🧵 1/6 The death toll in Nepal crossed 500 on Friday, with at least 1,900 people still missing after devastating floods hit the region on 26 August 2026, as per BBC reports. Video: Shalinee Kumari Supporting images: Down to Earth Music: Peaceful Nature by Eitan Epstein Music / Envato

Five years after Thailand banned paraquat and chlorpyrifos, farmers and consumers remain unsafe from the overuse of other dangerous agrochemicals. But for campaigners, the war is not over. 🔗 Read the full story on our website: https://loom.ly/AWSLImY ✍️ Pratch Rujivanarom 📸 Luke Duggleby

Heavily reliant on pesticides, Thai agriculture is ‘trapped in a vicious cycle’

Five years after Thailand banned paraquat and chlorpyrifos, farmers and consumers remain unsafe from the overuse of other dangerous agrochemicals

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Economist Mariana Mazzucato explores why traditional economic models fall short, and how a common-good economy can empower communities. 🔗 https://loom.ly/Oz2pwVE ✍️ @ferminkoop.bsky.social

🚨 NEW JOB OPPORTUNITY 🚨 We are hiring a Brazil Editor to join our editorial team. 📅 Application deadline: 12pm (GMT), Tuesday 8th September. 👉 Find out more: https://loom.ly/9efi1Js

Chadian environmental activist Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim spoke to Dialogue Earth about why Indigenous perspectives are essential to Africa’s AI governance debate. 🔗: https://loom.ly/WXvnX_o ✍️ Brian Obara 📸 Chadpix / Alamy

Q&A: AI governance must respect Indigenous peoples

Dialogue Earth speaks with the Chadian environmental activist Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim about Indigenous perspectives on AI

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CALL FOR PITCHES: Photo stories on the human side of Africa's solar boom! We're inviting pitches from photojournalists and photographer-and-journalist pairings on the human stories behind Africa's solar boom, and China's role in it. Find out more: https://loom.ly/fIxoScY

The first report card on the world’s push to save nature is in — and not a single target was deemed to be on a fully positive trajectory. 🔗: https://loom.ly/D2WcWa8

World falling short on its commitments to nature

Landmark UN review finds national biodiversity efforts are well short of 2030 targets, ahead of October’s COP17 summit in Armenia

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At the start of his career, Gino Casassa was sceptical about whether humans were causing climate change. Today, leading Chile's Antarctic research organisation, Cassasa sees a continent where human-wrought change is obvious. 🔗: https://loom.ly/Jhd5HEQ

Heat and salt threaten to end a tradition dating back hundreds of years. Farmers and scientists are fighting back Read the full story by Regina Lam: https://loom.ly/_yqpxmU

Super Oyster versus climate change in Hong Kong

Heat and salt threaten to end a tradition dating back hundreds of years. Farmers and scientists are fighting back

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Previously deadlocked talks to achieve a global treaty on plastic pollution are restarting, but some who want a strong agreement say they are being excluded. 🔗: https://loom.ly/QBXFZ4M ✍️ @emmaanne.bsky.social, Benard Ogembo, Conor McGlone, Louise Krüger

As plastic talks move behind closed doors, observers worry

Previously deadlocked talks to curb plastic pollution are restarting. Some who want a strong agreement say they are being excluded

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Extreme heat is a growing but under-covered health risk. Join our panel of heat scientists and journalists in partnership with the Catch Project and Boston University — to learn how to cover heat risks and solutions in short-form social media content. https://loom.ly/_8fbEMU 📸Hong Kong Free Press

Despite Cambodia's far-reaching national grid expansion, 80% of the country's rural households still rely on firewood as the primary cooking fuel. In Tonsaong village, the costs of connecting to the national grid were deemed inaccessible to many. 🔗 Read: https://loom.ly/mObEbsc ✍️ Eung Sea

"I am happy that Indigenous Peoples' participation is increasing. I remember before there were only around 40 participants from the Philippines," said Minnie Degawan, an Indigenous leader from the Philippines. ✍️ Judy Ann Egay 🔗 Read the full story: https://loom.ly/f0j21XY

The Philippines is failing to include Indigenous people in climate decision making

Gap between principle and practice risks widening if the country does not more fully include Indigenous people in its climate action plan

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While refrigerants in air conditioners and heat pumps are keeping people healthy amid global warming, some experts fear a secret climate impact. 🔗 Read the full story on our website: https://loom.ly/YmVFxv0

The warming risk hiding in chemicals needed to keep cool

While refrigerants in air conditioners and heat pumps are keeping people healthy amid global warming, some experts fear a secret climate impact

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By working with a diverse range of independent social media content creators, climate communicators can break through echo chambers and reach new audiences, argues Isa Lim, Dialogue Earth's social media officer. 🔗 Read the full story: https://loom.ly/zy3B-Do ✍️ Isa Lim

The climate fight must involve social media creators

Trust and influence may have already shifted to social media, where fossil fuel interests are backing creators. Climate organisations must catch up

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We’re hiring a Director of Development at Dialogue Earth. This senior leadership role will help grow long-term support for independent climate journalism, strengthen partnerships, and shape fundraising strategy across our international newsroom. 🔗 https://loom.ly/dkCaiIQ

The Philippines government is aiming to bring its first nuclear power plant online by 2032. The archipelago must first develop a workforce with the expertise to design, regulate and operate nuclear facilities which are skills that have disappeared. 🔗 Read: https://loom.ly/BxlmZBo ✍️ G. K. Cabico

How the Philippines is preparing its nuclear workforce for a revival

As nuclear energy returns, the government, universities and companies are training the next generation of engineers to operate and regulate it

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We’re hiring an Operations Officer to help keep Dialogue Earth running smoothly behind the scenes. 📍 London-based 🗓️ Full-time on a four-day working week 💷 Starting salary: £35,523.58 ⏰ Apply by 9am (BST), Tuesday 9 June 2026 🔗 Read the full job description and apply: https://loom.ly/Yy88iF4

Speaking to Dialogue Earth, the world has become "even more short term" according to André Hoffmann, against the backdrop of deglobalisation, authoritatiran politics pulling against collective action, and war. 🔗 Read the story: dialogue.earth/en/business/... ✍️ Dipankar Ghose, Patrick Moore

Q&A: ‘We are spending more than the planet can give us. That is a road to nowhere’

Davos trustee André Hoffmann on how short-term politics and fossil-fuel dependence are pulling the world away from climate action

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With Southeast Asia on track to become a net gas importer, the security of its energy future remains in question, argues Putra Adhiguna. 🔗 Read: https://loom.ly/EP9uD1o ✍️ Putra Adhiguna

Southeast Asia must decisively decouple from fossil fuels, starting with transport

As the region plunges deeper into an energy crisis, the way out could lie in a determined move towards EV adoption and reduced reliance on oil and gas imports

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When Ecuador blocked a copper mine over environmental risks, the company sued — and won USD 24 million. Investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) allows foreign investors to challenge government policies. Critics say it can discourage environmental regulation. https://loom.ly/wHH_sBc

How investor-state arbitration throttles environmental action

Colombia could abandon investor-state dispute settlement, a system that its critics say gives foreign investors preferential treatment

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After preparing her two children for school, then tending to the garden, Analiza Balliao walks to a makeshift camp to join a human barricade. She has been doing this for the past seven months. 🔗 Read the full story: https://loom.ly/PX_cu9c ✍️📷 Chantal Eco

At the barricade: A mother’s stand against mining in Dupax del Norte

Protests by villagers in the northern Philippines have led the Senate to suspend a permit given to a gold miner owned by a UK company

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Coffee farmers in Brazil are caught between rising prices and rising temperatures. Read more: https://loom.ly/Ws6abCo

The coffee farms weighing climate and the market in Brazil

In Minas Gerais state, rising prices are steering some small-scale farmers from the sustainable practices that can mitigate climate change

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Vietnam has revived its nuclear programme, but in Vinh Tuong, the site of Vietnam's proposed first nuclear power plant, many are are unemployed as their main source of income — snail farms — are being dismantled one by one. 🔗 Read the full story: https://loom.ly/hKrDEiw ✍️ Minh Tran

Vietnam’s race to go nuclear leaves villagers in limbo

Vietnam wants to open its first nuclear power plant by 2031, but experts question the timeline and villagers fear for their livelihoods

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Can Africa stay at the table after its first G20 presidency? Bullying by the Trump administration has earned South Africa credit as it attempts to cement an African agenda in global economic governance Read more: https://loom.ly/5OoJlwE

Can Africa stay at the table after its first G20 presidency?

Bullying by the Trump administration has earned South Africa credit as it attempts to cement an African agenda in global economic governance

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The informal dismantling of batteries exposes workers to acids, dust and flames. Millions of often low-income waste workers around the world face serious health threats from informal e-waste recycling, according to the WHO. 🔗 Read the full story: https://loom.ly/UtdXUbQ ✍️ Tyler Roney

Q&A: As Thailand bets on EVs, what will happen to the spent batteries?

Dialogue Earth discusses the future of EV batteries in Thailand with Katrin Luger of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific

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"The war in the Gulf region is being fought with weapons, but its wider consequences are economic," writes Champa Patel, executive director for governments and policy at the Climate Group, in an Op-ed. 🔗 Read the full story: https://loom.ly/TXZNY88 ✍️ Champa Patel

Energy security is national security – and it starts at the subnational level

As the Gulf conflict plunges Southeast Asia into a deepening energy crisis, empowering local governments to transition from fossil fuels has never been more necessary

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Dialogue Earth journalist Julián Reingold spoke to UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi on why he believes direct engagement is the only path to peace – and why he wants to lead the UN. ✒️ & 📷 Julián Reingold 🔗 Read the full interview: https://loom.ly/qFJ2WjM

“We will lose if we only have the land but not the technology" says founder of the National Battery Research Institute Evvy Kartini, when asked about the growing sales and foreign participation of EV in Indonesia. 🔗 Read: https://loom.ly/4fiLLbE ✍️ Joan Aurelia

Beneath Indonesia’s big EV dreams loom local costs

Two upcoming projects aim to push the country’s EV industry forward – but without changes to the law, experts fear they could perpetuate local harms

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Q&A: ‘The sense of urgency is fast slipping away’ Dialogue Earth speaks with the new chair of the African Group of Negotiators about the continent’s priorities, finance and the declining focus on climate change. 🔗 https://loom.ly/ahX6EIA ✍️ Zubaida Mabuno Ismail

Q&A: 'The sense of urgency is fast slipping away'

Dialogue Earth speaks with the new chair of the African Group of Negotiators about the continent’s priorities, finance and the declining focus on climate change

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