Edward Robinson
@ejcrobinson.bsky.social
Working in climate and nature. Co-editing @landclimate.bsky.social.
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Drax faces lawsuits over claims workers developed asthma from wood dust
Drax faces lawsuits over claims workers developed asthma from wood dust
Current and former employees say they were not adequately protected despite knowledge of health risks
Ten lawsuits have been filed against Drax after diagnoses of asthma allegedly linked to its wood pellet fuel, it can be revealed.
Current and former workers at the UK’s largest power station claim they have not been adequately protected against sustained exposure to wood dust, which can cause serious health problems including asthma, dermatitis and nasal cancer. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
Proud of our team at @landclimate.bsky.social for bringing these cases to light. These people have been failed and deserve better. I hope they get justice asap!
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We begin another months-in-the-making three-parter with the story of Labour. In part one (up to 1939): why it was a fractious coalition from day one, how it overtook the Liberals to become a party of government, and why Ramsay MacDonald went from hero to treacherous villain. Contains foreshadowing
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Welcome back to Origin Story season eight: The Story of Socialism. This week, in the year of its 125th anniversary, @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social begin the tale of the UK Labour Party, from Keir Hardie to Keir Starmer 👉 linktr.ee/originstoryp...
#labour #podcast
#labour #podcast
November 5, 2025 at 9:15 AM
We begin another months-in-the-making three-parter with the story of Labour. In part one (up to 1939): why it was a fractious coalition from day one, how it overtook the Liberals to become a party of government, and why Ramsay MacDonald went from hero to treacherous villain. Contains foreshadowing
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UNEP’s new #AdaptationGap Report warns that developing countries will need at least US$310 billion per year by 2035 to protect lives, livelihoods, and economies. Yet, current financing lags far behind.
Discover how to close this gap: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
Discover how to close this gap: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
October 29, 2025 at 12:15 PM
UNEP’s new #AdaptationGap Report warns that developing countries will need at least US$310 billion per year by 2035 to protect lives, livelihoods, and economies. Yet, current financing lags far behind.
Discover how to close this gap: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
Discover how to close this gap: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
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“Climate impacts are accelerating. Yet adaptation finance is not keeping pace, leaving the world’s most vulnerable exposed to rising seas, deadly storms, searing heat,” says UN SG António Guterres. “Adaptation is not a cost – it is a lifeline"
@unep.org
#climatecrisis
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@unep.org
#climatecrisis
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Adaptation Gap Report 2025
Amid rising global temperatures and intensifying climate impacts, UNEP’s 2025 Adaptation Gap Report: Running on Empty finds that a yawning gap in adaptation finance for developing countries is putting...
www.unep.org
October 29, 2025 at 1:59 PM
“Climate impacts are accelerating. Yet adaptation finance is not keeping pace, leaving the world’s most vulnerable exposed to rising seas, deadly storms, searing heat,” says UN SG António Guterres. “Adaptation is not a cost – it is a lifeline"
@unep.org
#climatecrisis
www.unep.org/resources/ad...
@unep.org
#climatecrisis
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Very much looking forward to this! Feels like a perfect time to reassess high-rise living in Britain.
My book is out on 28 October with
@versobooks.bsky.social 💥 It’s available for pre-order at £20: www.waterstones.com/book/up-in-t...
@versobooks.bsky.social 💥 It’s available for pre-order at £20: www.waterstones.com/book/up-in-t...
October 28, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Very much looking forward to this! Feels like a perfect time to reassess high-rise living in Britain.
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Exclusive: our investigation into the link between occupational asthma and biomass power has been published today by @theguardian.com
We reveal that 10 lawsuits have been filed against Drax by workers following specialist diagnoses. 🧵
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
We reveal that 10 lawsuits have been filed against Drax by workers following specialist diagnoses. 🧵
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Drax faces lawsuits over claims workers developed asthma from wood dust
Current and former employees say they were not adequately protected despite knowledge of health risks
www.theguardian.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Exclusive: our investigation into the link between occupational asthma and biomass power has been published today by @theguardian.com
We reveal that 10 lawsuits have been filed against Drax by workers following specialist diagnoses. 🧵
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
We reveal that 10 lawsuits have been filed against Drax by workers following specialist diagnoses. 🧵
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Proud of our team at @landclimate.bsky.social for bringing these cases to light. These people have been failed and deserve better. I hope they get justice asap!
Drax faces lawsuits over claims workers developed asthma from wood dust
Drax faces lawsuits over claims workers developed asthma from wood dust
Current and former employees say they were not adequately protected despite knowledge of health risks
Ten lawsuits have been filed against Drax after diagnoses of asthma allegedly linked to its wood pellet fuel, it can be revealed.
Current and former workers at the UK’s largest power station claim they have not been adequately protected against sustained exposure to wood dust, which can cause serious health problems including asthma, dermatitis and nasal cancer. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 24, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Proud of our team at @landclimate.bsky.social for bringing these cases to light. These people have been failed and deserve better. I hope they get justice asap!
Reposted by Edward Robinson
A lovely story about Dr Jane Goodall's career & legacy, from Rachel Fieldhouse & Mohana Basu, in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41.... Includes some comments from me about how researchers _can also_ be advocates and science communicators, and still be taken seriously (I hope)!
Vale, Jane.
Vale, Jane.
Jane Goodall’s legacy: three ways she changed science
The primatologist challenged what it meant to be a scientist.
www.nature.com
October 2, 2025 at 12:18 PM
A lovely story about Dr Jane Goodall's career & legacy, from Rachel Fieldhouse & Mohana Basu, in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41.... Includes some comments from me about how researchers _can also_ be advocates and science communicators, and still be taken seriously (I hope)!
Vale, Jane.
Vale, Jane.
"To appreciate the Paris agreement’s effectiveness, consider that renewables comprised 92.5% of all new installed electricity capacity in 2024." The optimistic voice of Jennifer Morgan here, via @projectsyndicate.bsky.social prosyn.org/7NKPPvc
Clean Energy Is Inevitable Despite Trump
Jennifer Morgan touts the progress made in the Paris climate agreement's first decade, but also highlights unfinished work.
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September 30, 2025 at 1:41 PM
"To appreciate the Paris agreement’s effectiveness, consider that renewables comprised 92.5% of all new installed electricity capacity in 2024." The optimistic voice of Jennifer Morgan here, via @projectsyndicate.bsky.social prosyn.org/7NKPPvc
Priyanka Kumar's new book "The Light Between Apple Trees" explains how Americans became hooked on a cartoon version of the apple and how this endangers them. You can read an edited extract on @landclimate.bsky.social. It's out now from @islandpress.bsky.social
www.landclimate.org/seeds-of-ind...
www.landclimate.org/seeds-of-ind...
Seeds of industrialisation: how the soul of the apple got lost - Land and Climate Review
An overreliance on pesticides and a disconnect from the land has dampened the mythology of America’s most iconic fruit, says Priyanka Kumar.
www.landclimate.org
September 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Priyanka Kumar's new book "The Light Between Apple Trees" explains how Americans became hooked on a cartoon version of the apple and how this endangers them. You can read an edited extract on @landclimate.bsky.social. It's out now from @islandpress.bsky.social
www.landclimate.org/seeds-of-ind...
www.landclimate.org/seeds-of-ind...
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Nonfiction science new releases for September, 2025!
Which of these books are you adding to your TBR?
I am adding GHOSTED, BLUEPRINTS, and DANGEROUS MIRACLE to my TBR.
#nonfiction #booksky #science 🧪 #sciencebooks #womeninscience #nonfictionscience
⚛️🎢🌱🦜📚
Which of these books are you adding to your TBR?
I am adding GHOSTED, BLUEPRINTS, and DANGEROUS MIRACLE to my TBR.
#nonfiction #booksky #science 🧪 #sciencebooks #womeninscience #nonfictionscience
⚛️🎢🌱🦜📚
September 15, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Nonfiction science new releases for September, 2025!
Which of these books are you adding to your TBR?
I am adding GHOSTED, BLUEPRINTS, and DANGEROUS MIRACLE to my TBR.
#nonfiction #booksky #science 🧪 #sciencebooks #womeninscience #nonfictionscience
⚛️🎢🌱🦜📚
Which of these books are you adding to your TBR?
I am adding GHOSTED, BLUEPRINTS, and DANGEROUS MIRACLE to my TBR.
#nonfiction #booksky #science 🧪 #sciencebooks #womeninscience #nonfictionscience
⚛️🎢🌱🦜📚
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"Today, we clear a soccer field’s worth of tropical forest every six seconds, a loss dramatically worsened by humanity’s growing hunger for meat"
Wean ourselves off meat now, or the switch to a Pliocene climate that's locked in will do it for us
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Wean ourselves off meat now, or the switch to a Pliocene climate that's locked in will do it for us
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Meat is a leading emissions source – but few outlets report on it, analysis finds
Sentient Media reveals less than 4% of climate news stories mention animal agriculture as source of carbon emissions
www.theguardian.com
September 27, 2025 at 11:53 AM
"Today, we clear a soccer field’s worth of tropical forest every six seconds, a loss dramatically worsened by humanity’s growing hunger for meat"
Wean ourselves off meat now, or the switch to a Pliocene climate that's locked in will do it for us
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Wean ourselves off meat now, or the switch to a Pliocene climate that's locked in will do it for us
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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This article is more optimistic than the headline suggests. I think it is actually about the West's decision to hand the future economy to China and the East. The speed of the energy transition in China is good for the world and, geopolitically, bad for the West as it inexplicably relegates itself
On China and clean energy tech: “For the first time in two centuries, the West is no longer the leader in future technology but the follower”
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...
It Isn’t Just the U.S. The Whole World Has Soured on Climate Politics.
www.nytimes.com
September 21, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This article is more optimistic than the headline suggests. I think it is actually about the West's decision to hand the future economy to China and the East. The speed of the energy transition in China is good for the world and, geopolitically, bad for the West as it inexplicably relegates itself
As far as I can tell, @zackpolanski.bsky.social is one of the bravest people in the country at the moment. The more Labour and the Tory press attack him, the more the vast majority of decent Britain will tune in to his positive message. Fear may be contagious but so is courage!
The Prime Minister can call me names - “plastic progressive”? (Nope, me neither!)
Meanwhile, I’m travelling across England and Wales, meeting people fired up and ready for change.
We’re going to turn this country around – and no one gets left behind.
Meanwhile, I’m travelling across England and Wales, meeting people fired up and ready for change.
We’re going to turn this country around – and no one gets left behind.
September 9, 2025 at 8:24 PM
As far as I can tell, @zackpolanski.bsky.social is one of the bravest people in the country at the moment. The more Labour and the Tory press attack him, the more the vast majority of decent Britain will tune in to his positive message. Fear may be contagious but so is courage!
Really looking forward to this! Well done @jsmillinstitute.bsky.social for bringing back the Liberal summer schools and keeping them open to people of all political colours. There's a lot to discuss!
Lovely to have you with us @stuartgwhite.bsky.social. 👍✊️
The JSMI is thrilled to welcome Dr Stuart White, Associate Professor of Politics at the University of Oxford, to our Summer School (11-13 August). Stuart will be reflecting on the policies we need to truly democratise work and capital. Sign up to the Summer School below: share.google/xpKKYKL0Aqmw...
August 2, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Really looking forward to this! Well done @jsmillinstitute.bsky.social for bringing back the Liberal summer schools and keeping them open to people of all political colours. There's a lot to discuss!
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24 July is #EarthOvershootDay. That means humanity has used up Earth’s yearly natural resources budget in just 7 months. In 2024, the date was 1 August.
The date keeps creeping earlier—but the trend can be reversed: www.genevaenvironmentnetwork.org/resources/up...
The date keeps creeping earlier—but the trend can be reversed: www.genevaenvironmentnetwork.org/resources/up...
July 24, 2025 at 11:28 AM
24 July is #EarthOvershootDay. That means humanity has used up Earth’s yearly natural resources budget in just 7 months. In 2024, the date was 1 August.
The date keeps creeping earlier—but the trend can be reversed: www.genevaenvironmentnetwork.org/resources/up...
The date keeps creeping earlier—but the trend can be reversed: www.genevaenvironmentnetwork.org/resources/up...
"Interviews with Kurdish microworkers in northern Iraq revealed that many of them still lived in refugee camps, ten years after being displaced by different stages of the Syrian war. Their work consisted in tagging images, mainly for self-driving car systems."
July 21, 2025 at 2:08 PM
"Interviews with Kurdish microworkers in northern Iraq revealed that many of them still lived in refugee camps, ten years after being displaced by different stages of the Syrian war. Their work consisted in tagging images, mainly for self-driving car systems."
If you're worried about the #climate and #nature emergencies and looking for the perfect (UK-focused) climate adaptation and resilience newsletter, check out this one, which I'm helping to edit. It's free on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/adaptati...
Climate Adaptation UK: Summer 2025
Welcome to the May/June/July edition of our Climate Adaptation newsletter. Hope you have your cup of (iced) tea ready, because it’s a monster. Edited by Mirte Boot.
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July 21, 2025 at 9:45 AM
If you're worried about the #climate and #nature emergencies and looking for the perfect (UK-focused) climate adaptation and resilience newsletter, check out this one, which I'm helping to edit. It's free on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/adaptati...
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This week on the Land and Climate Podcast, @alimacewen.bsky.social interviewed @simonclimate.bsky.social from @tyndallcentre.bsky.social about the International Maritime Organisation's new penalties for shipping emissions.
Click below to listen:
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Click below to listen:
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July 18, 2025 at 5:22 PM
This week on the Land and Climate Podcast, @alimacewen.bsky.social interviewed @simonclimate.bsky.social from @tyndallcentre.bsky.social about the International Maritime Organisation's new penalties for shipping emissions.
Click below to listen:
www.landclimate.org/...
Click below to listen:
www.landclimate.org/...
Oh this is just unspeakably ridiculous. Starmer was even part of a coup against a Labour leader in 2016 and didn't lose the whip at the time (as he shouldn't have). These are decent and popular Labour MPs. Is this possibly the most paranoid whips office of recent times?
Four whip suspensions -
- Rachael Maskell
- Brian Leishman
- Neil Duncan Jordan
- Chris Hinchliff
Three others are removed as trade envoys
- Rosena Allin Khan
- Mohammed Yasin
- Bell Ribeiro-Addy
- Rachael Maskell
- Brian Leishman
- Neil Duncan Jordan
- Chris Hinchliff
Three others are removed as trade envoys
- Rosena Allin Khan
- Mohammed Yasin
- Bell Ribeiro-Addy
Sources confirm that Labour suspending at least three MPs - others could follow and some expected to get warnings.
They are three new MPs - Neil Duncan Jordan who spoke out first against winter fuel, Chris Hinchliff who led rebellion on planning and Brian Leishman.
Possible there could be more
They are three new MPs - Neil Duncan Jordan who spoke out first against winter fuel, Chris Hinchliff who led rebellion on planning and Brian Leishman.
Possible there could be more
July 16, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Oh this is just unspeakably ridiculous. Starmer was even part of a coup against a Labour leader in 2016 and didn't lose the whip at the time (as he shouldn't have). These are decent and popular Labour MPs. Is this possibly the most paranoid whips office of recent times?
Great to see this report out. Looking forward to getting stuck in and very sorry to be missing today's event.
🌡️☔ New report | The UK isn't prepared for the impacts of climate change, and they're already here.
Nearly 3k deaths from excess heat in 2022. £2.4bn annual flooding costs. 6m homes at flood risk.
Yet 2/3 of #adaptation actions are inadequate for the scale of the challenge.
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Nearly 3k deaths from excess heat in 2022. £2.4bn annual flooding costs. 6m homes at flood risk.
Yet 2/3 of #adaptation actions are inadequate for the scale of the challenge.
🔗 buff.ly/v9yl5ln
1/6
Adapt to thrive: preparing the UK for climate change
In this report, we show that the UK is underprepared for the impacts of climate change and outline a roadmap to an adapted and more resilient future.
buff.ly
July 14, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Great to see this report out. Looking forward to getting stuck in and very sorry to be missing today's event.
Just seen this important film. Credit to @ejfoundation.org for making it and for continuing to campaign and educate in the area of unsustainable fishing. Well worth a watch!
Fishing is critical to coastal communities in Senegal. Not only is it a vital source of food, but it has also been the main livelihood of many families for generations.
Our film follows Abdou, a migrant to Tenerife who comes from a fishing family in Senegal 🎥
Our film follows Abdou, a migrant to Tenerife who comes from a fishing family in Senegal 🎥
Adrift: Senegal’s coastal crisis and the deadly route to Europe
YouTube video by Environmental Justice Foundation
www.youtube.com
July 14, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Just seen this important film. Credit to @ejfoundation.org for making it and for continuing to campaign and educate in the area of unsustainable fishing. Well worth a watch!
How did we lose the farmers? @felixschulz.bsky.social has some answers on our latest podcast 👇👇
This week on the Land and Climate Podcast @alimacewen.bsky.social speaks with Felix Schulz about his new research, which examines the divergence in core values between the global north and south.
Click below to listen:
www.landclimate.org/...
Click below to listen:
www.landclimate.org/...
June 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
How did we lose the farmers? @felixschulz.bsky.social has some answers on our latest podcast 👇👇
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Join CCNow and @soljourno.bsky.social on Tuesday, June 10, for a webinar that will help you cover climate movements thoughtfully and fairly. You’ll get to learn from journalists who have decades of experience covering climate change and movements to address it. https://buff.ly/JJDgkwI
June 7, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Join CCNow and @soljourno.bsky.social on Tuesday, June 10, for a webinar that will help you cover climate movements thoughtfully and fairly. You’ll get to learn from journalists who have decades of experience covering climate change and movements to address it. https://buff.ly/JJDgkwI
@seththevoz.bsky.social that's not the National Liberal Club I see hosting Farage's vainglorious press conference today is it? 😱🤯
May 27, 2025 at 7:12 PM
@seththevoz.bsky.social that's not the National Liberal Club I see hosting Farage's vainglorious press conference today is it? 😱🤯