Steve Dawe
@stevedawe.bsky.social
Transport, Envt, Climate, Green Party/Buddhist. Writer: articles at: https://westenglandbylines.co.uk/author/stevedawe/ Retd interdisciplinary social sci lecturer incl teaching Abt Climate/Envt/Devt Studies/Euro Studies. Passionate Abt folk music.
‘Everything is so out of whack’: UK trees experience spring six months early www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Everything is so out of whack’: UK trees experience spring six months early
Mild autumn temperatures causing premature flowering and raising concerns for pollinators, say experts
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Summary report from Nuclear Free Local Authorities list): The UN Environment Programme (UNEP): COP30’s goal of tripling adaptation finance by 2035 not enough to close the adaptation finance gap, leaving developing nations with, at most, 29% of what they need. www.edie.net/global-adapt...
COP30’s adaptation finance pledge will leave developing nations with up to 80% of their needs unmet
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has warned that COP30’s goal of tripling adaptation finance by 2035 will not be enough to close the adaptation finance gap, leaving developing nations with, at most...
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from CARBON BRIEF: NO ANTARCTIC AGREEMENT: the meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources ended without agreement on a new fisheries management plan for Antarctic krill or a new Antarctic marine protected area (MPA), reported Mongabay.
I just wrote a @stopburningtrees.bsky.social letter: Stop Drax's Dirty Data Centre: Tell Brookfield, Radiant and Qai to Drop £20 billion pound partnership with Drax. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
Stop Drax's Dirty Data Centre: Tell Brookfield, Radiant and Qai to Drop £20 billion pound partnership with Drax
Drax Power Station is the UK’s biggest carbon polluter and the world’s biggest tree burner, and thankfully its subsidies are dwindling. However, bad news: they want to capitalise on the data centre ru...
actionnetwork.org
World’s wettest rainstorms are getting wetter, affecting flood and drought risk www.theguardian.com/news/2026/no...
World’s wettest rainstorms are getting wetter, affecting flood and drought risk
Events that deliver about half of global rainfall are getting shorter but more intense, with wide-ranging implications
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Warming UK seas could ‘fundamentally reshape marine ecosystems’ – report www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Warming UK seas could ‘fundamentally reshape marine ecosystems’ – report
Four-year study warns destabilised marine food webs could jeopardise food security by 2050
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Brazil publishes first global ‘roadmap’ for phasing out fossil fuels www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Brazil publishes first global ‘roadmap’ for phasing out fossil fuels
Cop30 host sets out steps to break link with coal, oil and gas as it aims to move focus from negotiating to implementing
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New tool will help gardeners move away from thirsty English classics to drought-resistant plants www.theguardian.com/environment/...
New tool will help gardeners move away from thirsty English classics to drought-resistant plants
Garden Climate Assessment Tool will allow users to predict a plant’s response to the projected climate in a given location
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XR Rosebank action in Oxford 14 11 2026, a coalition effort to which all Climate concerned campaigners are very welcome. Details in this report from WEST ENGLAND BYLINES: westenglandbylines.co.uk/features/cli...
Oxford: day of action against Rosebank in November
Extinction Rebellion Oxford help co-ordinate a local event to coincide with November's COP31 global climate conference in Turkiye
westenglandbylines.co.uk
Have you seen Blue Planet III yet? Our seas are full of incredible life, but sewage pollution is putting it at risk. I’ve signed @friends-earth.bsky.social’s petition calling on the government to make polluters clean up their act. Will you join me? action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/sav...
Protect our sea life - make polluters clean up their act
Sign the petition David Attenborough's Blue Planet III reminds us just how incredible life in our seas is. But sewage and toxic pollution are putting precious marine life at risk. Seals, whales, dolph...
action.friendsoftheearth.uk
Twice as many plants and animals sold in wildlife trade as previously thought, says report www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Twice as many plants and animals sold in wildlife trade as previously thought, says report
More than 100,000 species are traded globally, whether illegally smuggled, sold as ornaments or in fisheries, timber and fashion industries, study finds
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Warming oceans off Europe = invasive species: SEE: insideclimatenews.org/news/2910202...
Europe’s Warming Waters Are Attracting Unwanted Marine Life - Inside Climate News
From torn nets to decimated local stocks, species drifting in on warmer waters are causing headaches for European fishermen.
insideclimatenews.org
How would you hope to be treated by your Govt if hit by a collapsing coastline, on the East of England, brought about by a number of factors including the Climate Emergency adding to the power of storms? See this review from me: westenglandbylines.co.uk/society/book...
Book Review: The Ghost Coast by Edward Devenish
Britain’s coastline is disappearing, and the decisions about which communities to save are already being made
westenglandbylines.co.uk
Trump’s cuts have exposed US to ‘cascade’ of El Niño dangers, experts warn www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Trump’s cuts have exposed US to ‘cascade’ of El Niño dangers, experts warn
President has taken an axe to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, stalling climate research on and response to extreme weather events
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Dividends from Climate crisis: Super-rich get ‘double dividend’ from causes and costs of climate crisis, report finds www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Super-rich get ‘double dividend’ from causes and costs of climate crisis, report finds
Oxfam says investing by rich in disaster recovery widens inequality and gives incentive to delay climate action
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Driving grassland ecology loss in agriculture: SEE: insideclimatenews.org/news/2610202...
Production Agriculture Is Driving Grasslands Loss Across North America - Inside Climate News
Commodity crops are continuing to eat up the vast, near-mythical sweep of North American grasslands, with nearly 2 million acres being plowed under every year, mostly for corn, soybeans and wheat, acc...
insideclimatenews.org
BP: Africa's highest court is about to hear something historic. For the first time, we're arguing that the climate crisis is a violation of African people's rights and that polluters must be held accountable under African law. Add your name: act.gp/4lCrlH4
African Court to put climate justice into law
This is your moment to be part of history. Let’s tell the African Court to put climate justice into law.
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Are we being told enough about the ecological collapse? eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/jus...
Are we being told enough about the ecological collapse?
Behind Whitehall’s closed doors, ecological collapse is being treated as a security threat that leaves communities unprepared for the future
eastangliabylines.co.uk
Young people taking legal action for the Climate: SEE: insideclimatenews.org/news/2310202...
A Landmark Youth Climate Trial Against the Canadian Government Is About to Begin - Inside Climate News
In June 2013, torrential rain spurred one of the worst flooding events in Canada’s history. Sadie Vipond, who grew up in Calgary along the Bow River, was just a young child at the time when she and he...
insideclimatenews.org
‘For Panama, it is life or death’: how drought is choking the canal that feeds a nation www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
‘For Panama, it is life or death’: how drought is choking the canal that feeds a nation
Failed rains and a dire El Niño threaten the waterway that sustains the country, with farmers selling cattle to survive
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Bolsonaro's loss is not just a loss for Bolsonaro. It's a loss for Trump. For Musk. For Milei. For Netanyahu. For Farage. For Meta and Zuckerberg. For the meat barons, the fossil fuel corporations, and the rest of the neocolonial looters. And it is a massive win for humanity and the living planet.
U-turn on EV policy could stall UK’s take-up of EVs | Fiona Harvey and Jasper Jolly www.theguardian.com/environment/...
U-turn on EV policy could stall UK’s take-up of EVs | Fiona Harvey and Jasper Jolly
The 2030 target for 80% of new cars to have zero emissions could be cut to as low as half
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Loss of ice anywhere, and now almost everywhere, is a really alarming feature of the Climate Emergency: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The US west has lost nearly 300 glaciers since the 1960s. Climate crisis is drastically shrinking what’s left
At the midpoint of the last century the region had 1,450 glaciers and a new study reveals the extent of losses
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Green Party members consider the Party's future. SEE: Green Party members reply to attacks theleftlane2024.substack.com/p/inside-the...
Inside the Greens: Six activists debate what works - and what’s broken - in their party.
In the wake of internal and external attacks on the “Zionism is racism” resolution, its members honestly assess their overall political situation.
theleftlane2024.substack.com
Almost every shallow-water coral reef on the planet faces ecosystem collapse by 2075, UN advisors say www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Almost every shallow-water coral reef on the planet faces ecosystem collapse by 2075, UN advisors say
Assessment finds global heating is endangering 96% of coral reefs across 80 countries – a figure scientists say should serve as a ‘wake-up call’
theguardian.com
Cars have created a mobility crisis in Britain, more cars will make this far worse. My article on this, and what might be done: westenglandbylines.co.uk/opinion/brit...
Britain’s growing car crisis: what can we do?
Britain’s growing dependence on cars is worsening congestion, pollution, and pressure on public space. So what is to be done?
westenglandbylines.co.uk
Approving the Jackdaw gas field solves none of our problems, while contributing to the existential crisis of climate breakdown. The government has privileged special interests above the general interest. It's a shameful, cowardly decision.
