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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · Jun 8

No-one, NO-ONE,should be granted a “request for near-blanket immunity for serious environmental crimes”

If the potential buyers of Thames Water can’t clean up, they shouldn’t be allowed to buy

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Bidders demand Thames Water granted immunity over environmental crimes

Exclusive: ‘Ransom note’ requests would leave Environment Agency unable to prosecute company or management

www.theguardian.com

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Doggerland Foundation @doggerland-fdn.bsky.social · Jun 5

We're calling up all governments at the United Nations Oceans Conference #UNOC next week to end bottom trawling in Marine Protected Areas 🌊 As Sir David Attenborough put it in his latest movie Ocean: 𝑰𝒕'𝒔 𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒂 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝒇𝒊𝒔𝒉 Read more at www.doggerland.earth

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Alice Allan @alicemeallan.bsky.social · May 31

Flowers for a friend from my garden.

A bunch of bink and blue roses and love in a mist.

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Alice Allan @alicemeallan.bsky.social · May 22

I love the happy zizzing of this bee on my foxgloves ☺️#nature #bees

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WHO @who.int · May 19

WHO faces a 21% reduction from the original proposed budget for the 2026-27 biennium.

“If we think US$ 2.1 billion a year is ambitious—or $ 4.2 billion for the biennium—then either we must lower our ambitions for what WHO is and does, or we must raise the money.” - @drtedros.who.int

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4.2 billion dollars for two years – or 2.1 billion a year – is not ambitious,
it’s extremely modest.

2.1 billion dollars is the equivalent of:

8 hours of global military expenditure or,
1 stealth bomber or,
3 months’ advertising expenditure by the tobacco industry.

"It seems somebody switched the price tags on what is truly valuable
in our world."

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General

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WHO @who.int · May 19

WHO Member States, meeting today in Committee A of the #WHA78, approved a resolution that calls for the adoption of a historic global compact to make the world safer from future pandemics.

Read: bit.ly/4kjM6p4

Member States approve WHO Pandemic Agreement in World Health Assembly Committee, paving way for its formal adoption

World Health Organization Member States, meeting today in Committee A of the World Health Assembly, approved a resolution that calls for the adoption of an historic global compact to make the world sa...

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WHO @who.int · Apr 30

Vaccines are rigorously tested, effective, and save lives. More than 150 million lives have been saved in the past 50 years thanks to vaccines!

But you may be worried about what's in them.
So, let’s break it down. ⬇

Check out the latest episode of Plot Twist.
youtube.com/shorts/TH1kz...

What’s in a vaccine?

YouTube video by World Health Organization (WHO)

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Alice Allan @alicemeallan.bsky.social · Apr 28

That is indeed exciting news!

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Alice Allan @alicemeallan.bsky.social · Apr 26

Tender new, translucent leaves on an old copper beech tree in my village.

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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · Apr 26

What follows if we imagine rivers as having lives, deaths––& even rights?
I wrote this essay about water & hope; imagining rivers “otherwise”; nature’s rights; grammars of animacy; & how our fate flows with that of rivers—& always has.
It’s from Is A River Alive?
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Is this river alive? Robert Macfarlane on the lives, deaths and rights of our rivers

As pollution levels hit record highs and fresh water becomes ‘the new oil’, is it time to radically reimagine our relationship to the natural world?

www.theguardian.com

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Alice Allan @alicemeallan.bsky.social · Apr 26

Disinformation makes the difficult job of climate scientists even harder #climatecrisis www.who.int/europe/news-...

Communicating the climate crisis: the scientists contending with disinformation and climate anxiety

Mark McCarthy has been a climate scientist for 25 years. At the Met Office, the national weather and climate service of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, he and his team look a...

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Alice Allan @alicemeallan.bsky.social · Apr 25

My Romanian uni friend used to exclaim "What a Wonker!" so now that's my expletive of choice.

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Alice Allan @alicemeallan.bsky.social · Apr 21

My daughter Sylvie the #cat whisperer #Sicily

A teenage girl with plaits stroking a tortoiseshell cat.

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · Apr 17

Hugely important warning: allowing cheaper US food imports that don’t meet the same environmental & animal protection standards as British farmers would sound a death knell for UK farms & rural communities. It must not be part of any future trade deal

Rural communities could be destroyed if UK signs US trade deal, says former food tsar

Exclusive: Henry Dimbleby joins farmers in voicing fears of lower standards and a poor deal for British food producers

www.theguardian.com

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Alice Allan @alicemeallan.bsky.social · Apr 16

Despite the misplaced fears of COVID deniers and conspiracists, this is REALLY GOOD NEWS. Cooperation and collaboration can save lives across the world and we must work together to prevent and fight pandemics. #pandemicaccord

WHO @who.int · Apr 16

After over 3 years of negotiations, WHO Member States have finalized a draft #PandemicAccord to make the world safer from future pandemics.

The draft agreement will now be submitted to WHO’s Member States meeting at the #WHA78 for consideration and adoption.

bit.ly/3EaZQmL

Participants in the discussions are holding up their country names.

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · Apr 15

This is what’s happening with 1.3C of global heating above preindustrial levels. We’re on track for 3C by 2100. Failure to leave fossil fuels in the ground is a devastating crime against humanity & against all other life on this, our one fragile earth

Deadly floods and storms affected more than 400,000 people in Europe in 2024

European State of the Climate report ‘lays bare’ impact of fossil fuels on continent during its hottest 12 months on record

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Alice Allan @alicemeallan.bsky.social · Apr 3

2 years ago I went for an Autumn walk with my brother and found a tree laden with delicious golden apples in a field. We stuffed our pockets, and I planted the seeds. I now have 8 little apple trees, and they make me very happy, even if they never bear fruit. #nature

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · Apr 3

The suffering that will be unleashed on Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos is horrific. And that's not because they have "raped" America. It's because they're poor, they can't afford many US goods but they can become wealthier by exporting to rich countries.

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Alice Allan @alicemeallan.bsky.social · Apr 3

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TripFiction @tripfiction.bsky.social · Apr 2

A thrilling and informative story set around a magical hill in DEVON

The Whispering Trees by Alice Allan @alicemeallan.bsky.social

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A thrilling and informative story set around a magical hill in DEVON - TripFiction

The Whispering Trees by Alice Allan - an informative story set around a magical hill in Devon. The Whispering Trees is a very well written and (up to a

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Alice Allan @alicemeallan.bsky.social · Mar 28

Brief beauty.

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · Mar 27

NEW: Govt data CONFIRMS our estimate that UK greenhouse gas emissions fell by 4% to 371MtCO2e in 2024

As we said earlier this month, this took UK emissions to lowest level since 1872 – with coal use at its lowest since 1666 (!)

Our analysis: www.carbonbrief.org/...

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Alice Allan @alicemeallan.bsky.social · Mar 24

First cows, now sheep. #H5N1 has not previously been detected in these mammals. Not good.

Sky News @news.sky.com · Mar 24

Bird flu detected in sheep in England for the first time

Bird flu has been detected in a sheep in England for the first time, the government has said.

news.sky.com

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Alice Allan @alicemeallan.bsky.social · Mar 23

So pleased to have met your fabulous funky tree.

A huge plane tree with tortuous branches, blue sky behind.

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Alice Allan @alicemeallan.bsky.social · Mar 23

What a wonderful world 🌎

Vincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · Mar 23

20 minutes ago here in Venetie, Alaska, the skies erupted in a beautiful auroral substorm. Here is just one of many real-time videos I recorded during the show to give you a sense of how fast and dynamic the aurora can move.

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Alice Allan @alicemeallan.bsky.social · Mar 21

What?!

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Mar 21

A gobsmacking story. Water companies let toxic waste disposers, for cash, dump their loads into sewage farms. The sewage sludge is then spread, untested, on farmland, potentially poisoning vast areas, entire ecosystems and the people (you and me) eating the food.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What’s in the millions of tonnes of sludge sprayed on to farmland? The answer won’t make you happy | George Monbiot

Thanks to breathtaking negligence, the liquid fertiliser used to help grow our food bubbles with a lethal cocktail of toxins, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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