Reform UK’s biggest donor owns a company contracted to supply fuel to aircraft from refineries that make extensive use of Russian oil, The Times can reveal. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Reform donor’s fuel company linked to Russia-supplied refinery

Christopher Harborne’s AML Global has contracts to supply aircraft fuel produced by an Indian refinery that regularly receives Russian crude oil

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Great work here from Richa

Richa Syal@richasyal.bsky.social · last mo.

🚨NEW w/ @unearthednews.bsky.social and @datadesk.eco Reform UK mega-donor Christopher Harborne’s company, AML Global, is contracted to fill US military planes with fuel from refineries that use Russian, Iranian, and Venezuelan oil, we can reveal: unearthed.greenpeace.org/2026/07/01/c...

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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NEW from me: Pesticides that are banned in the EU because of links to health risks like infertility are still in 'major' use in Britain Now they could be banned here under a planned deal with the EU, but the pesticide lobby is fighting back Full list here: unearthed.greenpeace.org/2026/02/18/e...

NEW: The "Agrizone" at COP30 is supposed to be a showcase for sustainable agriculture 🌳 But its sponsors are powerful agribusiness interests linked to deforestation and anti-conservation lobbying who have paid for visibility and "image gain" Read more 👇:

COP30’s agriculture showcase sponsored by agribiz interests linked to deforestation and anti-conservation lobbying

Sponsors of the sustainable agriculture pavilion at COP30 will include pesticides giant Bayer, alleged by campaigners to be driving “massive deforestation” on the continent, and a branch of Brazil’s l...

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Reform's promise of a fracking bonanza if they win power could cost them in the north. Smart bit of mapping from @zdboren.bsky.social and @richasyal.bsky.social shows dozens of the constituencies most likely to be fracked are prime Reform targets unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/09/05/r...

The way water companies use farmland as the dumping ground for sewage sludge is building up massive risks for nature and our food system Neither the industry nor our politicians have wanted to bear the cost of fixing this problem, so they've left it in the long grass But they know that can't last

Unearthed@unearthednews.bsky.social · last yr.

Water companies are worried about a “backlash” to sludge fertiliser akin to the public outrage they have faced over sewage released into rivers and seas unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/06/09/s...

People are worried that this could be harming farmland, ever since Unearthed uncovered a secret Environment Agency (EA) report showing that this sludge contained a cocktail of toxic contaminants like microplastics and ‘forever chemicals’ 3/6

Secret report details toxic chemicals in sewage used as fertiliser at English farms

The Environment Agency found sewage sludge destined for English fields was contaminated with microplastics, weedkiller, and “persistent organic pollutants”

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A recent investigation by @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social has exposed that if new regulations come into force to stop this reckless sludge spreading, water companies will be left with millions of tonnes of waste without a home. And their plan? To make you, the public, pay for the clean-up. Again. 😡

A real crisis has finally made it from the shadows into the light - what to do with all the sewage sludge we produce if you can't spread it on land anymore? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Warning over 'dirty secret' of toxic chemicals on farmers fields

Campaigners say that farmers' fields are being contaminated by chemicals and microplastics in sewage sludge.

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We've just released a joint statement with some incredible NGOs and individuals calling on the Environment Minister to give a steer to the Environment Agency to update the testing and regulating regime of sewage sludge. Full statement here or read on in this 🧵 fightingdirty.org/open-stateme...

Open statement by leading environmentalists demands government action over “toxic cocktail of chemicals” spread on British farmland | Fighting Dirty

In the UK, we have a dirty secret that’s recently been brought into the light. Sewage sludge, we now know, contains far more than just human waste. Not only does a wide range of synthetic chemicals po...

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Amazing new investigation from @ellieodonnell.bsky.social and @zdboren.bsky.social Water companies are scared the govt is about to crack down on agricultural river pollution, because it could stop them dumping millions of tonnes of sewage sludge on farmland 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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Sharp investigative work here by @richasyal.bsky.social

Unearthed@unearthednews.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 REVEALED: An Unearthed investigation has found major brands continued to promote environmental claims months or years after they were ruled “misleading” by the UK ad watchdog: unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/05/14/m...

🐄 JBS, the world’s biggest meat company, says it’s cleaning up its supply chain in the Amazon by the end of this year. 🌳 We spoke to 30+ ranchers and industry leaders. The vast majority said JBS will miss its target: it’s “humanly impossible”, said one. unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/04/17/j...

JBS is likely to fail to deliver on its Amazon deforestation promise, ranchers say

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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?

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. 🧵

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 🚢

Sanctioned nuclear icebreakers helped export gas from the Russian Arctic bought by Shell

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This is good news. But the UK is still exporting huge amounts of this *same* banned, bee-killing pesticide overseas Last year the UK exported 374 tonnes of thiamethoxam to countries like Morocco and Ivory Coast. That's enough to spray the whole of England unearthed.greenpeace.org/2024/12/08/u...

‘Ultimate hypocrisy’: UK exported 8,500 tonnes of banned pesticides last year

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Ruth Chambers@ruthchambers.bsky.social · 2y ago

🐝🐝🐝 Good news! The government has refused emergency authorisation for a bee-killing pesticide, recognising there is “clear and abundant evidence” it is toxic to bees. Well done Defra and Minister @emmahardymp.bsky.social www.gov.uk/government/n...

NEW The UK has rejected an application by farmers to use a bee-killing pesticide on sugar beet in England This is a big deal For the past four years in a row, the last government approved emergency use of the neonicotinoid Will likely delight conservationists, infuriate farmers

Yesterday, the EPA warned that toxic PFAS chemicals in the sewage sludge that is spread on US farmland as fertiliser may be causing cancer The UK also spreads huge amounts of sludge on farms. Like the US, we know this sludge contains PFAS, but don't routinely test for it apnews.com/article/sewa...

Chemicals in sewage sludge fertilizer pose cancer risk, EPA says

Harmful chemicals in sewage sludge spread on pasture as fertilizer pose a risk to people who regularly consume milk, beef and other products from those farms, in some cases raising cancer risk “severa...

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NEW on Unearthed: The best environmental journalism of 2024. From across the media and the planet, including bold undercover investigations and powerful public interest science journalism, Unearthed reporters select the stories we wish we had written this year. 🧵👇

The best environmental journalism of 2024 The best environmental journalism of 2024

Some of the stories we wish we had written this year, selected by the Unearthed team

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“Our government cannot continue to permit this kind of exploitation." - Green Party MP @sianberry.bsky.social responds to Unearthed's new investigation, which found that companies exported 8,500 tonnes of banned pesticides from the UK last year unearthed.greenpeace.org/2024/12/08/u...

‘Ultimate hypocrisy’: UK exported 8,500 tonnes of banned pesticides last year

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When his right side seized up after working the fields of his small-holding, Valdemar Postanovicz thought he was having a stroke. He had absorbed Reglone, a powerful herbicide based on diquat - banned in the UK, but produced here and shipped to Brazil: unearthed.greenpeace.org/2024/12/08/b...

Brazilian farmers poisoned by diquat, a banned pesticide exported from Britain

Deaths are on the rise in Brazil from diquat, a weedkiller banned in the UK but still manufactured for export to countries with weaker regulations.

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Last year, 8,489 tonnes of chemicals banned on British farms due to health and environmental concerns were sent abroad Including a lot of diquat, replacement for paraquat, with bad health impacts It hammers the land to produce commodity crops for export www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘My right side was paralysed, I was so sick’: the pesticide poisonings in Brazil that lead back to the UK

Investigation uncovers how chemicals like diquat, banned in the UK but legal to export, are causing health problems in the global south

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The Rotterdam Convention is basically the only control that exists (at an international level) on the trade in banned chemicals As we can see, it's had a limited effect

Julie Bygraves@juliebygraves.bsky.social · 2y ago

I was the Uk lead on the UN Rotterdam Convention 2017-18. It was clear then that the Convention isn’t working as it should to require Prior Informed Consent before export, or in listing new chemicals like chrysotile asbestos. Countries aimed for reform, which just wasn’t prioritised.

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...

We've been tracing the impact of the UK's trade in banned pesticides We found a growing number of Brazilian farmers poisoned with a toxic weedkiller. And exports of enough banned bee-killing pesticides to spray the whole of England The story's out now unearthed.greenpeace.org/2024/12/08/u...

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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