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Again, Farage, Badenoch and their fellow travellers on X are wildly out of touch with the public on Iran.

Even the majority of Reform supporters oppose their position.

A new study warns UK winters are becoming significantly wetter — with rainfall rising 7% for every degree of warming.

Yet Reform dismiss the scientific consensus and want scrap action to stop the climate crisis.

Climate change is a public law issue  - Public Law Project Ahead of our upcoming ‘Public Law and the Planet’ conference on Tuesday 3 March 2026, PLP is turning its focus to the global fight against climate change and why public law is one of the most powerful...

🌎 Climate change is a public law issue.

Ahead of our 'Public Law and the Planet' conference on 3 March, PLP’s CEO Jamie Peters sets out why public law is essential to challenge environmental injustice and defend frontline communities.

Read the blog: publiclawproject.org.uk/latest/clima...

A key issue for campaigners seeking justice in challenging times. @publiclawproject.bsky.social’s 'Public Law & the Planet' conference Tue 3 March @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social. Legal activists, community groups, lawyers, NGOs share insights. In-person: shorturl.at/CRMkm Online: shorturl.at/dIoM4

The Lie of the Land: who really cares for the countryside? Shrubsole's book 'The lie of the land' provides a compelling catalogue of the loss of Britain’s natural environment

The Lie of the Land: who really cares for the countryside?

Shrubsole's book 'The lie of the land' provides a compelling catalogue of the loss of Britain’s natural environment

westenglandbylines.co.uk/news/environ...

This year has been brutal for the #climate movement.

Rollbacks, repression, & outright denial, especially in the US, have made progress feel fragile & uneven.

Which is exactly why it matters to pause & look back at what did move forward in 2025.

Here are 12 real wins 🏆, one for each month 🧵⬇️

Word of the day, should you be feeling a little huffish, is ‘apanthropy’ (18th century): a love of solitude and the desire to be away from other people.

UK soars past wind power generation record for second time in two months - edie Great Britain’s maximum wind generation record was broken on Friday, 5 December, the National Energy System Operator (NESO) has confirmed.

A new record - on 5 December wind power produced enough electricity for 3/4 of UK homes

At 23.8GW it meant that even during winter peak demand, it was still providing nearly half the country's power needs

Still a way to go though....

www.edie.net/uk-soars-pas...

New study challenges the idea of humans as innately nature-loving Nature is a source of well-being and recovery for many people. However, research shows that there is also a growing number of individuals who experience negative emotions, such as fear, discomfort, or...

"A lack of contact with nature and limited knowledge about nature can reinforce each other in a negative spiral."

#Biophobia - people can fear what they don't know or understand.

Education in and about nature is vital

phys.org/news/2025-12...

It feels freakishly like a 'past' is being created/curated & one day in the future, all of this will seem like it was a big deal to people... wonder if the reality we think we have now, will just be cut in an edit? Surreal times

So many existing oil + gas licenses, pipelines, wells are sited in Marine 'Protected' Areas, as shown on our Watershed Pollution Map. The pollution risks + risks to wildlife if existing licences are expanded are likely to be huge:

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Hong Kong fire: police blame construction firm’s ‘gross negligence’ as death toll rises to 55 Three construction industry employees arrested after police allege unsafe scaffolding materials may have been behind fire’s rapid spread

“Hong Kong fire: police blame construction firm’s ‘gross negligence’ as death toll rises.. alleged buildings were covered with protective mesh sheets & plastic that may not meet fire standards & discovered some windows were sealed with a foam material” #HongKong www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...

Hong Kong was 'home' for 10 years and life in high rise never felt safe or comfortable, was relieved to move to smaller buildings. Can't begin to image the horrors of this tragedy. So many still 'missing'

🧵 /1 Hi @stopcambo.bsky.social - You and Uplift have succeeded here - you deserve huge credit 🙏🙏

However, there is a dark side to this new North Sea plan in which the fossil fuel industry &lobbyists win - lock-in to gas based carbon capture

🧵 Thread continues here: bsky.app/profile/dran...

Huge news from the UK today: after UN climate talks in which there was a massive fight over language on fossil fuels, the UK government today announced that it will in fact be keeping many millions of barrels of oil & gas in the ground. Deeds rather than just words for a change! 🧵

Refuse more time for Lancashire frack site – planners recommend Officials in Lancashire are recommending refusal of a bid to extend the life of the mothballed Preston New Road fracking site near Blackpool.

[Cuadrilla said needed another year for groundwater monitoring to surrender an environmental permit + extra time to restore to pasture. This is 2nd try for extension. If county council votes against extension, it would be 1st refusal for Preston New Road in a decade.] drillordrop.com/2025/11/26/r...

💚 Very sad to hear of the passing of Jane Goodall. Her work and life’s mission championed conservation and the protection of our planet, and deepened our understanding of the natural world.

🌿 “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”

Tell Keir Starmer to make the fracking ban permanent Nigel Farage's Reform party has declared it wants to “drill baby drill” if it wins the next general election. There’s a temporary pause on fracking in England, but it’s not even written into law. So i...

"@teamlabouruk.bsky.social will BAN fracking" sounds fab; reality though will be in the detail (along with the devil). Meanwhile please let Ed Miliband know we want an actual all-encompassing BAN. No loopholes/wriggle room/get-out-clauses. Please sign: @friends-earth.bsky.social 👇 foe.uk/ksojs

United Utilities underspent £52m on vital work to reduce sewage pollution, FoI reveals Privatised water company criticised over efforts to connect private septic tanks to mains and cut pollution

Water company United Utilities promised to spend £129m to connect private septic tanks to the mains network and reduce sewage pollution.

Spent £76.7m over the last 25 years.

UU paid nearly £13bn in dividends since privatisation

Can't trust water companies
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

🌍 Wonderful to see ‘Letters from the Global South’ at Ealing Climate Week. Don’t miss out—it's on until Saturday 28 September!

📍 Southall Library and Dominion Centre, Ealing

🗓️ To find out how to book the exhibition head to: lettersfromtheglobalsouth.org

🌳 #CANBill

Thoughts on politics right now...

TUC Congress votes to support Zane’s Law The Law aims to improve public safety relating to contaminated land in the UK, under greater risk because of increased flooding events.

Such an important campaign; this grieving family has spent 11 years fighting for the truth, not only to obtain justice for Zane - but for truth that will protect all of us. #CleanAir #Landfill #TruthAboutZane #ZanesLaw
*Thank you @tuc.org.uk & @fbunational.bsky.social
www.pcs.org.uk/news-events/...

No new PFI in Neighbourhood Health Services | We Own It Wes Streeting: do not use a “Public Private Partnership” to finance Neighbourhood Health Centres

Did you spot it?

This government wants to use a PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP for Neighbourhood Health Centres in its 10 year NHS plan

*Even though Private Finance Initiatives mean the NHS paying up to 27 x over for hospitals*

Take 1 minute to say no weownit.org.uk/act-now/no-n...

Fracking splits in Reform The controversial issue of fracking in Lancashire has divided Reform politicians in the county from their national leadership.

[..deeply concerning to imagine return to hugely damaging past. Residents/local workers/police/activists – all forced into situation of government’s making. 2019 moratorium stopped fracking & makes clear it can't resume unless proven safe; industry just can’t do that] drillordrop.com/2025/09/03/f...

That which divides us... doesn't always win:

Endangered – the remarkable water vole is making a comeback Predation, pollution, climate change and habitat loss made Kenneth Grahame's Ratty one of the UK's most endangered species. But wildlife trusts are on the case

From riverside holes to underground 'central heating'?

Water voles build burrows with composting chambers that generate warmth in winter.

Nature’s little engineers!

Kate Moore reports🔥🌱
#WaterVoleFacts

"What's on your mind?" Facebook prompt, prompts. I search mine & find the unbearable...
-Images of starving children/war ravaged places
-Sounds of bombing/shooting/weeping/mourning/raging/begging/pleading to a god or anyone, to end man's inhumanity
-Feelings of helplessness/hopelessness/impotence

A society that doesn’t value life, care for those in need, regards healthcare as a luxury not a necessity, will ultimately not value the care givers, the providers & cut them

It will see life expectancy fall, distain for the poor & sick, value placed in material things instead

And, finally, a message of hope and encouragement from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social