From a Surrey oil well to the supreme court: how an activist changed UK climate law Sarah Finch’s fight against drilling led to a landmark ruling on fossil fuel emissions – and a leading environmental prize

Inspiring campaigner
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I used a bike rack this weekend that exists because I complained about it not existing.

You can make things better, even just a little.

Out of pocket: the real cost of fossil fuels on our groceries - IPES-Food Why are food prices rising? Fossil fuel dependence in food systems drives price spikes, climate impacts, and corporate profiteering - by Nicole Pita.

🛒 Why are food prices still rising – and set to rise again?

⛽ Because our food systems run on fossil fuels. When energy prices spike, so do grocery bills.

We have to break food’s dependence on fossil fuels. Here's how.
👉 ipes-food.org/out-of-pocke...

#FuelToFork

Using AI without fact checking is my guess

What an odd article (including I guess AI generated hallucinations about the LDs overtaking the Greens when they are already the principal opposition?).

Speaking as an atheist (ex-catholic), I wonder who could persuade Pope Leo to abstain from his current role of head of a nation state, and start a run for the President in his home country?

Elderly Irishman deported by US to Costa Rica under countries’ controversial deal Man arrived in the central American country on Friday as part of a group of 22 deportees

Elderly Irishman deported by US to Costa Rica under countries’ controversial deal

Why higher pay hasn’t made young adults feel richer The aspiration gap has turned everyone into losers, especially graduates

Great piece (and graphics) by @jburnmurdoch.ft.com. PS This is exactly why @pauldwebb.bsky.social and I talked about 'the educated left-behind' when we wrote about the young people who'd followed Corbyn into the Labour Party - and who may well be following Zack Polanski into the Greens.

Men, We Need to Talk About "Rape Academy" This isn’t about women. This is about us. And it’s long past time we had this conversation

Men, We Need to Talk About "Rape Academy"

“This isn’t about women. This is about us. And it’s long past time we had this conversation”

@qasimrashid.com’s piece is something all men need to sit with

www.qasimrashid.com/p/men-we-nee...

Chinese carmaker Seres patents voice-controlled "in-vehicle toilet" Seres' plans show how stiff competition in the EV space is putting pressure on carmakers to innovate.

Erm? www.bbc.com/news/article...

Reeves looking to break link between gas cost and electricity prices Chancellor wants to reduce impact of gas on market prices, as it almost always sets price of electricity in UK

This needs to happen but North Sea oil exploration is exhausted, and an expensive dead end. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

See you all on the electric trains - fellow Europeans.

Just watched this bsky.app/profile/badv...

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A striking difference between the 2021-22 and the current fossil fuel crunches is the IEA's response. This time, not a mention of the actual solutions to cut dependence on fossil fuels - clean energy and electrification. This expert letter calls them out for it.

Ammonia pollution hotspots found in areas of UK with most pig and poultry factory farms Map reveals most severe concentrations of ammonia emissions, which are dangerous to health and environment

"Dr Amir Khan, a GP and patron of CiWF, said: “As a GP, I see first-hand the toll that air pollution takes on people’s health – and ammonia from intensive farming is a major, yet often overlooked, part of that problem." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

It’s official: the UK is rejoining Erasmus! 👏🇪🇺

🧵With EU relations and alignment back in the news most Brits say, across a series of areas, they want at least a slightly closer relationship with Europe than the one Britain has at the moment.

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These are the Twitter/X accounts with the most engagement so far in 2026. I suppose I had some intuition for how bad it was, but jeez, this is what you get when the ecosystem is broken.

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Disappointed, though not surprised, I began to describe various life- saving components of USAID’s global health portfolio, highlighting how we prepare for and respond to emerging pandemic threats; support the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV; and immunize millions of children from the deadliest childhood diseases. I spoke for about five minutes, focusing primarily on our infectious diseases work and hoping to keep the attention of people who seemed to have no experience—or interest—in global health. When I finished, the room was silent, the political appointees looking at one another in what appeared to be disbelief. The silence was broken by Ken Jackson, who chuckled softly and shook his head. “Wow, there really is so much that USAID does that we never knew,” he said. “This is the story that needs to get out there.” Joel, also smiling, chimed in next, echoing Jackson’s amazement. “I had no idea you did all this,” he said. “As a Republican, when I think of what USAID does in global health, I assumed it was just, you know, abortions.”

This is NUTS

www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...

Environmental Antimicrobial Resistant Bacteria and Antibiotic Resistance Genes: The Environmental AMR Exposome - AMR Insights The paper conceptualizes antimicrobial resistance (AMR) as an environmental exposome, highlighting that antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and resistant bacteria are widely distributed across environm...

Tackling AMR risk will require addressing environmental emissions, wastewater infrastructure and intensive animal and fish agriculture. www.amr-insights.eu/environmenta...

Een verbod op fossiele reclame is symbolisch, en symbolen doen ertoe Iets meer dan een jaar geleden was de gemeente Den Haag de eerste gemeente ter wereld die een wet aannam waarmee buitenreclame voor producten en diensten...

In 2025, The Hague became the first city in the world to ban public ads for fossil-based products and services. @thijsbouman.bsky.social says that such bans are vital for normalising sustainable consumption, and changing norms increase acceptability of other climate measures.

@rug-gmw.bsky.social

Suopersized heavy vehicles SUVs are making Britain’s potholes worse, say scientists www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

War crime www.politico.eu/article/dona...

Lower-volume fracking could trigger earthquakes – expert report A leading geologist has warned that plans for lower-volume fracking in northern England could cause earthquakes as large and unpredictable as high volume operations.

Fracking is currently not permitted in the UK.

But oil + gas extraction using under 1000 cubic metres of liquid is not deemed to be fracking, so still permissable.

Now, analysis finds earthquakes can occur when using amounts of liquid well below this threshold:

drillordrop.com/2026/04/09/l...

'A Whole Civilization Will Die Tonight,' Warns Nobel Peace Prize Hopeful Donald Trump escalated his threats against Iran, writing that "a whole civilization will die tonight" if the nation doesn't open the Strait of Hormuz.

Kudos headline writers www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Europe’s fossil fuel dependence poses risks to price stability Repeated cost shocks make a transition to cleaner energy critical

Executive Board member of European Central Bank says fossil fuel dependence makes it harder for Bank to manage financial stability

"Europe spends €400bn each yr on fossil fuel imports... the marginal cost of producing homegrown renewable energy is structurally lower"

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My series on antibiotic resistance starts later today, including @wvschaik.bsky.social on the role of plasmids in spreading resistance genes. Prog 2 will start with the hope for Linezolid, told by its inventor Steve Bruckner, 12 years effort. Was checking latest on Linezolid resistance yesterday!

Thank you for saying this

British politicians can't be trusted with "emergency" fuel duty cuts: they're never brave enough to reverse them when fuel prices drop back to normal levels. They're also not brave enough to change how fuel duty works to make it stabilise prices. So that makes short term cuts unaffordable. Sorry.