Something else for #andyburnham to deal with, such an embarrassment for the UK: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Nobody cares’: the Turkish farmers bearing the burden of UK’s plastic waste problem
Britain exported 139,000 tonnes of rubbish to Turkey last year, leaving smallholders and poor districts of Adana to cope with the debris, microplastics and toxic smoke
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15 year old Mohammad Suleiman Hamed is critically ill in intensive care, yet another Palestinian Israel have abused in prison
15 year old Palestinian on life support five months after Israel arrest
15 year old Mohammad Suleiman Hamed is critically ill in intensive care, yet another Palestinian Israel have abused in prison
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Dear PM It's 2026. BC is burning and I'm locked in my home because of smoke pollution. Canada is burning. Climate change is real as you noted in your book Value(s). You have children. Think of their future. Fund renewable energy projects. Later is too Late! 350.org/canada/pipel...
Dr. Moby Solangi warned of the "canary in the coal mine" with pollution in the Mississippi Sound. “What the canary is telling you is: we are next,” Solangi said. “This is an existential threat.”
Mississippi Sound ‘Will Be a Dead Sea’ Soon Due to Spillway Openings, Coalition Warns
Advocates warn that the Mississippi Sound will be “a dead sea within a generation” without corrective action.
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EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN MIDDLE EAST WORLD CLIMATIC HISTORY REWRITTEN 52 DEGREES AT DAY 38 AT NIGHT in Iran,Kuwait,Oman,... HUNDREDS OF RECORDS pulverized allover the area. MOST EXTREME HEAT WAVE IN WORLD HISTORY and will get worse and worse.
“Those other countries around the world that we currently rely on to produce our food and vegetables, their climates are changing as well" As our harvests worsen and other countries hang on to what they have, we are going to get ever deeper in the sh*t www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Britain could face food shortages as drought continues, farmers warn
Wheat is half normal height, while England is seeing earliest ever harvest as farmers battle to salvage what they can of their crops
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So what lifestyle are Mediterranean countries supposed to adopt?
Annie Leymarie@annieleymarie.bsky.social · 4d ago
The penny drops. Climate change will break our economies. Fragment our societies. Undermine our governance. And erode our security. "Ecosystem services" are our life support processes. Destroying them destroys the foundations of human civilisation.
ECB official warns climate crisis poses growing threat to ‘core financial stability’
Exclusive: As wildfires rage across Europe, Frank Elderson tells the Guardian nature loss poses a growing risk to the global economy
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Sir #DavidAttenborough “Things are going to get worse. This is the new extinction. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get." #ClimateEmergency
David Attenborough, the voice of Our Planet: “Things are going to get worse”
The voice of some of the most stunning nature documentaries ever made is pessimistic about the future of wildlife on earth.
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Gro Harlem Brundtland, the Norwegian PM who defined 'sustainable development' in 1987, led the country through its oil boom. In May 2026 Norway 🇳🇴 opened 70 new exploration blocks, 38 in the Arctic Barents Sea. It plans to keep producing for decades, even as the planet burns 🔥
Dr. Aaron Thierry@thierryaaron.bsky.social · 4d agoSince 1989, the CO₂ from #Norway 🇳🇴 oil has outweighed everything the country has emitted at home in its entire history. Now at 13.8 Gt from the crude, against 2.8 Gt of national emissions since 1751. Counting gas too, it is 20 Gt.
The Netherlands and Germany are suffering the consequences of a European heat wave that has brought dought and sparked devastating wildfires. For the Dutch the dry conditions are a threat to hundreds of miles of dikes that protect the low-lying country from flooding in the winter.
Dry, hot summers are putting Dutch dikes at risk and threatening German river trade
The Netherlands and Germany are suffering the consequences of a European heat wave that has brought dought and sparked devastating wildfires in France, Spain, Portugal, Crete and elsewhere.
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The number of terror-related arrests in Britain has risen 1,200% a year following the ban of Palestine Action The number of people arrested for holding signs - under a law originally designed for IRA uniforms - is higher than total terror arrests over the previous decade inews.co.uk/news/retired...
How retired teachers, nurses and vicars became Britain's newest terror suspects
Majority of suspects arrested for holding signs reading 'I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action' at protests against the ban
inews.co.uk
The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
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The IMF says we pay $5T/year to subsidize fossil fuels — that's $13M per MINUTE to destroy our future. Meanwhile solar & wind fight for scraps. We don't have a funding problem. We have a priority problem.
Shocking to discover designating AI data centres as “National Critical Infrastructure” means water companies are prohibited from restricting water to them even in times of drought. Households will lose water first. Thanks to @olliehayes.bsky.social at @globalactionplan.bsky.social for joining me
Data Centres vs. Drinking Water: What Matters To Us Most?
Podcast Episode · The Rest Is Politics · 30 July · 16min
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‘More than just objects’: Australian book sellers raise alarm over ‘horrific’ destruction of rare titles to feed AI
‘More than just objects’: Australian book sellers raise alarm over ‘horrific’ destruction of rare titles to feed AI
Secondhand booksellers believe they may have been caught up in the AI supply chain that sees old books scanned then destroyed
theguardian.com
Highly informative article about the recent record-breaking heat and wildfires in Europe. It dives into the science about the causes, quoting several experts. Worth reading! www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
Europe pays the price in a summer where heat went off the charts
Stefan Rahmstorf was holidaying in southern France when he came face to face with the climate future he has tried to fight.
abc.net.au
Ms Badenoch says that climate change is real, but her policies will encourage it. We are not going to be competitive in drought, heatwave, fire and flood conditions most of which are going on in the UK now. She is hiding behind China’s one new coal fired power station a week (is this still true
Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 6d agoThe Daily Telegraph ends its rollercoaster week of comment pieces about climate change with one by Kemi Badenoch, leader of the opposition Conservatives. Note how, yet again, she doesn't explain how she will "replace" the Climate Change Act. Just vibes about "markets, innovation and competition"
Good on you, @edmilliband.bsky.social
Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 7d ago++BREAKING++ The UK and Spanish governments have issued a joint statement overnight: "[We] agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life." www.gov.uk/government/n...
As a species, we are right now unthinkingly recreating the very conditions that gave rise to global mass extinction events in prehistory.
Nature@nature.com · last wk.Fern-covered landscapes dried out and fuelled gigantic wildfires some 200 million years ago during the mass-extinction event that ended the Triassic period of geological history go.nature.com/45r5jzz
Urgh this pisses me off so much. It's so slack.
Ed Newton-Rex@ednewtonrex.bsky.social · last wk.I've confirmed that the UK's new Sovereign AI Fund does no due diligence on whether AI companies use copyrighted work without permission before investing in them. It took me 3 Freedom of Information requests to find this out: 🧵 1/10
Surely the heat and wildfires in France and Spain will focus EU minds? Unfortunately the UK’s dreadful Brexit decision means that we have no influence over this any more. @kemibadenochsteeth.bsky.social
Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO)@corporateeurope.org · last wk.EU countries are arguing about how best to weaken its carbon market in line with polluting industry wishes. History lesson: The #ETS' permeability to industry influence filled it with loopholes & meant it rewarded polluters with vast windfall profits for years: corporateeurope.org/en/climate-a... 👇
When I discuss huge systemic issues, people say "but what I can I do?" When I mention something meaningful you can do immediately, people say (as the replies here show) "but what's the point, in the face of the huge systemic issues?" There are, it seems, plenty of people who want to be helpless.
George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · last wk.It's a point I've been trying to make for a long time: there is no good way to meet even 10% of current demand for animal products. They trash the living world, whichever way you do it. If you want to reduce your impact, switch to a plant-based diet. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
As wildfires rage, the world is backsliding on climate action. This can’t go on www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
As wildfires rage, the world is backsliding on climate action. This can’t go on | 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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More than 700 MW of rooftop solar was added to Australia’s main grid in the past three months, helping drive wholesale electricity prices in the country’s National Electricity Market to their lowest June quarter average since 2020. www.pv-magazine.com/2026/07/28/r...
Australia adds over 700 MW of rooftop solar in April-June - pv magazine Global
More than 700 MW of rooftop solar was added to Australia’s main grid in the past three months, helping drive wholesale electricity prices in the country's National Electricity Market to their lowest J...
pv-magazine.com
The Guardian leader this morning: the dreadful wildfires in Europe show that green measures (now being backslid in some quarters) need to be expanded www.pressreader.com/uk/the-guard...
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