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World’s oceans fail key health check as acidity crosses critical threshold for marine life Scientists call for renewed global effort to curb fossil fuels as seven of nine planetary boundaries now transgressed

Planetary Boundaries are being breached, as humanity lives beyond Earth's ability to cope

We're already exceeding Climate Change, Land System Change, Freshwater Use, Novel Entities (chemicals, plastics) & others

To that list we can now add Ocean Acidification

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The school shooting industry is worth billions — and it keeps growing The effort to keep schools safe from mass shooters has ballooned into a multibillion-dollar industry. Companies are selling school districts assurance with high-tech products.

“In the wake of those shootings, an industry has emerged to try to protect schools — and business is booming. According to research, the school security industry is now worth as much as $4 billion, and it's projected to keep growing.”

The school shooting industry.

“American exceptionalism?”

This is so crucial. When people think about these land comparisons, they don't think about the entire sprawling infrastructure behind FF.

For months now, the vast majority of the UK print and broadcast media have engaged in a round-the-clock campaign of stochastic terrorism against immigrants. The results of that campaign are coming to fruition.

Where are the calls for Rylan to be dismissed from his media roles. Gary Lineker was hounded for his comments, which were nowhere near as divisive and inaccurate as this rubbish. Let’s talk about dual standards!

Starmer could have said:

Vandalism isn't patriotism; daubing red crosses on Chinese takeaways and writing racist graffiti isn't patriotism; perfomatively sitting in front of a flag or tying one to a mosque isn't patriotism;

Patriotism is about making this country safe, happy productive for all.

So embarrassed for this spineless twerp. For how long is Labour going to go along with this?

Yet another capitulation to Reform, when all the evidence shows that following the far right agenda is a disaster for centrist parties. Politics 101, which Starmer has once again entirely failed to grasp.

Don’t ignore that the bbc asked a racist question here

UK experienced its hottest summer on record in 2025, Met Office says Mean temperature over June, July and August was 16.1C as country endured four heatwaves

UK experienced its hottest summer on record in 2025, Met Office says

"a summer as hot or hotter than 2025 is now 70 times more likely than it would be in a ‘natural’ climate" with no emissions from fossil fuel burning

#climatecrisis
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UK experienced its hottest summer on record in 2025, Met Office says Mean temperature over June, July and August was 16.1C as country endured four heatwaves

The hottest UK summer on record, will also be one of the coolest of the 21st century

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Call to Action!

EU laws are there to protect nature & by doing so, they protect us, our health and the economy

The European Commission wants to weaken these very laws & they're asking you what you think:

Tell them to keep their #HandsOffNature by filling in this quick form

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Forget Orwell’s ‘Two Minute Hate’ – the immigration debate shows real loathing | John Crace Since the summer recess the public discourse, stirred by Nigel Farage’s weekly press conferences, has altered radically

Forget Orwell’s ‘Two Minute Hate’ – the immigration debate shows real loathing | John Crace

GOOD THREAD: One more consequence of too many parked cars in cities (and one more reason to replace surface parking with trees and people-places).

All those parked cars are making hot cities even hotter.

(at a minimum, choose a white car.) #UrbanHeat

Nigel Farage set to skip Parliament's return to cosy up with Donald Trump allies As Parliament returns from recess on 1 September, Nigel Farage will be in Washington DC speaking at a right-wing conference

Parliament returns today.

But rather than representing his constituents after six weeks away from the Commons, Farage is speaking at an event alongside Trump’s authoritarian allies in Washington 👇🏻

Barclays follows HSBC in exit from banking industry’s net zero alliance US banks have already pulled out of NZBA, the UN environment programme’s finance initiative

More murderous #climate criminals to add to the list

They are fully aware that this decision will cost lives, but they just don't give a sh*t

We won't forget

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‘The place is bleached, a dead zone’: how the UK’s most beloved landscapes became biodiversity deserts National parks, famous for their rich natural heritage, should be at the heart of efforts to protect habitats and wildlife. Instead, experts say they are declining – fast

Back in court for day 2 of our Dartmoor legal challenge today....and a timely, excellent piece from @phoebeweston.bsky.social on overgrazing. Expert local opinion from the brilliant @tonydartmoor.bsky.social & @guyshrubsole.bsky.social

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‘The place is bleached, a dead zone’: how the UK’s most beloved landscapes became biodiversity deserts National parks, famous for their rich natural heritage, should be at the heart of efforts to protect habitats and wildlife. Instead, experts say they are declining – fast

‘The place is bleached, a dead zone’: how the UK’s most beloved landscapes became biodiversity deserts

Wildfires in the UK: record number of blazes in bone-dry Britain Firefighters called out to twice as many incidents as in previous years as blazes cover a wider area than those seen in France, Spain and Greece

The UK is experiencing an extraordinary year for wildfires.

🔥 more call-outs for firefighters in the first six months than any year to date
🔥 larger area burnt by wildfires than any EU country bar Romania
🔥 "It’s a warning sign," says Thomas Smith at LSE

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Clear account of the multiple failures (or rather deliberate pigheaded destructiveness) of the Trump admin that made the death toll in Texas so much worse. Climate change denialism is the most deadly form of stupidity in the history of humankind.

Burning of fossil fuels caused 1,500 deaths in recent European heat wave, study estimates Scientists have linked last week’s European heat wave to human-caused climate change and estimate that climate change was responsible for 1,500 deaths.

It's official: scientists have linked last week’s European heat wave to fossil-fueled climate change, estimating climate change was responsible for 1,500+ deaths.

Those responsible have names & job titles.

Find out more here:

#heat #extremeweather #makepolluterspay #climate

Gilligan found that, over the 108 years covered by his analysis (1900-2007), the age-adjusted suicide rate increased by an average of 9.7 per million over each Republican four-year term but decreased by an average of 11.1 per million over each Democratic term. The age-adjusted homicide rate increased by an average of 3.6 per million over each Republican term but decreased by an average of 4.2 per million over each Democratic term. These differences may sound small, but they are not. According to the CDC's latest National Vital Statistics Report, there were 37,793 suicides in the U.S. in 2010 (122 per million population) and 16,065 homicides (52 per million population). Applying Gilligan's figures to those baseline levels (and assuming 1 percent population growth per year) implies a projected total of 213,000 violent deaths over the next four years under a Democratic president, but 236,000 under a Republican-a difference of 23,000 lives

A decade ago, my father found that throughout the entire 20th century and the early 21st, almost every time a Republican became president, rates of murder and suicide rose, and almost every time a Democrat became president, both rates fell.

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4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

In the past two years, with surprisingly little notice, renewable energy has suddenly become the obvious, mainstream, cost-efficient choice around the world.

He urgently needs a comms person. Anyone.

HSBC becomes first UK bank to quit industry’s net zero alliance Campaigners condemn ‘troubling’ move that follows departure of six of largest US banks after Trump’s election

These vile people are #climate criminals who put profit before their own children's futures

If you still bank with these people, close your account now, and tell them why

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Country diary: An urban habitat that is good for birds works for humans too | Mary Montague Belfast: I take part in the British Trust for Ornithology’s breeding bird survey, and find out what makes a national park city

Some politicians like to pretend it's people's wellbeing or nature's. In truth, people benefit from the same conditions - cool shade, clean air, pure water - that wildlife needs.

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As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas

The United States government is no longer able to protect us from real hazards, such as flash floods, because it’s shifting funds to fake hazards, such as a non-existent immigrant crime wave. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...

H2 break it to you, the UK is missing a massive opportunity with hydrogen flight As the UK government targets economic growth as its key priority, few opportunities offer quite as much promise as the development of hydrogen aircraft. Not only would it position the UK at the for…

"In 2023, the industry contributed nine per cent of the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions, in 2050 this will balloon to a staggering 59%, unless things change."

Amira Jamal, policy analyst, outlines five reasons the UK should be taking hydrogen flight seriously:

Drones capture devastating coral loss as bleaching wipes out most reef life New research has revealed alarming coral mortality rates of 92% after last year's bleaching event at Lizard Island on Queensland's Great Barrier Reef, marking one of the highest coral mortality rates ...

Mass coral death. Microplastics in every body. Chemical saturation. Species vanishing.

Thousands of urgent warnings. Humanity shrugs. 🤷🏼‍♂️

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