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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 2d

The first of Earth's ecosystems has passed a 'tipping point', a new report warns just weeks before COP30 in Brazil, with other environmental systems including the Amazon, major ocean currents and ice sheets not far behind.

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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?

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 1d

PTW Xmas card packs are here!

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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 1d

Shocking.
Our planet has passed its first 'tipping point' with widespread coral reef die-off, a new report says, and other environmental systems including the Amazon, major ocean currents and ice sheets aren't far behind.

The planet has entered a ‘new reality’ as it hits its first climate tipping point, report finds | CNN

The widespread death of coral reefs is the first in a series of catastrophic and potentially irreversible tipping points the world may hit, according to a landmark report produced by 160 scientists ac...

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armchaircampaigner.bsky.social @armchaircampaigner.bsky.social · 22h

10 years on from the Dieselgate scandal, justice still hasn’t been served in the UK. While other countries made carmakers pay, ours let them off the hook. Sign the petition now and demand accountability now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ma...

Make polluters pay for poisoning our children

10 years ago it was revealed that many diesel cars were being fitted with illegal technology that means they emit levels of toxic gases (NOx) exceeding testing and legal limits. These emissions poison...

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Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 6d

Co-operative housing already shows what’s possible when people own where they live. Fair rents, strong communities, real security.

In Parliament today, the Housing Minister agreed: it’s time to explore how law can help it grow.

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Zero Hour for the Climate & Nature Bill @zero-hour.bsky.social · 9d

🌍 @zackpolanski.bsky.social—Leader of @greenparty.org.uk—in Shrewsbury, with a special thank you to all Climate and Nature Bill campaigners across the UK!

📣 “The climate and nature crisis is the most important issue of our time. Keep up the noise—keep up the campaigning.”

🐝 zerohour.uk #CANBill

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pgonz.bsky.social @pgonz.bsky.social · 9d

Blue Jay #birds

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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 9d

Peace is more than an absence of war!

Welcoming today’s ceasefire in #Gaza, Greenpeace calls for humanitarian organisations to be given unrestricted access to deliver aid in the face of famine and genocide.

Full statement:

www.greenpeace.org/internationa...

Alt text:
Destroyed residential buildings in the Jabalia area, northern Gaza Strip, photographed after Israeli forces withdrew in January 2009. Rubble and debris stretch across the landscape where homes once stood, with people seen moving among the ruins.

Photo credit:
Photo by RafahKid / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Date and location:
Jabalia, Gaza Strip — 20 January 2009

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chrisafcb.bsky.social @chrisafcb.bsky.social · 9d

Keir Starmer is obviously shit. But he’s not as shit as Sunak and certainly nowhere near as shit as Johnson or Truss

Yet vast swathes of the country have been brainwashed by social media to think he’s the worst PM ever. I know Labour should be held to a higher standard than Tories but even so.

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 9d

We're targeting the 'pest' control industry.

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Blood Money: How public bodies fund wildlife killing

We're targeting the 'pest' control industry

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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 9d

🌳 🔥 New images from Greenpeace Argentina show more deforestation in Gran Chaco.

🚜 Deforestation is an environmental crime that causes loss of biodiversity, floods, droughts, diseases and evictions.⁣

📸: © Martin Katz / Greenpeace

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armchaircampaigner.bsky.social @armchaircampaigner.bsky.social · 9d

We're in intertwined climate and nature crises that are affecting the world's poorest communities the hardest. The #CANBill can deliver the bold, science-led legislation we need. zerohour.uk @zero-hour.bsky.social

Zero Hour - Join the campaign for the Climate & Nature Bill

It's Zero Hour for our Climate & Nature. Join our 70,000+ strong campaign.

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The Ecologist @theecologist.org · 25d

'Addressing the climate crisis requires confronting the geopolitical, economic, and military structures that sustain our reliance on oil and gas.'

By @tomxr.bsky.social

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The environment as casualty of war

'Addressing the climate crisis requires confronting the geopolitical, economic, and military structures that sustain our reliance on oil and gas.'

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The Ecologist @theecologist.org · 24d

The Ministry for the Future is a fiction that can help us understand the reality of climate justice and social justice.

theecologist.org/2025/sep/26/...

Science fiction offers hope in the dark

The Ministry for the Future is a fiction that can help us understand the reality of climate justice and social justice.

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armchaircampaigner.bsky.social @armchaircampaigner.bsky.social · 24d

Too many older renters are struggling to pay their rent due to shortfalls in Housing Benefit, pushing them to make impossible choices to make ends meet. Sign @IndependentAge.bsky.social pledge calling for Housing Benefit to be uprated #MakeAgeingFair
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Sign our pledge to make sure all renters can afford rent!

Too many older renters are struggling to pay their rent due to shortfalls in Housing Benefit, pushing them to make impossible choices to make ends meet. Sign Independent Age's pledge today calling for...

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armchaircampaigner.bsky.social @armchaircampaigner.bsky.social · 28d

A new law could give millions of us better rights at work, but corporate lobbyists & politicians are trying to gut it. Tell the Government: protect workers, not profits!
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/uk...

UK Government: Keep your promise to protect workers

Zero hours contracts, unfair ‘fire and rehire’, waiting months or even years to be able to access benefits – the world of work in our country is weighted against actual workers. It’s billionaire bosse...

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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 29d

80 years ago the UN was founded on the spirit of peace through cooperation, human rights and a rules-based order.

But the rules are being flouted, human rights ignored and cooperation replaced with economic and military force.

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 28d

🪶 Chough fledges (1st in 200 yrs).
🦅 White-tailed eagle hatches (1st in 200+ yrs).
🐦 4 Montagu’s harriers fledge (1st since 2019).

Yes, hopeful. But headlines like this are warnings: our wildlife is so depleted that the survival of a few chicks makes national news.

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armchaircampaigner.bsky.social @armchaircampaigner.bsky.social · 28d

BB energy don't sue South Sudan!

UK-based oil trader is SUING South Sudan for non-payment of debt!

It’s shameful that a country experiencing a humanitarian disaster could be sued by oil traders making millions.

I've written to the CEO to drop the case, will you:

tinyurl.com/yr4aksya

BB Energy: don’t sue South Sudan!

Call on oil trader BB Energy to drop the case We’ve just learnt that UK-based oil trader BB Energy is taking legal action against South Sudan in the High Court in London. South Sudan is one of the poo...

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armchaircampaigner.bsky.social @armchaircampaigner.bsky.social · Sep 19

Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · Sep 16

🚨 BREAKING: Communities run through the just-announced Strategic Priorities for Great British Energy.

This Government is delivering on its commitment to roll out clean, green, community-owned energy. 🌱

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Joe Kidston @joekidston.bsky.social · Sep 12

When I was on the beach this morning, the view didn’t seem too impressive… in hindsight, it was pretty nice 🌅🤔😂

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · Sep 12

🐾💔 UK law sees your dog as no different to your sofa.

Animals are legally just property: kill a dog & it’s “damage,” not a crime against life.

Until animals are recognised as beings, the law will always side with cruelty over compassion.

#dogs #pets #news

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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · Sep 13

When train travel is much more expensive than flying, there is something deeply wrong with the system.

Here are three reasons why flights are far cheaper than trains - and why that has to change.

3 Reasons why flights are far cheaper than trains and why that has to change - Greenpeace International

Ever tried planning a trip across Europe and wondered: why are flights so cheap while trains cost a fortune? How does that make any sense?

www.greenpeace.org

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armchaircampaigner.bsky.social @armchaircampaigner.bsky.social · Sep 13

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/co...

Continuing support funding for community-led Neighbourhood Plans

Cancelling Neighbouhood Plan NP and technical support grants (via Locality) is a means to stop communities having the ability to foster community empowerment and self-help.   The loss of Neighbou...

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armchaircampaigner.bsky.social @armchaircampaigner.bsky.social · Sep 12

Reform UK are yelling “drill, baby, drill” 🙄 But fracking is reckless & won’t even cut bills. Time to end this nonsense. Tell Ed Miliband: BAN FRACKING permanently. Add your name:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ke...

Keep fracking out of Britain!

I live in Lincolnshire, and a new gas field has been found nearby. Reform UK are already shouting “drill, baby, drill,” and fracking isn’t banned - it’s only paused. That means they could start drilli...

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