The Associated Press report on a leaked UN Environment Programme report showing that despite $1 billion in funding, Nigeria's Ogoni oil spill cleanup is not happening is an ode to governance failure and the environmental tragedy crude oil has been for Nigeria's Niger Delta. Purported "clean-up" companies selected

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Day of the Jackal: best thriller of all time. I once wrote to FF asking him to read my book & provide a cover quote. Got a lovely note back saying he was too busy but wishing me good luck. More than from most of the big guns I wrote to. An absolute gent. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

🌳It’s massive: half the size of Belgium 🪖Soldiers were deployed. Rainforests are cleared. Indigenous communities are displaced. 🎞️A new film by The Gecko Project shows the impact of Indonesia’s “food estate” in Papua. 👇‘The Papua Sky is Splitting’ youtu.be/3TodspXXUDs?si…

Our Radio Kent Breakfast Show presenter is about to head off on maternity leave to have her first child, but not before we surprised her with a ✨glamourous✨ gender reveal.

PM 2.5 pollution shown on our Watershed Pollution Map. You can trace our road network, town centres + power stations in air pollution associated with heart disease, stroke, COPD + asthma. Burning fossil fuels + wood are major sources of PM 2.5.