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When Rachel analysed methane emissions data, the area around Drax had the UK's second highest levels of this potent greenhouse gas. Is using taxpayer money to subsidise chopping down forests to burn wood to power a data centre, the best way to address climate change?
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November 28, 2025 at 4:22 PM
When Rachel analysed methane emissions data, the area around Drax had the UK's second highest levels of this potent greenhouse gas. Is using taxpayer money to subsidise chopping down forests to burn wood to power a data centre, the best way to address climate change?
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November 28, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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One for you @zackpolanski.bsky.social
"A single, reusable bottle can replace 20 to 50 single-use bottles"
Imagine how much pointless, dreary, polluting junk we could remove from our lives if we had well-structured re-use systems like this 👇🏾
Imagine how much pointless, dreary, polluting junk we could remove from our lives if we had well-structured re-use systems like this 👇🏾
‘We like it a lot’: how Romania created the largest deposit return scheme in the world - great way to tackle excessive single-use plastics www.theguardian.com/environment/...
November 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
One for you @zackpolanski.bsky.social
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"A single, reusable bottle can replace 20 to 50 single-use bottles"
Imagine how much pointless, dreary, polluting junk we could remove from our lives if we had well-structured re-use systems like this 👇🏾
Imagine how much pointless, dreary, polluting junk we could remove from our lives if we had well-structured re-use systems like this 👇🏾
‘We like it a lot’: how Romania created the largest deposit return scheme in the world - great way to tackle excessive single-use plastics www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘We like it a lot’: how Romania created the largest deposit return scheme in the world
In the two years since the system was launched, beverage-packaging collection and recycling has risen to 94%
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:29 PM
"A single, reusable bottle can replace 20 to 50 single-use bottles"
Imagine how much pointless, dreary, polluting junk we could remove from our lives if we had well-structured re-use systems like this 👇🏾
Imagine how much pointless, dreary, polluting junk we could remove from our lives if we had well-structured re-use systems like this 👇🏾
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@emmajeankitty.bsky.social @ralphwaldoemmiecat.bsky.social @onyxcleftkitty.bsky.social @city-kitty.bsky.social @attyepi.bsky.social
Mousse won’t shop on Black Friday!
Mousse won’t shop on Black Friday!
November 28, 2025 at 2:28 PM
@emmajeankitty.bsky.social @ralphwaldoemmiecat.bsky.social @onyxcleftkitty.bsky.social @city-kitty.bsky.social @attyepi.bsky.social
Mousse won’t shop on Black Friday!
Mousse won’t shop on Black Friday!
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28 Nov 1680: d. Gian Lorenzo Bernini #otd Here is his statue of Bl. Ludovica Albertoni d. 1533, a member of the 3rd Order of St. Francis in ecstasy in S. Francesco à Ripa (H-V-N-V) - it's way less visited and much more visible than his St. Teresa
November 28, 2025 at 2:28 PM
28 Nov 1680: d. Gian Lorenzo Bernini #otd Here is his statue of Bl. Ludovica Albertoni d. 1533, a member of the 3rd Order of St. Francis in ecstasy in S. Francesco à Ripa (H-V-N-V) - it's way less visited and much more visible than his St. Teresa
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Riots, violence, attacks on people trying to access water, cyber attacks on water systems - around the world battles are being fought over ever scarcer water, while access to water is being used as a weapon of war. Chilling article by @ianjames.bsky.social:
www.latimes.com/environment/...
www.latimes.com/environment/...
Violent conflict over water hit a record last year
Violence over water is on the rise worldwide. Researchers counted a record 420 incidents of conflict in 2024, many in Ukraine and the Middle East.
www.latimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Riots, violence, attacks on people trying to access water, cyber attacks on water systems - around the world battles are being fought over ever scarcer water, while access to water is being used as a weapon of war. Chilling article by @ianjames.bsky.social:
www.latimes.com/environment/...
www.latimes.com/environment/...
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England's new bathing water classifications have been uploaded onto our Watershed Pollution Map. Explore how your local bathing site fared at:
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If you want to filter the map + look at other pollution, click on the banner that says 'Watershed Pollution Map' for a menu:
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If you want to filter the map + look at other pollution, click on the banner that says 'Watershed Pollution Map' for a menu:
November 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
England's new bathing water classifications have been uploaded onto our Watershed Pollution Map. Explore how your local bathing site fared at:
share.google/BqhQdCdKbZVj...
If you want to filter the map + look at other pollution, click on the banner that says 'Watershed Pollution Map' for a menu:
share.google/BqhQdCdKbZVj...
If you want to filter the map + look at other pollution, click on the banner that says 'Watershed Pollution Map' for a menu:
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yes my friends, it's raining. come up from the earth and spend time with me
November 26, 2025 at 7:40 PM
yes my friends, it's raining. come up from the earth and spend time with me
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In addition to the questionable wisdom of spraying PFAS on food crops, organisations like @paneurope.bsky.social highlight, many PFAS pesticides break down into TFA, a forever chemical German authorities class as reprotoxic - harmful to fertility + child development - which can get into groundwater.
Sweden is re-evaluating 38 PFAS pesticides over links to TFA
#TFA is a short-chain #PFAS contaminating water sources 🌊
Earlier this year, Denmark banned several pesticides tied to TFA. The UK has yet to take any action on #PFASpesticides 🌱
swedenherald.com/article/pfas...
#TFA is a short-chain #PFAS contaminating water sources 🌊
Earlier this year, Denmark banned several pesticides tied to TFA. The UK has yet to take any action on #PFASpesticides 🌱
swedenherald.com/article/pfas...
PFAS agents in Swedish agriculture are being re-examined | Sweden Herald
The use of plant protection products containing PFAS is now to be re-examined
swedenherald.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:47 AM
In addition to the questionable wisdom of spraying PFAS on food crops, organisations like @paneurope.bsky.social highlight, many PFAS pesticides break down into TFA, a forever chemical German authorities class as reprotoxic - harmful to fertility + child development - which can get into groundwater.
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Scientist @hanspeterarp.bsky.social warns, "It’s accumulating in our tap water, the food we’re eating, plants, trees, the sea, + all in the past few decades”. David Behringer adds, “If you’re drinking water, you’re drinking a lot of TFA, wherever you are in the world"
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Rapidly rising levels of TFA ‘forever chemical’ alarm experts
Trifluoroacetic acid found in drinking water and rain is thought to damage fertility and child development
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November 27, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Scientist @hanspeterarp.bsky.social warns, "It’s accumulating in our tap water, the food we’re eating, plants, trees, the sea, + all in the past few decades”. David Behringer adds, “If you’re drinking water, you’re drinking a lot of TFA, wherever you are in the world"
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Where I live, all organic foods tested had PFAS above the safe levels inside. Not as high as non-organic foods but still.
Food is officially toxic to humans now.
Food is officially toxic to humans now.
Every single food product tested in #Austria had dangerous #PFAS levels. Also organic plants that do not bioaccumulate & biomagnify like animal foods. #Collapse
www.global2000.at/sites/global...
www.global2000.at/sites/global...
November 27, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Where I live, all organic foods tested had PFAS above the safe levels inside. Not as high as non-organic foods but still.
Food is officially toxic to humans now.
Food is officially toxic to humans now.
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Yes, thought to be largely because TFA is getting into groundwater which is then pumped to irrigate crops. When @paneurope.bsky.social tested wines for TFA, they found lower levels in organic wines, but it was still present.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Alarming’ increase in levels of forever chemical TFA found in European wines
Wines produced after 2010 showed steep rise in contamination of trifluoroacetic acid, analysis finds
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Yes, thought to be largely because TFA is getting into groundwater which is then pumped to irrigate crops. When @paneurope.bsky.social tested wines for TFA, they found lower levels in organic wines, but it was still present.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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November 27, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Don't worry, you're not being judged
(You are though)
(You are though)
November 27, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Don't worry, you're not being judged
(You are though)
(You are though)
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I'm hoping its a blue bird of happiness to bless us today! (we need all the help we can get) #birds #Photography #EastCoastKin #photographersOfBluesky
November 27, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I'm hoping its a blue bird of happiness to bless us today! (we need all the help we can get) #birds #Photography #EastCoastKin #photographersOfBluesky
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November 27, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Back home in Chicagoland on Lake Michigan. November 26, 2025.
November 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Back home in Chicagoland on Lake Michigan. November 26, 2025.
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I haven't seen a Kent Shore Lark since Jan 2022 but found one today at Sandwich Bay
November 26, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I haven't seen a Kent Shore Lark since Jan 2022 but found one today at Sandwich Bay
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The only door into the church of St Peter #Cambridge. #AdoorableThursday
November 27, 2025 at 11:12 AM
The only door into the church of St Peter #Cambridge. #AdoorableThursday
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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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November 27, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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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You can also filter the map to show just how much methane - a potent greenhouse gas - is already being released by oil + gas extraction in the North Sea. Expanding this means releasing ever more of a gas that makes a huge contribution to climate change:
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November 27, 2025 at 11:06 AM
You can also filter the map to show just how much methane - a potent greenhouse gas - is already being released by oil + gas extraction in the North Sea. Expanding this means releasing ever more of a gas that makes a huge contribution to climate change:
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Check out the new bathing water results here: watershedinvestigations.com/find-out-wha...
November 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Check out the new bathing water results here: watershedinvestigations.com/find-out-wha...
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England's bathing water results are out! I've mapped them here:
MAP: watershedinvestigations.com/find-out-wha...
Defra says it's an improvement but I'm not so sure. A few thoughts here about what the results don't tell you:
watershedinvestigations.com/the-environm...
MAP: watershedinvestigations.com/find-out-wha...
Defra says it's an improvement but I'm not so sure. A few thoughts here about what the results don't tell you:
watershedinvestigations.com/the-environm...
England’s bathing water results are out, but do they tell the full story? - Watershed Investigations
The Environment Agency has released England’s latest bathing water classifications and Defra is calling the results a success, but the testing regime masks a host of potential problems.
watershedinvestigations.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:59 PM
England's bathing water results are out! I've mapped them here:
MAP: watershedinvestigations.com/find-out-wha...
Defra says it's an improvement but I'm not so sure. A few thoughts here about what the results don't tell you:
watershedinvestigations.com/the-environm...
MAP: watershedinvestigations.com/find-out-wha...
Defra says it's an improvement but I'm not so sure. A few thoughts here about what the results don't tell you:
watershedinvestigations.com/the-environm...