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“Purchasing RTRS soy is no guarantee that a buyer is sourcing from a sustainable company, primarily because companies do not have to certify all of their farms. Instead, they can cherry-pick those they wish to certify while continuing environmental & human rights abuses on others.” - @forbes.com

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A wild carbon credit boondoggle in which Chevron bought credits for a project on Indigenous land that residents didn't (and still don't) know anything about, painstakingly documented by the great Andres Bermudez-Lievano @elclip.bsky.social @mongabaylatam.bsky.social drilled.media/news/CLIP-Ch...

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

72 days of Israeli blockade on Gaza Strip Starving 2.1m people, almost half children

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

One again, this is simply not true. Non-UK origin employeea have (slightly) higher median earnings than UK-origin ones -and the gap has if anything widened (slightly) recently.

submitted 11 days ago • 30 comments

Pandering to Reform over care workers is grubby and cheap. Care homes are reliant on overseas staff. Without them, many will need to close their doors, leaving families and communities to suffer the consequences. Read, like, share, subscribe below. 👇 substack.com/@nicolakelly...

submitted 11 days ago • 28 comments

Cricket: time to pay the ferryman www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/m...

submitted 13 days ago • 5 comments

Israel is preventing the WHO from sending incubators into Gaza. Think about how savage, how barbaric, how evil, you have to be to defend that and defend the government doing that.

submitted 12 days ago • 109 comments

Easy to miss amidst the avalanche of bullshit, but scientists have shown conclusively that a handful of fossil fuel companies are responsible for trillions in damages for their contribution to heat waves alone. The great @roycerk2.bsky.social explains: drilled.media/news/heat-at...

submitted 16 days ago • 11 comments

An actual murder charge and journalists still can't mention a driver in the headline. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

submitted 18 days ago • 10 comments

Come on, NHS. If you are going to give away your data to Palantir at least get them to keep your security certificates up to date

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will direct federal health agencies to explore potential new treatments for measles as the U.S. faces its largest outbreak in 25 years. Experts fear the decision could have grave consequences, as studies show the existing vaccine is 97% effective in preventing infection.

submitted 20 days ago • 2301 comments

The quantity of UK goods exports is lower now than in 2016 or 2021. The UK is the only country in the G7 that has this record. #Brexit

submitted 21 days ago • 28 comments

🚨🚨This simple graph illustrates in principle all you need to know about the implications of #brexit for UK trade, the economy and the opportunities for British biz to succeed in the Global economy. #brexitshambles #brexitbrokebritain

submitted 21 days ago • 7 comments

Friday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the 12th lowest on record (JAXA data) • about 60,000 km² above the 2010s mean • about 320,000 km² below the 2000s mean • about 700,000 km² below the 1990s mean • about 1,190,000 km² below the 1980s mean Plots: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i... 🌊🧪⚒️

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

“Perhaps women existing in their own right isn’t a plot to hurt trans women. Perhaps not everything revolves around male feelings, all the time.” Exactly. Great article.

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Why are children not playing in the street? An FT piece analysing the - very concerning - decline in outdoor play manages to look at every possible cause: screens, spaces, school timetable changes. Apart from one. Cars. It is simply not safe for kids to play outside on streets.

submitted 34 days ago • 247 comments

On the day the government announced plans to jail cyclists for life if they kill pedestrians, yet another “oh sorry, I was distracted” driver who killed a cyclist walks from court with no jail time (2 years suspended). www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 27 days ago • 10 comments

“Such issues are important for trans people, too, and there should be provision for their needs, but not by denying women’s sex-based spaces. To insist that sex-based spaces be erased in the name of trans rights is to demand privileges, not rights.”

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

For nearly 60 days, no food, fuel, medicine or other items has entered the Gaza Strip, blocked by Israel. Aid groups are running out of food to distribute. Markets are nearly bare. Palestinian families are left struggling to feed their children.

submitted 25 days ago • 90 comments

This Palestinian child attempts to gather leftover food from a large pot as pressure grows on Israel to allow food and aid supplies back into Gaza.

submitted 25 days ago • 19 comments

Are you finding yourself inundated with claims that geoengineering, carbon capture, and nuclear are the solutions to the climate crisis? Read these white papers by our resident @penncssm.bsky.social climate solutions expert, Dr. Joe Romm: web.sas.upenn.edu/pcssm/public...

submitted 26 days ago • 26 comments

Really sad to hear that heat pumps, boring common sense devices that efficiently heat and cool your house, are considered controversial. On Earth Day no less! If you’ll miss @evanhd.bsky.social and Bean, we'll keep talking about heat pumps until the end of time on @heatpumped.org

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Not only did the IDF deliberately attack an ambulance and murder the health workers travelling in it, it appears likely the survivors of the initial attack were executed in cold blood at short range. news.sky.com/story/two-ho...

submitted 34 days ago • 22 comments

ABBA’s Bjorn Ulvaeus speaks out about Brexit and Europe as bastion of liberal democracy. 👏

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

'Gaza turned into mass grave of Palestinians and for those helping them' Doctors Without Borders (MSF) slams Israel for targeting humanitarian workers, mass killings and its blockade of aid to Gaza aje.io/ho76sa

submitted 36 days ago • 8 comments

I've been in touch with a US colleague who is an international superstar running an extremely successful research programme in health sciences. They said things feel terrible out there, with several of their colleagues having left and more planning to - many leaving the US. It's very sad

submitted 37 days ago • 13 comments

When I say you don’t have to worry about microplastics in your brain I mean that there is much stronger evidence that you should be worrying about other things that you don’t ever think about, like the draining of peatlands for agriculture, and things that you think about all the time, like fascism.

submitted 39 days ago • 306 comments

More in No, Other People: New poll: “America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.” • 80% of Americans agree • 20% disagree “I would be better off if I worked in a factory.” • 25% of Americans agree • 73% disagree • 2% currently work in a factory

submitted 39 days ago • 1175 comments

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs less to house people.

submitted 40 days ago • 43 comments

This isn’t a good news story. As with the Elizabeth line, finding out that railways are more popular than the forecasting models predict means that - even using the current flawed evaluation methods - we’re not building railways we should be building. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 40 days ago • 5 comments

UN chief Antonio Guterres says Gaza has become “a killing field” as Israeli forces continue bombarding the enclave. 🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/qqg8oi

submitted 44 days ago • 12 comments

Among the many infuriating things about what Trump is doing — right now we should have millions participating in thousands of protests, rallying around hashtags like #ElbowsUp, ALL FOR CLIMATE ACTION TO SAVE OUR FUTURE. Instead, we have to fight to save our economies, sovereignty and democracy.

submitted 46 days ago • 4 comments

As US tariffs kick in, supposedly to restore US manufacturing, one aspect missing from discussion is that as technology has driven supply chains over the last 40 years, governments have been shaping economies through their priorities. What this means - - - >

submitted 44 days ago • 9 comments

Utterly disgusting. There is absolutely no way any Afghan woman should be returned to the Taliban having sought asylum, but particularly someone who has fought for human rights. It is tantamount to a death sentence. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

submitted 48 days ago • 13 comments

And the government wants to cut oversight of infection prevention and control by getting rid of the teams in NHS ICBs, leaving trusts to mark their own homework.

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

I know Labour wants a win. But they didn’t get one. These tariffs have not been rolled out according to preferences for certain countries, but according to a formula dependent solely on imports and exports. /1 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 48 days ago • 11 comments

This is what the Israelis and their apologists call a targeted, anti-terror campaign. This is Rafah today.

submitted 48 days ago • 269 comments