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Ecological, social and and economic justice. Publishing since 1970.
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The science demands drastic action, not watered-down policy and playing for time.
'Change is happening, it's just painfully slow'
COP30: climate course-correction or collision?
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November 11, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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Newspapers in Britain carried more adverts for polluting goods and services than reports of the last climate conference.

#COP30 #COP29

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Climate reporting deluged by high carbon adverts
Newspapers in Britain carried more adverts for polluting goods and services than reports of the last climate conference.
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November 8, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Pleased to share my contribution to the latest issue of Resurgence & Ecologist magazine, a publication that continues to inspire thoughtful conversations on environment, justice, and the arts.

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November 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Urgent call to stop promoting pollution on London’s transport system.

By @andrewsimms.bsky.social

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SUV ads 'must go down the tube'
Call to stop promoting pollution on London’s transport system.
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November 6, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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Can we really offset our way out of climate breakdown?
Carbon credits 'a free pass for polluters'
Can we really offset our way out of the climate crisis?
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November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Carbon credits 'a free pass for polluters'

Can we really offset our way out of the climate crisis?

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Carbon credits 'a free pass for polluters'
Can we really offset our way out of the climate crisis?
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November 5, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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Hurricane Melissa has caused catastrophic flash floods and landslides, and has claimed lives across the Caribbean
Hurricane Melissa adds urgency to COP30
Hurricane Melissa shows need for climate action at Cop30 summit, Cabinet hears.
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November 4, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Watery ecologies, cultures and economies are closely linked – and are often affected by inequality and oppression in inextricable ways.
Water, everywhere
Access to water, socio-economic inequality and the environmental crisis come to the surface in a thought-provoking exhibition.
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November 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Humanity could become “too distracted by climate chaos to focus fully on climate action”.
Climate storms threatens 'vicious cycle'
Climate impacts will 'get in the way of action to tackle the underlying problem'.
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November 4, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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We've missed the window to stop 1.5°C of warming. What next?
'Ideas for navigating a stormy future'
Overshoot: Navigating a world beyond 1.5°C is released 10 years after the landmark Paris climate agreement.
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November 4, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Rewilding the rivers after infrastructure leaves salmon populations stranded for decades
Wild landlocked salmon return to Finland
The salmon of the Hiitolanjoki river can finally return to their ancestral spawning grounds after being blocked for more than a century by three hydroelectric powerplants.
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November 4, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Coral reefs are being bleached out of existence for good.
A point of no return on climate
First climate tipping point reached after coral reef diebacks, scientists warn.
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November 4, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Our democracy grew up alongside industrialisation and global capitalism as all part of the same system of class domination.
The power of participation
From Your Party to our movement.
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November 4, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Forests purify and cool air for the world’s physical health, store carbon, and cache water, interdependent systems we cannot afford to let decline.
Sovereign forests
We are not free until every living thing is free.
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November 4, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Who are the financiers bankrolling big fossil fuel projects?
Banking on rainforest destruction
COP30 countdown: the banks financing the Amazon’s oil addiction.
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November 4, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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He has been captive for thirty-three years: for more than twenty he has lived entirely alone.
His name is Kshamenk
A whale lies motionless behind concrete walls on Argentina’s coast. His name is Kshamenk.
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November 4, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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#ClimateActionNow 🚨🚨🚨? #COP30
🧑‍🦰🧓🧕👶wake up? Action NOT words!
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#DavidAttenborough💔#LifeOnEarth🌎
October 29, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Top story this week @theecologist.org:
Banking on rainforest destruction.

COP30 countdown: the banks financing the Amazon’s oil addiction.

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October 31, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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“Large factory ships now plunder the ocean as if it were a bottomless pit of profit”
Bottom trawling ban 'must be top of agenda'
MPs call for British Government to ban bottom trawling as Parliament passes oceans Bill.
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October 29, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Who are the financiers bankrolling big fossil fuel projects?
Banking on rainforest destruction
COP30 countdown: the banks financing the Amazon’s oil addiction.
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October 29, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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“We need to stop the drilling. If not, we won't keep living. From the North Sea's Rosebank oil field to Greenland and the USA, we must keep it in the ground.”
Drill baby drill 'will kill'
Climate activists disrupt Republican state visit dinner in Windsor Castle.
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October 29, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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In August, a tropical storm in São Vicente and Santo Antão brought more than a year’s worth of rain in less than five hours; wiping out infrastructure and costing lives
A critical decade for climate
Nature struggles to cope in our rapidly changing climate – but we can, and must, intervene.
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October 29, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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Vast tracts of land could become wild again.
Sovereign forests
We are not free until every living thing is free.
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October 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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The damming of the rivers with their spawning grounds left the population entirely reliant on fish stocked from hatcheries, totally removing any wild populations
Wild landlocked salmon return to Finland
The salmon of the Hiitolanjoki river can finally return to their ancestral spawning grounds after being blocked for more than a century by three hydroelectric powerplants.
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October 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM