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Destabilization of Earth system tipping elements - Nature Geoscience A review of observation-based evidence suggests that four interconnected Earth system tipping elements have moved towards their critical thresholds, highlighting the need for better monitoring and increased mitigation efforts.

Destabilization of Earth system tipping elements

(Review) suggesting key Earth system tipping points - like the Greenland Ice Sheet, Amazon rainforest, and AMOC - are losing stability and nearing critical thresholds

Interactions may mask warning signs

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Bike thefts at stations 'decriminalised' The British Transport Police will not investigate many categories of bicycle theft, the BBC learns.

Bike thefts at stations 'decriminalised' - BBC News share.google/j1NJE1ZAYFCb...

Let’s briefly count the ways this is a really dumb policy:

- there remains overwhelming support in the UK to tackle climate change
- paying for climate action now is a down payment on massive £££ savings later
- it tethers Tories to Reform rather than differentiates them. You can’t out-Farage Nigel

Our world is hurtling into climate disaster and what do politicians give us? Oilfields and new runways | Bill McGuire In the name of ‘pragmatism’, green measures are being ditched, net zero derided. Be very clear: without slashing emissions we are in deep, deep trouble, says UCL professor Bill McGuire

"We either slash emissions now or we are in deep, deep trouble".

Despite this stark warning from #ClimateScience, UK government greenlights #Gatwick & #Heathrow airport expansion, & developers push for more house-building in flood zones within #Eastbourne.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Over the past 20 years, #Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for #bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 #parking spaces which has significantly improved air quality.

Meat is a leading emissions source – but few outlets report on it, analysis finds Sentient Media reveals less than 4% of climate news stories mention animal agriculture as source of carbon emissions

Are there too many 🐄🐤🐑🐄🐄🐐🐑 being eaten?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Quantum Mechanics of Greenhouse Gases | Quanta Magazine Earth’s radiation can send some molecules spinning or vibrating, which is what makes them greenhouse gases. This infographic explains how relatively few heat-trapping molecules can have a planetary ef...

There's a really nice explanation (with clear graphics) in this @quantamagazine.bsky.social article of why most molecules in the atmosphere (oxygen & nitrogen) don't act as greenhouse gases, but a lot of the far less numerous ones (like carbon dioxide and methane) do. A great teaching aid :)

Ed Miliband considers expansion of existing North Sea oil fields While Labour pledged to ban new oil and gas fields, the energy secretary is looking into ‘tiebacks’ — small expansions of existing sites

Ministers are considering a green light to expand existing North Sea oil and gas fields despite Labour’s manifesto pledge to ban new ones.

@tessakhan.bsky.social says industry figures for those expansions are a "fantasy"

Labour says manifesto will be met

Story 👇
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

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a spider web stretched between meadow plants

Web World Spiders worked all night so that when I walked through the pasture it was web filled, like the world. It was only the clinging dew drops that made the webs strung between meadow rushes and milkweed stems visible at all. This is how webs are: to see, look for sparkle. There is a web strung by a butterfly between this milkweed and Mexico. There is a water web that connects a dew drop to an upwelling ocean. And of course, there is a web that connects you to me. Moving through a web world could be a joy. Or, it could hurt; it could desecrate. Or— you know this, you can trust this— it could heal. It’s not the web that tilts the balance. It’s how you move within it.

In honor of a webby morning walk, the poem from Chapter One of my book. The poem is called Web World, I wrote it to remind us that, whether we see them or not, we move always in webs upon webs.

Safety and space at risk as SUVs reach 30% of car market in English cities, researchers warn Campaigners call for Paris-style parking charges amid fears big vehicles are taking up excessive public space

Number of Giant Cars has 🔼*10. Taking up space, whether driven or parked, and posing a threat to public safety.
Wider cars make it harder to squeeze down the streets when they pass wider parked cars.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

An East Sussex community-owned solar farm has been granted planning permission by Rother District Council. An East Sussex community-owned solar farm has been granted planning permission by Rother District Council.

It's fantastic to see that a new community-owned solar farm in East Sussex has been granted planning permission 🎉🙌

This 5MW project, set on 12 hectares of low-grade farmland, will not only generate clean, local power but also create new wildlife meadows!

Fab work from Energise Sussex Coast 🤝

Carbon capture set to be less useful in tackling climate change, scientists warn CO₂ stored underground will be at risk of leaking back into the atmosphere, study finds

'Carbon capture and storage' could leak! Warning from Imperial College scientists.
Carbon reduction at source is more certain. share.google/jHremBbcct6D...

Clean Electricity | Ember Rapid growth of clean electricity led by cheap solar and wind is replacing fossil fuels in the power sector, and beyond through electrification.

Cheaper, better, faster, cleaner.
#Solar and #wind outcompeting #fossilfuels
41% Global share of new clean generation.
+29% Solar generation growth in 2024.
+7.9% Wind generation growth in 2024.
#climate
ember-energy.org/focus-areas/...

Bring along rural communities or risk pace of renewable roll-out, warns govt transition watchdog The importance of social license and local community buy-in has been underlined by the government's energy transition watchdog, who has warned the renewables roll-out will be slowed without effective ...

🗣️ “Bring along rural communities or risk the pace of renewable roll-out,” warns the government’s transition watchdog.

Community energy shows how this can be done, by working with local people, building trust, and creating projects that benefit everyone 💡

Utter madness that in the UK
privatisation has torn apart train & bus networks

"When we invest in mobility options that don’t eat up space, pollute our air, or drain public budgets, we create cities that are:
✅ More efficient
✅ Healthier
✅ More affordable
✅ Better for everyone"
via IMM DesignLab

How to make household energy savings and cut bills Project highlights potential for investment to slash older properties’ energy consumption

Excellent article from the Financial Times, looking at the costs & benefit of a whole-house retrofit.

www.ft.com/content/8d6a...

Anyone living in Sussex who is thinking about energy upgrades, but is unsure what will work for their home, is welcome to talk to BHESCo.

Grow fruit trees in small spaces with the trick known as espalier If you think you need a big space to grow fruit trees, think again. The espalier (es-PAHL-yay or es-PAHL-yer) method trains trees to grow flat against walls.

To grow fruit trees in a small space use a method perfected by gardeners in the 1600s - train trees to grow flat against walls. The method, called espalier:
* maximizes exposure to sunlight
* enables the trees to withstand chilly temperatures
* produces more fruit
apnews.com/article/gard...

Read more about this here:

arxiv.org/pdf/2507.18840

And here, from @michaelsavage.bsky.social in @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The latest issue of Renew- the UK's long running newsletter on #renewables
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How did the 👪👩‍👧👨‍👨‍👦‍👦👨‍👨‍👦audience get to Airbourne in 2025?
With an estimated CO2e footprint of between 3,500 & 4,000 tonnes.

Here is our report ecoactioneb.co.uk/airbournes-c...

Safety and space at risk as SUVs reach 30% of car market in English cities, researchers warn Campaigners call for Paris-style parking charges amid fears big vehicles are taking up excessive public space

Number of Giant Cars has 🔼*10. Taking up space, whether driven or parked, and posing a threat to public safety.
Wider cars make it harder to squeeze down the streets when they pass wider parked cars.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

With music, art, and an element of theater, climate organizers are making joy part of their toolkit Joy “is in direct opposition to the people who want us to just give up and go home.”

With music, art, and an element of theater, climate organizers are making joy part of their toolkit.

Joy “is in direct opposition to the people who want us to just give up and go home.”

grist.org/fix/advocacy...

#Joy #Climate #Activism #Advocacy #Music #Art #Theater #Happiness

Yeah, this quote pretty much distills down the difference between these platforms:

"When I talk about fish on Bluesky, people ask me questions about fish. When I talk about fish on Twitter, people threaten to murder my family because we’re Jewish."

The "libgen" database, which Anthropic used, currently lists over 1600 titles of mine across multiple languages, so, uh, yeah

Very important point at the heart of this - there's no point telling people to use public transport without providing information on how to do so, or providing easy-to-use options. Onus should not be on the individual.

Letter to the Editor: To and From the Airshow Sir, Everyone knows how popular Eastbourne’s Airbourne is and the difficulties faced getting around town, during these four days. On the Airbourne website it says in large font “Please help us and us...

Getting to Airbourne @eastbournebc.bsky.social ✈️🛩️🚁

www.sussexexpress.co.uk/news/opinion...

New study from the same authors confirms promoting e-bicycle ownership replaces car trips.

“Most of the new e-bike travel is induced or replaces car usage, highlighting e-bikes’ potential to not just replace other active modes or public transport, but reduce car dependence...”

One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss Copenhagen, the bicycle-friendliest place on the planet, publishes a biannual Bicycle Account, and buried in its pages is a rather astonishing fact.

“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.”

“Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath

Some costs aren’t costs.