Breaking: Reform UK mega-donor Christopher Harborne’s jet fuel firm is contracted to refuel US military planes from refineries that use Russian oil New investigation from Unearthed and @datadesk.eco unearthed.greenpeace.org/2026/07/01/c...

Revealed: Reform mega-donor’s jet fuel business linked to refineries using Russian oil

Christopher Harborne’s company AML Global is contracted to fill US military planes with fuel made by refineries that use Russian, Iranian, and Venezuelan crude

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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...

Trump golf course in Scotland repeatedly broke sewage contamination limits

Sewage discharge testing found ‘non-compliant’ samples 14 times since 2019

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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...

‘No Plan B’: Water companies fear pollution crackdown will stop them spreading sewage sludge on farmland

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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...

Greenpeace ordered to pay Dakota Access Pipeline operator hundreds of millions in defamation suit

A North Dakota jury awarded damages to Energy Transfer, the company that runs the Dakota Access Pipeline, after finding Greenpeace liable in a high-stakes defamation case.

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This is quite something 📉

Simon Evans@drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · last yr.

📢ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 3.6% in 2024 to lowest since 1872 🏭Coal lowest since 1666, when Great Fire ravaged London 🚗EVs pushed oil down despite more traffic, saving £1.7bn 🌇Gas down on "cleanest ever" power 📈📉Since 1990, CO2 -54% / GDP +84% www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/9

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:

Elon Musk’s Embrace of Far-Right Energizes Transatlantic Climate Denial

In December, a Chicago-based organization called the Heartland Institute, which for decades has attempted to undermine the scientific consensus on climate change, devoted an episode of its daily…

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

Shell gas shipments are being escorted by Kremlin-backed icebreaker boats

Shell bought Russian liquified natural gas shipments totalling 350,000 tonnes which required an escort from sanctioned nuclear icebreakers

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Unearthed@unearthednews.bsky.social · last yr.

This is a nuclear-powered icebreaker, operated by a state-owned Russian company called Atomflot. Atomflot has been sanctioned by the EU, UK and US since 2023. 🧵

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

Unearthed@unearthednews.bsky.social · last yr.

NEW INVESTIGATION 🚢 Companies including Shell and Total import millions of tonnes of gas a year to Europe from the Russian Arctic on specialised LNG tankers. Last winter, these shipments relied on a fleet of sanctioned icebreakers to cross Siberian waters 🚢

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/...

Protection deal for Amazon rainforest in peril as big business turns up heat

Exclusive: With Brazil’s politicians, agribusiness organisations and global traders piling on the pressure, the highly successful 2006 Soy Moratorium is under threat

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Instant follow

sarah jeong@sarahjeong.bsky.social · 2y ago

listen. I do not report on Korean politics. I'm out here because my (drunk) freelancer requests received a "can't do" so I just set off on my own. this is genuinely the most clumsy scene report possible. I really want to be honest about that.

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...

"I was covered in human poo": One family's shocking story of London's housing crisis

Plus: Otters are getting closer to the centre of London.

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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...

Amazon Haul Is an Omen

Welcome to the slop era of online shopping.

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💣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...

Climate Science Deniers Use Farmers’ Protests to Attack Net Zero

A network of conspiracy theorists has jumped on the inheritance tax debate to fuel an anti-green “culture war”, experts say. Thousands of farmers demonstrated in Westminster on Tuesday against the Lab...

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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

George Greenwood@georgegreenwood.bsky.social · 2y ago

Reform MP James McMurdock was jailed for repeatedly kicking his girlfriend. He had told the media he was jailed for "pushing" his former partner in 2006. Court records obtained by The Times say the sentence was given because of "the serious nature of the offence”. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

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...

Companies behind campaign to ‘end plastic waste’ produced 1,000 times more plastic than it cleaned up

The Alliance to End Plastic Waste spent five years clearing up the amount of plastic its key oil and chemical members produce in two days

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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...

Companies behind campaign to ‘end plastic waste’ produced 1,000 times more plastic than it cleaned up

The Alliance to End Plastic Waste spent five years clearing up the amount of plastic its key oil and chemical members produce in two days

unearthed.greenpeace.org

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

Amy Westervelt@amywestervelt.bsky.social · 2y ago

COP29 is wrapping up this week and people are (finally) calling for the process to be overhauled to *maybe* reduce oil industry influence over it. New documents we uncovered reveal they used a little known UN org to infiltrate from jump. First of three stories: drilled.media/news/IPIECA1

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...

Companies behind campaign to ‘end plastic waste’ produced 1,000 times more plastic than it cleaned up

The Alliance to End Plastic Waste spent five years clearing up the amount of plastic its key oil and chemical members produce in two days

unearthed.greenpeace.org

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)

Zach Boren@zdboren.bsky.social · 2y ago

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...

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...