👽 Thought of the week by Neil deGrasse Tyson www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/o...

Doors repaired, all back to normal at #COP30 this morning

#COP30 Some countries negotiate better than others to have their pavilions ready for COP opening on Monday

Everything is ready to go at #COP30

This is a great story from my @afp.com colleague @issamahmed.bsky.social in Georgia, near the "Carpet Capital of the World" where water is full of PFAS www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Salle comble au tribunal de Paris pour le procès de TotalEnergies pour greenwashing, pour des pubs et messages qui mentionnaient notamment la neutralité carbone. Exciting pour la jurisprudence sur le greenwashing 🍿

Ce peuple civilisé est très touchant ❤️ "Ca nous a montré à quel point nous sommes vulnérables, ça nous a fait du bien quelque part", dit María Jesús Cobos, une avocate de 50 ans rencontrée mardi matin à bord d'un bus. Beau reportage AFP par Marie Giffard www.france24.com/fr/info-en-c...

Well, Ana Toni told us, about the Americans: “They haven't come to the meetings”, in particular to COP meetings of heads of delegations in Japan and in Germany (Petersberg dialogue). www.barrons.com/news/trump-s...

The CEO of #COP30, Ana Toni, is in Paris. She invited AFP to the Brazilian embassy. The European Union was on her mind! "It would be extremely disappointing" if the EU retreated on its climate goals, she told @legendreafp.bsky.social and me... www.barrons.com/news/don-t-m...

Major economies are overstating how much carbon their forests can absorb in a climate accounting fudge that could allow them to use even more fossil fuels. The assessment singled out Brazil and Australia, Story by @kellymacnamara.bsky.social @afpnews.bsky.social phys.org/news/2025-04...

The ‘spiral of silence’ blocking climate action and how to end it - Globally, people are hugely supportive of climate action but wrongly believe their fellow citizens are not - revealing the truth could spark a social tipping point #The89Percent Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Trump administration ordered the closure of the Millennium Challenge Corporation, a US agency that invested billions in African infrastructure in return for good governance, effectively ceding ground to China. It will immediately exit projects (AFP) www.yahoo.com/news/trump-k...

You may have heard of @coveringclimatenow.org 89 Percent Project 89percent.org. Between 80 and 89% of the world’s people want their governments to be doing more to address climate change. @afpnews.bsky.social decided to show what we mean by climate action in 4 different locations, on 3 continents

The news is too hard to understand! The data from @reutersinstitute.bsky.social at #IJF25

This is the recording of our panel on *climate training* at the Perugia Journalism Festival #IJF25 with @hannahhoag.bsky.social @audreycerdan.bsky.social and @coveringclimatenow.org www.youtube.com/live/P6os9zG...

In Perugia, @mariaressa.bsky.social says she won 8 of her 10 court cases in the Philippines. “Many Filippinos today believe I am a criminal - and I am, since I was convicted. This is how the law is weaponized” #IJF25 (btw Maria Ressa says she has to request permission to travel to the Supreme Court)

At a panel on investigating “corporate killers” (big food, tobacco, fossil fuels, alcohol) at #IJF25: “There’s not enough health journalists in the world… Business reporters too often don’t report on health” - @bhallman.bsky.social

One of my favorite quotes by @leakorsgaard.bsky.social at #IJF25: Climate change stories “shouldn’t feel like homework” for readers/listeners

For climate training nerds, watch our panel at #IJF25 in Perugia today at 16:00 CET, with @audreycerdan.bsky.social Mark Hertsgaard of @coveringclimatenow.org and @hannahhoag.bsky.social www.journalismfestival.com/programme/20...

Climate-change deniers use Grok AI to write a climate-change denier article, and published that in a climate-change denial journal. They even had to 'steer' Grok a couple of times, because its text was not climate-change denier enough.

"Ice cubes": here's pretty much what's left of Mount Kenya's glaciers. Our @afpnews.bsky.social photographer, VJ and text reporter hiked up Africa's second highest mountain. The photos by Luis Tato are 😮 www.bangkokpost.com/world/298402...

Too much water in some places, too little in others: fantastic reporting by @afpnews.bsky.social journalists from two locations in South America facing extreme water challenges, in Bolivia and Peru. Photos and videos are shocking uk.news.yahoo.com/poor-areas-p... www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Snorkel with me to understand climate change, Palau president tells Trump. @afpnews.bsky.social story by Sara Hussein currently at the World Ocean Summit in Tokyo www.yahoo.com/news/snorkel...

Today @AFP and @Source_Mat are publishing an investigation that reveals how the burgeoning plastic credit sector relies heavily on the polluting cement industry to burn plastic waste [1/4]

An enormous chunk has broken off the world's largest iceberg, scientists told AFP @afpnews.bsky.social on Friday, by Nick Perry www.yahoo.com/news/first-m...

Applications open for jobs in *Antarctica*. They're looking for "carpenters, chefs, electricians, plumbers, boating officers, plant operators and more" "Salaries start at £29,273 per annum" Fun fact: "There are no external costs whilst living on station" www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/s...

Great front page pic of #COP29 in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Nothing in NYT international edition. FT picked carbon credits