Academic studies with industry links are 16 (*sixteen!*) times more likely to draw positive conclusions about the health impacts of meat than independent research - according to a shocking new review by the University of Queensland @teimaui.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2026/05/21/i...

The UAE’s ruling royal family banked more than €71 million in EU farming subsidies. Farms in Romania, Spain and Italy controlled by the Abu Dhabi royals grow crops destined for export to the Gulf. ✏️ Latest for @desmog.com @theguardian.com @eldiario.es G4Media www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

🔴 NEW: Gulf Royal Family Banks Over €70 Million in EU Farming Funds 📝 By @clarecarlile.bsky.social @polpareja.bsky.social & Alina Mihai A collaboration with @theguardian.com @eldiario.es & G4Media www.desmog.com/2026/05/06/g...

Agribusiness execs banked $515 million from selling shares during key price hikes due to the Iran and Ukraine wars The findings come weeks after the United Nations’ World Food Programme warned that the conflict in the Middle East could push roughly 45 million more people into acute hunger

🔴 NEW - Trump Accused of Trying to ‘Divide and Destabilise’ Europe Through New MAGA Fund UK and EU leaders have been called upon to “reject” MAGA’s “foreign interference”. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social, @clarecarlile.bsky.social & @writesbright.bsky.social

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

The European Commission wants to scrap routine checks on pesticide safety. Legal experts say the move would be unlawful....

🔴 NEW | EU Plans to Weaken Pesticide Rules ‘Unlawful’, Experts Say Parliament has “a legal and moral obligation to reject these dangerous proposals”, says Dutch MEP @anjahazekamp.bsky.social following today’s legal opinion 📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social👇 www.desmog.com/2026/01/27/e...

With the tragic news of another civilian murdered by US para-state forces this w/e came a timely reminder of the company that Farage keeps... @writesbright.bsky.social's piece for @desmog.com & The Mirror, totted up the bill for Farage's recent flights to see Trump. British public, forewarned.

"On 26 December, a group of United Nations rapporteurs expressed grave concern about the treatment of these prisoners... They had “serious questions” about our government’s compliance with international human rights law".

Two months ago, the lobby group and many of the companies leading the exit were touting their green credentials at COP30 in Brazil....

the writing has been on the walls for some time now but i'm genuinely surprised just how quickly the soy moratorium has collapsed not surprised, however, that cargill, bunge etc dropped it as soon as it became inconvenient www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

📍 NEW 📍 NY Young Republicans celebrated with far-right politicians from France, Germany, and other European nations at a lavish annual gala in Manhattan — an event co-organized by a think tank linked to Hungary's right-wing Orban government.

🔴 NEW 🔴 The world’s largest salmon producer Mowi stands accused of a charm offensive in the Scottish Highlands that distracts from its “polluting, smelly and invasive” fish farms, say local residents and fishers, in what used to be “pristine” Highlands lochs. with @desmog.com

🔴 REVEALED 🔴 The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. 📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇

🔴 ‘Divide and Conquer’: Inside the Oil and Gas Strategy to Thwart EU Green Laws U.S. fossil fuel majors led efforts to ensure corporations would not have to introduce climate action plans. 📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social

Wait - ONE businessman gave more to Reform in the last three months than all private donations to Labour, Conservatives, Lib Dems and Greens combined ??? 🤯 Christopher Harborne, a cryptocurrency investor and aviation entrepreneur, gave £9 million - a record for a single donor - acc to Politico

Pumped for this @intercept.com.br + @drilledmedia.bsky.social collab looking at Brazil's corn ethanol boom (and the role the U.S. has played in it). First story now, in English on our site &Portuguese on the Intercept Brasil site: www.intercept.com.br/2025/11/17/a... drilled.media/news/ethanol...

Campaigners are celebrating this morning as recognition of bioenergy and other "transitional fuels" is dropped from draft COP30 texts But they believe this is just the start of a sustained lobby campaign from the bioenergy sector to become fuel of choice as countries scramble to ditch fossil fuels

🔴 NEW 🔴 Backed by Industry, Brazilian Hosts Seek COP30’s Blessing for Biofuels 📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social & Maximiliano Manzoni www.desmog.com/2025/11/20/b...

🔴 NEW 🔴 In Brazil, Agribusiness Giants Hire Celebrity Influencers to Win Hearts and Minds 📝 @tjjordan.bsky.social @akhilr23.bsky.social @rachelsherrington.bsky.social @clarecarlile.bsky.social Published in partnership with @apublica.org www.desmog.com/2025/11/16/i...

Day one at COP30 and my first impression is how directly wealth translates to square meter floorspace and flashy screens at the summit Here is the pavilion for Malawi vs the pavilion for the UK 1/

I've made a spreadsheet with the event schedules for COP30 pavilions, including the UK 🇬🇧 Japan 🇯🇵 Indonesia 🇮🇩 Australia 🇦🇺 and China 🇨🇳 The UNFCCC has a schedule list, but hardly any of the major pavilions are on there. I'll update the list as I collect more ⬇️ docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

For anyone writing about or going to COP - Mammoth bit of work from @rachelsherrington.bsky.social and Gil Alessi 👏

🔴 NEW | U.S. Dairy Industry Push to Water Down Global Emissions Framework Revelations come as industry expected to gather at this year’s #COP30 summit in Belém, Brazil 📝 Latest from @clarecarlile.bsky.social👇 www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/r...

Plans for intensive livestock farms in the UK could lead to over 35million more 🐷 + 🐔 farmed here each year. Councils are green-lighting these operations despite with patchy or non-existent data. ✍️ for @desmog.com @theguardian.com on research by @sustainweb.org www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/i...

🔴 NEW: Intensive Livestock Farms Fail to Declare Climate Impacts in ‘Emissions Scandal’ Data by @sustainweb.org reveals how councils are giving green light to large-scale pig and poultry farms with patchy or non-existent climate data. 📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/i...

Every day is a good day to point out that 92% of Reform's donations were found to come from figures and groups linked to the fossil fuel industry. @desmog.com

Reading this felt even more shocking having worked on migrant workers rights because a) states are notoriously lax on finding + convicting abuses b) few migrant workers can speak out let alone get convictions due to risk of retaliation or exportation So this millions is the tip of a *huge* iceberg

If I recommend reading one thing today it's this... An amazing group of journalists have spent a year tracking the millions in CAP subsidies going to farmers who are being investigated, have been convicted, or are even in prison for violating migrant workers' rights

think that realistically I would have always been deeply, deeply worried about the rise of far-right ideas in public discourse but I truly never expected this level of blithe elite complacency, turns out I do feel worried but mostly I feel like I'm going insane, watching them do.......nothing at all

The U.S. meat industry has engaged in intrusive surveillance of animal rights groups, including monitoring romantic relationships between activists and tracking employees of leading charities. ✍️ My latest for @desmog.com

🔴 NEW 🔴 ‘Chilling’ Surveillance of Activists by Meat and Dairy Industry The Animal Agriculture Alliance, which briefs the FBI, has tracked over 2,400 individuals linked to animal welfare and environmental groups. 📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social

🔴 NEW - The meat industry has been monitoring thousands of animal welfare activists, gathering information on their biological ties and even their romantic relationships. Vital, shocking exposé from @clarecarlile.bsky.social for @desmog.com

Calls on top prosecutors to investigate Frans Timmermans were widely covered in July, in escalation of NGO funding debate What wasn't covered: that the group behind them has close ties to the EPP and "coordinated" with a far-right MEP, who denies climate science ✍️ for @desmog.com

🔴 NEW 🔴 Revealed: EPP-Linked Tax Group ‘Collaborated’ With Far-Right Party on Criminal Complaints 📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social & @phoebecooke.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2025/09/11/e...

Day Two of Reform conference, and we're getting the good stuff. At the Heartland Institute's fringe "Is Climate Realism Inevitable", we've learned that electric cars are part of a Marxist plot to control humanity, and heard calls for the abolition of the BBC.

AI ‘Slop’ Websites Are Publishing Climate Science Denial - MSN hosted AI-generated conten citing non-existent climate experts and institutions. - “AI has brought the cost of #disinformation down to nothing. It has automated bullshit” By @joeygrostern.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2025/08/27/a...

🔴 10k water quality tests have been cut by the UK's environmental regulator since May, designed to monitor the impacts of sewage, farm runoff and other pollution on rivers & lakes ✍️with the brill @ellieodonnell.bsky.social for @desmog.com & @unearthednews.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2025/07/23/s...

The Environment Agency has dropped 10,000 water quality tests that track the health of rivers and lakes due to staff shortages at their main lab. Latest from me and @clarecarlile.bsky.social

🔴 NEW - Staff Shortages Have Forced Major Cuts to Environment Agency Water Quality Monitoring, Internal Docs Reveal Conservationists warn that cancellation of thousands of tests since May will leave a “regulatory and ecological blind spot” 📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social & @ellieodonnell.bsky.social

Reform’s clean energy crackdown would cost 60,000 jobs, wipe £92 billion off the economy, and raise bills, says study

❓Who does Nigel Farage work for? Since 2024 election: £93,904 — MP salary (8.7%) £981,173 — outside income (91%) GB News (£394k) Direct Bullion (£280k) Cameo (£134k) Telegraph (£48k) Nomad Capitalist (£40k) News Corp Australia (£25k) Arizona LibertyNetwork (£25k) www.desmog.com/2025/07/15/w...

[LEAK] While all eyes are on the budget allocated to farm subsidies, the @ec.europa.eu looks set to sneakily insert restrictions on the use of “meaty” names for plant-based foods in the proposal for a CMO regulation to be unveiled on Wednesday..

NEW: Our months-long investigation traces fat-filled milk powder, the most popular Irish dairy export, on a 3,000 mile journey from Ireland to West Africa 🧵

Leaked proposals suggest EU may end farm subsidies linked environmental projects CAP accounts for 1/3rd of the EU's budget, and was only recently reformed in 2023 to better support environmental action Great rundown by @natashafoote.bsky.social @arc2020.bsky.social www.arc2020.eu/leak-cap-cru...

NEW: Getting to net-zero will be much cheaper than thought for the UK – and unchecked global warming far more costly, says OBR Quick piece / thread with 4 key charts showing, yet again, why climate action is far less costly than inaction 🧵 www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/6

In Ingleside, Texas, chemical companies Yara + Enbridge have launched initiatives touching every aspect of life, from gifting children's schools to running a blood donation drive The reason: they want to build a 'low-carbon' ammonia plant that resident say could cost their health and coastline 🧵

🔴 NEW 🔴 This Small Texas Town Is Fighting Back Against Big Ammonia buff.ly/yyjJu7K 📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social & @sarasneath.bsky.social in partnership with @texastribune.org

🔴 NEW 🔴 Rachel Reeves told an oil giant that the industry would receive a "quid pro quo" if it accepted the windfall tax hike. 📝 My @desmog.com scoop with @theguardian.com