Bob Ramsak
@bobramsak.bsky.social
Head of Sustainability for World Athletics, reporter & photographer with a lust for travel, art & justice. And birds. Opinions mine.
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"A quarter of the world’s population lives within three miles (5km) of operational fossil fuel projects, potentially threatening the health of more than 2 billion people as well as critical ecosystems, according to first-of-its-kind research."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fossil fuel projects around the world threaten the health of 2bn people
Exclusive: ‘Deep-rooted injustices’ affect billions of people due to location of wells, pipelines and other infrastructure
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:21 PM
"A quarter of the world’s population lives within three miles (5km) of operational fossil fuel projects, potentially threatening the health of more than 2 billion people as well as critical ecosystems, according to first-of-its-kind research."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme paddling or standing or walking in shallow water, a pair of Dunlins playing in the mud along the Digue de la Mer trail near Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, France, in mid October. Many thanks @alan678.bsky.social and @robcrank68.bsky.social for organising.
#BirdPhotography
#BirdPhotography
November 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM
For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme paddling or standing or walking in shallow water, a pair of Dunlins playing in the mud along the Digue de la Mer trail near Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, France, in mid October. Many thanks @alan678.bsky.social and @robcrank68.bsky.social for organising.
#BirdPhotography
#BirdPhotography
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#COP30 AGENDA FIGHT: Battle looms over which issues to discuss at COP30 (an "agenda fight")
Proposed late additions to agenda:
* trade
* finance
* deforestation
* ambition
* reporting
Hence, now on 4th version of agenda (!)
This must be resolved before negotiations begin 🧵
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Proposed late additions to agenda:
* trade
* finance
* deforestation
* ambition
* reporting
Hence, now on 4th version of agenda (!)
This must be resolved before negotiations begin 🧵
1/
November 9, 2025 at 8:29 PM
#COP30 AGENDA FIGHT: Battle looms over which issues to discuss at COP30 (an "agenda fight")
Proposed late additions to agenda:
* trade
* finance
* deforestation
* ambition
* reporting
Hence, now on 4th version of agenda (!)
This must be resolved before negotiations begin 🧵
1/
Proposed late additions to agenda:
* trade
* finance
* deforestation
* ambition
* reporting
Hence, now on 4th version of agenda (!)
This must be resolved before negotiations begin 🧵
1/
Reposted by Bob Ramsak
The world has seen faster climate change than expected since the Paris Agreement a decade ago.
Landmark Paris Agreement set a path to slow warming. The world hasn't stayed on it
The world has seen faster climate change than expected since the Paris Agreement a decade ago. Scientists say Earth's warming has outpaced efforts to reduce fossil fuel pollution that came out of the 2015 accord.
bit.ly
November 9, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The world has seen faster climate change than expected since the Paris Agreement a decade ago.
Reposted by Bob Ramsak
Over the years I have read A LOT of damning stories about what Meta executives were saying internally about serious harms on their platforms (most of them written by Reuters’ @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social ). His new story is a blockbuster:
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
sherwood.news/tech/meta-pr...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
sherwood.news/tech/meta-pr...
Meta projected 10% of 2024 revenue came from scams and banned goods, Reuters reports
The report shows that the company was hesitant to crack down harder on scams, due to the billions in revenue that they were generating for Meta....
sherwood.news
November 6, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Over the years I have read A LOT of damning stories about what Meta executives were saying internally about serious harms on their platforms (most of them written by Reuters’ @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social ). His new story is a blockbuster:
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
sherwood.news/tech/meta-pr...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
sherwood.news/tech/meta-pr...
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Global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions rise again in 2024, up 2.3%.
This is our collective progress, 10 years after the Paris Agreement.
www.unep.org/resources/em...
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This is our collective progress, 10 years after the Paris Agreement.
www.unep.org/resources/em...
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November 5, 2025 at 9:28 AM
For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #CloseUps, a Greater Flamingo from the Camargue in France (because everyone loves flamingos) and a Magnificent Frigatebird near Puerto Pizarro, Peru.
Good day to all!
#NaturePhotography
#birds
Good day to all!
#NaturePhotography
#birds
November 5, 2025 at 11:38 AM
For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #CloseUps, a Greater Flamingo from the Camargue in France (because everyone loves flamingos) and a Magnificent Frigatebird near Puerto Pizarro, Peru.
Good day to all!
#NaturePhotography
#birds
Good day to all!
#NaturePhotography
#birds
For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme, #longbeak. Here's an Eurasian Curlew at the Parc Ornithologique Pont de Gau in the Camargue. That's a very long beak (dripping with mud).
A great day to you all!
#naturephotography
A great day to you all!
#naturephotography
November 4, 2025 at 9:00 AM
For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme, #longbeak. Here's an Eurasian Curlew at the Parc Ornithologique Pont de Gau in the Camargue. That's a very long beak (dripping with mud).
A great day to you all!
#naturephotography
A great day to you all!
#naturephotography
The sole employee at the National Park Service responsible for cleaning up abandoned oil and gas wells at national parks was let go last month and wasn't replaced. There are 93 orphaned wells on park lands - 70 are leaking methane and benzene.
Gift article below. 👇🏼👇🏼
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/c...
Gift article below. 👇🏼👇🏼
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/c...
He Alone Tracked Leaky Oil Wells in National Parks. He Was Let Go.
www.nytimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:11 PM
The sole employee at the National Park Service responsible for cleaning up abandoned oil and gas wells at national parks was let go last month and wasn't replaced. There are 93 orphaned wells on park lands - 70 are leaking methane and benzene.
Gift article below. 👇🏼👇🏼
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/c...
Gift article below. 👇🏼👇🏼
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/c...
Here's a #HolidayRobin that so very confidently illustrates the everyday beauty of one of Europe’s most common passerines. This one patiently posed last week near the highest point of Parc du Mont Boron, the park that towers over the eastern side of Nice.
Wishing a great week to all!
#Birding
Wishing a great week to all!
#Birding
November 3, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Here's a #HolidayRobin that so very confidently illustrates the everyday beauty of one of Europe’s most common passerines. This one patiently posed last week near the highest point of Parc du Mont Boron, the park that towers over the eastern side of Nice.
Wishing a great week to all!
#Birding
Wishing a great week to all!
#Birding
I'm shocked. 🙄
Exxon funded rightwing thinktanks to spread climate change denial across Latin America over several years in a coordinated campaign to make the global south “less inclined” to support the UN-led climate treaty process.
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www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Exxon funded rightwing thinktanks to spread climate change denial across Latin America over several years in a coordinated campaign to make the global south “less inclined” to support the UN-led climate treaty process.
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www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents reveal
Texas-based fossil fuel company financed Atlas Network in attempt to derail UN-led climate treaty process
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 11:10 AM
I'm shocked. 🙄
Exxon funded rightwing thinktanks to spread climate change denial across Latin America over several years in a coordinated campaign to make the global south “less inclined” to support the UN-led climate treaty process.
👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Exxon funded rightwing thinktanks to spread climate change denial across Latin America over several years in a coordinated campaign to make the global south “less inclined” to support the UN-led climate treaty process.
👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Reposted by Bob Ramsak
NOAA aerial imagery is coming in. Hurricane Melissa literally turned western Jamaica from green to brown. Vegetation damage is immense — recovery will take years.
November 1, 2025 at 7:18 PM
NOAA aerial imagery is coming in. Hurricane Melissa literally turned western Jamaica from green to brown. Vegetation damage is immense — recovery will take years.
Reposted by Bob Ramsak
I've finally got around to curating a selection of films about the #climate crisis 🎥
There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️
They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬
Thread:🧵Plz RT
There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️
They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬
Thread:🧵Plz RT
November 1, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I've finally got around to curating a selection of films about the #climate crisis 🎥
There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️
They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬
Thread:🧵Plz RT
There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️
They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬
Thread:🧵Plz RT
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NEW: “If we’re honest, we’ll admit that many cities still need to take their first steps toward more sustainable city-making. And every city needs to go much further & faster.” @forbes.com writer @carltonreid.com interviews me on our bold Paris Exhibition launched by Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social.
Cities Vs. Climate Change: Global Exhibition In Paris Inspires Action
From Paris to Belém: 10 Years of Global Climate Action—celebrates a decade of bold urban responses to climate change since the 2015 Paris Agreement.
www.forbes.com
July 28, 2025 at 4:58 PM
NEW: “If we’re honest, we’ll admit that many cities still need to take their first steps toward more sustainable city-making. And every city needs to go much further & faster.” @forbes.com writer @carltonreid.com interviews me on our bold Paris Exhibition launched by Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social.
October 31, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Good morning world!
The sun setting behind the Church of St. George in Piran, at Slovenia's western edge. Taken from the Strunjan Nature Reserve, 4-Aug-2025.
Wishing you all a great day, weekend and new month ahead.
#PhotoOfTheDay
#Scape
#Seascape
#Slovenia
The sun setting behind the Church of St. George in Piran, at Slovenia's western edge. Taken from the Strunjan Nature Reserve, 4-Aug-2025.
Wishing you all a great day, weekend and new month ahead.
#PhotoOfTheDay
#Scape
#Seascape
#Slovenia
October 31, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Good morning world!
The sun setting behind the Church of St. George in Piran, at Slovenia's western edge. Taken from the Strunjan Nature Reserve, 4-Aug-2025.
Wishing you all a great day, weekend and new month ahead.
#PhotoOfTheDay
#Scape
#Seascape
#Slovenia
The sun setting behind the Church of St. George in Piran, at Slovenia's western edge. Taken from the Strunjan Nature Reserve, 4-Aug-2025.
Wishing you all a great day, weekend and new month ahead.
#PhotoOfTheDay
#Scape
#Seascape
#Slovenia
Thread du jour re: the recent Bill Gates memo. 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
If you take the time to read the whole Gates memo (which I did), the bulk of the content was mostly solid and encouraging. Really!
It was the FRAME that was off--very off, from the first line.
And when your framing is off, then how you make decisions and set priorities is off. THAT'S the problem.
It was the FRAME that was off--very off, from the first line.
And when your framing is off, then how you make decisions and set priorities is off. THAT'S the problem.
October 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Thread du jour re: the recent Bill Gates memo. 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
A Greater Flamingo at the Parc Ornithologique Pont de Gau in the Camargue for the #BirdOfTheDay, today on the theme of #OddAngles. Flamingos are ALL about odd angles.
13-Oct-2025
#naturephotography
13-Oct-2025
#naturephotography
October 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
A Greater Flamingo at the Parc Ornithologique Pont de Gau in the Camargue for the #BirdOfTheDay, today on the theme of #OddAngles. Flamingos are ALL about odd angles.
13-Oct-2025
#naturephotography
13-Oct-2025
#naturephotography
Reposted by Bob Ramsak
This is for Trump.
A recent study reveals that energy costs in Britain has been reduced by 104 billon pounds the last 15 years because of wind power.
The Biden administration knew this and introduced the IRA which Trump rolled back to make Americans pay more.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A recent study reveals that energy costs in Britain has been reduced by 104 billon pounds the last 15 years because of wind power.
The Biden administration knew this and introduced the IRA which Trump rolled back to make Americans pay more.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Wind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs since 2010, study finds
Reduction comes from energy generated from windfarms and lower cost of gas owing to lower demand
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:34 AM
This is for Trump.
A recent study reveals that energy costs in Britain has been reduced by 104 billon pounds the last 15 years because of wind power.
The Biden administration knew this and introduced the IRA which Trump rolled back to make Americans pay more.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A recent study reveals that energy costs in Britain has been reduced by 104 billon pounds the last 15 years because of wind power.
The Biden administration knew this and introduced the IRA which Trump rolled back to make Americans pay more.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A Dolphin Gull on an edge of Ushuaia Bay in Tierra del Fuego, looking for whoever left a cigarette butt next to its foot. The red shading on his legs and beak were borderline psychedelic!
Native to southern Chile and Argentina, and the Falkland Islands.
For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme, #gulls!
Native to southern Chile and Argentina, and the Falkland Islands.
For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme, #gulls!
October 29, 2025 at 8:20 AM
A Dolphin Gull on an edge of Ushuaia Bay in Tierra del Fuego, looking for whoever left a cigarette butt next to its foot. The red shading on his legs and beak were borderline psychedelic!
Native to southern Chile and Argentina, and the Falkland Islands.
For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme, #gulls!
Native to southern Chile and Argentina, and the Falkland Islands.
For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme, #gulls!
Done. The best deal on the internets. 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
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October 28, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Done. The best deal on the internets. 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
Reposted by Bob Ramsak
It should be called Hurricane Exxon.
To understand the climate connection to Hurricane Melissa, check out our real-time attribution page at @climatecentral.org: www.climatecentral.org/tropical-cyc...
"Climate change made the ocean temperatures along Melissa's path 500 to 900 times more likely."
"Climate change made the ocean temperatures along Melissa's path 500 to 900 times more likely."
October 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
It should be called Hurricane Exxon.
For today’s #BirdOfTheDay, on the theme of 'Pairs Of The Same Birds' (which makes it a #DailyDouble with #TwosDay!), a pair of Rose-ringed Parakeets at the Vaugrenier Departmental Natural Park (Parc Naturel Departemental de Vaugrenier) in Villeneuve-Loubet, not far from Antibes.
#CoteDAzur
#CoteDAzur
October 28, 2025 at 4:24 PM
For today’s #BirdOfTheDay, on the theme of 'Pairs Of The Same Birds' (which makes it a #DailyDouble with #TwosDay!), a pair of Rose-ringed Parakeets at the Vaugrenier Departmental Natural Park (Parc Naturel Departemental de Vaugrenier) in Villeneuve-Loubet, not far from Antibes.
#CoteDAzur
#CoteDAzur
Great work by @climatecentral.org showing how #ClimateChange is negatively impacting optimal running conditions at marathons around the world.
Report: www.climatecentral.org/report/marat...
Data visualisation: app.climatecentral.org/dataviz/mara...
Report: www.climatecentral.org/report/marat...
Data visualisation: app.climatecentral.org/dataviz/mara...
Running Out of Cool Days | Climate Central
Researchers have found there is a “sweet spot” for marathon temperatures where runners perform their best. But as the planet warms, those optimal race-day conditions are becoming less likely. This rep...
www.climatecentral.org
October 28, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Great work by @climatecentral.org showing how #ClimateChange is negatively impacting optimal running conditions at marathons around the world.
Report: www.climatecentral.org/report/marat...
Data visualisation: app.climatecentral.org/dataviz/mara...
Report: www.climatecentral.org/report/marat...
Data visualisation: app.climatecentral.org/dataviz/mara...
Reposted by Bob Ramsak
*** 1 metre of rain ***
Hurricane Melissa, a Category 5 storm, is forecast to bring catastrophic damage to parts of the Caribbean
The mountains of Jamaica could receive 1 metre of rain, resulting in life-threatening flash flooding and landslides
Destructive winds and storm surges are also likely
The mountains of Jamaica could receive 1 metre of rain, resulting in life-threatening flash flooding and landslides
Destructive winds and storm surges are also likely
October 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
*** 1 metre of rain ***