These chemicals are illegal as prophylactic treatments in agriculture - yet we routinely daub pets, putting at risk the pets, ourselves, our children and countless invertebrates which are fundamental to watercourse ecology. Both chemicals and breakdown products are toxic and persistent in water.

Doug Parr@dougparr.bsky.social · 23h ago

The Wildlife Trusts are calling for a complete ban on 5 dangerous chemicals “Two sugar cubes of the concentrated active ingredient imidacloprid would be enough to exceed the predicted no-effect concentration in about 400 Olympic-sized swimming pools” www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

This is horrific. Highway workers have always had abuse (I once had a bottle of piss thrown at me) but this is taking it to a new level 🙄

Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 2d ago

Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.

Really good article about how peat restoration is helping farmers - a good counter to all the nonsense from the usual nonsense about "fuel load" and "rewilding" from the minority. www.walesfarmer.co.uk/news/2614875...?

Elan Valley farmer speaks out after devastation of terrifying wildfire

A farmer has spoken out after watching the land she calls home ‘burn’ and the restored peatland that helped save it.

walesfarmer.co.uk

National Highways’ Safety Trap: Why Counting Deaths Isn’t Enough transportactionnetwork.org.uk/national-hig...

National Highways must come clean on pedestrian and cycle safety

National Highways’ Safety Trap: Why Counting Deaths Isn’t Enough We recently highlighted about National Highways' serious failure to meet its road casualty reduction targets - despite their claim that...

transportactionnetwork.org.uk

What the hell is the BBC 6pm news doing leading with Farage's clickbait about using the Royal Navy to stop immigrants? An absurd soundbite from a tiny party with a disgraced leader and that's the most important news in the UK today? Dear God. The rot has truly gone deep.

Urgent action needed then, as we believe @andyburnham.bsky.social has other plans for Greater Manchester!

HACAN@hacan1.bsky.social · 4d ago

Thanks to @flightfreeuk.bsky.social for calculating it would take a forest the size of Greater Manchester to compensate for all the flights we take each year. There simply isn't enough land space to account for our flight emissions. The best way to cut your carbon footprint is to go #FlightFree.

Nigel Farage Funder George Cottrell’s Accountant Co-Invested With Russia-Linked Indicted Cocaine Trafficker The accountancy firm that administers George Cottrell’s Montenegro company, has invested in a property development with the alleged ringleader of the country’s largest money laundering…

Nigel Farage Funder George Cottrell’s Accountant Co-Invested With Russia-Linked Indicted Cocaine Trafficker

The accountancy firm that administers George Cottrell’s Montenegro company, has invested in a property development with the alleged ringleader of the country’s largest money laundering cartel

bylinetimes.com

Sir #DavidAttenborough “Things are going to get worse. This is the new extinction. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get." #ClimateEmergency

David Attenborough, the voice of Our Planet: “Things are going to get worse”

The voice of some of the most stunning nature documentaries ever made is pessimistic about the future of wildlife on earth.

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‘Climate change kills’: Pedro Sánchez speaks plain truth to Spain’s deniers

‘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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And it doesn’t stop… Reform given six-figure donation by firm that received £67m loans from unnamed sources observer.co.uk/news/politic...

Reform given six-figure donation by firm that received £6...

Nigel Farage’s party is facing questions about the lack of transparency over £100,000 in funds donated by a management consultancy

observer.co.uk

George Cottrell through his lawyer at Carter Ruck - the same lawyer who also acts for Nigel Farage - flatly denies the claim & any relationship with Abramovich’s son. Three separate sources say otherwise & @bylinetimes.bsky.social has another.

Amber LED street lights could save millions of insects. New research shows 1800K amber LEDs cut insect attraction by ~40% compared to standard white LEDs, emitting almost no blue light. The study tracked 71,000 bugs across 6 German railway stations. #LightPollution #Insects #Wildlife #DarkSkies

Researchers may have solved a problem caused by artificial street lights

independent.co.uk

Full page advert in today's Times...

The debate around North Sea drilling is heating up again. But one thing is being overlooked in the arguments: the huge problem of methane leaks. (1/3)

This looks v. positive 👏 But to be meaningful it has to lead to immediate ruling out of *any* new fossil fuel drilling, including Rosebank & Jackdaw & the urgent reinstatement of international climate finance. For more on climate as a security threat, see my podcast for @therestpolitics.bsky.social

Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · last wk.

++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...

"Gotcha"... This could be a great day for British democracy. Revealed: George Cottrell transferred $2m to his mother days before her donations to Reform UK www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Revealed: George Cottrell transferred $2m to his mother days before her donations to Reform UK

Exclusive: Sources say Fiona Cottrell told bankers the transfers, received 24-72 hours before her donations to Reform, came from her son

theguardian.com

Today experienced the 24th day of year hitting 30C in London. For perspective in whole of 1980s we had 21 days.

The Office: Woman Holding 'HOT' Sign

ALT: The Office: Woman Holding 'HOT' Sign

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Incredibly important letter to the PM on #climate realities from @kevinclimate.bsky.social 👇

Kevin Anderson@kevinclimate.bsky.social · last wk.

Open letter to the PM on Rosebank & Jackdaw oil and gas fields, covered in the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/environment/... Full letter here: climateuncensored.com/letter-to-th...

And guess what Fartage refused to apologise in parliament -despite evening challenges to by Starmer - and did fuck all

Brilliant reporting from @channel4news.bsky.social - at last parts of the media are finally joining the dots between a planet on fire and the burning of fossil fuels

Channel 4 News@channel4news.bsky.social · last wk.

‘There are a lot of corporate interests’ in pushing back against climate policies – former diplomat

New Heathrow runway would take 20,000 jobs from other airports, centralising them at Heathrow - the exact opposite of what current UK govt wants to achieve, say DfT stats Comes on top of official assessment showing new runway would deliver only 0.05% GDP growth www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Heathrow expansion would take thousands of jobs from other UK regions, report finds

Airports in England and Wales are likely to lose millions of passengers if third runway goes ahead, DfT economic paper shows

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Industrial chicken farming accelerating spread of diarrhoea bacteria, study finds

Industrial chicken farming accelerating spread of diarrhoea bacteria, study finds

Intensive nature of modern chicken farming creates ideal conditions for campylobacter, allowing bacteria to evolve Industrial chicken farming is accelerating the spread of the world’s most common bacterial cause of diarrhoea, scientists have found. The study found a dramatic increase in the exchange of campylobacter strains between wild birds and chickens as farming has intensified, creating the ideal conditions for the bacteria to mix, spread and acquire new traits. There has also been a rise in antimicrobial resistance traits in circulating strains, raising concerns that serious illness in people will be more difficult to treat. Continue reading...

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📌 ICYMI @nafeez.bsky.social Why did Reform UK change from being a privately-owned company to a non-profit company limited by guarantee in 2025? Nafeez Ahmed investigates a fraudulent identity used by George Cottrell – and how his former boss in the City became the party's treasurer vetting…

‘Posh George’, Two Passports, and a Fraudulent Identity: Convicted Fraudster and Nigel Farage Funder’s Connections to Reform UK’s Murky Financial Structures

Why did Reform UK change from being a privately-owned company to a non-profit company limited by guarantee in 2025? Nafeez Ahmed investigates a fraudulent identity used by George Cottrell – and how his former boss in the City became the party's treasurer vetting donations

bylinetimes.com

Yep... this... @richmondcouncil.bsky.social @alexanderehmann.bsky.social

Dorian Lynskey@dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 2w ago

The decision of so many people to keep using X in its race-war phase has made me a bit more cynical overall about the ability to draw moral red lines. It’s beyond disappointing.

📌 ICYMI — Elections Watchdog Assesses Reform UK’s £30,000 Private Flights Donation — @josiahmortimer.bsky.social Exclusive: Watchdog escalates inquiry into Nigel Farage's party amid questions… https://bylinetimes.com/2026/07/23/elections-watchdog-assesses-reform-uks-30000-private-flights-donation

Elections Watchdog Assesses Reform UK's £30,000 Private Flights Donation

Exclusive: Watchdog escalates inquiry into Nigel Farage's party amid questions over whether the true source of the money was concealed

bylinetimes.com

⏱️https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yv4r5g55do

Police investigate donations by Richard Tice company to Reform UK

Britain Means Business, owned by the party’s deputy leader Richard Tice, made two donations of £250,000 in the run-up to the 2024 general election.

bbc.co.uk

Politics UK: ‘NEW: Richard Tice says the BBC "will be hearing from my lawyers" after their "disgraceful hit piece against me" It comes after they revealed the police are investigating donations made to Reform UK through his company’

Terrifying to see wildfires raging through Scotland. The climate crisis isn't a distant threat - it's right here and right now. How many warning signs and alarm bells until Andy Burnham takes action to end oil and gas drilling?

When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.

Genuinely terrifying. And remarkably similar to how the Nazis began their criminalisation of dissent and their dehumanisation of any who resisted. It's happening. In the US. Right now. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Three speeches on a single day signaled a dying American democracy | Robert Shpiner

Stephen Miller warned of a leftwing ‘cancer’ threatening civilization. As a critical care doctor, I have a response to his diagnosis

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