Medics have written to the PM urging him to act swiftly on air pollution which, they state, contributes to 38,000 premature deaths a year from lung & heart disease, stunts the development of children's lungs & forces many to experience the terror of struggling to breathe.🧵 1/3

Manchester still getting it better than Lancashire...

New study: #AirPollution and risk of 32 #health conditions: outcome-wide analyses in a population-based prospective cohort in Southwest China | BMC Medicine | Full Text bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Currently, we're on course for increased plastic production, rising chemical pollution, given a veneer of respectability with a coat of greenwash. Ecotoxicologist, Bethanie Carney Almroth, on why only 10% of plastic is currently recycled, in our Watershed Investigations podcast.

People living near to a PFAS chemicals plant in Lancashire have been told to wash and peel their homegrown food, while an investigation gets underway. theguardian.com/environment/20…

It’s time for Labour to remember its roots and reinstate the right to peaceful protest. Thanks to Chris Packham for the narration Location: HMP Wormwood Scrubs

As a fairly frequent visitor to Tawd Valley Park, and seeing first hand what an amazing job this team brings, and the benefits not just to the environment but the people and communities of the area, I strongly urge people to sign this petition chng.it/gvJZ2rh2Yc

“We’re heading to 3.2C and beyond. That’s a collapse scenario.”

Chances of keeping warming to 1.5°C target are gone. We’re on track for 3°C by end of century. Current global commitments would mean 2.8°C For avoidance of doubt that would result in economic, environmental and societal collapse. unep.org/resources/emis…

It really is hard to get across quite how bad this is. We’re on track for 3C of warming, which could easily result in catastrophic cascading risks to human civilisation. And emissions are still rising. businessgreen.com/news/4372794/c…

Did you know that burning wood gives off particle pollution that goes into the neighbourhood and damages #Health? #WoodBurning #AirPollution To order free posters: mumsforlungs.org/news/wood-burn…

This could potentially be the most important active travel case in English legal history. Donate today and help us bring stability to active travel (walking, wheeling and cycling) funding crowdjustice.com/case/stop-the-… 📷Wheels for Wellbeing

Corydalis hemidicentra (Papaveraceae) Late July, Yunnan It blooms late, and it's the first time I've come across one in bloom in years.

BREAKING! MP Munira Wilson 🇺🇦 has just introduced a PFAS forever chemical bill that would set out legal limits for toxic PFAS in water & ramp up regulation on their production. We've been falling so far behind the EU and US. It's time to catch up!

Things have just got a lot more difficult . Here’s what I think . I had no control over what just happened . None . But I do have control over how I will react to it . And I am not going to give up on the beautiful and the good , the grip on my dreams just got tighter .

'Fossil fuel + other petrochemical companies have used "the false promise of plastic recycling" to increase virgin-plastic production exponentially over the past six decades.' 99% of plastics are made from chemicals sources from fossil fuels.🧵1/7 search.app/?link=https%3A…

This morning we delivered a Christmas present to Ed Miliband: a petition of over 120,000 signatures demanding he ended subsidies for Drax! We’ve had enough of our energy bills paying for the UKs biggest carbon emitter’s environmental racism.