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Spot on, as usual, from @doctorvive.bsky.social... "We need to correct a false narrative that the #climate threat is under control. These enormous risks are potentially catastrophic. They would undo the connections between human & ecological systems that form the basis of all of our civilisation"

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Full quote: "Ministers should also cancel planned cuts to welfare benefits and start a public discussion about the merits of a basic income to improve population health in poor areas."

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Much of the media has gotten bored with the Ukraine war so you may have missed that Russia took out a passenger train earlier today. 10 dead. Talked to @caolanrob.bsky.social from a train station in UKR about the uptick in RUS attacks on civilian targets www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKu2...

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#Illustration - Elise Swain for The Intercept

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#Illustration - Elise Swain for The Intercept

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Woodland canopy cover is increasing, but its nature and health is in severe decline. For the sake of our Future Generations we need to do much soul searching. State of Woods and Trees Report www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/state-of-uk-... #Woodlands #Nature #ClimateAction

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Woodland canopy cover is increasing, but its nature and health is in severe decline. For the sake of our Future Generations we need to do much soul searching. State of Woods and Trees Report www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/state-of-uk-... #Woodlands #Nature #ClimateAction

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Government still appears to be turning its back on #nature. Reassurances are coming up short. Ask your MP to protect your local woods, #trees and wildlife. We need answers! #DefendNature campaigns.woodlandtrust.org.uk/page/169676/...

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Government still appears to be turning its back on #nature. Reassurances are coming up short. Ask your MP to protect your local woods, #trees and wildlife. We need answers! #DefendNature campaigns.woodlandtrust.org.uk/page/169676/...

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A beaver dam in British Columbia shows its ability to hold back sediment pollution during heavy rainfall, sediment damages freshwater habitat. Two pairs of beavers are making a new wild home in Studland #UK & their unrestricted www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #nature #climatecrisis

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✨The news is here! ✨ Today, the Senedd Cross Party Group on Littering, Fly-tipping and Waste Reduction launched its manifesto proposals! 🚀 We hope all Welsh political parties will adopt these recommendations to help tackle the epidemic of litter and fly-tipping in Wales. 📝 🔗 bit.ly/4kXCIb1

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Political leaders - be mature, responsible & honest now! - @oxfamgb.bsky.social @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social As currently they’re choosing not to: 💚 restore nature, 🌏 our environment, 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈deliver equality & social justice, 💥or enable a world of peace! Pls be wise👉 www.oxfam.org.uk/get-involved...

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Return to Perch: #naturephotography www.nigelpugh.co.uk/-/galleries/...

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No Climate Action, No Food.

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An office with a view! 😍 Fantastic snaps from one of our Site Managers on a visit to Dalnacardoch Estate with the Mountain Woodland Action Group buff.ly/qvuooZs ⛰️ Great to hear plans for woodland and peatland restoration in the area, plus some bonus montane willows in the gullies🌳

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Traveling by bullet train+overnight ferry from France to Greece to advance the #EcologicalCivilization Coalition w/ @climatemajority.bsky.social philosopher king @rupertread.bsky.social +veteran #wellbeingeconomy economist Stewart Wallis - a blissfully leisurely experience in otherwise grim times

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The super-rich are hoarding wealth while public services are cut and the planet burns. It’s time to tax them – and end extreme wealth. I’ve just taken action with War on want will you join me? secure.waronwant.org/page/172837/...

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Political leaders - be mature, responsible & honest now! - @oxfamgb.bsky.social @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social As currently they’re choosing not to: 💚 restore nature, 🌏 our environment, 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈deliver equality & social justice, 💥or enable a world of peace! Pls be wise👉 www.oxfam.org.uk/get-involved...

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The super-rich are hoarding wealth while public services are cut and the planet burns. It’s time to tax them – and end extreme wealth. I’ve just taken action with War on want will you join me? secure.waronwant.org/page/172837/...

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Any Labour MP who votes this through is an utter disgrace and a traitor to the socialist cause Making 700,000 disabled families poorer is COMPLETELY indefensible There ARE no excuses www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Following a relatively cool May, the odds of 2025 being warm enough to set a new annual record have fallen to only 5.8%. More likely, 2025 will become either then 2nd or 3rd warmest year on record. berkeleyearth.org/may-2025-tem...

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Quite unbelievable What is this government thinking of? Complicit doesn't even begin to cover it

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Transforming the nature of economy @green-alliance.org.uk ✅ Replace GDP with inclusive community wellbeing ✅ Enable inclusive meaningful democracy ✅ Deliver a #WellbeingEconomy that accounts for environmental & nature impacts & thinks future generations green-alliance.org.uk/publication/...

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Oh look, tech company emissions are already up 150%, and the AI data center build out has just gotten started.

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California Governor will sue Trump for calling National Guard to Los Angeles. Great interview. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/...

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This Autumn I’m running the Cardiff Half Marathon to raise funds for @welshwomensaid.org.uk. They provide the Live Fear Free Helpline - details below. If you can help me raise all important funds for this service please sponsor me and share this post www.justgiving.com/page/rachel-... #RunningPunks

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7 of 9 planetary boundaries now crossed: “By 2020 the oceans condition were very close to or beyond the planetary boundary for ocean acidification (calcium carbonate levels >20% below preindustrial). The deeper in the ocean they looked, the worse the findings were, the scientists said.”

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No comment on the policy/politics around this, aside from noting the intergovernmental (and intra-party) relations dimensions of this for the Welsh Labour Govt in Cardiff Bay & it’s attempt at a 2025 revival of Clear Red Water #senedd #devolution

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"When man first walked on the moon, the carbon dioxide concentration was 325 ppm. This week, our planet hit the highest levels ever directly recorded: 430 parts per million." www.cbc.ca/news/science...

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14 years of Tory austerity. Labour doubling down. It's time for different choices. #BackZack

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“The UK’s strategic defence review risks normalising nuclear warfare. Don’t believe the PR hype: these weapons are immoral, irrational and catastrophic” - spot on 👇

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🆘🆘Please phone Foreign Office on 0044 207 008 5000 or 0207 008 5000 from the 🇬🇧UK. Option 1 for emergency assistance for Brits abroad. 🆘🆘 Freedom Flotilla needs protection as it nears Gaza carrying baby food and medicines www.thenational.scot/news/2522249...

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'Even if you don't achieve your objective of reaching Gaza, you have already won' - Gabor Mate to the activists on the Madleen youtu.be/RWxUM7E6LBE?...

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How Trump is helping China by opposing green energy open.substack.com/pub/davidtok...

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NEW: 3 in 5 Brits would support sanctions on Israel, to exert pressure on it to stop its attacks on Gaza 65% would support a COMPLETE arms sales ban to Israel. And 60% would support an end to the trade deal between the UK and Israel. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

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🧵 Strengthening protections for Ancient Woodlands In response to the recent “State of Wales’ Rainforests” Report 2024 published by the Alliance for Wales’ Rainforests celticrainforests.wales/the-state-of... 👉 www.gov.wales/written-stat... @huwirrancadaviesms.bsky.social #AncientWoodlands

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🧵 Strengthening protections for Ancient Woodlands In response to the recent “State of Wales’ Rainforests” Report 2024 published by the Alliance for Wales’ Rainforests celticrainforests.wales/the-state-of... 👉 www.gov.wales/written-stat... @huwirrancadaviesms.bsky.social #AncientWoodlands

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I don't live in a nation of strangers. I live in a nation of friends and unknown friends. I live in a truly Great Britain

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Israel has murdered 220 journalists in Gaza and won't allow a single international journalist to enter. Never believe one iota of information from Israel. This is the behaviour of a state with unspeakable crimes to hide.

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'Wales draft Environment Bill is flawed' - @green-alliance.org.uk - @ruthchambers.bsky.social Give it independent teeth as there is in English & Scottish legislation, & urgent targets! www.itv.com/news/wales/2... @waleslink.bsky.social - @huwirrancadaviesms.bsky.social @delythjewell.bsky.social

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"And above all, those who could stop it - and choose silence instead" via @dailypolitik.bsky.social

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Israel just massacred 30 starving people queuing for food in Gaza. Add those killed by Israeli bombardment this weekend, the death toll this weekend is similar to that during Kristallnacht We are being live streamed acts that will echo through history www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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