John Fellowes
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John Fellowes
@jrf66.bsky.social
Ecological recovery
"The prospect that the plastics we produce, use and discard today could have global-scale, poorly reversible impacts in the future is compelling motivation to take the appropriate action now." www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...
Frontiers | Plastic pollution under the influence of climate change: implications for the abundance, distribution, and hazards in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems
Of the numerous anthropogenic pressures that are being exerted on ecosystems globally, plastic pollution and climate change are potentially the most pressing...
www.frontiersin.org
November 29, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Climate change is driving 40% of UK food price hikes.

Protecting households from spiralling costs of living means protecting the planet.

It's time to kick the expensive fossil fuel habit and accelerate the shift towards heating & powering Britain with efficient renewables.

@nebriefing.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
“There is really a need for enforcement, for strengthening legal frameworks, for really enabling policies and empowering local communities” news.mongabay.com/2025/11/drc-...
November 27, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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The 2025 Lancet Report on Health and Climate Change and the recent Cradle to Grave Report spell out the tremendous harm and suffering caused by fossil fuel burning and resulting climate changes. Millions are dying every year.
drtomharris.substack.com/p/breathless...
#climatechange #health
Breathless: The Toll of Fossil Fuels and a Changing Planet
The 2025 Lancet Report on Health and Climate Change and the recent Cradle to Grave Report spell out the tremendous harm and suffering caused by fossil fuel burning and resulting climate changes.
drtomharris.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:27 AM
"There are powerful actors... involved in global climate governance locking Mother Earth into a dependence on market-based schemes, techno-fixes, and financialised commodities under the illusion that profit-driven forces can solve the escalating impacts" www.mynewsletterbuilder.com/email/newsle...
COP30: Conference Of Profiteers?
The Indigenous Environmental Network
www.mynewsletterbuilder.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:15 AM
"It is for us to remember that our fate as humans flows with the rivers. A wounded, polluted river means a wounded, polluted present and future. What can we do now so that the Indus and other rivers flow freely and unpolluted?" roundglasssustain.com/wild-vault/i...
Sher Dariya: The Mighty Indus River | Roundglass | Sustain
A sacred life force for the people of Ladakh, the Indus is now wounded by a dam, pollution, climate change, and threats to its wildlife
roundglasssustain.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:56 AM
"Of course, global leaders and officials will take the easier, cowardly road if they can get away with it. As we cross the 1.5C threshold into uncharted climatic territory, we must make them fight wholeheartedly for fossil fuel phaseout." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Another Cop wrecked by fossil fuel interests and our leaders’ cowardice – but there is another way | Genevieve Guenther
The fingerprints of Russia and Saudi Arabia are all over the decision text in Brazil. But a group of nations led by Colombia and the Netherlands offer hope, says End Climate Silence founding director ...
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
MOTH Fellowship - Moth - More Than Human Life
mothlife.org
November 24, 2025 at 1:55 PM
"The UPF industry is emblematic of a food system that is increasingly controlled by transnational corporations that prioritise corporate profit ahead of public health." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Ultra-processed foods: time to put health before profit
The rise of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) in human diets is damaging public health, fuelling chronic diseases worldwide, and deepening health inequalities. Addressing this challenge requires a unified ...
www.thelancet.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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A draft Omnibus regulation on Food and Feed reveals that the European Commission’s DG SANTE is attempting to deregulate all chemical #pesticides.
Read more here: www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...
EU Commission proposes unlimited pesticide approvals: Science abandoned, industry interests above health and environment
A draft Omnibus regulation on Food and Feed reveals that the European Commission’s DG SANTE is attempting to deregulate all chemical pesticides. This comes under the guise of “simplification”, intende...
www.pan-europe.info
November 18, 2025 at 3:32 PM
"Collaborations among conservationists and artists can invite a process of mutual unlearning of disciplinary assumptions, methods, and hierarchies. This opens space for more reflexive and plural ways of knowing..." esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Green funds only slightly differ from others, new study finds.

Researchers have analysed nearly 7,000 European funds to see how green portfolios differ from conventional ones.

They found that the differences are surprisingly small, for all but one sector.
November 21, 2025 at 10:44 AM
"To realize the potential of private sector investment in nature protection and conservation, governments must put in place policy measures—such as tax breaks, de-risking guarantees, and regulatory requirements—that induce the private sector to invest." ssir.org/articles/ent...
Business Won’t Save Nature (Until Governments Change the Rules of the Game) (SSIR)
If private finance is to shoulder the burden for nature conservation, government has to create the necessary incentive structure.
ssir.org
November 21, 2025 at 7:59 AM
"In the meantime, drastically reducing greenhouse gas emissions will help limit the weakening of the MOC and preserve the delicate balance of our planet’s climate system and the ecosystems it supports." antarctic.org.au/wp-content/u...
antarctic.org.au
November 21, 2025 at 7:56 AM
"If indigenous and local community governance remains peripheral, the climate architecture will keep replicating the same extractive logic under a green banner” theedgemalaysia.com/node/779613
Climate: Key issues at COP30
The United Nations (UN) Conference of the Parties 30 (COP30) is currently underway in Belém, Brazil until Nov 21. A few key issues, such as climate finance, protection of indigenous peoples’ rights an...
theedgemalaysia.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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🚨 NEW: The UK is being sued by a billionaire Russian oligarch in a secret corporate court 🚨

Mikhail Maratovich Fridman - one of the wealthiest individuals in the world - has brought a case against the UK under #ISDS

www.globaljustice.org.uk/news/uk-bein...
UK being sued by billionaire Russian oligarch in ‘secret corporate court’ - Global Justice Now
THE UK government is being sued by a billionaire Russian oligarch in a secret corporate court, it has been revealed. Answering a question in Parliament from Labour MP Martin Rhodes […]
www.globaljustice.org.uk
November 19, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Mark Carney seems to think he needs permission from Exxon to impose a carbon price or GHG emissions cap (spoiler: he doesn't), but doesn't need permission from First Nations to build a new tar sands pipeline (not a spoiler: he does).
November 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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I think the word you’re looking for is “kept”
November 19, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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NGO says Swiss food giant is 'putting the health of babies at risk for profit' by adding sugar to babyfood.
Nestle accused of risking baby heath in Africa, Asia and Latin America
NGO says Swiss food giant is 'putting the health of babies at risk for profit' by adding sugar to babyfood.
bit.ly
November 18, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Beef and dairy can never be "net zero".
But that doesn't stop the industry aggressively pushing its greenwash, including through its 72 delegates (lobbyists) at the Belém climate COP: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Another one bites the dust. Two weeks after JBS settled a false advertising lawsuit with the NYAG to stop making "net zero" claims, Tyson has just settled in D.C. about its own "net zero" claims. There is no such thing as low-emissions or carbon-neutral cattle.

aldf.org/article/tyso...
Tyson Foods Agrees to Stop Making 'Net-zero' and 'Climate-smart Beef' Claims
Lawsuit alleged Tyson Foods falsely claimed it will be net-zero by 2050 and marketed its industrial beef products as “climate-smart”
aldf.org
November 18, 2025 at 9:32 AM
"Our environmental crisis is deeply connected to the conflicts which lead to people to our borders. We can’t isolate one section of people and label them as a problem that can be easily addressed. If one part of the body hurts, it hurts the entire body.” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Anglican bishop shaken ‘to the core’ by home secretary’s asylum seeker comments
Bishop of Edmonton says people coming to UK are being ‘scapegoated’ for years of policy failures
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Another reminder that a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.

ALL ROAD USERS.

And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.

For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.

Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA
Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.
usa.streetsblog.org
November 17, 2025 at 5:19 AM
"Climate and biodiversity policies must consider and take an active role in shaping the reform of the global financial architecture to enable a transformative shift in forest governance towards biodiversity restoration and climate resilience." landgap.org/2025/report
The Land Gap report
We calculated how much land is included in pledges: nearly 1 billion hectares. That's about two thirds of the world's arable land.
landgap.org
November 16, 2025 at 7:18 AM