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African forests have turned from a carbon sink into a carbon source, according to research.
The shift means that the three large rainforest regions — Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Amazon — have become sources of emissions. via @theguardian.com
The shift means that the three large rainforest regions — Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Amazon — have become sources of emissions. via @theguardian.com
African Forests Have Become a Source of Carbon Emissions
e360.yale.edu
December 1, 2025 at 3:00 PM
African forests have turned from a carbon sink into a carbon source, according to research.
The shift means that the three large rainforest regions — Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Amazon — have become sources of emissions. via @theguardian.com
The shift means that the three large rainforest regions — Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Amazon — have become sources of emissions. via @theguardian.com
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I'm not pulling any punches: "So, these are not peace talks.[..] They are a distraction that Ru uses [..] to strain the Transatlantic relationship by pitting the “peace-seeking” U.S. against “warmongering” Europe, even though the only warmonger is Putin."
www.policymagazine.ca/whatever-you...
www.policymagazine.ca/whatever-you...
Whatever You Do, Don't Call Them 'Peace Talks' - Policy Magazine
What Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are presenting to the world as peace talks are not peace talks.
www.policymagazine.ca
December 3, 2025 at 11:50 PM
I'm not pulling any punches: "So, these are not peace talks.[..] They are a distraction that Ru uses [..] to strain the Transatlantic relationship by pitting the “peace-seeking” U.S. against “warmongering” Europe, even though the only warmonger is Putin."
www.policymagazine.ca/whatever-you...
www.policymagazine.ca/whatever-you...
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Ongehinderd, én met steun van de overheid zelfs.
Het leven lijkt lekker voort te kabbelen, als je een comfortabel leventje leidt. Maar als je de grote lijnen ziet, dan is de manier waarop we onze welvaart in stand houden een groot festijn van perversiteit.
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www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Het leven lijkt lekker voort te kabbelen, als je een comfortabel leventje leidt. Maar als je de grote lijnen ziet, dan is de manier waarop we onze welvaart in stand houden een groot festijn van perversiteit.
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www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fossil fuels being subsidised at rate of $13m a minute, says IMF
Oil, gas and coal benefited from $7tn in support in 2022 despite being primary cause of climate crisis
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Ongehinderd, én met steun van de overheid zelfs.
Het leven lijkt lekker voort te kabbelen, als je een comfortabel leventje leidt. Maar als je de grote lijnen ziet, dan is de manier waarop we onze welvaart in stand houden een groot festijn van perversiteit.
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www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Het leven lijkt lekker voort te kabbelen, als je een comfortabel leventje leidt. Maar als je de grote lijnen ziet, dan is de manier waarop we onze welvaart in stand houden een groot festijn van perversiteit.
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www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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You are, right now, paying Big Oil's $900 annual pollution tax, in the form of higher home insurance, higher health insurance, and higher electric bills for more air conditioning. These costs disproportionately burden the poor and will keep rising as long as the fossil fuel industry exists.
Climate Change Is Already Costing U.S. Households Up to $900 Per Year
A new working paper from a trio of eminent economists tallies the effects of warming — particularly extreme weather — on Americans’ budgets.
heatmap.news
December 2, 2025 at 9:14 PM
You are, right now, paying Big Oil's $900 annual pollution tax, in the form of higher home insurance, higher health insurance, and higher electric bills for more air conditioning. These costs disproportionately burden the poor and will keep rising as long as the fossil fuel industry exists.
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Here's a more technical yet still quite accessible overview of the climate.
Of particular note that even though we set a record for solar/wind last year, we also set the record for burning fossil fuels. Which we need to stop immediately, yet keep doing anyway. Which is Very Bad.
Of particular note that even though we set a record for solar/wind last year, we also set the record for burning fossil fuels. Which we need to stop immediately, yet keep doing anyway. Which is Very Bad.
The 2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink
We are hurtling toward climate chaos. The planet's vital signs are flashing red. The consequences of human-driven alterations of the climate are no longer
academic.oup.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Here's a more technical yet still quite accessible overview of the climate.
Of particular note that even though we set a record for solar/wind last year, we also set the record for burning fossil fuels. Which we need to stop immediately, yet keep doing anyway. Which is Very Bad.
Of particular note that even though we set a record for solar/wind last year, we also set the record for burning fossil fuels. Which we need to stop immediately, yet keep doing anyway. Which is Very Bad.
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"Lake Urmia, once the largest lake in the Middle East, has lost over 90% of its water since the 1970s due to damming, drought, and agricultural demands.... This ecological catastrophe serves as a stark warning about the consequences of water mismanagement in an era of climate change"
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
How Iran Destroyed it’s Largest Lake.
YouTube video by Urban Atlas
youtu.be
December 3, 2025 at 4:23 AM
"Lake Urmia, once the largest lake in the Middle East, has lost over 90% of its water since the 1970s due to damming, drought, and agricultural demands.... This ecological catastrophe serves as a stark warning about the consequences of water mismanagement in an era of climate change"
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
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De energiemarkt privatiseren in een tijd dat je a. wist hoe ernstig de klimaatcrisis was en b. op je klompen kon aanvoelen hoe goedkoop duurzame energie ging worden, was misschien niet zo slim.
#herecomesthesun #energydemocracy #billofrightsenergytransition
#herecomesthesun #energydemocracy #billofrightsenergytransition
Als thuisbatterijen zo talrijk worden dat ze effectief pieken in het groene stroomaanbod opvangen is dat een groot succes waarvan iedereen profiteert.
Maar deze economen presenteren het als mislukking, omdat "het hebben van een thuisbatterij daardoor minder winstgevend" is.
Ik vind dat kortzichtig.
Maar deze economen presenteren het als mislukking, omdat "het hebben van een thuisbatterij daardoor minder winstgevend" is.
Ik vind dat kortzichtig.
December 3, 2025 at 4:44 AM
De energiemarkt privatiseren in een tijd dat je a. wist hoe ernstig de klimaatcrisis was en b. op je klompen kon aanvoelen hoe goedkoop duurzame energie ging worden, was misschien niet zo slim.
#herecomesthesun #energydemocracy #billofrightsenergytransition
#herecomesthesun #energydemocracy #billofrightsenergytransition
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While passenger planes fly across the skies over Europe, in Ukraine the skies are filled with Russian missiles and drones. One continent, but two different realities.
📹: posterbureau / Instagram
📹: posterbureau / Instagram
December 1, 2025 at 6:07 PM
While passenger planes fly across the skies over Europe, in Ukraine the skies are filled with Russian missiles and drones. One continent, but two different realities.
📹: posterbureau / Instagram
📹: posterbureau / Instagram
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Dat слепой и глухой Tallon Griekspoor met zoveel peterselie in zijn oren en ogen überhaupt nog een bal raakt.
Terwijl Tallon Griekspoor in Sint-Petersburg (🇷🇺) op een tennistoernooi van Gazprom druk bezig is handen te schudden met Russen, voeren andere Russen een aanval uit op Kyiv (🇺🇦). Twee doden, 29 gewonden en grote delen van de regio zonder stroom. 👉 suspilne.media/1176640-u-ki...
November 30, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Dat слепой и глухой Tallon Griekspoor met zoveel peterselie in zijn oren en ogen überhaupt nog een bal raakt.
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When Ukrainian soldiers are wounded in action, Russian drones target both them and the people who come to rescue them.
Join me in a fundraising campaign for vehicles with drone-jamming equipment.
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Join me in a fundraising campaign for vehicles with drone-jamming equipment.
snyder.substack.com/p/freedom-is...
Freedom is Action -- Finishing the Job
Help save the lives of the courageous
snyder.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
When Ukrainian soldiers are wounded in action, Russian drones target both them and the people who come to rescue them.
Join me in a fundraising campaign for vehicles with drone-jamming equipment.
snyder.substack.com/p/freedom-is...
Join me in a fundraising campaign for vehicles with drone-jamming equipment.
snyder.substack.com/p/freedom-is...
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Also. Next time someone tells you Ru is invading Ukraine preemptively to stop it from joining NATO, show them this and laugh in their face. Blaming these genocidal politics on Ru feeling insecure is peak ignorance or gaslighting.
#UkrainianView
Next time any piece of shit politician tells you that "these are russian territories", "everyone speaks russian there" and so on - show them this. That is the "how" and the "why". It is called ethnocide and has been done numerous times by russia over the past centuries, to erase us.
Next time any piece of shit politician tells you that "these are russian territories", "everyone speaks russian there" and so on - show them this. That is the "how" and the "why". It is called ethnocide and has been done numerous times by russia over the past centuries, to erase us.
Putin signs decree formalizing Russification of occupied Ukraine through 2036 - Euromaidan Press
Putin signs decree formalizing Russification of occupied Ukraine through 2036, setting 95% "Russian identity" targets for four oblasts.
euromaidanpress.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Also. Next time someone tells you Ru is invading Ukraine preemptively to stop it from joining NATO, show them this and laugh in their face. Blaming these genocidal politics on Ru feeling insecure is peak ignorance or gaslighting.
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"Conservative groups, funded by fossil fuel magnates, spend $1B/yr interfering with public understanding of what is happening to our world. Few investments rival the return they've gotten from evangelicals."
An oldie but goodie makes the link between fossil fuels, climate denial, and U.S. religion.
An oldie but goodie makes the link between fossil fuels, climate denial, and U.S. religion.
How Fossil Fuel Money Made Climate Change Denial the Word of God
Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.
www.splinter.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:59 AM
"Conservative groups, funded by fossil fuel magnates, spend $1B/yr interfering with public understanding of what is happening to our world. Few investments rival the return they've gotten from evangelicals."
An oldie but goodie makes the link between fossil fuels, climate denial, and U.S. religion.
An oldie but goodie makes the link between fossil fuels, climate denial, and U.S. religion.
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Extraordinary WSJ reporting today that unveils the extent to which Trump, Witkoff, Kushner and US business executives are salivating over business deals with Russia while Putin’s forces kidnap Ukranian children and bomb civilians in their apartments.
🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
November 29, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Extraordinary WSJ reporting today that unveils the extent to which Trump, Witkoff, Kushner and US business executives are salivating over business deals with Russia while Putin’s forces kidnap Ukranian children and bomb civilians in their apartments.
🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
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It’s clear that the primary interest of the US in “peace negotiations” is to create opportunities for Trump, Witkoff, their family members, business partners and cronies to make billions from business deals with Russia, and Ukraine is just the annoying nuisance in the way.
November 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
It’s clear that the primary interest of the US in “peace negotiations” is to create opportunities for Trump, Witkoff, their family members, business partners and cronies to make billions from business deals with Russia, and Ukraine is just the annoying nuisance in the way.
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En dan vandaag dit met droge ogen schrijven in beschouwing over opstappen: ‘Sijthoff, lid en donateur can D66, en drie kompanen….’,
Beter was geweest: ‘Sijthoff, jarenlang donateur van VVD en afgelopen zomer donateur geworden van D66 om ten koste van alles centrum-links kabinet te voorkomen, …’
Beter was geweest: ‘Sijthoff, jarenlang donateur van VVD en afgelopen zomer donateur geworden van D66 om ten koste van alles centrum-links kabinet te voorkomen, …’
November 15, 2025 at 8:08 AM
En dan vandaag dit met droge ogen schrijven in beschouwing over opstappen: ‘Sijthoff, lid en donateur can D66, en drie kompanen….’,
Beter was geweest: ‘Sijthoff, jarenlang donateur van VVD en afgelopen zomer donateur geworden van D66 om ten koste van alles centrum-links kabinet te voorkomen, …’
Beter was geweest: ‘Sijthoff, jarenlang donateur van VVD en afgelopen zomer donateur geworden van D66 om ten koste van alles centrum-links kabinet te voorkomen, …’
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Finally some fresh ideas in the talks about ending Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
November 28, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Finally some fresh ideas in the talks about ending Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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🚨 Friday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the lowest on record (JAXA data)
• about 910,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,500,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 2,170,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,660,000 km² below the 1980s mean
Graphics zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
• about 910,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,500,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 2,170,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,660,000 km² below the 1980s mean
Graphics zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
November 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
🚨 Friday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the lowest on record (JAXA data)
• about 910,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,500,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 2,170,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,660,000 km² below the 1980s mean
Graphics zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
• about 910,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,500,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 2,170,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,660,000 km² below the 1980s mean
Graphics zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
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It’s not a bias. It’s a transaction. Tens of millions of Ukrainian lives and the remnants of American respectability in exchange for an increase in the private fortunes of a few people.
President Vladimir Putin of Russia on Thursday defended President Trump’s special envoy against accusations of pro-Kremlin bias.
Putin Defends Witkoff Against Accusations of Pro-Russia Bias
The Russian leader called the U.S. special envoy “an intelligent man” who is properly representing his country in peace negotiations.
nyti.ms
November 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
It’s not a bias. It’s a transaction. Tens of millions of Ukrainian lives and the remnants of American respectability in exchange for an increase in the private fortunes of a few people.
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14 bronnen... oh nee toch niet. Sorry.
November 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
14 bronnen... oh nee toch niet. Sorry.
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Vermogensreus BlackRock jaagt op kortetermijnwinst – ten koste van klimaat, natuur en mensenrechten.
Jouw pensioen draagt hieraan bij. Want pensioenfonds ABP laat geld beheren door BlackRock.
✍️ ABP, breek met BlackRock – teken de petitie! www.breekmetblackrock.nl
Jouw pensioen draagt hieraan bij. Want pensioenfonds ABP laat geld beheren door BlackRock.
✍️ ABP, breek met BlackRock – teken de petitie! www.breekmetblackrock.nl
ABP, breek met BlackRock!
Vermogensreus BlackRock jaagt op kortetermijnwinst – ten koste van klimaat, natuur en mensenrechten. Jouw pensioen draagt hieraan bij. Pensioenfonds ABP laat namelijk geld beheren door BlackRock. Roep...
www.breekmetblackrock.nl
November 28, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Vermogensreus BlackRock jaagt op kortetermijnwinst – ten koste van klimaat, natuur en mensenrechten.
Jouw pensioen draagt hieraan bij. Want pensioenfonds ABP laat geld beheren door BlackRock.
✍️ ABP, breek met BlackRock – teken de petitie! www.breekmetblackrock.nl
Jouw pensioen draagt hieraan bij. Want pensioenfonds ABP laat geld beheren door BlackRock.
✍️ ABP, breek met BlackRock – teken de petitie! www.breekmetblackrock.nl
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Kolonisten verjagen Palestijnse gemeenschappen steeds feller en gewelddadiger
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
November 28, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Kolonisten verjagen Palestijnse gemeenschappen steeds feller en gewelddadiger
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
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Vandaag in het FD
November 28, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Vandaag in het FD
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Just a friendly reminder on this hallowed day of overconsumption via @earthlyeducation.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Just a friendly reminder on this hallowed day of overconsumption via @earthlyeducation.bsky.social
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How does fever work?
Our new Science paper shows how elevated body temperature can protect against severe influenza and that avian-origin viruses escape this defence.
This is likely one reason why bird flus and some pandemic influenzas can be so severe.🧵
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Our new Science paper shows how elevated body temperature can protect against severe influenza and that avian-origin viruses escape this defence.
This is likely one reason why bird flus and some pandemic influenzas can be so severe.🧵
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Avian-origin influenza A viruses tolerate elevated pyrexic temperatures in mammals
Host body temperature can define a virus’s replicative profile—influenza A viruses (IAVs) adapted to 40° to 42°C in birds are less temperature sensitive in vitro compared with human isolates adapted t...
www.science.org
November 27, 2025 at 7:55 PM
How does fever work?
Our new Science paper shows how elevated body temperature can protect against severe influenza and that avian-origin viruses escape this defence.
This is likely one reason why bird flus and some pandemic influenzas can be so severe.🧵
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Our new Science paper shows how elevated body temperature can protect against severe influenza and that avian-origin viruses escape this defence.
This is likely one reason why bird flus and some pandemic influenzas can be so severe.🧵
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...