@brianmchugh.bsky.social
Writer for Yorkshire Bylines in the UK https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/author/brianmchugh/ Climate Book reviewer at https://climatewithbrian.com/
Everyone on the planet needs to read this article.
'Environmental contagion is important not because it is possible to keep everything at bay, but precisely because we cannot.
The world is inside us, now.
What are we going to do about it?'
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/o...
Everyone on the planet needs to read this article.
'Environmental contagion is important not because it is possible to keep everything at bay, but precisely because we cannot.
The world is inside us, now.
What are we going to do about it?'
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/o...
World in $1.5tn ‘plastics crisis’ hitting health from infancy to old age, report warns
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
They Poisoned The World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals'
The long battle against chemical polluters goes on, but it can be won.
@mariahblake.bsky.social
@realerinbrockovich.bsky.social
@markruffalo.bsky.social
#PFAS
climatewithbrian.com/2025/08/03/r...
World in $1.5tn ‘plastics crisis’ hitting health from infancy to old age, report warns
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Review of 'No Straight Road Takes You There' by Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
‘With courage nothing is impossible.’
Everything we can save is worth saving.
climatewithbrian.com/2025/07/25/r...
I'm blown away by this review in The American Scholar. It likens THEY POISONED THE WORLD to Rachel Carson's SILENT SPRING, which ignited the modern environmental movement, and goes on to call my book a "masterly exposé" & "critical reading for us all."
#PFAS theamericanscholar.org/sticking-wit...
How did 3M’s “forever chemicals” end up in all of us? Sharon Lerner reports the inside story of the corporate scientists who discovered—then helped to conceal—the dangers of its chemicals.
22.07.2025 15:04 — 👍 1935 🔁 880 💬 80 📌 56
"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."
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Officials in Tuvalu are making preparations for “the first planned migration of an entire country.” Tuvalu and Australia signed the Falepili Union Treaty in 2023, which paves the way for 280 Tuvalans to resettle in Australia as permanent residents each year. By Fernanda Gonzalez at @wired.com
03.08.2025 12:31 — 👍 35 🔁 17 💬 2 📌 3
They Poisoned The World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals'
The long battle against chemical polluters goes on, but it can be won.
@mariahblake.bsky.social
@realerinbrockovich.bsky.social
@markruffalo.bsky.social
#PFAS
climatewithbrian.com/2025/08/03/r...
Revealed: Yorkshire Water boss was paid extra £1.3m via offshore parent firm
Bonuses were banned.
So they just paid them extra
Yorkshire Water at its finest
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Revealed: Yorkshire Water boss was paid extra £1.3m via offshore parent firm
Bonuses were banned.
So they just paid them extra
Yorkshire Water at its finest
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Expanding Heathrow would result in increased carbon dioxide emissions and could put the UK further off track on its climate goals
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I don't disagree
01.08.2025 09:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Expanding Heathrow would result in increased carbon dioxide emissions and could put the UK further off track on its climate goals
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
BBC News - Rights of Hampshire rivers recognised in council votes
Something wonderful is happening
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Intense rain and flash floods expected from New York City to Washington DC
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
BBC News - Rights of Hampshire rivers recognised in council votes
Something wonderful is happening
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Council recognises right of River Test to flow unimpeded and unpolluted
Test is one of only about 200 chalk streams in the world and councillors says biodiversity in and around it has declined
Important protection for UK chalk streams
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Countries failing to act on UN climate pledge to triple renewables, thinktank finds
Fossil fuel reliance likely to continue and Cop28 target of limiting global heating to below 1.5C will be missed
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Yorkshire reservoir levels down at 47%!!!
2% drop in a week.
With a hosepipe ban in place, you can't blame customers.
Very poor management
Yorkshire reservoir levels down at 47%!!!
2% drop in a week.
With a hosepipe ban in place, you can't blame customers.
Very poor management
New Zealand government votes to bring back fossil fuel exploration in major reversal
A huge step backwards here
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
New Zealand government votes to bring back fossil fuel exploration in major reversal
A huge step backwards here
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Motherfucking wind farms…
30.07.2025 17:02 — 👍 45838 🔁 17310 💬 1141 📌 2295
Countries failing to act on UN climate pledge to triple renewables, thinktank finds
Fossil fuel reliance likely to continue and Cop28 target of limiting global heating to below 1.5C will be missed
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
This is brilliant
30.07.2025 19:33 — 👍 59 🔁 20 💬 2 📌 0This is brilliant
30.07.2025 19:33 — 👍 59 🔁 20 💬 2 📌 0
Council recognises right of River Test to flow unimpeded and unpolluted
Test is one of only about 200 chalk streams in the world and councillors says biodiversity in and around it has declined
Important protection for UK chalk streams
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
