If you're an environmental journalist in the UK or Europe, the biggest gathering of ocean scientists in the world is happening in Glasgow next week, and you should consider coming to cover some of the most important findings about our life support system. #OSM26
19.02.2026 09:32 — 👍 102 🔁 44 💬 0 📌 1
No hint of irony here - funny to see the water industry using this kind of rhetoric towards other companies.
"The problem with PFAS will only get worse until chemical companies are forced to stop their manufacture and sale and clean up the mess they've already created"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Water companies are issuing increasing amounts in 'green' bonds - over £10bn since 2017.
We found cases where funds have refinanced completed projects & others where the money was used for activities that companies are obliged by law to deliver
My latest: unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/11/30/w...
Water companies have borrowed over £10bn in 'green' bonds - and keep borrowing more.
We analysed Bloomberg data & found that the industry issued a third of the UK corporate green bonds so far this year.
And still the sewage crisis goes on.
unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/11/30/w...
A quarter of Britain’s native plants are now at risk of extinction
The first update in two decades to a “red list” of plants found a substantial increase in the number of threatened species
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
“We need to be honest with ourselves that travel is not sustainable in its current format and anything suggesting otherwise is greenwashing.”
Refreshing honesty from a global travel company
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
This is a rare and amazing environmental success story & we really should be shouting more about it.
In 2019, KCL estimated that without action, it would take 193 years for London to meet the legal limit.
Birmingham, Manchester & Liverpool all recorded worse results.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Oh thanks, il enjoy this! If you haven't heard Peter G's latest album double album i/o, it's wonderful
29.09.2025 14:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Great (read scary) investigation into the Tony Blair Institute, its relationship with a US tech billionaire & efforts to get NHS health data opened up for AI
I also had no idea TBI was so big: 900 staff!
HT @petergeoghegan.bsky.social @maybulman.bsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
My latest story was also published in the Guardian
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
As Trump visits the king & protestors march through London, we obtained data showing that the president's Scottish golf course repeatedly breached sewage contamination limits
My latest for @unearthednews.bsky.social
unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/09/17/t...
Environment minister Mary Creagh has announced the government will make it harder for farmers to apply for emergency authorisations of a group of bee-killing pesticides known as neonics
Says guidance today will require applications to take full account of the risks pesticides pose to pollinators
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 — 👍 76 🔁 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 — 👍 951 🔁 330 💬 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...
