Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...

Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.

The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health.

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Back in the saddle. The saddle in this case being gesturing in front of a slide deck at the ESR preconference. #ESR #CommSky #IAMCR

Really happy to be part of this edited book! Available now and holding an online launch this Thursday. bookstore.emerald.com/platforms-an...

Platforms and the Planet

Developing a critical understanding of environmental responsibility and accountability of digital platforms, Platforms and the Planet focuses on the environmental responsibility of the so-called Big Tech, their digital media platforms and their role in the sustainability transition as a discursive, material, and ethical question.

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New move in academic publishing: The @ec.europa.eu is launching Open Research Europe (ORE), an open access publishing platform for research funded by all EU programmes. @academic-chatter.bsky.social research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/news/all-res...

A new era for Open Research Europe

European Commission to co-fund new phase of operation for open access publishing platform.

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Sort of surprised to find that the government is actually making progress on some things some of the time.

Guy Shrubsole@guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Revealing who owns England just became Government policy. Here's my blog post analysing this historic moment, as well as assessing some of the other ambitious policies unveiled in the Government's new Land Use Framework: whoownsengland.org/2026/03/19/r...

Join us in Dublin on June 27 to reflect on past, current, and future trajectories of the field of climate change communication. We encourage practice-based abstracts from climate media-makers, activists, & community organizers in addition to traditional scholarly papers. iamcr.org/galway2026/e...

If China's emissions had kept growing at previous levels emissions would like, what, maybe a full GIGATONNE higher....the area of avoided emissions here is like deleting the emissions of entire countries. This is happening at a scale that will very clearly have an effect in lessening disasters

Simon Evans@drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 6mo ago

NEW ANALYSIS: China's CO2 has now been 'flat or falling' for 21 months * Down in 2025 * Still below Mar 2024 * Clean energy wave a key factor If this is China's peak (TBC) it's the climate story of the century so far… www.carbonbrief.org/...

The Special Issue on Backlash, Borders, and Bunkers: Antidemocratic Politics and Climate Change Communication that I edited is now available. A huge thanks to @phaedra.bsky.social for the opportunity to edit this project and to all of the contributing authors! www.tandfonline.com/toc/renc20/2...

#Live now! As misinformation & disinformation undermine global efforts to address the #TriplePlanetaryCrisis, join this event zooming in on challenges and solutions to prevent #disinformation in environmental policy making. ▶️ tiny.cc/GEN30Jan26 📺 youtube.com/watch?v=oHeghqjN2RA

I see there’s a post about microplastics going around with a photo of drinking straws, so here is my semi-regular reminder that the 3 biggest sources of microplastics are tires (45%), synthetic clothing particles (35%) and paint (~10%). Lay article attached:

One of the biggest microplastic pollution sources isn’t straws or grocery bags – it’s your tires

Every few years, the tires on your car wear thin and need to be replaced. But where does that lost tire material go? The answer, unfortunately, is often waterways, where the tiny microplastic particle...

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💡 In 2025, CAAD & Roots launched the Fellowship for Countering Disinformation, bringing together community organisers on the frontlines of the climate crisis. Their research shines a light on how climate disinfo operates across the Global South & how communities are fighting back.

Climate Action Against Disinformation | Fellowship for Countering Disinformation

In 2025, CAAD partnered with Roots to launch a new six-month Fellowship for Countering Disinformation. The fellowship brought together eight community organisers from Argentina, South Africa,…

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This passage shocked me to my core. The loss of biodiversity isn't a tragic accident or oversight, it was the plan!

Dr. Aaron Thierry@thierryaaron.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Next, in 'The Nature of Tomorrow' Michael Rawson expertly reveals how past science fictions came to grip the popular imagination & how we acted on these ideas to shape the world around us. This book reminds us that a sustainable future hinges on our ability to create new visions of tomorrow🧵

Really liking this little video series on gardening for wildlife. Learning about UK host plants and growing hops for comma butterflies and deadnettle for bees on my little patio is a real joy in grim times. www.lesslawnmorelife.com/wildside/reb...

Rebecca McMackin

Watch renowned horticulturist Rebecca McMackin in her private garden. Learn about the growing rewilding movement, her approach to non-native plants, and why she has hope.

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Note the whole brand-new book this is from is available FREE online at cssn.org/news-researc...

Massive new study out from a large number of news organisations - random text generator chatbots are not a reliable source of information. Includes demonstrations of how it specifically gets climate answers specifically very wrong -->> www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/...

Keep it in the headlines!

Ember@ember-energy.org · 10mo ago

NEW | Solar and wind OUTPACED global electricity demand growth in the first half of 2025, leading to a fall in fossil fuels compared to this time last year ☀️🌪️ Record solar and steady wind growth is reshaping global power as renewables OVERTAKE coal for the first time. https://loom.ly/c-MNZSk

Great to see/hear Melissa on @drilledmedia.bsky.social talking about the role of PR and discussing the greenwashing assessment framework!

Yung En Chee@yungenchee.bsky.social · 10mo ago

In the @drilledmedia.bsky.social episode on 'The Media As a Tool of Climate Obstruction', Melissa Aronczyk also introduces the Greenwashing Assessment Framework—a "clear and coherent framework to identify greenwashing & to lay out a set of criteria that anyone can use" 👀🧵 by lead author 👇

Plot twist — we’re back! Mark your calendars for #litleics26, coming your way in March. As always, all events are FREE! 🥳

It would be super cool to go back to 2014, find a rando and ask them whether a fall in EU coal use for power generation of 60% in 10 years feels possible or even likely ember-energy.org/data/electri...

This thread communicates better than many a graduate seminar that I have attended.

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Although it's rarely expressed in outright terms, people often use a very simple heuristic when solving fashion problems: they wish to look rich, which is often disguised as "respectable." I will show you why this rarely leads to good outfits. 🧵

This is infuriating. What is the point of a Marine Protected Area if trawlers are allowed to keep ploughing it? Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Bottom trawling to continue in English protected waters, government rules

Defra says blanket ban on ‘destructive’ fishing practice disproportionate as MPs urge minister to reconsider

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Pennsylvania plastic producer held accountable for nurdle/preproduction plastic pollution into local river system. insideclimatenews.org/news/0409202... #plasticstreaty

Pennsylvania Plastics Pollution Settlement Could Set a National Precedent for Control of Pellets - Inside Climate News

The case is the first citizen suit to successfully settle over “nurdles” in an inland waterway. State regulators weighed in to help.

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My aspirational/delusional maternity leave reading pile. #CommSky #AcademicSky

Pants across Toronto are wet this morning in fear of this spreading here.

𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇@taras-grescoe.com · 11mo ago

I have an essay in @theglobeandmail.com this weekend. It's about how I and a group of parents fought to have street outside our children's elementary school closed to cars. This year, we succeeded! Now we're going to have to fight to keep it in place. 🧵 www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Such a good list.

Josh Braun@joshbraun.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Annually, I prepare a list of books undergrads in my Media, Technology & Culture course can select for their final projects. Always fun to assemble and I get kick out of sharing it, too, so here it is! #commsky Pic of Seth Long's book, my favorite new cover. umass-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/person...

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups

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At #INC5_2, Chair Luis Vayas says: There is no more time to keep adding positions already stated... a real push to achieve our common goal is needed... We must deliver by 14 August 2025." #PlasticsTreaty @unep.org

As usual, the ENB indispensable for us following along from home. Having watched some of the webcasts, I propose that the phrase "worked tirelessly" be retired from the discussions. I bet a lot of those people are plenty tired.

Earth Negotiations Bulletin@enb.iisd.org · 12mo ago

Delegates at #INC5_2 are meeting in contact group settings this morning to discuss matters related to capacity building, technical assistance and #technology transfer, including international #cooperation and an article related to existing #plasticpollution

In the margins of #PlasticsTreaty #INC-5.2, the GENis at "No Plastics in Nature: Turning the Tide Together" organized by WWF. The gathering will reflect on 5 years of progress against #PlasticPollution & look ahead to what’s needed from the treaty and beyond.

I'm spending the summer feeding newborn twins and I have never been more grateful for cosy museum content. youtu.be/bd6GRXPD0Fw?...

Unboxing Tarot Decks Through the Ages 🔮💀🌙 | Ancient Rare Historical & Modern Tarot Cards

YouTube video by Victoria and Albert Museum

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