Damien Gayle
@damiengayle.bsky.social
Guardian environment correspondent
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‘A new phase’: why climate activists are turning to sabotage instead of protest - via @damiengayle.bsky.social
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‘A new phase’: why climate activists are turning to sabotage instead of protest
Tougher laws said to be inspiring clandestine attacks on the ‘property and machinery’ of the fossil fuel economy
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March 8, 2025 at 2:22 PM
‘A new phase’: why climate activists are turning to sabotage instead of protest - via @damiengayle.bsky.social
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Really useful article. The idea that we should be giving long sentences to climate activists is absurd!
We should be encouraging many more people to become activists to pressure the gov into faster and more meaningful action. @damiengayle.bsky.social
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We should be encouraging many more people to become activists to pressure the gov into faster and more meaningful action. @damiengayle.bsky.social
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Sixteen jailed UK climate activists to appeal against ‘unduly harsh’ sentences
Protesters will gather outside court of appeal in support of activists, who say judges defied decades of precedent
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January 29, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Really useful article. The idea that we should be giving long sentences to climate activists is absurd!
We should be encouraging many more people to become activists to pressure the gov into faster and more meaningful action. @damiengayle.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
We should be encouraging many more people to become activists to pressure the gov into faster and more meaningful action. @damiengayle.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Apparently the main reason that China had a near monopoly on the extraction of rare earth metals for so long is that the process of mining and refining them is so environmentally destructive that no one else wanted to do it
January 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Apparently the main reason that China had a near monopoly on the extraction of rare earth metals for so long is that the process of mining and refining them is so environmentally destructive that no one else wanted to do it
Every passing day just gets more dystopian, doesn’t it?
Baby born on crowded small boat crossing from Africa to Canary Islands
Baby born on crowded small boat crossing from Africa to Canary Islands
The boy and his mother as well as dozens of others were rescued off the coast of Lanzarote, Spain
A baby boy has been born on a small, crowded boat carrying 60 people on the deadly Atlantic migration route from Africa to the Canary Islands.
The boat was…
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January 8, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Every passing day just gets more dystopian, doesn’t it?
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Hi. Journalist/ecologist here: We can’t stop wildfires that have been worsened by drying, warming climate change by JUST “cleaning up forests” without also losing the essential ecosystem services like seed dispersal and watershed filtering that allow us to survive on this planet.
January 8, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Hi. Journalist/ecologist here: We can’t stop wildfires that have been worsened by drying, warming climate change by JUST “cleaning up forests” without also losing the essential ecosystem services like seed dispersal and watershed filtering that allow us to survive on this planet.
More corporate knee bending to Donald Trump as America's six biggest banks abandon the UN's net zero group for the global banking industry ahead of the inauguration in a fortnight
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Six big US banks quit net zero alliance before Trump inauguration
Exodus from net zero target-setting group is bid to head off ‘anti-woke’ attacks from rightwing US politicians, say analysts
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January 8, 2025 at 12:30 PM
More corporate knee bending to Donald Trump as America's six biggest banks abandon the UN's net zero group for the global banking industry ahead of the inauguration in a fortnight
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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So many things could be said about this graph
But perhaps the most important is that if you want people to use buses you have to invest in them
The climate crisis demands more money for public transport outside the cities
But perhaps the most important is that if you want people to use buses you have to invest in them
The climate crisis demands more money for public transport outside the cities
December 19, 2024 at 7:51 AM
So many things could be said about this graph
But perhaps the most important is that if you want people to use buses you have to invest in them
The climate crisis demands more money for public transport outside the cities
But perhaps the most important is that if you want people to use buses you have to invest in them
The climate crisis demands more money for public transport outside the cities
"all types of vape contain lithium-ion batteries which are dangerous if crushed or damaged because they can cause fires"
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More than a million vapes a day in UK thrown away, says research
From June 2025 it will be illegal to sell single-use vapes to combat environmental damage
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December 16, 2024 at 10:48 AM
"all types of vape contain lithium-ion batteries which are dangerous if crushed or damaged because they can cause fires"
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Extreme weather once again strikes where people are least able to hand it. One third of the 320,000 people on Mayotte live in shantytowns
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Mayotte cyclone: health services in ruins as rescuers race to reach survivors
Medical supplies airlifted to French Indian Ocean territory after Cyclone Chido leaves hundreds feared dead
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December 16, 2024 at 10:27 AM
Extreme weather once again strikes where people are least able to hand it. One third of the 320,000 people on Mayotte live in shantytowns
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Hello everyone, this is all playing out exactly as we warned: nuclear gets used as a rhetorical empty future promise while big tech companies actively and knowingly increase the climate damage they're enabling today
www.theregister.com/2024/12/05/m...
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December 6, 2024 at 1:40 PM
Hello everyone, this is all playing out exactly as we warned: nuclear gets used as a rhetorical empty future promise while big tech companies actively and knowingly increase the climate damage they're enabling today
www.theregister.com/2024/12/05/m...
www.theregister.com/2024/12/05/m...
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We only grow a few edibles, like blackberries and Chinese quince and Flying Dragon orange, Citrus trifoliata, (which really isn't edible, though we've tried some things. But we loved this @theguardian.com story from @damiengayle.bsky.social on "the Legumati."
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‘It’s like a secret’: why do the leguminati want to change the way we eat?
Fans of legumes say a worldwide shift towards eating beans rather than meat would hugely benefit human health and the environment
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November 26, 2024 at 6:50 PM
We only grow a few edibles, like blackberries and Chinese quince and Flying Dragon orange, Citrus trifoliata, (which really isn't edible, though we've tried some things. But we loved this @theguardian.com story from @damiengayle.bsky.social on "the Legumati."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Beans Can Help Save The World!
Useful article by @damiengayle.bsky.social in Guardian re how beans insert nitrogen into soils naturally.
Artificial fertiliser NO2 is 300 times more polluting than CO2!
#YesWeCan
Useful article by @damiengayle.bsky.social in Guardian re how beans insert nitrogen into soils naturally.
Artificial fertiliser NO2 is 300 times more polluting than CO2!
#YesWeCan
November 25, 2024 at 5:27 PM
Beans Can Help Save The World!
Useful article by @damiengayle.bsky.social in Guardian re how beans insert nitrogen into soils naturally.
Artificial fertiliser NO2 is 300 times more polluting than CO2!
#YesWeCan
Useful article by @damiengayle.bsky.social in Guardian re how beans insert nitrogen into soils naturally.
Artificial fertiliser NO2 is 300 times more polluting than CO2!
#YesWeCan
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"Private equity firms are using US public sector workers’ retirement savings to fund fossil fuel projects pumping more than a billion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere every year, according to an analysis."
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Private equity firms ploughing billions into fossil fuels, analysis reveals
US public sector workers’ retirement savings invested in projects that pump out a billion tonnes of emissions a year
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October 2, 2024 at 9:05 AM
"Private equity firms are using US public sector workers’ retirement savings to fund fossil fuel projects pumping more than a billion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere every year, according to an analysis."
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New report exposes Western governments' hypocrisy in their approach to climate protests
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Rich countries silencing climate protest while preaching about rights elsewhere, says study
Report says governments in global north increasingly using draconian measures while criticising similar tactics in global south
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September 10, 2024 at 11:38 AM
New report exposes Western governments' hypocrisy in their approach to climate protests
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Israeli tanks, jets and bulldozers bombarding Gaza and razing homes in the occupied West Bank are being fueled by a growing number of countries signed up to the genocide and Geneva conventions ...
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Countries fueling Israel’s Gaza war may be complicit in war crimes, experts warn
Exclusive: research tracks dozens of oil and fuel shipments that could have aided Israel’s war on Gaza
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August 20, 2024 at 1:27 PM
Israeli tanks, jets and bulldozers bombarding Gaza and razing homes in the occupied West Bank are being fueled by a growing number of countries signed up to the genocide and Geneva conventions ...
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