Climate-friendly transport costs have risen faster than motoring costs for more than three decade.
The price of getting around sustainably keeps climbing, while the cost of driving lags behind.
If we want more people on bikes, buses, and trains, policy needs to catch up.
a picture of a huge, low, heavy cloud of black oil over Tehran
This is the cloud of oil currently hovering over Tehran, released when the US bombed the city's oil depots. A stew of particulate matter, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, benzene, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, heavy metals & volatile organic compounds is raining down into the city right now. 1/2
Lobbyists for the UK wood-burning stove industry threaten councils with legal action over public information campaigns on the harms of #airpollution
- "Straight from the playbook of tobacco" says Jemima Hartshorn, at Mums for Lungs
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
An old condom covered in soil on a trowel
Thought I'd found every type of plastic rubbish there was to find in my allotment... then this turns up 🤣
WATCH: This is my favourite thing on the internet right now. Well done Norway! youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...
Microplastics have emerged as a serious environmental and public health concern in recent years.
Policy action lags behind growing evidence of harms
www.bmj.com/content/392/...
The Teachers' Union, NASUWT, oppose new 3G pitches containing rubber crumb infill due to health & environmental concerns 👇
Artificial pitches are a leading source of intentionally added microplastic pollution in the UK. Find out more: fidra.org.uk/news/pitches...
www.nasuwt.org.uk/news/campaig...
Want housing estates where you can't walk to the local shops?
Take action today and demand better transport in new development!
actionnetwork.org/letters/dema...
I don't want a city on Mars.
I don't want AI in every app.
I don't want data centres in space.
I want clean water.
I want a stable climate.
I want bees to survive.
Yellow background. Pink logo says "Clean Air Crowd". The text says "Day 2. Choose click and collect for your next deliver OR walk/wheel/take public transport somewhere you would have driven".
Can you choose click-and-collect or swap a car journey today?
That's the Day 2 challenge for our #CleanAirCrowd.
There are now 1 million more vans on UK roads than in 2014, and 25% of car trips are under a mile. Click-and-collect and rethinking car journeys are simple ways to cut #AirPollution.
Could we get about 8000 of these for Manchester please @andyburnham.bsky.social
🔥 Did you know that #WoodBurning releases tiny particles that get into our lungs & bloodstream, affecting families inside as well as neighbours outside?
The government is consulting on cutting emissions from domestic burning. Please respond by 19th March, and share far and wide! #CleanAirCrowd
Close-up of a dolphin's head emerging from water with text about phone chemicals found in dolphin brains.
Chemicals used in smartphone screens have been found in deceased dolphins 😔
Scientists detected synthetic liquid crystal monomers in their blubber, muscles and brains.
Our marine pollution lead, Sonja, spoke to The Telegraph about what this means for our oceans 👇
https://ow.ly/6bMS50YmPnq
@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "Once again Reform are spreading misinformation & smears, and the press & the media seem to repeat them.. its really important that the media.. take responsibility so when Reform or Farage says something they don't just keep repeating it"👏👏👏
🏥 Prof. @hughmontgomery.bsky.social—Intensive Care Medicine, @ucl.ac.uk: “The climate emergency is a health emergency and it's about time we started treating it as one.”
👥 💬 Will you meet with you MP to discuss the @nebriefing.bsky.social and the #CANBill?
👉 action.zerohour.uk/meeting
Sir Oink A-Lot, Official Monster Raving Looney Party
Gonna have to watch the Gorton and Denton results live purely to hear this name read out:
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Demand better transport in new development! Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/dema...
It's OK to have a cough...isn't it?
The health and climate impacts of black carbon - 0.5 oC.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Elections should represent what people want and need, not those with the loudest voices or deepest pockets. A National Commission is how we'll get the change we need. Could you add your name? www.open-britain.co.uk/ncer
The Government is consulting on the biggest shake-up of planning rules since 2012.
But it remains weaker than what was in place between 1994 and 2012! That previous policy rightly identified traffic growth as damaging our towns, countryside and planet.
actionnetwork.org/letters/dema...
It's still a shock to find a new PFAS forever chemical hotspot, even when it's inevitable. A bit of digging around paper mills, which often use PFAS, revealed the banned carcinogen PFOS at levels as high as 3,000ng/l in groundwater in south Cumbria
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
PFAS are linked to cancer and contaminate our water and food - yet chemical giants are lobbying to weaken protections to our health. Europe can still act. I just signed. Will you? action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-01...
Its a very sad situation when some people only care when it impacts the health of their own children, not others. Our neighbours were free to cause PM2.5 pollution nearly 100x normal levels in our children's bedrooms because the stove industry in the UK is self regulating and completely lawless.
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Ask your Labour MP to Pledge to Stop Rosebank. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...
Over 6,500 have already told Ofcom to take TalkTV's climate misinformation seriously.
Will you join them?
https://action.goodlawproject.org/tell-ofcom-stop-climate-misinformation?utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=ClimateMisinformation&utm_medium=social_media
Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem.
Thank you.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My house has a wood burning stove and I used to use it regularly. I thought It was cheap and climate-friendly. It is neither. It took me the best part of a year to fully change my mind on wood burning but the evidence is irrefutable. I would never use it again.
Warning from a geologist in 1979 that burning fossil fuels risks "famine and social & political upheaval" 👇
Yesterday, the UK Gov published a report acknowledging this - 47 years later.
But they did so without any announcement. So very few people know.
It's time for a televised briefing. #NEB2025
The case for action on dirty air has never been clearer:
🚑 Nearly 8m premature deaths each year
🌫 99% of people breathe unsafe air
🌍 #1 environmental health threat globally
We outline the key facts & stats on #AirPollution 🔽
https://bit.ly/3vJvSBz
There’s no such thing as climate-friendly beef—despite a growing number of "carbon neutral" and "net zero" beef labels entering the marketplace.
New WRI research reveals why: it’s about the land.
Learn more: go.wri.org/beef-emissio...
