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Sharing information about sustainable and ecological farming to help mitigate the effects of climate change and to work towards a sustainable food supply chain for earth.

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It doesn't matter that Ireland only has miniscule fragments of native forests left, or that these are mostly in a dying state. When it comes to fixing that, everything takes forever and is piecemeal, if it even happens at all. It's always plenty of talk and written reports, but little or no action.
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The argument to give nature legal rights seems compelling, not because a declaration alone can solve climate and biodiversity crises, but because it can shift whose interests the law protects. The real test will be enforcement and turning recognition into action. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Nature has rights — it is time the world recognized them
Existing legal frameworks have not halted planetary crises. Recognizing the rights of nature could offer a different path.
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Earlier this summer mosquitoes capable of transmitting Zika virus and dengue were found breeding in homes in east London" Oh joy! Another perk of global heating www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Worst ever outbreak of bluetongue hits British farms
Climate crisis blamed as virus that originated in Africa spreads to livestock as far north as Aberdeenshire
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Dr Tom Harris @drtomharris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Permafrost warming in Alaska is reaching considerable depths as Arctic Amplification pushes surface air warming past 1.15ºC per decade. A 27-year study shows warming deeper than 1m across 100% of measurement sites. www.frontiersin.org/journals/cli... #climatechange #permafrost #arctic #emissions
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Frontiers | Significant soil warming across Alaska permafrost and non-permafrost regions from 1997 to 2023
IntroductionAir temperatures in Alaska are increasing at twice the rate of the contiguous United States. Soil temperatures have been shown to be increasing a...
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Sam Burgess @oceanterra.org · 02/10/2026
Europe didnt just experience an exceptionally hot summer in 2026. It experienced a summer where multiple climate extremes reinforced each other. First - temperature records were broken at daily, monthly and seasonal scales across Europe Read more: climate.copernicus.eu/summer-revie...
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“What we are seeing now is a complete explosion of these melt rates, leading to the disintegration of glaciers. They’re really just falling apart" Europe's glaciers are accelerating even faster on the road to oblivion www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Explosion of melt rates’: 20% of Swiss glaciers lost in five years
Alpine regions in Europe experiencing extreme glacier collapse due to heat-trapping effects of fossil fuel pollution
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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Building a huge wine warehouse with jumbo straw bales was half the cost of a conventionsl build. Can you imagine how cheap it is to cool or heat? And no it's not temporary, it's very resilient. Foto: Buildnaturally, Sigi Koko www.instagram.com/p/DeC26HaGCy... #strawblhouse #strawbuilding
Guy standing on a straw bale wall with a front loader lifting the next bsle in place
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Leon Simons @leonsimons.com · 03/10/2026
🚨NASA CERES satellite data shows another 4-year average record for global Absorbed Solar Radiation. Earth's Energy Imbalance has more than doubled over the past 20 years. We've been trying to warn about this and the impacts for years, but few seem to care.
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Number one on the Climate News Weekend Watchlist is this new short documentary by Critical Latitude about the Matterhorn in the Alps, which s coming apart as the ice-rock formations become loose-rock formations. Worth watching:
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The Matterhorn Is Coming Apart From The Inside - And It's Not The Only One
YouTube video by Critical Latitude
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Do these mosquitos help with the taste of English sparkling wine? Asking for Nigel Farage and Jeremy Clarkson.
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Joanne @joannefirth.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Climate related. 🔥🌎💥☄️
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 01/10/2026
As food shortages worsen, communities in northern Uganda are relying on wild edible plants to survive. A study highlights the vital role of local flora during crises, raising questions about whether areas with lower botanical diversity will face greater vulnerability. By Fellow Kingsley Charles.
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Uganda pastoralists turn to wild plants as food shortages bite, study finds
For decades, the global outlook for food and agriculture has brought heightened concerns  as climate patterns create a mix of droughts and floods across the world. Consequently, fears of diminishing…
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Germany wasted so much money on fossil fuels the last 5 years when they could have invested in cheap solar and batteries. Now Germany tells the rest of Europe that because Germany is so bad with its own finances and burnt it all on overpriced fossil fuels, now all of Europe needs to spend less.
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Drastic budget cutbacks essential to fund Europe's defense, Germany and allies warn
Six European leaders have called for major cuts to a proposed 2 trillion euro budget.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Stop accusing us of spying! We’ve been watching you!”
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fife4europe #FBPE #RejoinEU @fife4europe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Spain supplying a quarter of Europe’s fresh produce while running out of water exposes the reckless vulnerability of our food system. Draining aquifers to fuel intensive agriculture in a climate crisis is unsustainable. Why sacrifice ecosystems for cheap produce? (1/2) 🤔 #ClimateCrisis
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Spain grows fruit and vegetables for Europe — but it's running out of water
Spain's southern coast produces up to 25% of Europe's fruit and vegetables. But amid intensive farming, climate change and illegal wells, the water it takes to grow them is drying up.
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
When farms stop yielding, hunger does not knock — it breaks the door. Across the Horn of Africa, soils that once fed nations are turning barren. This is not “bad weather.” This is climate change rewriting our food systems in real time.
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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 23/09/2026
U Chicago climate researchers project 450,000 heat deaths through Feb due to fossil-fuel-exacerbated El Niño. (That's not including 2nd or 3rd order effects like drought and famine. The *less powerful* 1877 El Niño killed 50m from hunger.) www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Huge El Niño projected to cause 450,000 deaths in next six months
New report predicts a heavy toll from Nigeria to the US – and comes on top of existing impacts of the climate crisis
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s time American farmers switched to electric farm equipment. It’s cheaper and better for the health of the farmers and the community as a whole. And it helps with future harvest protection. Diesel farm equipment destroys future harvests.
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Erik Hoffner @erikhoffner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NGOs & #climate activists are saying #COP31 in November is too expensive for a robust civil society representation Accommodations in Türkiye are eye watering Researchers examined 208 properties listed on the official website, costs will push advocates out of Antalya: cop31radar.com/research/the...
What the official accommodation platform tells us about the cost, distance and visible availability of staying in Antalya for climate COP31
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Climate aid driving up public debt of poorest countries by billions of pounds each year …most climate finance is loans, increasing debt, while rich countries recover their money, often with interest. www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...
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Climate aid driving up public debt of poorest nations by billions of pounds each year
New Independent analysis reveals how many of the poorest and most climate-vulnerable countries are being priced out of the climate aid system, while countries able to access aid are seeing billions ad...
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Impressionable boomers and California wine moms watch Paramount and CNN and Warner and HBO and Discovery. Donald Trump’s media and tech billionaire groupie, Larry Ellison, is about to own all of those networks. Watch this fact-filled short video from Charles McBryde on TikTok:
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
With Andy Burnham's speech, the left has unequivocally won the argument - on the rhetoric, at least. The substance is rather more complicated. But this government is more susceptible to popular pressure to go in a more progressive direction than Starmerism. Should embolden us!
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Leon Simons @leonsimons.com · 30/09/2026
A +5.34°C Sea Surface Temperature anomaly for the Niño 1 + 2 region! 🌊🌡📈 🤯
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Lula presidency saved 20,000km2 of #Brazil Amazon since 2022. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-lul...
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Analysis: Lula presidency saved at least 20,000km2 of Brazilian Amazon since 2022 - Carbon Brief
With Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro tied in the polls, the upcoming election is expected to significantly shape the level of environmental action in Brazil
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Sustainable Farming @sustainablefarming.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
An excellent new video with Benedict Cumberbatch explaining how we can sustainably live on Earth. Already in the first 6 minutes we see the devastating effects on farming from pesticide use since the 1980s: we now have to hand pollinate crops because the bees are gone.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 25/09/2026
Tonight begins the Jewish harvest festival of Sukkot. May a sukkat shalom — a shelter of peace — spread over our city. To all celebrating: Gut Yontif and Chag Sukkot Sameach!
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umsonst.bsky.social @umsonst.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Weather is now becoming climate... "The upper and lower extremes are getting farther and farther apart as time goes by," Extremes will switch the carbon sinks into sources - the transition is full scale underway... #climate #earth
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Greening masks stability loss in drylands - Nature Climate Change
The authors consider greening trends and interannual variability, linked to ecosystem stability, in dryland ecosystems across 40 years (1982–2020). They show persistent greening yet increased interann...
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Climate change is fuelling African conflict – governments are developing a shared response When communities compete for land and water, the risk of conflict can grow. theconversation.com/climate-chan...
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Climate change is fuelling African conflict – governments are developing a shared response
African countries are now crafting the first continent-wide framework to tackle how climate disasters can worsen hunger, displacement and conflict.
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Prof William Ripple @williamripple.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We invite everyone to endorse the Declaration of a Planetary Emergency, part of the upcoming World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Third Notice. Please add your name and share widely. Every endorsement helps show public concern about the future of our planet. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The truth is that the world has never experienced an El Nino of anything like this strength, so we really have no idea just how catastrophic its impacts and consequences will be My guess is that the number of casualties will be far higher than this www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Huge El Niño projected to cause 450,000 deaths in next six months
New report predicts a heavy toll from Nigeria to the US – and comes on top of existing impacts of the climate crisis
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Wet day over an Irish Atlantic rainforest.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'll be in Manorhamilton, Leitrim, on Tuesday the 13th of October to discuss An Irish Atlantic Rainforest following a special film screening. If you're up in that direction, do come along! climateactionweek.ie/events/speci...
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Special Screening: An Irish Atlantic Rainforest, part of Leitrim Climate Week - Climate Action Week
Join Special Screening: An Irish Atlantic Rainforest, part of Leitrim Climate Week during Climate Action Week. Discover inspiring talks, workshops, and activities to support climate action.
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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In a word: no. In two words: definitely not. Agri press moves from #climate denial to delusional complacency instead. Not sure this is progress. www.agriland.ie/farming-news...
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Opinion: Could climate change be a good news story for Irish agriculture?
Meanwhile, food security levels in the European Union continue to falter
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Tim Smedley @timsmedley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The likes of Richard Tice think we should just enjoy global warming and crack open the English wine. The reality for British farmers, however, is much different: medium.com/the-new-clim...
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When Even Sheep Start Struggling
Climate change is starting to effect the animals we least expected, in the places we once thought of as ‘havens’
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Then the opening scene showing ingenious Chinese farmers hand pollinating pear trees has one of the most perfect opening soundtracks. The music achieves two simultaneous moods: the scene is both clever but also whimsical. This ties in with the (not so) wise human, thread of the documentary.
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Peter du Toit @peterdutoit.com · 22/09/2026
Anthony Albanese NY Climate Week: “The science told us unmistakably that as the world warms these events will become more frequent and intense. And those scientific forecasts have come to be. Yet he has approved 37 new, expanded or extended coal and gas developments since taking office in 2022!
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Albanese's Climate Week speech left out the numbers that matter most
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese opened Climate Week NYC on Monday by leaning on Australia's renewables progress: massive rooftop solar uptake, ten thousand home batteries a week, enough wind and solar...
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Serene Doomer @serenaribena.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
'Droughts across the US & 🇪🇺 have been shriveling harvests, ; weather forecasts for a “super” El Niño this year means “there are some alarming signals” about the impact of weather on wheat crops, said Lampreia, a market strategist at the Lisbon-based Freedom24.' www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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US wheat farmers navigate uncertainty amid drought and geopolitical chaos
Some experts worry factors affecting wheat exports could push global food prices even higher than they are now
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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Fiber hemp harvest: 33 tonnes per hectare in Saxony Foto: Dr. S. Richter www.landwirtschaft.sachsen.de/Hanf.html
3m high industrial hemp
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Sustainable Farming @sustainablefarming.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
This genius way to restore degraded soil is exceptionally effective. A great new video from Planet Wild:
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A genius way to restore dead soil
YouTube video by Planet Wild
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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"The future of construction is grown, not extracted." Biomass residue / myko panels 🍄 Just finished a 60min fire test: lnkd.in/p/eeSyh7AX / www.mykor.co.uk
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Mykor Insulation
Mykor develops and scales the next generation of building insulation that considers both human and planet health using industrial residues and mycelium for a 100% circular product.
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Sustainable Farming @sustainablefarming.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
An excellent new video with Benedict Cumberbatch explaining how we can sustainably live on Earth. Already in the first 6 minutes we see the devastating effects on farming from pesticide use since the 1980s: we now have to hand pollinate crops because the bees are gone.
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A 63 year old human went swimming in the ocean and made body moevemrnts very similar to shark food. A shark minding its own business noticed the object resembling food and as the shark’s parents and predecessors have done for millions of years, the shark decided to have a bite. Australians 🤦‍♂️
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Hugo @nonviolence.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It is faster to kill primary old growth forest (the main water and CO2 pump on Earth) than for it to grow back (which takes hundreds of years). As we grow human populations and eat more meat per person, the last primary life support systems of Earth are being destroyed for our follies. #NTHE
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Number 7 on the Climate News Weekend Watchlist is from Nate Hagens. Nate discusses the four things we cannot get wrong to save ourselves. Worth watching:
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Four Things We Can't Afford to Get Wrong | Frankly 159
YouTube video by Nate Hagens
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It’s a good time to become a vegetarian
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Opinion | Why Did Trump Order Up 660 Million Pounds of Mystery Meat? (Gift Article)
On second thought, I’m not that hungry.
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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 05/09/2026
Chatting just now with local Kent winegrower at farmer's market. This year's grapes are "smaller than peas" - not going to bother to harvest. What did he think of politicians saying 'hey enjoy your English sparkling wine thanks to climate change'? "Fucking morons."
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papaesoco.bsky.social @papaesoco.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Mexican Activists Are Fighting Climate Crises by Stopping Extractive Violence truthout.org/articles/mex...
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Mexican Activists Are Fighting Climate Crises by Stopping Extractive Violence
Indigenous activists and water defenders in Mexico are organizing to combat what they call “signs of planetary death.”…
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Number 4 on the Climate News Weekend Watchlist is a new video by @drgilbz.bsky.social discussing how neo-liberalism misunderstands the costs of climate change, and asks if capitalism can “fix” climate change. Worth watching:
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Can capitalism "fix" climate change?
YouTube video by Dr Gilbz
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Paul Beckwith @paulhbeckwith.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
My new video… just posted… I ask a fundamental question: What Should a $10 Billion Climate R&D Moonshot Fund? youtu.be/Lk4D9Lpfbn0?... #climate #weather #climatechange #engineering #engineer #engineers #research #development #USA #Europe #cleantech
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What Should a $10 Billion Climate R&D Moonshot Fund?
YouTube video by Paul Beckwith
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