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So the skin of these lizards is 'mirrored' like a disco ball, almost indistinguishable from tiny sand crystals, with color-changing dark cells to match the local substratum. And yes, they can squirt blood from their eyes ('Autohemorrhaging') defensively, but one of my favorite weird facts...
Inside the Effort to Save the Beloved Texas Horned Lizard
Biologists are working to breed lizards at zoos to replenish wild populations
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In 2024 PWC advertised 272,178 jobs in the green energy sector, that’s 3.3% of the uk job market, up 42.2% from 2023. The jobs are there but Burnham is about to issue more drilling licenses, makes no sense especially thinking about how long it takes to get oil/gas out and how the market operates🤯
'took 7 decades after the invention of the silicon solar cell in 1954, for the world to install 1 terawatt of solar capacity.. enough to power the..United States..in 2022, the world added its 2nd terawatt in 2024, and its 3rd in 2026.. BloombergNEF expects..the world hitting 9 terawatts..by 2036.'
Daniel Aldrich@danielaldrich.bsky.social · 9h agoIn March, the world passed a major energy milestone, adding its third terawatt of solar power. Increasingly, poorer countries are leading the shift to solar e360.yale.edu/digest/three...
The bizarre and disturbing thing is that Joshua Bonehill-Paine is one of the few figures on the right to be loudly and clearly called out for anti-semitism. Is that because it doesn't happen much on the right? You have to be kidding. So why the double standards? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
No one should get a free pass on antisemitism – so why does the right?
There is legitimate scrutiny of antisemitism on the left, but at the same time, rightwing media outlets offend with impunity. That makes no sense, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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In China, robots which are also solar panels, clean the other solar panels. Original post
Reform UKs plan to use the Royal Navy to intercept migrant boats in the Channel brilliantly taken apart by ... er ... Nigel Farage
My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot
As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Greenpeace still out there screaming at the world to wake up.
www.newstatesman.com/cover-story/... 'govts of Italy, Finland, Sweden, nations that gave the world the Renaissance, the concept of functional social democracy, and furniture you can assemble yourself,...reduced to reacting to videos on the Internet..not intelligence briefings or diplomatic cables'
The Ceuta crisis has exposed Europe's hollow centre
How the incursion revealed a continent divided against itself
newstatesman.com
$100,000 a month. That's what Trump’s company is charging Wall Street insiders for early access to his market-moving announcements. It’s corruption—and the rich get richer while everyone else falls further behind.
For sale: early access to Trump's Truth Social posts
The president's media company is offering investors early access to his Truth Social feed for up to $100,000 a month. Experts say the service may violate insider trading laws.
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1/4 The Government's own National Security Assessment identifies biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse as imminent risks to our security, resilience and prosperity.
3/3 That’s why I’ve backed @stellacreasy's amendment to the Representation of the People Bill to cap political donations at £100,000. This would be a vital safeguard against billionaire capture of our politics and a important step towards rebuilding trust in our democracy.
1/3 Strip away the theatre and Reform UK is a billionaire-backed project to dismantle the public realm, shred regulatory protections and hand what remains of state power to capital. It’s plain to see – just follow the money.
Decisions taken by the department he led to reduce aid to Africa have made the current Ebola outbreak worse. The total effect of what he did will be catastrophic ✏️ Philip Ball
Ebola, USAID and how Musk’s spending cuts will kill millions
Decisions taken by the department he led to reduce aid to Africa have made the current Ebola outbreak worse. The total effect of what he did will be catastrophic
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🔴 MAGA’s harassment of Fauci is a medieval witch hunt driven by scientifically illiterate bullies desperate to feed the mob. Any country that believes in modern medicine, vaccines, and reason should stand with Fauci against this tirade of ignorance
The UK should offer political asylum to Fauci
Notes on a nauseating show trial...
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Every single second, the world hands $6,000 to the fossil fuel industry in subsidies. That’s $5 TRILLION every year. Renewables? Barely a fraction of that. We are literally paying to cook our own planet. When does this madness stop? 🌍💸 #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels
Highly informative article about the recent record-breaking heat and wildfires in Europe. It dives into the science about the causes, quoting several experts. Worth reading! www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
Europe pays the price in a summer where heat went off the charts
Stefan Rahmstorf was holidaying in southern France when he came face to face with the climate future he has tried to fight.
abc.net.au
As the UN Secretary General says, every new fossil fuel project approved today makes tomorrow’s heatwaves more dangerous & our world less secure. I hope Andy Burnham is listening. Caving in to the fossil fuel lobby as the planet burns would be unforgivable
Burnham risks first revolt as PM over apparent support for North Sea drilling
Labour MPs fear No 10 team lack up-to-date energy insight and don’t fully recognise voters’ climate concerns
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Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.
www.theguardian.com/environment/... 'A streetsweeper in Madrid had collapsed and died from heatstroke in soaring temperatures..his body temperature was 41.6C (107F).'
‘Climate change kills’: Pedro Sánchez speaks plain truth to Spain’s deniers
PM has long history of speaking out on realities of global heating but political opponents remain unnmoved
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Wait the guy who convicted on 34 counts of falsifying business record also had his bank account closed because of money laundering? This is astonishing news
Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 4d agoCapital One said in a court filing late Friday that it closed accounts belonging to President Donald Trump’s sprawling real estate company in 2021 for legitimate reasons after an internal review by the bank’s anti-money laundering team.
🕯🇺🇦 During the night Russian attack on Kyiv, 20-year-old Vitalina Yarovenko, an instructor at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, died The girl volunteered to the scene of the Russian strike to help save people. She died during the second shelling.
Thames Water CEO went unchallenged on the BBC on the claim that public ownership means water investment competes with health and defence. This is a myth! 99% of water investment comes from BILLS. Take 2 mins to complain to Ofcom and the BBC vist.ly/5d5xb
Ofcom and BBC, correct the record: Thames Water CEO misled the public about public ownership
Thames Water CEO lied about public ownership on the BBC. It is time Ofcom and the BBC corrected the record
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++BREAKING++ The UK and Spanish governments have issued a joint statement overnight: "[We] agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life." www.gov.uk/government/n...
electoral-reform.org.uk/what-politic... 'The Representation of the People Bill does not yet address the issue of donation size... the ultra rich can effectively buy elections..Only 15% of the public think that there should be no limit on the amount anyone can give.'
What political finance changes are coming in?
Back in 2015 we published Deal or No Deal which looked at public attitudes to political finance following the failed cross-party talks on implementing the Committee on Standards in Publi
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‘We stared into an abyss’: the heroes battling to tame France’s ‘megafire’
‘We stared into an abyss’: the heroes battling to tame France’s ‘megafire’
Exhausted firefighters wage ‘war of attrition’ against blaze that forced 200,000 people from their homes
theguardian.com
At astonishing speed, our rights are being cancelled, worldwide. In the UK, the prosecution of Rajiv Menon KC is the latest example of blatant authoritarianism. Why? Because this is what billionaires and corporations demand. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Think our basic rights are safe? In the age of oligarchs and corporate lobbying, think again | George Monbiot
The global assault on our freedoms is coming ever closer to home. Just look at the sinister prosecution of UK lawyer Rajiv Menon, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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A data-driven picture of our rapidly changing planet - updated through June 2026... Download the graphic at zacklabe.com/climate-chan...
