It was great to talk to @mparrington.bsky.social about the increasingly scary fire situation each summer. Listen for a quick debrief on the record-breaking wildfire season across Europe, and the rise of 'Zombie' fires in Arctic peatlands 👇🔊

Drax investigated by UK watchdog over biomass sourcing

“This idea that we need to work harder and grow the GDP, or that we need to invest more in research and development, is really questionable to me.” The Tyee’s @isaacphannay.bsky.social interviews Jasmine Ramze Rezaee, director of policy and community action at Community Food Centres Canada.

As attacks on the National Climate Assessments continue, read analysis from Obama's former Science Advisor John Holdren @woodwellclimate.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social : “Trump has no right to terminate NCAs without consulting Congress... This information is essential.." bit.ly/47rrUy6

Only 1.5% of Gaza cropland left for starving Palestinians due to Israel’s war, UN says

🔴 NEW 🔴 How Big Oil Hijacked EU-Funded Journalism Training on Plastic Pollution A flagship media workshop partnered with an industry group backed by Shell and ExxonMobil. 📝 Raluca Besliu and Aleksandra Pogorzelska

These sort of fake Express headlines used to exist to prosecute political points and reinforce prejudices of an existing core audience buying a print product. So the damage was a little contained within the walls of the newspaper audience. Now it's just slop reaching people through Google Discover.

$22B of US clean energy projects have been canceled since Jan. In recent weeks alone, Trump added new wind/solar permitting reviews; essentially prevented new projects on fed land; rescinded Biden-era decisions earmarking coastal waters for wind turbines; yanked approval for massive Idaho wind farm

Numbers of fossil fuel and chemical industry lobbyists sets new record at #plasticstreaty negotiations: 234 www.ciel.org/news/inc-5-2... cf this www.theguardian.com/environment/...

With the final round of UN negotiations underway, here are a few key articles and podcasts explaining the #PlasticsTreaty, and the true scale/impacts of plastic pollution worldwide. Our latest oped & podcast with @ejfoundation.org is a good starting point, discussing #INC5.2 Scroll for more👇🧵

Plastic pollutes our air, seas, and bodies. We need solutions that address their full life-cycle. Production reduction must be enshrined in the #GlobalPlasticsTreaty – "If the article is not in the text, we lose any possible opportunity of that happening in the future.” @landclimate.bsky.social 🗞️

Timely new study on how recycling & incineration efforts fail to stop plastic pollution in India, Indonesia and the Philippines - "Without legally binding [cuts in] virgin plastic production, the toxic burden of plastic pollution will continue" #plasticstreaty www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

“The single-use plastics we use in our daily lives could completely annihilate net-zero." As negotiations begin in Geneva, it is essential that the UN #PlasticsTreaty includes an article on production reduction, says Punyathorn Jeungsmarn @ejfoundation.org www.landclimate.org/the-global-p...

It was great to talk to Arm about next week's UN negotiations, and the many reasons that regulating plastics is so tricky (but vital!) Do let us know what you think of this week's podcast - and what you'd like to hear us cover when we're back after our August break.

Clearcutting tied to 18-fold increase in flood risk: UBC study www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

1/2 of the German environment Ministries budget goes to dealing with nuclear waste

Four years after a stricken cargo ship caused the largest plastic spill ever recorded, volunteers on Sri Lanka's beaches are still sifting kilograms of tiny, toxic plastic pellets from the sand.

“Fossil pipelines are now augmented by digital pipelines.”

AI, NFTs and crypto have “drafted an extractive environment of burning up energy, characterised by fossil fuel conflicts and pipeline wars," say Hito Steyerl, Gago Gagoahidze and @milostrakilovic.bsky.social in an excerpt from their new book. @versobooks.bsky.social www.landclimate.org/...

🎙️Here’s a podcast episode I did w/ @landclimate.bsky.social on President Petro's bold pledge to end the granting of new hydrocarbon contracts in 🇨🇴. We looked at the motivations behind the pledge, the fierce opposition to it and whether it might last beyond 2026. www.landclimate.org/colombia-ver...

Europe paid EUR250bn for US energy imports over the past three years, and imports projected to shrink further - now Trump forced it to commit to buy EUR 750bn of LNG over the next three years. How and for what?

Some 500 waste-to-energy plants operate on in the EU —burning around a quarter of our household trash to power homes. Now evidence is mounting that burning garbage is far from clean. But municipalities are stuck paying back the debt they accrued to fund them. www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Yesterday, the US Congress passed Trump’s budget bill. On the Land and Climate Podcast, @bertiehb.bsky.social‬ speaks with former Presidential Science Advisor John Holdren @harvardkennedy.bsky.social‬ about what this means for climate research. www.landclimate.org/...

This time on the Land and Climate Podcast, @bertiehb.bsky.social‬ speaks with environmental activist Ma Tianjie, about his new book “In Search of Green China,” published by @politybooks.bsky.social‬ Click the link below to listen! www.landclimate.org/...

In the year that BYD sales overtook Teslas in Europe, this podcast from @landclimate.bsky.social and @bertiehb.bsky.social delves into the role that activists played in shifting China from pollution-riddled to an emerging Green powerhouse: www.landclimate.org/how-did-chin...

Thanks @bertiehb.bsky.social for a great conversation about my book and China's environmental politics. @landclimate.bsky.social is one more great green podcast on my listen list! www.landclimate.org/how-did-chin...

This week, the plans to build new biomass pellet plants have been cancelled and descaled after receiving backlash from locals and activists opposed to the project. www.courthousenews.c...

Last year, @corcorancamille.bsky.social‬ and ‪@bertiehb.bsky.social‬ revealed that Drax Group had signed an agreement with a public agency in California over contentious plans to commercialise wildfire mitigation. www.landclimate.org/...

“The waste does not vanish, they are merely transformed into even more dispersed pieces, with increased toxicity.” Ma Tianjie’s “In Search of Green China,” published by @politybooks.bsky.social examines how public health hazards are sidelined in favour of economic growth. www.landclimate.org/...

“The damage to ocean biodiversity would be 25 times greater than the impact of land-based mining.” After Trump’s Executive Order, now is the time to revisit Jessica Battle’s piece examining deep sea mining. From the archive: originally published 13/7/23 www.landclimate.org/experts-agre...

“By burning grain, Russia not only attacks global food security and agricultural enterprises—it attacks the revered place of bread in Ukraine’s culture.” Read Darya’s article—an excerpt from her new book—on ecocide & the significance of bread in Ukraine's national identity. www.landclimate.org/...

Many many thanks to @bertiehb.bsky.social and @landclimate.bsky.social for the conversation about my book www.landclimate.org/has-russia-c...

Agri-corporations have dominated markets through large mergers and acquisitions, says @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social in an excerpt from her new book, “Titans of Industrial Agriculture,” published by @mitpress.bsky.social. www.landclimate.org/...

& be sure to listen to our interview with @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social, where she and @alimacewen.bsky.social dive deeper into the topic of agricultural titans. www.landclimate.org/monopolies-a...

Many thanks to @landclimate.bsky.social for posting an excerpt from Titans of Industrial Agriculture on their website and also for the podcast interview with @alimacewen.bsky.social last month! Links ⬇️ www.landclimate.org/how-a-few-gi... www.landclimate.org/monopolies-a...

This week on the Land and Climate Podcast, @alimacewen.bsky.social talks with Albert Van Wijngaarden and Adrian Hindes about the history of polar and solar geoengineering, its divisive nature, the risks, and the lack of global governance. www.landclimate.org/...

Drax abandons AGM after confrontation with green activists https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/may/01/drax-abandons-uk-shareholder-agm-after-protest-by-environmental-activists

All reports on this need to say that ‘small modular bucket reactors’ are *exactly* what Tony Blair’s patron, Ellison, is invested in!! Journalists can’t just transcribe this guff as if it’s on any way independent & credible. It is not.

Really interesting case study of civil society activism shaping green policy discussions in China - before being effectively overruled by the growth incentive. Stay tuned for a podcast with @tianjie.bsky.social about the history of Chinese environmental policy - coming soon!

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Disappointing. Biggest effort in Climate Action 2030 was to make installations more resilient against sea level rise or bigger tropical storms -- with ancillary benefit against power failures or infrastructure damage of whatever cause (squirrels, terrorism, PLAN cruise missiles, etc)

#ecology #sustainability #oceans 36 pesticides were detected in waters across five wetlands, in the Great Barrier Reef Catchment Area. 8 of the pesticides exceeded regulatory guidelines. Mixture toxicity is driven by herbicides that disrupt photosynthesis. . www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This week on the Land and Climate Podcast @bertiehb.bsky.social interviews Darya Tsymbalyuk, author of the new book “Ecocide in Ukraine,” where the two discuss the relation between environmental destruction and war. www.landclimate.org/...

Dyer-Witheford and Mularoni mention Silicon Valley’s “carbon-capture technologies that do not currently exist.” Be sure to revisit @bertiehb.bsky.social's piece on the matter, examining Big Tech’s "non-existent offsets.” From the archive: 16/12/22 www.landclimate.org/the-emperors...

@austinfrerick.bsky.social's "Barons" similarly discusses agricultural monopolies. In this excerpt, he explains how Cargill “entrenched itself as the middleman in the grain trade, using this position to amass economic and political power through acquisition.” www.landclimate.org/the-cargill-...

Following the high-profile mission by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, now is a good moment to revisit our conversation with D. Raghunandan about the privatisation of space exploration, its environmental costs, and the future of space tourism. www.landclimate.org/what-does-sp...

“Big tech’s real climate change problem is that it is predicated on the circulatory growth of the world market.” Nick Dyer-Witheford and Alessandra Mularoni's new book “Cybernetic Circulation Complex” examines Silicon Valley’s green hypocrisies. @versobooks.bsky.social www.landclimate.org/...

Concern over asbis after report finds people jailed for sleeping rough and feeding birds

Global temperatures are once again near record highs over the last few days. Graphic updated in near real-time at zacklabe.com/climate-chan...

Britain’s aid cuts harm the world – and the UK itself