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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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”.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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…
A typical data centre sucks up 300,000 gallons of water a day, enough to supply 1000 high-using US households, research concludes. The people of this Indonesian island say that, as a result, they have had not a single drop of tap water in 3 months.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqj6…
Beware teabags, says this research. They shed microplastics and hazardous chemicals and so may threaten health.it advises using loose leaves instead.
nature.com/articles/s41538-0…
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Insurers, the finance industry in general, haven't done anything to prepare. Organisational inertia. The situation is far too big. They don't know where to start.
Good news.. Rewilding low-lying islands and removing alien species, like rats, helps them withstand sea level rise, research on 28 atolls finds. Seabird droppings increase vegetation, stabilise soils and promote faster growth of protective coral reefs.
phys.org/news/2026-10-rats-n…
More than 300 glaciers have melted away in the United States since the 1950s and the total area has declined by over a third, research at Portland State University has found. The rest are expected to have gone by 2100.
theconversation.com/300-glac…
Rice is being grown in the Netherlands for the first time, made possible by global warming. On the plus side, this could rewet peatlands dried out by cattle and thus emitting carbon and causing the land to sink even further.
euronews.com/2026/10/01/thri…
