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Friends of the Earth Europe @foeeurope.bsky.social · 16h
Solutions exist: stronger antitrust rules, public procurement for family farming & agroecology, firewalls between agribusiness lobbyists & policymakers. What’s missing is the collective power and political courage to deploy them. More insight & inspo in the new Agribusiness Atlas 👇
friendsoftheearth.eu
Agribusiness Atlas about the corporations that control what we eat
The world faces its fourth wave of global food price crises in just 20 years. We must confront one of the root causes of why our food systems are failing to feed the world sustainably and why they rem...
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Biofuelwatch @biofuelwatch.bsky.social · 15h
New article about #RWE burning wood pellets linked to rainforest destruction in Malaysia in its Dutch power stations. As is Albioma in Reunion, a French overseas territory, too: environmentalpaper.org/2026/09/rwe-...
environmentalpaper.org
RWE burns Malaysian wood pellets linked to rainforest destruction - Environmental Paper Network
An investigation by Zembla, broadcast on 10 September 2026, revealed that wood pellets certified as sawmill residues were, in fact, made from whole trees
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Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) @paneurope.bsky.social · 16h
Today, EU Member States endorsed the Irish Presidency’s compromise on the Food and Feed Safety Omnibus. They support the Commission’s plan to roll back safeguards that protect human health and the environment from #pesticides. www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...
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EU Member States back weakening of pesticide safety
Today, EU Member States endorsed the Irish Presidency’s compromise on the Food and Feed Safety Omnibus, supporting the Commission’s plan to roll back safeguards protecting human health and the environ...
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 15h
If Palantir are so trustworthy, why are they intimidating anyone who criticises them? www.thenerve.news/p/clive-lewis-tom…
thenerve.news
'We're watching you': MP Clive Lewis reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir
In a letter to his former Labour colleague, the peer, who joined Peter Thiel's AI company this month, writes: ‘You have made the case against the company more or less continuously'. By Carole Cadwalladr
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Fidra @fidrango.bsky.social · 17h
A new study finds long term exposure to rubber crumb reduces root growth, impairs photosynthesis & disrupts nitrogen fixation in plants🌱 Rubber crumb is made from ground up car tyres & is used on artificial sports pitches🛞 Fidra are calling for restriction on rubber crumb in the UK 🔽 tr.ee/SjLoBC
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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 17h
NEW from us: EU's CO2 fell 2% in H1 2026, behind the pace needed to meet 2030 targets, with a rise in gas-fired generation and insufficient clean energy growth driving up power sector emissions. Emission trends also show the need to electrify transport, buildings and industry.
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 14h
"The electrification of road freight is emerging as a structural force that could undermine long-term oil demand across the world." Yeah it is. gift link
bloomberg.com
China Has an 18-Wheel Answer to Soaring Global Diesel Prices
Around a third of trucks sold in China this year will run on electricity, furthering Beijing’s goal of bolstering energy security.
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John Marsham @johnmarsham.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Buried on BBC Asia page (not on climate page) - Bangkok disaster zone, $330 million damage, 0.3% off GDP, hundreds of thousands affected - and no mention of why! Climate Crisis driven by burning fossil fuels .... @mattmcgrathbbc.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Bangkok roads submerged as flood disaster declared
Authorities said the heavy rains have subsided but the flooding is not yet over.
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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's shocking that the UK governmnent still allows compost containing peat to be sold, when it had agreed in 2011 that it needed phasing out fast. Only buy peat-free compost! And from peat-free nurseries: nicwilson.co.uk/2020/04/30/u...
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Australian PM @albomp.bsky.social "is pitching for a two-year seat on the UN Security Council, which Mr Albanese says would elevate the perspectives of smaller countries" He "laments 'breakdown' of global rules" Like what has permitted the comprehensive devastation & erasure of of Gaza❓
abc.net.au
Albanese laments 'breakdown' of global rules in major UN speech
The prime minister tells the UN that climate change and AI are key challenges demanding urgent global cooperation, just two days after Donald Trump told the same forum that both concerns were a "hoax"...
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ospreys are disappearing along the US East Coast due to a shortage of Atlantic menhaden, a crucial food source for ospreys. One company alone harvested nearly 300 million pounds of the fish in 2024 but somehow claims they’re not at fault. 🧐
wapo.st
Ospreys are disappearing along the East Coast. Scientists think they know why.
At the center of a widening crisis for one of the nation's great wildlife comebacks is a fish most Americans would hardly recognize.
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 27/09/2026
The deadline to renew Palantir's £330m contract is coming up fast. Join us to make ministers stop hiding Palantir's secrets – before it’s too late👇 goodlaw.social/o9zr
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Sue Lees @suelees.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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In New York, Life-Sized American Bison Puppets Inspire Hope for Restoration Efforts - Inside Climate News
Reintroducing the buffalo not only benefits Indigenous people, but all Americans, tribal leader Jason Baldes said.
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Sue Lees @suelees.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Climate Super-Pollutant from China’s Electric Grid Is Cooking the Planet - Inside Climate News
The nation’s electric utilities release vast quantities of the world’s most potent greenhouse gas. Recycling efforts could slash emissions at little cost, an Inside Climate News analysis reveals.
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38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Why won’t the Government share this secret climate change report when the findings show it’s a critical threat to national security? 👀
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 25/09/2026
"after donating $201 million to re-elect Trump and his allies, oil and gas companies will now collect an estimated $190 billion in tax breaks and subsidies over the next decade"
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We need action. The EU should understand that. But instead they cave to the US pressure to do the bidding of the oil and gas industry.
techtimes.com
Europe Summer 2026: At Least 35,000 Dead, Spain Sets Worst Heat Year on Record
Europe heatwave deaths 2026 have reached at least 35,000 across barely half the continent, with Germany accounting for 14,000, Spain setting its worst heat year on record at 4,947, and France recordin...
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Jason Scott-Warren @jes1003.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Channel 4 News last night on harvest meltdown. www.channel4.com/news/uk-harv...
channel4.com
UK harvest ‘disappointing’ after extreme weather, say farmers
This year's harvest has been described as "disappointing" for farmers across the UK after a summer of extreme weather.
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MeteoGib @meteogib.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#Iberia - late-September heat peaks at 40C+ again - 24/09 A look at Wednesday's temperatures and the extreme heat peaked at 40C+ again, with 41.7C registered in #Alvega #Portugal and 39.6C in Tomar - meanwhile hottest spots in #Spain were Badajoz 39.4C and Montoro 39.0C.
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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"The true horrors of Gaza… will shame the world. Nobody will be able to say that we did not know."
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Earl Russell LD @earlrussell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Last summer was the most temperate I am likely to experience for the rest of my life. In my part of London the average daily high during June July & August was 26.4C. This is 4C above the long-term summer average between 1991 & 2020. Your area had 34 days above 28C www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
UK summer 2026: BBC postcode lookup shows how hot and dry it was
Most of us experienced drought and heatwaves - but temperatures and rainfall were not the same everywhere.
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Climate Defiance @climatedefiance.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
HUGE UPDATE: we halted Amazon's panel at Climate Week. We shut it down so hard that every guest and every speaker had to leave the premises. No one was able to return. Their whole event lasted less time than their warehouse workers' pee break.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Important piece by @fionaharvey.bsky.social on huge significance of the Report by UK Security Chiefs on rising climate & nature threats which has been shamefully suppressed by Government. Also the focus of my @therestpolitics.bsky.social mini-series, #WhenNatureBecomesASecurityThreat
theguardian.com
Why is the UK’s suppressed climate national security report significant?
Warnings about the catastrophic effects of vital ecosystems collapsing were not published under previous prime minister
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Sue Lees @suelees.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Australia about to go into an astronomically hot and fire-ridden summer.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The US Senate finds that the fossil fuel industry received $190 billion in tax breaks and subsidies from the Trump regime in exchange for campaign donations. The deregulation and subsidies have increased both energy costs for Americans and the damage from climate change and air and water pollution.
theguardian.com
Fossil-fuel firms in line for billions in benefits after answering Trump’s donation call
Senators’ report says taxpayers face higher bills after ‘bargain’ between president and major polluters
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Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A lot of people involved in this story need to be in gaol. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
‘The eels were climbing out of the water to die’: why did every fish in this idyllic lake perish overnight?
Furnace Brook in East Sussex was home to carp, tench, bream, roach and trout – and 15 trailer-loads had to be buried. The mystery led to a neighbouring farm, and a story of waste, pollution and dirty ...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
With big thanks to @doctorofmusic.bsky.social, here's my discussion today with Lord Jackson about North Sea oil and gas. Tape your jaw to your face before watching. Really.
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Ariaa® @ariaa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What started as one teenager’s idea is now pulling millions of kilograms of plastic out of the world’s oceans. I've been donating to this amazing org. since it's inception. Hope you will too. theoceancleanup.com/donate/ #Innovation #PlasticPlanet #OceanCleanUp #EnvironmentalSolutions
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Trump’s inner circle admits it’s possible he may listen to his election-denying supporters by declaring a national emergency and martial law.
theatlantic.com
The Supporters Urging Trump to Declare Martial Law for the Midterms
Trump’s advisers have been working for months to move his focus away from baseless theories of election fraud. A group of outsiders is making that difficult.
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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Tune in to BBC Newshour, 13:06 GMT today where Watershed's @leanahosea.bsky.social will be discussing the results of blood tests we ran for people living near a chemical plant in Thornton-Cleveleys, Lancashire, where we exposed high PFAS pollution: share.google/SH8EIDeevZrS...
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BBC World Service - Newshour, 24/09/2026 13:06 GMT
Interviews, news and analysis of the day’s global events.
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This says everything about the capitalist corporations that used to be British universities. Just obscene www.theguardian.com/education/20...
theguardian.com
Backlash as Indian oil heir made professor of sustainability by Newcastle University
Role for Anant Ambani, son of India’s richest person, who also runs a controversial mega-zoo, met with incredulity
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“What is happening in the equatorial Pacific is jaw-dropping and could well mark one of the biggest global weather upheavals in a millennium,” said Prof Bill McGuire in the Guardian on Tuesday The hyper El Nino continues to obliterate records www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
‘Jaw-dropping’: Super El Niño bursts through temperature record months ahead of peak
The ‘Godzilla-level’ phenomenon is supercharging the climate crisis and will heavily impact communities across the world
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Marie @madl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Good reminder of how Trump helps Putin as much as possible. “Donald Trump came out and pleaded with the Ukrainians to do Putin a favor and stop attacking Russian refineries.”
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Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I’d almost like a government to come out and say ‘you know what, there’s no big money changes because there is no space for it - but here’s a bunch of other things we’ll do’ - more devolved powers, democratic and voting reforms, PR, better environmental standards, beefed up regulators, clean air etc
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Fiona Harvey @fionaharvey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Net zero is a description of scientific fact: if we do not meet that target, we are doomed to repeat summers much worse than that just gone, with all of the accompanying damage to food supplies and infrastructure. So why are our politicians so weak on the climate? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Burning forests, emptying rivers, €180bn in damage: Europe’s politicians face reckoning after ‘summer of truth’
Amid record-shattering heatwaves and popular demand for climate action, why are politicians often timid or in denial?
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Sue Lees @suelees.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Possibly due to unmentionable hoaxing climate change?
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Sue Lees @suelees.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Not a good move @eddavey.libdems.org.uk
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This is going to be v v unpleasant
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.
opb.org
Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report
A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.
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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Proposed 'lower-volume' fracking at Burniston, Yorkshire would use more fluid than used at Preston New Road in 2019, which caused earthquakes felt across the Fylde region of Lancashire. drillordrop.com/2026/04/24/o...
drillordrop.com
Opponents lobby councillors ahead of Burniston meeting
Anti-fracking campaigners are gathering outside a crucial meeting in Scarborough to voice their opposition to gas plans in the North Yorkshire village of Burniston.
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Peter Griffith @carboncyclist.org · 18/09/2026
If you know me, you know I love NASA. I'm glad that this can be posted at all. I'm sad that they can't say "climate change" science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-...
science.nasa.gov
Summer Goes Out With a Heat Dome - NASA Science
Temperature records toppled across the central and southern U.S. as the autumnal equinox approached.
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Sue Lees @suelees.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘It’s beautiful when it’s clean’: the Argentine neighbourhood saving a contaminated river
Sewage, dog carcasses and industrial waste clog Argentina’s second most-polluted river. Meet the activists cleaning it up
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Sue Lees @suelees.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Microplastics in soil pose global threat by acting like ‘Trojan horse’ to deliver toxins
Exclusive: Plastic surfaces form hotspots for interaction between plastics, microbes and agrochemicals
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Sue Lees @suelees.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
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Climate crisis likely behind devastating Nepal-Tibet floods that killed more than 1,300, first study finds
Scientists say global heating was a destabilising factor in collapse of 200,000 sq metre glacier in August
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Thousands of vessels traveled through Mediterranean’s key whale habitats at speeds above 15 knots (28 km/h), are killing Mediterranean’s two endangered large-bodied cetacean species, sperm and fin whales Govts will not even ask them to slow down or reroute news.mongabay.com/custom-story...
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Can we stop ships from killing the Mediterranean’s last great whales?
Collisions with ships are a leading anthropogenic killer of the Mediterranean’s two endangered large-bodied cetacean species, sperm and fin whales. In 2025, thousands of vessels traveled through the M...
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Joshua Basseches @joshuabasseches.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
#ClimateInTheCourts insideclimatenews.org/news/0309202...
insideclimatenews.org
Court Stalls EPA Plan to Override California’s Vehicle Pollution Standards - Inside Climate News
A temporary injunction bars the agency from requiring congressional approval of a decades-old exemption allowing the state to set its own clean-vehicle standards.
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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 14/09/2026
The destruction to Hawaii’s infrastructure and economy is expected to be the worst "since Hurricane Iniki, a Category 4 storm that walloped Kauai in 1992 and caused $3 billion in damage." While Big Oil fuels escalating climate disasters, communities pay the price. There must be accountability.
daytondailynews.com
Hurricane Lowell knocks out a port in Hawaii that is one island's main source for food and fuel
HONOLULU (AP) — Crews began repairing the only cargo port on one of Hawaii's smallest main islands while power was being restored to another island Thursday, two days after Hurricane Lowell skirted al...
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Yale Climate Connections @climateconnections.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
7 climate films to binge-watch this weekend:
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7 climate films to binge-watch next weekend » Yale Climate Connections
An organizer of New York City’s Climate Film Festival offers his recommendations. 
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Sue Lees @suelees.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Yet another damaging move by the thick Trump administration. How bad do weather extremes have to get before they notice?
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