John Fellowes

"In the face of the immense political influence of the Trump administration and the financial and digital power of Big Tech, grassroots movements showed that people organizing for democracy, social justice, and the protection of their territories can prevail" amazonwatch.org/news/2026/10...

Climate emissions resulting from approving drilling at Rosebank, expanding Heathrow airport, watering down UK’s EV targets, cutting heat pump grants would be 402m tonnes of CO2 over the next 25 years Greater than the annual emissions of 106 coal plants www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"We have to close the accountability gap and build food and energy systems that can actually function over the long term, not ones that destroy the foundations we all depend on." forestsandfinance.org/blog/launchb...

"“If NOAA goes ahead and starts issuing [exploration] licenses, and then also proceeds to issue exploitation permits, that is a direct affront to multilateral ocean governance, and basically the entire international law system" news.mongabay.com/custom-story...

Having worked for and with NGOs and foundations for most my career, I can't even begin to grapple with what NGO advocacy would look like if most philanthropic support was coming from Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Dario Amodei and their ilk.

"What might guardrails look like in the academic research sector? A possible model may be found in the existing practice of the Institutional Review Board (IRB)..."

"results reflected the detrimental impact of human-induced disturbances on deep-sea ecosystems, even with short time period" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"The biodiversity crisis cannot be solved by creating new financial markets for nature. What is needed is transformative change—not the financialisation of biodiversity." greenfinanceobservatory.org/wp-content/u...

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"it is only by unmaking capital that a world based on values that foundationally respect human and non-human flourishing can be made" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"protecting food security requires shifting the narrative from “production volume” to “nutritional equity,” demanding the strict enforcement of IEZs, freezing trawling footprints and discontinuing subsidies which drive overcapacity" transformbottomtrawling.org/wp-content/u...

"On bramble higher honeybee density was associated with fewer bumblebees, whereas on ivy it was associated with reduced solitary bee and hoverfly abundance." resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The president of Brazil has won a court case against Meta, after accusing them of restricting his posts and algorithmically favoring his opponent, Flavio Bolsonaro www.nbcnews.com/world/south-...

"this investigation reveals influence efforts by the oil-linked Energy in Action (EIA) network, whose members are receiving funding and support from the Canadian Energy Prosperity (CEP) group, aiming to shape the energy conversation in Canada" www.greenpeace.org/static/plane...

"Endemic species concentrated in the Dinaric and Balkan mixed forests, suggesting these regions act as centers of endemism and potential long-term refugia. The humid continental climate zones emerged as the most important centers of endemic diversity." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

To be an American right now is to feel an intense sense of shame, for abandoning our allies and sucking up to dictators. Trump and Musk are not just betraying Ukraine, they're betraying the very idea of freedom. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/w...

In a new paper out today in Science Advances with my USGS colleagues, we describe the climate and environment of the White Sands playa when early humans walked on it 23,000 years ago. We also have an even tighter chronology with a lock to the Greenland ice core! news.arizona.edu/news/footpri...

“Sally Rooney’s willingness to accept the personal consequences of her convictions deserves recognition.” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

"Migratory caribou generally selected older postfire habitats (over 55 years) or habitats with no known recent fire history, whereas sedentary and montane caribou showed highly variable responses across post‐fire successional stages. " wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Wallacea: "Joint land–sea conservation scenarios reduced reef sedimentation by 25% more than strategies that treated land and sea separately" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📢Peatpod is now live! The first mini-episode (a trailer of sorts) for Peatpod - a podcast on the world's #peatlands - is available on Substack, Spotify, Apple Podcasts... Upcoming episodes incl. chats with guests about bogs in Patagonia, China, Germany & more. peatpedia.substack.com/p/welcome-to...

"We could blanket the entire planet in solar panels, and power every last data center with nuclear power, but if we continued to use coal, oil, and gas, the temperature would continue to climb with no end in sight." www.currentaffairs.org/news/liberal...

Amazon is deploying AI to spy on its workers and bust unions before they form www.resilience.org/stories/2026...

“We cannot allow political interests to determine which science the world is willing to hear.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"We identify 5 pathways—agricultural deintensification, increasing food-system efficiency, urban greening, mitigation of light pollution, and landscape restoration—that can alter future trajectories of insect populations while providing benefits for humans." academic.oup.com/aesa/advance...

“Boreal Permafrost (abrupt thaw), the North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre, and the West Antarctic Ice Sheet receive comparatively limited attention despite their relatively low estimated thresholds” www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

“If we do not cut greenhouse gas emissions fast enough, we found a potential domino effect that could add up to 25cm (9.8 inches) of sea-level rise from Antarctica alone by 2100 – enough to permanently flood the homes of more than 10 million people.”

"Shrinking civic space presents a growing, existential threat to the climate field." www.fundersinitiativeforcivilsociety.org/shifting-the...

The northeastern Pacific basin just entered the #1 spot for its most active hurricane season on record. The season has produced 21 storms so far, including three Category 5 hurricanes and five Category 4s.

“Paradoxically, just at the moment when we could be about to achieve the lowest rate of deforestation [in more than a decade]… we face the threat of a government which … would set all of this back to square one.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.

It would be lovely to think that on discovering an error of this magnitude it would prompt the Tories to stop and ask themselves if maybe we can afford net zero after all. Sadly, there is zero chance of that happening. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

"vast tracts of natural forest across several regions in Papua continue to be destroyed and cleared by corporate heavy machinery escorted by military personnel." pusaka.or.id/en/news/pres...

“The main response must be to stop dithering and delaying when it comes to reducing emissions and phasing out fossil fuels” www.politico.eu/article/clim...

'The brand new ECMWF El Niño forecast has just arrived, and it’s quite something. It shows the El Niño peaking around or just above 4°C in Dec. But what’s most notable is the duration of record-breaking conditions, with with many members remaining above 3°C into April!' x.com/BenNollWeath...

I stood in the presence of several very ancient oaks in Bandon's Castlebernard Woods a few months ago, and was in total awe. Such trees are now *incredibly* rare in Ireland. Please support Bandon Environmental Action Group in getting the 34.5-acre ecosystem protected. www.corkbeo.ie/news/local-n...

Great work on oil and gas industry lies about "routine" flaring. “It’s a deliberate greenwash that establishes a target that’s meaningless,” says Richard Ward, a former Shell sustainability manager.... "Those loopholes are so big that they don’t have to do anything.” Gift link. Please read.

"We still have the battle for the Presidency ahead of us. It will be the toughest we have ever faced in Brazil. This is no ordinary election. What will be decided 21 days from now is whether Brazil will remain a democracy" sumauma.com/en/flavio-bo...

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"The UK has avoided the need for gas imports worth £5.9bn since the start of the Hormuz crisis as a result of record generation from wind and solar" www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-win...

"Rethinking sustainability... requires moving beyond simplistic dichotomies to critically engage with the layered histories, power relations, and entanglements of global agendas, state projects, and local practices that continue to shape landscapes" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“The response to this El Niño is the one part of this that can still be changed, and the funding can still be found. It will be cheapest if it arrives before the hunger disaster hits, rather than after the hunger and famine have begun.” www.4hunger.org/p/nineteen-a...

"The IUCN says “urgent technical and financial support” are needed, but that the emergency response must be followed by greater investment in re-wetting peatland, addressing deforestation, and ensuring burned forests are restored, not converted into plantations." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Another reminder: “regenerative” grazing is *not* a real climate solution. While it might build some soil carbon, it drives far more land use and larger herd sizes than conventional beef production, which is bad enough. The better solution? Eat less, waste none. drawdown.org/insights/eig...

Anthony Albanese NY Climate Week: “The science told us unmistakably that as the world warms these events will become more frequent and intense. And those scientific forecasts have come to be. Yet he has approved 37 new, expanded or extended coal and gas developments since taking office in 2022!

The thin language of dollars, but: "First Nations Guardians programs represent highly effective, values-aligned public investments that simultaneously advance reconciliation, environmental stewardship, community wellbeing, and individual transformation." static1.squarespace.com/static/5f836...

“climate-induced seaweed forest loss is eroding their carbon sink capacity three to four orders of magnitude (1,000–10,000×) faster than it can currently be restored or recovered through active interventions” journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

✊🏽 Let’s act together against ISDS ✊🏽 Investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) gives corporations huge power, undermines democracy, damages human rights and blocks climate action. This October, join us to take action against ISDS. stopisds.global/en/