As Trump visits the king & protestors march through London, we obtained data showing that the president's Scottish golf course repeatedly breached sewage contamination limits My latest for @unearthednews.bsky.social unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/09/17/t...

water comanies are freaking out that they're about to have millions of tonnes of toxic sewage sludge with 'nowhere to go' my latest for @unearthednews.bsky.social with @ellieodonnell.bsky.social unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/06/09/s...

Opposite Day Alien vs Predator: Whoever Loses, We Win

BREAKING: More than 100 old landfills across England containing potentially hazardous material have flooded at least once this century. Experts have raised concerns that dangerous substances could get into the environment through floodwater. unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/04/26/h...

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?

The decision regarding Energy Transfer v Greenpeace about the activism against the Dakota Access Pipeline is out. Not only will the decision likely bankrupt Greenpeace US, but it will set a precedent that could limit free speech by climate groups & other NGOs. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

This is quite something 📉

Elon Musk’s shift to far-right alliances is fuelling climate denial across the U.S. and Europe, undermining climate action while boosting extremist parties like Germany’s AfD. Read @desmog.bsky.social‬ deep dive into this troubling trend:

Here's a 🧵 on my latest story, out today with The i inews.co.uk/news/shell-g...

I've been staring at a lot of ship tracking videos lately.

We joined Bluesky one month ago today 🐋 Thanks to everyone who has followed and engaged with our climate and nature investigations so far. In case you missed them, we've published 3 stories since we got here...

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...

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/...

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There's an otter living behind the Big Tesco in Barking, @londoncentric.media reports (warning: much of the rest of the newsletter is a horrific indictment of London's housing crisis, also very much worth reading) www.londoncentric.media/p/i-was-cove...

Earlier this month, I wrote about Amazon Haul, the company's Temu-alike. As I wrote here, I suspect Amazon would prefer to get to the point where they can disclaim any implied promise of quality or fitness, and make it hard or impossible to return such goods too. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

💣NEW/FOIA Files: EXCLUSIVE: After nearly 8 yrs of painstaking public records work, ODNI declassified a closely guarded memorandum in response to my request related to the targeted assassinations of Vladimir Putin’s political foes. It’s a HUGE score Click to read www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

New to Bluesky? Find our team of reporters & editors ⬇️🔵 go.bsky.app/GuvPnRP

I'd missed the extent to which Jeremy Clarkson has really gone off the deep end (again). Reeves and Starmer “want to carpet bomb our farmland with new towns for immigrants and net zero windfarms", apparently. Yikes www.desmog.com/2024/11/21/c...

Even the most basic court records can be inexplicably hard to get hold of if you weren't in the room - @georgegreenwood.bsky.social is right that the UK needs a US PACER-style system

Five years ago, as campaigners fought to get a global plastic treaty off the ground, 30 companies involved in plastic – from Exxon to Veolia – got together to launch a $1.5 billion organisation to “end plastic waste”. So how have they been doing? 🧵 #INC5 unearthed.greenpeace.org/2024/11/20/a...

The big petro companies have been running a high-profile campaign to "end plastic waste." A new investigation shows that, during the campaign, these companies have produced 1000X more plastic than they have cleaned up. unearthed.greenpeace.org/2024/11/20/a...

Just some oil industry execs explaining to their peers that climate change was a massive threat in 1984 and then doubling down for the next 40 years, nothing to see here

The Alliance to End Plastic Waste was set up by industry, aiming to spend $1.5bn on tackling plastic pollution. @zdboren.bsky.social and @emmahoward.bsky.social found that just five of its members produced 1,000 times more plastic than it's cleaned up unearthed.greenpeace.org/2024/11/20/a...

Hello Bluesky!🔵Starting on here the way I mean to go on... Investigation out today: as UN plastic treaty talks kick off in S Korea, we dug into the organisation launched by the oil & plastic industries to "end plastic waste". Spoiler: it's not managed to unearthed.greenpeace.org/2024/11/20/a...

next week the world is supposed to finalise a global treaty to tackle plastic pollution my new investigation uncovers the PR and lobbying strategy behind Big Oil's influential initiative to 'end plastic waste' with @emmahoward.bsky.social unearthed.greenpeace.org/2024/11/20/a...

How great is this graphic. Such a good illustration of what an obscenely tiny proportion gets cleaned --->>> (Go follow the Unearthed team, they're doing lots of very important stuff)

The Alliance to End Plastic Waste was set up by industry, aiming to spend $1.5bn on tackling plastic pollution. @zdboren.bsky.social and @emmahoward.bsky.social found that just five of its members produced 1,000 times more plastic than it's cleaned up unearthed.greenpeace.org/2024/11/20/a...

The oil and chemical companies behind an initiative to 'end plastic waste' have produced 1000x more plastic than they've cleaned up A new investigation by @zdboren.bsky.social and @emmahoward.bsky.social unearthed.greenpeace.org/2024/11/20/a...

BBC Verify on the farmers inheritance tax row. "This brings the total untaxed amount for a farming couple to up to £3m."🚜 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🧵SALT🧵 It's been snowing in the UK and the road gritters are out in force, begging the question: Have you ever wondered where that grit actually COMES from? The answer is more magical, beautiful and fascinating than you probably realised. 1/14

While #COP29 fights about new climate finance, what about big promises of the past? I looked at the Global Shield, a €350-million program launched in 2022 at COP27. It's given out €5.2 million. Only named project is Ghana's $1 million drought insurance. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Oh, good morning, team!

It's also really great to be surrounded by *humans*

Marvellous stuff

Heh

Researchers say Twitter changed its algorithm to promote posts from Elon Musk and Republicans in the run-up to the election. "The date at which (the spike) in engagement occurs coincides with Elon Musk's formal endorsement of Donald Trump on 13th July 2024." eprints.qut.edu.au/253211/

NEW: Less than 100 miles from where world leaders have been discussing how to meet climate pledges at COP29, BP is drilling for gas The project could inject more than 1 billion tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere (more than the UK emits over 3 years) www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2024...

24 hours posting on this (really quite lovely) site and now my Handle is apparently deemed Invalid :(

The FT and Carbon Mapper identified oil and gas projects belching superheating methane just a few miles from the global climate summit in Baku for this great – and infuriating – primer on one of the simplest climate fixes out there www.ft.com/content/374e...

The political fallout from the catastrophic rainfall pummelling Spain is going to be worth watching www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

Good morning. Word of the Day is as beautiful as it is underused. ‘Confelicity’ is finding joy in the happiness and success of others.

A nice update from InfluenceMap on the various fun pro-fossil narratives used by companies and industry associations. 'Affordability' is so wild, considering that gas in particular has been a key global driver of the cost-of-living and inflation crisis!!!!! cop.influencemap.org/NarrativeFac...

so am no great US politics expert but things do seem to have, quite quickly, gone batshit insane

It's not just what's in the news that's making us miserable, it's how we consume it www.niemanlab.org/2024/11/im-a...

Hello new followers from that bleak gray place! Reposting my first post on this site: a cyanometer, the instrument Alexander von Humboldt (among others) used to determine how blue any sky actually was

Ok, so is Bluesky officially A Thing now?