Lara Williams
@lararhiannon.bsky.social
I write about climate change for @opinion.bsky.social and pursue the outdoors
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On methane reduction, we know how to do that, and we don't need any fancy new tech to get there.
"... the world needs to begin by rethinking livestock production ... shifting towards plant-rich diets ..."
www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
"... the world needs to begin by rethinking livestock production ... shifting towards plant-rich diets ..."
www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
Methane emissions are driving climate change. Here’s how to reduce them.
This primer explores the causes of methane emissions and how the world can limit the release of this potent greenhouse gas.
www.unep.org
November 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
On methane reduction, we know how to do that, and we don't need any fancy new tech to get there.
"... the world needs to begin by rethinking livestock production ... shifting towards plant-rich diets ..."
www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
"... the world needs to begin by rethinking livestock production ... shifting towards plant-rich diets ..."
www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
the frustration over cop30's lacklustre agreement simply strengthens calls to worry less about negotiation and more about delivering what’s already been agreed
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There's Already a Deal to Beat Dirty Fossil Fuels
A United Nations climate summit has once again failed to strengthen a pledge made two years ago to transition “away from fossil fuels.” Instead these dirty drivers of the climate crisis went completel...
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
the frustration over cop30's lacklustre agreement simply strengthens calls to worry less about negotiation and more about delivering what’s already been agreed
free link via @opinion.bloomberg.com
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free link via @opinion.bloomberg.com
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AAAAAARGH www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
NHS directed pregnant women to controversial Free Birth Society via charity
Exclusive: NHS websites pointed women to factsheet featuring podcast by ‘dangerous’ influencers linked to baby deaths
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:57 AM
AAAAAARGH www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Extremely uncomfortable reading www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Extremely uncomfortable reading www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
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A startup has a bold, new plan to dim the sun. But is it a good idea?
@lararhiannon.bsky.social explains the state of solar geoengineering — and it’s risks 🎥
@lararhiannon.bsky.social explains the state of solar geoengineering — and it’s risks 🎥
November 21, 2025 at 7:29 PM
A startup has a bold, new plan to dim the sun. But is it a good idea?
@lararhiannon.bsky.social explains the state of solar geoengineering — and it’s risks 🎥
@lararhiannon.bsky.social explains the state of solar geoengineering — and it’s risks 🎥
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The Torment-Nexus-Industrial Complex just keeps attracting more money, warns @lararhiannon.bsky.social
Maybe we should think twice before letting tech bros blot out the sun? Just spitballing here
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Maybe we should think twice before letting tech bros blot out the sun? Just spitballing here
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Dimming the Sun Is a Terrifying New Industry
Solar geoengineering, a bunch of techniques that aim to mask some effects of climate change by blocking sunlight, isn’t on the agenda for this month’s COP30. It ought to be. A record-breaking funding ...
www.bloomberg.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
The Torment-Nexus-Industrial Complex just keeps attracting more money, warns @lararhiannon.bsky.social
Maybe we should think twice before letting tech bros blot out the sun? Just spitballing here
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Maybe we should think twice before letting tech bros blot out the sun? Just spitballing here
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Worth remembering that the guy isn’t just a despicable murderer and a corrupt tyrant he is also a world class incompetent.
Great article about a pretty stupid idea. the more you read about it, the worse of an idea it becomes ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
ig.ft.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Worth remembering that the guy isn’t just a despicable murderer and a corrupt tyrant he is also a world class incompetent.
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"All of the best parts everyone would have loved were cut by my psychotic editor... I’m not worried about him reading these words, because a low-class butcher like that doesn’t possess enough humanity to subscribe to The Atlantic"
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Pennies Are Trash Now
The government has no plan for America’s 300 billion pennies.
www.theatlantic.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:01 PM
"All of the best parts everyone would have loved were cut by my psychotic editor... I’m not worried about him reading these words, because a low-class butcher like that doesn’t possess enough humanity to subscribe to The Atlantic"
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Great article about a pretty stupid idea. the more you read about it, the worse of an idea it becomes ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
ig.ft.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Great article about a pretty stupid idea. the more you read about it, the worse of an idea it becomes ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
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Hard to think of anything in media that regularly brings me as much pure joy anymore as the headline in The New York Times' Trilobites section.
November 6, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Hard to think of anything in media that regularly brings me as much pure joy anymore as the headline in The New York Times' Trilobites section.
train travel should be accessible to all x
Passengers on a high-speed train between Poland's two largest cities were taken by surprise when a sheep wearing a nappy began wandering through the carriages.
Sheep in nappy spotted on Polish high-speed train
notesfrompoland.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:28 AM
train travel should be accessible to all x
Come for the headline, stay for the bears 🐻
Just one of the ways climate is pushing humans and wild animals closer together, and fostering conflict
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Just one of the ways climate is pushing humans and wild animals closer together, and fostering conflict
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Urban Bears Bring Fur and Loathing to Japan
In a seminal 1996 episode of The Simpsons, bear attacks lead to anger among the people of Springfield and the formation of Bear Patrol, a ludicrously over-the-top and over-funded response unit that pr...
www.bloomberg.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Come for the headline, stay for the bears 🐻
Just one of the ways climate is pushing humans and wild animals closer together, and fostering conflict
Free link! via @opinion.bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Just one of the ways climate is pushing humans and wild animals closer together, and fostering conflict
Free link! via @opinion.bloomberg.com
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NEW: Children faced more risk of rare heart problems after Covid-19 infection than they did after taking the Pfizer/BioNTech mRNA vaccine, a big three-year study of under-18s in England has found.
Important evidence for debates over vaccine safety, particularly in the US.
www.ft.com/content/231d...
Important evidence for debates over vaccine safety, particularly in the US.
www.ft.com/content/231d...
Covid jab less likely than virus to cause rare heart issue in children
Largest study of its kind shows health risks of refusing vaccination
www.ft.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:16 AM
NEW: Children faced more risk of rare heart problems after Covid-19 infection than they did after taking the Pfizer/BioNTech mRNA vaccine, a big three-year study of under-18s in England has found.
Important evidence for debates over vaccine safety, particularly in the US.
www.ft.com/content/231d...
Important evidence for debates over vaccine safety, particularly in the US.
www.ft.com/content/231d...
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Some of the details in this piece make my blood boil www.newstatesman.com/politics/hea...
Britain's next maternity scandal
A four-month investigation with Channel 4 News reveals harrowing failings at one of Britain's most prestigious hospitals
www.newstatesman.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Some of the details in this piece make my blood boil www.newstatesman.com/politics/hea...
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The soaring price of cocoa is forcing chocolate makers to cut its use. The creations are delicious, writes @lararhiannon.bsky.social, but there’s a downside, too ⬇️
I Saw a Vision of Chocolate’s Future in an Amsterdam Brownie
The real-life Willy Wonkas of confectionary are racing to cut the use of expensive cocoa. Their creations are delicious, but there’s a downside, too.
www.bloomberg.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:31 PM
The soaring price of cocoa is forcing chocolate makers to cut its use. The creations are delicious, writes @lararhiannon.bsky.social, but there’s a downside, too ⬇️
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In an op-ed for TR, @davidkeith.bsky.social & @danvisioni.bsky.social voice deep concerns about Stardust & other for-profits racing into solar geoengineering — and asserting claims that, they argue, the science doesn't support.
Why the for-profit race into solar geoengineering is bad for science and public trust
Two scientists argue that the growing commercial efforts to counter climate change by reflecting away sunlight will thwart responsible research in the field.
www.technologyreview.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
In an op-ed for TR, @davidkeith.bsky.social & @danvisioni.bsky.social voice deep concerns about Stardust & other for-profits racing into solar geoengineering — and asserting claims that, they argue, the science doesn't support.
The John Lewis Christmas ad just seems like a rip off of Aftersun to me www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc5S...
Watch the 2025 John Lewis Christmas advert
YouTube video by Guardian News
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November 4, 2025 at 2:53 PM
The John Lewis Christmas ad just seems like a rip off of Aftersun to me www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc5S...
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Is this the end of chocolate as you know it? @lararhiannon.bsky.social went to an Amsterdam lab to find out: bloom.bg/4hI1Fqj
November 4, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Is this the end of chocolate as you know it? @lararhiannon.bsky.social went to an Amsterdam lab to find out: bloom.bg/4hI1Fqj
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I’m really starting to suspect that most of the tech bros haven’t actually read Tolkien, as they certainly don’t understand it.
The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!
The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!
Elon Musk: "It is time for the English to ally with the hard men, like Tommy Robinson, and fight for their survival or they shall surely all die" 29th October 2025. 2 million views in its first hour.
October 29, 2025 at 9:31 AM
I’m really starting to suspect that most of the tech bros haven’t actually read Tolkien, as they certainly don’t understand it.
The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!
The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!
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Shamed by how well the pomodoro method works. Am basically a trained lab rat with no self control 🍅
October 22, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Shamed by how well the pomodoro method works. Am basically a trained lab rat with no self control 🍅
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Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as #climatecrisis warms country
- only Antarctica now free of the insects
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- only Antarctica now free of the insects
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country
Three specimens discovered in what was previously one of the only places in the world without the insects
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as #climatecrisis warms country
- only Antarctica now free of the insects
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- only Antarctica now free of the insects
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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I've got a peanut allergy and I often wonder whether things would be different if the advice when I was a baby was different.
Needless to say if I have a baby I'll be packing them off to get fed peanut butter from an early age (just away from me!)
Needless to say if I have a baby I'll be packing them off to get fed peanut butter from an early age (just away from me!)
The results of a US study offer striking evidence of the life-saving impact of medical guidelines introduced in 2015 on.ft.com/472u5Yw
October 20, 2025 at 9:43 AM
I've got a peanut allergy and I often wonder whether things would be different if the advice when I was a baby was different.
Needless to say if I have a baby I'll be packing them off to get fed peanut butter from an early age (just away from me!)
Needless to say if I have a baby I'll be packing them off to get fed peanut butter from an early age (just away from me!)