World's longest-serving (56 yrs) environment journo. On Y Post, Observer, Indep, Telegraph. Also in Mail, i, Sun, Guardian, BBC, E Standard, Open Democracy etc.
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Deep sea life in the Gulf of Mexico (not Gulf of America, Trump!) crashed by 60% following the Deepwater Horizon 4 million barrel oil spill, and 16 years later shows little sign of recovery, new research - based on thousands of samples - shows.
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Más de 350 expertos en calidad del aire se movilizan para que María Neira lidere la OMS elpais.com/clima-y-medio-amb… via @el_pais
Good news. Greenland’s parliament has voted unanimously to halt all seabed mining until 2029, when the ban can be renewed. The decision is being hailed as a slap in the face for Donald Trump
news.mongabay.com/short-arti…
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Well put by @ProfBillMcGuire - exceeding 1.5C above pre-industrial levels is “going through a set of one-way doors to another world”
#FOTW Daily Post 19
1.5C equates to key tipping points such as the loss of the Greenland Ice Sheet that, once crossed, won't reverse on any human timescale.
1.5C isn't a slogan. It's a set of one-way doors to another world
Now shut behind us
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Proponents of more North Sea drilling say that tax paid by companies could be used to lower energy bills. But Oxford University analysis shows that, even if production were maximised and all revenues paid to consumers, bills would only drop by £82 p.a.
theconversation.com/would-mo…
Two-thirds of UK house buyers now want properties with solar panels, batteries and heat pumps, says Rightmove. They aim to generate as much of their their own energy as possible as prices rise and security falls, e.g. through the Iran and Ukraine wars.
thetimes.com/life-style/prop…
Good package by @Channel4News on the #Jackdaw decision. @krishgm puts @Miatsf under well directed pressure on reported plans to cut heat pump grants. The ever-impressive @tessakhan trounces proponent of more North Sea drilling.
Voyages through the once ice-bound sea north of Russia are booming. Last month alone there were 133, enabled by melting ice and stimulated by Middle East unrest. It takes just 24 days from China to the U.K., compared to 40 via the Cape of Good Hope.
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Climate change is causing mental disease and increasing alcohol drug abuse in poor communities, new research finds. A study of 20,000 people in the Sahel shows how the weather instability, and poor harvests resulting from it, devastates lives.
theconversation.com/study-of…
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This is where buying SUVs and grotesquely oversized cars gets you. And omitting to invest in public transport.
BREAKING: America’s $1.7 trillion auto loan market is headed for a crash, per Reuters.
Auto loans are now one of the biggest sources of household debt, bigger than credit cards.
And the strain is showing: 1 in 5 Americans is behind on at least one loan, the highest since 2010, and the average car on the road is now nearly 13 years old, a record.
Super El Niño is already raising sea levels in the Eastern Pacific by over a foot, satellite measurements reveal. This, researchers have found, will raise the risk of flooding tenfold down the entire west coast of the Americas, from Alaska to Chile.
gizmodo.com/el-nino-has-alre…
Just 15 years ago bluefin tuna were seriously endangered: now they are recovering in possibly unprecedented numbers. One of several conservation successes in individual species reported by WWF at a time when wildlife in general is in “freefall”.
aljazeera.com/features/2026/…
Arctic sea ice reached its lowest ever maximum extent this year and, it seems, worse than expected is to come. New evidence suggests that the models used to predict the effects of climate change have underestimated its future extent by a million sq kms.
phys.org/news/2026-10-winter…
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Insulating Britain’s homes and investing in heat pumps would do more to cut the cost of living, create jobs and boost the UK’s economy than drilling for new oil @e3g
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Sheep are understandably seen as enemies by many environmentalists, accusing them of destroying vegetation and denuding the ground. But one new study suggests that their grazing may enable soil to store more carbon, thus combatting climate change.
earth.com/climate/sheep-and-…
Great news! Felling the Amazon rainforest has reached its lowest level in 40 years, down a “stratospheric” 42% from last year. But this will be abruptly reversed if, as expected, Flavio Bolsinario triumphs in the ongoing Brazilian presidential election.
dw.com/en/brazil-amazon-defo…
What are @andyburnham priorities? Important @fionaharvey piece shows Government’s Warm Homes programme, which he is planning to cut, would provide far more jobs and cut bills very much more than North Sea drilling he seems about to approve.
theguardian.com/environment/…
The Sea of Galilee is at the lowest level ever recorded, as Israel’s water reserves reach a 100-year nadir after two years of drought. The country is suffering “extremely high water stress” says the World Resources Institute’s aqueduct index.
calcalistech.com/ctechnews/a…
Antarctic’s ‘doomsday’ Thwaites glacier is melting twice as fast as scientists believed, a new study shows. It is expected eventually to raise sea levels two feet by itself, and
could unleash other melting that could bring them up a full 10 feet.
edition.cnn.com/2026/10/15/c…
The good news: 17,227 marine protected areas cover almost 10% of the world’s oceans. The bad: a new survey shows that most of them enjoy very little protection, and fishing has actually increased in well over half.
phys.org/news/2026-10-marine…
