NEW from @desmog.com - Nigel Farage has personally accepted at least £675k from foreign governments, companies & donors since becoming an MP.

But this isn’t just about one politician. It’s about gaping holes in the UK’s rules on foreign money & political influence.

www.desmog.com/2026/04/18/n...

Decades of increased emissions from forest-fuelled BECCS - Nature Sustainability Governments are considering subsidies for bioenergy with carbon capture and storage fuelled by wood from existing forests. However, a transparent model estimates that this will probably increase emiss...

Many govts hope capturing carbon from power plants burning wood will cause "negative emissions." New Nature Sust. paper today finds this likely increases emissions for decades, generates no negative emissions within 150 years, and increase electricity costs ~3.5-fold.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“UK trade unions have been excluded from policymaking around climate. This has completely eroded trust – which needs to be rebuilt.”

@bertiehb.bsky.social and @priestleycentre.bsky.social's Prof. Vera Trappmann discuss the labour movement’s involvement in climate policy.

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a chart showing 3 msft gas data centres vs countries

a chart showing 3 msft gas data centres vs countries

New @stand.earth: Microsoft's 3 new gas data centres will

- Increase Microsoft's emissions 160%

- Have higher emissions than power sectors of each of Greece, Ireland, Sri Lanka, NZ etc...

- Have higher emissions than pwr sector of 15 lowest-emitting countries combined

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Civil society groups warn new Charity Commission powers could ‘suppress’ advocacy Exclusive: Ministers urged to consult sector on proposed social cohesion measures meant to tackle extremism Several leading civil society organisations have urged the government to consult the sector before introducing new powers for the Charity Commission, which they warn risks “suppressing legitimate advocacy” at a time when civic space is under increased pressure. Signatories including leaders from some of the UK’s largest civil society bodies, alongside faith-based and community organisations, wrote to the culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, saying the proposed social cohesion measures could lead to the “suppression of lawful advocacy, campaigning and community engagement”. Continue reading...

Civil society groups warn new Charity Commission powers could ‘suppress’ advocacy

Cliftonville (Kent) Council By-Election Result:

🌍 GRN: 38.8% (+26.7)
➡️ RFM: 33.1% (-7.0)
🌳 CON: 15.2% (-4.5)
🌹 LAB: 10.4% (-11.6)
🙋 Ind: 1.3% (New)
🔶 LDM: 1.2% (-1.9)

No Ind (-3.0) as previous.

Green GAIN from Reform UK.
Changes w/ 2025.

Chevron's CEO made $104 million while America bombed Iran America's oil executives have pocketed $1.4 billion selling stock during the Iran war, a new investigation shows.

America's oil execs have pocketed $1.4 billion selling stock during the Iran war, the WSJ reports

This cash windfall won’t go primarily toward yachts and private jets, but toward political campaigns and lobbying orgs dedicated to blocking climate policy and fueling authoritarianism

UK ‘green’ jet fuel imports linked to illegal Amazon deforestation A major supplier of ‘green’ airline fuel to the UK has sourced beef fat linked to illegal Amazon deforestation.

NEW: A major supplier of ‘green’ airline fuel to the UK has sourced beef fat linked to illegal Amazon deforestation

Our new investigation 🐄 🌳 ✈️:

unearthed.greenpeace.org/2026/04/10/u...

Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done? Tens of thousands of publications from 2025 might include invalid references generated by AI, a Nature analysis suggests.

#AIHallucinations “Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done?” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Opinion | NASA Flew by the Moon, but Behind the Scenes, Its Science Is a Chaotic Mess

The images of Earth from Artemis are amazing. But if we destroy our ability to understand (and live on) our planet, all they are is pretty pictures

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/o...

George Monbiot on our fragile food system – podcast The Guardian columnist speaks about why we need to tackle global food insecurity

Our discussion about the possibility of global food system collapse, and what needs to happen to avert it.
www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

US voters worried about high food prices in 2024. This admin has: 1) taxed food & fertilizer imports 2) deported farmworkers 3) canceled food/climate investments 4) started a war that spiked energy/fertilizer prices 5) increased crop-based biofuel mandates 6) released dietary guidance centering meat

The Oxford energy institute with a Kremlin problem The Oxford Institute for Energy Studies is cited across UK media as an independent expert on oil and gas. Now its Russian ties are under scrutiny.

🧵 Oxford Institute for Energy Studies often cited in UK media stories on oil and gas

But how independent is it?

Its staff includes director of major sanctioned Russian gas firm and researcher accused of pushing Kremlin talking points

New on Democracy for Sale:
open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

Growing pains: how will the fertiliser crisis affect food supply? - Land and Climate Review Alasdair and Noah Gordon discuss the international and environmental politics of fertilisers.

Growing pains: how will the fertiliser crisis affect food supply?

I joined Alasdair MacEwen to discuss the fertilizer crisis on the Land and Climate Review podcast. landclimate.org/growing-pains/
@landclimate.bsky.social

The fires of Hormuz: how is Trump's war reframing the energy transition? - Land and Climate Review In a guest feature, Environmental Justice Foundation CEO Steve Trent discusses how the Middle East conflict will reshape global energy systems.

"The lesson of 2022, when Putin weaponised gas exports against Europe, was not fully absorbed. The Hormuz crisis repeats it with different actors and geography, but identical structural logic..."

Read our new feature from @stevetrent.bsky.social @ejfoundation.org:

landclimate.org/the-fires-of...

“The closure of the Strait of Hormuz does not only affect oil and gas - this is also a fertiliser crisis.”

Alasdair MacEwen and Noah Gordon discuss international threats to food security fuelled by the Iran war on our latest podcast 🔊

Listen here: landclimate.org/grow...

Am not an energy analyst but why does seem every interview with a U.K. minister this week included a pointed question about why not drilling more in North Sea and almost none about renewables/net zero as an energy security imperative?

It’s bizarre, frankly

Fossil fuel companies finally accept the climate crisis – just not their role in it The era of corporate climate denial is over but in courts around the world the big names have shifted strategy

Fossil fuel companies finally accept the climate crisis – just not their role in it, writes Noah Walker-Crawford

- The era of corporate climate denial is over but in courts around the world the big names have shifted strategy

#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

US has caused $10tn worth of climate damage since 1990, research finds US, top carbon emitter in history, has ‘a lot of responsibility’ for causing ‘substantial’ harm globally, scientist says

US has caused $10tn worth of climate damage since 1990, research finds #Climate

GB News has become Reform TV and no one stopped it Whether they are charged with keeping news impartial, our water clean or elections fair, Britain’s watchdogs seem to be sleeping

Whether they are charged with keeping our news impartial, our water clean or our elections fair, Britain’s regulators are dozing, writes Alan Rusbridger

'Pause rollout of live facial recognition' MPs demand amid racial bias fears Ministers face calls to pause the rollout of live facial recognition (LFR) after Essex Police suspended its use over possible racial bias

Essex Police have suspended the use of live facial recognition technology over evidence of bias and inaccuracy.

We need a pause on the rollout of such technology and a more open conversation about whether this is the direction we want to go in as a society.

Fabricating demand for gen AI 🤝🏻 fabricating demand for fossil fuels

REALLY lovely to speak to @alimacewen.bsky.social at @landclimate.bsky.social about digital bloat and the power we have to stop it

Sign up: one of the best climate podcasts out there!!.

landclimate.org/ketan-joshi-...

On dodgy disclosure

On whether we've already lost the fight (a bit!! But not entirely!!)

Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines Let us know if you see more.

"this is like a bookstore ripping the covers off the books it puts on display and changing their titles"

www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

Is Big Tech telling the truth about AI's climate impact? - Land and Climate Review Alasdair talks to writer and energy analyst Ketan Joshi about data centres' energy demand and carbon emissions.

Companies "fabricated demand for something that nobody asked for," @ketanjoshi.co tells @alimacewen.bsky.social in an interview debunking tech-sector climate promises.

"In doing so, it's fabricating demand for fossil fuels as well."

Listen to the podcast below:
landclimate.org/ketan-joshi-...

Does Generative AI “Work”? That’s a Misleading Question. Generative AI works a lot like fossil fuels “work”—narrowly, intermittently, and with a lot of nasty side effects.

What happens when climate advocates offload the head and heart of our work onto morally offensive American tech corps?

TY to @newrepublic.com for letting me write about why "does it work" is the wrong debate around GenAI, as it is for fossil fuels. It hurts us and our cause, and that matters most

People in North Yorkshire town found to have ‘alarming’ levels of toxic Pfas chemicals in blood Exclusive: Testing in Bentham, home to UK’s highest recorded Pfas levels, finds one in four have blood levels in greatest risk category

People in North Yorkshire town found to have ‘alarming’ levels of toxic Pfas chemicals in blood

‼️ Russia: “A bill banning media outlets from accusing officials without a court order has been introduced in the State Duma.”

👉 of Tatarstan

ru.themoscowtimes.com/2026/03/17/v...

UK funded carbon capture in Xinjiang during Uighur ‘genocide’ The Foreign Office used the aid budget to help the Chinese as the UN warned of Uighurs being held in ‘re-education’ camps in the oil-producing province

The UK Foreign Office confirmed it holds documents about the grants but said it would not be "appropriate" for civil servants to locate them or answer questions.

Parliamentarians, academics and Uyghur campaigners have criticised the lack of aid transparency.

6/7

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