'War on Iran, war on nature.
A long US-Israel war against Iran would push the ME’s environment to breaking point… Fires, rubble & dust, and the toxic material in munitions all strengthen…air pollution… Furthermore, military emissions…will add to climate breakdown'
theecologist.org/2026/apr/20/...
Emails released on Monday by California’s attorney general show Amazon allegedly colluding with other companies to raise the prices of pet treats, khaki pants, eyedrops and other products sold online
For those who missed it: this was the moment The Strokes ensured they’ll never be invited back to Coachella again! I'm so proud of them
INSANELY powerful speech about one of the most evil, legal industries: Big Tobacco.
This industry kills 8+ million people/year. More than HIV/AIDS, TB, and malaria combined. The #1 cause of preventable death on earth.
Yet the fight against it gets just 0.1% of global health funding. 🧵
Russia is razing the cities it is conquering to the ground. It is turning the Donbas into ruins. What an insane imperial war of conquest.
Energy disinformation is the new climate denial.
New interview with @wblau.bsky.social of Brunswick Review on why Europe is underestimating electrification, overestimating hydrogen & arguing about scarcity when alternatives are abundant.
review.brunswickgroup.com/article/europe-energy-transition/
Transformer les médias, une urgence démocratique !
À l’occasion de ses 30 ans, l’association Acrimed publie un Appel, en écho à l’«Appel pour une action démocratique sur le terrain des médias» de 1996.
Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
It's a sociopolitical DDOS attack.
This isn't accidental oversight by our media. It's malicious complicity.
The Guardian view on Japan’s cherry blossom: when spring slips out of time
The “peak bloom” now occurs around two weeks earlier than in previous centuries
Japan’s tourism industry relies on the $9bn a year generated by cherry blossom season
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
12/ This is now a high-likelihood, high-impact risk.
#AMOC collapse would devastate European agriculture, shift tropical monsoons, raise Atlantic sea levels by up to a metre, and destabilise food systems globally.
Yet it's barely mentioned in national security planning. That has to change!
THREAD: The IEA global energy review 2026
* CO2 record high, but growth nearly ground to halt
* Clean energy shaved 3bn tonnes off CO2
* Fossil-fuel power pushed into reverse
* Age of Electricity "confirmed"
* "Extraordinary" solar growth
* Batteries up 40%
* EVs up 20%
1/10
🔴 Face à la flambée des prix du carburant, nous défendons une mesure à la fois écologique et en faveur du pouvoir d'achat : baisser de 50 % le prix des billets de train !
Une réponse concrète pour permettre à chacune et chacun de moins dépendre de la voiture et de la hausse des prix à la pompe ! ⤵️
New study shows that "Weather forecasts become more important for reducing mortality as the climate warms"
"Faster improvements to accuracy could prevent thousands of deaths each year"
Which is probably why the Trump administration is working hard to make sure weather forecasts actually degrade..
... and pretty extraordinary that the mainstream media is hardly mentioning it
Except it also locks in underinsurance: if said hurricane max wind is 1mph below threshold, payout is zero even if there is big damage...
.. and climate activists!
New Nuclear Is Too Late and Too Costly for the Climate Crisis. Dr Paul Dorfman, Bennett Scholar, makes a clear and evidence based case: new nuclear power cannot play a meaningful role in addressing the climate or energy crises.
bennettinstitutesussex.org/stories/nucl...
Digues, transformation de la lagune en lac, relocalisation… Une étude explore quatre scénarios pour tenter de sauvegarder Venise de la submersion. Mais son paysage actuel ne pourra pas être intégralement préservé, quelle que soit la trajectoire de réchauffement www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...
In a recent analysis, we found that much of the fertilizer they apply is more than crops need. This is a problem even in the best of times, but recent events are underlining the implications of excess fertilizer use. UCS’ Precious Tshabalala breaks down the true cost of this resource in her blog:
In France you would have paid approximately... zero
Universal healthcare is so complex only 31 out of 32 western countries have been able to work it out.
"not yet"...
It’s shameful that our policies in the US neglect human dignity and quality of life.
WORLD VIEW 15 April 2026 Why more fossil fuels won’t fix the Iran energy crisis Climate-friendly technologies are the best way to stymie rising inflation — and will get better and cheaper over time. By Gernot Wagner Spend any time discussing solar and wind power as a solution to climate change, and you are sure to encounter someone who asks about reliability. The Sun does not shine at night and the wind does not always blow, so fossil fuels will be needed forever as a back-up, they argue. But how reliable are fossil fuels? In the past two months, conflict in Iran has created an energy crisis — the latest in a series. Oil prices spiked within days of the start of US, Israeli and Iranian bombing in the Gulf region on 28 February. Fuel prices remain high and volatile, and the ripple effects are set to increase inflation in the coming months. Isabel Schnabel, a member of the European Central Bank’s executive board, memorably named this effect fossilflation in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. There was, and is, one clear winner: renewables and other low-carbon technologies, from batteries to electric vehicles (EVs) and heat pumps. That is what distinguishes this Middle East oil and gas crisis from the Arab oil embargoes of the 1970s. Then, renewables were mostly unavailable, and industrial decarbonization was on few people’s radars. Solar power cost at least 500 times more than it does today, and EVs, heat pumps and induction stoves were a pipe dream. Ditching fossil fuels is not all smooth sailing. In 2022, European natural-gas prices spiked to ten times their levels before the Ukraine invasion, resulting in long waiting times for solar panels and heat pumps. Prices for these rose as demand outpaced supply, an effect Schnabel dubbed greenflation. She used a third term, climateflation, to describe the economic effects of climate-induced weather extremes, such as food-price rises from crop failures (M. Kotz et al. Commun. Earth Environ. 5; 2024).
The Iran War has once again led to a bout of what @isabelschnabel.bsky.social memorably dubbed 'fossilflation'.
It's en vouge to talk about the solution as some massively complex undertaking. It really isn't. Get off fossil fuels faster.
My latest just out @nature.com
rdcu.be/fdxig
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Big Tech wrote the EU law that hides their data centres' environmental impact.
The EU wants to triple its data centre capacity in the next five years. While the full scale of their energy and water footprint is hidden from the public.
Our new @investigate-europe.eu investigation reveals why.
In an apparent rebuke of President Trump's claim that "climate change is a hoax", "The Department of Energy is allowing the Direct Air Capture hub program started under the Biden administration to move forward"
Hypocrites...
heatmap.news/sparks/dac-h...
"Nobody has done more to accelerate the world’s electrotech revolution and pull forward the irreversible collapse of the oil and gas industry – not even Greta Thunberg, Al Gore or the strategic planners of the Chinese Communist Party."
"We show that upfront investments are needed in the near term for limiting temperature overshoot but that these would bring long-term economic gains."
#InvestToSave-Oursleves !
