Grimly crisp illustration of the mechanism whereby toxic and unrepresentative social media shapes mainstream coverage. Prominent journalist logs onto X, sees claim, assumes truth, repeats in national broadcast from trusted mainstream news org. Happens all day every day, just especially stark here.

it's my understanding that these findings are causing some consternation at the reform conference

Going for 'no' here

farage is opening pandora's box by promising to get fracking. i've identified 34 reform target seats that would be impacted, and exclusive polling shows it's a divisive issue amongst 'reform-curious' voters — my latest for @unearthednews.bsky.social unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/09/05/r...

the UK is on a dark path www.spectator.co.uk/article/robe...

quite funny that douglas carswell deleted this on the other site

The American Chemistry Council is supporting a new effort to weaponize AI to combat science it doesn't like, according to materials obtained by EPI. Story by @dharna.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

📢Good news: The 200-year-old Vagrancy Act is finally to be repealed, meaning rough sleeping will no longer be treated as a crime in England & Wales. CIH have long called for an approach that tackles the root causes of homelessness—not punishes people for it. This is a welcome & long overdue change🧵⬇️

water comanies are freaking out that they're about to have millions of tonnes of toxic sewage sludge with 'nowhere to go' my latest for @unearthednews.bsky.social with @ellieodonnell.bsky.social unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/06/09/s...

This is incredibly unfair: high-income nations with large dairy sectors are looking to adopt a "no additional warming" target, avoiding the methane cuts needed to meet international targets and pledges. We have written an open letter to the NZ PM and I spoke to the FT👇🧵 www.ft.com/content/2ea6...

Three years after our investigation into Total's huge carbon offsetting project in the Congo, the oil giant is abandoning it - @reporterre.net reports. It's reportedly stopped funding the project & pulled staff out the country. It planted 12.5% of the intended trees. reporterre.net/TotalEnergie...

what a stat new data centre = the emissions of an airport www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

top notch supply chain investigating by @hazelhealy.bsky.social & @desmog.com www.desmog.com/2025/05/22/r...

buried in this @economist.com story: shale gas giant harold hamm (a big player in trumpworld) held a summit with oil execs to make sure the ai boom is powered by fossil fuels cc @ketanjoshi.co @dougparr.bsky.social www.economist.com/business/202...

What’s the point of banning greenwashing if big brands can just carry on? Our latest investigation has found major brands have continued to promote green claims, months or even years after they were ruled “misleading” by the UK ad watchdog: unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/05/14/m...

this whole story is embarassing, but esp because the journo (called james crisp lol) calls picnic food 'british tapas' www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05...

New from me and @ellieodonnell.bsky.social Historic landfills pose a looming environmental threat We found over 2,600 sites with potentially hazardous waste close to watercourses across England And over 100 sites that have flooded since 2000 unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/04/26/h...

"The biggest consequence might be losing entire ecosystems before scientists have a chance to understand them."

in what world is this acceptable www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/c...

🐄 JBS, the world’s biggest meat company, says it’s cleaning up its supply chain in the Amazon by the end of this year. 🌳 We spoke to 30+ ranchers and industry leaders. The vast majority said JBS will miss its target: it’s “humanly impossible”, said one. unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/04/17/j...

tasty meat story by @desmog.bsky.social / @theguardian.com today www.theguardian.com/environment/... the PR firm it focuses on is irish agency Red Flag, who i've had a couple of run-ins with over the years...

New from me: I've spent the last 6 months compiling a map of data centres, whose locations are generally secret, operated by Amazon, Microsoft and Google. Cross-referencing that map with areas of water scarcity shows many are in the world's driest areas. www.source-material.org/amazon-micro...

didn't know i was going to appear in the new yorker this week but proud to represent all zachs in the war with our almost namesakes www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts...

At this moment, it’s simply reassuring to know that this set of discerning policy professionals has also reformed the country’s medical research agenda, energy R&D portfolio, foreign aid and intelligence program, and military doctrine. We are in good hands.

"A very large Italian man came up to me, tears in his eyes, and said 'Sir, we would love to have your beautiful beef. Our beef is weak, so weak.'"

So many fascinating nuggets in this FT story, including how Farage predicts ditching net zero will be 'the next Brexit' www.ft.com/content/ecb8...

"The company is run by Richard Smith, a businessman who owns 55 Tufton Street, a Westminster townhouse that is home to some of Britain’s most influential right-wing lobbying and research groups" www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/w...

Ever heard of a 'pyrolysis' plant? It's almost certainly where your car tyres will end up, sent by UK exporters to be 'boiled' into a toxic oil. The same plants are killing people. I've seen footage of kids, who lived on site, covered in burns. Read on: www.source-material.org/waste-tyre-p...

Hard to overstate the gravity of this event, which could very well be the first major shot in a campaign to dismantle US civil society as we know it.

as kemi badenoch describes the UK's net zero goal as 'impossible', it's worth noting that the country's emissions are the lowest they've been since 1872

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch claims the UK goal of net zero emissions by 2050 is impossible. • No alternative date offered • No report/analysis showing impossible • No detail on how/why impossible • No figure on £ impact of net zero despite claiming will "bankrupt us" • No new plan to cut energy bills

absolutely no shade on @stokel.bsky.social for an incredible scoop but the fact that this is FOIable is an absolute disaster www.newscientist.com/article/2472...

lol the farage / lowe feud is reportedly fuelled in part by reform's anti net zero policies www.ft.com/content/d7cb...

Excellent turn of phrase - "double climate dividend" - in this paper by @paulbehrens.bsky.social et al. Shifting high-meat diets toward plants benefits the climate in 2 ways: 1. Reducing emissions from ag production 2. Reducing ag land needs, enabling ecosystem restoration/avoiding deforestation 🧪

Trump's aid cuts are bad news for international climate finance. I looked through the available data to work out how bad... Around 8% of the climate finance pledged to developing countries by rich countries last year came from the US. Those funds are now under threat. ➡️ buff.ly/BuxwfSL

"2024 was the worst year for bumblebees in the UK since records began" - with numbers falling by almost a quarter compared to the 2010-2023 average Alarming stats from @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/global/2025/...

this goes for americans working in the clean energy sector too — the UK and EU should 💯 be trying to lure them over www.thetimes.com/us/business/...

eat fewer kebabs! ngl i laughed at this framing of the new climate change committee report www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Making people too scared to fly is how we overcome this hard-to-abate source of CO₂ emissions.

Britain’s net zero economy is booming, CBI says Green sector growing at triple the rate of the UK economy, providing high-wage jobs and increasing energy security #netzero #cimatecrisis Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

just discovered my story from 2021 - about why then UN climate envoy mark carney can't call his investment firm 'net zero' - has become v popular with canadian conservatives, using it to attack him for being pro-climate this makes me uncomfortable unearthed.greenpeace.org/2021/02/26/m...

project 2025 comes to london. kudos to desmog for snagging the guestlist www.desmog.com/2025/02/16/l...

i know the US gives them $$ but the IEA would be mad to succumb to pressure from oil industry backed republicans www.eenews.net/articles/rep...

Did anyone ask Farage how much this would increase energy bills? Because from the taxes to the higher cost of burying cables to the loss of energy storage to the increased gas imports to the hiked cost of capital this would send bills up substantially.

really interesting new report (with a great name: dairytales) describes how the livestock industry influenced the EU's methane strategy, inc using research from the UC Davis clear center changingmarkets.org/report/dairy...

Two recent grim numbers in the quest to decarbonize air travel: Flights jumped 10% last year (reaching an all-time high), while use of cleaner jet fuel (SAF) missed industry expectations, reaching just 0.3% of all jet fuel. We break it down here (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

it can be hard to compliment the UK govt, but it's really really good that it is an honest-to-god climate leader, and is fighting to keep COP credible www.bloomberg.com/news/article...