Claims of felling 250 year-old trees + shipping them thousands of miles to burn in a power station, releasing fine particulate pollution linked to breathing + heart conditions. Perhaps, instead of subsidising this, our tax money could go to treating people with those conditions? 🧵 1/2

Our trawl of methane data found the area near Drax has the UK's second highest levels: share.google/kD4B26tD1Yl8... 2/2

Let's hear it for the brave protesters defending the final sliver of old growth forest on Vancouver Island which, I'm guessing, must be absolutely freezing right now.

Plastic pellets are readily mistaken by birds + fish for fish eggs - a food stuff for many species - one reason they're so risky for wildlife as Helena Dollimore, MP, explains on tonight's @channel4news.bsky.social www.channel4.com/news/vast-cl... 🧵 1/3

Testing carried out for Watershed, by scientist David Megson, found plastic pellets can absorb pollutants from water, passing them to animals who eat them. Particularly worrying if it is confirmed those at Camber Sands came from a wastewater treatment plant. 2/3 share.google/hUYd9dTLQm0J...

Many chemicals are added to plastic as part of the production process. So, plastic pellets may be far from inert + harmless if sea creatures consume them. 3/3 share.google/1Z6n4c5QV16D...

Why is this something anyone even considered doing?

'swathes of land will have to be given up to be used as floodplains, to protect homes in areas around Breydon Water + along the Waveney Valley from flooding...learn from the Netherlands where communities were being protected by creating more wetland + flood plain to absorb rising water levels.'

Delhi air pollution: Parents, activists protest at India Gate, detained for assembling without permission https://www.europesays.com/2558035/ Delhi air pollution: Parents, activists protest at India Gate, detained for assembling without permission …

With SNAP in crisis, America’s epic food waste problem has become a lifeline. The U.S. throws away enough food to help tackle its hunger problem. The government shutdown is proving it. grist.org/food-and-agr... #Hunger #SNAP #Food #Waste

Outrageous. A travesty in our province.

FFS. Mills are closing because there's not enough wood, and they're just cutting them up for pellets.

China oil consumption for road transport down 9% this year. Denmark oil consumption down 11% in 2024. Not many similarities between the two countries but good to see the shared path before us. A reminder that the EU spends 120bn euro per year on oil for road transport.

Back on Bodmin Moor this weekend with Cornwall Butterfly Conservation. This time, we were working at Fellover, another site for Pearl-bordered Fritillaries, managing Gorse and Bracken in an area between the two existing colonies. @savebutterflies.bsky.social

"Indigenous Water Guardians": Part 2 of a 3 part series on TV Peru about Rainforest Flow's water projectsthat have reduced childhood deaths from diarrhea by 73% in the last 15 years in Matsigenka Indigenous communities of Manu National Park youtu.be/w3nh5SDk7JA?...

A deep-sea expedition has recorded 30 previously unknown species from one of the planet’s most inaccessible regions, 700 meters into the depths of the Southern Ocean. The astonishing array included a carnivorous “death-ball” sponge, unknown sea stars spanning multiple families, and new crustaceans.

Better than making Marmite. 😝

plastics recycling is a myth #tippingpoints #plastic #endfossilfuels

Tell Oil Companies: Don’t drill in the 1.5 million acres of critical wildlife wilderness habitat on the coastal plain of Alaska’s #Arctic Refuge, threatening migratory and breeding grounds for millions of birds and many other #wildlife #climate Please sign environmentamerica.org/center/take-...

Firefighters battle out-of-control blaze in New Zealand national park www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Finland really does seem to have everything

Wood, straw, earth - that's basically all you need for passive house walls, floor, roof. The apprentice wanted to use his bare hands to get the feeling. The earth plaster creates airtightness necessary for high performance, without plastic membranes. #strawhouse #strawbuilding #biobased

Almost 75,000 farmed salmon in Scotland escaped into the wild after Storm Amy. Why this may cause lasting damage share.google/8KZIyA2cVH0d...

Finland really does seem to have everything

This is criminal, or should be. It’s definitely immoral. Burning old growth trees for energy should be banned. Biomass is not carbon neutral and it makes nasty air pollution.

Booth, Mary S. 2018. "Not carbon neutral: Assessing the net emissions impact of residues burned for bioenergy." Environmental Research Letters. vol. 13, no. 3. 2018/02/21. pp. 035001. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aaac88]

Johnson, Eric. 2009. "Goodbye to carbon neutral: Getting biomass footprints right." Environmental Impact Assessment Review. vol. 29, no. 3. 2009/04/01/. pp. 165-168. [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195925508001637]

In case you're not aware, Tehran is a city of ~10 MILLION people. "Rivers and reservoirs are running dry, while groundwater sources have been overexploited to sustain agriculture and urban growth." www.newsweek.com/evacuation-w...

Aquaculture company Tassal suffered a fish kill event at its remote WA Cone Bay barramundi farms,blamed on a parasite & fish stress from lower than usual temperatures.Dead fish were filmed being dumped at Broome's tip,Tassal has not revealed the extent of the deaths. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Michigan’s health department issued Do Not Eat advisories for all fish from Kent county.Tests found perfluorooctane sulfonate,a long lasting industrial chemical within the PFAS family, at levels up to 514.3 ppb. www.earth.com/news/urgent-...

Thanks to the BBC for speaking to BGS' engineering geologist Ashley Patton about our work monitoring the 'secret' geothermal energy underneath Cardiff, and what it means for homes and businesses locally and nationally. Click the link to learn more: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

the Iranian drought story is insanely undercovered. foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/07/i...

Plastic beads litter Camber Sands …’contain a high number of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, which are known to have carcinogenic properties, and they often contain toxins including lead, antimony and bromine.’ Nice!

Motherfuckers

Typical UK energy bill £478 a year higher in 2025 than 2021 - increase of 37%t. Government must reduce this by immediately moving £2.3 billion of levies off electricity bills into government spending; moving gas power stations into a strategic reserve. green-alliance.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Was nice to see this pleasant cycling Junction in Bury as a respite from the other 50km of car centric roads I rode along today.

Awesome: when you switch to clean energy, you use less energy. WELCOME TO DEGROWTH!

I suspect that there is much more research / money into making conventional materials (usually cement/concrete) more climate-friendly than research into how they can be replaced. Is there a meta-study on this? www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Now, this is cool.

Agency scientists speak out about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and training opportunities that the USA is losing go.nature.com/49CE3Bt

An investigation by journalists at The Ferret found that local MSP and Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes, the National Farmers’ Union Scotland (NFUS) and landowners had “privately piled pressure” on NatureScot to derail the application. www.thenational.scot/comment/2558...

We need nothing less than a profound humbling - a change of mindset and values, and a service relationship with Nature and each other if we are to survive. I don’t say this lightly. www.ipsnews.net/2025/11/the-...

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system.

Let's hear it for the brave protesters defending the final sliver of old growth forest on Vancouver Island which, I'm guessing, must be absolutely freezing right now.

beneath starry skies buck-toothed builder carves frost moon on the wane #haikuSaturday #haiku #poetry #moon #beavers #ecology #rivers #trees

Giant sea creatures,soaring birds and majestic animals created by more than 600 drones have lit up the night sky.The 40-minute show,WILD,at Edgbaston Stadium on Friday,brought the animal kingdom to life in a dazzling fusion of cutting-edge technology,artistry and music www.bbc.com/news/article...

Testing of your local clay earth is easy. 1/3

More sand, less cracks. Some cracks are OK, you dont want sand plaster and probably want to reinforce the plaster anyway. Of course, you can make bricks, rammed earth, cob with the same material. There is no magic ratio, it can be 1 to 0 to 1 to 6. 2/3

If you are unsure just look around for workshops in your area. #Earthbuilding will be one the key transformative technologies of a good future. 3/3