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Alister Doyle

@alisterdoyle.bsky.social
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Freelance environmental reporter, author of “The Great Melt”, formerly Reuters environment correspondent, MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellow

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Alister Doyle @alisterdoyle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Pest or delicacy? Britain battles a Red Army of alien crayfish. My article for "DiningwithAliens": nickrogeralister.substack.com/p/pest-or-de... @nicknuttall.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @ipbes.net
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Pest or delicacy? Britain battles a Red Army of alien crayfish
Signal Crayfish, native to the United States, are choking rivers in Britain and ravaging local wildlife while also gracing menus in upscale restaurants. Eat them or simply hate them?
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Alister Doyle @alisterdoyle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Dear Mark Carney, I hope Canada succeeds in becoming the first "associate member" of the European Union but I've a problem. I try to buy Canadian products, but supermarkets here in Europe only seem to stock maple syrup. I´m getting a glut. Could you recommend something else, please?
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Alister Doyle @alisterdoyle.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Britain’s “Frankenfish” is Europe’s Fine Dining - my latest chapter in our DiningwithAliens project with the incomparable @nicknuttall.bsky.social and Roger Morgan-Grenville nickrogeralister.substack.com/p/britains-f...
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Britain’s “Frankenfish” is Europe’s Fine Dining
One of the biggest freshwater fish in Europe, the Wels catfish has a reputation as an alien “River Monster” in the UK. Elsewhere, it's a chef's special
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Alister Doyle @alisterdoyle.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
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High in the Alps, a white shroud keeps a glacier alive
Amid Europe's scorching heatwaves, the Kitzsteinhorn mountain in Austria has vast areas of ice and snow under wraps, a makeshift life support system for an iconic glacier.
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Alister Doyle @alisterdoyle.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Pink gin alchemy from ‘DiningwithAliens’ open.substack.com/pub/nickroge...
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Himalayan alchemy: the seductive flower with a pink gin trick
Himalayan balsam is a beautiful invader, spreading on river banks from the UK to the U.S. But it has a magic secret: its flowers can create an ethereal pink fizz
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Alister Doyle @alisterdoyle.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
"Dining with Aliens". Please subscribe to our new Substack about novel ways to fight invasive species of animals and plants in the UK: "If you can't beat them, eat them". Launched today with environmental experts @nicknuttall.bsky.social and Roger Morgan-Grenville open.substack.com/pub/nickroge...
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Dining with Aliens: our starter course
"If you can't beat them, eat them": our recipes for limiting a scourge of alien invasive species of animals and plants in Britain, from grey squirrels to Japanese knotweed. Please subscribe!
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Alister Doyle @alisterdoyle.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Canada's wildfires: sue Trump? open.substack.com/pub/alisterd...
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Canada's wildfires: sue Trump?
Trump is threatening to slap tariffs on Canada for wildfires that are causing air pollution over the United States: maybe Canada can out-Trump Trump by suing the U.S. for stoking climate change?
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Alister Doyle @alisterdoyle.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Sea level rise seems a huge, distant problem with ice melting from Greenland to Antarctica: here are my ideas for bringing it closer to home via fingernails, coins and phones open.substack.com/pub/alisterd...
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Sea level rise: fingernails, wedding rings and cellphones
Sea level rise, driven by climate change, is a mind-bogglingly huge problem - maybe it's time to re-imagine it via tiny everyday objects?
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Alister Doyle @alisterdoyle.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Should I support England or Norway in the World Cup quarter-final when I've citizenship in both? substack.com/@alisterdoyl...
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Who to support in Saturday’s World Cup quarter-final between England and Norway when I’ve dual nationality in both? Tough choice! 🤔 Born in England, I’ve lived many years in Norway 🇳🇴, with a wonderf...
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Alister Doyle @alisterdoyle.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
«Oil Prices Rise on Possible Deal to Suspend Attacks in Gulf» this conflict is already weird enough - the headline is worthy of @theonion.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/b...
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Oil Prices Rise on Possible Deal to Suspend Attacks in Gulf
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Alister Doyle @alisterdoyle.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I once invested my entire fortune in space: it was a huge success. But I won't be doing the same with Elon Musk's delusional dreams of colonising Mars alisterdoyle.substack.com/p/heaven-or-...
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Heaven or hell? What Star Trek tells us about Musk's Mars dream
I once invested my entire fortune in space, but won't buy into Elon Musk and SpaceX's dystopian dreams of colonising Mars: aren't there are enough things to fix here on Earth?
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Alister Doyle @alisterdoyle.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I was thrilled to be invited to talk to a group of German women about my book "The Great Melt". But the whole thing (including the flier below) is an unnerving new scam - created with AI and targeting only me rather than thousands of people substack.com/home/post/p-...
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The Great Melt: (almost) falling for a scam
A German group of 2,000 women wants to discuss my book about melting ice and rising seas. I'm elated, then deflated: it's a scam
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Alister Doyle @alisterdoyle.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
After King Muhammad XII surrendered Granada in 1492, marking the end of Muslim rule in Spain, he travelled into exile and, the story goes, sighed at this mountain pass as he gazed back. Sadly, this poignant event in history is barely marked at the spot medium.com/@alisterdoyl...
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“The sigh of the Moor”: 1492 and today
Only a dilapidated monument marks where King Muhammad XII “sighed” on his way to exile in 1492 at the end of Islamic rule in Spain
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Alister Doyle @alisterdoyle.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Phil Noble’s iconic angst-ridden image of ex-prince Andrew isn’t his first that echoes ‘The Scream’ (below: Norwegian 400 metres hurdles world record holder Karsten Warholm - in a happier mood - after winning a race) www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... @theguardian.com @reuters
Norwegian 400 metres world record holder Warholm reacts after winning a race - photo: Reuters/Phil Noble
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Alister Doyle @alisterdoyle.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
“The dose makes the poison,” said 16th century Swiss physician Paracelsus. Let’s hope U.S. courts remember that proverb ignored by Trump in this assault on climate action. Anything’s dangerous in high doses - and we’re overdosing on CO2 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c... @lisafriedman.bsky.social
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Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change
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Alister Doyle @alisterdoyle.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
The girlfriend of the Olympic medal winner who confessed to cheating on her doesn't sound impressed. "It's hard to forgive," the unnamed woman told Norwegian tabloid VG. "Even after a declaration of love in front of the whole world". @philoconnor.bsky.social www.vg.no/sport/i/Gx3r...
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Norwegian Olympic medal-winner confesses to cheating on girlfriend, begs forgiveness
Norway's Sturla Holm Laegreid followed up his bronze medal in the biathlon at the Winter Olympics with a stunning confession that he had cheated on his girlfriend, before openly begging her for anothe...
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Alister Doyle @alisterdoyle.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I just published "Trump is obsessed by the Nobel Prize: can’t he learn how it works?" medium.com/p/trump-is-o...
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Trump is obsessed by the Nobel Prize: can’t he learn how it works?
Norway should do more to explain to to wannabe Nobel winner Trump that an independent committee awards the prize, not the government
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Alister Doyle @alisterdoyle.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Machado gives Trump a shiny medal - but apparently keeps the $1.1 million that comes with a Nobel Prize that the president won’t ever win www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/w...
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Machado Presents Trump With Her Nobel Peace Prize
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Alister Doyle @alisterdoyle.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Leave Greenland alone! Fewer than one in five Americans support Trump's drive to get the island (...and a similar number haven't even heard of Trump's plans) @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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Just one in five Americans support Trump's efforts to acquire Greenland, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds
Substantial majorities of Democrats and Republicans oppose using military force to annex the island.
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Alister Doyle @alisterdoyle.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Trump steps up attack on science: quits 1992 UNFCCC climate treaty championed by Republican President Bush www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/c...
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Trump Pulls Out of Global Climate Treaty
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Alister Doyle @alisterdoyle.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
“Must try harder” - my report card on 10 years after the Paris climate agreement medium.com/@alisterdoyl...
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Paris Agreement 10-year report card:“must try harder”
Ten years ago today, U.N. Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon was in a strangely relaxed mood hours before the Paris climate agreement was struck
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Alister Doyle @alisterdoyle.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
A barometer of climate change? Most @nobelprize.org winners have to wrap up in thick winter coats on Dec. 10 when they wave from an Oslo hotel balcony - today the daughter of peace laureate Maria Corina Machado was sleeveless in unusual mild weather www.reuters.com/world/americ...
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Alister Doyle @alisterdoyle.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Trump, gasoline-burning cars, climate change, and a little-known 1989 lawsuit (my story) medium.com/@alisterdoyl...
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Trump’s car plan echoes landmark 1989 climate case
Disputes about President Donald Trump’s plan to promote gasoline-burning cars echo the first but little-known climate lawsuit in 1989
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Alister Doyle @alisterdoyle.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I tracked down this spruce near Oslo, which will be felled on Friday and sent to London's Trafalgar Square as a Christmas gift. Its predecessors are icons of Xmas but often met with threadbare jokes medium.com/@alisterdoyl...
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A Christmas tree’s hazardous trip to London from Oslo
Will this year’s “Queen of the Forest”, to be felled on Friday near Oslo and sent to London, be hailed as a beauty or derided as anaemic?
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CRiceS H2020 @crices-h2020.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
🌍 Register for our Policy Webinar 🗓️ 27 November | 13:00–14:30 CET 📘 The importance of European scientific leadership in polar climate change www.crices-h2020.eu/events/the-i...
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Alister Doyle @alisterdoyle.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Global oil demand might keep rising until 2050, even when nations have promised a transition from fossil fuels, says @iea.org. But its scenario makes weirdly pessimistic assumptions about falling costs of electric cars, other green tech, and risks of a warming planet www.reuters.com/markets/comm...
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Alister Doyle @alisterdoyle.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Thrilled to be among the authors of a new report about climate change and litigation: "Let the courts decide?" It's timely with COP30 in Brazil and backsliding by governments and others on climate pledges www.idea.int/publications... thanks to @internationalidea.bsky.social @cop30brazil.bsky.social
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Let the courts decide? The Potential and Limitations of Climate Litigation from a Democracy Perspective | International IDEA
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Alister Doyle @alisterdoyle.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
“Keep working for peace and, who knows, you might win in 2026” — the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s likely strategy to appease Trump when he (spoiler alert) fails to win the prestigious Peace Prize on Friday. My story: medium.com/@alisterdoyl... @nobelprize.bsky.social @nupinytt.bsky.social
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How to assuage Trump after looming Nobel Peace snub
“Keep working for peace and you might win in 2026” — the Nobel Committee’s likely strategy to appease Trump when he fails to win on Friday
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Alister Doyle @alisterdoyle.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
U.S. President Donald Trump won't win the Nobel Peace Prize he apparently craves this Friday - my article examining why one leading Norwegian historian puts his chances at "zero" news-decoder.com/promoting-pe... @newsdecoder.bsky.social @ninagraeger.bsky.social @nobelprize.bsky.social
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Promoting peace through a prize
Each year a committee of Norwegians awards the Nobel Peace Prize to someone who has fought for peace. Is Donald Trump worthy?
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Alister Doyle @alisterdoyle.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
The only con job here is by Trump. The UN’s IPCC climate panel - whose finding are okayed by fossil fuel producers including Saudi Arabia, US, Russia, etc - says human-caused warming is «unequivocal». That’s more than «most scientists» www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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Trump to address UN as he distances US from global cooperation
U.S. President Donald Trump will address the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday as world leaders grapple with crises from Gaza to Ukraine and question whether the United States, with its "America First" foreign policy, is still prepared to play a leadership role in global affairs.
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Alister Doyle @alisterdoyle.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Terrible: @nytimes writes admiring story about hi-tech oil drilling off #Norway without even mentioning climate change and how Oslo is failing to cut emissions as promised under the Paris Agreement www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/b...
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How Norway Adopted New Tech in Its Hunt for ‘Missing’ Oil
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Alister Doyle @alisterdoyle.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
"I am AI" - I asked #chatbots to suggest palindromes (like "A man, a plan, a canal: Panama" that read the same backwards as forwards). Despite their confidence, they failed dismally. One bizarre suggestion: "Ledatic, enot erif evil neman s'oreh a" medium.com/@alisterdoyl...
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“I am AI”: Palindromes stump chatbots
Artificial intelligence is transforming our lives, but ChatGPT and others often spout gibberish if you ask for an original palindrome
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Alister Doyle @alisterdoyle.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Norway’s parliamentary elections aren’t until Sept 7-8 but you can vote early: pick a day in the sunshine like today and join a short queue in central Oslo (other nations please do the same if not already!)
Voters queue in central Oslo for early voting in a parliamentary election
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Alister Doyle @alisterdoyle.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
"No one has contacted me," Norwegian Foreign Minister @espenbartheide.bsky.social tells Foreign Press Association in Oslo on Aug. 28 -asked if U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is lobbying for him to win the Nobel Peace Prize
Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide speaks to reporters in Oslo, Aug 28, 2025
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Alister Doyle @alisterdoyle.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Meta AI chatbot exceeds even the dystopia of a «Black Mirror» episode: brilliant unsettling article: www.reuters.com/technology/m...
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A flirty Meta AI bot invited a retiree to meet. He never made it home.
Impaired by a stroke, a man fell for a Meta chatbot originally created with Kendall Jenner. His death spotlights Meta’s AI rules, which let bots tell falsehoods.
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Alister Doyle @alisterdoyle.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Sorry, Trump: big U.S. gas-guzzling cars simply don’t appeal abroad due higher fuel prices, narrower roads, etc etc www.reuters.com/business/aut...
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Trump wants more American pick-ups in Tokyo and London. That may be a hard sell
Donald Trump is right that Japan and Europe buy few American-made cars - but it has little to do with trade barriers. From Tokyo to London, many consumers see Detroit's offerings as simply too big and too gas-guzzling.
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Alister Doyle @alisterdoyle.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Less rain, more wheat: Australian farmers defy climate doom - www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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Less rain, more wheat: How Australian farmers defied climate doom
Growers and researchers in the driest inhabited continent have dramatically increased crop yields through new agricultural techniques, despite intensifying environmental challenges. Innovations in water-use efficiency, soil re-engineering and seed technology have helped feed a rising global population.
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Alister Doyle @alisterdoyle.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
‘They will never give it (the #Nobel Peace Prize) to me’ - Trump has a rare insight that’s 100% true medium.com/@alisterdoyl... time.com/7300791/trum...
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Netanyahu Is Just the Latest to Nominate Trump for Nobel Peace Prize
And he likely won’t be the last.
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Alister Doyle @alisterdoyle.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
A wannabe Ferrari logo by a Norwegian fed up with Elon Musk? (- let down by the Tesla.com licence plate)
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Alister Doyle @alisterdoyle.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
A few years ago, I contributed an English accent at a #Harvard class given by Professor Steven Pinker, who's now defending the university from #Trump's assaults medium.com/@alisterdoyl...
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My tiny contribution to Harvard: an English accent
President Donald Trump’s threats to the oldest university in the United States bring back memories of what an inspiring place it is — for…
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Alister Doyle @alisterdoyle.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
After many setbacks to climate litigation - a new avenue www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/c...
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Oil Companies Are Sued Over Death of Woman in 2021 Heat Wave
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Alister Doyle @alisterdoyle.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
“Catastrophic” inland migration seen from sea level rise www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Sea level rise will cause ‘catastrophic inland migration’, scientists warn
Rising oceans will force millions away from coasts even if global temperature rise remains below 1.5C, analysis finds
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Alister Doyle @alisterdoyle.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Now #Romania! After Canada, Australia, Trump allies seem to be losing their tear-it-all-down populist allure: who’s next? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/w...
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Nicusor Dan Beats George Simion in Romana’s Presidential Election
Nicusor Dan, the mayor of Bucharest, defeated George Simion, a nationalist aligned with President Trump who had been seen as the front-runner.
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Alister Doyle @alisterdoyle.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
More bonkers climate denialism by Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/c... @lisafriedman.bsky.social
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What’s the Cost to Society of Pollution? Trump Says Zero.
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Alister Doyle @alisterdoyle.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Even a seagull is following the #Conclave by the fateful papal chimney
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Alister Doyle @alisterdoyle.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Mind-boggling: ignoring what the UN chief calls a “code red” climate emergency www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/c...
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National Climate Assessment Authors Are Dismissed by Trump Administration (Gift Article)
The Trump administration told researchers it was “releasing” them from their roles. It puts the future of the assessment, which is required by Congress, in doubt.
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Alister Doyle @alisterdoyle.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Elbows up, #Canada!
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Alister Doyle @alisterdoyle.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Happy Birthday to this labrador: 10 today and more experienced than his first visit to a beach in Dorset, England, when waves were surprising youtube.com/watch?v=5CRt... @janepo.bsky.social
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Puppy's first visit to the beach
YouTube video by Alister Doyle
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Alister Doyle @alisterdoyle.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
“Investors flee dollar to safe havens”. Wow! In sensible times that headline would be a contradiction in terms
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Dr Emily Grossman 🧬✍️🎤✊🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️♾️🐱 @dremilygrossman.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Hugely proud of @scientistsx.bsky.social on the launch of their new book #ScientistsOnSurvival Personal Stories of Climate Action. This is a deeply moving and inspiring book that everyone needs to read -every chapter left me in tears or with goosebumps. Read more: www.scientistsforxr.earth/our-book
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