Utterly mad how most of society just bumbles along, ignoring the monstrous future realities being locked in place, day in day out.

Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 13h ago

If the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) were to shut down, the continent would plunge into “ice age” winters with year-round long droughts, and agriculture would become close to impossible. www.newscientist.com/article/2588...

Jet fuel: 12,000 Wh/kg. Modern batteries: ~300 Wh/kg. Even with motor efficiency, jet fuel holds 20x the power per kg. Worse: planes rely on getting lighter as they burn fuel. Electric planes spend energy hauling dead battery weight all the way to landing. It's a physics wall.

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 12h ago

I keep telling y'all, electric aviation is a dark horse.

82% of Britons say protecting nature is important to them, new polling by @moreincommonuk.bsky.social shows “You don’t often get that degree of consensus” on any issue, says @luketryl.bsky.social - speaking at an event at Labour Party Conference with the heads of the big nature NGOs

It’s time for the crackdown on peaceful protest to end. Ask your MP to be there for the screening of The Line We Crossed in Parliament: https://thelinewecrossed.com/parliament/

Invite your MP: The Line We Crossed in Parliament

An evening of film clips and panel discussion in the Houses of Parliament on 26 October 2026, hosted by Clive Lewis MP. Add your name and we'll invite your MP.

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Happy Sundew Sunday! Want to learn 5 super cool facts about miniature-yet-so-complex sundew plants? Follow along to learn some unusual botany. 🧵 1/

I miss David MacKay. In his no-nonsense way he showed that one long-haul return flight a year uses more energy than a 1 kW heater on all year. "A 10% improvement? Yes, possible. A doubling of efficiency? I'd eat my complimentary socks." If only more people were pro-arithmetic. We have to fly less

Two months on from the announcement about Jodrell Bank Observatory's future funding, almost £50,000 has been raised thanks to your generosity. While discussions continue, no solution is yet in place. Help protect Jodrell Bank with a donation: https://donate.manchester.ac.uk/p/jodrellbank/

‘Britain has private ownership while making the state responsible for planning via subsidies. The result is a zombie system, a muddled and dysfunctional hybrid of state and market, with the benefits of neither and the costs of both.’ Arthur Downing on the energy crisis www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Arthur Downing · Asset Sweating: Britain’s Energy Crisis

Britain has private ownership while making the state responsible for planning via subsidies. The result is a zombie...

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Perfectly put. I’ve recently been told I’m enabling traffickers for simply wanting the RNLI to continue rescuing people (he meant, “the boat people”). If someone is in distress at sea, for whatever reason, the RNLI are there for them, 24/7.

Foreign aid contributions fell in 2025 amongst almost all of the top 10 donors. In 2025, the amount of foreign aid given by the world’s richest countries fell by almost a quarter. That amounted to a reduction of roughly US$50 billion.

Dubbed a "chemical bomb," discarded cigarette butts leach heavy metals, nicotine, and microplastics into water, accounting for 12% of global aquatic litter. Researchers highlight beach smoking bans with targeted fines as an effective way to protect fragile marine ecosystems. mongabay.cc/M2FAoc

Cigarette butts make up 12% of aquatic litter, global review finds

Cigarette butts account for roughly 12% of the litter found in rivers, lakes and beaches surveyed for a recent global review. Researchers pooled data from 130 studies conducted in 55 countries…

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🔴 Rupert Murdoch Flew Kemi Badenoch and Her Deputy to Mediterranean for Summer Trips Worth £12,000 The Conservative leader and Alex Burghart MP held “off-site meetings” with the billionaire media mogul in August bylinetimes.com/2026/09/25/r...

Rupert Murdoch Flew Kemi Badenoch and Her Deputy to Mediterranean for Summer Trips Worth £12,000

The Conservative leader and Alex Burghart MP held "off-site meetings" with the billionaire media mogul in August

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🚨 Urgent message to Labour Conference delegates. Pass it on! On Sunday, you'll get to vote in the priorities ballot, which will decide which motions will be heard at conference. Let's make sure that a fair voting system is on the agenda. Vote for "electoral reform" and ask others to do the same.

The Dutch government has been holding community role plays for emergency preparedness & an advice app which works even without internet. Emergency hubs and support points have been set up. The UK needs to learn from others & go beyond telling us to buy some canned goods… www.ft.com/content/127a...

Europe prepares for life ‘between war and peace’

Dutch lead civilian drills to withstand Russian sabotage and natural disasters

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In Peru’s high Andes, glacier retreat is threatening water security. To combat water insecurity, a community project is restoring high-altitude wetlands and native forests to secure water for downstream communities, though experts caution these tools are "not a panacea." Euan Wallace reports.

In Peru’s high Andes, restoring ancient ecosystems could help protect water security

In the highlands above Villa de Arma, community leaders once walked through ice and snow. They still remember the stories told by their grandparents of the Apus, high-mountain spirits that guard the…

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Climate breakdown is accelerating in terrifying ways but at least the renewable energy build out is going well in China, right? Oh. Crap.

Climate Super-Pollutant from China’s Electric Grid Is Cooking the Planet - Inside Climate News

The nation’s electric utilities release vast quantities of the world’s most potent greenhouse gas. Recycling efforts could slash emissions at little cost, an Inside Climate News analysis reveals.

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I've written Joe Harkness's obituary for the Guardian. I hope it pays good tribute to a wonderful man who was brave, honest and made the world a better place. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Joe Harkness obituary

Writer, teacher and naturalist who explored the effects of the natural world on neurodivergency

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The Man Who Saved The World. May his memory be a blessing.

Ed Maibach@maibached.bsky.social · 2d ago

Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social

Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none.

Common pet flea treatment ‘should be banned’ due to environment concerns www.channel4.com/news/common-...

Common pet flea treatment ‘should be banned’ due to environment concerns

A House of Lords committee is urging the government to ban pet flea and tick treatments from general sale.

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This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.

Hope For The Planet@h4tp.bsky.social · 3d ago

We now have rigorous pooled data showing that even without active restoration efforts, cleared rainforest can rebound to 75% of their former species composition and 90% of species diversity within just thirty years. #goodnews

Excellent article from @arusbridger.bsky.social in Prospect magazine, giving some much-needed balance to the criticism of the UK sanctions on the illegal settlements in the West Bank.

Alan Rusbridger@arusbridger.bsky.social · 2w ago

Many members of the Israeli establishment – from former PMs to judges, generals and academics – vehemently oppose the actions of settlers in the West Bank and support sanctions. You wouldn’t know it from the criticism aimed at Ed Miliband app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/74705/...

What happened when the UK’s spy chiefs examined the national security implications of the collapse of overseas ecosystems, driven by climate crisis and biodiversity loss? “Apocalyptic” findings. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Why is the UK’s suppressed climate national security report significant?

Warnings about the catastrophic effects of vital ecosystems collapsing were not published under previous prime minister

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More than 450 people have signed this petition already!

Transport Action Network@transportaction.bsky.social · 7d ago

The Friends of Carrington Moss and other local community groups proposed an alternative solution to the eastern part of the Carrington Relief Road to Trafford in March 2021. For more than 5 years, they have repeatedly requested that this solution be considered... actionnetwork.org/petitions/pl...

What is the Lovell Telescope revealing about our Universe?🔭 Inside the Observatory: Discovering the Universe from Jodrell Bank, on 1 Oct, is an evening with some of the Observatory team exploring the cutting-edge science happening at Jodrell Bank Book now: https://ow.ly/ACNR50ZRo5w 📸 Andrew Brooks

We have seen an astonishing resurgence of the lovely amber-winged wall brown butterfly at Knepp. Before 2025, there'd been just one record of this rare butterfly in the Wildland this century. It gets its name from its habit of basking on walls and rocks, where it opens its wings to soak up the sun.

The UK Road Safety Strategy adopts a Safe System approach with a target of a 65% reduction in KSIs by 2035. With lower urban/village 20mph implicit within a Safe System culture they will become the norm in the UK. #20splenty is making our places fit for the 21st century.

Workers at the prestigious medical journal The Lancet are striking for the first time in its 200 year history over inadequate pay. The work they do is essential for advancing medical research and for public health and wellbeing. @nujofficial.bsky.social

We urgently need copyright laws to protect us, and our voices, names, brands, work, identities, water supply and futures from these absolute ghouls.

Mashable@mashable.com · 4d ago

Netflix's new reality show "Wonka's Golden Ticket" uses AI Gene Wilder as its host. The beloved comedian passed away in 2016, but his voice lives on in AI form. At least Netflix didn't use AI to create the new Oompa Loompas. What do you think of this AI resurrection? Let us know in the comments 👇

Is this destructive £11 billion Smart Motorway actually worth it? It's time for the DfT to end the deception and release the Lower Thames Crossing's Outline Business Case. The public have a right to know how our money is spent. transportactionnetwork.org.uk/lower-thames...

Lower Thames Crossing: Digging Up the Truth

When publicly funded infrastructure projects grow to a multi-billion-pound scale, transparency should grow with them. Instead, the £11 billion Lower Thames Crossing (LTC) has become a textbook example...

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