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Bacteria that “eat” PFAS? Great headline. Terrible distraction. PFAS are in our blood, rain, oceans, & unborn children. Scaling a petri-dish miracle to a global crisis is fantasy. We cling to stories like this to feel better about not stopping the source. scitechdaily.com/scientists-d...

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Your 'moment of doom' for June 27, 2025 ~ If? "If the Amazon hits a tipping point, our calculations show we are going to lose 50-70% of the forest. That would release between 200 and 250bn tonnes of carbon dioxide between 2050 and 2100..."

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

Your daily dose of hopium 😆 'Shipping tankers, drones and fishing boats could be used to drag giant parachutes through the waters under a bold plan to keep the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation moving – but some experts are sceptical.' www.newscientist.com/article/2486...

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How fish farming is devastating marine life with a single salmon consuming up to 350 wild fish My new Op-ed in @scotsman.com The choices we make now will determine whether future generations inherit thriving seas – or empty ones Pls share, thank you @ciwf.org.uk www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...

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My response to Dr. Genevieve Gunther: climatecasino.net/2025/06/doom...

submitted 5 days ago • 35 comments

In other words, sad for the world, sad for the trees, bad news for all the fishes in the deep blue sea, bad news for you and me. phys.org/news/2025-06...

submitted 10 days ago • 14 comments

Processed meat increases cancer risk but where’s the warning? If we label cigarettes, why not bacon? It’s time to put lives before corporate profit. Demand clear labels now. Sign the petition 👇 www.change.org/p/put...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Humanity’s perverse & self important view of our place in this world is increasingly hard to bear. Please, choose basic decency, protect the vulnerable and do your part to help mitigate ecological collapse. Be Vegan. >>> HowDoIGoVegan.com ⚖️

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

Every additional human displaces other life. On a finite planet, unchecked growth doesn’t just crowd—it replaces. A world of only humans isn’t just dystopian. It’s unlivable. apple.news/ANTFU5Es9Tra...

submitted 9 days ago • 8 comments

"Whatever structure has been reared by a long sequence of years, at the cost of great toil and through the great kindness of the gods, is scattered and dispersed by a single day... an hour, an instant of time, suffices for the overthrow of empires!" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca_...

submitted 10 days ago • 5 comments

“We need a few more years of data because natural variability exists, but I’m afraid that the impact of shipping desulphurization over the Mediterranean might be even worse than I feared." (Leon Simons) #collapse

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Do you think it’s OK that Darren Jones received a donation-in-kind worth £34,356 from a consultancy firm that has provided services to the NHS?🚨 Darren Jones, the chief secretary to the Treasury, was provided with a free member of staff by management consultancy firm Baringa …

submitted 10 days ago • 5 comments

Climate-ecological collapse is made all the worse through the legacies of colonialisation, escalating conflict, and the growing confidence of the far right. But some people are doing astonishing mental gymnastics to claim ‘there’s still time’ and ‘a better future’s possible’.

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#FacingTheClimateEmergency #NoKingsDay

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Your 'moment of doom' for June 13, 2025 ~ Lula! The Brazilian government is preparing to stage an oil exploration auction months before it hosts the Cop30 UN climate summit, despite opposition from environmental campaigners and Indigenous communities..." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Your 'moment of doom' for June 12, 2025 ~ Farewell to trees. “Planting more and more trees in such an environment with the purpose of carbon mitigation will likely increase carbon emissions due to future fires." www.scientificamerican.com/article/fore...

submitted 18 days ago • 20 comments

He refuses to call it genocide — because even acknowledging the risk would trigger legal duties and raise serious questions about complicity and criminal liability. Instead we get mealy-mouthed theatrics from this PM. It is a genocide and the UK is actively facilitating it.

submitted 25 days ago • 45 comments

Breaking News! Code Yikes! The latest data from CERES just came in, and the 36-month running mean for the Earth Energy Imbalance (EEI) held stead at 11.25 Hiroshimas per Second (HpS), or about 970,000 Hiroshimas per day worth of planetary heating.

submitted 26 days ago • 10 comments

We need to get this petition to at least 10k sigs to get the issue talked about properly. We all know it greatly worries people. Please spread & get as many to sign as you can. Meantime we’ll be lobbying broadcasters, OFCOM + DCMS. May be write to your MP too. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

submitted 31 days ago • 5 comments

Jevons Paradox is alive and well. Efficiency doesn’t reduce extraction—it enables more of it, faster and cheaper. U.S. oil & gas output is climbing. We’re not disrupting the old system—we’re accelerating both.

submitted 33 days ago • 4 comments

Despite some misinformation in recent headlines, the long-term trend is still downward for land ice in #Antarctica and #Greenland... My visualization can also be downloaded at zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i.... It was just updated for data through February 2025.

submitted 35 days ago • 56 comments

Your 'moment of doom' for May 27, 2025 ~ It's only life. “Such changes can disrupt marine food webs, alter species distributions, and weaken the ocean’s capacity to support biodiversity and regulate climate..." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 34 days ago • 9 comments

The irony of humans using pigs as a symbol for greed 😞

submitted 37 days ago • 3 comments

Breaking News! Code Yikes! Just in time for the start of hurricane season on June 1st, the Gulf of Karankawa* is now back to second warmest for the date, second only to 2024. (*formerly Gulf of Mexico)

submitted 37 days ago • 15 comments

Getting very close but just not quite there yet ... the two-year running average for the global surface temperature anomaly is now 1.599°C above the 1850-1900 baseline.

submitted 38 days ago • 13 comments

Not good. Even compared to a very recent baseline (1993-2022), sea surface temperatures off Ireland are off the scale. www.marine.ie/site-area/da...

submitted 38 days ago • 4 comments

In a world filled with uncertainty, what choices do we make? Instead of worrying about the inevitable collapse, focus on what can be done for nature and cherish every moment. 🌍

submitted 39 days ago • 7 comments

"This new generation of climate plans are....about growth: growing industries and economies, and building a better future. One where nature is protected, and where people have better opportunities" Meaningless drivel. The truth is that we are going downhill fast www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 41 days ago • 3 comments

Your 'moment of doom' for May 17, 2025 ~ it's already too late. "Our results clearly show that AMOC weakening has contributed to above-average sea level rise and more frequent flooding along the U.S. Northeast coast over recent years..." www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

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Your 'bonus moment of doom' for today: "The carbon capture company Climeworks only captures a fraction of the CO2 it promises its machines can capture. The company is failing to carbon offset the emissions resulting from its operations – which have grown rapidly in recent years."

submitted 46 days ago • 26 comments

Middle East braces for intense heatwave with temperatures set to surpass 50°C (122°F) www.intellinews.com/middle-east-... via #GlobalWarming #ClimateCrisis #SevereWeather #Intense #Heatwave #Heatstroke #Iran #Tehran #PersianGulf #MiddleEast

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Your 'moment of doom' for May 14, 2025 ~ Sooner than expected. “We’re witnessing ice dynamics that simply shouldn’t happen on these timescales. The acceleration pattern suggests we’ve potentially crossed a critical threshold that our models didn’t anticipate until the 2040s.”

submitted 47 days ago • 28 comments