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Aruna Chandrasekhar

@arunacsekhar.bsky.social
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Climate and environmental journalist, writer, docu filmmaker. Covers climate policy @CarbonBrief. “Sekhar” as in “shaker”.📍Mumbai, India. Views, jokes = own.

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 02/10/2026
DeBriefed: Diesel ‘emergency’ | Brazil deforestation drop | Mumbai’s sea level fears ✍️ Written by @arunacsekhar.bsky.social 📝 Edited by @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social Read here ➡️ buff.ly/eBJWyUk Subscribe to Carbon Brief's newsletters ⬇️ carbonbrief.org/newsletters
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 22/09/2026
NEW – Analysis: Nepal’s $20m ‘loss-and-damage’ claim only covers 0.7% of flood costs | @arunacsekhar.bsky.social @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social w/ comment from @harjeet11.bsky.social Read here: www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-nep...
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 21/09/2026
UPDATED – Q&A: Where do the UN secretary general candidates stand on climate change? ✍️ written by @arunacsekhar.bsky.social and @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/pra6lfx
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Q&A: Where do the UN secretary general candidates stand on climate change? - Carbon Brief
Carbon Brief looks at the UN secretary general candidates’ views on climate change.
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 09/09/2026
Cropped: Desertification talks | Record ocean temperatures | Colorado water woes ✍️ Written by @arunacsekhar.bsky.social and @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org Read the online version ➡️ buff.ly/rvcvYaS Subscribe to Carbon Brief's newsletters ➡️ carbonbrief.org/newsletters
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
German elections....pitch perfect from@cszabla.bsky.social x.com/cszabla/stat...
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Wen Stephenson @learning2live.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
In my latest for @thenation.com, Nepali climate expert @manjeetdhakal.bsky.social, head of the UN's Least Developed Countries support team, tells me there are now internal discussions underway about providing emergency Loss and Damage assistance to Nepal. www.thenation.com/article/envi...
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How Will Nepal Pay for the Latest Climate Disaster?
An interview with Nepali UN climate expert Manjeet Dhakal on what the massive Himalayan flood will cost Nepal.
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
"Nepal is owed s'thing more substantial than sympathy & more useful than a loan charging interest on damage it did not cause.Monitoring of unstable ice & glacial lakes [..] should be funded on a standing basis, with hydrological data crossing borders as a matter of routine rather than negotiation."
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The Ice Failed Upstream. The Debt is Downstream.
Nepal is owed something more substantial than sympathy and more useful than a loan charging interest on damage it did not cause. Monitoring of unstable ice and glacial lakes concerns the whole basin a...
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
An obvious thing that needs to be written because obvious things are seemingly not obvious to political leaders in the region indianexpress.com/article/expl...
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Nepal disaster: Four lessons India, China, and Nepal must learn
Responsible governance of the fragile Himalayan region needs a reimagination of the borderland. An expert explains.
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Scroll @scroll.in · 31/08/2026
“The fish list here reads more like an aquarium shop catalogue. To claim these are part of the coastal or marine environment surrounding Indira Point is completely fabricated,” said Vardhan Patankar, a senior marine biologist. scroll.in/article/1095... Pankaj Sekhsaria reports
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
A powerful & haunting read "maps proliferate showing a wash of deep red over the subcontinent.[..]these maps alone say little about local weather conditions[..]There are no people in these maps: no at-risk groups, no grandmothers or blast-furnace workers, no solutions to adapt to a burning world.."
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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The source of the flood in Nepal is a collapsed glacier 🧪⚒️
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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly did what other disaster nonprofits are too chicken shit to do — she gave the families affected by a wildfire a universal basic income. www.bpr.org/news/2018-12...
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How Dolly Parton Gave $12.5 Million And Unprecedented Research To Sevier County
It’s been two years since wildfires burned Western North Carolina and devastated the town of Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Country music superstar Dolly Parton…
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 25/08/2026
Have never read a piece on adaptation like this. Amazing words and imagery - go read it too
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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
"What has come to be expected of millions upon millions of Mumbaikars, no matter how bad it gets, is resilience. But that resilience is coming up against hard limits of survivability." www.equator.org/articles/cit...
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City of Sweat • EQUATOR
A vision of our overheated future on the streets of Mumbai
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Aruna Chandrasekhar @arunacsekhar.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Summer in Mumbai was brutal and endless. The monsoon's poster child was running out of water. In a dispatch for @equatormag.bsky.social, I wrote about living with extreme heat in a broken city and limits to resilience. With🔥 images by @ishantankha.bsky.social www.equator.org/articles/cit...
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City of Sweat • EQUATOR
A vision of our overheated future on the streets of Mumbai
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 21/08/2026
UPDATED – Q&A: Where do the UN secretary general candidates stand on climate change? ✍️ written by @arunacsekhar.bsky.social and @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/pra6lfx
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Q&A: Where do the UN secretary general candidates stand on climate change? - Carbon Brief
Carbon Brief looks at the UN secretary general candidates’ views on climate change.
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Daisy Dunne @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org · 30/07/2026
The first big UN assessment of the world's progress towards its 2030 nature goals finds that we are falling short on 22 of 23 targets Full breakdown of the draft global report and what it all means by me, @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org & @arunacsekhar.bsky.social www.carbonbrief.org/world-fallin...
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World falling short on 22 of 23 nature targets for 2030, says draft UN report - Carbon Brief
The global goal to halt and reverse nature loss by 2030 “will not be achieved” unless action by countries “accelerates…
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Aruna Chandrasekhar @arunacsekhar.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
💵 This was supposed to be “at least $20bn per year” by 2025 in finance for conservation. This is where we’re at now.
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 29/07/2026
NEW – World falling short on 22 of 23 nature targets for 2030, says draft UN report | @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org @arunacsekhar.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/D2XVoGo
Puffins diving from a cliff in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada in October 2025. Credit: Cavan Images / Alamy Stock Photo
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Orla Dwyer @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org · 28/07/2026
Just 16% of countries met a 2025 deadline to identify their nature-harming subsidies, according to new analysis by @giulianaviglione.bsky.social and I 🐛
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Dave Hemprich-Bennett @davehb.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
This was an excellent read on the facts behind Europe’s current AC situation in the middle of yet another heatwave, and the actual realities being obscured by the absurd culture war and misleading claims behind it www.carbonbrief.org/eight-facts-...
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Eight facts about air conditioning amid an overheated global debate - Carbon Brief
Carbon Brief explains why AC rates in parts of Europe are relatively low and clarifies some of the misleading claims about the technology.
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Molly Lempriere @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org · 10/07/2026
Amid the record-breaking heat over the last few weeks, a culture war has broken out over the rollout of air conditioning But lots of the claims are missing some key bits of context - not least that it hasn’t really been an issue in northern Europe previously, because it just hasn’t been this hot
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 10/07/2026
Please do read the excellent article by my @carbonbrief.org colleagues @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org @arunacsekhar.bsky.social with analysis by @zekehausfather.com www.carbonbrief.org/eight-facts-...
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Eight facts about air conditioning amid an overheated global debate - Carbon Brief
Carbon Brief explains why AC rates in parts of Europe are relatively low and clarifies some of the misleading claims about the technology.
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 10/07/2026
NEW – Eight facts about air conditioning amid an overheated global debate | @arunacsekhar.bsky.social @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org @zekehausfather.com Read here: buff.ly/EynMeIk
Average number of days per year with a daily maximum temperature of at least 30C in a selection of major European cities, for each decade since the 1950s. Source: Copernicus ERA5, Carbon Brief analysis by Dr Zeke Hausfather.
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Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
A late-arriving and weak monsoon has left a 40% rainfall deficit in India in June: 99.5 mm fell, vs. a normal of 165.3 mm. Since 1901, only four years, 2009 (87.6 mm), 1905 (91.9 mm), 2014 (92.8 mm) and 1926 (96.7 mm), had a worse June monsoon. Agriculture is suffering as a result.
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Monsoon delay: India sees fifth-driest June in 126 years, stares at 40% rain deficit
The prolonged dry spell has already begun affecting agriculture, with kharif sowing slowing sharply across several states due to insufficient soil moisture.
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 02/07/2026
NEW: Outspoken climate advocate António Guterres will step down as UN secretary general at the end of the year. My colleagues Aruna & Molly looked at where the candidates to replace him stand on climate change:
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Q&A: Where do the UN secretary general candidates stand on climate change? - Carbon Brief
Carbon Brief looks at the UN secretary general candidates’ views on climate change.
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 02/07/2026
Q&A: Where do the UN secretary general candidates stand on climate change? ✍️ @arunacsekhar.bsky.social and @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/pra6lfx
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Q&A: Where do the UN secretary general candidates stand on climate change? - Carbon Brief
Carbon Brief looks at the UN secretary general candidates’ views on climate change.
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Valérie Masson-Delmotte @valmasdel.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
"Elon Musk’s AI company xAI is running its data centres on unregulated natural gas turbines, with plans to buy $2.8 billion more"
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 15/05/2026
DeBriefed: Trump-Xi ‘energy deal’ | ‘Supercharged’ El Niño | India’s first ‘heat lounges’ ✍️ Written by @arunacsekhar.bsky.social 📝 Edited by @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org Read here ➡️ buff.ly/1Iwruv9 Subscribe to DeBriefed ➡️ buff.ly/J6uB9Kc
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
From a forest in my home state of Karnataka. Tribal communities who were evicted to create a tiger reserve have reclaimed their ancestral lands even while their applications for legal forest rights remain pending with the state. A historic moment of assertion despite the state
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 06/05/2026
🌽 New Cropped just dropped 🌽 Cropped: Forest loss falls | Deforestation regulations | Saving ‘India’s Galapagos’ ✍️ written by @arunacsekhar.bsky.social @giulianaviglione.bsky.social 📝 edited by @giulianaviglione.bsky.social Read here ➡️ bit.ly/3PcujWK Subscribe here ➡️ buff.ly/k84LIFK
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Cropped 6 May 2026: Forest loss falls | Deforestation regulations | Saving ‘India’s Galapagos’ - Carbon Brief
Tropical primary forest loss fell by more than one-third from 2024-25, and more food, land and nature news from the last fortnight.
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Robert McSweeney @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org · 04/05/2026
I’m at #EGU26 all this week for @carbonbrief.org. Do stop me and say hi – especially if you’ve got some interesting research coming!
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 28/04/2026
UPDATED – Q&A: What does India’s new Paris Agreement pledge mean for climate action? ✍️ @arunacsekhar.bsky.social 💬 with comment from @ashishkothari.bsky.social @aygoswami.bsky.social @ndubash.bsky.social Read here ⬇️
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Q&A: What does India’s new Paris Agreement pledge mean for climate action? - Carbon Brief
India has set a new target to reduce its “emissions intensity” – greenhouse gas emissions per unit of economic output
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Cecilia Keating @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org · 24/04/2026
NEW: How is climate change impacting the AMOC, the Atlantic currents that help keep Europe warm? @carbonbrief.org’s new in-depth explainer covers: 🌊 How the AMOC is impacted by warming 🌎 What research says about AMOC collapse 🗞️ How the media covers AMOC Read more here: tinyurl.com/5caxbw5a
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AMOC: Is global warming tipping key Atlantic ocean currents towards ‘collapse’?
The AMOC is under threat from human-caused climate change, as warming seas, melting ice and increased rainfall upset the temperature and salt balance of the North Atlantic.
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Aruna Chandrasekhar @arunacsekhar.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
On Wednesday, the Modi govt announced India’s new climate pledge via press release, amid a global energy crisis and as Indians grapple with gas shortages. Many 🙏🏽 new targets in an era of climate backtracking. Others say it can do more and hides deforestation. I get into the deets @carbonbrief.org
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 27/03/2026
NEW – Q&A: What does India’s new Paris Agreement pledge mean for climate action? | @arunacsekhar.bsky.social w/ comment from @ashishkothari.bsky.social @aygoswami.bsky.social @ndubash.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/1x5FA0q
Old Delhi, India. Credit: Hackenberg-Photo-Cologne / Alamy Stock Photo.
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Aruna Chandrasekhar @arunacsekhar.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Mumbai’s dabbawallahs are losing orders as migrant workers leave the city. India’s more insulated class buys up electric cookers. Biofuel producers want India to make more ethanol. Experts say we should be saving grain for when fertiliser shortages hit home. www.carbonbrief.org/cropped-25-m...
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Cropped 25 March 2026: Seabed mining talks stall | ‘Blueprint’ for land use | India feels Iran war impacts - Carbon Brief
Welcome to Cropped, where Carbon Brief handpicks and explains the most important stories at the intersection of climate, land, food and nature over the past fortnight.
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 10/03/2026
NEW – Q&A: What does the Iran war mean for the energy transition and climate action? ✍️ @arunacsekhar.bsky.social @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org Read here ⬇️
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Q&A: What does the Iran war mean for the energy transition and climate action? - Carbon Brief
The US and Israel’s war on Iran has caused oil and gas prices to soar, with the world now preparing for the possibility of another energy crisis.
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 25/02/2026
🌽 New Cropped just dropped 🌽 Cropped: Food inflation strikes | El Niño looms | Biodiversity talks stagnate ✍️ @arunacsekhar.bsky.social @giulianaviglione.bsky.social Subscribe to our newsletters ➡️ buff.ly/k84LIFK Read here ⬇️
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Cropped 25 February 2026: Food inflation strikes | El Niño looms | Biodiversity talks stagnate - Carbon Brief
We handpick and explain the most important stories at the intersection of climate, land, food...
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 04/02/2026
NEW – Five key climate and energy announcements in India’s budget for 2026 | @arunacsekhar.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/eu7RiPy
India’s finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman addresses a press conference after the presentation of India’s 2026 budget. Credit: Sonu Mehta / Alamy Stock Photo
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 28/01/2026
🌽 New Cropped just dropped 🌽 Cropped | Ocean biodiversity boost; Nature and national security; Mangrove defence ✍️ @arunacsekhar.bsky.social @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org Read here ➡️ buff.ly/5ZhNu7m Sign up to Cropped ➡️ subscribe.carbonbrief.org
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Aruna Chandrasekhar @arunacsekhar.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
The rules-based order has given way to a vibes-based order. That's what those in flagrant breach would have us believe. I tried to unpack my many feelings about international law, accountability and isolationism. Grateful for essential perspective from Lavanya Rajamani & @sivathambisetty.bsky.social
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 23/01/2026
DeBriefed | Trump’s Davos tirade; EU wind and solar milestone; High seas hope ✍️ @arunacsekhar.bsky.social 💻 @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org Read here ➡️ buff.ly/nH4Jj3W
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Aruna Chandrasekhar @arunacsekhar.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Modi govt raids climate activist Harjeet Singh's NGO, hailed for his work on loss & damage, adaptation. Indian tax authorities seem to think promoting a non-binding, activist-led fossil fuel treaty "could seriously impact India's energy security." Ridiculous. www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/e...
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ED raids NGO run by climate activist over FEMA violations
ED is investigating foreign funds worth over ₹6 crore received by Singh’s organisation, Satat Sampada Private Ltd (SSPL), to allegedly run narratives to influence the govt policies in energy sector| ...
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Weila Gong @weilagong.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Great conversation with anikapatel.carbonbrief.org @carbonbrief.org about my book and China’s climate policy implementation. We discussed how mid-level bureaucrats act as entrepreneurial “bridge leaders” and what this means for China’s climate governance and its emerging global climate leadership.
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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Criminal. newsroom.co.nz/2025/12/10/g...
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Govt to rush climate target change through Parliament under urgency
The public will not have their say on the Govt's weakening of the methane target, even though it could raise household bills by $270 a year.
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Scroll @scroll.in · 10/12/2025
“Nothing has been discovered against the accused qua [as being] the membership of radical organisations related to Naxalites,” Judicial Magistrate Aridaman Singh Cheema said. scroll.in/latest/10891... #delhi #pollutionprotest
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 03/12/2025
WATCH, READ & LISTEN: In a talk for the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery, Prof Seirian Sumner (@waspwoman.bsky.social) explained the “natural capital” of wasps and why it is important to “love the unlovable parts of nature”.
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The Natural Capital of Wasps. Seirian Sumner
YouTube video by Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery
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