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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
According to the City of Paris, in the last 10 years 150K trees have been planted & 45ha of parks created in the already hot city, all intended to not only improve quality-of-life today, but also help the city adapt to & manage summer heatwaves of 50℃ (122F) by 2050. Just the start. Common sense.
Street greening transformation before and after in ParisNew forest in front of Paris city hallNew “school street” with greening in central Paris
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Feljin Jose @feljin.ie · 05/08/2025
Stop printing the opinions of billionaires and calling it news
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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
The first guy who figured out that hot air holds more water vapor looked like this. We've known that warming temperatures mean heavier downpours for a very long time
Photo of a nineteenth century French man glaring disapprovingly at some paper
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Gaza is being deliberately starved to death in front of the whole world, and the only people being arrested over it are those who opposed the crime.
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My Voice, My Choice @myvoicemychoice.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Thank you, Francesca Albanese, for your tireless work, your clarity, and one of the sturdiest backbones in modern human rights history. Your voice cuts through silence and spin. And today, you stood with us. Thank you for supporting our petition—link in bio. ✊🏻♥️🇵🇸
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Paul Price @swimsure.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Fine Gael and its MEPs are part of the European People’s Party (EPP) in the EU Parliament that has just *enabled* the far right to take control of EU climate action planning – aiming to delay & disable it. Fine Gael pretend that they support climate action, but in reality this is what they do.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Tonight. Share everywhere. 🙏
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 02/07/2025
1°C of global warming does NOT mean that heatwaves 'just' get hotter by 1°C. Over large parts of the UK, global warming means that heatwaves are 3-4°C warmer, with worse consequences for people and ecosystems.
UK maps showing changes in temperatures for typical summer days and hot summer days.
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
46C is not 'the new normal', because we are continuing to make the problem worse Unless we stop burning fossil fuels and destroying nature, it is just a brief stage on a rapid descent to something far more hellish
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
There's no 'new normal' until we stop burning fossil fuels - it just keeps getting worse & worse.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
trickle down economics trickle down economic trickle down economi trickle down econom trickle down econo trickle down econ trickle down eco trickle down ec trickle down e trickle down trickle dow trickle do trickle d trickle trickl trick
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Simon Clark @simonoxfphys.com · 25/06/2025
The Met Office is currently looking for people to suggest up to 5 names for storms... It would be great if thousands all suggested the same 5 names (in alphabetical order as that's how storm names appear): BigOil, BP, Equinor, Exxon, Shell. www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o...
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Name our Storms
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Amidst shameful media neglect of genocide in #Gaza, there has been a consistent exception: the UK’s Channel 4 News. Today’s report on the daily killings by Israelis of the starving queuing for food aid. Wait for the UN assessment at the end. This is a difficult but essential watch. Pls share.
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Caroline O'Doherty @codohertynews.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Frustration, powerlessness, anxiety, sadness, anger & little faith in Government action - how the public feels about climate change. Respondents say very clearly they want to be enabled to do more. Climate Conversations 2025 consultation now open www.independent.ie/irish-news/i...
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Irish public feels ‘more despair than hope’ about climate change, new research reveals
Frustration is the number one feeling the public report having when it comes to climate change, new research shows.
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Feljin Jose @feljin.ie · 22/06/2025
When you actually read this piece, the reason given is because the Greens wanted more funding for public transport and "hot air" about renewables. We do, yeah. We're playing catch-up after decades of no investment in public transport, clean energy and energy security and we have a long way to go.
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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Delighted to announce that my first book, THE LIE OF THE LAND, is due for publication on September 4th next via @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social. It's a frank assessment of Ireland and the #Climate emergency, with a roadmap towards a more food and energy-secure future.
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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
All out for Palestine on Saturday! Join us to commemorate the Palestinian Nakba and call on the Irish government to sanction apartheid for its genocidal crimes. Let’s show our unbreakable solidarity with the Palestinian people. #FreePalestine 🇵🇸 Please note updated disability access point
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Palestine is the rock on which the West will break itself. Put yourself in the shoes of people in the global South. For nearly two years they have watched how Western leaders, who love to talk about human rights and the rule of law, are happy to shred all these values ...
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Grainne Hampson @grainnehampson.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
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Una Mullally: Michael Healy-Rae’s trees-on-peatland plan is environmental vandalism
The Minister of State displays an alarming lack of knowledge of part of his brief
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Reduce Election Posters @reduceposters.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The Electoral Commission is seeking the views of the public on election posters. Respond by 9th May at 5pm at electoralcommission.ie/consultation/. This survey can be completed in as little as 5 minutes. Your involvement could make a huge difference to our environment and our democracy.
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Consultation - Electoral Commission
Electoral Postering Consultation An Coimisiún Toghcháin (An Coimisiún), Ireland’s independent electoral commission, was established on 9 February 2023. An Coimisiún’s powers are set out in the Elector...
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Gregg Carlstrom @glcarlstrom.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
World Central Kitchen has run out of food to serve in Gaza. Its bakery ("recently the last working bakery in Gaza") is out of flour. There are 100,000+ tons of food in staging areas within driving distance of Gaza, and Israel refuses to let them in wck.org/news/gaza-up...
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World Central Kitchen | WCK Forced to Halt Cooking in Gaza as Supplies Run Out
After serving more than 130 million total meals and 26 million loaves of bread over the past 18 months, World Central Kitchen no longer has the supplies to cook meals or bake bread in Gaza.
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Fintan Kelly @fintankelly.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
"We call on the government to reject any proposals for tree planting on peatlands and instead invest in conservation and restoration efforts. Ireland has a responsibility to protect these landscapes, not to degrade them further" - IPCC www.agriland.ie/farming-news...
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Healy-Rae comments on forestry and peat draw IPCC ire
The IPCC has said it "strongly opposes" comments made by Minister Michael Healy-Rae in the Seanad around afforestation on deep peat soils.
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Cork Greens @corkgreens.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
This Thursday, the centre right and far right groups in the European Parliament are teaming up to attack one of the most successful nature protection laws in the world: the Habitats Directive. Send a simple email to MEPs. Let's hold them accountable. 👇
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Hands Off Nature - Stop the right from dismantling nature
Send an email to relevant EPP Members of the European Parliament who can make a difference.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
🔥 This is important. Really important. And none of the mainstream media are reporting it. So please read and share — because we are the news community for ourselves and the “mainstream” media are utterly hopeless for meaningful news.
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On Her 7th Birthday, We Know Who Killed Hind Rajab. And We’re Taking Them to Court
​ Brussels, 3 May 2025  — Today, little  Hind Rajab should have been blowing out candles on her 7th birthday .  On this day of remembrance and heartbreak, the  Hind Rajab Foundation  has...
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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 02/05/2025
Junior minister Michael Healy-Rae wants to go back to planting spruce forestry on peatland, despite the major problems this practice has causes for climate - large areas of Ireland’s forestry actually emit more carbon than they store - and nature.
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
The ‘spiral of silence’ blocking climate action and how to end it - Globally, people are hugely supportive of climate action but wrongly believe their fellow citizens are not - revealing the truth could spark a social tipping point #The89Percent Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Spiral of silence’: climate action is very popular, so why don’t people realise it?
Researchers find 89% of people around the world want more to be done, but mistakenly assume their peers do not
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 18/04/2025
Cannes Selects Film on Gaza Photographer Fatma Hassona; A Day Later, She's Killed in Israeli Strike
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Gaza Photographer Fatma Hassona Killed in Israeli Strike. Was She Targeted?
Fatma Hassona, the 25-year-old Palestinian photojournalist and subject of the upcoming documentary film Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk, was killed with her family Wednesday by an Israeli missile...
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Paul Tattam @paultattam.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Good job @channel4news.bsky.social High time the dangers of flea collars received attention @cannelledemontaigu.bsky.social They were highlighted 4years ago by @davegoulson.bsky.social in Silent Earth @cherry-b.bsky.social @songbirdsurvival.bsky.social #ornithology www.channel4.com/news/scienti...
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Scientists warn chemicals in pet flea treatments are killing wildlife
The government says it's time to look again at the sale of pet flea treatments after scientists warned the chemicals in them kill wildlife including songbirds.
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Ireland's Native Woodland Trust @irishwoodlandtrust.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
We did mention we had news? We've just acquired all of the Sheanadh Gharráin woods east of the Bhoth Loiscthe River in the Connemara Gaeltacht. 35 acres of rainforest awesomeness are now protected, plus 47 acres of space for them to stretch into !
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
I gotta say, “women are going to space” sounds a lot nicer than “the ultra rich are taking hyper-polluting joyrides to space while the planet descends into climate chaos”
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Tina Claffey Photography @tinaclaffey.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
So lovely to see the bog pools full of life ❤️ @peatlandecr.bsky.social @scohaboybog.bsky.social @claireissimo.bsky.social @charleenhurtubise.bsky.social
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The EU takes a precautionary approach, often banning substances until they are proven safe, while the U.S. tends to allow them unless they are proven harmful. Below are some key examples of American products or ingredients commonly banned in the EU:
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Fintan Kelly @fintankelly.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
"Walk way destroyed"...in most countries the headline would be that someone intentionally set a National Park on fire. I've been fortunate to visit many national parks around the world & I've yet to visit a society that holds its National Parks in as low a regard as Ireland.
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Lyla Mehta @lylamehta.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Apart from nonsensical maths & logic, imagine being proud of slapping 40 - 50% tariffs on some of the world's poorest countries. Many of the textile & other industries played a huge role in poverty reduction, esp for women. #USA #Tariffs #Trump #USA Source : BBC
list of countries hit hardest by US tariffs. Source BBC
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Its the time of year, when nature comes alive Do not waste your time mowing and poisoning essential food for pollinators and wildlife Let nature live - weeds are not trash but wild flowers
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Mark Robins @byhedge.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Christ! One vote saved the EUs premier nature fund. The EU is already an environmental disaster zone with a few tiny programmes like LIFE doing something at least. Feck the @eppgroup.bsky.social including Irish MEPs like @SeanKelly who profane a serious (positive) intent re biodiversity but ….
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Sustainable Water Network (SWAN) @swanireland.ie · 31/03/2025
In 30 years, Ireland's pristine rivers dropped from 500 to just over 20 and, in 50 years, we've lost 90% of our salmon 😢🐟 Baseline Shift means we're less aware of this loss📉 Let's not accept a diminished world🛑 We must #RestoreOurWaters 💙📢 🙏 www.sashafrost.com
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
During apartheid, South African armed forces killed 69 civilians in the Sharpeville Massacre. The world was shocked. This event is still taught in history classes. On average, Israel has massacred more than 70 Palestinian civilians *every day* for the past 18 months.
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Andrew Simon @simongandrew.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.
There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead.
No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience.
Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
"In Greenland what we saw was American imperialism with no clothes. Naked and vain." snyder.substack.com/p/vance-in-g...
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The Imperialism Has no Clothes
JD Vance in Greenland
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
NEW: Friends of Neri Alvarado, rotting in a Salvadoran prison on Trump's orders, made a video highlighting his volunteer work helping neurodiverse children learn to swim. Neri was sent there after someone at ICE thought his autism awareness tattoo was a gang tattoo. Vid posted by Noah Lanard on X.
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 26/03/2025
Five years ago today, most historical UK monthly rainfall observations were not available to scientists. But the 66,000 pieces of paper containing the data had been scanned. With covid lockdown approaching we saw an opportunity to transcribe the data. #RainfallRescue began... 🧵
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 26/03/2025
Miriam Lord: Lowry gives master class in smug ingratitude amid Dáil chaos over speaking time
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Miriam Lord: Lowry gives master class in smug ingratitude amid Dáil chaos over speaking time
Two-digit TD for Tipperary gloated dismissively as Opposition raged over Ceann Comhairle’s decision to bring Dáil confrontation over speaking rights to abrupt end
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Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
With the Green Party out of the way, Coillte can now stop pretending to care about nature and focus on their first love 💰 www.independent.ie/irish-news/q...
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Questions raised as Coillte quietly shuts down its non-profit Nature branch
State forestry company Coillte has ­quietly shut down Coillte Nature, the not-for-profit branch it set up on nature restoration projects.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
If you let the executive deport people to a foreign gulag just by pronouncing the word “terrorism,” then expect to be called a “terrorist” soon yourself.
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Grainne Hampson @grainnehampson.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Please sign, there is no equivalent in Ireland and is the source of so much important research for us all.
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We Can Make an Impact.
Stop the Destruction of the World-Renowned Dartington Forest Garden
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
It's hard to believe this is happening. The Dartington Trust, here in South Devon, is behaving like Donald Trump: it seems to have no conception of the value it is destroying. This is its latest act of mindless vandalism. What the hell is going on? www.agroforestry.co.uk/save-darting...
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Save the Dartington Forest Garden - The Agroforestry Research Trust
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The Bee Guy @thebeeguy.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. # 71 # 70 contd. Carrying heavy pollen loads on the legs makes #bumblebee flight more stable in windy conditions; but in calm weather bees with nectar-full honey stomachs are more nimble than those carrying pollen loads. #bees
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
A good part of my job is to read extremely concerning studies in order to compose cross-sectional view of What's At Stake and work out ways to engage stakeholders This is, without hyperbole, the most concerning thing I have read in a long time www.scientificamerican.com/article/micr...
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Microplastics Are Messing with Photosynthesis in Plants
Microplastics can cut a plant’s ability to photosynthesize by up to 12 percent, new research shows
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