Why has Trump attacked Venezuela? Oil have to have a think about that..

People fatally shot by UK police in 2024/25: 2
People fatally shot by US law enforcement in 2025: 1280

US plan to exploit Venezuela’s oil could eat up 13% of carbon budget to keep 1.5C limit Exclusive: Analysis by ClimatePartner shows how any such move would risk plunging Earth further into climate catastrophe

Indeed - except that 1.5C is already dead in the water

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Live from the Doomsday Glacier in Antarctica with Miles O'Brien | NOVA | PBS YouTube video by NOVA PBS Official

What could set 10 feet of sea-level rise in motion? Join @Scripps_Ocean researcher Jamin Greenbaum today at 1 p.m. PST for 'Live from the Doomsday Glacier in Antarctica' with Miles O'Brien of @novapbs to hear how he tracks movements of Thwaites Glacier. www.youtube.com/live/W7ejeYD...

Loving this. Thanks!

"The global mean surface temperature anomaly for January 1-8, 2026, was 1.60°C above the 1850-1900 IPCC pre-industrial baseline."

(Prof Eliot Jacobson)

#collapse

A macro photo of a single green lacewing egg on its thin stalk above a fuzzy, rumpled green leaf, and against an orange background. The egg looks like a tiny, oblong, lime-green balloon on a string.

I haven't been taking many pictures the last couple of weeks, (and today it's pouring rain), but here's a photo I took on Christmas Eve three years ago, of a single green lacewing egg in my garden. Think of it as a wrapped present with a bug in it.
🎁🌿🐙📷 #bugsky

We have been bringing the festive cheer to our friends at Natural England and the NFU in London recently – highlighting the continued badger cull.

240,000 badgers dead and nothing to show for it. It must end.

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Labour is living in a fool’s paradise if it thinks it has plenty of time to turn Britain around | Larry Elliott Going into 2026, the economy has little forward momentum and things may get worse before they get better, says Guardian columnist Larry Elliott

Indeed. Or - as climate breakdown hammers home ever harder - things will get worse.....before they get even worse

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A spotted insect with long legs and antennae is perched on a green plant, while a small ant walks on one of its appendages. The background is black.

Arthropod Photo of the Week: December 24, 2025
Leaffooted bug and ant
Chariesterus moestus
Hemiptera: Coreidae
By Alberto Sánchez Herrera, Guanacaste, Costa Rica
#arthropodPOTW

An all white heron landing in water , an over exposed photo gives the head and legs contrast against the white background.

Great white egret, an over exposed photo gives an interesting effect.
#birdoftheday
#contrast

Well said!

This Christmas remember there are 6,000 people with $16,000,000,000,000.

They could give everyone on the planet $1000 for Christmas and it would be only half their money.

Just 6,000 people, not even a small town.

The Keeling Curve The Keeling Curve is a daily record of global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration maintained by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.

427.34 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 23-Dec-2025
keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

Winter photo of oceanside trees covered in a thick coating of ice.

There are many places along Newfoundland’s East Coast Trail where, in winter, strong onshore winds blow seaward streams and brooks backwards, turning the surrounding area into a beautiful, frozen sculpture.

Orange rivers and melting glaciers: federal report shows rapid change in the Arctic — NPR This year's Arctic Report Card from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration finds that the northernmost part of the Earth is warming faster than the global average, leading to melting glac...

When rivers turn orange and glaciers destabilize entire watersheds, it’s tempting to call it “rapid change.”

Ecologically speaking, it’s debt coming due.
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Great blue heron
April 22nd 2024

#WednesdayWaters ❄️

Post-sunset glow on Christmas Eve, 2025

Have a peaceful Christmas, Doomers 🌲💚

A man’s pet fish couldn’t swim due to its illness/disability.

So he made him a swimming harness.

He created an accommodation so his fish could live his best life.

This is how it’s done!

"Japan's agriculture ministry said on Wednesday that genetic testing has confirmed an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza at a farm in Kyoto Prefecture, marking the ninth bird flu outbreak in the country this season."

(news.az)

#collapse

“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas. Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.

She had severe seizures, blood clots and uncontrolled hypertension.

She saw 90 doctors and 21 OBGYNs.

No one would terminate.

That’s not malpractice, that’s doctors following the law.

The abortion ban is the problem and it killed Tierra Walker.

Her fetus died too.

You're complicit in genocide and the attacks on migrants.

A devastating message to Labour MPs from @zackpolanski.bsky.social

"Be grateful, Dear Reader, for you have seen the peak of human civilization. You have made it! It’s time to make peace with the fact that this way of life now has to end, and to prepare for the bumpy ride ahead."

(Eric Lee)

#collapse

A gentle reminder: Along with Tehran, Cape Town, Mexico City and Jakarta, as well as parts of California, are also facing day zero scenarios as they sink and run out of water.

#collapse

The 15 year old girl who was dragged from her car by ICE had recently had kidney surgery.

She was thrown to the ground despite screaming “I’m not resisting”

She had to return to the hospital.

These aggressive tactics will disable. They will kill.

They must be held accountable.

Soft pink mushroom with gills standing in leaves.

Rosy bonnet (Mycena rosea).
#fungifriends

Remember:

1. The oceans are being killed.
2. Forests will soon be gone.
3. Fertile soil is disappearing.
4. Megafauna risk extermination.
5. Insects are vanishing.
6. Climate chaos is inevitable.
7. Extinction is now.
8. Plastic is in our blood.

None of this is front page news.

Hard-hitting report says climate change has created 141 related risks to Spain- 51 of which are described as 'key' - Olive Press News Spain SPAIN is confronting 141 climate-related risks that threaten public health, economy, and biodiversity, according to a government report published on

Hard-hitting report says climate change has created 141 related risks to Spain- 51 of which are described as 'key'
SPAIN is confronting 141 climate-related risks that threaten public health, economy, and biodiversity.

A hedgehog chomps on some food on a log in our garden.

We’ve a hedgehog house tucked away under the shrubs — and it’s one of the best things we ever added to the garden.
Here’s where to put yours so they’ll actually use it: 🦋🌱🌎 #spéirgorm
gardeningwell.ie/climate-action/hedgehog-house