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From the Imagine 2200 cli-fi collection: A grieving son protects his family’s beehives as he steers them home aboard his parents’ ship.

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Grist @grist.org · 1d

Here's your climate fiction short story to read for the weekend.

Sweet Water From Salt

A grieving son protects his family’s beehives as he steers them home aboard his parents’ ship.

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#Fiction #ClimateFiction #Solarpunk #BookSky

Sweet Water From Salt

From Afrofuturism to ecotopia: A climate-fiction glossary

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Albert Carter @albertcarter.bsky.social couldn’t find a nonprofit that knew what to do with his coding skills—so he built one. His group, Bank.Green, uses #AI to expose which banks fund the climate crisis.

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#Banks #Finance #Investments #Climate

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Grist @grist.org · 1d

From Afrofuturism to ecotopia: A climate-fiction glossary
Find the climate-fiction genre that inspires you.

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#Culture #Literature #Solarpunk #Afrofuturism #EcoFiction

Find the climate-fiction genre that inspires you.

The oceans just hit an ominous milestone

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Grist @grist.org · 1d

The oceans just hit an ominous milestone.

A new report sounds the alarm on ocean acidification as Earth breaches the seventh of nine "planetary boundaries."

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#Oceans #Fish #Seas #Water #Climate

A new report sounds the alarm on mounting ocean acidification as Earth breaches the seventh of nine "planetary boundaries."

How climate change is fueling your sugar addiction

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Grist @grist.org · 1d

How climate change is fueling your sugar addiction.

Rising temperatures are feeding America's sweet tooth — and creating a new public health challenge in the process.

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#Health #Climate #Suger #Diet #Food

Rising temperatures are feeding America's sweet tooth — and creating a new public health challenge in the process.

Americans are dying from extreme heat. Autopsy reports don’t show the full story

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Fiona Harvey @fionaharvey.bsky.social · 1d

Must read on how deaths from extreme heat/climate crisis are being hidden from public view in the US. It’s killing you, but you’re not allowed to know about it. Excellent work by my colleague @ninalakhani.bsky.social
Read it here: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Official reports are likely to overlook heat’s role in a death. As US temperatures rise, experts say the true toll needs to be counted

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Fiona Harvey @fionaharvey.bsky.social · 1d

Americans are dying from extreme heat. Autopsy reports don’t show the full story

Official reports are likely to overlook heat’s role in a death. As US temperatures rise, experts say the true toll needs to be counted

Trump officials cancel major solar project in latest hit to renewable energy

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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 1d

What a conplete asshole. Who does this? So called free-market Republicans are predictably silent as Trump puts his thumb on the scale in favor of our dirtiest industries. It's truly corrupt.

Esmeralda 7 would have been one of biggest solar power projects and produced enough energy to power 2m homes

Esmeralda 7 would have been one of biggest solar power projects and produced enough energy to power 2m homes

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Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 1d

Trump officials cancel major solar project in latest hit to renewable energy

Chart: In a first, world gets more power from renewables than coal

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Canary Media Inc. @canarymedia.com · 1d

Renewables generated more power than coal globally in the first half of 2025 — a major milestone on clean energy's path to displacing fossil fuels.

The world is still burning through enormous amounts of coal, but the energy source is stagnating as renewables — and solar in particular — soar.

www.canarymedia.com

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Eric Wesoff @ericwesoff.bsky.social · 1d

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America’s biggest offshore wind farm will be online in six months

Dominion Energy’s 2.6 GW project off Virginia’s coast is progressing fast. The utility has a new, more definitive target to plug into the grid: March 2026.

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How Climate Change Is Driving Home Insurance Turmoil

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Undark Magazine @undark.org · 1d

Climate-fueled storms, wildfires, and rising seas are pushing U.S. home insurance to the limit. As @yalee360.bsky.social reports, policies are canceled, and some markets may become uninsurable. Is the country ready for a hotter future?

Climate-fueled storms and wildfires are increasing costs and pushing insurers to the limit. Is the market broken?

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Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 1d

Baby numbats spotted at two wildlife sanctuaries in hopeful sign for one of Australia’s rarest marsupials

Video shows some of the juveniles exploring outside their den at Mallee Cliffs national park in south-western NSW

Experts warn approving a windfarm in the habitat of one of Australia’s most critically endangered birds could be ‘rolling the dice’ on their survival

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Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 1d

Orange-bellied parrots have swelled back from imminent extinction – but now they face a new threat

Banks' ties to LNG raise questions of greenwashing in 'thought leadership'

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John Woodside @woodsideful.bsky.social · 1d

Should research published by banks be held to the same anti-greenwashing rules as other corporate documents? One shareholder group is pushing a Quebec regulator to decide, in a move that could open up a new battleground for corporate accountability. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/10/n...

Should research published by banks be held to the same anti-greenwashing rules as other corporate documents? One shareholder advocacy group is pushing a Quebec regulator to decide, in a move that coul...

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The shutdown is poised to deepen hunger in America — just as the Trump administration stopped tracking it

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The shutdown is poised to deepen hunger in America — just as the Trump administration stopped tracking it.

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#Hunger #Family #Children #Food #USDA

Millions of women and children are at risk of losing food benefits during the shutdown. The USDA just killed the long-running survey that would track the fallout.

Exclusive: Trial that has produced 13 hatchlings could help other threatened species avoid extinction

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Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 1d

Baby giant tortoises thrive in Seychelles after first successful artificial incubation

Major Midwest port begins electrifying operations to reduce emissions

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Canary Media Inc. @canarymedia.com · 1d

For Australia’s grid, replacing coal power with 100% renewables just makes sense.

The Port of Cleveland is adding charging ports, batteries, and solar to its main warehouse — work funded by a federal program that has so far survived…

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Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 1d

US farmers caught in Trump-China trade war – who’ll buy the soybeans?

Tariffs have caused a Chinese exit from the soybean market – and midwestern farmers are waiting on a solution

‘Little lungs are paying’: why the Dieselgate scandal is still running hot

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 1d

‘Little lungs are paying’: why the #Dieselgate scandal is still running hot

- Car makers accused of cheating air pollution rules have largely avoided punishment for a decade but a historic trial brought by 1.8 million UK motorists is about to begin

Story by me
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Carmakers accused of cheating air pollution rules have faced little punishment but trial brought by 1.8m UK motorists is about to begin

Richard Tice has 15-year record of supporting ‘net stupid zero’ initiatives

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 1d

Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice has 15-year business record of supporting ‘net stupid zero’ initiatives

- Firms led by Tice since 2011 have shown commitment to saving energy and cutting CO2 emissions

Story by @damiengayle.bsky.social
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Firms led by deputy Reform UK leader since 2011 have shown commitment to saving energy and cutting CO2 emissions

More than half of world’s bird species in decline, as leaders meet on extinction crisis

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Patrick Barkham @patrickbarkham.bsky.social · 1d

More than half of all bird species are in decline. But good news about green sea turtles - we can save species if we really try!
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Biodiversity losses are growing, the IUCN reports as summit opens, but green turtle’s recovery ‘reminds us conservation works’

Americans are dying from extreme heat. Autopsy reports don’t show the full story

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 1d

Americans are dying from extreme heat

Examination of 100s of autopsy reports reveals tragic stories

They show lives cut short in ordinary, preventable ways

Exceptional reporting by my colleague @ninalakhani.bsky.social

#climatcrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Official reports are likely to overlook heat’s role in a death. As US temperatures rise, experts say the true toll needs to be counted

More than half of world’s bird species in decline, as leaders meet on extinction crisis

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 1d

More than 60% of world’s bird species in decline, as leaders meet on extinction crisis

- Biodiversity losses are growing, the IUCN reports as summit opens, but green turtle’s recovery ‘reminds us conservation works’

Story by @pgreenfielduk.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Biodiversity losses are growing, the IUCN reports as summit opens, but green turtle’s recovery ‘reminds us conservation works’