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Founding environmental journalist of nonprofit @WATERSHED_i http://watershedinvestigations.com Documentary filmmaker: ‘Thirst For Justice’, https://vimeo.com/ondemand/thirstforjustice Formerly BBC (18 yrs) & Knight Wallace Fellow (2016).
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Would it be more neighbourly to stop mining the huge amounts of coal contributing to Tuvalu disappearing beneath the waves, rather than carrying on but offering Tuvaluans refuge when their homeland is lost? www.newscientist.com/article/2485...

In historic first, chemical plant executives experience consequences of their own actions #PFAS www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Overfishing, harvesting vast numbers of the largest fish, has caused cods' body size to hal e since 1990s. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Mercury, cadmium, copper, zinc, molybdenum from mining waste, road runoff, sewage sludge, heavy industry, burning oil, coal & biomass, landfill - the collective waste products of our society, poisoning water, fish & the animals that eat them. www.earth.com/news/unborn-...

‘We are perilously close to the point of no return’: climate scientist Carlos Nobre on Amazon rainforest’s future - Nobre says up to 70% of it could be lost if a #tippingpoint is reached #climatecrisis Interview by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🍸People and #nature are constantly exposed to a complex cocktail of known and suspected harmful chemicals through air, water, food, consumer products and other routes. Our new blog sets out how the upcoming REACH Revision can help to address #ChemicalCocktails 👉🏼 chemtrust.org/reach_reform...

Hugely important #PFAS ruling in 🇮🇹. 11 executives from Mitsubishi & International Chemical Investors convicted for contaminating nearly 200 sqkm of soil and water. Polluter Pays principle? ✅ Now need Precautionary principle + 🇪🇺 ban to stop all PFAS pollution. www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Selbst ungeborene Delfinkälber im Mutterleib haben bereits giftige Metalle im Blut. Dies deutet auf eine schreckliche Meeresverschmutzung hin. Wir sollten uns schämen. www.earth.com/news/unborn-... Lima et al. 2024 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

How much water do Britain's data centres use? Bafflingly, there is no official figure. So here's my best estimate after weeks of reporting: circa 10 billion litres of water a year. And that's before any big UK AI boom. Story in @thetimes.com 👇 www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

On fossil fuels being a bad investment: the person you must follow for this is @connorpchung.bsky.social

Back in 2018, Nestle pledged to make 100% of its packaging recyclable or reusable by 2025 Well, it's 2025 How's it going, Nestle? www.nestle.com/media/pressr...

Spanish legislation - energy storage, flexibility www.pv-magazine.com/2025/06/26/s...

‘New hope’: Ash trees rapidly evolving resistance to die-back, UK study reveals - The analysis is also a scientific breakthrough as the first convincing proof of a prediction made by Charles Darwin Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Scientists have discovered that ash woodlands are naturally evolving greater resistance to the fungal infection. The discovery offers fresh hope that the much-loved trees will remain part of the British landscape. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Worth a read. 👇 #PFAS #Italy #Consequences ⬇️❗❗❗

In historic first, chemical plant executives experience consequences of their own actions #PFAS www.france24.com/en/live-news...

‘The Caspian Sea is shrinking. It is visible with the naked eye’ | Climate Crisis News https://www.europesays.com/2197679/ Aktau, Kazakhstan – During his childhood, Adilbek Kozybakov’s mother always kept a jar of sturgeon caviar in the…

I feel like an impactful way to do this would be to pick specific products, ie. "Storm Shell V-Power Unleaded." Would Shell sue the Met Office? Of course they would. Would it be worth it? Oh hell yeah.

There are over 100,000 green jobs in Scotland, and they're growing rapidly - up 20% since 2022. The green economy isn't just environmentally necessary, it represents a huge opportunity to revitalise local job markets and change lives for the better.

The future is green: The economic opportunities brought by the UK’s net zero economy eciu.net/analysis/rep...

Met Office should name storms after fossil fuel companies, say campaigners - Storm naming competition raises idea to remind public of link between fossil fuels and extreme weather or “fossily mcfuelface”? #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The cattle industry has abandoned plans to reach net-zero emissions by 2030. The red meat industry will continue research into emissions reduction technologies and investigate new emission intensity targets. www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2...

Heat Domes Are Hotter and Lingering Longer—Because of the Arctic https://www.europesays.com/2197434/ Heat Domes Are Hotter and Lingering Longer—Because of the Arctic https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/heat-domes-are-hotter-and-lingering-longer-because-of-the-arctic/ by Splenda

"The housing crisis in Europe A broken housing market is driving inequality right across Europe – and fuelling the far right" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Microplastics are changing the oceans, with millions of metric tons of plastic shedding trillions of pieces of plastic into our seas. www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org/blog/2025/6/...

Meta removes scientist’s Facebook page after discussion about tornadoes and climate change, he claims https://www.europesays.com/2196650/ Meta removes scientist’s Facebook page after discussion about tornadoes and climate change, he claims …

IMPORTANT. Please sign and repost. This petition is based on our recent research which found that English rivers are universally contaminated with these potent neurotoxic insecticides, the source being treated dogs and cats. Link in comment below.

Overfishing, harvesting vast numbers of the largest fish, has caused cods' body size to hal e since 1990s. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Preserving enough water for all in a clean enough state to drink needs to be at the heart of everything we do, plan & produce. We need to attack this issue with everything we've got. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"Many of these streams are permanently dry and some are only 25% of normal flow rates." And, when river flows are running low, all the pollution in water, from sewage to mercury, arsenic from road runoff, becomes much, much more concentrated. www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

There's a massive public water supply shortfall in England (don't be fooled by the name, business and industry use it too), but there are plans to fix it. 1/4 Here's what the deficit looks like (click for interactive chart): watershedinvestigations.com/englands-wat...

Vanishing saltmarshes threaten climate progress but recovery is within reach .... www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med...

Extinct moth rediscovered by @savebutterflies.bsky.social ecologist after 73 years by accident... butterfly-conservation.org/news-and-blo...

The US’s June heatwave is a dangerous start to summer and about to get hotter, writes @ericholthaus.com #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Here are some pics from the action this morning to stop the export of EU-banned #pesticides to third countries. 🌱 Protect health, biodiversity, farmers' and consumers' rights. No EU-Mercosur free trade agreement and no export of pesticides banned in Europe. 📷 by @marcellablues.bsky.social

Saw a post recently saying "ai consumes water and will leave the planet dry" The number of people liking the comment "bros never heard of the water cycle 🥴" Had me lose all hope. Water is not this endless renewable resource. Prioritising water for machines is killing people

This is good and important www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Wind and solar new record for instantaneous output on Australia’s main grid. reneweconomy.com.au/wind-and-sol...

Over 3 million properties are at risk of surface water #flooding in #England💧🏡. Our resource outlines 3 steps you can take to understand #SurfaceWater #flood risk. Download it here 👉 thefloodhub.co.uk/wp-content/u...