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Prof Richard Betts @richardabetts.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Nope, it’s the weeks of hot, dry weather made more severe by global heating due to fossil fuel burning that has increased the risk of wildfires. The landscape is so dry that any ignition can start a fire that becomes uncontrollable. Fields of crops and grasses are not “rewilded” but have burned
Front page of the Daily Mail newspaper “eclipse special” with headline “Rewilding link to record fires”, beneath a photograph of people watching the near-total eclipse of the sun with the title “Britain finally gets a break from the sun (for a few minutes!)”
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
All you can do with the right-wing press is ignore it and get on with the job. Never try to appease these ghouls and their sundowning readership. They’re the people who thought Liz Truss was a good idea
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Despite all the noise today I'd really like you to read this, as I think it's crucial. The government's in the process of p*ssing up to £264 billion into the ground, at the behest of the fossil fuel industry. Yes, £264 *billion*. It's utterly mad, and has to stop. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The great carbon capture con: behold the wasted billions Burnham could claw back | George Monbiot
There are far better ways to tackle climate breakdown, but successive governments have chosen to listen to the fossil fuel companies instead, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Nigel Farage vs "the establishment" He went to private school, worked as a stockbroker, has been a professional politician for 31 years, has his own TV show, is a brand ambassador for gold, is mates with POTUS, accepted a secret £5m gift, and owns five houses bought outright with cash What a rebel
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Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 02/07/2026
Global boom in livestock farming since 2006 is piling pressure on nature, report finds
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Global boom in livestock farming since 2006 is piling pressure on nature, report finds
Wildlife at risk as demand for cropland and water grows to feed 50% rise in farmed animals, campaign alliance says
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
And there it is… www.desmog.com/2026/04/30/r...
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Revealed: Reform’s £24 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests
Reform UK has received £24 million from oil and gas interests, accounting for more than two thirds of its total income, DeSmog can reveal. Led by Nigel Farage, the party is calling for new North Sea o...
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23
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"Heatwave hysterics wouldn't have lasted a day in 1976", overlaid with a bold “MONK DEBUNKED” stamp.
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
The tragedy of the Dartmoor Pony Cull Conspiracy is that misinformation can lead to scientific advice being ignored, & environmental watchdogs like Natural England having their powers curtailed - exactly what the Tories & rightwing press have always wanted. I spoke to @mrjamesob.bsky.social:
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 11/06/2026
They say banning trail hunting will mean thousands of hounds have to die. But they already kill them. Our hidden camera footage shows hunt staff tossing the bodies of healthy dogs into skips like rubbish. Routinely. Casually.
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Matt B @mattbernico.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
If you look at other North Sea countries with really successful uptake on renewables, you'll see a strategy: community buy-in through community ownership. 52% of Denmark's wind farms are community owned. It's 50% in Germany!
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂
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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
This is the scale of factory farming the shooting industry doesn't want us to think about. endbirdshooting.substack.com/p/endless-ro...
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Endless rows of cages: This is the scale of factory farming the shooting industry doesn't want us to think about.
It all starts in rows of cages like this
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Today in Brexit Britain you are being asked to believe that a Thailand-based cryptocurrency tycoon secretly gave Nigel Farage - the person, not his party - five million pounds without any hope or expectation of getting anything in return.
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
It still blows my mind that ~70% of antibiotics consumed in the United States are used for meat production, not human health. Not because the animals are sick, but because this reduces costs (because animal production systems are dirty and expensive to clean) and boosts meat growth. Yikes.
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Galina Esther Shubina, my coffee is my own @galsh.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
The numbers are not abstract. CalPERS — the retirement fund for California’s public employees — lost roughly $15 billion in two days after the April 2 tariff announcement. Those weren’t theoretical dollars. Those were police officers’ pensions. Teachers’ pensions. Nurses’ pensions. When twenty-five top state and local pension funds collectively lost $169 billion in under a week, those were people’s retirements. I’ve had retirees tell me they watched twenty years of careful saving blink away in a morning. And while they were watching, somebody on the other side of the country was opening a new yacht listing in their browser.

When $11 trillion in market value evaporates and a handful of anonymous traders mysteriously end the week hundreds of millions of dollars richer, the math is not complicated. That money came from somewhere. It came from us.
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Do you want to see the "big picture" on climate change? Here it is. Emissions are on the left, and include CO2, CH4, N2O, and f-gases. Natural CO2 sinks (from healthy forests & oceans) are on the right. And carbon removal, what little there is, is on the right, too. All expressed as GWP100.
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
From seahorses to sharks, more than 3,000 fish species have been caught in bottom trawls, including many at risk of extinction -new research They are depleting the ocean of life and if they are not stopped we will soon have a dead lifeless ocean science.ubc.ca/news/2026-04...
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Bottom trawling catches thousands of fish species, including those most at-risk
From seahorses to sharks, over 3,000 fish species have been caught in bottom trawls, including many at risk of extinction, according to a new global inventory.
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FriendsOfTheEms @friendsoftheems.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
A huge and mostly natural garden with abundant and diverse wildlife is a wonderful thing, but the majority of our gardens aren't like that even when we try hard to encourage our non human neighbours. Large, publicly accessible and funded reserves are what we need.
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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
What are the chances of this tree surviving?
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
In the BlueSky tradition of 'here's a nice thing but here's how it's problematic': Is Attenborough right to claim that gardens in England cover a greater area than all of our National Nature Reserves? Technically, yes: but I think it’s a misleading comparison that lets government off the hook...1/
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Whatever this bullshit poll ‘exclusively’ reveals, I can guarantee that: A) it does not show voters abandoning net zero, and B) Drilling for more oil & gas in declining North Sea reserves will make NET ZERO difference to bills bsky.app/profile/louo...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Regardless of the issue, it's always the same story: commercial interests allowed to ride roughshod over everything and everyone else. Faced with the urgent need for action, successive governments twiddle their thumbs. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘A national scandal’: trawlers scour seabeds of supposedly protected UK waters
‘Precious ocean life is being pushed to the brink’ say campaigners, arguing that overfished marine areas are ‘protected only on paper’
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Interesting to note the major exception: Ireland, where native red squirrels are *gaining* ground at the expense of invasive American greys. How? The come back of another native mammal, this one a predator: the pine marten. Making ecosystems functional again is the best cure for invasive species.
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Dartmoor has been deliberately set ablaze tonight. An apocalyptic photo of swaling (moorland burning) that I’ve been sent, of the moor alight at Corndon Down, Spitchwick Common. All burning is meant to end on Dartmoor today, 31st March - and many birds will already be nesting this early spring. 😢
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Globally, wild grasslands and wetlands are being destroyed for agriculture 4x faster even than forests, with 67% of that for livestock. We can't keep ignoring the elephant in the room: animal farming is killing our living planet. share.google/3ZRoI47pYd76...
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Grasslands and wetlands are being lost to agriculture four times faster than forests
Wild ecosystems such as grassland savannas, bush and open wetlands are losing ground worldwide to make way for large pastures and grain fields. A new study found these ecosystems are being converted a...
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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
82% of Britain’s electricity is currently zero carbon. This is an incredible achievement of which we should be rightly proud and motivated to go further, faster. Instead, we’ve got fossil fuelled politicians telling us we should be focusing on 93% depleted North Sea oil & gas.
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Breaks my heart that my 5‑year‑old is learning in school about all the ways he can protect our planet... While decrepit old fuckwits are dropping tons of bombs poisoning soil, air & water for decades to come for millions of us ...but sure, you recycle that bog roll little one.
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 21/03/2026
Now that spring is here, why not think of ways to help nature and wildlife close to you? Bug hotels, hedgehog gaps, wildlife ponds. Go pesticide-free or plant for pollinators. Read how simple actions can restore what’s been lost 👇🏽
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Essex council launches ‘nature pledges’ for public to support wildlife
Local residents are being encouraged to try the Chelmsford Nature Pledges. But these actions can be taken by anyone anywhere
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
This place was once a wild, native rainforest ecosystem, now it's just two non-native invasives – Sitka and rhodo – crammed with a third: sika deer. We're told Ireland "has 11% forest left", but it's a lie: around 90% of that is some version of this image. Rewilding reverses such damage *head-on*.
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Simon Opher @simonforstroud.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Stratford Park Outdoor Pool We need to save it for the community.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Farage and Jenrick pull a stunt in Buxton in protest at the fuel prices which are going up - on account of a war they both back - started by a man Farage flew thousands of miles to "have dinner with" only for said man to decide he was busy. So much dignity going on.
WATCH: Nigel Farage and Robert
Jenrick change fuel prices in Buxton at
a Reform UK petrol station


They have pledged to reinstate the 5p
fuel duty cut in their first Budget
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
As journalists working today many of us are taught to recognise disinformation when we see it and fight back against it. Unfortunately there are some who willingly seek it out and put it on their front pages. A disgrace to the profession.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
In contrast to the false narrative so desperately sold by some, rewilding and re-peopling of the countryside actually go hand in hand. With many rural communities in Ireland struggling due to lack of jobs and vitality, it's about time we started recognising this, bringing nature AND people back.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
I wish it were true that "no one is above the law". But while the City of London acts as laundromat for the world's dirty money, as almost all fraud and waste crime go unprosecuted, as no one has gone to jail for the financial crash or the poisoning of our rivers, this is manifestly untrue.
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 18/02/2026
Half our songbirds have vanished in 50 years. New research shows birds that use wool and fur to line nests were exposed to pet and livestock flea treatment. Eggs and chicks are being contaminated – with deadly implications. Should these medicines be regulated? @eastangliabylines.co.uk
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Fighting for songbird survival and safer everyday veterinary medicines
Beloved songbirds are disappearing. Everyday veterinary medicines containing pesticides may be contributing to the decline
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Herbiⓥore @herbivoreclub.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Environmentalists don't do dairy.
The image is a bar chart titled "Which milk should I choose?" displaying the environmental impact of one glass (200ml) of different types of milk based on emissions (kg), land use (sq m), and water use (L). The milks compared are dairy, rice, soy, oat, and almond. Dairy milk has the highest emissions, land use, and water use. The source of the data is Poore & Nemecek (2018), Science, and the chart is from the BBC.
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Adil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Radcliffe should remember we immigrants and children of immigrants are here because of British colonisation and make a huge contribution. He moved to Monaco to avoid £4bn tax. His club Man U owes everything to migrant players and migrant supporters. He’s an embarrassment to the club and game.
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Norah 🤗 @thenoraheffect.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
I love Green Day so much and I’m so very happy they performed‘American Idiot’ because, well…you know… 😁
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Nigel Farage tells GB News that Keir Starmer's decision to appoint Peter Mandelson as US ambassador shows his judgement is "seriously wrong" and he should stand down as Prime Minister. Here's what Farage said when Mandelson was appointed
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Question: What formed Irish soils after the last Ice Age? Answer: Natural ecosystems such as rainforest, over 1,000s of years. Conclusion: Sheep grazing uplands (for eg) is just mining the fertility built up by the very nature it killed off and continues to keep out, while giving NOTHING back.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
“We’re gonna need a bigger bus”
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Our living planet is being relentlessly annihilated on a scale that's beyond any understanding. It is literally the apocalypse, in our time. Is that *all* we humans collectively amount to? I believe we have the power to change.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
99% of what you need to understand about the relentless murder of our living planet, in one word: CAPITALISM
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 26/12/2025
The best thing to do is ban all donations and publicly fund our politics. The cost is tiny in the scheme of things, the outcome would be politics without the suspicion. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Right to Roam @righttoroam.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Currently only 8% of land in England has a ‘right to roam’ and only 3% of rivers enjoy an uncontested right of access – a major obstacle to community guardianship. We’re campaigning for that to change. Film directed by Connor Newson Music: ‘Hope and Heisenberg’ by Spearfisher youtu.be/7sjOGOguq5A
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A London barrister declared a river sacred. This is what happened next.
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European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 16/12/2025
🗑️💢 @europarl.europa.eu just cleared away the few remaining environmental safeguards in EU farming policy Two rushed rounds of so-called “simplifications” have gutted years of progress and handed #BigAgri exactly what it wanted: money to pollute with no strings attached ✂️ Here’s what we’ve lost ⬇️
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Simon Opher @simonforstroud.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
The English Devolution Bill returns this week. One key part is Community Right to Buy, which gives local groups the chance to take control of community assets. I’ve tabled an amendment to make sure this includes assets that further the environmental wellbeing of local communities — like The Heavens
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Risotto is not work. It is meditation, followed by self care.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
The BBC needs a board. But it should not define editorial matters. Select a citizen's assembly of 299 randomly selected people, let them take expert evidence, and make choices driven by the public. Like a jury would. It works for trials. Why not for sensitive areas like media impartiality?
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