Review of ‘The Visual Life of Climate Change’ by Saffron O’Neill ‘The Visual Life of Climate Change’ is an enthralling exploration and evaluation of the efficacy of climate related images and challenges the reader to be more critical of the ideologies and narrat…

We need to see more climate visuals which lead to us being empowered to take action and O’Neill’s book charts the various issues which are currently holding us back.

'The Visual Life of Climate Change' by Saffron O'Neill

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Big Oil Breaks Everything The planet, our democracy, our courts...

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Review of ‘The Visual Life of Climate Change’ by Saffron O’Neill ‘The Visual Life of Climate Change’ is an enthralling exploration and evaluation of the efficacy of climate related images and challenges the reader to be more critical of the ideologies and narrat…

We need to see more climate visuals which lead to us being empowered to take action and O’Neill’s book charts the various issues which are currently holding us back.

'The Visual Life of Climate Change' by Saffron O'Neill

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Japan reveals new name for 40C-and-hotter days after blistering summer The term - kokushobi - translates to

Japan reveals new name for 40C-and-hotter days after blistering summer

We will all need a new climate language

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Kokushobi, "cruelly" or "brutally hot" days, are 104F or more. With a super El Nino stirring, we'll likely see our share this summer.

#NomadCentury

Japan reveals new name for 40C-and-hotter days after blistering summer The term - kokushobi - translates to

Japan reveals new name for 40C-and-hotter days after blistering summer

We will all need a new climate language

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Yorkshire Water to pay out £2.35m over pollution incidents The Environment Agency secures funds for improvement work from Yorkshire Water.

Yorkshire Water to pay out £2.35m over pollution incidents

Water company to pay out £2.35m over pollution

But they are taking pollution 'really seriously' folks!

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Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought

Shocking

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Yorkshire Water to pay out £2.35m over pollution incidents The Environment Agency secures funds for improvement work from Yorkshire Water.

Yorkshire Water to pay out £2.35m over pollution incidents

Water company to pay out £2.35m over pollution

But they are taking pollution 'really seriously' folks!

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

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought

Shocking

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

More than half of Britain’s butterfly species in decline, monitoring scheme shows Warmer weather has benefited some species in Britain, but others that rely on specific plants or habitats have struggled

More than half of Britain’s butterfly species in decline, monitoring scheme shows

Warmer weather has benefited some species in Britain, but others that rely on specific plants or habitats have struggled

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Stupidly began 'The Visual Life of Climate Change' by Saffron O'Neill at 1130pm...now utterly hooked!

Who needs sleep anyway...

Didn't even want to get any closer

We really are being taken for fools.

Taken today, with the last discharge on the 4th April for 18mins.

10 days ago and the river still looks like this.

Review of ‘Green Thinking- Unlearning Outdated Ideas in Science, Economics and Politics’ by Natalie Bennett In ‘Green Thinking’, Natalie Bennett calls for a deep, transformative, ‘breaking the chains’ moment, to move us away from outdated ideas which promote harmful outcomes. It challenges assumptions an…

Thanks Brian for this first review of #GreenThinking: you got it!

"She challenges the reader to ask why these systems are in place in the first place and who they benefit."

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We really are being taken for fools.

Taken today, with the last discharge on the 4th April for 18mins.

10 days ago and the river still looks like this.

Residents near Lancashire chemicals plant told to wash homegrown produce Exclusive: council issues advisory as investigation begins and documents reveal estimates of PFOA emissions

While chemical companies knew of health risks, even to their own staff, for years, they seem to have done little research on treating health harms caused.

As a result, agencies have little advice to offer people, beyond 'probably best not eat that veg'.

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Picture of Thornton-Cleveleys resident, Samantha Linacre-Hanmond, in her garden, where testing by the Environment Agency + UK Health Security Agency has revealed high levels of internationally banned PFOA, a type of PFAS forever chemical classed by the World Health Organisation as a group 1 carcinogen. Headline, 'Don't eat home-grown veg, council warns residents near chemical plant' subheading, 'Householders alerted to health risk from toxic soil found in gardens', The Telegraph

“It makes me angry and guilty for poisoning my children for all of these years"

One of the more insidious aspects of PFAS pollution is the way it can turn what ought to be health-giving activities like growing your own veg into health-harming ones:

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‘Something out of the ordinary’: why are Japan’s oysters dying en masse? A death rate of up to 90%, attributed to warming seas, is threatening the trade in Hiroshima prefecture, which produces most of the country’s farmed oysters

As climate change warms sea water, it spells disaster for oysters + other cold-water shellfish:

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In ‘Green Thinking’, Natalie Bennett calls for a deep, transformative, ‘breaking the chains’ moment, to move us away from outdated ideas which promote harmful outcomes.'

@nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social
#GreenThinking

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The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit The daily news can’t adequately convey the administration’s sabotaging of our government, economy, alliances and environment

'The United States is destroying itself'

It’s also evident that Trump wanted to come back into office in part to revenge himself on a country that in 2020 had rejected him

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The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit The daily news can’t adequately convey the administration’s sabotaging of our government, economy, alliances and environment

'The United States is destroying itself'

It’s also evident that Trump wanted to come back into office in part to revenge himself on a country that in 2020 had rejected him

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Orthographic map showing 2-m air temperature anomalies in March 2026 relative to a 1981-2010 baseline. This visualization shows North and South America. The only colder than average area is over Canada.

Orthographic map showing 2-m air temperature anomalies in March 2026 relative to a 1981-2010 baseline using ERA5 data. This visualization shows Africa, Europe, and western Asia. Most areas are warmer than average.

Orthographic map showing 2-m air temperature anomalies in March 2026 relative to a 1981-2010 baseline using ERA5 data. This visualization shows Australia, Antarctica, and Asia. Most areas are warmer than average.

March 2026 was the 4th warmest March on record globally. Note the high-amplitude wavy pattern of anomalies across the N. Hemisphere.

This month was about 1.48°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial average. Last 12-months have been about 1.43°C above it.

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Has your MP signed the Parliamentary Call for a government-led televised emergency briefing on the threats from climate change and nature loss?

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If not, please ask them to attend a screening of the People’s Emergency Briefing.

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In ‘Green Thinking’, Natalie Bennett calls for a deep, transformative, ‘breaking the chains’ moment, to move us away from outdated ideas which promote harmful outcomes.'

@nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social
#GreenThinking

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Great to see this review of 'Birdland' by Jon Gower hit a wider audience

Frontiers Study: Climate Goals Impossible Without Protecting Nature

Human activities are interfering with the natural processes essential for human well-being.

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RSPB offers new advice for feeding garden birds to prevent the spread of diseases The results from the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch were published today and with over 9.4 million birds counted by some 650,000 of us, the RSPB is asking for the public’s help more to arrest the decl…

Bird tables and feeders to go as RSPB offers new advice to prevent disease spread

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National Emergency Climate viewings help to inform the public more about climate breakdown Swinsty Reservoir in 2025 Following last year’s successful National Emergency Briefing on the climate to MPs, more action is still required from the Government to ensure that the public is informed…

National Emergency Climate viewings help to inform the public more about climate breakdown

'Hope comes from action. Hope comes from courage.’

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#PEBuk

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