I especially love this diagram.

Data shows you're 11% more likely to die in a crash while *driving* an SUV, largely because the false sense of indestructibility leads you to drive more recklessly around others. Antisocial behaviour is baked into the design of these monstrosities.

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 3d ago

Climate science denial in physical form. The Land Rover Defender X (yup - they've gone full Musk). Price: £103,460, plus a few kids' lives. 🧵

📢#SaveTheDate 🗓️ The 3rd conference on long-term experiments will take place at Stellenbosch University, South Africa 🇿🇦, 22 June 2027 – 24 June 2027! Long Term Experiments 2027: Lessons Learnt and Future Sustainability web.cvent.com/event/6b4036... #agronomy #soilhealth #modeling #globalchange

Forest fire last night in the Netherlands.

Wouter van Bernebeek@woutervanbernebeek.bsky.social · 2d ago

⛈️🔥 Surrealistisch beeld uit de eigen omgeving! Buienwolken in de verte stijgen boven een #bosbrand uit, gisteravond op de grens tussen Brabant en Limburg. Ik was onderweg naar onweersbuien in het zuiden en kwam dit tegen langs snelweg A73. Bizarre sfeer rond zonsondergang...

A new chapter for CGIAR. As our new Board begins its work, we're focused on what matters most: delivering science and innovation that strengthens food, land and water systems worldwide. 🌍🌱 https://on.cgiar.org/4hFSWHc

From today, EU citizens have a legal right to know when they're talking to a bot or looking at a deepfake, backed by fines of up to €15m. Thanks to Brexit, we're missing out on this protection.

Oh look... they solved the climate crisis! 🦄 .00000000001% of annual emissions* will be removed by unscalable but very PR-friendly technologies and we will drink the excess CO2 in refreshing beverages! [No burping allowed 😉] #Climate Denial now comes in delicious lychee flavor! 1/ #ClimateSky 🔌💡

DRINK MISAN

A new lychee-flavored sparkling water, carbonated with CO2 pulled directly from the air.

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++NEW++ "During the May and June 2026 heat events there were an estimated total of 2,877 heat-associated deaths" "...the mortality burden is already close to the highest annual totals previously recorded by UKHSA" www.gov.uk/government/p...

A modeling study spanning 60 years of ocean iron fertilization across 10 ocean biomes reveals stark trade-offs in its use as a CO₂ removal technique. 🌊🧪

Climate benefit and ecological cost trade-offs for ocean iron fertilization - Nature

A process-rich global biogeochemical model is used to determine the trade-offs between carbon dioxide removal efficiency and ecosystem impacts in ten ocean ocean biomes following ocean iron ...

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🍲 🍠 "Food is medicine." After 25 years on biofortification, the case has never been stronger. Just 100g of orange-fleshed sweetpotato can meet a child's daily vitamin A needs. Why it matters more than ever 👉 https://on.cgiar.org/4aK5IjX #Biofortification #FoodSecurity

Imagine the response if terrorists or Russia caused this many deaths. For comparison, terrorism killed just 2 people in France in all of 2025.

Trump is questionably even sentient at this point. Make no mistake. This action is being taken by the polluters and plutocrats who put him in power: www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

Trump calls for review related to scientific manual used by judges

U.S. President Donald Trump called for a review related to the Federal Judicial Center's ​scientific reference manual in cases involving climate change, writing ‌in a Truth Social post on Sunday that ...

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"Fires, floods and record heat: This is the summer of compounding disasters" by @afreedma.bsky.social for @cnn.com: www.cnn.com/2026/07/20/c...

Fires, floods and record heat: This is the summer of compounding disasters | CNN

This summer has proven we don’t have to wait for climate change to smack us in the face. The signs of global warming are all around us, right now.

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The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.

The zombie that is DOGE! DOGE and other Tr$mp led cuts have resulted in an economic cost of more than $165 billion, or more than $1,028 per taxpayer but contrary to Musk's promises, federal spending as a whole actually increased. @merylkornfield.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

DOGE was supposed to be dead. Its remnants are everywhere.

The fallout from Elon Musk’s cost-cutting venture can be found across the government if you know where to look.

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“If we allow chasing North Sea oil and gas to distract us from increasing the electrification of the economy, investing in new power generation and better grid infrastructure, we’ll condemn ourselves to remaining at the mercy of international energy shocks.” Excellent piece by @whittso.bsky.social

Here's why Andy Burnham should leave the North Sea alone

Research shows that oil and gas drilling at Rosebank and Jackdaw will fail as a long-term strategy

newstatesman.com

The IFS conference features a presentation by the recipient of the Kish Shah Safety Award Yasser Mohamed, of Brunei Fertilizer industries. BFI have achieved an astonishing safety record, despite a relatively inexperienced workforce. Hear how the safety culture that created this was created

2026 IFS Conference – International Fertiliser Society

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Some good news:

Ian H 💚🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺@muchechops.bsky.social · 3w ago

four #children with terminal #cancer successfully #treated with new #cell-therapy www.newscientist.com/article/2533...

It's not often a new monkey species is described. This roaring, snorting, orange-lipped colobus I wrote about for @livescience.com is a cracker. Officially called Colobus congoensis, it is also known by the name "lik­weli" in the Kilanga language. 🐒 🧪 www.livescience.com/animals/prim...

Orange-lipped monkey that roars and snorts deep in Congo rainforest is new species to science

A striking new monkey species, Colobus congoensis, was discovered deep in the Congo rainforest and has been scientifically described for the first time.

livescience.com

The EU depends on imported #fertiliser, as shown again by the war in Iran. But manure—suggested by some as solution—cannot replace mineral fertiliser because the #livestock sector itself is a net consumer of it. Scaling up #manure “production” would increase fertiliser use: doi.org/10.1111/1746... +

Really good explanation of the indirect land use effects (i.e., deforestation and other ecosystem loss) related to crop-based biofuels by @mbolotnikova.bsky.social:

This renewable energy source is actually terrible for the planet

America’s biofuels policy is helping destroy the world’s rainforests

vox.com

Data centers: We need to do better than this.

Project Drawdown@projectdrawdown.bsky.social · 3w ago

Data centers can't come at the cost of our health and climate progress. In 2020, data centers were less than 2% of U.S. electricity use. Today, they're nearly 5% and growing. This is impacting our health and climate goals. Read more from @amandadsmith.bsky.social 🔗 https://bit.ly/4bFpi0U

The extreme weather we have now is not the new normal. It’s going to keep getting worse as long as we continue to burn fossil fuels.

‘Unprecedented’ changes in UK climate are normalising extremes, report says

Annual State of the UK Climate analysis finds last four years in UK are in top five hottest on record

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Trees take years to grow. A mature tree that's been standing for decades can be felled in minutes. That gap—between the time it takes to build something and the time it takes to destroy it—is worth sitting with. It's why thoughtful land use matters.

#TombTuesday Wayland’s Smithy is a two-phase #Neolithic tomb, built along the #Ridgeway close to a north scarp of the Downs above the Vale of the White Horse. The first monument here, built between 3590 and 3555 BC. #Archaeology

Electrify the energy system with clean power and total energy demand roughly halves. That was the core of my Eurelectric Power Summit keynote, now on YouTube (and picked up by The Rest Is Politics). www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqoJ...

Can Electrification Save Europe’s Economy and Climate Goals? w/ Jan Rosenow, Oxford Professor

YouTube video by Eurelectric

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"No one will protect what they don't care about; and no one will care about what they have never experienced."- Sir David Attenboroug

This summer's first two heatwaves led to more than 2,700 excess deaths in England and Wales, experts have estimated. Toll likely to go up due to third heatwave in July, @frediotto.bsky.social said this morning. www.thetimes.com/uk/weather/a...

North Wales wildfire: UK on alert as heatwaves blamed for 2,700 deaths

UK wildfire alert as residents near Conwy Mountain in north Wales evacuated. See forecast map of fire risk severity

thetimes.com

Old photo: "Leigh Court Barn is an outstanding example of English medieval carpentry, and the largest cruck framed structure in Britain. Built for Pershore Abbey in about 1325, it is over 42 metres long with 18 cruck blades each made from a single oak tree". Text: English Heritage. Photo: me.