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If the author of a dystopian climate novel wrote these words from the US department of Energy, they would be accused of fantasy alarmism or fossil fuel sexism. But here we are…

The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza Israel controls the flow of food into Gaza. It has calculated how many calories Palestinians need to stay alive. Its data shows only a fraction has been allowed in

The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza

Israel has calculated how many calories Palestinians need to stay alive. Its data shows only a fraction has been allowed in.

Horrifying story by Emma Graham Harrison

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Ouch! Get well soon.

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‘We faced hunger before, but never like this’: skeletal children fill hospital wards as starvation grips Gaza For months Israel kept food shipments to Gaza far below starvation rations. Now the death toll is rising rapidly

‘We faced hunger before, but never like this’: skeletal children fill hospital wards as starvation grips Gaza

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‘When an international colleague tried to bring baby formula into Gaza, Israeli authorities confiscated it.’

Keir Starmer removes Labour whip from four ‘persistent rebel’ MPs Rachael Maskell, Neil Duncan-Jordan, Brian Leishman and Chris Hinchliff pushed out and three trade envoys lose roles

Solidarity this evening with @chrishinchliff.bsky.social, a brilliant Labour MP - the first ever Labour MP elected for NE Hertfordshire - who has been nonsensically suspended from the party for standing up for nature

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How was this? Any tips?

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Sympathies. You have been horribly treated but I am not surprised. X is a cesspool and the administrators have made it that way. I think you should consider it a badge of honour to be booted out.

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New books ask how we can protect threatened land in the Amazon rainforest and Hawaii : NPR's Book of the Day Two new books ask how we might protect vulnerable ecosystems in the Amazon rainforest and Hawaii. First, journalist Dom Phillips was reporting in the Amazon when he and a colleague were shot and kille...

HOW TO SAVE THE AMAZON is an @npr.org Book of the Day! 💙📚💡
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Obrigado Deborah.

Tipping Points need to be on the agenda for COP30 - SUMAÚMA The possibility of sudden catastrophic change has been largely neglected in United Nations reports on the climate crisis, which allows politicians to carry on with business as usual. That must change ...

Tipping Points need to be on the agenda for COP30

The possibility of sudden catastrophic change has been neglected in UN reports on the climate crisis, which allows politicians to carry on with business as usual. That must change in Belém

My editorial for @Sumaúma

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Brics summit in Brazil tries to reinvent collective approach to world’s problems | Jonathan Watts President Lula rebukes wealthy countries for retreating on climate and trade but bloc is divided and unbalanced

Brics summit in Brazil tries to reinvent collective approach to world’s problems.

My column from Rio as Lula rebukes wealthy nations for retreating on climate and trade.

Ominous for COP30

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World’s richest 1% increased wealth by $33.9 trillion since 2015, Oxfam says That amount is “more than enough to eliminate annual poverty 22 times over,” according to a new analysis from the anti-poverty group.

The world’s richest 1 per cent have increased their wealth by $33.9 trillion since 2015, “more than enough to eliminate annual poverty 22 times over,” according to new @oxfaminternational.bsky.social analysis.

Chart: Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ blows US emissions goal by 7bn tonnes - Carbon Brief Donald Trump’s dismantling of climate policy means the US will add an extra 7bn tonnes of emissions to the atmosphere from now until 2030.

Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ blows US 2030 emissions goal by 7bn tonnes

By @carbonbrief.org
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Spain records highs of 46C and France under alert as Europe swelters in heatwave Extreme heat ‘the new normal’, says UN chief, as authorities across the continent issue health warnings

Spain records highs of 46C and France under alert as Europe swelters in heatwave

- Extreme heat ‘the new normal’, says UN chief, as authorities across the continent issue health warnings

#climatecrisis
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‘It looks more likely with each day we burn fossil fuels’: polar scientist on Antarctic tipping points Despite working on polar science for the British Antarctic Survey for 20 years, Louise Sime finds the magnitude of potential sea-level rise hard to comprehend

Last week, Dr Louise Sime spoke to @theguardian.com about polar tipping points, disappearing sea ice and events so rare they should only happen once every 10,000 years.

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If you email them they'll send you a link to watch. They posting only the plenaries, fyi

Will pass this on to the organisers.

Good question. I assume there will be some media coverage though that is never guaranteed. And some of the events may be streamed.

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Thanks for sharing Andrea!

Thank you Annie!

For those who want to know more about this subject, follow next week’s Tipping Points conference in Exeter, organised by Tim Lenton, Johan Rockström and Ricarda Winkelmann. and featuring Genevieve Guenther, Carlos Nobre, David Obura and many other experts.

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‘Positive cascades could help accelerate change’: social tipping points expert on fixing climate crisis The world has been too optimistic about the risk to humanity and planet – but devastation can still be avoided, says Timothy Lenton

Positive cascades of social change are needed to address climate crisis, says tipping point expert Tim Lenton.

My fifth and final interview for the Guardian series, Tipping Points: On the Edge.

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