Oliver Milman
@olliemilman.bsky.social
Write about the environment for the Guardian. Author of the Insect Crisis. Just about able to play Let it Be on the ukulele. LFC always.
Max Miller on why he's staying in the race: "When we go back to 2015 and 2016, & people in the media looked at President Trump, & everyone came out with allegations. Dozens of women, dozens of crazy allegations, dozens of nasty criminal misconduct. And you know what he did? He stayed in the fight."
I wonder what proportion of the cabinet would be happy to go on TV to support the tabby cat claim. Maybe all of them?
The Onion@theonion.com · 2d agoTrump Baselessly Claims He Is Viral 40-Pound Tabby Cat Named Daddy Cinnamon https://theonion.com/trump-baselessly-claims-he-is-viral-40-pound-tabby-cat-named-daddy-cinnamon/
some strong anti-Texas rhetoric from the president today
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump: "Any country with windmills is a loser"
Past fires suggest health impacts of Europe and North America #wildfires may linger for years #climatecrisis Story by @olliemilman.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Past fires suggest effects of Europe and North America wildfires may linger for years
Three years after Maui wildfires many still struggle with ‘biological, emotional and social consequences’, study says
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US TV networks please take many notes - within the very first minute of this Channel 4 report on the record wildfires in France, the reporter, Amelia Jenne, states this is because Europe is heating up quickly due to "fossil fuel pollution" www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTCH...
Europe wildfires: Flames just kilometers from Bordeaux
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You see this frontpage and do genuinely wonder what on earth the conversation must have been between the senior editors when they were laying it out...
interesting to me that as the administration treats democratic-voting states like conquered or occupied territories, you don’t have pundits demanding the president respect “half the country”
tony romm@tonyromm.bsky.social · 2w agoNEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
"Scientists decry Trump’s ‘blame game’ after he claims Canada ‘poisoning’ US air" by @olliemilman.bsky.social for @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Scientists decry Trump’s ‘blame game’ after he claims Canada ‘poisoning’ US air
Trump told Mark Carney ‘you got to stop these fires from coming in’ as experts say wildfires symptom of climate crisis
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Has a Sopranos like moment returning to New Jersey from London, a place that has not one but two speedy rail links to the airport and vegetables that don’t make you poop your pants
It's easy to become inured to Fox News but this fossil fuel industry puffery is bizarre - a context-free celebration of deep drilling in the Gulf with no mention of Deepwater Horizon, published as a huge heatwave worsened by such drilling is about to kill Americans www.foxnews.com/opinion/how-...
How American engineers unlocked the impossible beneath the Gulf of America
Deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of America unlocks the Paleogene layer, where extreme pressures hold tens of billions of barrels of oil.
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I worked really hard on this and it just sucks to see people I like and respect on here shitting on it. Everyone talks a big game about supporting artists but then they all pile on just to score a few points on the internet. Try creating your own stuff instead of making fun of someone else’s.
Gene Ha creator of 2026 IL Reads pick MAE The Definitive Edition@geneha.com · last mo.In the concept art this arch was supposed to be a perfect miniature of Trump's planned 250 ft (76m) tall arch. The rushed and limited planning time led to this Home Depot scrap plywood wrapped in vinyl debacle.
‘Woefully unprepared’: extreme heat will double US hospitalizations by 2040, study finds www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Woefully unprepared’: extreme heat will double US hospitalizations by 2040, study finds
Sharp rise in hospital visits will in turn drive up annual healthcare costs for heat-related conditions to over $1bn
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Majority of US' new AI datacenters to be built on drought-hit land, Guardian analysis finds. Two-thirds of new datacenters, some taking 5m gallons of water a day, are in places in drought over past year. "I think a crunch point is inevitable," one expert said. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
‘Should we leave them to die?’ The battle over how to save orangutans from the curse of palm oil www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...
‘Should we leave them to die?’ The battle over how to save orangutans from the curse of palm oil
The long read: As new settlers clear their forest habitat, the apes are coming into conflict with humans. But simply moving them to another part of the forest may not be the answer
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Renewables are unstoppable. BNEF's New Energy Outlook for this year says solar is set to be the biggest source of electricity in 2032 and wind will be second biggest in 2034. Both coal and gas displaced from those thrones. This is the business-as-usual scenario. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.
An undercover video at a Maine salmon farm, sent to the Guardian, shows staff hitting fish with poles and admitting to giving them contaminated feed. Some fish showed signs of infection. It comes as the Trump admin seeks to supersize fish farming in the US. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Salmon farm faces new cruelty claims as Trump seeks to supersize fish farming
New undercover video appears to show cruel treatment of salmon at Cooke hatchery amid push for ‘chickenification’ of fish
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‘Irresponsible’: backlash as Utah approves datacenter twice the size of Manhattan www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
‘Irresponsible’: backlash as Utah approves datacenter twice the size of Manhattan
Facility would require more power than entire state uses and suck up vast amount of water in drought-stricken area
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This isn’t a garden shed - it’s the main train station for a metropolitan area of 7 million people, in one of the fastest growing cities in the US. It gets three trains *a week*
Oliver Milman@olliemilman.bsky.social · 3mo agoI wrote about how far the US has fallen behind the world on public transport, which involved witnessing the saddest train station I've ever seen (in Houston) www.theguardian.com/environment/...?
I wrote about how far the US has fallen behind the world on public transport, which involved witnessing the saddest train station I've ever seen (in Houston) www.theguardian.com/environment/...?
How car-loving American cities fell so far behind their global peers on public transit
With most major European cities well served by trains and buses, bringing US transit up to par would cost $4.6tn
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Must read on why US citizens being unfairly deprived of the convenience and boon that is rail travel, by @olliemilman.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
How car-loving American cities fell so far behind their global peers on public transit
With most major European cities well served by trains and buses, bringing US transit up to par would cost $4.6tn
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The process of relocating people from New Orleans should start immediately, as the city has reached a “point of no return” that will see it surrounded by the ocean within decades due to the climate crisis, a stark new study has concluded. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
‘Point of no return’: New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level, study finds
Louisiana’s cultural hotspot could be surrounded by Gulf of Mexico before end of this century, authors say
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‘Historic breakthrough’: Colombia climate talks end with hopes raised for fossil fuel phaseout www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Historic breakthrough’: Colombia climate talks end with hopes raised for fossil fuel phaseout
Nearly 60 countries back voluntary roadmaps to wean world off coal, oil and gas, at conference prompted by frustration with UN climate summits
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I went to North Carolina's eroding coast where dozens of homes recently fell spectacularly into the sea. Some people are now raising homes onto wheels and moving them in a bid to save them. Experts call this an omen for the world amid quickening sea level rise. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Dozens of North Carolina houses have been lost to the sea. Some surviving homes are now being moved on wheels
Pace of sea-level rise has turned Outer Banks coastal area into a ‘canary in the coalmine’ for other east coast communities
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