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Working in climate and nature. Co-editing
@landclimate.bsky.social
. Late to Bluesky!
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Proud of our team at
@landclimate.bsky.social
for bringing these cases to light. These people have been failed and deserve better. I hope they get justice asap!
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18 days ago
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Dorian Lynskey
6 days ago
We begin another months-in-the-making three-parter with the story of Labour. In part one (up to 1939): why it was a fractious coalition from day one, how it overtook the Liberals to become a party of government, and why Ramsay MacDonald went from hero to treacherous villain. Contains foreshadowing
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UN Environment Programme
13 days ago
UNEPâs new
#AdaptationGap
Report warns that developing countries will need at least US$310 billion per year by 2035 to protect lives, livelihoods, and economies. Yet, current financing lags far behind. Discover how to close this gap:
www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
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Damian Carrington
13 days ago
âClimate impacts are accelerating. Yet adaptation finance is not keeping pace, leaving the worldâs most vulnerable exposed to rising seas, deadly storms, searing heat,â says UN SG AntĂłnio Guterres. âAdaptation is not a cost â it is a lifeline"
@unep.org
#climatecrisis
www.unep.org/resources/ad...
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Adaptation Gap Report 2025
Amid rising global temperatures and intensifying climate impacts, UNEPâs 2025 Adaptation Gap Report: Running on Empty finds that a yawning gap in adaptation finance for developing countries is putting...
https://www.unep.org/resources/adaptation-gap-report-2025
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Very much looking forward to this! Feels like a perfect time to reassess high-rise living in Britain.
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Land and Climate Review
18 days ago
Exclusive: our investigation into the link between occupational asthma and biomass power has been published today by
@theguardian.com
We reveal that 10 lawsuits have been filed against Drax by workers following specialist diagnoses. đ§”
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Drax faces lawsuits over claims workers developed asthma from wood dust
Current and former employees say they were not adequately protected despite knowledge of health risks
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/24/drax-faces-lawsuits-over-claims-workers-developed-asthma-from-wood-dust
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Proud of our team at
@landclimate.bsky.social
for bringing these cases to light. These people have been failed and deserve better. I hope they get justice asap!
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Professor Euan Ritchie
about 1 month ago
A lovely story about Dr Jane Goodall's career & legacy, from Rachel Fieldhouse & Mohana Basu, in
@nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
. Includes some comments from me about how researchers _can also_ be advocates and science communicators, and still be taken seriously (I hope)! Vale, Jane.
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Jane Goodallâs legacy: three ways she changed science
The primatologist challenged what it meant to be a scientist.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03209-y
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"To appreciate the Paris agreementâs effectiveness, consider that renewables comprised 92.5% of all new installed electricity capacity in 2024." The optimistic voice of Jennifer Morgan here, via
@projectsyndicate.bsky.social
prosyn.org/7NKPPvc
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Clean Energy Is Inevitable Despite Trump
Jennifer Morgan touts the progress made in the Paris climate agreement's first decade, but also highlights unfinished work.
https://prosyn.org/7NKPPvc
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Priyanka Kumar's new book "The Light Between Apple Trees" explains how Americans became hooked on a cartoon version of the apple and how this endangers them. You can read an edited extract on
@landclimate.bsky.social
. It's out now from
@islandpress.bsky.social
www.landclimate.org/seeds-of-ind...
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Seeds of industrialisation: how the soul of the apple got lost - Land and Climate Review
An overreliance on pesticides and a disconnect from the land has dampened the mythology of Americaâs most iconic fruit, says Priyanka Kumar.
https://www.landclimate.org/seeds-of-industrialisation-how-the-soul-of-the-apple-got-lost/
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Debbie Gale Mitchell
about 2 months ago
Nonfiction science new releases for September, 2025! Which of these books are you adding to your TBR? I am adding GHOSTED, BLUEPRINTS, and DANGEROUS MIRACLE to my TBR.
#nonfiction
#booksky
#science
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#sciencebooks
#womeninscience
#nonfictionscience
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Prof Bill McGuire
about 2 months ago
"Today, we clear a soccer fieldâs worth of tropical forest every six seconds, a loss dramatically worsened by humanityâs growing hunger for meat" Wean ourselves off meat now, or the switch to a Pliocene climate that's locked in will do it for us
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Meat is a leading emissions source â but few outlets report on it, analysis finds
Sentient Media reveals less than 4% of climate news stories mention animal agriculture as source of carbon emissions
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/sep/27/meat-gas-emissions-reporting
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Ellie Mae O'Hagan
about 2 months ago
This article is more optimistic than the headline suggests. I think it is actually about the West's decision to hand the future economy to China and the East. The speed of the energy transition in China is good for the world and, geopolitically, bad for the West as it inexplicably relegates itself
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As far as I can tell,
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
is one of the bravest people in the country at the moment. The more Labour and the Tory press attack him, the more the vast majority of decent Britain will tune in to his positive message. Fear may be contagious but so is courage!
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Really looking forward to this! Well done
@jsmillinstitute.bsky.social
for bringing back the Liberal summer schools and keeping them open to people of all political colours. There's a lot to discuss!
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3 months ago
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UN Environment Programme
4 months ago
24 July is
#EarthOvershootDay
. That means humanity has used up Earthâs yearly natural resources budget in just 7 months. In 2024, the date was 1 August. The date keeps creeping earlierâbut the trend can be reversed:
www.genevaenvironmentnetwork.org/resources/up...
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"Interviews with Kurdish microworkers in northern Iraq revealed that many of them still lived in refugee camps, ten years after being displaced by different stages of the Syrian war. Their work consisted in tagging images, mainly for self-driving car systems."
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If you're worried about the
#climate
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#nature
emergencies and looking for the perfect (UK-focused) climate adaptation and resilience newsletter, check out this one, which I'm helping to edit. It's free on Substack:
open.substack.com/pub/adaptati...
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Climate Adaptation UK: Summer 2025
Welcome to the May/June/July edition of our Climate Adaptation newsletter. Hope you have your cup of (iced) tea ready, because itâs a monster. Edited by Mirte Boot.
https://open.substack.com/pub/adaptationuk/p/climate-adaptation-uk-summer-2025?r=i6j03&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
4 months ago
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Land and Climate Review
4 months ago
This week on the Land and Climate Podcast, @alimacewen.bsky.social⏠interviewed @simonclimate.bsky.social⏠from âȘ@tyndallcentre.bsky.social⏠about the International Maritime Organisation's new penalties for shipping emissions. Click below to listen:
www.landclimate.org/...
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Oh this is just unspeakably ridiculous. Starmer was even part of a coup against a Labour leader in 2016 and didn't lose the whip at the time (as he shouldn't have). These are decent and popular Labour MPs. Is this possibly the most paranoid whips office of recent times?
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Great to see this report out. Looking forward to getting stuck in and very sorry to be missing today's event.
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Just seen this important film. Credit to
@ejfoundation.org
for making it and for continuing to campaign and educate in the area of unsustainable fishing. Well worth a watch!
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How did we lose the farmers?
@felixschulz.bsky.social
has some answers on our latest podcast đđ
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5 months ago
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Covering Climate Now
5 months ago
Join CCNow and
@soljourno.bsky.social
on Tuesday, June 10, for a webinar that will help you cover climate movements thoughtfully and fairly. Youâll get to learn from journalists who have decades of experience covering climate change and movements to address it. â https://buff.ly/JJDgkwI
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It's back!
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@seththevoz.bsky.social
that's not the National Liberal Club I see hosting Farage's vainglorious press conference today is it? đ±đ€Ż
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Andrew Fisher
6 months ago
Former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert in
@haaretzcom.bsky.social
âWhat we are doing in Gaza now is a war of devastation: indiscriminate, limitless, cruel and criminal killing of civilians ⊠It's the result of government policy â knowingly, evilly, maliciously ... Yes, Israel is committing war crimes.â
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In the year that BYD sales overtook Teslas in Europe, this podcast from
@landclimate.bsky.social
and
@bertiehb.bsky.social
delves into the role that activists played in shifting China from pollution-riddled to an emerging Green powerhouse:
www.landclimate.org/how-did-chin...
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How did China become a green powerhouse? - Land and Climate Review
Bertie speaks with Ma Tianjie, author of "In Search of Green China," discussing Chinaâs environmental transformation and how protestors have influenced policymaking.
https://www.landclimate.org/how-did-china-become-a-green-powerhouse/
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Shelter
6 months ago
đ€Ż This! A rent hike is as good as an eviction for too many renters. Yesterday the Office for National Statistics published data that shows average private rents are up 7.5% in England compared to last year. The
#RentersRightsBill
must get increases under control by limiting in tenancy rent hikes.
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This looks like excellent pre-reading for anyone (like me) attending the final show dates of the Gang of Three at
@kingsheadtheatre.bsky.social
kingsheadtheatre.com/whats-on/6/b...
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100%. And Britain is basically a tax haven when compared with other European countries with welfare states. Not to mention the actual tax havens it protects as crown dependencies.
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"We should understand the energy price guarantee, and interventions like it, as an electricity and gas industry bailout akin to the bailouts for financial institutions in 2007/8". Robust and compelling stuff from @cmmonwealth here:
www.common-wealth.co.uk/perspectives...
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Private Power, Public Crisis | Perspectives
On Britainâs energy contradictions.
http://www.common-wealth.co.uk/perspectives/private-power-public-crisis
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Progressive International
6 months ago
"Our research reveals that Accenture has joined forces with some of the worldâs most notorious tech surveillance giants to advance an agenda of extraction, exploitation and oppression." The 18th PI Briefing of 2025 is online now.
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PI Briefing | No. 18 | The Accenture Files
Revealing the central role of the worldâs largest consultancy in the global right-ward turn towards surveillance, exclusion, and strong-men: The Reactionary International.
https://buff.ly/zysuu5U
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While not enough to overturn their push for gas, it's good to see some local authority pension funds pushing back on Shell's climate denialism. Maybe cause for some hope, if it can be built on
www.ft.com/content/1158...
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Shell faces shareholder pushback over gas strategy
Special resolution calling for more detail on LNG business wins 20% backing
https://www.ft.com/content/1158a474-0dea-4a76-8fd4-7806b599496d
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Prem Sikka
6 months ago
Corporate Welfare. Centrica, owner of British Gas, makes massive profits by ripping off people. It wants more subsidies and guaranteed profits from gas storage. Privatisation empowered companies to hold govts/people to ransom.
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Gas storage facility could close without government help, Centrica boss warns
UK's largest gas storage facility will miss ÂŁ2bn investment without help, boss of Centrica tells BBC.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0mrwdzvrmzo
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Caroline Lucas
6 months ago
It keeps on coming âŠ
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The price of all public charging versus home charging would seem to me to be a barrier to lowering the costs of EVs for the less able to pay who must have less access to offstreet parking. Something we have to tackle in the UK if we want even faster switching to EVs.
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Money on the Left
6 months ago
Moneyâs Place: Science Fiction, Realism & MMT in The Ministry for the Future
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Moneyâs Place: Science Fiction, Realism & MMT in The Ministry for the Future
Money on the Left: History, Theory, PracticeVol. 1, No. 1 (2023)ISSN 2833-051X Moneyâs Place: Science Fiction, Realism & Modern Monetary Theory in Kim Stanley Robinsonâs The MinistrâŠ
https://moneyontheleft.org/2023/09/05/moneys-place-science-fiction-realism-mmt-in-the-ministry-for-the-future/
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Really pleased to see the launch of this new journal. This is an incredibly urgent argument.
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George Monbiot
6 months ago
On Saturday I'll be interviewing the amazing
@guyshrubsole.bsky.social
about his book The Lie of the Land (which is great!) at the Restoring Nature festival. Do come.
www.ambios.net/restoring-na...
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Restoring Nature: A literary festival - Ambios
Join Ambios and the East Gate Bookshop on the 17th of May at Lower Sharpham Farm for our anual nature-centred literary festival!
https://www.ambios.net/restoring-nature/
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Leo Hickman
6 months ago
Quite possibly the biggest climate story of the year (especially when we look back on this in a few years' time) For the first time on record, China's emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, not slow power demand...
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With the food aspects of the US-UK trade deal still emerging, now is an even more important time for this book! 'Titans of Industrial Agriculture.'
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"We create divisions between the working and middle class, when the real problem is people earning more in their sleep than you could earn in your life". Great line from
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
. The essence of a radical liberal or liberal socialist approach.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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âI thought politics was a dirty thingâ â Zack Polanski on his âeco-populistâ vision for the Green party
Heâs worked as an actor and a hypnotherapist â and has even been arrested. The Greensâ leadership challenger has had an unconventional route into politics and heâs ready to take on Labour and Reform
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/may/13/i-thought-politics-was-a-dirty-thing-zack-polanski-on-his-eco-populist-vision-for-the-green-party?CMP=share_btn_url
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Really enjoyed this and very much appreciated it being open to non-members as well. Also, great to (briefly) meet
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
, who is making waves, as well as the brilliant
@faizashaheen.bsky.social
! Very positive energy. Congrats (and thanks)
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Land and Climate Review
6 months ago
This week on the Land and Climate Podcast, @alimacewen.bsky.social talks with Albert Van Wijngaarden and Adrian Hindes about the history of polar and solar geoengineering, its divisive nature, the risks, and the lack of global governance.
www.landclimate.org/...
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This important new book from
@jennifer-clapp.bsky.social
shows in very great detail both the extent of the control a tiny number of massive agribusinesses have over farmers all over the world and the extent to which it should matter to all of us. Urgentđâ
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Brett Christophers
6 months ago
The numbers not adding up for Orsted on Hornsea 4 at an agreed fixed tariff of nearly ÂŁ60/MWh is an absolute hammer blow for UK decarbonization ambitions Renewables profitability has rarely looked as marginal, even with what appeared robust de-risking
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Ărsted halts work on vast UK wind farm citing rising costs
Decision on Hornsea 4 project deals blow to Britainâs clean energy goals
https://www.ft.com/content/7015e906-6415-4c35-a992-88f5f3e60e07
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Dana Drugmand
6 months ago
Courts continue to be an important battleground in the climate fight. Climate in the Courts is a news outlet dedicated to covering this rapidly evolving & expanding space of
#climatelitigation
. Check it out and subscribe
www.climateinthecourts.com
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist)
7 months ago
Anyone looking for a recording of my Earth Day conversation about Climate Activism at
@coveringclimatenow.org
with
@amywestervelt.bsky.social
John Paul Mejia and
@theresariley.bsky.social
, here you go:
youtu.be/gTA3YcNgrNo
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Press Briefing: The Future of Climate Activism
YouTube video by Covering Climate Now
https://youtu.be/gTA3YcNgrNo
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Simon Evans
7 months ago
Last night
@itvpeston.bsky.social
interviewed UK opposition leader
@kemibadenochmp.bsky.social
⊠They showed her a series of charts showing why gas â not net-zero â is to blame for high power prices, inc one from me (pic) Watch the full clip here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NuG...
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