Countries in Europe's east are looking to peat bogs for military defence; #Latvia's MoD is now a fan of rewetting and #peat restoration. So far the talk has only been about security, surely we'll soon hear that these projects offset military emissions too? www.mod.gov.lv/lv/zinas/nac...

The Replaybook is out! My contribution was specifically on helping climate-facing organisations chart a pathway from big tech platforms to mission-coherent, #selfhosted and sovereign infrastructure. You can download the book free, or pre-order in print. tacticaltech.org/replaybook/

One of the only groups to benefit from Trump's international aid cuts: wildlife traffickers.

Long-buried layers of saline permafrost seem to be accelerating climate change’s transformation of the Arctic. https://scim.ag/46AxH2E

Fields full of fiber-optic cables from #drones are visible along the battlelines in #Ukraine, as seen here in this video. The tens-of-thousands of drones live thousands of kilometers of these cables trapping wildlife and will pose a massive undertaking in post-conflict clean-up t.me/sylasvobody/...

Natürlich können solche Übereinstimmungen auch Zufall sein. Aber dass die Wünsche der Industrie im BMWE auf offene Ohren gestoßen sind, scheint schon recht offensichtlich. Zudem ist aus dem Haus zu hören, dass die Fachabteilungen an der Erstellung des Zehn-Punkte-Plans kaum beteiligt waren. (17/19)

Zusammen mit dem Monitoring-Bericht zur Energiewende hat Katherina Reiche in der letzten Woche einen Zehn-Punkte-Plan vorgestellt. Dieser weist sprachlich wie inhaltlich große Ähnlichkeiten zu einem Papier von RWE und Eon aus dem Frühjahr auf. Ein längerer Thread mit Links und Beispielen. (1/19)

Insects and spiders are declining in tropical forests around the world, even in areas untouched by logging, mining, or farming. In these places, new research posits, more potent El Niños are driving the losses.

Based on footage I just received taken from Puerto Rico, this #Trident SLBM test launch happened on 21 Sept at about 23:25 UTC. Below is a framestack (imagery courtesy Eddie Irizarry)

“When asked what our time's greatest threat is, the [Norwegian] defense chief answered climate change. For many, an unexpected reply from a general. The second greatest threat was nuclear threats. He believed that these threats were overshadowed by the complex hybrid threats.”

New op-ed published in @carnegieendowment.org's China blog, edited by @michaelpettis.bsky.social: “How China’s Growth Model Determines Its Climate Performance: Rather than climate ambitions, compatibility with investment and exports is why China supports both green and high-emission technologies.”

“China has touted its efforts in aiding Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan with the shrinking of the Aral Sea. This allows China to brand itself as a high-tech superpower in messaging directed toward Central Asia. Likewise, China can depict itself as ecologically friendly.”

“Chinese overseas FDI is nearing $100 billion per year. The Marshall Plan was $200b—and locked Europe into US tech and standards. When we see sums of this size, we can ask whether it will have a similar effect on the globe.” NEW: @70sbachchan.bsky.social & @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social on the BRI 2.0

❓ What is security in an age of catastrophic climate change? 📖 Our special issue "Critical Climate Security" in Geoforum provides new concepts, approaches, and methodologies for rethinking the climate-security nexus from a critical perspective. www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

“Grund dafür ist laut dem Bundesheer nicht die Kostenersparnis gegenüber Office-Lizenzen, sondern die seit geraumer Zeit zum Modewort etablierte digitale Souveränität.”

Die SZ schreibt: “Würde ganz Deutschland auf Mineralwasser verzichten (also nur noch Trinkwasser aus der häuslichen Leitung trinken) könnten anderthalbmal so viele Treibhausgasemissionen eingespart werden, wie der gesamte innerdeutsche Flugverkehr verursacht.” www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/art...

““Power Rewired” examines the fragmentation of the global energy order, with new alliances forming around infrastructure and technology. How is this shaping diplomatic relations and trade flows, and what is the impact on investment?.”

US to retire its only icebreaker, stranding polar research - new article posted today by @cuboulder. The icebreaker is critical for researchers who study the changes on the edges of Antarctic glaciers and how they relate to climate change and sea level rise. buff.ly/oMAElHY #antarctica #glaciers

Heute hätte das EU-Klimazwischenziel 2040 im Umweltministerrat beschlossen werden sollen. Wird es nicht. Es soll beim nächsten EU-Gipfel diskutiert werden. Die EU droht damit auch ohne 2035er-Ziel zur Klimakonferenz nach Belem zu fahren. Denn allerletzte Frist für die Einreichung ist der 24.09.

This week, I’ve started a new position as Assistant Professor at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs. I’m excited to open this new chapter at @unileiden.bsky.social !

“It’s the first time in 38 years that scientists with the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center have had to rely on a Japanese satellite and instruments that measure ice cover to make their final call for September.” news.mongabay.com/2025/09/no-n...

I had to triplecheck this because I didn't believe it... All of the world's discovered reserves of fossil fuels = the same energy as just 5 days of sunlight hitting the Earth🤯 Solar power is basically unlimited🤷‍♂️

Electricity investments this year are set to be about 50% higher than the total amount being spent bringing oil, natural gas & coal to market – accounting for over half all energy investment This signals the approach of a new Age of Electricity 👉 iea.li/40JSiPX

Chinese company investments in overseas green manufacturing projects now surpasses sum invested by the US Marshall Plan in post-WW2 Europe #climategeopolitics www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...

New publication - my first one in German 🇩🇪 In a new special issue about Grönland, I've written about the historic and present interest of the US. www.bpb.de/shop/zeitsch...

Nach einer Nacht drüber schlafen denk ich mir sogar, dass dieses ewige Rumnölen ob der Erneuerbaren im Grunde Arbeitsverweigerung ist. Die eigentlichen Probleme werden nicht angefasst, man simuliert Handeln. Als Unternehmen wäre ich besorgt. share.deutschlandradio.de/dlf-audiothe...

Today, Australia released its first ever National Climate Risk Assessment. Whole thing is worth a read, but I dig into the (well done!) defense/national security section in my latest newsletter. Noting a few highlights in this thread (1/x).

South Korea announced substantial budget increases to support expansion of the port of Busan, readying it for future Arctic traffic and subsidizing domestic construction of ice-class ships. #SouthKorea #Shipping #Arctic #Busan #NSR

Russia launches cruise missiles from archipelago Franz Josef Land as part of exercise Zapad-2025. The exercise scenario might be occupation of Norway’s Svalbard

Heh yes. Pretty much this. www.technosphere.earth/new-report-c...

Antarctica NZ plans a wind farm on Ross Island to supply 90% of Scott Base’s power, tackling extreme cold & high winds with a Nov 2026 install.

The UK government says it rejects deploying solar radiation management (geoengineering) in Antarctica—affirming that it finds such proposals both infeasible and potentially dangerous, especially after a survey by 42 polar scientists. committees.parliamen...

1/ U.S. officials in Europe this week argued that climate policy is “ideological” and a drag on prosperity. The evidence suggests the opposite. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/c...

NSF makes it official: The Palmer is sailing for the last time for the U.S. Antarctic program next month (h/t @icy-pete.bsky.social): www.nsf.gov/geo/opp/upda...

Polish-French team unveils hydrogen-powered robot defence-blog.com/polish-frenc...

A new study in @nature.com shows that abrupt changes to Antarctica’s currents, ice and glaciers are already underway – and likely to significantly intensify in the future, with global impacts for generations to come.🧪🌏 Read more in @theconversation.com 

We need to talk about geoengineering ⚠️ In a rapidly warming world with looming net zero due dates, there's growing polarised debate about whether we should intervene in Earth’s natural systems. This is a thread about the state of polar geoengineering, and how we should be talking about it ⬇️ 🧵 1/6

The EU's strategic foresight report 2025 is out and it rings the bell for a "change in the global order" "We're witnessing the erosion of the rules-based international order & fracturing of the global landscape... a return to the previous status quo seems increasingly unlikely"

We begged Korea for factory investments. Our visa system is too slow (and was shut down altogether for a while earlier this year) , so they used ESTA/B-1 workarounds. Now we're raiding the sites and halting the investments we wanted. 22 projects frozen. www.kedglobal.com/business-pol...

With emissions still rising 📈 and the catastrophic consequences 🔥 becoming ever clearer, geoengineering is getting ever more tempting 🧪 But a review has concluded that the main methods proposed to save polar ice 🧊 are not doable or won't work www.newscientist.com/article/2495...

An authoritative group of #climate scientists have reviewed 5 prominent ideas to #geoengineer the polar regions. They conclude that these ideas are economically and practically unfeasible, environmentally dangerous & have major governance & ethics issues. www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci... 🌊🧪

The War on climate series at @theconversation.com explores the relationship between climate issues and global conflicts. Have a look!

Great to see @theconversation.com running a War on Climate series. Their third post looks at the potential role of sustainable aviation fuels in military decarbonisation. Last week a study in Nature suggested a hard limit of 50% life cycle emission reductions theconversation.com/sustainable-...

What does an Antarctic expedition look like? 👀 ~90 min 2023-24 ice core mission to the Amundsen Sea, led by KOPRI (🇰🇷) w/ support from the US National Science Foundation. Our 2x150m cores will give the first 100yr history of climate & environment near critical glaciers. youtu.be/K168bORpHTg?...

Conducting research or working on the ground bringing together environment, climate, peace, conflict & security? Then you should be signed up for the ECCP biweekly. Content draw from all quarters, not just the usual suspects (and I say that as one of the usual suspects). eccp.substack.com

The Hyundai immigration raid has sent shock waves across South Korea, a U.S. security ally that has this year pledged to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in the U.S. and is now balking at what many here view as the Trump administration’s bad-faith actions. Gift link: wapo.st/47trw2n

“We will never know what diseases might have been cured or what advances in technology might have been invented had the lights not gone out in the labs.” 🧪 #giftarticle

“Whenever the glacier fractured, or dropped ice into the water, it “plucked” the cable, like a guitarist plucking a string. These vibrations scattered light in the fiber optics back to two “interrogator” devices, powered by solar panels and batteries, on land.”

Kampf ums #Klima: Spannende ARD-Doku über die Ideen, die Erde durch #Geo-Engineering abzukühlen. Fazit: Was im Modell funktionieren mag, wird der Realität kaum standhalten. Mit RIFS-Forscher Stefan Schäfer. www.ardmediathek.de/video/auf-sp...

Fourteen years ago, I read an article, this 👇 article, about how the west is underestimated the potential threat from drones. Today, it seems eerily prescient. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....