It's a disaster. It's an absolutely appalling human disaster. What on earth will it take to change our sick, unwell, sociopathic, misanthropic media culture? It is very hard not to despair at this news. A good man. Hunted. Debased. And now lost to us. This is no democracy.

Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · last mo.

How many more senior politicans do we have who are so scared of what the press might say about them? - The press behave in an absolutely reckless way that destroys people. This was not an exception. We have a deeply broken media in the UK & Labour refuse to even talk about it.

What is "climateflation" and how bad could it get for our weekly food shop? @ejcrobinson sat down with one of the UK's most prominent climate, biodiversity and soils scientists, Pete Smith, to understand his new research programme, with the UK MACC Hub and @aberdeenuni.

What is climate-flation? - Land and Climate Review

Edward Robinson sits down with Pete Smith, a global expert on climate change, biodiversity and food systems, to understand what's happening to our fragile grocery supplies chains.

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Worrying slowdown in corporate clean power procurement, which would have been a lot worse were it not for Silicon Valley's clean power buying spree. www.businessgreen.com/news/4525853...

Meta, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft accounted for half of corporate PPA deals in 2025

BNEF reveals corporates delivered second highest level of annual clean power purchase agreement activity in 2025

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This is great work.

Food, Farming and Countryside Commission@ffc-commission.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🆕New research from @climateoutreach.bsky.social and @moreincommonuk.bsky.social shows that the majority of British people want to see “protecting our food supply and supporting British farmers” made a priority in government climate policy. 👉See it here climateoutreach.org/btc/2025/

“There is history in the collective memory - introduced 200 years ago - which is blurred & unreflective.” @bertiehb.bsky speaks with Annette Kehnel, author of “The Green Ages,” who argues that modern sustainability ideas are Victorian – & that the future is medieval. www.landclimate.org/...

It was a treat to be at the House of Lords, with my colleague Mair, to support @greenjennyjones.bsky.social, as she takes down the environmental disaster that is Drax! Sounded to me like there was a lot of support among our noble friends on all sides. Watch here: parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...

The evidence that we have already set off tipping points in Earth's frozen regions is gathering pace. Even 1.5 degrees is (therefore) likely to be too high. Concerned polar scientists want COP30 to take notice. We carry an article from them here. 👇

Land and Climate Review@landclimate.bsky.social · 10mo ago

"These changes threaten water supply and infrastructure for billions of people" @leti-polar.bsky.social, @zoraur0ra.bsky.social, and @pxh.bsky.social warn that the Earth’s frozen regions are approaching irreversible tipping points, and call for urgent action at COP30: www.landclimate.org/...

We begin another months-in-the-making three-parter with the story of Labour. In part one (up to 1939): why it was a fractious coalition from day one, how it overtook the Liberals to become a party of government, and why Ramsay MacDonald went from hero to treacherous villain. Contains foreshadowing

Origin Story@originstorypodcast.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Welcome back to Origin Story season eight: The Story of Socialism. This week, in the year of its 125th anniversary, @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social begin the tale of the UK Labour Party, from Keir Hardie to Keir Starmer 👉 linktr.ee/originstoryp... #labour #podcast

UNEP’s new #AdaptationGap Report warns that developing countries will need at least US$310 billion per year by 2035 to protect lives, livelihoods, and economies. Yet, current financing lags far behind. Discover how to close this gap: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

“Climate impacts are accelerating. Yet adaptation finance is not keeping pace, leaving the world’s most vulnerable exposed to rising seas, deadly storms, searing heat,” says UN SG António Guterres. “Adaptation is not a cost – it is a lifeline" @unep.org #climatecrisis www.unep.org/resources/ad...

Adaptation Gap Report 2025

Amid rising global temperatures and intensifying climate impacts, UNEP’s 2025 Adaptation Gap Report: Running on Empty finds that a yawning gap in adaptation finance for developing countries is putting...

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Very much looking forward to this! Feels like a perfect time to reassess high-rise living in Britain.

Holly Smith@holsmith.bsky.social · last yr.

My book is out on 28 October with @versobooks.bsky.social 💥 It’s available for pre-order at £20: www.waterstones.com/book/up-in-t...

Exclusive: our investigation into the link between occupational asthma and biomass power has been published today by @theguardian.com We reveal that 10 lawsuits have been filed against Drax by workers following specialist diagnoses. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Drax faces lawsuits over claims workers developed asthma from wood dust

Current and former employees say they were not adequately protected despite knowledge of health risks

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Proud of our team at @landclimate.bsky.social for bringing these cases to light. These people have been failed and deserve better. I hope they get justice asap!

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 11mo ago

Drax faces lawsuits over claims workers developed asthma from wood dust

A lovely story about Dr Jane Goodall's career & legacy, from Rachel Fieldhouse & Mohana Basu, in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41.... Includes some comments from me about how researchers _can also_ be advocates and science communicators, and still be taken seriously (I hope)! Vale, Jane.

Jane Goodall’s legacy: three ways she changed science

The primatologist challenged what it meant to be a scientist.

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"To appreciate the Paris agreement’s effectiveness, consider that renewables comprised 92.5% of all new installed electricity capacity in 2024." The optimistic voice of Jennifer Morgan here, via @projectsyndicate.bsky.social prosyn.org/7NKPPvc

Clean Energy Is Inevitable Despite Trump

Jennifer Morgan touts the progress made in the Paris climate agreement's first decade, but also highlights unfinished work.

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Priyanka Kumar's new book "The Light Between Apple Trees" explains how Americans became hooked on a cartoon version of the apple and how this endangers them. You can read an edited extract on @landclimate.bsky.social. It's out now from @islandpress.bsky.social www.landclimate.org/seeds-of-ind...

Seeds of industrialisation: how the soul of the apple got lost  - Land and Climate Review

An overreliance on pesticides and a disconnect from the land has dampened the mythology of America’s most iconic fruit, says Priyanka Kumar.

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Nonfiction science new releases for September, 2025! Which of these books are you adding to your TBR? I am adding GHOSTED, BLUEPRINTS, and DANGEROUS MIRACLE to my TBR. #nonfiction #booksky #science 🧪 #sciencebooks #womeninscience #nonfictionscience ⚛️🎢🌱🦜📚

"Today, we clear a soccer field’s worth of tropical forest every six seconds, a loss dramatically worsened by humanity’s growing hunger for meat" Wean ourselves off meat now, or the switch to a Pliocene climate that's locked in will do it for us www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Meat is a leading emissions source – but few outlets report on it, analysis finds

Sentient Media reveals less than 4% of climate news stories mention animal agriculture as source of carbon emissions

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This article is more optimistic than the headline suggests. I think it is actually about the West's decision to hand the future economy to China and the East. The speed of the energy transition in China is good for the world and, geopolitically, bad for the West as it inexplicably relegates itself

Wolfgang Blau@wblau.bsky.social · last yr.

On China and clean energy tech: “For the first time in two centuries, the West is no longer the leader in future technology but the follower” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...

As far as I can tell, @zackpolanski.bsky.social is one of the bravest people in the country at the moment. The more Labour and the Tory press attack him, the more the vast majority of decent Britain will tune in to his positive message. Fear may be contagious but so is courage!

Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · last yr.

The Prime Minister can call me names - “plastic progressive”? (Nope, me neither!) Meanwhile, I’m travelling across England and Wales, meeting people fired up and ready for change. We’re going to turn this country around – and no one gets left behind.

Really looking forward to this! Well done @jsmillinstitute.bsky.social for bringing back the Liberal summer schools and keeping them open to people of all political colours. There's a lot to discuss!

Ben Wood@cosmichope.bsky.social · last yr.

Lovely to have you with us @stuartgwhite.bsky.social. 👍✊️

24 July is #EarthOvershootDay. That means humanity has used up Earth’s yearly natural resources budget in just 7 months. In 2024, the date was 1 August. The date keeps creeping earlier—but the trend can be reversed: www.genevaenvironmentnetwork.org/resources/up...

"Interviews with Kurdish microworkers in northern Iraq revealed that many of them still lived in refugee camps, ten years after being displaced by different stages of the Syrian war. Their work consisted in tagging images, mainly for self-driving car systems."

If you're worried about the #climate and #nature emergencies and looking for the perfect (UK-focused) climate adaptation and resilience newsletter, check out this one, which I'm helping to edit. It's free on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/adaptati...

Climate Adaptation UK: Summer 2025

Welcome to the May/June/July edition of our Climate Adaptation newsletter. Hope you have your cup of (iced) tea ready, because it’s a monster. Edited by Mirte Boot.

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This week on the Land and Climate Podcast, @alimacewen.bsky.social‬ interviewed @simonclimate.bsky.social‬ from ‪@tyndallcentre.bsky.social‬ about the International Maritime Organisation's new penalties for shipping emissions. Click below to listen: www.landclimate.org/...

Oh this is just unspeakably ridiculous. Starmer was even part of a coup against a Labour leader in 2016 and didn't lose the whip at the time (as he shouldn't have). These are decent and popular Labour MPs. Is this possibly the most paranoid whips office of recent times?

Jessica Elgot@jessicaelgot.bsky.social · last yr.

Four whip suspensions - - Rachael Maskell - Brian Leishman - Neil Duncan Jordan - Chris Hinchliff Three others are removed as trade envoys - Rosena Allin Khan - Mohammed Yasin - Bell Ribeiro-Addy

Great to see this report out. Looking forward to getting stuck in and very sorry to be missing today's event.

Green Alliance@green-alliance.org.uk · last yr.

🌡️☔ New report | The UK isn't prepared for the impacts of climate change, and they're already here. Nearly 3k deaths from excess heat in 2022. £2.4bn annual flooding costs. 6m homes at flood risk. Yet 2/3 of #adaptation actions are inadequate for the scale of the challenge. 🔗 buff.ly/v9yl5ln 1/6

Just seen this important film. Credit to @ejfoundation.org for making it and for continuing to campaign and educate in the area of unsustainable fishing. Well worth a watch!

Environmental Justice Foundation@ejfoundation.org · last yr.

Fishing is critical to coastal communities in Senegal. Not only is it a vital source of food, but it has also been the main livelihood of many families for generations. Our film follows Abdou, a migrant to Tenerife who comes from a fishing family in Senegal 🎥

How did we lose the farmers? @felixschulz.bsky.social has some answers on our latest podcast 👇👇

Land and Climate Review@landclimate.bsky.social · last yr.

This week on the Land and Climate Podcast @alimacewen.bsky.social‬ speaks with Felix Schulz about his new research, which examines the divergence in core values between the global north and south. Click below to listen: www.landclimate.org/...

Join CCNow and @soljourno.bsky.social on Tuesday, June 10, for a webinar that will help you cover climate movements thoughtfully and fairly. You’ll get to learn from journalists who have decades of experience covering climate change and movements to address it. ⁠https://buff.ly/JJDgkwI