress on the plants. Excellent

The River Cam should flow with pure chalk spring water. Instead, it runs on sewage outflows laced with phosphorus, and it's killing life in the river. Read the full story for this week's #BigRiverWatch ⤵️ @eastangliabylines.co.uk

Meanwhile they chose to defer upgrading sewage works which they promised Ofwat would be upgraded by 2025. Result: more winters of shit in our rivers.

It isn't just Ofwat that has been captured by the water industry. The Environment Agency needs a complete reset and leadership that is not in thrall to the industry.

EXCLUSIVE: England’s farms are being fertilised with a cocktail of toxic landfill juice + sewage sludge. 750,000 tonnes of landfill leachate tankered to sewage works every year → mixed into sewage → spread on farmers' fields. 1/ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Great article about using strike indicators, or ditching them altogether. #dryflies #flyfishing

Glorious abundance in the Cotswold hedgerow. Haws, sloes, acorns and crab apples aplenty

Glorious abundance in the Cotswold hedgerow. Haws, sloes, acorns and crab apples aplenty

An acre producing 80% crop yield and 50% solar output delivers 130% productivity. The same plot of land will be 30% more productive when crops and solar are combined—a game-changing proposition for farmers seeking economic sustainability. #AgPV #EnergySky www.pv-magazine.com/2025/08/20/c...

Passers by in Kyiv may have noticed an unusual funeral for a fallen soldier yesterday. The mourners were a bohemian crowd, and anarchist flags were flown. Davyd Chychkan, a 39 year old artist was laid to rest. Why was he at war? He’d explained his reasons to me 18 months ago

30 years restoring habitats. One season away from losing it all. Without clear stewardship funding, nature will suffer. Defra and Steve Reed, your delay is costing both wildlife and public trust. Read farmer Graham Denny's open letter ⤵️

It's a clickbait article, see today's statement from The National Allotment Society below. The only facts in the article are a regurgitation of stats from a parliamentary Q&A a few weeks back.

Letter on the true price and benefits of public water in @theguardian.com. It’s £0 for a failed water company, not £100bn as the Treasury, Steve Reed, and water company lobbyists falsely claim. The cost of privatisation will be £22bn extra in 5 years. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

There's no excuse for continuing to use that site, especially for institutions. And as for the regulator, they're as useless as Ofwat, which is going some.

Rights for rivers - is this the way we save our waterways?https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/30/council-recognises-river-test-rights-chalk-stream-hampshire?CMP=share_btn_url

💧 Making solar desalination scalable A new study shows how 3D-printed aerogels can overcome a big problem in solar-powered water purifiers: performance drops as size increases. The new design keeps evaporation steady, even at larger scales. 🔗 doi.org/10.1021/acsn... #SciComm #Desalination 🧪

For too long, our water system has served shareholders, not the environment. I welcome the abolition of Ofwat and the creation of a single, powerful regulator. But we must go further: water should be a public resource which is publicly owned, putting people and planet before profit.

Since 2015, freshwater loss from land — mainly from pumping groundwater — has contributed more to sea level rise than melt from Antarctic ice sheet. 🧪

Rooftop solar power in Australia is the cheapest power available to consumers in the world, full stop. I wish more people knew that.

Page 343, Water Commission report: " ... provide the water regulator with additional discretion over enforcement in defined circumstances, allowing them to defer or waive fines and penalties". Oh dear - No penalties for dumping sewage, unplugged leaks. That will worry the bosses, won't it.

This is the Llynor. It's one of the cleanest tributaries on the Dee. No farmyards or sewage treatment works upstream. And it's mostly forest, a big section being restored to ancient woodland. But it has a major problem.