This is a rare and amazing environmental success story & we really should be shouting more about it.

In 2019, KCL estimated that without action, it would take 193 years for London to meet the legal limit.

Birmingham, Manchester & Liverpool all recorded worse results.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Oh thanks, il enjoy this! If you haven't heard Peter G's latest album double album i/o, it's wonderful

Great (read scary) investigation into the Tony Blair Institute, its relationship with a US tech billionaire & efforts to get NHS health data opened up for AI

I also had no idea TBI was so big: 900 staff!

HT @petergeoghegan.bsky.social @maybulman.bsky.social

www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

My latest story was also published in the Guardian

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

As Trump visits the king & protestors march through London, we obtained data showing that the president's Scottish golf course repeatedly breached sewage contamination limits

My latest for @unearthednews.bsky.social

unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/09/17/t...

Environment minister Mary Creagh has announced the government will make it harder for farmers to apply for emergency authorisations of a group of bee-killing pesticides known as neonics

Says guidance today will require applications to take full account of the risks pesticides pose to pollinators

Lush setting for a conference I must say - by the capital's only chalk stream, the River Wandle

At UK River Summit - lots of talk about the government's review of the water sector, in coming weeks and about the unfolding drought.

Hmu if you're hear & want to chat!

#UKRiverSummit

@mcivillini.bsky.social Hi Matteo, I don't think we've connected before but I work for Unearthed. Got a quick q for you about one of your stories - would you mind following so I can DM you? Thank you

Britain's datacentres are already consuming close to 10 billion litres of water per year - and that's before any AI boom

by @adamvaughan.bsky.social
@foxglovelegal.bsky.social

www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

The gap between how much water England has and how much it will need in future just got bigger again

By @shoshaadie.bsky.social

www.endsreport.com/article/1922...

NEW: Fashion waste is overwhelming Ghana — and now it’s spilling into Accra’s protected wetlands.
With @greenpeaceafrica.org, we found UK brands and huge new dump sites in a conservation area home to endangered turtles.
👉 unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/06/18/u...

📢Good news: The 200-year-old Vagrancy Act is finally to be repealed, meaning rough sleeping will no longer be treated as a crime in England & Wales.
CIH have long called for an approach that tackles the root causes of homelessness—not punishes people for it. This is a welcome & long overdue change🧵⬇️

That's "3.4 million wet tonnes" of literally toxic sh*t with "nowhere to go" to be exact.

Folks at home in the Shire will also be interested to know that the Midlands is where the landfill space is, so if there's a sudden shortfall of land, it's likely coming your way....

And this "artist’s impression of how Google’s new London headquarters could look if it was overrun with foxes" by @londoncentric.media who first reported the news

www.londoncentric.media/p/why-lime-b...

Really enjoying nature getting one over on Big Tech here...

One source familiar with the construction told the Guardian "it had been a rolling three-year saga & said some foxes had begun to dig burrows in the perfectly manicured grounds."

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

This happened for decades with asbestos: industry lobbied to deem certain types safer than others, delaying a ban that would have saved countless lives

By our very own @ellieodonnell.bsky.social @zdboren.bsky.social

And covered by the BBC this morning

www.bbc.com/news/article...

This is a really important & quite shocking, investigation.

The water industry is worried that in just 3 years time it may have nowhere to send millions of tonnes of sludge.

Sludge is spread on farms but there are now concerning levels of PFAS in it.

unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/06/09/s...

Back in 2022, working with @source-material.org we exposed how families were dispossessed of their land to make way for the scheme.

unearthed.greenpeace.org/2022/12/12/t...

Three years after our investigation into Total's huge carbon offsetting project in the Congo, the oil giant is abandoning it - @reporterre.net reports.

It's reportedly stopped funding the project & pulled staff out the country. It planted 12.5% of the intended trees.

reporterre.net/TotalEnergie...

NEW from me: China's CO2 emissions fell ~1.6% in the first quarter and have now been flat or down for more than a year. This is the first time on record that emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, not slow power demand.

"[It's] largely underground, changes in volume depending on whether it’s rained recently & tries to swallow you up every time you set foot in it"

The government wants you to know that mapping the biggest carbon store on UK land was not easy - & it's not healthy.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The same Tony Blair has been paid to advise oil rich autocratic states including Azerbaijan, UAE and Kazakhstan

This should be included in *every* story about his net zero comments

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

BREAKING: Brazil meat giant JBS has received approval from the SEC for its plan to list on the New York Stock Exchange.

The new comes days after we revealed its pledge to rid its vast Amazon beef supply chain of deforestation by January is likely to be broken

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...