The rise in climate pollution from the US is 2025 canceled out the reductions from China, India, Japan, and the EU combined.

What about Defoe working alongside Harry Redknapp? Would give a much needed vibes injection.

Breaking: China's official statistics report a 0.3% drop in CO2 emissions from energy&industry in 2025, the third time that annual emissions have fallen this century and the first fall predominantly driven by clean energy growth. 🧵

Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon.

Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

Gas flaring soars in Niger Delta post-Shell, afflicting communities Since the multinational sold its assets in Nigeria’s oil hub, data analysis for Climate Home News shows flaring has risen, harming locals and the climate

Recommended read: Gas flaring has risen in the Niger Delta since oil and gas major Shell sold its assets in the Nigerian “oil hub”, a @climatechangenews.com investigation found.

✍️ @jsandlerclarke.bsky.social Vivian Chime @mcivillini.bsky.social

Gas flaring soars in Niger Delta post-Shell, afflicting communities Since the multinational sold its assets in Nigeria’s oil hub, data analysis for Climate Home News shows flaring has risen, damaging local residents and the climate

My new investigation shows that while Shell claims to have reduced its greenhouse gas emissions, but it has done this largely by selling polluting assets.

At former Shell oil fields in Nigeria, flaring has gone up, causing problems for local people.

www.climatechangenews.com/2026/02/05/g...

Opinion | Air Pollution Kills 10 Million People a Year. Why Do We Accept That as Normal? (Published 2022)

Did you know air pollution is the top preventable cause of premature death + ill-health in the world today: killing nearly 10 million people per year? And 2/3 of air pollution comes from burning fossil fuels?

For more surprising & powerful facts on health and climate, follow @maibached.bsky.social

Climate doesn’t care about borders. Nor does climate litigation When residents of the Caribbean island of Bonaire faced the Netherlands in court last October, they had few expectations for what they might achieve.  They had travelled from a place that is particul...

This Bonaire v Netherlands climate ruling is *fascinating*. Also hugely recommend signing up for @isabellakaminski.bsky.social’s newsletter if you have even a passing interest in climate cases, it’s terrific! www.the-wave.net/r/ee9c1bff?m...

When it rains, it now rains more.

For those experiencing the flooding in south-west England, it is worth remembering that rainfall in winter has increased by about 25% overall.

And, the rainfall has also become more intense: when it rains, it now rains more, increasing the risk of flooding.

If I was Xabi Alonso I would simply manage Tottenham Hotspur to an era of unfathomable domestic dominance and continental success, but that's just me I guess

He Lost His Mother to Cancer. A Son’s Cooking Carries Her Legacy, and Her Heart. A contributing essay for the Food+Grief Project, a special feature of Unpeeled Journal, where we publish writing, recipes, and resources exploring the connections between food and loss. This month, we...

My mum would have been 70 yesterday. She taught me how to cook and through that how to be fully present in the world.

I wrote about that and my awkward child chef era here.

Thank you for @padraigreidy.bsky.social for providing notes that elevated this piece.

unpeeledjournal.com/cooking-with...

Astonishing both-sidesing in The Times

The Wall Street Journal Latest in Energy & Oil   Chevron Charts a New Path in Venezuela to Unlock Vast Oil Reserves   The country says its proved oil reserves top 300 billion barrels which, if true, would make its bounty the world’s largest.

Nobody ever said the death throes of the fossil age would be pretty or peaceful

Charts showing flaring from oil fields in Russia Iran Iraq US Venezuela Algeria Libya

Venezuelan oil’s flaring intensity, or the ratio of greenhouse gas pollution per barrel of oil produced, is the worst in the world: www.worldbank.org/en/programs/...

Okay not *only* about oil, also about showing dominance and probably some sort of petty grievance in there too. But definitely ALSO helpful to some US oil majors (notably Exxon and Chevron)

Built environment disparities are amplified during extreme weather recovery - Nature Higher-income neighbourhoods rebuild and improve after disasters while lower-income areas do not return to pre-disaster conditions.

Climate injustice:

“…in the aftermath of extreme weather events, lower-income neighbourhoods are less likely to rebuild and do not return to their pre-disaster state, whereas higher-income areas rebuild and tend to improve compared with their pre-disaster state…”

The British state is addicted to secrecy - we need to fight back Our politicians and officials are using public money to keep citizens in the dark, says Heather Brooke

🔴"FOI is the democratic canary in the coal mine. When official information flows freely, it signals that power is shared. When it’s withheld or delayed, it signals the opposite: power concentrated in the few."

Vital by Heather Brooke on Democracy 4 Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/why-the-br...

At least 8,000 illegal waste sites in UK, research suggests Exclusive: Concerns over impact on health and environment, as well as £1.63bn in avoided landfill tax

8,000 illegal waste sites
13 million tons of rubbish
No controls on waste dumped sometimes near rivers + in floodplains
Burning of waste
Little or no policing

How criminal dumping of waste became the 'new narcotics'

Our latest article, out now:

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

a man is talking about being entirely successful . Alt: a robot is is talking about not being entirely successful .

It's funny to have to make this case but tbqh we don't make it enough: human efforts to counter fossil fuel use have had *at least some* effect on total greenhouse gas emissions since the signing of the Paris Agreement in 2015, and there's some evidence to back up this position

A lil thread 🧵

Victory! We’ve won major legal battle exposing car industry lobbying After two years we can finally reveal “backdoor channels where corporate money hijacks our democracy.”

🚨 SCOOP: Toyota and Aston Martin secretly lobbied a Conservative cabinet minister to weaken Britain’s climate policy.

We only know this because Democracy for Sale won a two-year legal fight to force the government to hand over the documents.

democracyforsale.substack.com/p/victory-we...

End of fossil fuel era inches closer as Cop30 deal agreed after bitter standoff Wealthy countries agree to triple funds for countries to tackle climate impacts, but deforestation and critical minerals blocked from final deal

End of fossil fuel era inches closer as #Cop30 deal agreed after bitter standoff

- Wealthy countries agree to triple funds for countries to tackle climate impacts, but deforestation and critical minerals blocked from final deal

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

CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

Brazil Is Pouring Money Into the Amazon. These Companies Want a Piece. Startups are rushing in to monetize the COP30 host’s push to preserve the rainforest before it turns into a driver of climate change.

📉The voluntary carbon market crashed bc credits didn't do what they claimed. Offsets 2.0 is here, with hard, inventive work on the ground.
🌴A look at the race to control carbon, from under the banana and cacao trees.
By Fabiano Masisonnave and me: 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Data Center Demand Everywhere, but Not a Drop for Natural Gas to Drink? Discover the impact of data centers on natural gas demand, with analysts divided on its significance. Learn how East Daley adds 1.3 Bcf/d winter demand and see projections for LNG exports as the prima...

There is a lot of talk about data centers taking up gas demand in the US. However, it will be LNG exports that take the big chunk.

"Feed gas demand from Plaquemines LNG terminal alone could top 4 Bcf/d this winter, roughly equal to the low end of data center growth estimates through 2030."

The 2-year running mean for the global surface temperature anomaly is still above 1.55°C.

Everything will be fine.

COP30’s agriculture showcase sponsored by agribiz interests linked to deforestation and anti-conservation lobbying Sponsors of the sustainable agriculture pavilion at COP30 will include pesticides giant Bayer, alleged by campaigners to be driving “massive deforestation” on the continent, and a branch of Brazil’s l...

NEW: The "Agrizone" at COP30 is supposed to be a showcase for sustainable agriculture 🌳

But its sponsors are powerful agribusiness interests linked to deforestation and anti-conservation lobbying who have paid for visibility and "image gain"

Read more 👇:

Mapped: Big Food’s Routes to Influence at COP30 In the city of Belém, at the mouth of the Amazon rainforest, Brazil has kicked off the COP30 climate conference, a summit framed as a pivotal moment to reduce emissions and keep the Paris Agreement al...

🔴 NEW 🔴

Mapped: Big Food’s Routes to Influence at COP30

Interactive map shows the food & farming corporations, trade groups and initiatives at COP30 in Brazil and how these are set to navigate the summit

📝 @rachelsherrington.bsky.social & Gil Alessi👇

www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/m...

Crime network behind UK mini-marts is enabling migrants to work illegally Undercover reporters were told how easy it was to make big profits selling illegal vapes and cigarettes.

If asylum seekers were allowed to work legally when they arrive in the UK, the power of these gangs would be greatly diminished.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UN calls for faster emissions cuts for 2035 as first global estimate disappoints UNFCCC "calculations" suggest a 10% drop in global emissions, but delays by many countries in submitting NDCs cloud official review of climate pledges

Global emissions may fall 10% by 2035 — but scientists say a 60% drop is needed to keep 1.5°C alive.

But seriously: I'm prepping for a panel on Abundance and climate and going down the rabbit hole of documenting everything so I can cite it, and I'm finding things are SO much worse than I even thought.

Did you know that the Charles Koch Foundation was a sponser of Abundance 2024?

No, really.