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Oliver Milman
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Write about the environment for the Guardian. Author of the Insect Crisis. Just about able to play Let it Be on the ukulele. LFC always.
By me: Yellow fever and dengue cases surge in South America as climate crisis fuels health issues.

Disease spike, heat deaths and advance of dengue into Europe prompts UN to unveil new health and climate plan at Cop30 in Belem, Brazil.

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Yellow fever and dengue cases surge in South America as climate crisis fuels health issues
Disease outbreaks from South America to Europe have been worsened by rising global temperatures, experts say
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November 14, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Extraordinary scenes at Cop30 this morning as protestors from the Munduruku people blockaded the entrance for several hours, only leaving after being persuaded by do Lago, the Cop president (who held a baby for a while)
November 14, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Belem is a pretty cool place to come and talk about climate change
November 13, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Latest from me and colleagues at Cop30 - World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise www.theguardian.com/environment/...

as Al Gore slams both Bill Gates and Donald Trump on their climate stances www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds
Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating
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November 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Reposted by Oliver Milman
California governor calls Trump ‘an invasive species’ at #COP30 climate talks

- Gavin Newsom is most senior US politician at annual UN talks, heading alternate delegation in Trump’s absence

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California governor calls Trump ‘an invasive species’ at Cop30 climate talks
Gavin Newsom is most senior US politician at annual talks, heading alternate delegation in Trump’s absence
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November 12, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Climate people - I'll be in Belem to cover Cop30 from Saturday onwards. If you're there and have a story, or just a desire to chat, please do get in touch.
November 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Yes, the people on your screen observing on the election should know that there's an alternative model for how to do it. It's called the citizens agenda. I have been writing about it, and advocating for it, since 2010. pressthink.org/2010/08/the-...

Errol Louis was alluding to it last night:
November 5, 2025 at 3:45 PM
the New York Post is taking the news well
November 5, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The US will have no high-level representatives at UN climate talks in Brazil next month, White House confirms www.theguardian.com/environment/...
No high-level US representatives will go to UN climate talks, Trump officials say
Decision to stay away from Cop30 meeting in Brazil underscores administration’s hostility to climate action
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October 31, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I spoke to Harrison Ford about the climate crisis and he said -

- Trump's axing of climate policies “scares the shit out of me”
- of Trump: "I don’t know of a greater criminal in history”
- that the world is "teetering on the edge" due to the loss of nature
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Harrison Ford says Trump’s assault on climate policy ‘scares the shit out of me’
Indiana Jones star calls US president one of history’s greatest criminals for attacks on science and boosting of fossil fuels
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October 31, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Recently drafted climate plans from scores of countries fall drastically short of what is needed to stave off the worst effects of climate breakdown, a UN analysis has shown. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
World’s climate plans fall drastically short of action needed, analysis shows
Recent plans submitted to UN by more than 60 countries would cut carbon by only 10%, a sixth of what is needed
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October 28, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The two key coral species that form the Florida reef are now functionally extinct due to extreme ocean heat, scientists say

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Two crucial Florida coral species left ‘functionally extinct’ by ocean heatwave
Climate crisis drives near-total collapse of staghorn and elkhorn corals that formed backbone to state’s reefs
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October 27, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Mosquitoes found in a warming Iceland for the first time www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country
Three specimens discovered in what was previously one of the few places in the world without the insects
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October 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Climate disasters in first half of 2025 are the costliest ever on record in US, a resurrected tracker that was axed by the Trump administration has found www.theguardian.com/environment/...
October 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
More than 40 Trump administration picks tied directly to oil, gas and coal, analysis shows www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
More than 40 Trump administration picks tied directly to oil, gas and coal, analysis shows
Report looks at White House nominees and appointees and agencies dictating energy, environment and climate policy
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October 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Donald Trump is scrapping a 2001 rule that protects 58m acres of the most prized forests in the US "so we are allowed to take down trees and make a lot of money."

I went to the forest where the roadless rule was unveiled to find out what's at stake www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
October 6, 2025 at 1:34 PM
this sums up a root cause of a lot of things happening at the moment jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...
The dawn of the post-literate society
And the end of civilisation
jmarriott.substack.com
October 2, 2025 at 3:33 PM
World leaders rally to release new emission reduction targets a day after Donald Trump calls climate crisis “the greatest con job ever perpetrated upon the world” in scathing and often fact-free UN speech www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Science demands action’: world leaders and UN push climate agenda forward despite Trump’s attacks
Leaders unveil new targets to cut planet-heating pollution after Trump called climate crisis a ‘con job’
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September 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
"Trump’s dictator-like behaviour is so brazen, so blatant, that paradoxically, we discount it. It’s like being woken in the night by a burglar wearing a striped shirt and carrying a bag marked “Swag”" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Step back and take it in: the US is entering full authoritarian mode | Jonathan Freedland
Trump’s dictator-like behaviour is so brazen, so blatant, that paradoxically, we discount it. But now it’s time to call it what it is, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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September 24, 2025 at 12:08 AM
In Chicago - what a city this is - to see the first organized swim in its cleaned up river in 98 years
September 21, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Scientists at 'de-extinction' company say they’ve made a "pivotal step" in bringing back the dodo for first time in 300 years www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Scientists claim they’ve made ‘pivotal step’ in bringing back the dodo for first time in 300 years
Thousands of dodos could return within a decade according to Colossal Biosciences, a ‘de-extinction’ company – but experts warn of ‘moral hazard’
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September 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough
September 17, 2025 at 12:20 AM
"Residents in the area no longer pile their garbage up on sidewalks, but building supers instead toss their bags in the bins"

my word, you know it might just work, New York gothamist.com/news/no-more...
No more trash piles: City to install garbage bins in hundreds of Brooklyn parking spaces
The sanitation department aims to roll out large on-street containers in some of Brooklyn's most populated areas.
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September 16, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Sales of plant-based meat have plummeted amid a surging pro-meat trend in the US, pushed by online influencers and the Trump administration.

The number of vegetarians in the US is even lower than it was in 2001, despite meat's huge toll upon the planet. www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se...
Why vegan burgers are losing the US culture war over meat: ‘Not our moment’
Once seen as a climate fix, vegan burgers now languish at 1% of the US market amid rising meat culture
www.theguardian.com
September 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM