Eight oil giants made $93 billion in three months—around $700,000 every minute, while Europe baked, crops failed, wildfires raged and thousands died in heatwaves. If anyone still wonders why people demand climate justice, this is the answer. #JustStopOil #Justice #OilAndGas #StopTheharm

Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis

Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage

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We all live in a sweatbox now, with no shade or water breaks from the cruelty of a mad king. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/c...

Trump Administration Is Undoing Plans to Boost Workplace Heat Protections (Gift Article)

The Biden administration took steps to shield workers from extreme temperatures. The Trump administration is taking a gentler approach with employers.

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Climate denial has evolved. It's no longer "it's not happening." It's "Britain's too small", "China", "just adapt", "Net Zero is the real problem." The arguments change. The conclusion never does: Delay climate action!! 😡 🤷‍♂️ #ClimateDenial #Delay #TellTheTruth #ClimateEmergency

Tuesday briefing: Inside the right’s heated climate-denial debate

In today’s newsletter: A small chorus of right-leaning critics are trying to convince politicians that climate action is deeply unpopular, downplaying its seriousness in the process

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Another climate myth collapses. 🇦🇹🇫🇷 Austria and France replaced short-haul flights with fast rail where practical. Emissions fell. People still travelled. Turns out the real barrier to climate action isn't technology. It's political will. #ClimateCrisis #TravelSustainably #ActNow

Austria and France banned short-haul flights to boost train travel and reduce emissions. Did it work?

Climate TRACE data point to encouraging outcomes, with much greater emissions reduction opportunity if such a shift were widely adopted globally.

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While Britain argued, delayed and cancelled, much of the world got on with building the future. High-speed rail isn't just about faster journeys. It's about cutting emissions, boosting economies and connecting regions. We invented the railway. Now we're being left behind. 🚄🌍 #HighSpeedRail #Trains

The most dynamic countries are surging ahead with high-speed rail. Others, like Britain, are stuck in the station | Christian Wolmar

Around the world, these trains have boosted economies, development and prestige. The costs of missing out are high, says transport writer and author Christian Wolmar

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Editorial choices shape public perception. The BBC leads with Reform's dramatic military rhetoric but buries the fact that small boat crossings are down around 43% compared with the same point in 2025. That's not a trivial detail, it's essential context for assessing the claims being made. 🙄

Reform says it would use Royal Navy to stop small boats

The party's home affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf says it would be the "largest military operation in the English Channel since World War Two”.

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Scientists. Security experts. Intelligence assessments. They're all converging on the same conclusion: the risks are escalating faster than our politics. This latest paper is another wake-up call. #ClimateCrisis #ActNow #StopTheharm #ClimateJustice

The loudest climate sceptics on F'book don't speak for British farming. The NFU, AHDB and CLA are all warning that repeated droughts, poor harvests & extreme weather are becoming the new reality. The debate among farmers isn't whether the climate is changing, it's how to survive it. #ClimateCrisis

Britain could face food shortages as drought continues, farmers warn

Farmers battle to salvage what they can of their crops as heatwave set to continue

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This may be the most revealing climate chart I've seen this year. The biggest divide isn't age. It's political allegiance. We've reached the point where opinions about atmospheric physics are predicted by voting intention. That's not how science is supposed to work. It's how culture wars work.

I know it's a long road, but I'd love to see @aoc.bsky.social in the White House one day. Intelligent, fearless, articulate and prepared to take on concentrated wealth and power. It would be one hell of a moment for American democracy. #AOC #TrumpOut #DemocracticSocialism #SocialJustice

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez should run for president | Bhaskar Sunkara

The congresswoman can run a serious national campaign on the left and pull a movement in behind it. She should get in early

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Ceuta is a window into our future. Climate change is already driving displacement alongside conflict and poverty. Europe must plan for a century of human mobility, including migration within Europe itself. None of us is immune. #ClimateJustice #Humanity #ActNow #Migrants

About 60,000 migrants arrive in Ceuta in 24 hours, Spanish territory's leader says

Spain's prime minister described the situation as an "attack" on its North African territory and said all illegal migrants would be returned to Morocco.

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When farmers who've kept rainfall records since 1976 say the last six years have been unlike anything they've seen, we should listen. Climate breakdown isn't tomorrow's problem. It's already reducing harvests, increasing food prices and threatening livelihoods. Ignoring it won't make it disappear.

‘It’s too fast, too big’: speed of climate crisis is devastating crops, say farmers

Drought and extreme heat are killing plants, driving up prices while also making some farms economically unviable

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The evidence of climate disruption is now becoming impossible to ignore. If repeated heatwaves, megafires and mass evacuations still don't persuade governments to treat climate change as a genuine national emergency, what will? #ClimateAction #Wildfires #TellTheTruth #ActNow

Will brutal wildfires force French leaders to take climate crisis seriously?

Campaigners worry politicians will have moved on by time of elections in which Marine Le Pen is expected to challenge

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Wildfires don't need climate change to start. They need it to become catastrophes. Hotter, drier landscapes mean fires spread faster, burn hotter and become harder to stop. Europe isn't experiencing "more bad luck". It's experiencing the consequences of a rapidly warming climate. 🔥🌍 #ClimateCrisis

Summer of Heat, Fires and Storms Is a Reckoning for Europe on Climate

The continent is experiencing some of its biggest fires and highest temperatures ever. Residents are fleeing, leaders are struggling to respond and “it will get worse,” one climate expert said.

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Corporations don’t emit for fun. They emit because billions of consumption decisions, shaped by decades of infrastructure, advertising and political choices, create demand. We need to change the system that shapes our choices and the choices that sustain the system. #SystemChange #ActNow

Judging what I am reading all over social media this really does need emphasising!! #TellTheTruth #Misinformation #ClimateCrisis

The fires are getting bigger. The warnings are getting louder. Yet governments are retreating from climate action. History won't ask whether we knew. It'll ask why we chose not to act. #BurningWorld #ActNow #WildFires #ClimateJustice

Wildfires are raging – and the world has junked 45 climate pledges. Disaster looms, and little wonder | Bill McGuire

Five years ago, I wrote an open letter asking climate scientists to speak out. Now governments are in retreat, it is surely time to act, says climate professor Bill McGuire

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The smell of wildfire smoke is becoming the smell of the future. Europe is burning. Ireland isn't immune. The question is no longer whether climate breakdown will affect us, but whether we'll prepare for it. #Wildfires #ClimateCrisis #ActNow #TellTheTruth

Wildfires at home and abroad: The climate crisis is here, and Ireland is far from prepared

With wildfires raging across Europe and here at home in Tipperary, Kerry and Wicklow, the warning signs couldn’t be clearer, yet the government drags its feet on climate action.

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First they ignored the scientists. Now they're ignoring their own security experts. Climate and ecological breakdown is no longer just an environmental issue, it's a food security, economic and national security issue. The public deserves the truth, not managed silence. @carolinelucas.bsky.social

Caroline Lucas: The shocking climate reports the UK government didn't want you to see

The intelligence services now believe nature collapse is a security threat. For a cabinet determined to sacrifice the environment for growth, was that too uncomfortable a truth, asks the former Green ...

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When even one of the Telegraph's longest-serving and most influential commentators warns that the Conservatives are drifting into "climate nihilism", it's worth paying attention. The climate crisis is becoming harder to spin away because reality keeps intruding. #ClimateAction #ClimateCrisis

Wildfires don't begin when the flames appear. They begin months earlier with heat, drought and drying landscapes. Journalism reports the fire. It too often forgets to report the process that made the fire possible. #Wildfires #TellTheTruth #Climate #ClimateJustice

Wildfires: why media coverage doesn’t always make the climate connection

A wildfire can be explained by today’s barbecue, yesterday’s wind direction, a dry spring, four decades of land use change, or a century of emissions.

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"Heat deaths are a catastrophic disaster that are avoidable, predictable, and are steadily going to get worse." #India #ExtremeHeat #ClimateCrisis #ActNow

‘The heat took him from me’: India’s death toll rises amid escalating heat crisis

As extreme heat claims the lives of workers in India’s poorest areas, many fear the true mortality rate is being dangerously undercounted

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They knew in 1978. They chose deception over responsibility. The bill is now being paid by everyone else. Time to make the polluters pay. #ExxonKnew #TellTheTruth #MakeThemPay

The climate alarm isn’t coming. It’s already blaring. Wildfires. Heatwaves. Evacuations. Economic damage. The cost of burning coal, oil and gas keeps climbing—and all of us are paying it. 🔥🌍 @dpcarrington.bsky.social #ClimateCrisis #ActNow #JustStopOil #ClimateJustice

37 large fires in Oregon and Washington. 90 in British Columbia. Many sparked by tens of thousands of lightning strikes, then driven by heat, low humidity and wind. That is the wildfire equation: ignition + dry fuel + extreme fire weather. Climate change loads the dice. #WildFires #ClimateCrisis

Wildfires rage throughout Pacific Northwest, western Canada

There are 37 large active blazes in Oregon and Washington — and that’s just in the U.S. There are 90 wildfires in British Columbia and many more in nearby areas. Many of them were caused by tens of th...

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Look away Reform & Elon Musk fans!! @london.gov.uk @sadiqkhanlondon.bsky.social #LondonTown

The question is no longer whether climate breakdown is here. It's whether our politics, media and institutions are prepared to acknowledge the scale of what is unfolding. Spain and France are living through another warning. We should be paying attention. #WildFires #ClimateChange #TellTheTruth

Pedro Sánchez says Spain is suffering effects of climate crisis as firefighters battle wildfires in France

Blazes near Madrid coming under control but efforts to contain huge fire near Bordeaux hampered by windy conditions

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Most people don't read climate science. They read newspapers, watch TV and scroll social media. If those keep framing wildfires, floods and heatwaves as anything but climate change, public understanding will always lag behind the science. #MediaTellTheTruth #FreeTheMedia #BillionairePress

Analysis: UK newspapers have already printed 63 editorials in 2026 backing North Sea drilling  - Carbon Brief

UK newspapers have already published 63 editorials this year calling for more oil and gas extraction in the North Sea, according to Carbon Brief analysis.

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Credit where it's due. Ed Miliband is making climate a central pillar of UK foreign policy. In a world of fires, floods and food insecurity, that's exactly where it belongs. www.theguardian.com/business/202... #ClimateAction #TellTheTruth #StopTheHarm

Ed Miliband indicates development and climate will be at heart of UK foreign policy

Exclusive: Foreign secretary to take up World Bank seat and play active role in shaping changes to global lender

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Spain's Prime Minister is calling this what it is: a climate emergency. At the same time, he's warning about the flood of fake news surrounding the fires. We need firefighters on the ground and facts in the public conversation. #ClimateEmergency #ActNow #TellTheTruth