Here’s the link to sign the petition to help the badgers, river ecosystem and leisure-users of the beautiful River Thames! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

Climate change contributing to permafrost thawing and glacial thinning More than 1,400 people were killed—and more than 5,000 remain missing—after a massive section of overhanging glacier and rock fell from Langtang Lirung mountain on Aug. 26, 2026. phys.org/news/2026-09...

Climate change contributing to permafrost thawing and glacial thinning

An international team of glaciologists and climate scientists, including professor Bethan Davies from Newcastle University, carried out a rapid scientific analysis and identified the role of climate c...

phys.org

Last Sunday, we joined a pyjama party in Berlin organised by @back-on-track.eu and @staygroundednet.bsky.social. We celebrated climate-friendly night train travel and demanded an end to climate-damaging nightly air traffic. There were events in many other cities! pyjama-party.back-on-track.eu

Groups took action at 17+ European cities to #BanNightFlights at airports and expand #NightTrains, the best environmentally and socially just way to travel on the ground. Check out the summary of the actions: stay-grounded.org/night-trains... Sign the petition: actionnetwork.org/forms/ban-ni...

The climate crisis is the single biggest threat to communities. Communities across the world are saying no to airport expansion. We were in the UK last week - as part of our Red Lines for Airports project - standing with community groups demanding the government live up to their own promise.

The environmental impact of the war on Iran and Lebanon illustrates again that war does not only kill people and destroy homes. It also damages the systems that make life possible. Water, climate, biodiversity are all harmed. #NoWar

The US-Israel war on Iran and how war and conflict are destroying the environment - Greenpeace International

The environmental impacts of the war on Iran and Lebanon illustrate again that war does not only kill people and destroy homes. It also damages the systems that make life possible. Water, climate, bio...

greenpeace.org

A quarter of the world’s population faces a surging cost of living crisis because of the US-Israel attacks in the Middle East. aje.news/e8dauy

‘My children did not attack Iran’: 2bn South Asians suffer from distant war

A quarter of the world’s population faces a surging cost of living crisis because of the wars in the Middle East.

aje.news

Four countries—the United States, Canada, Australia and Norway—have increased oil and gas production by 40 percent since the 2015 Paris Agreement, while the rest of world has reduced production (archive story) ...

‘Hurtling Toward Climate Chaos’ as COP30 Nears - Inside Climate News

Negotiators gathering for the global climate talks must acknowledge their failures and seek alternatives to spur action, scientists say.

insideclimatenews.org

The Energy Independence Bill is an ideal opportunity to put a stop to this.

Leana Hosea@leanahosea.bsky.social · 3d ago

If the government allows lower-volume fracking to occur, it opens the possibility of fracking far beyond the few existing test sites. Below is a British Geological Survey map of parts of the UK with fracking potential: nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/51...

The UK is really behind on electrification of railways - however, any move away from diesel toward electric trains is a welcome step in reducing levels of nitrogen oxide - a pollutant linked to lung & heart disease & increased hospital admissions: share.google/cCYovH2vvSiI...

UK's first long-distance battery-powered trains announced

The government has revealed plans to invest £1 billion in 29 new battery-powered trains, but why use batteries over diesel trains?

share.google

A macho culture of performative selfishness might start on the roads, through racing, rolling coal, ever bigger SUVs ... But it doesn't end there. If we want to live in a decent country which values human life, we need to change this culture. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Driving that’s too fast, too dangerous and utterly lawless: why do we tolerate this petro-masculinity? | George Monbiot

In towns and in the countryside, I see 4x4s and pick up trucks driven without care or consicence. It’s a Magafication of transport, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

theguardian.com

We all knew climate change was involved. The Himalayas are warming, permafrost is thawing, glaciers are retreating and mountain slopes are becoming more unstable. www.independent.co.uk/news/himalay...

Climate change made deadly Nepal glacier and rock collapse more likely, according to analysis

Human-caused global warming resulting in the Himalayan permafrost thawing was, in part, responsible for the catastrophic glacier and boulder collapse last month

independent.co.uk

Almost 600 climate scientists, health professionals and conservationists have issued a fresh plea urging Prime Minister Andy Burnham to decline licence applications for the Rosebank oil field in the North Sea. (Independent) 👏

Burnham urged to reject new North Sea drilling days before first Trump meeting

Almost 600 climate scientists, health professionals and conservationists have warned against approving the Rosebank oil field

independent.co.uk

"Netanyahu condemned the film [NAZA] as “intolerable”, saying it portrayed the Israel Defense Forces as war criminals."" Fancy that. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

Netanyahu seeks to strip citizenship from Israelis as threats to NAZA film directors intensify

Israeli prime minister to pursue new laws as directors of Guardian-produced film face threats from far-right officials and activists

theguardian.com

Law professor: “The elephant in the room is that the occupation is not a bug, it’s a feature...” In the letter: The sanctions “are improperly narrow” compared to the UK's Russia sanctions & "fall far short of what...obligations require. A “full and comprehensive arms embargo on Israel” is needed.

130 Legal Experts Urge Burnham to Expand UK’s Sanctions on Israeli Settlements

“The elephant in the room is that the occupation is not a bug, it’s a feature,” said one lawyer.

truthout.org

📹NEW VIDEO -- We followed the money trail to Israel British taxpayers funded ‘therapeutic healing’ for Israeli soldiers who fought in Gaza, Declassified can reveal. www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1zK...

Ouch, that graph! The webinar is 5pm UK time, Thursday

Zack Labe@zacklabe.com · 2d ago

Sea surface temperatures in the key Niño 3.4 region have been at record highs since early June (climate change plus El Niño), now more than 1°C above the 1997 record this week! 😬 Bring your El Niño questions and more to our free webinar tomorrow (sign up): climatecentral-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

A summer of extreme heat and wildfires, plus an approaching El Niño. Anything you want to say to Andy Burnham? Join the hundreds who have already written him a (free!) postcard, urging him to act now and commit to a Clean Air Act. mumsforlungs.justpost.cards #AirPollution #Health

If you have come to the firm conclusion that civilisation is going to unavoidably collapse then maybe you shouldn't be OK about that. Maybe you shouldn't find peace. Maybe you shouldn't spend time & money on seminars & mentoring that offer the promise of finding peace. 1/6

Reading proofs from book & remembering what I wrote in 2015: "I am very concerned about the future of AI. Not because of the risk of rogue machines taking over. But because of the homogeneous, one-dimensional group of men who are currently involved in advancing the technology.”

Love & Rage in London 12-14 Sept 2026

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In the early hours of Wednesday morning, a building damaged by Israeli strikes collapsed in Gaza, killing at least 21 people, including 11 children. An estimated 100 people were living in the six-story building when it collapsed as residents were sleeping.

War-Damaged Building in Gaza Collapses, Killing 21, as Gaza Remains Unlivable

Two thousand buildings damaged by Israeli bombing are currently sheltering people across Gaza.

buff.ly

Hottest month on record, again. www.latimes.com/environment/...

August is tied for the world’s hottest month ever recorded

This summer was the warmest measured in Western Europe, said the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service.

latimes.com

In Westminster: Our housewarming card to Andy Burnham www.refugee-action.org.uk/in-westminst...

In Westminster: Our housewarming card to Andy Burnham - Refugee Action

Photos from our trip to Westminster to hand in our housewarming card to the Prime Minister, asking to scrap the Immigration and Asylum Bill.

refugee-action.org.uk

Limits on political donations aren’t enough to stop extreme wealth polluting our democracy. We need an extreme wealth line. Our CEO Danny Sriskandarajah explains why 👇

Do we have carbon-removal technology? Yes. Some. Do we have it at the scale, speed and cost needed to make Heathrow expansion compatible with the UK’s net-zero targets? Er… no. And that’s the problem. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Airlines should pay for CO2 removal if Heathrow expands, say climate advisers

Climate Change Committee says government cannot expand airport without requiring aviation industry to clean up its emissions

theguardian.com

Earlier this year Environmental Scientist magazine put together a special edition on tipping points - it's rather good! www.jamesgdyke.info/tipping-poin...

Tipping points special edition of Environmental Scientist - James Dyke

Earlier this year I had the good fortune to contribute an article to a special edition of the Environmental Scientists - Degrees of disorder: climate tipping points. What the editors wanted from me wa...

jamesgdyke.info

McCluskey says, as low volume fracking uses less fluid, it's "not associated with the same safety issues.” Critics say some 'low volume' fracking uses more fluid than was used at a site in Lancashire where drilling was stopped after earth tremors across the region. drillordrop.com/2026/09/15/g...

Government refuses to block lower-volume fracking

The Burnham government has confirmed it will not ban lower-volume fracking.

drillordrop.com

"There is no credible pathway for Heathrow Airport expansion within the UK’s climate commitments under current policies": blunt message from @thecccuk.bsky.social www.theccc.org.uk/2026/09/16/g...

Government cannot expand Heathrow without requiring aviation industry to clean up its emissions - Climate Change Committee

The Climate Change Committee (CCC) has advised that there is no credible pathway for Heathrow Airport expansion within the UK’s climate commitments under current policies.

theccc.org.uk