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Anti-Islamic US biker gang members run security at deadly Gaza aid sites BBC identifies members of Infidels MC gang hired as armed security at US and Israel-backed aid sites.

One of those "it's hard to be shocked in 2025, but...." stories. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Relatedly, I watched Children of Men (2006) for the first time the other day, and it has stood the test of time horribly well

What is the endgame in this toxic immigration debate: is it friends and neighbours thrown out of the country? | Jonthan Liew The notion of remigration was abstract, but the right is dragging it towards respectability. If the goal is homogeneous whiteness, they should say it, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

"The idea of mass deportations as a realistic political agenda would have felt as far-fetched two decades ago as the idea of your non-white friends being strapped into a plane does now. This, in itself, should serve as a warning."

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Inside the Spanish region leading the way on climate adaptation From storm-proofing grids to electrifying its port, Bilbao has some cutting-edge answers to climate change.

The Basque Country has a unique public-private ecosystem. It was fascinating to visit Bilbao last month (during a heatwave) and see what solutions it's generating for climate adaptation and mitigation.

@tecnalia.bsky.social

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Our colleagues Al Jazeera reporters Anas al-Sharif & Mohammed Qraiqeh, & cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal & Moamen Aliwa have been killed in a strike on a tent for journalists near Al Shifa hospital. They worked relentlessly through bombing & hunger to document this war. Please remember them

Lost English legend decoded, solving a Chaucerian mystery and revealing a medieval preacher’s meme Decoding a lost English legend, solving a Chaucerian mystery, and revealing a medieval preacher’s meme

A tale of Wade on Wade 🐺

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🧡 BREAKING: Historic win 🧡

The High Court of Justice of Galicia has ruled for the first time that authorities failing to properly address water pollution from industrial livestock are violating people's fundamental rights – and should be held accountable 🧵

Climate change tripled deaths during Europe heatwave, scientists find A ‘silent killer’, the June to July heatwave is estimated to have claimed many more lives than the Valencia floods last year.

“If we continue to follow the wishes of the fossil fuel industry and delay serious mitigation further, more and more people will lose their lives, for the financial benefit of only a tiny, rich, loud, influential minority.” - @frediotto.bsky.social

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Greta Thunberg Speaks from Aid Ship Heading to Gaza Despite Israeli Threats: “My Moral Obligation” As Gaza faces over three months of Israeli blockade, a group of 12 activists is sailing to Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid. The Madleen ship was launched by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition and initia...

Greta Thunberg on why it’s essential for climate activists to speak out on Gaza:

"The reason I am a climate activist is not because I want to protect trees. I'm a climate activist because I care about human, planetary well-being and those are extremely interlinked."

Inside Taranto’s 12-year wait for EU action on steel plant pollution The European Commission has been accused of misconduct over its handling of toxic pollution from Ilva, once Europe's largest steel plant.

A very long infringement: 12 years after starting legal action against Italy over a polluting steel plant, the EU has yet to take it to court.

Taranto residents feel "abandoned in the shadows of institutional indifference". Today, they complained to the Ombudsman 👇

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Swiss village almost entirely destroyed after collapse of glacier buries it in mud One person missing and Blatten devastated after huge cloud of ice and rubble inundates evacuated town

Thankfully, the village was evacuated already, but one person is missing and everyone else’s homes are destroyed.

Make no mistake: this is a climate disaster.

‘Heroic’ youth back with new climate lawsuit after European rejection A new lawsuit is being built to challenge the Portuguese government’s climate targets and plans by young veterans of climate litigation.

Remember the six Portuguese young people who brought a massive climate lawsuit against 32 European countries at the European Court of Human Rights? They're now building a claim directly against their own government, together with NGO Último Recurso.

World reaches 40% clean electricity. What’s the story in Europe? Heatwaves, AI and data centres are driving electricity demand to new heights. But clean power is up to the challenge, a new global review finds.

More than 40% of the world's electricity is generated from clean energy, with solar lighting the way.

Europe is well ahead with 71% clean electricity. "There is a solar story in every country now" says @ember-energy.org's Dr Beatrice Petrovich.

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Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN Workers on a mission to help colleagues were buried in mass grave in southern Gaza, says humanitarian office

Israeli soldiers shot at clearly marked Red Crescent and UN vehicles. They killed the aid workers inside them "one by one". And buried them beside their ambulances in the sand.

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New investigation links Texas fracking to European plastics More than 25 major consumer brands and petrochemicals have been traced to fracking in the Permian Basin, one of the world’s ‘carbon bombs’.

A new investigation joins the dots between fracking in the Permian Basin, petrochemical giants and everyday plastics.

@cielorg.bsky.social & @stand.earth researchers explain why plastic pollution is a supply driven issue 👇

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My reaction to the U.S. withdrawal from the Loss and Damage Fund 🧵

"The decision by the Trump administration to withdraw from the new Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage not only exemplifies a longstanding pattern of obstruction by the U.S. government in securing...

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From Czechia to the UK, here’s how beavers are winning people over Beavers are working wonders across Europe. Is the UK finally realising their potential?

Back on the beaver beat - featuring a perfectly placed dam near Prague, and the UK's new rules on wild releases.
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‘We have a rule when we hear the sirens: if you’ve started operating, you don’t stop’: 24 hours with doctors on the Ukrainian frontline Like the soldiers they battle to save, combat medics in Ukraine are under constant attack. Three years after the invasion, one NHS doctor bears witness

We need facts as never before.

3 years after Putin invaded Ukraine, I spent 24 hours with combat medics on the Ukrainian frontline.

Their courage, compassion, dedication & skill are astounding.

Please read & please never stop standing up for Ukraine. 🇺🇦

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Pain, growth and hope: 5 climate books for your 2025 list Looking for an inspiring climate read? Here are five books I mulled over in 2024.

Last article of the year - I wrote about some books I loved in 2024 :)

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Have you ever paid a voluntary contribution towards sustainable aviation fuel on top of the cost of your flight ticket?

If you have, I’d love to ask you a couple of questions for an article I am writing.

As a long time IFLA! fan, it's great to have some words in here - recommending Rachael Allen's stunning poetry collection, God Complex

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‘Dark times’: Climate activists on why they’re still fighting at COP29 Cutting through the noise at COP29, Luisa Neubauer and Asad Rehman tell us what brings them to Baku.

A bright-ish first Bluesky post 👋🏻

The promise of the Paris Agreement is well alive, @luisaneubauer.bsky.social tells us. "These halls are a testament to that because people do show up even in the darkest times."

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