”The planet’s energy balance is drifting further out of alignment, ocean warming is now accelerating, and the land’s capacity to absorb carbon is declining, along with other troubling trends.” #ClimateHeating www.esa.int/Applications...

"A first threshold, potentially as low as 1–2 °C above pre-industrial levels, triggers the long-term collapse of ~40% of marine ice volume in West Antarctica." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Lets not deny gravity like the US does. If they want to disregard scientific facts, let them pull out and become more and more isolated. www.politico.eu/article/us-t...

The EU's climate targets are completely off track to contain global heating to 1.5°C Every fraction of a degree the world heats, more people will die, lose their homes, lose their livelihoods That means every fraction of a degree of heating we STOP, the more people we save and destruction we avoid

The ETS is the most important and successful climate policy of the EU. It provides a market-based, predictable and stable way to transition to a sustainable economy. If EU truly wants to regain competitiveness, killing the ETS would be the worst thing you could do. www.politico.eu/article/eu-c...

EU's von der Leyen defends carbon market after leaders' criticism reut.rs/3MvY9nP

"Here we show that the South Indian Ocean—a vital conduit for interocean exchange—has experienced the strongest freshening in the Southern Hemisphere since the 1960s." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Rubio's speech is a toned-down version of what the US institutions have emanated for 12+ mos. A 15 min evocation of the white history of Euro-US relations, Colombo and colonisers get a cheer, 20th c migration cancelled, 21st c "mass" migration demonized. And ofc climate change being called a cult.

"Zo ongeveer de hele energie-intensieve industrie van Europa wil dat de afbouw van CO₂-emissierechten in het emissiehandelssysteem stopt. Dat zou de bodem onder het Europese klimaatbeleid wegslaan, en de pas aangescherpte doelen van de Green Deal onhaalbaar maken.." fd.nl/politiek/158...

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

Voor iedereen die de sprookjes gelooft dat het allemaal makkelijker wordt als je de #kdw uit de wet haalt en gaat sturen op #natuurkwaliteit. Dit zijn de drukfactoren voor de #n2000 gebieden, gebaseerd op de eerste 70 natuurdoelanalyses. #stikstof en #water. Grotere gebieden én verbinden.

Environmental stressors (food scarcity, heat) combined with pesticide exposure create effects 70x more destructive than pesticides alone, yet regulators ignore this lethal synergy. www.newstarget.com/2026-01-...

This is just criminal. It serves no purpose at all, except for helping his donors destroy the planet. www.reuters.com/business/energy/trump-direct-pentagon-buy-coal-revive-industry-bloomberg-news-says-2026-02-11/?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=698bf0f0f0b1700001e22762

A new report shows the enormous pressure EU lawmakers are coming under from American big tech giants.

"If the EU bans forever chemicals, the health costs would fall from about €39.5 billion a year in 2024 to roughly €0.5 billion by 2040, under a full phase-out scenario." www.politico.eu/article/fore...

🤢 www.politico.eu/article/avia...

@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu: Is this what energy dependency looks like? 61 US LNG tankers arrived in the EU in the first 23 days of 2026. Every delivery makes the EU more dependent on #Trump. Every dollar paid supports his agenda. Every tanker means more climate chaos. Stop US gas! #StopFossilGas

Thrilled to share our new paper on restoring tree diversity in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest!🌳 Our findings are encouraging: restoration shows high diversity, though old-growth-like composition needs more time. Amazing team effort from the Newfor team @ USP & @w-u-r.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

Instead of trading dependency on Putin for dependency on Putin's best buddy, perhaps the EU should build out its own clean domestic power supply.

Europe take note. Stand side by side by Canada and stand up against this US extortionist regime. thehill.com/homenews/adm...

The latest in our climate chaos theatre: Arctic ice melting in January!

Can someone explain to me what exactly the criticism is regarding climate / sustainability and the Mercosur-treaty based on the actual treaty? The trade and sustainable development chapter and annex can be found here: policy.trade.ec.europa.eu/eu-trade-rel...

The crown is in the gutter and no nation is picking it up. There is a real opportunity for the EU to usurp the USA’s preeminent position in global science, but they’re unfortunately not taking it

From the UK government: "Ecosystem degradation is occurring across all regions. Every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse (irreversible loss of function beyond repair)" assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696e0e...

This is a must-read for every EU-leader. And immediately start acting on it. globalnews.ca/news/1162087...

Very relevant reading for current times. jennifermercieca.substack.com/p/fascism-is...

Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "

If the EU doesn't activate the Anti-Coercion Instrument now, then when? This is a textbook example of economic coercion and exactly what the instrument was designed for. eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...

Modern day Von Papen. Normalising extreme right viewpoints and working with them will only enable their ascent to power. www.politico.eu/article/euro...

When will the EU follow suit and also focus on domestic alternatives?

Damn. The European Commission crunched the numbers on total rooftop PV potential in the EU: Around 2750 TWh/yr. Current annual consumption? About 2750TWh/yr Assumptions: 25% of residential rooftops 40% of non-residential buildings www.nature.com/articles/s41... We need more flex & batteries

A new study finds significant biodiversity loss in spiders & insects including butterflies and beetles. The likely culprit is long-term changes to the El Niño cycle, fuelled by climate change. Read more in The Conversation: https://ow.ly/KmLw50XqtvY

afzet PFAS pesticiden in Nederland in tonnen (1 ton = 1000 kg) In 2023 ging het om 268.350 kg werkzame stof bron: CLM www.clm.nl/nl/nieuws/ge...

The EU (and car industry) shooting itself in the foot, part 247... www.politico.eu/article/euro...

"Here, using three global glacier models, we project a sharp rise in the number of glaciers disappearing worldwide, peaking between 2041 and 2055 with up to ~4,000 glaciers vanishing annually." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Proud to share our new paper in npj Clim. Atmos. Sci. (@SpringerNature)! Our findings: 1️⃣ reduce uncertainty in mid-latitude climate projections 2️⃣ increase confidence that #ClimateModels correctly predict a future poleward shift of the #JetStream Read the paper here 👉 rdcu.be/eS73b #ClimateScience

"Why investing in Earth now can lead to a trillion-dollar benefit for all" wedocs.unep.org/items/bba44e...

Collapse of key Atlantic current could bring extreme drought to Europe for centuries, study finds. @swinda.bsky.social That's an under-appreciated impact of #AMOC shutdown, of particular concern given the recent results showing much higher likelihood of this. 1/2 www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"We find that 58% of public firms’ self-reported emissions were later revised, a rate that has remained consistent for a decade. Firms are more likely to under- than overstate and the amount of understated emissions is more than twice the value of overstated emissions" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📢 New paper on the impacts of AMOC collapse on European hydroclimate. 🌊 We find an AMOC collapse would exacerbate drought conditions across Europe, linked to reduced precipitation. In combination with climate change droughts are expected to become more frequent and severe. doi.org/10.5194/hess...

Adopting a low-fat #vegan diet is linked to a significant reduction in GHG #emissions and cumulative energy demand, important drivers of #climatechange. The decrease of GHG emissions is mainly attributable to reduced #meat consumption, followed by reduced #dairy consumption: doi.org/10.1001/jama...

CO₂-uitstoot van vliegreizen is veel hoger dan online rekenmachines doen geloven www.newscientist.nl/nieuws/co%E2...:

Ireland is failing to reach its climate targets, with emissions during the first carbon budget period - which runs until the end of this year - too high.

@eppgroup.bsky.social should be deeply ashamed. Working with the extreme right to disband green policies which will likely lead to a worsening of the climate crisis. www.politico.eu/article/far-...

🇪🇺 #Deregulation plans break #EU law and weaken social and environmental protections, legal scholars warn “rolling back existing #humanrights and #environmental protections without proper justification.” @euobserver.com @alemanno.bsky.social euobserver.com/green-econom...

"Either global leaders and the public still do not understand the scale of threat from cryosphere loss, or have become resigned to such global destruction." drive.google.com/file/d/1FdpL...