This news will come as great relief to the four million British children in food poverty.

🚨Wales to ban single-use vapes. This is excellent news: some 360 million are thrown away every year in the UK alone; every one contains valuable materials like lithium and copper and every one contains plastics and toxins.
walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-new…

Dozens of Columbia University staff - untenured faculty members - have signed an open letter in support of students protesting for Gaza. The letter criticizes Columbia's administrators for fostering a 'culture of fear and intimidation.'
columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2024/0…

Warren Buffett's major Western electric company, PacifiCorp, tipping the scales back toward coal and gas power a bit in its latest long-term plan: trib.com/news/state-reg…

A great new article in The Globe and Mail today by our Executive Producer Rick Smith on the upcoming Plastics Treaty in Ottawa. We will be screening Plastic People for the environment ministers and delegates! Read it here: theglobeandmail.com/amp/opinion/ar…

🚨On Thin Ice Episode 3 is out for #EarthDay . Two giants of the climbing world reflect on the impacts of climate change on Everest and the Himalayas, and discuss what must be done to mitigate and adapt.

📢NEW: In the wild, wild west of carbon offsets, insiders have revealed to me how corporate interests are attempting to weaken the SBTi in order to scale the carbon market. It's The Climate Laundry #5!
climatelaundry.substack.com/p/in-the-wild-…

I remember when Columbia invited me to give a talk on authoritarianism and dissent in the former Soviet Union and I described…the type of things Columbia is doing to its student protesters now

The Daily Telegraph is now publishing pure conspiracy theory gibberish and the University of Reading is having none of it.

📢'We have entire environmental justice curriculums being taken from universities and schools in the United States right now, so it leaves the question of where exactly are people supposed to be educated?' - Wawa Gatheru

📢NEW: 'Everything Is Political': I spoke to Wawa Gatheru Wawa Gatheru, founder of Black Girl Environmentalist, about social media, climate justice and slaying giants. It's The Climate Laundry 4!
open.substack.com/pub/climatelau…

📢New: How Meta Nuked A Climate Story. I spoke to Marisa Kabas, James Dennis and Wawa Gatheru about the social media giant and what its generally terrible, no-good decisions mean for the climate and democracy.
forbes.com/sites/davidrve…

Climate change.

The world’s biggest exporter of olive oil, Spain, has halved its production due to drought and extreme heat, increasing its price (at origin!) 112% since 2022.

It’s happening to other food crops too. Olive oil today, everything else soon.

🚨Literally every argument presented by Climate: The Movie is easily debunked pseudoscience. And curiously, almost every individual who appears in it takes money from the oil lobby. It's quite the coincidence!

🚨Earth at risk: a stunning new paper from scholars including NaomiOreskes Prof Michael E. Mann Dr. William J. Ripple Prof Phoebe Barnard @phoebebarnard.bsky.social Sir David King: 'We are past due for, and critically far away from, an appropriate reaction to the global emergency we have created.'
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/arti…