Andy Collins

'Truly severe' floods overwhelm Southeast Asia Authorities across Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia worked on Thursday to reach residents trapped in floods that have killed dozens of people across the region in recent days.

#ClimateEmergency

"We are anticipating that things are only going to get worse from here on."

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Iceland deems possible Atlantic current collapse a security risk Iceland has designated the potential collapse of a major Atlantic Ocean current system a national security concern and an existential threat, enabling its government to strategize for worst-case scenarios, the country's climate minister told Reuters.

Iceland has designated the potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) a national security concern and an existential threat.

Yet still fossil fuel usage continues to grow, and they barely agreed to *name* the problem at #COP30.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

'Nigel Farage's Plan to Scrap Nature Protections Would Speed 'Demise' of UK Countryside'

Reform UK’s vow to scrap thousands of nature laws risks pushing Britain’s depleted countryside into irreversible decline, argues Stuart Spray

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

NEW: This is worth your time.

@thenerve_news has the receipts.

A comprehensive timeline of Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s pro-Kremlin influencing activities & 2 other MEPs, David Cobourn & Jonathan Arnott.

Please read & share.

Pamphlet with picture of Gill and Farage and the headline Farage and the Spy Who Loved Him

Timeline of evidence - dates and text of the bribery charges etc

WhatsApps reveal Gill sought to recruit other Brexit/Reform MEPs to make pro-Kremlin statements and that Gill’s handler took orders from Viktor Medvedchuk, a close Putin ally. It's a complex, detail-heavy story. So we went back to journalism's roots and made a pamphlet to hand out at the Old Bailey.

In agreement with my friend @kkjetelina.bsky.social who writes today: "I suggest the general public avoid the CDC website."
yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/cdc-false-...

www.wsj.com/health/healt...

Nathan Gill's social media bio...

They claim to love the country they would sell down the river for a stuffed brown envelope.

He was the head of Reform in Wales.

How do you think Reform would react if any other party leader had been found to have committed such crimes?

The Covid inquiry’s findings are shocking but unsurprising now, so the main thing it left me thinking is that without a vaccine we wd’ve been utterly screwed. & if you worked round the clock to make a thing that saved millions of lives globally, to see that legacy trashed by anti-vaxxers…

“We welcome migrants, we don’t scapegoat them".

How Keir Starmer promised Labour MPs and members he would lead his party on immigration

Information underpins Democracy – why the BBC must be defended Recent events at the BBC have wide-reaching implications for our democracy - and the sooner we realise it, the better

Information underpins democracy and the BBC is a key part of that.

We need to protect our institutions

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The Met Office now agreeing with this scenario for Friday. Bring.it.on!

Since the Paris Agreement, five oil and gas giants have caused $5 trillion in climate damage — while UK fossil fuel tax breaks still total £2.7 billion a year.

Small and medium-sized businesses want to act. Government policy must help them, not big polluters.

#COP30 #ClimateJustice

SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.

"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA

Climate disasters displaced 250 million people in past 10 years, UN report finds Floods, storms and droughts have uprooted people across the globe as rising temperatures intensify conflict and hunger

Climate disasters displaced 250 million people in past 10 years, UN report finds

#climatecrisis #COP30
Story by @ninalakhani.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The deep deep shame of the opt out!

Remembering my sister Rosalind Franklin Rosalind Franklin died of ovarian cancer in 1958 aged 37 years. Sympathy and feminism have combined to give us her familiar image as a downtrodden woman scientist, brilliant but neglected, a heroine t...

Her sister wrote my favorite essay about her. She points out that RF would have been famous even if she'd never looked at DNA

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

First ever British sighting of bird native to the US in the New Forest A first ever British sighting of a Boat-tailed Grackle, a bird native to the eastern United States, has been made at Calshot Spit.

www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/2560094...

In Defence of Bird Conservation in a Broken World In a world torn by wars and crises, bird conservation can seem irrelevant. Yet to protect life itself is not indulgence – it’s resistance.

In Defence of Bird Conservation in a Broken World theornithologist.org/in-defence-o...

"Bird conservation is...the structural underpinning of planetary health....[but] We do not protect birds merely because they are useful, but because they belong – because they are co-inhabitants of this Earth."

HOPE NOT HATE!

The purveyors of hate and horror, the venal, the greedy, the stupid and those who are just plain evil, can be defeated!

People are waking up to the power they have to make change and to build a better world. Polanski and Mamdani have switched the light on. Let’s get this done!

Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.

news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Why Reform UK hates net zero … follow the money! Most Reform UK voters don’t object to green policies, so who is its climate crisis denialism designed to serve?

Why Reform UK hates net zero … follow the money!

Most Reform UK voters don’t object to green policies, so who is its climate crisis denialism designed to serve?

By David Goff

What a remarkable discovery! In SW Turkey a new species of Lycaenid was discovered, Rapala suleymani sp.n., of a genus that was only known from the eastern palearctic & indomalayan realms, it's closest relative flies 7000km away! doi.org/10.31184/M00...

There's at least one documented record of Boat-tailed from Nova Scotia.

Britain's first Boat-tailed Grackle draws crowds to Hampshire A male Boat-tailed Grackle has been identified at Calshot Spit, Hampshire, marking the first record for Britain. Initially thought to be a Great-tailed Grackle, the bird's finer features confirmed its true identity. Its proximity to the Port of Southampton suggests a ship-assisted arrival, making this confiding visitor a fascinating but likely non-natural addition to the British list.

A male Boat-tailed Grackle appeared in Hampshire on Sunday, marking the first record of the species in Britain:

Zohran Mamdani: 'Trump's worst nightmare' celebrates New York election result - as US president responds The Democrat candidate ran on a significantly left-wing platform which included promising city-owned grocery shops and eliminating bus fares. Donald Trump is no fan and warned he could withhold federa...

If you're just waking, it's been a good night for Democrats across the US, with voters rejecting Trump nationwide. 🎉

Mamdani's comfortable win in New York, on the highest turnout since 1969, provides further proof that you don't have to pander to the right to win.
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Still hold if you believe this (ebird.org/news/grackles)? - "The important thing to take home here is that where its range overlaps with Great-tailed, Boat-taileds have brown eyes, and Great-taileds have yellow."

Calshot in hants - no rings and fully winged

I think this is great tailed grackle? It is at calshot