Reform's promise of a fracking bonanza if they win power could cost them in the north. Smart bit of mapping from @zdboren.bsky.social and @richasyal.bsky.social shows dozens of the constituencies most likely to be fracked are prime Reform targets unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/09/05/r...

The way water companies use farmland as the dumping ground for sewage sludge is building up massive risks for nature and our food system Neither the industry nor our politicians have wanted to bear the cost of fixing this problem, so they've left it in the long grass But they know that can't last

People are worried that this could be harming farmland, ever since Unearthed uncovered a secret Environment Agency (EA) report showing that this sludge contained a cocktail of toxic contaminants like microplastics and ‘forever chemicals’ 3/6

A recent investigation by @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social has exposed that if new regulations come into force to stop this reckless sludge spreading, water companies will be left with millions of tonnes of waste without a home. And their plan? To make you, the public, pay for the clean-up. Again. 😡

A real crisis has finally made it from the shadows into the light - what to do with all the sewage sludge we produce if you can't spread it on land anymore? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We've just released a joint statement with some incredible NGOs and individuals calling on the Environment Minister to give a steer to the Environment Agency to update the testing and regulating regime of sewage sludge. Full statement here or read on in this 🧵 fightingdirty.org/open-stateme...

Amazing new investigation from @ellieodonnell.bsky.social and @zdboren.bsky.social Water companies are scared the govt is about to crack down on agricultural river pollution, because it could stop them dumping millions of tonnes of sewage sludge on farmland unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/06/09/s...

Sharp investigative work here by @richasyal.bsky.social

🐄 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...

I have been reporting on deforestation in Brazil for years. Last year, along with @aliceross.bsky.social and Naira Hofmeister, I decided to dig into beef giant JBS’s flagship promise: to eliminate deforestation from its Amazon supply chain by the end of 2025. So what’s actually changed?

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 🚢

This is good news. But the UK is still exporting huge amounts of this *same* banned, bee-killing pesticide overseas Last year the UK exported 374 tonnes of thiamethoxam to countries like Morocco and Ivory Coast. That's enough to spray the whole of England unearthed.greenpeace.org/2024/12/08/u...

NEW The UK has rejected an application by farmers to use a bee-killing pesticide on sugar beet in England This is a big deal For the past four years in a row, the last government approved emergency use of the neonicotinoid Will likely delight conservationists, infuriate farmers

Yesterday, the EPA warned that toxic PFAS chemicals in the sewage sludge that is spread on US farmland as fertiliser may be causing cancer The UK also spreads huge amounts of sludge on farms. Like the US, we know this sludge contains PFAS, but don't routinely test for it apnews.com/article/sewa...

NEW on Unearthed: The best environmental journalism of 2024. From across the media and the planet, including bold undercover investigations and powerful public interest science journalism, Unearthed reporters select the stories we wish we had written this year. 🧵👇

“Our government cannot continue to permit this kind of exploitation." - Green Party MP @sianberry.bsky.social responds to Unearthed's new investigation, which found that companies exported 8,500 tonnes of banned pesticides from the UK last year unearthed.greenpeace.org/2024/12/08/u...

When his right side seized up after working the fields of his small-holding, Valdemar Postanovicz thought he was having a stroke. He had absorbed Reglone, a powerful herbicide based on diquat - banned in the UK, but produced here and shipped to Brazil: unearthed.greenpeace.org/2024/12/08/b...

Last year, 8,489 tonnes of chemicals banned on British farms due to health and environmental concerns were sent abroad Including a lot of diquat, replacement for paraquat, with bad health impacts It hammers the land to produce commodity crops for export www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Rotterdam Convention is basically the only control that exists (at an international level) on the trade in banned chemicals As we can see, it's had a limited effect

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...

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/...

Amazing scoop here from Reuters The FBI is investigating an Exxon public affairs consultant's links to a hack of environmental activists' emails Stolen docs are *still being used* by an Exxon-backed trade group to disrupt climate litigation against Exxon and others www.reuters.com/business/ene...

At the UN plastic treaty negotiations starting again today, the fight is between countries who want to curb plastic production, and big petrochemical producers, who say more recycling is enough This investigation casts light on what a more-recycling-only strategy means for the world

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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Panama's lead negotiator Juan Carlos Monterrey is *furious* with latest #COP29 texts "The $250bn offered by [rich] countries is a spit on the face of vulnerable nations. They offer crumbs while we bear the dead. Outrageous, evil and remorseless." Liveblog 👇 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

REVEALED | Internal McKinsey forecasting found clients were set to bust global climate goals. "We are serving a client portfolio that is likely on the 3 to 5 degrees warming... this portfolio contains more than half of the world's worst polluters." www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Really great investigative work here from @emmahoward.bsky.social and @zdboren.bsky.social

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