First round of @cleanilkley.bsky.social 's water testing in association with @alistairboxall.bsky.social and York University.

Obsessing over water supplies & worried that there's no captain on this ship. Nobody knows the true picture over who's using the critical resource, and the global picture is pretty dire. I've pulled my latest articles together to try to make sense of it watershedinvestigations.com/dry-taps-flo...

Todays sewage report. 1,600 Combined Sewage Outlets discharging raw, untreated sewage into Englands rivers, lakes and seas right now. 3,600 in the last24 hours.

Bjorn Lomborg telling a private luncheon CCS is 'not going to happen.'

I will forever be haunted by this footage. Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity. What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives. 🌎🦑🧪

Which would you rather sponsor for environmental action. 1. Plant one tree 2. 1 meter square of ancient woodland restoration 3. 1 meter square of peat bog restoration 4. 1 meter square of wildflower meadow creation

One day after getting a 70 acre land purchase to finally lurch forwards I decided life was too easy and went for another 11 acres adjoining it because I’m never allowed to be happy or have an easy life. Never a better time to invest in our future. www.protect.earth/act-now/land...

Who’s coming to Climates Film Festival 2025 in Frome on May 22nd? I’ll be nattering about ancient woodlands after a short film about ancient woodland restoration, with the filmmaker Charly Le Marchant, and Mick Bracken of the Woodland Trust. www.tickettailor.com/events/frome...

Bottom trawling is horribly destructive to coastal ocean ecosystems, and deep-sea mining will do the same to the open ocean. #OceanFilm 🌊

Any landowners near Coventry need ~3,000 trees / 6 acres of woodland creation this winter? Get in touch. Or wherever you are also, but had a specific request for Coventry I’m trying to handle. www.protect.earth/get-involved...

‘I needed heart surgery after swimming in polluted water’: Health warning as sewage spills reach decade-high Source: The Independent search.app/hHw4C Shared via the Google App

England water pollution at 10-year high, campaigners say Source: BBC search.app/1PWpg Shared via the Google App

Southern Water customers 'disgusted' by bill hike Source: BBC search.app/GRuvT Shared via the Google App

Boat race no longer safe because of sewage-ridden Thames Source: The Telegraph search.app/wtYgv Shared via the Google App

Activists in Massachusetts have taken on the private jet lobby & they might just win, @chuck77.bsky.social writes in @thenation.com An epic struggle against airport expansion for private jets that has national—and even global—implications:

"Trump's national forest logging plan feels like a smash and grab. It feels like a way to gain access to public resources and take them out of public hands." 🌏 www.fox13seattle.com/news/conserv...

World’s largest deforestation project fells forests for bioethanol fuel, sugar and rice in Indonesia HT @mightyearth.org apnews.com/article/bioe...

💡 Spotlight | Carbon Brief reports on the ongoing logging of giant native trees in the alpine rainforests of Tasmania, Australia 🇦🇺

BBC News - Chicken farm plans called a 'danger' to River Kennet in Newbury - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Anti-depressants reducing fear of predators in perch, contraceptive pills altering fish gender - @phoebeweston.bsky.social investigates the medicines polluting even the seemingly pure waters of our National Parks, with @alistairboxall.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/science/audi...

More than 100 chemicals polluting harbours - study Source: BBC search.app/aFzwp Shared via the Google App

Water companies fail to improve more than half of worst sewage overflow pipes Source: Financial Times search.app/7TDR2 Shared via the Google App

River pollution: Phosphates blocking new homes but why? Source: BBC search.app/1J7ST Shared via the Google App

Sewage spilled into England’s rivers and seas for record of 3.6m hours last year Source: The Independent search.app/7XyGf Shared via the Google App

@tomgordonld.bsky.social hope you can join us - please share the @peopleswater.bsky.social People’s Commission on the water sector comes to #knaresborough

Our crowdfunder has got off to a cracking start, and we are now £1 off £2000 - who would like to take us past that milestone and forward to achieving a ban on windfarms on protected peatland in England? www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/protect-ou...

This is Lord Rothermere the owner of the Daily Mail. He lives in a massive mansion in the English countryside, but he pays no tax here because he identifies as French. While the Daily Mail is registered in Bermuda and pays no tax anywhere. That is his ‘Patriotism’.

👏 More taxes? Yes please! Patriotic Millionaires want to do more for the country “Tax our wealth” – that’s the message from millionaires across the UK whose campaign is hitting the road ahead of the government’s spring statement By Josephine Ingram @joing.bsky.social

Public events coming up. Come and have your say on the future of our water. Free

#StopTheWaterScam youtube.com/shorts/GrlqQ... your MP shorturl.at/qwNrp Video Fact Sheet shorturl.at/RjKgv

Norfolk’s factory farms are caught breaking environmental rules twice a week – but prosecutions are rare. Looser regulations are on the horizon. @owensennitt.bsky.social asks what they will do to pollution.

A lump of chalk on a frosty morning demonstrating its ability to store water. Unfortunately Affinity Water currently take 53% of all available water from the upper Ivel catchment, up to 14 million litres per day! @beneath-b-waters.bsky.social @stormwater-jo.bsky.social @welshriversunion.bsky.social

Bailouts won't fix the sewage scandal and won't reduce bills. Join me and @GoodLawProject to call on Steve Reed to stop water company greed goodlaw.social/uk6y

Norfolk’s factory farms break environmental rules twice a week – yet prosecutions are rare. Will looser regulations worsen pollution? By Owen Sennitt, Local Democracy Reporter

Big plume of filthy water heading out into the River Kent. Hey @unitedutilities.bsky.social, it hasn’t even rained recently. What’s the excuse this time?

Shutting down Mauna Loa CO₂ observations while atmospheric CO₂ keeps skyrocketing is like turning off a fire alarm because you don’t like the noise www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/c...

Sign up for The People's Commission evidence sessions to find out how to get better water quality thepeoplescommissiononthewatersector.co.uk/events-2-1

We are very excited to be hosting a @peopleswater.bsky.social event in Whitstable on the 1st May, which will be open to the public. More information here: www.thepeoplescommissiononthewatersector.co.uk. See you there? 🌊

Do come to The Peoples Commission on the water sector events Sign up here thepeoplescommissiononthewatersector.co.uk/events-2-1

“We are living through a global battle of values. What we are seeing coming out of Trump’s White House and the front line in Ukraine is an assault on democracy, fundamental rights, the rule of law and the very concept of cooperation and harmonious coexistence between states and their peoples."

@hugotagholm.bsky.social @thames21.bsky.social @carolvorderman.bsky.social @weownit.org.uk

Drax hits record profits after raking in £800m in green subsidies Source: The Times search.app/ABCU

We are shocked to see Christine Hodgson, Chair Severn Trent on the shortlist for @thetimes Non Executive Director award. Ofwat &EA is investigating Severn Trent for not meeting its obligations for environmental performance and sewage pollution. That's a criminal investigation.