Climate change is here, its killing our neighbours but most of Britain's media is passionate about extracting more oil and causing more harm. We need to put newspapers who love oil but hate our children in the bin!

Burning fossil fuels makes wildfires more frequent and more intense. Of course those who have made record profits causing the problem should pick up the bill.

East Herts Sabs have secured a second Community Protection Warning against the Puckeridge & Essex Hunt, after months of gathering evidence of illegal hunting, trespass and badger sett interference. And huntsman Rhys Matcham has been charged with illegal hunting after a deer was taken down by hounds.

This morning I was joined by a firefighter, a medic, a former soldier and Chris Packham to call on the government to act now. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Zack Polanski demands fossil fuel giants pay for firefighting helicopters

The Green Party leader says the companies are ‘profiting from fuelling these infernos’

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Zack Polanski, "If we decarbonise by 2050, that would cost less than a single (fossil-fuel) energy shock" "We've now had two energy shocks in just a few years" "We cannot keep waiting, we cannot keep hoping for magic technologies - it already exists, what is lacking is the political will"

"None of England’s fire and rescue services are thought to have direct access to firefighting aircraft." It's outrageous. Make the fossil fuel companies pay. www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/country-and-...

Fossil fuel producers should pay for wildfire helicopters, Zack Polanski says

Next week is the anniversary of the start of the Langdale Moor Fire in North Yorkshire, the largest wildfire in the country last year.

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This shocking cruelty was revealed in FOI requests made by Manchester Piegon Rehab. TfL must end lethal control in favour of habitat modification, humane deterrents and non-lethal management measures. Sign the petition www.change.org/p/end-transp...

Sign the Petition

End Transport for London's cruel pigeon shoots

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TfL organised at least 123 shoots between March 2024 and March 2026. Pigeons trapped behind netting were gunned down, and nests were destroyed. Snipers even targeted chicks too young to leave their nests.

Chris Packham: 'listen to the science'. Climate predictions have so far been accurate, some too cautious.

The Green Party of England & Wales@greenparty.org.uk · 16h ago

Watch live as Zack Polanski delivers urgent message to the Prime Minister

An Ornate Tailed Digger #wasp (Cerceris rybyensis) on the Sea Holly. This is a new observation in the garden for me. Whilst it preys on solitary bees it's a very welcome visitor. #wildlifefrommywindow #invertebrates #gardenwildlife

#Zack is so right - massive fossil fuel profits are a #scandal We need honest Govt too This also means honest carbon accounting & climate policies #CarbonReckoning is a project taking UK Govt to court on this honesty - read more &please support www.crowdjustice.com/case/carbon-... @ZackPolanski

Carbon Reckoning: Holding the Government to Its Own Climate Law

Carbon Reckoning are a science based group, committed to the strongest possible action to require the UK sets climate policy commensurate with the scale of the crisis we face.

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Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d ago

Crop yields down, our countryside scorched and over 2800 people are dead due to this summer's heatwaves. Meanwhile fossil fuel giants are raking in record profits. We must end this rampant profiteering, and cut fossil fuels from our energy mix as soon as possible.

It has always puzzled my why corporations are allowed to avoid taxes by moving profits to low tax regimes. If this change is agreed it will make it much more fair and realistic. taxjustice.net/press/countr...

Countries to gain $500bn more tax a year under UN ‘pay-where-you-play’ plan - Tax Justice Network

UN tax convention commitment to scrap 100-year-old corporate tax approach will unleash new economic era without increasing taxes, experts say Countries can collect US$500 billion more in corporate tax...

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This is what climate failure looks like. Nature, homes and livelihoods are being destroyed. The Government must act now.

Absolutely astonishing Samantha Jones is the top health official and she is DIRECTLY benefiting from NHS and local authority ££££ That is WRONG - she must resign, this is called corruption @chpithinktank.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/ea8c...

Companies linked to top health official and husband received £2bn in public contracts

Samantha Jones or spouse held financial interests in G Square Capital private-equity business

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"If we don't have nature,we don't have anything". @zackpolanski.bsky.social held a press conference today challenging Andy Burnham to face our real tomorrows. Superb from Zack. Join.greenparty.org.uk

I’m intrigued by the recent resurgence of the ‘Long Covid is not real’ nonsense we saw back in 20/21. The refusal to learn is one thing, but the dismissal of reality is another. Long Covid is too painful, too common & too present in many people’s lives to be denied. The story is hard to rewrite.

BP's quarterly profits more than doubled to £4.2 billion in the three months to the end of June. These are the profits of war and climate chaos. It's time to make the biggest polluters pay.

Unusually hot & dry conditions worldwide have fueled a deadly wildfire season, costing lives and destroying communities. “If these infernos don’t bring policymakers to their senses and force necessary changes to grapple with the fossil fueled climate crisis, what will?” writes UCS's Rachel Cleetus:

A World Ablaze: The Climate Future We Feared is Here - Union of Concerned Scientists

Unusually hot, dry conditions across many parts of the world—including in Algeria, Canada, France, Greece, Morocco, Spain, Tunisia, and the western United States—have set the stage for the catastrophic wildfire season underway now. Just over this weekend, rapidly spreading wildfires have exploded around Spokane, Washington, forcing nearly 65,000 people to evacuate thus far. Unrelenting hot dry weather, supercharged by climate change, is contributing to the dangerous conditions causing these fires.

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I’ve just responded to the government’s consultation by saying no to Heathrow’s climate-wrecking third runway. Will you join me and tell the government you oppose expansion too? @friends-earth.bsky.social action.friendsoftheearth.uk/target/say-n...

Stop Heathrow's climate-wrecking third runway

Take action We're in a climate crisis, with out-of-control wildfires in the UK, France and Spain and an ongoing battle to clean up the air in our cities. So why is Andy Burnham's government backing pl...

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Stumbled on this Eyed Hawk-moth larva whilst out looking for leafmines. Actually it found me really; as I reached for a sallow leaf it reacted and waved around bashing my fingers before I'd seen it. #vc55moths #teammoth

Crop yields down, our countryside scorched and over 2800 people are dead due to this summer's heatwaves. Meanwhile fossil fuel giants are raking in record profits. We must end this rampant profiteering, and cut fossil fuels from our energy mix as soon as possible.

Damian Carrington@dpcarrington.bsky.social · 2d ago

BP profits more than double to $5.7bn in three months as Iran war sends oil prices soaring - "While BP banks enormous profits, millions of households are paying the price" #energycrisis #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/business/202...

The picture on the front of Reform's policy is of HMS Ocean on the River Thames in 2012. It was sold by to the Brazilian navy in 2018. Turns out you can judge a book by its cover.

“Neither the Starmer government, nor Andy Burnham’s, can say it didn’t know”: former Green party leader @carolinelucas.bsky.social on the shocking climate reports the UK government didn't want you to see www.thenerve.news/p/caroline-l...

"Une étude a mesuré le risque de ­cancers selon la fréquence de consommation d’aliments issus de l’agriculture biologique et observe une diminution de 75 % du risque de lymphome chez les sujets consommant exclusivement ces aliments, après ajustement des facteurs socioéco­nomiques"

Pierre sujobert@sujobert.bsky.social · 3d ago

Excellent article de synthèse de @sylvainlamure.bsky.social sur les liens entre pesticides et lymphomes. A lire et à diffuser svp ! www.edimark.fr/revues/corre...

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. 🧵

Oops. www.publictechnology.net/2026/08/03/h...

NHS apologises and admits Palantir engineers have access to identifiable patient data

The central health service body has acknowledged the inaccuracy of claims previously made in a transparency document which indicated that only NHS staff were able to see such sensitive information ...

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Direct, full-time jobs opening Rosebank oilfield would create: 450 D, f-t jobs opening Jackdaw gasfield would create: 27 D, f-t jobs in UK's net-zero economy: 300,000 + 400,000 more on the way D, f-t jobs in the rest of the green economy: 600,000 Is that really the hill Burnham wants to die on?

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Rewilding is the best defence against wildfires (and why the Telegraph is unsurprisingly wrong): spectator.com/article/rewi...

Rewilding is the best defence against wildfires

Rewilding is not the cause of Britain's worsening upland wildfires. Increasingly, it looks like one of the most promising solutions.

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US: No cyanide bombs on public lands actions.eko.org/a/us-no-cyan...