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We need to calm the flood-drought climate whiplash 🌦️ In the national conversation around climate resilience, Britain’s water crisis is almost always framed as two separate emergencies.  [Continued👇] Images: [1]-Cerib/Adobe Stock, [2]-Andee/Pexels/Canva

Victory for Lula, who has already reduced Amazon deforestation by 70% since 2022, means there is now a chance of ending deforestation of the rainforest entirely I’m weeping with joy for Brazil, for the Indigenous peoples of the Amazon, and for life on Earth 🇧🇷🌳🌎 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

“The case for Rejoin must be a case for Europe as our home: a continent…prepared to take on and defeat Russian imperialism, an economic union which can shelter countries from the storm of a global trade war” A team we want to belong to. Because it strengthens us all. www.arguably.uk/p/europe-is-...

Let’s eradicate our life support systems – that’ll teach the liberals! It's not just about giving destructive industries what they want, important as this is. The likes of Trump and Bolsonaro will kill the planet out of a vengeful desire to hurt. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The trade unions resisting a political donations cap in the UK are ragged-trousered philanthropists. Thanks to their delusion that a system allowing limitless donations enhances their power, they're in danger of handing the country to the far-right parties that billionaires support. Burnham must act

Usual hand-wringing about returning to division and inaction, not getting the same opt-outs etc… but arguments to rejoin trump those what-ifs. Going it alone in a world dominated by Putin, Trump and China is strategically idiotic and economically ruinous. Shaking your head at that is red-flag-dim.

On Question Time last night, I talked about the extractive economic model that has left Wales - and many other nations - impoverished *because they were so rich in resources*. You can see the problem simply by looking at the map: the infrastructure looks like a drainage system.

New paper by the World’s most prominent climate scientists shows rapid acceleration of human-caused warming, with a warming rate now that tracks to near 2.4°C by 2050, far faster than was expected, if it continues…

Rafael Behr dismantles Reform UK's asylum 'plan' in less than 90 seconds, exposing how the party blames immigration for the problems the UK is facing. "It's not actually a policy for the UK to function as a country."

The threats to our resilience are the same as the threats to our democracy: corporate lobbyists shaping policy, with dire consequences for our ability to withstand crises. Burnham seems to want to change this. But is he aware of scale of the task? My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This looks like a crucial investigation to me, building on an essential body of work by @bylinetimes.bsky.social Please help to support it. subscribe.bylinetimes.com/lightuptheda...

It's not just that we had two wasted years under Keir Starmer - years in which, with a vast majority and quite a lot of goodwill - he could have turned this country around. On crucial issues, we had two years of spiralling backwards, towards a very dark place. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Trump bans three news outlets, loses his press microphones, launches Trump TV, threatens fishing and gets “marked” on his UN speech | Xylb-tok the Martian

Wey hey!! Two cheers. Hurrah! I’m almost, but not, quite, mildly excited that something might not be ruled out in a few years time. Way to go, Andy. Bold, bravely ambivalent, solidly ambiguous, resolutely vague leadership, at last. 🙄🙄🙄 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Mark Carney just hit an all-time high of 70% approval (highest in Canadian history) With 78% approval of his rejection of Trump’s deal and 81% wanting a closer relationship with Europe.

🚨 New paper alert! "Motivation To Act And Social Connection Sustain Everyday Climate Change Conversations" The paper is led by @penncssm.bsky.social post-doc Ovidia Stanoi and the preprint is available here: osf.io/preprints/ps... @michaelemann.bsky.social

youtube.com/shorts/fz-ob... History is important because it shows how we overcame bullying and how to do it again. Exactly the reason they’ve attempted to rewrite it, censored it, and eliminate it. We shall overcome…

In terms of land use, the problem is animal agriculture. With a just transition to plant-based agriculture, and replacing biofuels with agrivoltaics, there would plenty of land to feed 8 to 10 billion humans a delicious, nutritious, and diverse plant-based diet. ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets

Why do Labour let the Tories and Reform push their "Welfare OR strong defence" trade off without countering with a "Brexit or strong defence" trade off? "We can increase defence spending to 3% and later 3.5% of GDP by reversing Brexit, without cutting welfare or raising taxes".

In conversation with our founder Juliet Gellatley at Vegan Camp Out 2026, Green Party leader Zack Polanski left no doubt over his stance on factory farming. He would make factory farming ILLEGAL as Prime Minister! 🎉

On my way, Clacton.

Farage just called a referendum on the concept of objective reality iandunt.substack.com/p/farage-jus...

I’ve been battling Himalayan Balsam for years and I’ve never seen an outbreak like Warleigh Nature Reserve! Every time we cleared a patch we’d find a far bigger and considerably worse patch behind. Come help us! protect.earth/events #invasivespecies #biodiversity #riverrestoration #climateaction

Repeat after me. A habitable planet is more important than the profits of a few fossil fuel companies. Pass it on. #ActOnClimate

Terrible news: the Court of Appeal has just ruled that the Government’s ban on Palestine Action is lawful. PA is now likely to lodge an appeal before the Supreme Court. So the mass arrests of peaceful people sitting with cardboard signs will continue. Because that is what terrorism looks like ...

Me doing my best to calm things down after the Southampton protests:

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

Well this is terrifying. #ClimateChange #GreenSky www.theguardian.com/environment/...

These elections are LOCAL. The General Election is FAR AWAY.

Now.. very slowly for those at the back… Who wins when states go to war and when politicians promote fossil fuels over renewables and push to scrap Net Zero? Because it isn’t us. Our bills don’t go down. Our planet doesn’t get prioritised. Our futures don’t get safer. (Sky News)

. 50 tips To Cut Down Your Carbon Footprint 1. less laundry 2 cold water laundry 3 line-dry laundry 4 energy-efficient appliances 5 turn down water heater bit.ly/50climateactions #ClimateAction 🌎🌍🌏 @GieselmanNicole @GlobalGiving

🏖️Thames Water's creditors have been trying for months to win a holiday from the rules as part of their bid to formally take over the utility. 🤔 Right now, Ofwat's Board are SPLIT over whether or not to let them. ✍️ Write to the Board of Ofwat now. Urge them to reject the creditors

‘Government needs to recognise failure of water privatisation’ – Feargal Sharkey www.channel4.com/news/governm...

Greta Thunberg: "The President of the United States just said that a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again & no one is reacting. This speaks for itself: what the fuck is anyone even doing at this point? We have normalized genocide, total annihilation of entire people."

#RejoinEU It's The Future

Rejoin EU petition #brexit #rejoinEU petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

A billionaire can get what they want with one donation to a political party. The rest of us must fight for years to get even the most basic rights recognised. Money destroys democracy, more than any other cause. The first step towards a better world is to stop the rich buying political outcomes.

Half a million people standing against the far right. Half a million people who care about each other and our communities. Half a million people ready to make hope normal again.

SCHLAPP: Who wants to see impeachment hearings? CPAC CROWD: *cheers* SCHLAPP: No. That was the wrong answer.

TOMORROW: Be a part of history! Show the world that the majority of Americans oppose the most corrupt, inept, criminal, orange "president" in U.S. History. NO KINGS. Also: NO SERIAL LIARS/CONVICTED FELONS/ADJUDICATED RAPISTS & NO ILLEGAL WAR IN IRAN Be there. Make your voices heard! 🇺🇸 ✊ #NO_KINGS

Surely not! Corruption in Trumpland?!

We tracked down the superyacht owned by the world’s sixth richest man. Larry Ellison won’t like what we did to it 🛥️🏴‍☠️

The evidence is overwhelming: Brexit has been a disaster for London and the UK. Rejoining the EU is now clearly in our national interest. The option to rejoin should be on the ballot at the next General Election. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

"Whatever you do, don't return your Reform election flyer by Freepost. Each one costs Farage £2,50. And that would be just wrong." via Paul Pearce-Couch

BREAKING: “It’s definitely important to make sure we’re deepening and strengthening our ties with the European Union” - Treasury Minister Dan Tomlinson 👏

Huge crowds today in Budapest, Hungary. They are calling for a new government under Peter Magyar and an end of Orban's rampant corruption. Source: P. Magyar

If plant-based foods must be more 'honest', let’s do the same for meat – fancy some ‘cow-muscle tissue' or 'pig belly'? By Deirdra Barr www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...