Pink gin alchemy from ‘DiningwithAliens’ open.substack.com/pub/nickroge...

Himalayan alchemy: the seductive flower with a pink gin trick

Himalayan balsam is a beautiful invader, spreading on river banks from the UK to the U.S. But it has a magic secret: its flowers can create an ethereal pink fizz

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"Dining with Aliens". Please subscribe to our new Substack about novel ways to fight invasive species of animals and plants in the UK: "If you can't beat them, eat them". Launched today with environmental experts @nicknuttall.bsky.social and Roger Morgan-Grenville open.substack.com/pub/nickroge...

Dining with Aliens: our starter course

"If you can't beat them, eat them": our recipes for limiting a scourge of alien invasive species of animals and plants in Britain, from grey squirrels to Japanese knotweed. Please subscribe!

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Canada's wildfires: sue Trump? open.substack.com/pub/alisterd...

Canada's wildfires: sue Trump?

Trump is threatening to slap tariffs on Canada for wildfires that are causing air pollution over the United States: maybe Canada can out-Trump Trump by suing the U.S. for stoking climate change?

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Sea level rise seems a huge, distant problem with ice melting from Greenland to Antarctica: here are my ideas for bringing it closer to home via fingernails, coins and phones open.substack.com/pub/alisterd...

Sea level rise: fingernails, wedding rings and cellphones

Sea level rise, driven by climate change, is a mind-bogglingly huge problem - maybe it's time to re-imagine it via tiny everyday objects?

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Should I support England or Norway in the World Cup quarter-final when I've citizenship in both? substack.com/@alisterdoyl...

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Who to support in Saturday’s World Cup quarter-final between England and Norway when I’ve dual nationality in both? Tough choice! 🤔 Born in England, I’ve lived many years in Norway 🇳🇴, with a wonderf...

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«Oil Prices Rise on Possible Deal to Suspend Attacks in Gulf» this conflict is already weird enough - the headline is worthy of @theonion.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/b...

Oil Prices Rise on Possible Deal to Suspend Attacks in Gulf

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I once invested my entire fortune in space: it was a huge success. But I won't be doing the same with Elon Musk's delusional dreams of colonising Mars alisterdoyle.substack.com/p/heaven-or-...

Heaven or hell? What Star Trek tells us about Musk's Mars dream

I once invested my entire fortune in space, but won't buy into Elon Musk and SpaceX's dystopian dreams of colonising Mars: aren't there are enough things to fix here on Earth?

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I was thrilled to be invited to talk to a group of German women about my book "The Great Melt". But the whole thing (including the flier below) is an unnerving new scam - created with AI and targeting only me rather than thousands of people substack.com/home/post/p-...

The Great Melt: (almost) falling for a scam

A German group of 2,000 women wants to discuss my book about melting ice and rising seas. I'm elated, then deflated: it's a scam

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After King Muhammad XII surrendered Granada in 1492, marking the end of Muslim rule in Spain, he travelled into exile and, the story goes, sighed at this mountain pass as he gazed back. Sadly, this poignant event in history is barely marked at the spot medium.com/@alisterdoyl...

“The sigh of the Moor”: 1492 and today

Only a dilapidated monument marks where King Muhammad XII “sighed” on his way to exile in 1492 at the end of Islamic rule in Spain

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Phil Noble’s iconic angst-ridden image of ex-prince Andrew isn’t his first that echoes ‘The Scream’ (below: Norwegian 400 metres hurdles world record holder Karsten Warholm - in a happier mood - after winning a race) www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... @theguardian.com @reuters

“The dose makes the poison,” said 16th century Swiss physician Paracelsus. Let’s hope U.S. courts remember that proverb ignored by Trump in this assault on climate action. Anything’s dangerous in high doses - and we’re overdosing on CO2 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c... @lisafriedman.bsky.social

Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change

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The girlfriend of the Olympic medal winner who confessed to cheating on her doesn't sound impressed. "It's hard to forgive," the unnamed woman told Norwegian tabloid VG. "Even after a declaration of love in front of the whole world". @philoconnor.bsky.social www.vg.no/sport/i/Gx3r...

Norwegian Olympic medal-winner confesses to cheating on girlfriend, begs forgiveness

Norway's Sturla Holm Laegreid followed up his bronze medal in the biathlon at the Winter Olympics with a stunning confession that he had cheated on his girlfriend, before openly begging her for anothe...

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I just published "Trump is obsessed by the Nobel Prize: can’t he learn how it works?" medium.com/p/trump-is-o...

Trump is obsessed by the Nobel Prize: can’t he learn how it works?

Norway should do more to explain to to wannabe Nobel winner Trump that an independent committee awards the prize, not the government

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Machado gives Trump a shiny medal - but apparently keeps the $1.1 million that comes with a Nobel Prize that the president won’t ever win www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/w...

Machado Presents Trump With Her Nobel Peace Prize

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Leave Greenland alone! Fewer than one in five Americans support Trump's drive to get the island (...and a similar number haven't even heard of Trump's plans) @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Just one in five Americans support Trump's efforts to acquire Greenland, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds

Substantial majorities of Democrats and Republicans oppose using military force to annex the island.

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Trump steps up attack on science: quits 1992 UNFCCC climate treaty championed by Republican President Bush www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/c...

Trump Pulls Out of Global Climate Treaty

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“Must try harder” - my report card on 10 years after the Paris climate agreement medium.com/@alisterdoyl...

Paris Agreement 10-year report card:“must try harder”

Ten years ago today, U.N. Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon was in a strangely relaxed mood hours before the Paris climate agreement was struck

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A barometer of climate change? Most @nobelprize.org winners have to wrap up in thick winter coats on Dec. 10 when they wave from an Oslo hotel balcony - today the daughter of peace laureate Maria Corina Machado was sleeveless in unusual mild weather www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Trump, gasoline-burning cars, climate change, and a little-known 1989 lawsuit (my story) medium.com/@alisterdoyl...

Trump’s car plan echoes landmark 1989 climate case

Disputes about President Donald Trump’s plan to promote gasoline-burning cars echo the first but little-known climate lawsuit in 1989

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I tracked down this spruce near Oslo, which will be felled on Friday and sent to London's Trafalgar Square as a Christmas gift. Its predecessors are icons of Xmas but often met with threadbare jokes medium.com/@alisterdoyl...

A Christmas tree’s hazardous trip to London from Oslo

Will this year’s “Queen of the Forest”, to be felled on Friday near Oslo and sent to London, be hailed as a beauty or derided as anaemic?

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🌍 Register for our Policy Webinar 🗓️ 27 November | 13:00–14:30 CET 📘 The importance of European scientific leadership in polar climate change www.crices-h2020.eu/events/the-i...

Global oil demand might keep rising until 2050, even when nations have promised a transition from fossil fuels, says @iea.org. But its scenario makes weirdly pessimistic assumptions about falling costs of electric cars, other green tech, and risks of a warming planet www.reuters.com/markets/comm...

Thrilled to be among the authors of a new report about climate change and litigation: "Let the courts decide?" It's timely with COP30 in Brazil and backsliding by governments and others on climate pledges www.idea.int/publications... thanks to @internationalidea.bsky.social @cop30brazil.bsky.social

“Keep working for peace and, who knows, you might win in 2026” — the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s likely strategy to appease Trump when he (spoiler alert) fails to win the prestigious Peace Prize on Friday. My story: medium.com/@alisterdoyl... @nobelprize.bsky.social @nupinytt.bsky.social

How to assuage Trump after looming Nobel Peace snub

“Keep working for peace and you might win in 2026” — the Nobel Committee’s likely strategy to appease Trump when he fails to win on Friday

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U.S. President Donald Trump won't win the Nobel Peace Prize he apparently craves this Friday - my article examining why one leading Norwegian historian puts his chances at "zero" news-decoder.com/promoting-pe... @newsdecoder.bsky.social @ninagraeger.bsky.social @nobelprize.bsky.social

Promoting peace through a prize

Each year a committee of Norwegians awards the Nobel Peace Prize to someone who has fought for peace. Is Donald Trump worthy?

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The only con job here is by Trump. The UN’s IPCC climate panel - whose finding are okayed by fossil fuel producers including Saudi Arabia, US, Russia, etc - says human-caused warming is «unequivocal». That’s more than «most scientists» www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Trump to address UN as he distances US from global cooperation

U.S. President Donald Trump will address the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday as world leaders grapple with crises from Gaza to Ukraine and question whether the United States, with its "America First" foreign policy, is still prepared to play a leadership role in global affairs.

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Terrible: @nytimes writes admiring story about hi-tech oil drilling off #Norway without even mentioning climate change and how Oslo is failing to cut emissions as promised under the Paris Agreement www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/b...

How Norway Adopted New Tech in Its Hunt for ‘Missing’ Oil

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"I am AI" - I asked #chatbots to suggest palindromes (like "A man, a plan, a canal: Panama" that read the same backwards as forwards). Despite their confidence, they failed dismally. One bizarre suggestion: "Ledatic, enot erif evil neman s'oreh a" medium.com/@alisterdoyl...

“I am AI”: Palindromes stump chatbots

Artificial intelligence is transforming our lives, but ChatGPT and others often spout gibberish if you ask for an original palindrome

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Norway’s parliamentary elections aren’t until Sept 7-8 but you can vote early: pick a day in the sunshine like today and join a short queue in central Oslo (other nations please do the same if not already!)

"No one has contacted me," Norwegian Foreign Minister @espenbartheide.bsky.social tells Foreign Press Association in Oslo on Aug. 28 -asked if U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is lobbying for him to win the Nobel Peace Prize