"In the context of the climate crisis, biodiversity loss, and the degradation of ecosystems, love for one’s country can also be understood as the active protection of the nature that sustains life, the economy, and collective well-being."

Solar plus storage in India is cheaper than building fossil fuel power plants. So they build the solar.

UK ‘built for climate that no longer exists’ and needs urgent changes to survive global heating, @thecccuk.bsky.social report warns - Landmark report calls for widespread air conditioning and says UK temperatures forecast to exceed 40C by 2050 #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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...

8/ And its not just Chinese companies but clean tech companies globally whose order books are filling up because of the Iran war-driven demand. Some examples in FT: Germany’s Siemens Energy up 50 per cent.. Nordex up 67 per cent this year. Nordex’s largest shareholder, Spain’s Acciona, is up 33%

Back in Worldchanging days, I wrote a lot about the idea that “We need to build a civilization on this planet as if we were planning to stay.” The paradox is that long-term durability now requires not only slow long-term thinking, but short-term acceleration of capacities. bsky.app/profile/alex...

There's no path to action on climate, pandemics, or any of the great crises we face that doesn't go through a functioning democracy. @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & I make this point in #ScienceUnderSiege. But we must connect the dots--threat to democracy is inseparable from fossil fuel dependence.

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Raw sewage from nearly 40,000 people + businesses pumped straight into the sea because the British overseas territory of Gibraltar has never had a wastewater treatment plant. Government of Gibraltar says there are “high levels of natural dispersion”. Our new article: share.google/QNhCc2CnyYpW...

Avoid evaporation and generate more power. Love these solar canal projects

Would you like four pieces of good news about climate change? Welcome back to the Public Good News. (Also on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-ph...)

One of the most remarkable achievements in modern political history has been the emergence of "anti-establishment, anti-elite, people's army" parties - committed to "bringing back the nation-state" - that are led, directed & financed by the richest, most privileged & most mobile people on the planet

More details on the firing of the National Science Board. The NSF now has no director, deputy director, or board. They have issued almost no new awards in 2026. The plan appears to be to completely destroyed the agency. The details are horrifying and have Russ Vought written all over them.

I’m pretty proud of my Marilyn Monroe piece, where I tried to convey the fullness of someone’s pain and genius without reducing her to either. Here is the photo of her that I describe in the last paragraph. www.bookforum.com/print/3204/b...

France has defended keeping climate change off the agenda at a meeting of G7 environment ministers in Paris, saying it was necessary to avoid a clash with the United States. u.afp.com/Sa3T

- loans for higher-income households - rule changes to make it easier to install heat pumps + pavement guttering for EV chargers - installing solar on government-owned brownfield sites + railway land share.google/GPhzrUeMcM2E... 2/2

The Strait of Hormuz + surrounding seas are critical ecologically as well as politically. Coral reefs, whale sharks, dolphins, endangered Arabian humpback whales, seagrass meadows supporting dugons, islands harbouring green turtles - just some of the creatures + ecosystems in + near the Strait. 2

A wildlife disaster unfolds alongside the human tragedy in the Strait of Hormuz @greenpeace.org reports Iranian vessel Shahid Bagheri, stuck by a US warplane in early March, is still leaking oil near the Strait, with nearby wetlands at risk: www.cnn.com/2026/04/17/s... 🧵 1/5

aaaand here's another (jp morgan chase): for all the headlines about how finance doesn't care about climate anymore (there are many) the job postings are saying the opposite--they've truly never cared this much before

I'm biased, but I think this is the apex example of how our discourse has become detached from reality. The reality has moved rapidly in one direction (dramatic fall in solar and battery costs; climate change seeming worse than expected). The discourse has moved in the exact opposite direction

I also beg him to visit France next year and strongly endorse Marine Le Pen or Jordan Bardella

i firmly believe that kennedy wants preventable diseases to rip through american communities since, in his warped mind, those who survive without vaccines will have proven themselves “healthy.”

Nearly 1 in 6 UK species are threatened with extinction. We've lost 97% of our wildflower meadows since the 1930s. We have 73 million fewer birds than in the 1970s - a decline of almost a third. And yet some politicians still just see wildlife as a blocker to progress.

Absolutely remarkable statement from Pope Leo today. One for the history books www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

"Half of the kingdom’s (Thailand) vast fishing fleet is already docked" “This is worse than the Covid pandemic,” said Trailerk, the fisheries association president. “Then the situation was uncertain but stable. This is volatile in a way I’ve never seen" amp.scmp.com/week-asia/ec...

The images of Earth from Artemis are amazing. But if we destroy our ability to understand (and live on) our planet, all they are is pretty pictures www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/o...

everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability

This is a threat to commit an atrocity crime of extraordinary proportions. The statement appears to be designed to spread terror among the Iranian population, which would render the threat itself a violation of international law, as recognized in the DoD Law of War Manual.

Trump may not carry out the threat. But the fact he even made such a threat means he should immediately be removed from office. For that is the purpose of a constitution with checks and balances.

My latest for @natureportfolio.nature.com: A dream assignment. Engaging the head and the heart: why scientists turn to poetry. Poetry-writing scientists draw inspiration from trees, leaves, fish, hurricanes, the climate crisis and even electricity pylons. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is excellent. I choose not to use AI for my writing, but Naomi's piece reminds me that I'm in no position then to make uninformed judgements about its potential.

We @crisisgroup.org , and a range of prominent individuals, are calling for an initiative to protect global food security as the crisis deepens in the Strait of Hormuz. With war raging between Iran, the U.S., and Israel, here's how to ease the transit of food www.crisisgroup.org/stm/global/i...

Thrilled to see this investigation out in @theguardian.com today (follow-on piece from @drilledmedia.bsky.social mañana) on the shocking news that voluntary certifications built on self-reported data are probs not going to meaningfully reduce methane emissions 🙃 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"The study ... checked homes for gas leaks that occur chronically, when cookers were switched off and found 40 per cent of kitchens had gas leaks in the three countries they took samples from." IT, NL and UK. Via @davidesabbadin.bsky.social www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

🚨 BREAKING: The European Commission has urged people to work from home, drive and fly less, and for EU countries to urgently roll out renewables, as it warned of a prolonged energy crisis as a result of the conflict in the Gulf. Full story: www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Since the headline is a bit confusing, the NYT is reporting that on the same day we hit the girl's school in Minab, we also sent a missile full of tungsten steel pellets at a girl's volleyball tournament hundreds of miles away in Lamerd. Twenty one dead. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/w...

Scientists just discovered 24 new species in one of the least explored parts of the planet - the #DeepSea. Same place some companies want to start #DeepSeaMining.

Incredible

#energycrisis UK's political right bang out about North Sea oil and gas (red herring, see next post) 😎 Real people just do smart stuff 😎 - solar sales up 50% - heat pump sales up 30% - EV enquires up 30% says Octopus boss (UK's biggest supplier) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Nice to see Inkcap relaunching today! www.inkcap.co.uk?ref=inkcap-n...

I just resigned from NASA. It breaks my heart to leave, but I’ve become convinced the best path forward is to do the best science I can, and that can’t be here anymore. I’m still in love with the promise of those four magic letters. Ad astra per aspera, and remember: Earth is the only good planet.

Seriously one of the most hopeful things you’ll read today.

This is where the debate should be, rather than on the distraction of North Sea drilling. What can government do to move faster on clean tech and green buildings? Can it afford to be more ambitious and demand new homes are passivhaus and zero bill? How quickly can it bring down fossil fuel reliance?

This has taken an unforgivably long time, considering that home heating is one of the UK’s biggest energy transition challenges.

The Central England temperature record represents the longest series of monthly temperature observations in existence. Recent temperatures there are over 1.5 degrees Celsius above the 1961-1990 average, and over 2 degrees above preindustrial values. Chart: UK Met Office.

You can understand this as the ultra wealthy funding populist who will remove restraints on their power in the name of "freedom", the sort of freedom that allows the powerful to dominate the weak.

For every 1°C of warming, the atmosphere can hold approximately 7% more moisture. Just sayin’.

One of the many reasons change is hard when it comes to better cities is that the ability to picture your city being and working very differently than it does now, aka “having vision,” is not nearly as common as we think. And it’s sadly not a prerequisite for leadership, although it should be.

An oil shock just forces a simple choice: Subsidise fuel or Subsidise getting off fuel Most governments pick the first That’s a mistake! A quick 🧵

Great to see the Guardian reporting on the extraordinary nurses working under fire in Myanmar’s conflict areas. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...