Teresa Santos

A Spanish naval vessel will join the Global Sumud Flotilla to provide assistance and, if necessary, conduct rescues, says Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez.

Italy earlier announced it was dispatching a frigate after a night of drone attacks on the flotilla opposed by the Israeli gov't.

Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached – ocean acidification joins the danger zone 24.09.2025 - A new report from the Planetary Boundaries Science Lab at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) reveals that 7 of the 9 critical Earth system boundaries have now been b...

“We are facing a planetary emergency. The breach of the Ocean Acidification boundary is a stark scientific warning and a moral call to action. Without healthy oceans, peace, prosperity & stability are at risk everywhere. We must act now...to safeguard this life-support system for future generations"

Southern Europe swelters under deadly heatwave as temperatures pass 40C Scientists warn of ‘molotov cocktail’ of climatic conditions fuelling vast wildfires across Mediterranean

I cannot describe Europe and the heatwaves this year. They started early, they kept going sooo high and sooo long, now one of the fiercest one is still roaring.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.

By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

bar chart showing deaths associate with extreme heat with and without climate change in 12 European cities

About 1500 of the approx. 2300 people that will have lost their lives across 12 European cities last week would still live, if it wasn't for our burning of oil, coal and gas. If we care about the right to life, we need to stop burning fossil fuels. www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/pub...

Extreme heat could lead to 30,000 deaths a year in England and Wales by 2070s, say scientists Worst-case scenario of 4.3C of warming could result in fiftyfold rise in heat-related deaths, researchers say

Is this with or without societal collapse?

25 percent drop in global GDP and 2 billion dead for 2C rise by 2050 - UK Institute & Faculty of Actuaries

Limits to Growth update - societal collapse as soon as 2040

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Indicators of Global Climate Change 2024: annual update of key indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence Abstract. In a rapidly changing climate, evidence-based decision-making benefits from up-to-date and timely information. Here we compile monitoring datasets (published at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15639576; Smith et al., 2025a) to produce updated estimates for key indicators of the state of the climate system: net emissions of greenhouse gases and short-lived climate forcers, greenhouse gas concentrations, radiative forcing, the Earth's energy imbalance, surface temperature changes, warming attributed to human activities, the remaining carbon budget, and estimates of global temperature extremes. This year, we additionally include indicators for sea-level rise and land precipitation change. We follow methods as closely as possible to those used in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) Working Group One report. The indicators show that human activities are increasing the Earth's energy imbalance and driving faster sea-level rise compared to the AR6 assessment. For the 2015–2024 decade average, observed warming relative to 1850–1900 was 1.24 [1.11 to 1.35] °C, of which 1.22 [1.0 to 1.5] °C was human-induced. The 2024-observed best estimate of global surface temperature (1.52 °C) is well above the best estimate of human-caused warming (1.36 °C). However, the 2024 observed warming can still be regarded as a typical year, considering the human-induced warming level and the state of internal variability associated with the phase of El Niño and Atlantic variability. Human-induced warming has been increasing at a rate that is unprecedented in the instrumental record, reaching 0.27 [0.2–0.4] °C per decade over 2015–2024. This high rate of warming is caused by a combination of greenhouse gas emissions being at an all-time high of 53.6±5.2 Gt CO2e yr−1 over the last decade (2014–2023), as well as reductions in the strength of aerosol cooling. Despite this, there is evidence that the rate of increase in CO2 emissions over the last decade has slowed compared to the 2000s, and depending on societal choices, a continued series of these annual updates over the critical 2020s decade could track decreases or increases in the rate of the climatic changes presented here.

Our new paper updating key metrics in the IPCC is now out, and the news is grim:

⬆️ Human induced warming now at 1.36C
⬆️ Rate of warming now 0.27C / decade
⬆️ Sharp increase in Earth's energy imbalance
⬇️ Remaining 1.5C carbon budget only 130 GtCO2

essd.copernicus.org/...

In the past year we've had a series of papers with results that've shocked #climate scientists - the globe is heating #FasterThanExpected & we don't fully know why

The public discourse is not keeping up.

Here's a series of 5 new studies that climate hawks & journos need to have on their radar 🧵

They've been trying to numb us for a long time.

Fascism. Oppression. Genocide. All on display.

They want us desensitized, to think it's just the way the world works when deep down we know it is unnatural.

Don't let them take away the feeling from you.
It's uncomfortable because you're human.

Greta Thunberg, arriving back in Europe after her abduction by Israel in international waters, explains in 40 seconds why western governments are colluding in genocide:

if the "selfie yacht" was just a "show," Israel probably wouldn't have needed to mount a whole military rendition operation and imprison everyone involved in a secret location

Let’s be clear: Israel, an occupier, has no authority under international law to board or divert the Madleen.

This is a hijacking, plain and simple. A hijacking of a UK-registered ship, with multiple *European* citizens on board.

Does the EU or UK government have anything to say? Anything??

"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."

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."

A tweet from the official FBI Twitter account dated June 2, 2025, reads: "Help the FBI protect children. As the Attorney General has made clear, we will protect our children and hold accountable those who mutilate them under the guise of gender-affirming care. Report tips of any hospitals, clinics, or practitioners performing these surgical procedures on children at 1-800-CALL-FBI or tips.fbi.gov." The tweet has 106K views.

The FBI is now going after trans people and their healthcare. Today it's gender affirming care, tomorrow abortion. This is the authoritarian playbook on display.

Why am I not surprised? haha I'm glad you still managed to stick to a research career :)

The way things are with FCUL, honestly, if I still defend this year, I'm not complaining 😅

Now for the long wait for the defence 😱

a close up of a man 's face with the words `` it 's done '' written on the bottom . Alt: a close up of a man 's (Frodo from Lord of the Rings) face with the words `` it 's done '' written on the bottom .

PhD thesis handed in 💃🏻

Happy Pride Month 2025 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Be gay do crow stuff

#pridemonth #pridecrows

This should be front page news everywhere

New climate course, open free and online, with a revolutionary bent, organised by colleagues from Leeds including the great Jefim Vogel !
Register now, and share widely!!!! Check it out here:
www.futurelearn.com/courses/clim...

I am once again asking que se chamem os bois pelos nomes em vez de diluir a responsabilidade por toda uma classe: não é "o jornalismo" ou "os jornalistas"; é o jornalismo televisivo e dentro deste a CNN PT, SlC N e CMTV.

Screenshot of: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02299-w

Woah, rare to see this kind of language in Nature 👀
“We show that +1.5 °C is far too high and that current climate conditions…could trigger rapid ice sheet retreat and high rates of Sea Level Rise... that would stretch the limits of adaptation” and could have “catastrophic consequences for humanity”

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich: We are destroying everything that remains in Gaza, the world isn't stopping us.

People who are still shouting that Israel is not committing genocide must be clapping their hands over their ears every time an Israeli minister steps onto a podium because

Como li no meu amigo João Nuno:

Perder umas eleições é normal numa democracia.
O grave é perder a democracia numa eleição.

The difference just 4 years can make when land is released from overgrazing.

Nothing was planted here: all these native trees, wildflowers, etc, came naturally, along with loads of butterflies, birds, + other animal life.

THIS is how we reverse nature loss. #Rewilding 🌍