June heatwave killed up to 440 people a day in England and Wales, data suggests..... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

June heatwave killed up to 440 people a day in England and Wales, data suggests

Extreme temperatures in May and June led to about 2,700 lost lives in total with climate crisis adding 3C to 4C

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🔴 New series: Pigs, Poultry, and Pollution: Investigating Intensive Agriculture For the next 9 months, @phoebecooke.bsky.social and I will look at impacts of Europe's mega-farm expansion, from links to cancer to fish deaths, for @desmog.com We would love your tips! www.desmog.com/pigs-poultry...

Pigs, Poultry, and Pollution: Investigating Intensive Agriculture

Pollution from intensive animal farms is seeping into our rivers, air, and seas. Linked to everything from cancer to mass fish deaths, these pollutants damage the environment and human health.  In thi...

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🔴 NEW: Denmark’s ‘Pig Election’ Prompts Drinking Water Crackdown. Will Europe Follow Suit? 📝 @phoebecooke.bsky.social @clarecarlile.bsky.social & @rachelsherrington.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2026/06/12/d...

Denmark’s ‘Pig Election’ Prompts Drinking Water Crackdown. Will Europe Follow Suit?

Denmark is set to radically overhaul its drinking water policy as part of a raft of sweeping reforms to the country’s livestock industry. In a nation with more pigs per capita than anywhere else in th...

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Academic studies with industry links are 16 (*sixteen!*) times more likely to draw positive conclusions about the health impacts of meat than independent research - according to a shocking new review by the University of Queensland @teimaui.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2026/05/21/i...

Industry-Linked Studies Disproportionately Advocate Meat Consumption

Academic studies funded or supported by industry are 16 times more likely to draw positive conclusions about the health impacts of meat than independent research, a new review has found. Public health...

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The UAE’s ruling royal family banked more than €71 million in EU farming subsidies. Farms in Romania, Spain and Italy controlled by the Abu Dhabi royals grow crops destined for export to the Gulf. ✏️ Latest for @desmog.com @theguardian.com @eldiario.es G4Media www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

🔴 NEW: Gulf Royal Family Banks Over €70 Million in EU Farming Funds 📝 By @clarecarlile.bsky.social @polpareja.bsky.social & Alina Mihai A collaboration with @theguardian.com @eldiario.es & G4Media www.desmog.com/2026/05/06/g...

Gulf Royal Family Banks Over €70 Million in EU Farming Funds

The UAE’s ruling royal family is benefiting from tens of millions in EU subsidies to grow crops destined for the Gulf, it can be revealed. A new cross-border investigation, shared with The Guardian, f...

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Agribusiness execs banked $515 million from selling shares during key price hikes due to the Iran and Ukraine wars The findings come weeks after the United Nations’ World Food Programme warned that the conflict in the Middle East could push roughly 45 million more people into acute hunger

DeSmog@desmog.com · 3mo ago

🔴 NEW - Fertiliser and Grain Bosses Bank $66 Million Selling Shares During Iran War Industry giants have been accused of ‘enriching shareholders’ while ‘farmers and consumers pay the price’. 📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social

🔴 NEW - Trump Accused of Trying to ‘Divide and Destabilise’ Europe Through New MAGA Fund UK and EU leaders have been called upon to “reject” MAGA’s “foreign interference”. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social, @clarecarlile.bsky.social & @writesbright.bsky.social

Trump Accused of Trying to ‘Divide and Destabilise’ Europe Through New MAGA Fund

Plans by the Donald Trump administration to fund right-wing groups in Europe have been slammed by policymakers and campaigners as an effort to “usurp European democracy”. According to the Financial Ti...

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Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

The European Commission wants to scrap routine checks on pesticide safety. Legal experts say the move would be unlawful....

DeSmog@desmog.com · 6mo ago

🔴 NEW | EU Plans to Weaken Pesticide Rules ‘Unlawful’, Experts Say Parliament has “a legal and moral obligation to reject these dangerous proposals”, says Dutch MEP @anjahazekamp.bsky.social following today’s legal opinion 📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social👇 www.desmog.com/2026/01/27/e...

🔴 NEW | EU Plans to Weaken Pesticide Rules ‘Unlawful’, Experts Say Parliament has “a legal and moral obligation to reject these dangerous proposals”, says Dutch MEP @anjahazekamp.bsky.social following today’s legal opinion 📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social👇 www.desmog.com/2026/01/27/e...

EU Plans to Weaken Pesticide Rules ‘Unlawful’, Experts Say

Plans by the European Commission to scrap routine checks on pesticide safety would break EU law, according to a new legal opinion published today (27 January).  The Commission announced plans in Decem...

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With the tragic news of another civilian murdered by US para-state forces this w/e came a timely reminder of the company that Farage keeps... @writesbright.bsky.social's piece for @desmog.com & The Mirror, totted up the bill for Farage's recent flights to see Trump. British public, forewarned.

Mikey Smith@mikeysmith.com · 6mo ago

Nigel Farage racks up £151,000 in donor-funded flights to support Donald Trump www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

"On 26 December, a group of United Nations rapporteurs expressed grave concern about the treatment of these prisoners... They had “serious questions” about our government’s compliance with international human rights law".

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 7mo ago

If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Two months ago, the lobby group and many of the companies leading the exit were touting their green credentials at COP30 in Brazil....

Zach Boren@zdboren.bsky.social · 7mo ago

the writing has been on the walls for some time now but i'm genuinely surprised just how quickly the soy moratorium has collapsed not surprised, however, that cargill, bunge etc dropped it as soon as it became inconvenient www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

the writing has been on the walls for some time now but i'm genuinely surprised just how quickly the soy moratorium has collapsed not surprised, however, that cargill, bunge etc dropped it as soon as it became inconvenient www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Major Brazilian grain traders quit Amazon conservation pact

A lobby group for Brazilian grain trading and crushing firms has told farming state Mato Grosso that it and many of its members are quitting a nearly 20-year-old pact protecting the Amazon basin from ...

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📍 NEW 📍 NY Young Republicans celebrated with far-right politicians from France, Germany, and other European nations at a lavish annual gala in Manhattan — an event co-organized by a think tank linked to Hungary's right-wing Orban government.

Group Linked to Hungary's Orban Co-organises Young Republican Gala

Far-right European politicians and their U.S. allies celebrated their growing bonds and shared goals at the lavish party — "we are in the trenches together".

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🔴 NEW 🔴 The world’s largest salmon producer Mowi stands accused of a charm offensive in the Scottish Highlands that distracts from its “polluting, smelly and invasive” fish farms, say local residents and fishers, in what used to be “pristine” Highlands lochs. with @desmog.com

🔴 REVEALED 🔴 The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. 📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇

The Institute of Economic Affairs Banked £640,000 from Oil Giants and Murdoch

The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group – received more than £640,000 from fossil fuel companies and Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate between 1957 and ...

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🔴 ‘Divide and Conquer’: Inside the Oil and Gas Strategy to Thwart EU Green Laws U.S. fossil fuel majors led efforts to ensure corporations would not have to introduce climate action plans. 📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social

‘Divide and Conquer’: Inside the Oil and Gas Strategy to Thwart EU Green Laws

A public relations firm for major U.S. polluters worked to dismantle EU laws that require large corporations to make plans for cutting emissions. The PR company Teneo undertook its work on behalf of t...

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Wait - ONE businessman gave more to Reform in the last three months than all private donations to Labour, Conservatives, Lib Dems and Greens combined ??? 🤯 Christopher Harborne, a cryptocurrency investor and aviation entrepreneur, gave £9 million - a record for a single donor - acc to Politico

Pumped for this @intercept.com.br + @drilledmedia.bsky.social collab looking at Brazil's corn ethanol boom (and the role the U.S. has played in it). First story now, in English on our site &Portuguese on the Intercept Brasil site: www.intercept.com.br/2025/11/17/a... drilled.media/news/ethanol...

Why Is Brazil’s Climate Fund Giving Hundreds of Millions to Big Ag?

Almost $500 million has flowed from the Climate Fund to corn ethanol projects from companies with environmental violations.

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Campaigners are celebrating this morning as recognition of bioenergy and other "transitional fuels" is dropped from draft COP30 texts But they believe this is just the start of a sustained lobby campaign from the bioenergy sector to become fuel of choice as countries scramble to ditch fossil fuels

DeSmog@desmog.com · 9mo ago

🔴 NEW 🔴 Backed by Industry, Brazilian Hosts Seek COP30’s Blessing for Biofuels 📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social & Maximiliano Manzoni www.desmog.com/2025/11/20/b...

🔴 NEW 🔴 Backed by Industry, Brazilian Hosts Seek COP30’s Blessing for Biofuels 📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social & Maximiliano Manzoni www.desmog.com/2025/11/20/b...

Backed by Industry, Brazilian Hosts Seek COP30’s Blessing for Biofuels

With the clock running down at the COP30 climate talks, the Brazilian hosts are working hand-in-hand with industry groups to secure backing for biofuels in the final text – despite fears that scaling ...

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🔴 NEW 🔴 In Brazil, Agribusiness Giants Hire Celebrity Influencers to Win Hearts and Minds 📝 @tjjordan.bsky.social @akhilr23.bsky.social @rachelsherrington.bsky.social @clarecarlile.bsky.social Published in partnership with @apublica.org www.desmog.com/2025/11/16/i...

In Brazil, Agribusiness Giants Hire Celebrity Influencers to Win Hearts and Minds

Doctors and models extol the virtues of meat as climate impacts of industrial farming face scrutiny at COP30 — the global climate summit.

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Day one at COP30 and my first impression is how directly wealth translates to square meter floorspace and flashy screens at the summit Here is the pavilion for Malawi vs the pavilion for the UK 1/

I've made a spreadsheet with the event schedules for COP30 pavilions, including the UK 🇬🇧 Japan 🇯🇵 Indonesia 🇮🇩 Australia 🇦🇺 and China 🇨🇳 The UNFCCC has a schedule list, but hardly any of the major pavilions are on there. I'll update the list as I collect more ⬇️ docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

COP 30 pavilions

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For anyone writing about or going to COP - Mammoth bit of work from @rachelsherrington.bsky.social and Gil Alessi 👏

DeSmog@desmog.com · 9mo ago

🔴 NEW 🔴 Mapped: Big Food’s Routes to Influence at COP30 Interactive map shows the food & farming corporations, trade groups and initiatives at COP30 in Brazil and how these are set to navigate the summit 📝 @rachelsherrington.bsky.social & Gil Alessi👇 www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/m...

🔴 NEW | U.S. Dairy Industry Push to Water Down Global Emissions Framework Revelations come as industry expected to gather at this year’s #COP30 summit in Belém, Brazil 📝 Latest from @clarecarlile.bsky.social👇 www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/r...

Revealed: U.S. Dairy Industry Push to Water Down Global Emissions Framework

Trade associations representing some of the largest dairy companies in the world have coordinated efforts to weaken international standards for how corporations measure their carbon emissions.  Expert...

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Plans for intensive livestock farms in the UK could lead to over 35million more 🐷 + 🐔 farmed here each year. Councils are green-lighting these operations despite with patchy or non-existent data. ✍️ for @desmog.com @theguardian.com on research by @sustainweb.org www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/i...

Intensive Livestock Farms Fail to Declare Climate Impacts in ‘Emissions Scandal’

Plans for intensive livestock “megafarms” are omitting crucial climate impacts, it can be revealed. Campaigners last year celebrated a “beginning of the end” to polluting factory farming, after the la...

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🔴 NEW: Intensive Livestock Farms Fail to Declare Climate Impacts in ‘Emissions Scandal’ Data by @sustainweb.org reveals how councils are giving green light to large-scale pig and poultry farms with patchy or non-existent climate data. 📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/i...

Intensive Livestock Farms Fail to Declare Climate Impacts in ‘Emissions Scandal’

Plans for intensive livestock “megafarms” are omitting crucial climate impacts, it can be revealed. Campaigners last year celebrated a “beginning of the end” to polluting factory farming, after the la...

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