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Alice Ross

@aliceross.bsky.social
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Co-editor of Unearthed (unearthednews.bsky.social), Greenpeace UK's investigative journalism project. Belatedly fleeing the other place. Happy now @zdboren.bsky.social?

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Unearthed @unearthednews.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Breaking: Reform UK mega-donor Christopher Harborne’s jet fuel firm is contracted to refuel US military planes from refineries that use Russian oil New investigation from Unearthed and @datadesk.eco unearthed.greenpeace.org/2026/07/01/c...
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Revealed: Reform mega-donor’s jet fuel business linked to refineries using Russian oil
Christopher Harborne’s company AML Global is contracted to fill US military planes with fuel made by refineries that use Russian, Iranian, and Venezuelan crude
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Emma Howard @emmahoward.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
As Trump visits the king & protestors march through London, we obtained data showing that the president's Scottish golf course repeatedly breached sewage contamination limits My latest for @unearthednews.bsky.social unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/09/17/t...
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Trump golf course in Scotland repeatedly broke sewage contamination limits
Sewage discharge testing found ‘non-compliant’ samples 14 times since 2019
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Zach Boren @zdboren.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
water comanies are freaking out that they're about to have millions of tonnes of toxic sewage sludge with 'nowhere to go' my latest for @unearthednews.bsky.social with @ellieodonnell.bsky.social unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/06/09/s...
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‘No Plan B’: Water companies fear pollution crackdown will stop them spreading sewage sludge on farmland
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 05/06/2025
Opposite Day Alien vs Predator: Whoever Loses, We Win
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Unearthed @unearthednews.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
BREAKING: More than 100 old landfills across England containing potentially hazardous material have flooded at least once this century. Experts have raised concerns that dangerous substances could get into the environment through floodwater. unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/04/26/h...
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Lucy Jordan @lucyjordan.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
I have been reporting on deforestation in Brazil for years. Last year, along with @aliceross.bsky.social and Naira Hofmeister, I decided to dig into beef giant JBS’s flagship promise: to eliminate deforestation from its Amazon supply chain by the end of 2025. So what’s actually changed?
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
The decision regarding Energy Transfer v Greenpeace about the activism against the Dakota Access Pipeline is out. Not only will the decision likely bankrupt Greenpeace US, but it will set a precedent that could limit free speech by climate groups & other NGOs. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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Greenpeace ordered to pay Dakota Access Pipeline operator hundreds of millions in defamation suit
A North Dakota jury awarded damages to Energy Transfer, the company that runs the Dakota Access Pipeline, after finding Greenpeace liable in a high-stakes defamation case.
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Alice Ross @aliceross.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
This is quite something 📉
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CAAD_Coalition @caadcoalition.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Elon Musk’s shift to far-right alliances is fuelling climate denial across the U.S. and Europe, undermining climate action while boosting extremist parties like Germany’s AfD. Read @desmog.bsky.social‬ deep dive into this troubling trend:
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Elon Musk’s Embrace of Far-Right Energizes Transatlantic Climate Denial
In December, a Chicago-based organization called the Heartland Institute, which for decades has attempted to undermine the scientific consensus on climate change, devoted an episode of its daily…
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Alice Ross @aliceross.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Here's a 🧵 on my latest story, out today with The i inews.co.uk/news/shell-g...
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Shell gas shipments are being escorted by Kremlin-backed icebreaker boats
Shell bought Russian liquified natural gas shipments totalling 350,000 tonnes which required an escort from sanctioned nuclear icebreakers
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Alice Ross @aliceross.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
I've been staring at a lot of ship tracking videos lately.
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Unearthed @unearthednews.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
We joined Bluesky one month ago today 🐋 Thanks to everyone who has followed and engaged with our climate and nature investigations so far. In case you missed them, we've published 3 stories since we got here...
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Unearthed @unearthednews.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
New from UE: The UK is exporting thousands of tonnes of a toxic weedkiller called diquat, even though its use has been banned here for years. More than half goes to Brazil. We spoke to the Brazilian farmers poisoned with this dangerous export. unearthed.greenpeace.org/2024/12/08/b...
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Unearthed @unearthednews.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Super important news here: A historic agreement that has helped curb deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon for nearly twenty years is under threat from big agribusiness Weakening the soy moratorium could push the Amazon closer to a catastrophic tipping point www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Protection deal for Amazon rainforest in peril as big business turns up heat
Exclusive: With Brazil’s politicians, agribusiness organisations and global traders piling on the pressure, the highly successful 2006 Soy Moratorium is under threat
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Alice Ross @aliceross.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Instant follow
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Alice Ross @aliceross.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
There's an otter living behind the Big Tesco in Barking, @londoncentric.media reports (warning: much of the rest of the newsletter is a horrific indictment of London's housing crisis, also very much worth reading) www.londoncentric.media/p/i-was-cove...
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"I was covered in human poo": One family's shocking story of London's housing crisis
Plus: Otters are getting closer to the centre of London.
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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
💣NEW/FOIA Files: EXCLUSIVE: After nearly 8 yrs of painstaking public records work, ODNI declassified a closely guarded memorandum in response to my request related to the targeted assassinations of Vladimir Putin’s political foes. It’s a HUGE score Click to read www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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Unearthed @unearthednews.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
New to Bluesky? Find our team of reporters & editors ⬇️🔵 go.bsky.app/GuvPnRP
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Alice Ross @aliceross.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I'd missed the extent to which Jeremy Clarkson has really gone off the deep end (again). Reeves and Starmer “want to carpet bomb our farmland with new towns for immigrants and net zero windfarms", apparently. Yikes www.desmog.com/2024/11/21/c...
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Climate Science Deniers Use Farmers’ Protests to Attack Net Zero
A network of conspiracy theorists has jumped on the inheritance tax debate to fuel an anti-green “culture war”, experts say. Thousands of farmers demonstrated in Westminster on Tuesday against the Lab...
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Alice Ross @aliceross.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Even the most basic court records can be inexplicably hard to get hold of if you weren't in the room - @georgegreenwood.bsky.social is right that the UK needs a US PACER-style system
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Emma Howard @emmahoward.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Five years ago, as campaigners fought to get a global plastic treaty off the ground, 30 companies involved in plastic – from Exxon to Veolia – got together to launch a $1.5 billion organisation to “end plastic waste”. So how have they been doing? 🧵 #INC5 unearthed.greenpeace.org/2024/11/20/a...
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Companies behind campaign to ‘end plastic waste’ produced 1,000 times more plastic than it cleaned up
The Alliance to End Plastic Waste spent five years clearing up the amount of plastic its key oil and chemical members produce in two days
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 20/11/2024
The big petro companies have been running a high-profile campaign to "end plastic waste." A new investigation shows that, during the campaign, these companies have produced 1000X more plastic than they have cleaned up. unearthed.greenpeace.org/2024/11/20/a...
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Companies behind campaign to ‘end plastic waste’ produced 1,000 times more plastic than it cleaned up
The Alliance to End Plastic Waste spent five years clearing up the amount of plastic its key oil and chemical members produce in two days
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Alice Ross @aliceross.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Just some oil industry execs explaining to their peers that climate change was a massive threat in 1984 and then doubling down for the next 40 years, nothing to see here
Quotes from the Drilled article linked to below
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Alice Ross @aliceross.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
The Alliance to End Plastic Waste was set up by industry, aiming to spend $1.5bn on tackling plastic pollution. @zdboren.bsky.social and @emmahoward.bsky.social found that just five of its members produced 1,000 times more plastic than it's cleaned up unearthed.greenpeace.org/2024/11/20/a...
Bar chart showing how much plastic is produced by five executive-committee members of the Alliance to End Plastic Waste, compared to the amount of plastic it has removed from the environment. The bar for 'plastic removed' is so small we had to get the graphics department to do us an arrow showing where it is.
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Emma Howard @emmahoward.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Hello Bluesky!🔵Starting on here the way I mean to go on... Investigation out today: as UN plastic treaty talks kick off in S Korea, we dug into the organisation launched by the oil & plastic industries to "end plastic waste". Spoiler: it's not managed to unearthed.greenpeace.org/2024/11/20/a...
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Companies behind campaign to ‘end plastic waste’ produced 1,000 times more plastic than it cleaned up
The Alliance to End Plastic Waste spent five years clearing up the amount of plastic its key oil and chemical members produce in two days
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Zach Boren @zdboren.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
next week the world is supposed to finalise a global treaty to tackle plastic pollution my new investigation uncovers the PR and lobbying strategy behind Big Oil's influential initiative to 'end plastic waste' with @emmahoward.bsky.social unearthed.greenpeace.org/2024/11/20/a...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 20/11/2024
How great is this graphic. Such a good illustration of what an obscenely tiny proportion gets cleaned --->>> (Go follow the Unearthed team, they're doing lots of very important stuff)
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Alice Ross @aliceross.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
The Alliance to End Plastic Waste was set up by industry, aiming to spend $1.5bn on tackling plastic pollution. @zdboren.bsky.social and @emmahoward.bsky.social found that just five of its members produced 1,000 times more plastic than it's cleaned up unearthed.greenpeace.org/2024/11/20/a...
Bar chart showing how much plastic is produced by five executive-committee members of the Alliance to End Plastic Waste, compared to the amount of plastic it has removed from the environment. The bar for 'plastic removed' is so small we had to get the graphics department to do us an arrow showing where it is.
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Unearthed @unearthednews.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
The oil and chemical companies behind an initiative to 'end plastic waste' have produced 1000x more plastic than they've cleaned up A new investigation by @zdboren.bsky.social and @emmahoward.bsky.social unearthed.greenpeace.org/2024/11/20/a...
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Companies behind campaign to ‘end plastic waste’ produced 1,000 times more plastic than it cleaned up
The Alliance to End Plastic Waste spent five years clearing up the amount of plastic its key oil and chemical members produce in two days
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George Mann @sgfmann.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
BBC Verify on the farmers inheritance tax row. "This brings the total untaxed amount for a farming couple to up to £3m."🚜 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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How many farms would be affected by Budget changes?
Estimates of the number of farms affected range from 100 to 70,000.
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Ed Conway @edconway.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
🧵SALT🧵 It's been snowing in the UK and the road gritters are out in force, begging the question: Have you ever wondered where that grit actually COMES from? The answer is more magical, beautiful and fascinating than you probably realised. 1/14
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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
While #COP29 fights about new climate finance, what about big promises of the past? I looked at the Global Shield, a €350-million program launched in 2022 at COP27. It's given out €5.2 million. Only named project is Ghana's $1 million drought insurance. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Climate-Hit Nations Wait Years for $370 Million Fund to Deliver
A German-led program announced at United Nations climate talks in Egypt two years ago has deployed just a tiny share of funds to the climate vulnerable countries it’s seeking to help.
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Alice Ross @aliceross.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Oh, good morning, team!
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Alice Ross @aliceross.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
It's also really great to be surrounded by *humans*
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Alice Ross @aliceross.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Marvellous stuff
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Alice Ross @aliceross.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Heh
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Graham Cluley @grahamcluley.com · 13/11/2024
Researchers say Twitter changed its algorithm to promote posts from Elon Musk and Republicans in the run-up to the election. "The date at which (the spike) in engagement occurs coincides with Elon Musk's formal endorsement of Donald Trump on 13th July 2024." eprints.qut.edu.au/253211/
Excerpt from technical report
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The Bureau of Investigative Journalism @tbij.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
NEW: Less than 100 miles from where world leaders have been discussing how to meet climate pledges at COP29, BP is drilling for gas The project could inject more than 1 billion tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere (more than the UK emits over 3 years) www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2024...
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‘Greenwashing’ banks raised 1 trillion dollars for fossil fuel giants
NatWest among several banks in net zero alliance continuing to support the fossil fuel industry
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Alice Ross @aliceross.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
24 hours posting on this (really quite lovely) site and now my Handle is apparently deemed Invalid :(
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Alice Ross @aliceross.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
The FT and Carbon Mapper identified oil and gas projects belching superheating methane just a few miles from the global climate summit in Baku for this great – and infuriating – primer on one of the simplest climate fixes out there www.ft.com/content/374e...
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How oil and gas companies disguise their methane emissions
FT analysis shows that firms regularly hide leakages of the deadly greenhouse gas — despite this being one of the easiest climate fixes there is
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Alice Ross @aliceross.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
The political fallout from the catastrophic rainfall pummelling Spain is going to be worth watching www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
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Spain braces for new storms as flooding disaster’s political fallout continues
King Felipe VI reportedly plans to revisit Valencia amid alerts for heavy rain, high waves and strong winds
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Good morning. Word of the Day is as beautiful as it is underused. ‘Confelicity’ is finding joy in the happiness and success of others.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 13/11/2024
A nice update from InfluenceMap on the various fun pro-fossil narratives used by companies and industry associations. 'Affordability' is so wild, considering that gas in particular has been a key global driver of the cost-of-living and inflation crisis!!!!! cop.influencemap.org/NarrativeFac...
a chart showing who uses the narrative on 'affordability and energy security'
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 13/11/2024
so am no great US politics expert but things do seem to have, quite quickly, gone batshit insane
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Alice Ross @aliceross.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
It's not just what's in the news that's making us miserable, it's how we consume it www.niemanlab.org/2024/11/im-a...
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I’m a journalist and I’m changing the way I read news. This is how.
Sometimes it's healthy to do something you love less, and differently.
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Joyce Chaplin @joycechaplin.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Hello new followers from that bleak gray place! Reposting my first post on this site: a cyanometer, the instrument Alexander von Humboldt (among others) used to determine how blue any sky actually was
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Alice Ross @aliceross.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Ok, so is Bluesky officially A Thing now?
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