Pelle Berting

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Ecological Systems campaign area lead @ Greenpeace | Views are my own ‘A culture is no better than its woods.’

“The TFA that is on the Earth today will be on the Earth for the next thousand years, and the TFA concentrations we see now are probably the lowest we’ll see in your lifetime,” comments Prof @hanspeterarp.bsky.social share.google/gafS56WsWlah...

Forever chemical linked to fertility issues found in rivers in England

Data shared exclusively with The i Paper reveals trifluoroacetic acid has been detected in areas that supply drinking water

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😲 Prov. Limburg zwakte RIVM-rapport over Chemelot af. VVD-gedeputeerde Stephan Satijn verving in een brief aan GS 'verhoogde gezondheidsrisico's' door 'een overwegend gunstig beeld'. Een oproep voor vervolgonderzoek schrapte hij. Ook de Tweede Kamer werd verkeerd geïnformeerd. De Limburger:

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Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites

“It means that the risk of large-scale, persistent and potentially irreversible change is increasing, while our margin for error in tackling these problems is shrinking.” - Boris Sakschewski, lead author of this year's Planetary Health Check. In @theguardian.com. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Planetary boundaries’ necessary for flourishing of life have been massively breached, scientists warn

New report shows key indicators of Earth’s health are ‘outside the safe operating space’ as climate disaster looms

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Genocidepleger Mladić is dood Ik denk aan de mensen die hij heeft vermoord. Aan hun nabestaanden, die hun geliefden nooit meer terugkrijgen. Aan Srebrenica. Mladić zaaide haat en ontmenselijkte groepen mensen. Ook vandaag moeten we waakzaam blijven voor ophitsers. Voordat het (weer) te laat is.

Ratko Mladic is dood

Jurist en vredesactivist Satko Moejagiestsj ontvluchtte in de jaren '90 als Bosniër de oorlog, hij was toen begin 20. Hij vertelt wat hij als eerste dacht toen hij hoorde dat Mladic dood is

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A 1981 internal memo written by the director of one of Exxon’s science labs said it was “distinctly possible” that cumulative carbon emissions could eventually ‘produce effects which will indeed be catastrophic (at least for a substantial fraction of the earth’s population).’”

Nearly 1,400 missing, mostly tourists, after Nepal-Tibet flash flood kills at least 270

Entire villages swept away after glacial collapse triggers flood in mountainous region popular with trekkers and pilgrims

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[…]the shaking was not an earthquake, but was rather caused by this exceptionally powerful landslide itself, which registered as the equivalent of a magnitude 5.2 earthquake… an earthquake did not cause the glacier-landslide event. The landslide caused an earthquake. www.cnn.com/2026/08/26/w...

What we know — and don’t know — about what cause the Nepal flood wave | CNN

It will take weeks to establish the exact causes, but a team of international scientists believes a huge chunk of glacier sheared off and fell into the valley below.

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🚨 NEW | #Africa will install a RECORD 17 GW of solar capacity in 2026, a 45% increase from the year before ☀️📈 That’s ~100,000 solar panels installed every single day, marking the third record year in a row for African solar deployment 🌍 ember-energy.org/lat...

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