@emmahoward.bsky.social
Reporter at Unearthed, the investigative journalism outfit backed by Greenpeace. Mostly plastics, water, biodiversity Find us @unearthednews.bsky.social Previously at the Guardian.
Lush setting for a conference I must say - by the capital's only chalk stream, the River Wandle
At UK River Summit - lots of talk about the government's review of the water sector, in coming weeks and about the unfolding drought.
Hmu if you're hear & want to chat!
#UKRiverSummit
@mcivillini.bsky.social Hi Matteo, I don't think we've connected before but I work for Unearthed. Got a quick q for you about one of your stories - would you mind following so I can DM you? Thank you
07.07.2025 16:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Britain's datacentres are already consuming close to 10 billion litres of water per year - and that's before any AI boom
by @adamvaughan.bsky.social
@foxglovelegal.bsky.social
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
The gap between how much water England has and how much it will need in future just got bigger again
By @shoshaadie.bsky.social
www.endsreport.com/article/1922...
NEW: Fashion waste is overwhelming Ghana — and now it’s spilling into Accra’s protected wetlands.
With @greenpeaceafrica.org, we found UK brands and huge new dump sites in a conservation area home to endangered turtles.
👉 unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/06/18/u...
📢Good news: The 200-year-old Vagrancy Act is finally to be repealed, meaning rough sleeping will no longer be treated as a crime in England & Wales.
CIH have long called for an approach that tackles the root causes of homelessness—not punishes people for it. This is a welcome & long overdue change🧵⬇️
That's "3.4 million wet tonnes" of literally toxic sh*t with "nowhere to go" to be exact.
Folks at home in the Shire will also be interested to know that the Midlands is where the landfill space is, so if there's a sudden shortfall of land, it's likely coming your way....
And this "artist’s impression of how Google’s new London headquarters could look if it was overrun with foxes" by @londoncentric.media who first reported the news
www.londoncentric.media/p/why-lime-b...
Really enjoying nature getting one over on Big Tech here...
One source familiar with the construction told the Guardian "it had been a rolling three-year saga & said some foxes had begun to dig burrows in the perfectly manicured grounds."
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
This happened for decades with asbestos: industry lobbied to deem certain types safer than others, delaying a ban that would have saved countless lives
10.06.2025 07:43 — 👍 77 🔁 45 💬 2 📌 0
By our very own @ellieodonnell.bsky.social @zdboren.bsky.social
And covered by the BBC this morning
www.bbc.com/news/article...
This is a really important & quite shocking, investigation.
The water industry is worried that in just 3 years time it may have nowhere to send millions of tonnes of sludge.
Sludge is spread on farms but there are now concerning levels of PFAS in it.
unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/06/09/s...
Back in 2022, working with @source-material.org we exposed how families were dispossessed of their land to make way for the scheme.
unearthed.greenpeace.org/2022/12/12/t...
Three years after our investigation into Total's huge carbon offsetting project in the Congo, the oil giant is abandoning it - @reporterre.net reports.
It's reportedly stopped funding the project & pulled staff out the country. It planted 12.5% of the intended trees.
reporterre.net/TotalEnergie...
NEW from me: China's CO2 emissions fell ~1.6% in the first quarter and have now been flat or down for more than a year. This is the first time on record that emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, not slow power demand.
15.05.2025 05:45 — 👍 959 🔁 333 💬 8 📌 35
"[It's] largely underground, changes in volume depending on whether it’s rained recently & tries to swallow you up every time you set foot in it"
The government wants you to know that mapping the biggest carbon store on UK land was not easy - & it's not healthy.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The same Tony Blair has been paid to advise oil rich autocratic states including Azerbaijan, UAE and Kazakhstan
This should be included in *every* story about his net zero comments
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
BREAKING: Brazil meat giant JBS has received approval from the SEC for its plan to list on the New York Stock Exchange.
The new comes days after we revealed its pledge to rid its vast Amazon beef supply chain of deforestation by January is likely to be broken
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
project 2025 comes to london. kudos to desmog for snagging the guestlist
www.desmog.com/2025/02/16/l...
This is a nuclear-powered icebreaker, operated by a state-owned Russian company called Atomflot.
Atomflot has been sanctioned by the EU, UK and US since 2023.
🧵
NEW INVESTIGATION
🚢 Companies including Shell and Total import millions of tonnes of gas a year to Europe from the Russian Arctic on specialised LNG tankers. Last winter, these shipments relied on a fleet of sanctioned icebreakers to cross Siberian waters 🚢
New from UE:
The UK is exporting thousands of tonnes of a toxic weedkiller called diquat, even though its use has been banned here for years. More than half goes to Brazil.
We spoke to the Brazilian farmers poisoned with this dangerous export.
unearthed.greenpeace.org/2024/12/08/b...
We've been tracing the impact of the UK's trade in banned pesticides
We found a growing number of Brazilian farmers poisoned with a toxic weedkiller. And exports of enough banned bee-killing pesticides to spray the whole of England
The story's out now
unearthed.greenpeace.org/2024/12/08/u...
The Amazon soy moratorium might not sound exciting, but it is arguably the most impactful agreement on deforestation in history. Weakening it now would be a very, very worrying move. Here’s why 🧵👇
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Super important news here:
A historic agreement that has helped curb deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon for nearly twenty years is under threat from big agribusiness
Weakening the soy moratorium could push the Amazon closer to a catastrophic tipping point
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
This is going to be one of the key points of contention in these hearings - whether state responsibility on climate change is limited to the UNFCCC. ITLOS said it absolutely is not in its own advisory opinion earlier this year www.theguardian.com/environment/...
02.12.2024 12:01 — 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 2Thinking of all the exhausted people going home from plastic treaty negotiations today & curious to know how people feeling?
It's hard to know from afar given the strong support for plastic production caps but no deal & silence from the US & China, not to mention Trump incoming.
#INC5
The list includes five delegates from the Alliance to End Plastic Waste - a nonprofit with members including Exxon, Shell & Total, which was set up by a powerful American oil & chemical lobby group
We published an investigation about them last week 👇
#INC5
unearthed.greenpeace.org/2024/11/20/a...
Fleas exposed to a mixture showed "a markedly reduced number of offspring".
Yet more alarming science for negotiators at #INC5 to bear in mind.
Plastics and PFAS are often regulated separately.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
