Water companies are issuing increasing amounts in 'green' bonds - over £10bn since 2017. We found cases where funds have refinanced completed projects & others where the money was used for activities that companies are obliged by law to deliver My latest: unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/11/30/w...

Water companies have borrowed over £10bn in 'green' bonds - and keep borrowing more. We analysed Bloomberg data & found that the industry issued a third of the UK corporate green bonds so far this year. And still the sewage crisis goes on. unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/11/30/w...

A quarter of Britain’s native plants are now at risk of extinction The first update in two decades to a “red list” of plants found a substantial increase in the number of threatened species www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

“We need to be honest with ourselves that travel is not sustainable in its current format and anything suggesting otherwise is greenwashing.” Refreshing honesty from a global travel company www.theguardian.com/business/202...

This is a rare and amazing environmental success story & we really should be shouting more about it. In 2019, KCL estimated that without action, it would take 193 years for London to meet the legal limit. Birmingham, Manchester & Liverpool all recorded worse results. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Great (read scary) investigation into the Tony Blair Institute, its relationship with a US tech billionaire & efforts to get NHS health data opened up for AI I also had no idea TBI was so big: 900 staff! HT @petergeoghegan.bsky.social @maybulman.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

My latest story was also published in the Guardian www.theguardian.com/environment/...

As Trump visits the king & protestors march through London, we obtained data showing that the president's Scottish golf course repeatedly breached sewage contamination limits My latest for @unearthednews.bsky.social unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/09/17/t...

Environment minister Mary Creagh has announced the government will make it harder for farmers to apply for emergency authorisations of a group of bee-killing pesticides known as neonics Says guidance today will require applications to take full account of the risks pesticides pose to pollinators

Lush setting for a conference I must say - by the capital's only chalk stream, the River Wandle At UK River Summit - lots of talk about the government's review of the water sector, in coming weeks and about the unfolding drought. Hmu if you're hear & want to chat! #UKRiverSummit

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Britain's datacentres are already consuming close to 10 billion litres of water per year - and that's before any AI boom by @adamvaughan.bsky.social @foxglovelegal.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

The gap between how much water England has and how much it will need in future just got bigger again By @shoshaadie.bsky.social www.endsreport.com/article/1922...

NEW: Fashion waste is overwhelming Ghana — and now it’s spilling into Accra’s protected wetlands. With @greenpeaceafrica.org, we found UK brands and huge new dump sites in a conservation area home to endangered turtles. 👉 unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/06/18/u...

📢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🧵⬇️

That's "3.4 million wet tonnes" of literally toxic sh*t with "nowhere to go" to be exact. Folks at home in the Shire will also be interested to know that the Midlands is where the landfill space is, so if there's a sudden shortfall of land, it's likely coming your way....

Really enjoying nature getting one over on Big Tech here... One source familiar with the construction told the Guardian "it had been a rolling three-year saga & said some foxes had begun to dig burrows in the perfectly manicured grounds." www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

This happened for decades with asbestos: industry lobbied to deem certain types safer than others, delaying a ban that would have saved countless lives

This is a really important & quite shocking, investigation. The water industry is worried that in just 3 years time it may have nowhere to send millions of tonnes of sludge. Sludge is spread on farms but there are now concerning levels of PFAS in it. unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/06/09/s...

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...

NEW from me: China's CO2 emissions fell ~1.6% in the first quarter and have now been flat or down for more than a year. This is the first time on record that emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, not slow power demand.

"[It's] largely underground, changes in volume depending on whether it’s rained recently & tries to swallow you up every time you set foot in it" The government wants you to know that mapping the biggest carbon store on UK land was not easy - & it's not healthy. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The same Tony Blair has been paid to advise oil rich autocratic states including Azerbaijan, UAE and Kazakhstan This should be included in *every* story about his net zero comments www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

BREAKING: Brazil meat giant JBS has received approval from the SEC for its plan to list on the New York Stock Exchange. The new comes days after we revealed its pledge to rid its vast Amazon beef supply chain of deforestation by January is likely to be broken www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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

This is a nuclear-powered icebreaker, operated by a state-owned Russian company called Atomflot. Atomflot has been sanctioned by the EU, UK and US since 2023. 🧵

NEW INVESTIGATION 🚢 Companies including Shell and Total import millions of tonnes of gas a year to Europe from the Russian Arctic on specialised LNG tankers. Last winter, these shipments relied on a fleet of sanctioned icebreakers to cross Siberian waters 🚢

New from UE: The UK is exporting thousands of tonnes of a toxic weedkiller called diquat, even though its use has been banned here for years. More than half goes to Brazil. We spoke to the Brazilian farmers poisoned with this dangerous export. unearthed.greenpeace.org/2024/12/08/b...

We've been tracing the impact of the UK's trade in banned pesticides We found a growing number of Brazilian farmers poisoned with a toxic weedkiller. And exports of enough banned bee-killing pesticides to spray the whole of England The story's out now unearthed.greenpeace.org/2024/12/08/u...

The Amazon soy moratorium might not sound exciting, but it is arguably the most impactful agreement on deforestation in history. Weakening it now would be a very, very worrying move. Here’s why 🧵👇 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Super important news here: A historic agreement that has helped curb deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon for nearly twenty years is under threat from big agribusiness Weakening the soy moratorium could push the Amazon closer to a catastrophic tipping point www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This is going to be one of the key points of contention in these hearings - whether state responsibility on climate change is limited to the UNFCCC. ITLOS said it absolutely is not in its own advisory opinion earlier this year www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Thinking of all the exhausted people going home from plastic treaty negotiations today & curious to know how people feeling? It's hard to know from afar given the strong support for plastic production caps but no deal & silence from the US & China, not to mention Trump incoming. #INC5

The list includes five delegates from the Alliance to End Plastic Waste - a nonprofit with members including Exxon, Shell & Total, which was set up by a powerful American oil & chemical lobby group We published an investigation about them last week 👇 #INC5 unearthed.greenpeace.org/2024/11/20/a...

Fleas exposed to a mixture showed "a markedly reduced number of offspring". Yet more alarming science for negotiators at #INC5 to bear in mind. Plastics and PFAS are often regulated separately. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

If you're following the UN plastic treaty talks this week, you'll want to read this 👇 A leaked dossier of 400 documents from a plastic industry group reveals their strategy to combat "a tide of anti-plastic sentiment" - especially among young people. #INC5 www.nytimes.com/2024/11/27/c...

it's day 1 of the final negotiations for a global plastics treaty and 2 US senators and an influential representative have called out Big Oil's tactics using mine and @emmahoward.bsky.social's investigation @whitehouse.senate.gov @edmarkey.bsky.social @repjayapal.bsky.social

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Five years ago, as campaigners fought to get a global plastic treaty off the ground, 30 companies involved in plastic – from Exxon to Veolia – got together to launch a $1.5 billion organisation to “end plastic waste”. So how have they been doing? 🧵 #INC5 unearthed.greenpeace.org/2024/11/20/a...

Five years ago, as campaigners fought to get a global plastic treaty off the ground, 30 companies involved in plastic – from Exxon to Veolia – got together to launch a $1.5 billion organisation to “end plastic waste”. So how have they been doing? 🧵 #INC5 unearthed.greenpeace.org/2024/11/20/a...

NEW | Our major new investigation reveals how McKinsey & Company is helping to boost fossil fuel production and use around the world, while at the same time claiming to be a climate ally. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Hello Bluesky!🔵Starting on here the way I mean to go on... Investigation out today: as UN plastic treaty talks kick off in S Korea, we dug into the organisation launched by the oil & plastic industries to "end plastic waste". Spoiler: it's not managed to unearthed.greenpeace.org/2024/11/20/a...

The oil and chemical companies behind an initiative to 'end plastic waste' have produced 1000x more plastic than they've cleaned up A new investigation by @zdboren.bsky.social and @emmahoward.bsky.social unearthed.greenpeace.org/2024/11/20/a...

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