Patrick Greenfield

Bright orange rivers are appearing in pristine Alaskan wilderness and across the Arctic as climate change intensifies and permafrost thaws.

@janatausch.bsky.social and I investigate the spread of rust-orange water, from northwestern Canada to Svalbard, Norway.

Read here: as.ft.com/r/009f223e-e...

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Acidente paralisa perfuração na Foz do Amazonas | CNN Brasil Vazamento de fluído de perfuração vai paralisar atividades no poço por um período entre 10 e 15 dias

well, well, well... "Accident halts oil drilling at the mouth of the Amazon River" www.cnnbrasil.com.br/economia/mac...

Nature boys and girls – here’s your chance to get published in the Guardian Our wildlife series Young Country Diary is looking for articles written by children, about their winter encounters with nature

Nature boys and girls – here’s your chance to get published in the Guardian

- Our wildlife series Young Country Diary is looking for articles written by children (8-14, in the UK), about their winter encounters with nature

👇
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

It's snowing (very lightly) in Wood Green!

a world map with locations of extreme weather event studies by WWA in pink & yellow dots

Looking back to @wwattribution.bsky.social studies in 2025 showed again, in stark terms, how unfairly the consequences of human-induced climate change are distributed. The world does not have to be like this, we have a lot of agency to make it better. www.worldweatherattribution.org/unequal-evid...

Why A.I. Didn’t Transform Our Lives in 2025 This was supposed to be the year when autonomous agents took over everyday tasks. The tech industry overpromised and underdelivered.

The tech industry overpromised and underdelivered on general-purpose A.I. www.newyorker.com/culture/2025...

A notably “warm” start to meteorological winter across Europe only far north of Norway, Finland and Sweden have escaped.

The first half has been perhaps been the warmest on record this December though is not expected to exceed 2015... (1/2)

The world lost the climate gamble. Now it faces a dangerous new reality The world bet on collective but voluntary action to keep global warming at a safe level.

"Warming is going to exceed 1.5°C. We are heading into “overshoot” within the next few years. The world is going to become more turbulent and more dangerous. So, what comes after failure?" Some thoughts from Johan Rockstrom & me 10 years after Paris Agreement.

theconversation.com/the-world-lo...

‘There is no money’: As carbon markets collapse, what happens to the forests they promised to protect? After it was found most offsets did not represent real carbon reductions, the money dried up. But successful schemes such as Kasigau in Kenya now face a stark future

Good piece by @pgreenfielduk.bsky.social on the current state of the carbon markets.

Almost 3 years on from our investigation, the market is reforming, but has the Trump White House killed corporate interest in protecting forests?

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

NEW: Just 28% of nations have released plans for reversing nature loss a year after UN deadline

🐝8/17 megadiverse yet to produce their plans, called "NBSAPs"
🪲Includes Brazil, most biodiverse nation and COP30 host
🐜All G7 nations now have a plan, except for US

www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-jus...

you're a good follow tbf! haha

O Brasil seria um dos primeiros a reclamar se outro país estivesse fazendo isso...

A study predicted huge climate damages. But it had a fatal flaw: Uzbekistan. Uzbekistan’s erroneous data dramatically changed the results of a study on global climate damages.

A study predicted economic damages from climate change 3x higher than previous assessments. But it was flawed -- all thanks to the data from just one country.

I dug into this strange study and the researchers calling it out:

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

The extraordinary life and mysterious death of a carbon credits broker How an Italian fugitive used diplomatic immunity to work with Dubai royalty and Liberia’s fallen hero

I’m glad this extraordinary tale by @kenzabryan.ft.com is finally out. The carbon credit business is a LOT more interesting than I thought… on.ft.com/4lqMZMV

I’ll says this once:

We’re spending a lot more on mitigation (e.g., renewables) than on CDR research. A lot more.

It could simultaneously be true that CDR research acts as mitigation deterrence and we need to do CDR research.

Trees will not be enough to reduce atmospheric CO₂.

A conference in a modern venue, with attendees seated at round tables. A presenter stands at a podium in front of large screens displaying slides.

I categorically disagree with claims that CO₂ removal (CDR) is a scam. The field is full of smart people dedicated to figuring out what, if anything, works, because we’ll need CDR in the future for legacy and residual emissions. Funding via market mechanisms isn’t ideal, but doesn’t make it a scam.

Fires drove record loss of world’s forests last year, ‘frightening’ data shows Burning, worsened by global heating, overtook farming and logging as biggest cause of destruction of tropical forests

Fires drove record loss of world’s forests last year, ‘frightening’ data shows

Burning, worsened by the #climatecrisis, overtook farming and logging as biggest cause of destruction of tropical forests

Story by @pgreenfielduk.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

She tried to expose Russia’s brutal detention system — and ended up dead A consortium of international journalists continued the work of Viktoriia Roshchyna, who was investigating reports of torture and detention of Ukrainian civilians in occupied Ukraine.

Russia has returned the body of Ukrainian journalist Viktoria Roshchyna.

Her body showed clear signs of torture: broken ribs, bruises, injuries from electric shocks. Some of her internal organs, including her eyeballs, brain and trachea, had been removed.

Viktoria was 27 years old.

I've put together a webpage with country-level charts that @glenpeters.bsky.social and I produce. Currently 89 countries, not all with same charts. More to come, including data downloads.
Explore for yourself here:
robbieandrew.github.io/country/

"A proposal for such a levy, which has the support of scores of developing countries, the EU and the UK, is under discussion at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in London, in talks that started last month and resume next week before finishing on 11 April.”

We’ve failed to stop climate change — this is what we need to do next While we can still limit warming by cutting emissions, we now face having to adapt to more extreme weather

This is an important piece

By @ben-spencer.bsky.social

www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Fearing toxic waste, Greenland ended uranium mining. Now, they could be forced to restart - or pay $11bn The island is being sued by a mining company over its decision, and faces paying nine times its annual budget in damages if it loses

Fearing toxic waste, Greenland ended uranium mining. Now, they could be forced to restart - or pay $11bn

My reporting from Narsaq - with Phoebe Weston 👇

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Cop16 nature summit agrees deal at 11th hour but critics say it is not enough UN biodiversity conference in Rome ends with fragile accord but questions remain over whether funding will emerge

Governments reached a deal at #Cop16 in Rome last night. But it is clear that this decade's biodiversity agreement is already on life support.

Phoebe Weston reports from the Italian capital

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Nations have finalised a document for planning, monitoring, reporting, and review (PMRR) in plenary at #COP16

There was just one outstanding issue – in classic COP fashion – with a footnote, which has been resolved

Formal adoption of documents won't happen until later tonight, final plenary at 9pm

Under 3 years ago, countries set a big global pledge to protect 30% of Earth for nature by 2030

But our new investigation shows more than half of nations aren't willing to back 30 by 30 within their borders

We found this out by digging through 100s of UN docs

www.carbonbrief.org/revealed-mor...

Crucial UN nature talks are about to reopen in Rome – but will enough countries turn up? After last year’s Cop16 biodiversity talks in Cali left key issues unresolved, the extra summit will attempt to seek consensus, especially over funding

Crucial UN nature talks are about to reopen in Rome – but will enough countries turn up?

Phoebe Weston previews #Cop16 in Rome

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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