🌊 Our ocean is under threat & marine life is counting on us! To mark #WorldOceanDay on Sunday, any donation made to @oceana.bsky.social this month will be MATCHED pound-for-pound.

💙 Help protect our seas from the threat of #BigOil, #BottomTrawling & #Overfishing.
act.oceana.org/page/132726/...

This is nuts. We shouldn’t have to be fighting needless battles like this. So annoying. Just like the coal mine farce, mad ideas like this just get in the way of sensible policy making for improving lives and dealing with climate.

Revealed: 5,000 English nature sites at risk under Labour’s planning proposals Exclusive: Planning bill includes mechanism for developers to ‘pay to pollute’ valuable ecosystems, experts warn

“Imagine flattening an irreplaceable grade I listed building like the Royal Albert Hall, replacing it with karaoke machines in various towns & then telling the public this is a ‘win-win’ for architecture & music” - brutally accurate analogy from @ruthtingay.bsky.social @wildjustice.bsky.social

Welcome back to Nature or No Nature!

Rachel Reeves, your own experts say nature-friendly farming is vital for our food security, wildlife, & climate.

Yet we hear you're set to slash the very funding it relies on.

With the clock ticking, and our future to play for, can you answer this question...

‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides

When warnings of Insectageddon were issued a few years ago, there was widespread denial. Less so now. It's devastating. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

At this rate, carbon dioxide removal will never matter for the climate The carbon dioxide removal industry is struggling to grow at the pace needed to have a significant role in meeting climate targets

Great piece from my colleague @jamesdinneen.bsky.social on the state of the carbon removal industry www.newscientist.com/article/2482...

Bottom trawling isn't just hugely destructive – it’s also unsustainably expensive. 💸

A ban in the UK’s offshore marine protected areas could deliver up to £3.5 billion in benefits over 20 years, while being 3X cheaper to enforce!

It's time for a ban 👉 act.for-the-ocean.org/act/protect-...

So, Why Are Britain’s Energy Bills So High? What are the real reasons we're paying more than other countries for our energy?

Following my recent appearance on #GBNews, in which I called out the corruption of the fossil-fuel-owned ‘news’ outlet, I thought it best to do a deep-dive on just why UK #energy bills are so high. Read now!

rupertsreads.substack.com/p/so-why-are...

Fix the Planning Bill NOW! Before the General Election Labour promised to restore nature. Less than a year in, and the new Chancellor is leading a charge against the natural world Email your MP to remove Part 3 of the Bill AND ...

An easy way to get involved and ask your MP and the government to really protect nature action.wildlifetrusts.org/page/171483/...

A window beneath the waves: Sussex Underwater To mark this year’s Marine Protected Area (MPA) Day, we spoke to Catrine Priestley, ocean protector and manager of Sussex Underwater. This community group brings together divers, beachgoers, and sea…

🌊 "We wanted to make sure the sea would never be out of sight & out of mind."

🪸 Sussex Underwater is a group of divers, beachgoers & sea lovers documenting the remarkable recovery of Sussex's inshore waters since trawling was banned. Full interview: uk.oceana.org/blog/sussex-...

The warning couldn’t be clearer. ⚠️

Slashing the nature-friendly farming budget would be catastrophic for the nature and climate crisis, and for our long-term food security.

What's more, it would leave the UK Government’s credibility on climate and nature in tatters.

Thank you to Cambridge Independent @cambridgeindy.bsky.social for publishing a smashing piece about our action to Bring Science to Politics

Science is political.

For those who believe it isn't, just ask the scientists in the USA now.

Global temperatures could break heat record in next five years Data also shows small but ‘shocking’ likelihood of year 2C hotter than preindustrial era before 2030

How many warnings do we need? Time to get serious about tackling emissions and adapting to the new reality
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Fund for nature-friendly farming to be slashed in UK spending review Exclusive: Defra sources say scheme, which pays farmers to protect nature, will be targeted at ‘small farms’

You couldn’t make it up - this is the same government that promised to deliver significant nature recovery - yet once again they’re slashing key nature funding & massively undermining farmers in the process. Madness

Help stop the Planning and Infrastructure Bill tearing up nature protections I've written to my MP to demand that the UK Government adopts a nature-friendly approach to planning and development. Will you take action too?

We’re calling on everyone who cares about nature: write to your MP now.

Show them we won’t stand by while vital protections are ripped up: action.rspb.org.uk/page/159517/...

Water companies should be taken into public ownership now | Letter Letter: We have suffered a catalogue of mismanagement – £78bn has been paid in dividends and rivers and streams are full of sewage, writes Adrian Ramsay MP. Plus, a letter by Martin Cooper

The privatised water industry has failed to prepare us for the droughts and floods that we know the climate crisis is bringing

Time to end the experiment with privatisation and bring them back into public ownership writes Adrian Ramsay

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

So, Why Are Britain’s Energy Bills So High? What are the real reasons we're paying more than other countries for our energy?

Following on from @rupertread.bsky.social appearance on GB news, here’s a deep dive into why Britain’s are paying so much for energy:

rupertsreads.substack.com/p/so-why-are...

Sea level will rise fast even if we limit global warming to 1.5°C Satellite observations show the ice sheets are melting faster than expected, and slowing sea level rise to a manageable rate would require lowering the global temperature below the current level

As the world is about to blast 🔥 past 1.5C, we're realising that even if we did somehow limit warming to 1.5 it wouldn't be nearly enough prevent catastrophic sea level rise 🌊 of several metres over the coming centuries, warn @jlbamber.bsky.social‬ and co 🧪

www.newscientist.com/article/2480...

❌ 20,000+ hours of suspected bottom trawling WRECKED UK marine protected areas last year. 🚫 It’s a scandal. A ban is CRITICAL.
 
Our Campaigns Director @alyxcampaigns.bsky.social explains why there’s hope, but only if we act now.
 
👉 Email govt to demand a ban: act.for-the-ocean.org/act/protect-...

Sign the Petition Protect bluefin tuna in UK waters

In 3 months, bluefin tuna will be migrating back into our waters, where they'll be met with a fleet of commercial and recreational* fishers. It's a horrible way to welcome these magnificent, charismatic creatures. Let's try to get this to 250,000 before they arrive.
www.change.org/p/protect-bl...

Unmasking the fossil-funding owner of GBNEWS: live on GBNEWS… Watch how it unfolded… | Rupert Read YouTube video by Rupert Read

WATCH as I denounce the corruption that is #GBNews... LIVE on GBNews.

#climate #energybills #ripoff #fossilfuels #renewables

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Zdq...

❌ Promise made. Promise broken?

The UK Environment Secretary, Steve Reed, VOWED to end bottom trawling.

A year on, and we are STILL waiting. 3/4 🔽

Really important campaign to educate and inform MPs and the public why we absolutely cannot rely on Carbon Capture to mitigate against the devastating damage we’re doing to our planet.
Please take 5 minutes to write to your MP now asking them to Scrap Carbon Capture: scrapcc.org/CCS-ACTION-BS1

🚨 UK offshore marine protected areas endured 20,000+ hours of suspected bottom-trawl fishing last year

Bottom trawling destroys wildlife & habitats🪸

Take action with @oceanauk.bsky.social to help call for a ban on this brutal practice in ocean havens: act.for-the-ocean.org/act/protect-... 🌊

✊ Get ready to meet your MP and join the most powerful lobby yet—for people, climate and nature.

🗓️ Wednesday 9 July
📍 Westminster, London

📝 Register now to join us: www.theclimatecoalition.org/act-now-chan...

💚 #ActNowChangeForever #CANBill

More info via @theguardian.com here 👇
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

When governments don't follow the science, things like this happen... how many people could be alive today if the people in charge during the COVID pandemic had listened to their best scientists?

@chrisgpackham.bsky.social speaking to the New Scientist podcast about the @sciencetopolitics.bsky.social event last Tuesday, tune in from 8:52.

Tell the UK Government to End the Destruction of Our Marine Havens Bottom trawling is one of the world’s most destructive fishing practices. By dragging weighted nets along the ocean floor — some up to 240 meters wide — bottom trawling devastates coastal habitats, ki...

We think it's time to kick this brutality out of marine protected areas. Who's with us? 🚫🎣 Use this link to take action by sending a message to the UK Environment Secretary demanding a ban! 📩👇 act.for-the-ocean.org/act/protect-...

Fish flee for their lives in rare, chilling video of bottom trawling The never-before-seen footage of sea creatures struggling in fishing nets is featured in National Geographic’s new documentary Ocean with David Attenborough.

"Destruction approaches, all the creatures in its path scramble [...] fleeing for their lives. [But] they can't outpace it. It looms closer & closer until it swallows them up."

Reads like a horror film, but it's Nat Geo's article on bottom trawling. 1/2
www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/...