"The objective is really to divert attention away from the production of plastics". This week on the Land and Climate Podcast, Alasdair speaks to Dr Rob Ralston @policyrelevant.bsky.social, lecturer in Public Policy at the University of Edinburgh. Listen now: landclimate.org/plastics-cir...

This week on the Land and Climate Podcast, @bertiehb.bsky.social is joined by Gökçe Günel riceanthro.bsky.social to talk about her new book, “Floating Power: Energy, Infrastructure, and South-South Relations,” published by Duke University Press landclimate.org/floa...

“'Maybe we are transitioning in reverse,' said Paul...The energy landscape he had observed did not correspond to the expected timeline of the energy transition." Read an excerpt from @drgokcegunel.bsky.social's new book @dukepress.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social @patchworkethno.bsky.social

“UK trade unions have been excluded from policymaking around climate. This has completely eroded trust – which needs to be rebuilt.” @bertiehb.bsky.social and @priestleycentre.bsky.social's Prof. Vera Trappmann discuss the labour movement’s involvement in climate policy. landclimate.org/trad...

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has shone a light on global over-reliance on fossil fuels and why we need to transition away to avoid further crises, says Steve Trent (Steve Trent), founder and CEO of @ejfoundation.org Read the feature in full below: landclimate.org/the-...

“The structural vulnerability that produced the crisis - civilisational dependence on a 21-mile waterway - will persist unless political leaders have the courage to lead its elimination.” In @landclimate.bsky.social, @stevetrent.bsky.social discusses the impact Trump’s war will have on 🌍 energy.

"The lesson of 2022, when Putin weaponised gas exports against Europe, was not fully absorbed. The Hormuz crisis repeats it with different actors and geography, but identical structural logic..." Read our new feature from @stevetrent.bsky.social @ejfoundation.org: landclimate.org/the-fires-of...

Growing pains: how will the fertiliser crisis affect food supply? I joined Alasdair MacEwen to discuss the fertilizer crisis on the Land and Climate Review podcast. landclimate.org/growing-pains/ @landclimate.bsky.social

“The closure of the Strait of Hormuz does not only affect oil and gas - this is also a fertiliser crisis.” Alasdair MacEwen and Noah Gordon discuss international threats to food security fuelled by the Iran war on our latest podcast 🔊 Listen here: landclimate.org/grow...

On whether we've already lost the fight (a bit!! But not entirely!!)

On dodgy disclosure

Fabricating demand for gen AI 🤝🏻 fabricating demand for fossil fuels REALLY lovely to speak to @alimacewen.bsky.social at @landclimate.bsky.social about digital bloat and the power we have to stop it Sign up: one of the best climate podcasts out there!!. landclimate.org/ketan-joshi-...

Companies "fabricated demand for something that nobody asked for," @ketanjoshi.co tells @alimacewen.bsky.social in an interview debunking tech-sector climate promises. "In doing so, it's fabricating demand for fossil fuels as well." Listen to the podcast below: landclimate.org/ketan-joshi-...

Today we published our latest investigation, into climate aid & carbon capture. UK funds that could have funded clean energy in poor countries instead developed Chinese oil extraction - including in Xinjiang while Uyghurs were facing human rights abuses. 1/7🧵👇 landclimate.org/xinjiang-ccus/

What is "climateflation" and how bad could it get for our weekly food shop? @ejcrobinson sat down with one of the UK's most prominent climate, biodiversity and soils scientists, Pete Smith, to understand his new research programme, with the UK MACC Hub and @aberdeenuni.

We've just published Ted Theisinger‘s review of the late James C. Scott’s “In Praise of Floods” @yalebooks.bsky.social and Ellen Wohl’s “Following the Bend” Princeton University Press Two big new contributions to 'river thought'. landclimate.org/gone...

This week, @bertiehb.bsky.social is joined by Dr. Sanam Mahoozi for a nuanced discussion around the influence of climate and environment on Iranian politics, media, and the recent civil unrest that led to brutal crackdowns and killings. Listen below: landclimate.org/are-...

Please, listen to our very own Dr Poberezhskaya discussing #Russia and #climatechange.

This week on the Land and Climate Podcast, Alasdair MacEwen is joined by Associate Professor Marianna Poberezhskaya to discuss Russia’s complicated relationship with climate change. Listen below: www.landclimate.org/...

"The devastation Ukraine has suffered under Russian invasion has been observed worldwide, but an accompanying threat has gone unnoticed: the rise of secretive legal challenges from foreign corporations..." Camille Corcoran in a new LCR investigation: www.landclimate.org/... 🧵1/7

“What Trump is after is an expansion of American territory that would make him a historic president.” @alimacewen.bsky.social is joined by @cryopolitics.com to examine Greenland’s complex history and her views on the reasons behind US threats of annexation. www.landclimate.org/us-greenland/

“Carbon capture is a ‘miracle’ technology that causes more harm than good, serving primarily as a means for the fossil fuel industry to reinvent itself.” Read an excerpt from Mark Z. Jacobson's new book, “Still No Miracles Needed” Cambridge University Press www.landclimate.org/...

Are we closer to reaching clean energy than we might think? Bertie is joined by Dr. Mark Jacobson, author of "Still No Miracles Needed," where the two discuss how existing technology can solve the climate crisis. www.landclimate.org/are-we-close... @mzjacobson.bsky.social

Carbon capture does not reduce emissions - three case studies to prove it. Instead, carbon capture causes more harm than good, and only serves to prolong fossil-fuel industries Edited excerpts from "Still No Miracles Needed" www.landclimate.org/ccs-no-mirac... @landclimate.bsky.social

“We have 97% of the technologies we need to solve the climate, air pollution, energy and security problems the world faces.” @bertiehb.bsky.social speaks to Mark Z. Jacobson about his new book, “Still No Miracles Needed,” published by Cambridge University Press www.landclimate.org/...

“Drax breached environmental laws more than 3 times a day on average,” writes Camille Corcoran Drax has violated its permit regulations over 6,000 times in Louisiana, a new investigation by Land and Climate Review has found:

"Drax has taken the best of what they had left: their peace, #cleanair, and health." Read how #Drax's subsidies in the UK enable its #biomass burning in Gloster, Mississippi, at the expense of the community's health.

Drax has been caught with an additional 6,000 environmental breaches at its Louisiana pellet mills, bringing the biomass company’s total US violations to 18,092. Read the new investigation and access the database of the unveiled violations in the link below: www.landclimate.org/... 1/6

“History is full of examples of profound regional droughts. As we're heading into the future, drought seems to be becoming a lot more common, more severe.” @dagomardegroot.bsky.social & @alimacewen.bsky.social talk about climate change’s role in societal collapse. www.landclimate.org/regime-change/

Wetlands across the globe are being devoured by fire, releasing carbon and destroying vital ecosystems. In an op-ed in @landclimate.bsky.social, EJF CEO and Founder Steve Trent argues that governments must take action to protect wetlands and the Indigenous and local communities that rely on them ⬇️

“Since Drax came, we been dropping like flies.” Last year, Land and Climate Review uncovered more than 11,000 environmental violations at Drax's US pellet mills. Last week, @corcorancamille.bsky.social and The Sunday Times revealed another 6,000 violations. www.thetimes.com/uk/...

“The Arctic has been subjected to nuclear testing and used as an experimental ground for technologies of war.” @alimacewen.bsky.social speaks to Mia Bennett, Arctic expert & co-author of “Unfrozen: The Fight for The Future for The Arctic,” published by @yalepress.bsky.social www.landclimate.org/...

"Fires impacted every Indigenous territory in the Pantanal: the Guató tribe lost 90% of their land. This is the frontline of a crisis that the world refuses to see." Wetlands blazed in 2025, but new political pledges were made as well. Read analysis from @stevetrent.bsky.social @ejfoundation.org

“There is history in the collective memory - introduced 200 years ago - which is blurred & unreflective.” @bertiehb.bsky speaks with Annette Kehnel, author of “The Green Ages,” who argues that modern sustainability ideas are Victorian – & that the future is medieval. www.landclimate.org/...

“It should be no surprise that such successes take time – they are worth waiting for.” Read an edited excerpt from @bertiehb.bsky.social’s interview with Matthew Hole on fusion, debunking claims that private companies will beat the public sector to a working fusion reactor www.landclimate.org/...

“Claiming fusion, which has never been demonstrated, will produce power within five years is ludicrous.” In case you missed it, click below to hear Professor Matthew Hole on the $10 billion surge in private investment and the likelihood that fusion could be operational within the next decade.

This week, @bertiehb.bsky.social is joined by Professor Matthew Hole where the two discuss the timeframe for grid integration, the geopolitical dimensions of the emerging energy race, deregulation, and the high-risk, high-reward nature of fusion technology. www.landclimate.org/...

"These changes threaten water supply and infrastructure for billions of people" @leti-polar.bsky.social, @zoraur0ra.bsky.social, and @pxh.bsky.social warn that the Earth’s frozen regions are approaching irreversible tipping points, and call for urgent action at COP30: www.landclimate.org/...

"The courts remain designed for the persecution of Indigenous peoples and those who defend their rights.” Read an edited excerpt from "La Lucha," where Bertha Zúñiga Cáceres recounts her mother's fight to protect a sacred river and her tragic assassination. @charcopress.com www.landclimate.org/...

Last week, @dagomardegroot.bsky.social joined @alimacewen.bsky.social on the Land and Climate Podcast, where he outlined climate shifts throughout history - from the Pleistocene through the Little Ice Age to the current Anthropocene - and their impacts on human civilisation. Click below to listen!

This week, @alimac.bsky.social talks with @dagomardegroot.bsky.social about his new book, “Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean,” they discuss how the solar system has shaped human history and how humanity is now reshaping space. @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social www.landclimate.org/...

"21st century society appears constitutionally incapable of solving any problem. All it can do is to expunge symptoms.” Click to read an excerpt from @wimcarton.bsky.social and Andreas Malm’s new book, “The Long Heat,” published by @versobooks.bsky.social www.landclimate.org/...

This is an excellent interview on the “future” city experiments in the Gulf; especially on how Abu Dhabi’s Masdar City is working out.

Drax faces lawsuits over claims workers developed asthma from wood dust

Proud of our team at @landclimate.bsky.social for bringing these cases to light. These people have been failed and deserve better. I hope they get justice asap!

Exclusive: our investigation into the link between occupational asthma and biomass power has been published today by @theguardian.com We reveal that 10 lawsuits have been filed against Drax by workers following specialist diagnoses. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/business/202...

“These cities have a clear separation from the outside. These utopias will be preserved, while the outside is imagined as a space of catastrophe.” This week, @bertiehb.bksy.social interviews @drgokcegunel.bsky.social about smart city projects in the UAE and Saudi Arabia. www.landclimate.org/...

"Truly decarbonising would make existing fossil fuel assets and infrastructure worthless." In an excerpt from our podcast interview, @greenprofgreen.bsky.social explains why offset markets and carbon pricing are failing to avert climate catastrophe. www.landclimate.org/...

“Land tenure is climate resilience infrastructure,” say Frederike Klümper and Joanna Trimble @tmgthinktank.bsky.social But "The UN's most famous and politically powerful climate treaty remains behind on land rights." Click below to read their advice for COP30 delegates: www.landclimate.org/...

This week on the Land and Climate Podcast, @alimacewen.bsky.social interviews @wimcarton.bsky.social co-author of “The Long Heat: Climate Politics When It’s Too Late,” written with Andreas Malm and published by @versobooks.bsky.social Listen to the episode: www.landclimate.org/...