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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 1h

George is right
UK Labor launching full scale attack on UK nature
Giving developers free hand
Huge limits on legal objections
ministers new authority to issue holding directions to stop local councils from rejecting planning
insideecology.com/2025/10/15/u...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

How the Labour government would have banned the Labour movement.
My latest column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot

The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 1h

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

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Klaske Wijkstra 🇪🇺 @keawijkstra.bsky.social · 2h

@ec.europa.eu
Recycling plastics is polluting the world with microplastics.
Left: my 16 yrs old coat made of p.e.t. by Patagonia.
Right: husband got this with his spectacles. Made from p.e.t. too.
Both items cannot be recycled twice.

Reduce.

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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 2h

UK Labor is launching a full scale attack on what is left of nature in UK
Giving developers a free hand
Limiting legal objections
ministers new authority to issue holding directions to stop local councils from rejecting planning applications
insideecology.com/2025/10/15/u...

UK Planning Bill Amendments: Fast-Tracking Development, Slowing Nature Protections - Inside Ecology

The UK Government has unveiled a sweeping set of last-minute amendments to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, in what ministers describe as a “pro-growth package” designed to “unshackle Britain to ...

insideecology.com

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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 3h

Warm water dissolves less CO₂

In 2023, high temperatures, especially in the North Atlantic, reduced CO₂ solubility and weakened the ocean’s carbon-absorbing capacity.

Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 3h

Shocking news
Ocean carbon sink that has saved us so far in absorbing over 25% humans emissions is failing

Results show that in 2023, global oceans absorbed almost a billion tons, or around 10% less CO₂, than anticipated based on previous years

news.climate.columbia.edu/2025/09/04/t...

The Ocean Carbon Sink Is Ailing

Measurements analyzed by an international research team indicate the global ocean absorbed significantly less CO₂ than anticipated during the unprecedented marine heatwave in 2023.

news.climate.columbia.edu

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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 3h

Shocking news
Ocean carbon sink that has saved us so far in absorbing over 25% humans emissions is failing

Results show that in 2023, global oceans absorbed almost a billion tons, or around 10% less CO₂, than anticipated based on previous years

news.climate.columbia.edu/2025/09/04/t...

The Ocean Carbon Sink Is Ailing

Measurements analyzed by an international research team indicate the global ocean absorbed significantly less CO₂ than anticipated during the unprecedented marine heatwave in 2023.

news.climate.columbia.edu

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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 3h

The Stranglers - Always The Sun
Deniers favorite song
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYQT...

The Stranglers - Always The Sun (Official Video)

YouTube video by thestranglerstvVEVO

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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 3h

Shocking news
Ocean carbon sink that has saved us so far in absorbing over 25% humans emissions is failing

Results show that in 2023, global oceans absorbed almost a billion tons, or around 10% less CO₂, than anticipated based on previous years

news.climate.columbia.edu/2025/09/04/t...

The Ocean Carbon Sink Is Ailing

Measurements analyzed by an international research team indicate the global ocean absorbed significantly less CO₂ than anticipated during the unprecedented marine heatwave in 2023.

news.climate.columbia.edu

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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 3h

Not going to happen in USA

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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 20h

Its not just ocean life being obliterated
On land humans have destroyed half of world forests and what remains is rapidly being destroyed
Last year, 20m acres of forest – an area roughly half size of England – were burned, pulled or cut down
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 20h

"Very idea that humans might become so voracious as to empty the seas of fish seemed absurd only a few short years ago. Today scientific evidence points to a brutal reality -.
In barely a generation, humans have exhausted most prolific creatures on the planet"

cribb.substack.com/p/down-to-a-...

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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 13h

Ibrahim Ferrer - Oye El Consejo

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BKx...

Ibrahim Ferrer - Oye El Consejo (2020 Mix) (Official Audio)

YouTube video by World Circuit Records

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Laura76574 @laura76574.bsky.social · 13h

It may be a disorder of the immune system within the brain.
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 13h

Its a bit like soldiers in a war mistaken shooting their own comrades
Likewise beta-amyloid is a molecule in our brain protecting us against invasive bacteria
But sometimes it makes a mistake and attacks its own brain cells thinking it is bacteria
resulting in dementia

Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 14h

Alzheimer's May Not Actually Be a Brain Disease
beta-amyloid is part of brain's immune system
but it cannot tell the difference between invading bacteria and host brain cells, and mistakenly attacks the very brain cells it is supposed to be protecting.

www.sciencealert.com/alzheimers-m...

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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 1d

A new study has shown that microplastics can alter gut microbiome, where those changes resemble patterns associated with depression and colorectal cancer.

www.newsweek.com/microplastic...

Microplastics are changing your insides in unexpected ways

The study found microplastics can alter gut microbiome, with changes resembling patterns associated with depression.

www.newsweek.com

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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 13h

Its a bit like soldiers in a war mistaken shooting their own comrades
Likewise beta-amyloid is a molecule in our brain protecting us against invasive bacteria
But sometimes it makes a mistake and attacks its own brain cells thinking it is bacteria
resulting in dementia

Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 14h

Alzheimer's May Not Actually Be a Brain Disease
beta-amyloid is part of brain's immune system
but it cannot tell the difference between invading bacteria and host brain cells, and mistakenly attacks the very brain cells it is supposed to be protecting.

www.sciencealert.com/alzheimers-m...

Alzheimer's May Not Actually Be a Brain Disease, Reveals Expert

The pursuit of a cure for Alzheimer's disease is becoming an increasingly competitive and contentious quest, with recent years witnessing several important controversies.

www.sciencealert.com

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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 14h

Alzheimer's May Not Actually Be a Brain Disease
beta-amyloid is part of brain's immune system
but it cannot tell the difference between invading bacteria and host brain cells, and mistakenly attacks the very brain cells it is supposed to be protecting.

www.sciencealert.com/alzheimers-m...

Alzheimer's May Not Actually Be a Brain Disease, Reveals Expert

The pursuit of a cure for Alzheimer's disease is becoming an increasingly competitive and contentious quest, with recent years witnessing several important controversies.

www.sciencealert.com

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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 14h

Alzheimer's May Not Actually Be a Brain Disease
beta-amyloid is part of brain's immune system
but it cannot tell the difference between invading bacteria and host brain cells, and mistakenly attacks the very brain cells it is supposed to be protecting.

www.sciencealert.com/alzheimers-m...

Alzheimer's May Not Actually Be a Brain Disease, Reveals Expert

The pursuit of a cure for Alzheimer's disease is becoming an increasingly competitive and contentious quest, with recent years witnessing several important controversies.

www.sciencealert.com

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 17h

48% of Ireland's waterbodies are so polluted, contaminated with chemicals, choked with algae, deprived of oxygen, lacking in species variety or physically altered and damaged that they fail to meet minimally acceptable standards.

And it's getting worse.
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Half of Ireland’s rivers, lakes and estuaries in unhealthy state as standards slide again

Agriculture, sewage, chemicals and physical damage all threatening nature’s waterways

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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 1d

"calls into question, why are the Government not doing something about it?"
Unfortunately the answer is easy. Managing floods like this would need landscape scale action including rewilding rivers and rewetting land and the government are fundamentally opposed to anything positive for nature

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 1d

Farmers along the Shannon Callows have said their livelihoods are being destroyed by rising water levels in the area, which takes in large stretches of land in counties Galway, Offaly, Roscommon and Westmeath

Farmers along Shannon say lives 'destroyed by flooding'

Farmers along the Shannon Callows have said their livelihoods are being destroyed by rising water levels in the area, which takes in large stretches of land in counties Galway, Offaly, Roscommon and W...

www.rte.ie

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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 14h

Sadly so

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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 14h

After 2 nests in Cork
Asian hornet confirmed in the North of Ireland
Ireland is heating up so much that invasive species like Asian Hornet who before could not survive now find Ireland easy place to breed and make home A

www.thejournal.ie/first-sighti...

First sighting of Asian hornet confirmed in the North

It was captured in the Dundonald area of Belfast on 10 October.

www.thejournal.ie

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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 14h

Biggest news story that will impact billions
Tipping point of mass die off corals reached
Corals are invertebrate animals that support a quarter of all marine life and and home for over 800,000 species and 1 billion people depend on corals for food www.dw.com/en/global-he...

Mass coral reef die-off marks first climate tipping point – DW – 10/13/2025

Scientists warn that rising global temperatures have pushed the world's coral reefs to a likely point of no return. Can they be brought back from the brink?

www.dw.com

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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 14h

After 2 nests in Cork
Asian hornet confirmed in the North of Ireland
Ireland is heating up so much that invasive species like Asian Hornet who before could not survive now find Ireland easy place to breed and make home A

www.thejournal.ie/first-sighti...

First sighting of Asian hornet confirmed in the North

It was captured in the Dundonald area of Belfast on 10 October.

www.thejournal.ie

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Queenie 🇨🇦 @queenie3.bsky.social · 22h

This result isn’t a surprise.
What does surprise me is this study is classified as NEW‼️
Thank you scientists for eventually catching up. 🥴

Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 1d

A new study has shown that microplastics can alter gut microbiome, where those changes resemble patterns associated with depression and colorectal cancer.

www.newsweek.com/microplastic...

Microplastics are changing your insides in unexpected ways

The study found microplastics can alter gut microbiome, with changes resembling patterns associated with depression.

www.newsweek.com

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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 15h

Trump once again delays law enforcing Big Coal to limit tiny silica particles can cause dangerous and irreversible damage to miners’ health, including black lung, silicosis, lung cancer and other diseases.
Trump only cares about profit not coal miners
insideclimatenews.org/news/1410202...

Coal Miners and Advocates Plead With Trump to Enforce Black Lung Rule - Inside Climate News

In a rally outside the U.S. Department of Labor, miners and their advocates stressed the need to limit silica exposure and protect workers from irreversible health impacts.

insideclimatenews.org

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