Dr. Helena Wright

Anne Olhoff shared some positive news on #climate amidst a depressing update: "From 2025 to 2026, a slight increase in fossil fuel emissions were offset by lower emissions from land use. It is too soon to declare that global #emissions have plateaued or #peaked." @unep-ccc.bsky.social

Victory for Lula, who has already reduced Amazon deforestation by 70% since 2022, means there is now a chance of ending deforestation of the rainforest entirely I’m weeping with joy for Brazil, for the Indigenous peoples of the Amazon, and for life on Earth 🇧🇷🌳🌎 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Other people have done environmental ones so I am going to say, dining out & food in general! When I was growing up, an avocado was a rarity and now they are everywhere! #food #progress #optimism

Meta is accused of election interference in Brazil after restricting Lula's Instagram while recommending Bolsonaro's accounts. 1,613 foreign-funded political ads were uncovered generating 171M impressions. Brazil has ordered Meta to explain its conduct.

Some early morning reading for the Energy Minister #Jackdaw #Rosebank👇

Shocking to see this report published on the same day as the UK government approve new drilling for fossil fuels. We need climate action and leadership now!

Not related to climate - but I just learned France has a law where you can donate unused annual leave to a colleague with a seriously ill child. This is an amazing idea! France is awesome. www.hsfkramer.com/notes/employ...

Question at Apolitical Summit arising from the discussion on AI: What is the energy and water cost, if governments are integrating AI? Is the energy and water cost being measured, as well as the benefit? #energy #water #policy @apolitical.bsky.social @oecd-env.bsky.social

Musk went a little too far. #musk #Starlink

“But you don’t have to wait until then. Stop buying Teslas. Don’t use X. Don’t sign up for Starlink.” And pressure companies to uncouple from Starlink.

New research from E3G out today once again showing that getting off fossil fuels lowers bills and improves quality of life www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"People are not budgeting for a major increase in their insurance premiums or planning for their homes becoming uninsurable, but many of them absolutely should be." #uninsurable #climatecrisis #loss www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Pennsylvania reports 1,222 measles cases as outbreak grows reut.rs/4s3UfD7

Errr.... right, so UK is having to find more money for defence against Russia... by cutting funding for heat pumps that get us off gas... thereby keeping us dependent on an energy commodity *weaponised* by Russia & international conflict. Smart thinking guys www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Ukraine hit by deadly Russian strikes as ‘thanks’ for Trump diesel deal, Zelenskyy says

"The FAO Cereal Price Index increased by 5.1 percent from August, averaging 17.2 percent higher than its September 2025 level" #climatechange #climateshocks #costofliving #hunger @climatenews.bsky.social @eciu.net @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social

Most people underestimate how concerned everyone else is about climate crisis. Number-1 most read on BBC news...

UK shares findings of damning climate crisis national security report suppressed under Starmer

'Miliband will appoint a new special representative for climate security, as well as a new ministerial taskforce on “the national security and resilience risks of a changing climate and nature loss”, with military and security experts as well as climate scientists.'

The lawyer for the Venezuelan man shot by ICE yesterday says he was discharged from the hospital and transferred to ICE detention while the bullet was still inside of him, and that in Pearsall he's not received any pain meds and was forced to sleep on the floor.

Brilliant game someone made with Claude using real world data. It takes a few seconds. If you were to be reborn today as a random animal, what animal would you be? I got male chick.... what did you get? spawn-again.app

Human brain cells are transplanted into mice. Please don't do this. Just because you can do something, it doesn't mean that you should. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Really recommend this new book which debunks a lot of junk science promoted by the Wellness Industry - an interesting read! @uclhealthpublic.bsky.social

AN URGENT EXCLUSIVE: Ahmed Soliman, the 30-year-old gay man ICE expelled in April to Equatorial Guinea, a country he has no ties to, was arrested this morning and cannot be located, his attorneys say. They fear he may be in one of EG's torture prisons. prospect.org/2026/09/11/i...

Whether it's politics, social media, the environment or countless other issues, there's intense debate over the need for new policies and legislation when so often what is required is simply the proper enforcement of existing rules and regulations.

This summer, many, many news reports failed to make the connection between extreme weather events and climate change. So we wondered — have journalists made the connection between the deadly glacier collapse and flooding in Nepal and climate change? The good news? Many. Here's a thread...

Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

"Analysts warn that the rate of ice melt in the Himalayas threatens water security for up to 1.65 billion people in the wider region" Climate change impacts hit Nepal... Awful this also coincides with Musk's cuts to emergency aid budgets. www.independent.co.uk/asia/south-a...

Summer in Mumbai was brutal and endless. The monsoon's poster child was running out of water. In a dispatch for @equatormag.bsky.social, I wrote about living with extreme heat in a broken city and limits to resilience. With🔥 images by @ishantankha.bsky.social www.equator.org/articles/cit...

More costs of #climatechange for the UK Thames Barrier may need to be replaced decades earlier at a cost of 20bn: "this is due to an increase in extreme weather brought about by climate change which has put the defence system under strain." eandt.theiet.org/2026/08/17/t...

What a terribly sad outcome. We as a society and too judgemental and prone to celebrate misstepa by others. Social media plays a major role. Very sad. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/w...

#ClimateEmergency - very much a #PublicHealth issue www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

"The move has prompted legal and ethical questions" #insidertrading #corruption www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Trump has amassed staggering wealth in ‘most openly corrupt’ US presidency. $2.2bn in 2025 by amassing cryptocurrency, benefiting from wealthy foreign interests, expanding his Truth Social business and more. Trump takes corruption it to new depths. What have the cronies been promised?

Revealed: just 20 out of of 6,600 Defra staff working on climate adaptation, as UK burns in fifth heatwave of this summer - FOI request by me @andyburnham.bsky.social needs to level with the country about the climate crisis & set out radical plan to tackle it 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

If you have a silent platform on Twitter, would you be willing to return purely to try to help combat misinformation?