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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Parton. Curry. Now Kusama. Worst fckin week ever. A world stripped of sparkles 🌟🖤🌟
theguardian.com
Yayoi Kusama, Japanese artist who became a global superstar, dies aged 97
From the 1950s to the 2020s, Kusama produced vivid paintings, sculptures and vast installations that often drew on her experience of hallucinations
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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
‘There are the lofty-sounding promises to reach “Net-zero emissions by 2050,” as if 24 years from now was soon enough. There are the queries of “What’s your carbon footprint?,” as if individual people with plastic bags or straws were the problem and not gigantic multinational corporations.’ 👏🥵⏳
currentaffairs.org
The Gargantuan Lie That is Collapsing The World’s Climate
Thinking we have time left to address climate change, or that “Net Zero by 2050” will save us, is driving us toward full social collapse in ways that become more obvious with every new broken temperat...
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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
“A WhatsApp group was formed, a Facebook logo designed. Epping for Everyone was a revelation for locals who felt isolated by the takeover of their town.”
theguardian.com
The battle over the Bell hotel: how a year of asylum protests tore apart a pretty, prosperous Essex town
Last summer, a 14-year-old girl was sexually assaulted by an asylum seeker in Epping and this small community was engulfed in protest. Can it recover?
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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Haringey Community Food Network launching Recipes of Love cookbook, sharing global recipes from across our neighbourhood.
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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Underreported world…
theguardian.com
Flooded and forgotten: the UK’s waters are rising and we’re being kept in the dark | John Harris
Rescue operations in Wales, submerged railway lines in Cornwall – these events are ever more common. So why have we utterly failed to prepare, asks Guardian columnist John Harris
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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Some neighbourhoods are already uninsurable due to climate-related flood risk and London urgently needs to upgrade its drainage systems and flood defences.
theguardian.com
Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk
Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable, Guardian investigation finds
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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Climate shocks, underinvestment, leaks, pollution and wastage… our water supply is in deep trouble
theguardian.com
How can England possibly be running out of water?
While famously rainswept, climate crisis, population growth and profligacy mean the once unthinkable could be possible
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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Foraging in a heatwave? Yikes! But when better to head into a shady park or woodland to harvest nettle seeds - an ancient pick-me-up for stressed times... shorturl.at/s55ZU
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Forage fiercer: what to pick or gather in…
July. Have heatwaves left you parched and stressed? It’s time to gather nettle seeds
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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
When it's time to love and let go... shorturl.at/23Wym
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Let it go… when clutter is also emotional baggage
Most of us buy far more clothes than we'll ever wear, for all the wrong reasons, and a lot of this ends up burned or in landfill.
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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
A slam-dunk by Sally Rooney.
theguardian.com
Israel kills innocent Palestinians. Activists spray-paint a plane. Guess which the UK government calls terrorism | Sally Rooney
If Palestine Action becomes a proscribed group, writing these words of support could become a serious offence. It’s vital we fight this alarming attack on free speech, says writer Sally Rooney
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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Walking with cuckoos, or things we've loved and lost r.fibr.ai/edhjcg1f @futuregencymru.bsky.social @rspbcymru.bsky.social @bbcspringwatch.bsky.social
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Walking with cuckoos
To spend time out in nature is to breathe and bathe in beauty. But sometimes it’s a bitter-sweet reminder of loss.
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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Celebrating the people and startups turning climate talk into climate action, at home and abroad, at the Ashden awards @RGS_IBG tonight. Featuring @nakate_vanessa, @ashden_org @ashden-org.bsky.social Just don’t call it the #greenOscars 😘
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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Bottom trawling, delivering on the promise of 30x30 marine-protections, deepsea mining - it's all on the agenda at this week's UN Ocean Summit in Nice. Here's why the outcomes matter to all of us... 🐋🐚🏄‍♂️🦈🦑 shorturl.at/IIr3u
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A deepsea SOS – will the UN summit save our seas?
Scientists, campaigners and heads of state meet in Nice this week, to talk about ways to protect our hard-pressed seas and oceans from pollution, over-fishing, exploitation and climate change
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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
This would be a game-changer. Ban bottom trawling *and* deepsea mining
theguardian.com
Campaigners hail plan to ban bottom trawling in half of England’s protected seas
Environmental groups welcome government proposals to clamp down on destructive fishing practice
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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
How do we protect our waters from canal to coast? ➡️ Use less plastic personally ➡️ Join a litter pick ➡️ Get water firms to clean up their act ➡️ Tackle fishing industry ghost nets ➡️ Don’t buy trawled fish ➡️ Ban trawlers from MPAs and high seas #Earthfest
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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
@laurenthesunflower.bsky.social tells #earthfest: “The UK has been through harrowing austerity: 6m households in energy poverty. Yet Equinor has made record profits. Oil and gas is making the obscenely rich obscenely richer - at the expense of everyone else”
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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
People power is pushing government and business to clean up our waterways and create cleaner, greener riversides. Showing our waterways some love during London Rivers Week could just be the start... ⤵️
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Let’s show our rivers some love
Diverted, polluted and cased in concrete... our rivers are struggling. Many are too clogged with waste and sewage for wildlife to thrive or for people to swim. Changing this starts with people power
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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Forage fiercer greener’s monthly column on what to pick or gather. Less about food, more about getting out in - and reconnecting to - nature… 💚
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Forage fiercer: what to pick or gather in…
June. Here comes high-summer abundance. It’s time to gather lime blossom
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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Most of us - 89 per cent - want more action to tackle climate change and nature loss. But we also believe that we're alone in that wish. And if it's hard to act it's harder still to win the hearts and minds of others. What can we do..?
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What we talk about when we talk about climate change...
Or how to win hearts and minds when we ourselves can find it hard to act
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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
This. ⬇️
theguardian.com
Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan among 380 writers and groups to call Gaza war ‘genocide’
Letter also signed by Hanif Kureishi and Russell T Davies urges ceasefire and unrestricted distribution of aid
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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Sad news; a great photographer and an Earth protector who did so much to restore the land he lived on. Rest in power
theguardian.com
Sebastião Salgado, photographer known for Amazon rainforest images, dies aged 81
Death confirmed by Instituto Terra, the environmental restoration non-profit he and his wife founded
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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Big decision; huge! 🐳 🎉🐬
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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
"We dig as little as possible, to preserve soil health, although we plant tomatoes, chard and broad beans every spring. To keep costs down, we trade seeds and plants with neighbours and local growers - a lovely way to sow your own tribe."
greenermagazine.substack.com
Are you ready to grow wilder?
Postcards from managing an urban garden for nature, climate resilience and joy
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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Oops, oh my - greener has landed on Substack. Come join the ride! greener is for everyone who believes a fairer, greener future is necessary and possible 🦔💧🪴 tinyurl.com/4psftr62
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To be or not to be... greener
On renewal, rebirth and regeneration - here's what I've learned from starting over.
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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
“I’m fascinated by the ways in which the drive to eliminate the dissenting autonomy of water – of running water, of rivers, of springs – has marched often in lockstep with power that seeks to eliminate all forms of spiritual relationships with land and water, replacing the sacred with the fiscal.” 💙
theguardian.com
Robert Macfarlane: ‘Sometimes I felt as if the river was writing me’
The writer and poet on reimagining rivers as living beings, the ecological crisis near and far and why copyright laws should protect nature
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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
No one who sees Ocean With David Attenborough can unsee the impacts of bottom trawling. It’s like napalming a rainforest. The film is a powerful call to arms for #oceanConservation #30by30 ahead of #UNoceanConference Let’s do this. 🐬🐙🐠🦑🪸🦈🪼🦀🐋
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#thebottomline #thebottomline #oceanfilm #oceanwithdavidattenborough | Blue Marine Foundation | 110 comments
EXPOSED: Never seen before footage reveals the catastrophic impacts caused by bottom trawling    “Bottom trawling is still allowed in many so-called marine protected areas worldwide. And perhaps even ...
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Richard Sims @simsre.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Ratsey bags - the fore runner of the #Tote_bag? They were made from a single piece of #sail_canvas sewn up the sides and used for carrying coal/ice to waiting #yachts. The design was adapted by L L Bean in making his original Tote bags. Trying to find original sources for this. #maritimehistory
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Tom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The Greens now have nearly 200 more councillors than Reform. This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.
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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Barely a week after surveys found that 89% of us want governments to do more - not less - to tackle climate change... Tony Blair; Tone deaf!
theguardian.com
Climate experts and politicians round on Tony Blair for ‘wrong message’
Former Labour PM accused of ‘handing talking points’ to Tories and Reform after saying net zero strategy faltering
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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Happy Earth Day. Let’s get a teeny bit braver! 💚🌱🌍
theguardian.com
‘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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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Red mason-bee day, UK. All feels right with the world 🐝
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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
PR campaign may have fuelled food study backlash, leaked document shows
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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 11/04/2025
BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency. Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.
science.org
Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency
White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted
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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
More green energy. But…
carbonbrief.org
Power-sector CO2 hits ‘all-time high’ in 2024 despite record growth for clean energy  - Carbon Brief
Global power-sector emissions hit an “all-time high”, despite solar and wind power continuing to grow at record speed, according to analysis from Ember
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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦕 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Dire wolves were not close relatives of gray wolves. They last shared a common ancestor more than 5 million years ago. What Colossal has done is make something new and slapped a dire wolf sticker on it, as if an organism equals a hypothetical genome.
scientificamerican.com
Dire Wolves Were Not Really Wolves, New Genetic Clues Reveal
The extinct giant canids were a remarkable example of convergent evolution
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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Soil at Somerset House. A fascinating glimpse of the worlds below.
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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
More and more fungi face threats from climate change, pollutants and habitat loss, IUCN reports
iucn.org
First 1,000 fungi on IUCN Red List reveal growing threats - IUCN Red List
Gland, Switzerland, 27 March 2025 (IUCN) – The number of fungi species on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ has surpassed 1,000, confirming that deforestation, agricultural expansion and urban ...
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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer Which makes it all the more urgent for insurers to start valuing and protecting, and to stop demanding the felling, of street trees… 🌳
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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
theguardian.com
‘Global weirding’: climate whiplash hitting world’s biggest cities, study reveals
Swings between drought and floods striking from Dallas to Shanghai, while Madrid and Cairo are among cities whose climate has flipped
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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Authors - act now! Meta has hoovered up hundreds of novels and short stories to train its AI models. It hasn’t asked or paid the writers. If this is you, use the @authorsguild's letter template to object: actionnetwork.org/letters/auth...
actionnetwork.org
Tell AI Companies They Do Not Have the Right to Use Your Work
I just sent a letter telling AI companies they do not not have the right to use my work. Use the Authors Guild's letter template to send your own.
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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Earth hour 🌍 🌎 🌏
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Brilliant news! At last, confirmation that the Govt *will* go ahead with the #NaturalHistoryGCSE 🎉 We have to get to know our fellow travellers on this planet again. Young people who know & love nature are far more likely to protect & restore it - as well as enjoying better physical & mental health
theguardian.com
Department for Education confirms launch of natural history GCSE
Campaigners have been calling for the qualification for years but plan stalled despite a curriculum being drawn up
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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Sign the petition to protect the forest garden in Dartington, Devon that Martin Crawford set up three decades a go. It’s a vital and much-loved resource for education and research into regenerative food growing, soil health and working with nature 💚☘️🐸🌱🥦
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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
A sobering watch, feat. motivated, underresourced people trapped in a system not of their making. All crying out for investment to adapt a creaking business to urban growth and climate impacts. Shocking and desperately sad. Pt 2 tonight
theguardian.com
Thames Water: Inside the Crisis review – the public needs to see this foul mess
Why on earth were cameras invited inside this huge, hated company known for pumping sewage into our waterways? Customers can see the horrors of a dreadful situation they’re paying the price for
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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
How would the mad exhaustion of the COP3 climate summit work as theatre? Saw and loved #kyotoPlay. It unmasks the interests beneath a thin skin of diplomacy. Being complicit, every audience member gets a delegate lanyard. A def go-see. 🌍 @goodchancetheatre.bsky.social @sohotheatre.bsky.social
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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
It’s hanami time on the marshes Wild plum and blackthorn in flower, buzzing with early bumblebees. New signs of spring #longWinter #TottenhamSpring
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
I’ve published my submission to the government’s Land Use consultation. DEFRA has proposed lots of bold and interesting ideas, many of which I support. But they also underestimate the scale of land use change needed to restore nature & fix water pollution. 1/🧵 whoownsengland.org/2025/03/12/m...
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My submission to the Government’s Land Use consultation
This post is by Guy Shrubsole. This is my submission to the Government’s Land Use consultation, which was launched by the Environment Secretary Steve Reed on 31st January 2025 and closes on 2…
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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
New studies show just 17 percent of world cities have safe levels of air pollution. How polluted is the air you’re breathing? Click here to find out ⬇️⬇️⬇️
iqair.com
2024 World Air Quality Report | IQAir
Interactive global map of 2024 PM2.5 concentrations by city.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
1. You feel powerless? Don’t know what you can do to resist the rise of fascism? Here is an answer: Good Things. Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine. Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it. The more we build community, the less it can take root. 🧵
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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Love this! A flashmob choir calling for nature restoration and rewilding hits St Paul’s cathedral 🌸🐇🦊🦔🦋🐞🕷️💚🪴
hamhigh.co.uk
Watch as choral flashmob serenades St Paul's over Church of England rewilding
A 200-strong flash mob choir surprised visitors and churchgoers at St Paul’s Cathedral calling on the Church of England to commit to rewilding.
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