Sandra Christensen
@sandylan.bsky.social
I listen to the science #ClimateActionNow
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[From January, by me]
‘Insanely tasty green food’: how the meaty Danes embraced a world-first plant-based plan
- Agreement between farmers, politicians and environmental groups led to a €170m action fund for plant based food
2/2
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‘Insanely tasty green food’: how the meaty Danes embraced a world-first plant-based plan
- Agreement between farmers, politicians and environmental groups led to a €170m action fund for plant based food
2/2
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Insanely tasty green food’: how the meaty Danes embraced a world-first plant-based plan
Agreement between farmers, politicians and environmental groups led to a €170m action fund for plant based food
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:13 AM
[From January, by me]
‘Insanely tasty green food’: how the meaty Danes embraced a world-first plant-based plan
- Agreement between farmers, politicians and environmental groups led to a €170m action fund for plant based food
2/2
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Insanely tasty green food’: how the meaty Danes embraced a world-first plant-based plan
- Agreement between farmers, politicians and environmental groups led to a €170m action fund for plant based food
2/2
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Here's a look at the extent of the "warmth" across the #Arctic in October. This map uses my normal anomaly scaling for each month, but it clearly doesn't work for something this extreme.
Data from doi.org/10.24381/cds...
Data from doi.org/10.24381/cds...
November 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Here's a look at the extent of the "warmth" across the #Arctic in October. This map uses my normal anomaly scaling for each month, but it clearly doesn't work for something this extreme.
Data from doi.org/10.24381/cds...
Data from doi.org/10.24381/cds...
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“While forest communities fight for survival, the same companies that cause climate collapse buy credentials and political influence to continue expanding their fossil empires.”
“While forest communities fight for survival, the same companies that cause climate collapse buy credentials and political influence to continue expanding their fossil empires.”
How thousands of fossil fuel lobbyists got access to UN climate talks – and then kept drilling
Exclusive: Research shows oil, gas and coal firms’ unprecedented access to Cop26-29, blocking urgent climate action
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November 9, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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“While forest communities fight for survival, the same companies that cause climate collapse buy credentials and political influence to continue expanding their fossil empires.”
“While forest communities fight for survival, the same companies that cause climate collapse buy credentials and political influence to continue expanding their fossil empires.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"the person driving while on TikTok “wasn’t paying attention to the road because she was reading comments and grinning at her phone”.
“A man died because she wanted attention from a livestream,”
"the person driving while on TikTok “wasn’t paying attention to the road because she was reading comments and grinning at her phone”.
“A man died because she wanted attention from a livestream,”
Driver livestreams herself on TikTok as she apparently hits and kills man in Chicago
TikTok video shows woman speaking into camera and reacting to a loud thud before she says ‘I just hit somebody’
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November 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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"the person driving while on TikTok “wasn’t paying attention to the road because she was reading comments and grinning at her phone”.
“A man died because she wanted attention from a livestream,”
"the person driving while on TikTok “wasn’t paying attention to the road because she was reading comments and grinning at her phone”.
“A man died because she wanted attention from a livestream,”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
“They are prehistoric animals that have survived millions of years, but they won’t survive the Canadian Food Inspection Agency,” she said. Co-owner Dave Bilinski said he was “afraid there’s – in my opinion – there’s no justice left”.
“They are prehistoric animals that have survived millions of years, but they won’t survive the Canadian Food Inspection Agency,” she said. Co-owner Dave Bilinski said he was “afraid there’s – in my opinion – there’s no justice left”.
Canada pushes on with ‘complete depopulation’ plan to cull 400 ostriches
Country’s top court declines to block controversial cull of hundreds of birds amid fears of an avian flu outbreak
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November 7, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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“They are prehistoric animals that have survived millions of years, but they won’t survive the Canadian Food Inspection Agency,” she said. Co-owner Dave Bilinski said he was “afraid there’s – in my opinion – there’s no justice left”.
“They are prehistoric animals that have survived millions of years, but they won’t survive the Canadian Food Inspection Agency,” she said. Co-owner Dave Bilinski said he was “afraid there’s – in my opinion – there’s no justice left”.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"Until our leaders have the courage to put a price on carbon to bring the era of fossil fuels to a definitive end, we are adding more and more carbon to the atmosphere, compounding the physical catastrophe now unfolding all around us."
"Until our leaders have the courage to put a price on carbon to bring the era of fossil fuels to a definitive end, we are adding more and more carbon to the atmosphere, compounding the physical catastrophe now unfolding all around us."
Net zero is an insidious loophole that distracts from the scientific imperative to eliminate fossil fuels | Joëlle Gergis
History tells us that polite incrementalism and political kowtowing will prevail at Cop30 – even as catastrophe unfolds around us
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November 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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"Until our leaders have the courage to put a price on carbon to bring the era of fossil fuels to a definitive end, we are adding more and more carbon to the atmosphere, compounding the physical catastrophe now unfolding all around us."
"Until our leaders have the courage to put a price on carbon to bring the era of fossil fuels to a definitive end, we are adding more and more carbon to the atmosphere, compounding the physical catastrophe now unfolding all around us."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
“It’s clear that agribusinesses don’t want to come clean about the pollution they cause because it could affect whether they are allowed to expand, and thus make more profits at the expense of our communities,” she added. “It’s an emissions scandal.”
“It’s clear that agribusinesses don’t want to come clean about the pollution they cause because it could affect whether they are allowed to expand, and thus make more profits at the expense of our communities,” she added. “It’s an emissions scandal.”
Intensive livestock farms fail to declare climate impacts in ‘emissions scandal’
Local councils are giving the green light to large-scale pig and poultry farms with patchy or non-existent climate data
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November 6, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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“It’s clear that agribusinesses don’t want to come clean about the pollution they cause because it could affect whether they are allowed to expand, and thus make more profits at the expense of our communities,” she added. “It’s an emissions scandal.”
“It’s clear that agribusinesses don’t want to come clean about the pollution they cause because it could affect whether they are allowed to expand, and thus make more profits at the expense of our communities,” she added. “It’s an emissions scandal.”
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"Given reported profits from just five international oil and gas giants over the last decade reached almost $800bn, taxing fossil fuel corporations is clearly a huge opportunity to overcome national fiscal constraints.”
"Given reported profits from just five international oil and gas giants over the last decade reached almost $800bn, taxing fossil fuel corporations is clearly a huge opportunity to overcome national fiscal constraints.”
Experts call for new taxes on worst polluters to help poorer nations with climate crisis
Report to be discussed at Cop30 says global agreements should target carbon intensive activities and ‘ultra high net worth individuals’
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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"Given reported profits from just five international oil and gas giants over the last decade reached almost $800bn, taxing fossil fuel corporations is clearly a huge opportunity to overcome national fiscal constraints.”
"Given reported profits from just five international oil and gas giants over the last decade reached almost $800bn, taxing fossil fuel corporations is clearly a huge opportunity to overcome national fiscal constraints.”
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"that they don’t want to fix the climate crisis..., because it means there will be fewer of us. But we rigorously avoid the logical conclusion: that maybe having a billion dollars in the first place is innately bad."
"that they don’t want to fix the climate crisis..., because it means there will be fewer of us. But we rigorously avoid the logical conclusion: that maybe having a billion dollars in the first place is innately bad."
Why the anger with Billie Eilish? Because it’s against the rules to say what we all know about billionaires | Zoe Williams
The singer is giving away millions – but the parameters for criticising the super-rich are very narrow, and hardly anyone qualifies, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams
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November 6, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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"that they don’t want to fix the climate crisis..., because it means there will be fewer of us. But we rigorously avoid the logical conclusion: that maybe having a billion dollars in the first place is innately bad."
"that they don’t want to fix the climate crisis..., because it means there will be fewer of us. But we rigorously avoid the logical conclusion: that maybe having a billion dollars in the first place is innately bad."
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The EU's environment ministers have agreed a proposed climate target for 2040 that is much lower than what even the EU's own science advisers called for
Half-assing climate action will lead to more deaths, more lost homes, more lost harvests – and the EU will struggle play leader at #COP30
#EU2040
Half-assing climate action will lead to more deaths, more lost homes, more lost harvests – and the EU will struggle play leader at #COP30
#EU2040
Environment ministers botch EU climate targets - Greenpeace European Unit
Brussels – After a night of haggling, the EU’s national environment ministers have proposed a climate target for 2040 that falls significantly short of even the minimum that the EU’s…
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November 5, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Catastrophic nature loss is at least as serious a problem as climate breakdown, but only gets a fraction of the (woefully inadequate) attention.
THE most critical tasks of our time are:
• Protect what remains of wild ecosystems
• Mass rewilding where damaged or lost
www.earth.com/news/africas...
THE most critical tasks of our time are:
• Protect what remains of wild ecosystems
• Mass rewilding where damaged or lost
www.earth.com/news/africas...
Africa's natural wildlife 'power' has nearly collapsed
Scientists warn that losing Africa’s large animals is draining ecosystem energy and reshaping the continent’s biodiversity.
www.earth.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Catastrophic nature loss is at least as serious a problem as climate breakdown, but only gets a fraction of the (woefully inadequate) attention.
THE most critical tasks of our time are:
• Protect what remains of wild ecosystems
• Mass rewilding where damaged or lost
www.earth.com/news/africas...
THE most critical tasks of our time are:
• Protect what remains of wild ecosystems
• Mass rewilding where damaged or lost
www.earth.com/news/africas...
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- "Emissions Gap Report 2025: Off Target" from @unep.org
- latest climate pledges under the Paris Agreement only slightly lower global temperature rise to 2100, leaving the world heading for a serious escalation of climate risks and damages
#climatecrisis
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- latest climate pledges under the Paris Agreement only slightly lower global temperature rise to 2100, leaving the world heading for a serious escalation of climate risks and damages
#climatecrisis
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Emissions Gap Report 2025
UNEP’s Emissions Gap Report 2025: Off Target finds that available new climate pledges under the Paris Agreement have only slightly lowered global temperature rise over the course of this century, leav...
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November 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM
- "Emissions Gap Report 2025: Off Target" from @unep.org
- latest climate pledges under the Paris Agreement only slightly lower global temperature rise to 2100, leaving the world heading for a serious escalation of climate risks and damages
#climatecrisis
www.unep.org/resources/em...
- latest climate pledges under the Paris Agreement only slightly lower global temperature rise to 2100, leaving the world heading for a serious escalation of climate risks and damages
#climatecrisis
www.unep.org/resources/em...
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Hektoria glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula retreated 25 kilometres in just 15 months. Its rapid melt could have implications for other glaciers and the rate of sea level rise
Antarctic glacier's alarming retreat is the fastest ever seen
Hektoria glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula retreated 25 kilometres in just 15 months. Its rapid melt could have implications for other glaciers and the rate of sea level rise
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November 5, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Hektoria glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula retreated 25 kilometres in just 15 months. Its rapid melt could have implications for other glaciers and the rate of sea level rise
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In air pollution hotspots in England & Wales, half the population are people of colour, 48% are on the lowest incomes, and 60% don’t drive
Pollution is being unfairly imposed on them, principally by those who drive through their area
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Pollution is being unfairly imposed on them, principally by those who drive through their area
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Low-income areas in England and Wales face worst air pollution, analysis finds
Exclusive: Experts say impact on people of colour and those who do not drive is ‘grave environmental injustice’
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November 5, 2025 at 7:13 AM
In air pollution hotspots in England & Wales, half the population are people of colour, 48% are on the lowest incomes, and 60% don’t drive
Pollution is being unfairly imposed on them, principally by those who drive through their area
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Pollution is being unfairly imposed on them, principally by those who drive through their area
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
“Exxon seemed to think that if you could make developing nations, and all nations, sceptical that climate change was a crisis then you’d never have a global climate treaty.”
“Exxon seemed to think that if you could make developing nations, and all nations, sceptical that climate change was a crisis then you’d never have a global climate treaty.”
Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents reveal
Texas-based fossil fuel company financed Atlas Network in attempt to derail UN-led climate treaty process
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November 3, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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“Exxon seemed to think that if you could make developing nations, and all nations, sceptical that climate change was a crisis then you’d never have a global climate treaty.”
“Exxon seemed to think that if you could make developing nations, and all nations, sceptical that climate change was a crisis then you’d never have a global climate treaty.”
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"Air breathed close to roads was about three times more toxic than that collected in rural areas. Places with the most toxic air were generally in valleys, where local pollution struggles to disperse."
"Air breathed close to roads was about three times more toxic than that collected in rural areas. Places with the most toxic air were generally in valleys, where local pollution struggles to disperse."
Tackle wood burning and road traffic to improve Europe’s air quality, study finds
Researchers measure toxicity of air samples across continent to advise on ‘efficient’ policies to reduce harm
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October 31, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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"Air breathed close to roads was about three times more toxic than that collected in rural areas. Places with the most toxic air were generally in valleys, where local pollution struggles to disperse."
"Air breathed close to roads was about three times more toxic than that collected in rural areas. Places with the most toxic air were generally in valleys, where local pollution struggles to disperse."
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“As our oceans acidify [and] lose oxygen, the life they support is under increasing pressure to move, adapt or die. We’re already seeing this in action.”
“As our oceans acidify [and] lose oxygen, the life they support is under increasing pressure to move, adapt or die. We’re already seeing this in action.”
Marine wildlife fleeing to poles due to global heating as Australian oceans face ‘uncharted’ future
From 2040 onwards the average year for marine ecosystems is likely to be more extreme than the worst years experienced up until 2015, researchers say
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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“As our oceans acidify [and] lose oxygen, the life they support is under increasing pressure to move, adapt or die. We’re already seeing this in action.”
“As our oceans acidify [and] lose oxygen, the life they support is under increasing pressure to move, adapt or die. We’re already seeing this in action.”
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"Increasingly, scientists are learning that our health is intimately linked to our surroundings, and to the ecological health of the world around us."
"Increasingly, scientists are learning that our health is intimately linked to our surroundings, and to the ecological health of the world around us."
How a radical experiment to bring a forest into a preschool transformed children’s health
In Finland, kindergartens are exposing children to more mud, wild plants and moss - and finding changes to their health that show how crucial biodiversity is to wellbeing
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October 29, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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"Increasingly, scientists are learning that our health is intimately linked to our surroundings, and to the ecological health of the world around us."
"Increasingly, scientists are learning that our health is intimately linked to our surroundings, and to the ecological health of the world around us."
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“It is fundamental to invest in those who are the best guardians of nature. And the best guardians of nature are precisely the Indigenous communities,” Guterres said.
“It is fundamental to invest in those who are the best guardians of nature. And the best guardians of nature are precisely the Indigenous communities,” Guterres said.
‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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“It is fundamental to invest in those who are the best guardians of nature. And the best guardians of nature are precisely the Indigenous communities,” Guterres said.
“It is fundamental to invest in those who are the best guardians of nature. And the best guardians of nature are precisely the Indigenous communities,” Guterres said.
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“If we keep on financing fossil fuels and enabling this expansion of fossil fuels, we know that a healthy future is not possible.”
“If we keep on financing fossil fuels and enabling this expansion of fossil fuels, we know that a healthy future is not possible.”
Rising heat kills one person a minute worldwide, major report reveals
Biggest analysis of its kind finds millions are dying each year because of failure to tackle climate crisis
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October 29, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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“If we keep on financing fossil fuels and enabling this expansion of fossil fuels, we know that a healthy future is not possible.”
“If we keep on financing fossil fuels and enabling this expansion of fossil fuels, we know that a healthy future is not possible.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/... "Transport scientists have found that removing the exorbitant subsidies that the aviation industry enjoys would help level the playing field and free up public money to invest in crumbling railways."
When trains are pricier than planes, there’s a heavy social, financial and environmental cost
In this week’s newsletter: whether it’s a holiday or work trip, railway travellers find themselves burdened by astronomical prices
www.theguardian.com
October 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
www.theguardian.com/environment/... "Transport scientists have found that removing the exorbitant subsidies that the aviation industry enjoys would help level the playing field and free up public money to invest in crumbling railways."
www.independent.co.uk/tech/scienti... "Fusion is extremely efficient, creating many million times more energy per kilogram of fuel, than burning coal, oil, or gas."
British scientists celebrate ‘breakthrough’ in quest for unlimited clean energy
Tokamak Energy are using lithium to advance fusion research at their campus in Oxford
www.independent.co.uk
October 19, 2025 at 1:49 PM
www.independent.co.uk/tech/scienti... "Fusion is extremely efficient, creating many million times more energy per kilogram of fuel, than burning coal, oil, or gas."
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Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the #Antarctic seabed as the region warms, with new seeps being discovered at an "astonishing rate", scientists find, raising fears that future global warming predictions may have been underestimated.
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Scientists discovered something alarming seeping out from beneath the ocean around Antarctica | CNN
Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed, with new seeps being discovered at an “astonishing rate,” raising fears that future global warming predictions may have been und...
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October 18, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the #Antarctic seabed as the region warms, with new seeps being discovered at an "astonishing rate", scientists find, raising fears that future global warming predictions may have been underestimated.
edition.cnn.com/2025/10/10/c...
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OUT NOW: Global Tipping Points Report 2025
global-tipping-points.org
Our chapter on the "Implications of overshooting 1.5°C for
Earth system tipping points" is based on an associated paper: doi.org/10.31223/X52...
Minimizing climate overshoot is essential to prevent climate tipping points.
global-tipping-points.org
Our chapter on the "Implications of overshooting 1.5°C for
Earth system tipping points" is based on an associated paper: doi.org/10.31223/X52...
Minimizing climate overshoot is essential to prevent climate tipping points.
October 14, 2025 at 7:55 AM
OUT NOW: Global Tipping Points Report 2025
global-tipping-points.org
Our chapter on the "Implications of overshooting 1.5°C for
Earth system tipping points" is based on an associated paper: doi.org/10.31223/X52...
Minimizing climate overshoot is essential to prevent climate tipping points.
global-tipping-points.org
Our chapter on the "Implications of overshooting 1.5°C for
Earth system tipping points" is based on an associated paper: doi.org/10.31223/X52...
Minimizing climate overshoot is essential to prevent climate tipping points.