Struggling with a severe mental disorder, troubling trials of treatment, surviving a jump from a sixth storey building to end his life and finally living without both legs - Charlie Hertzog Young has been studying the impact of climate changes and advocating for better mental

'A fire year': California #wildfires have burned more than =20 times= as much land as last year. latimes.com/california/sto…

The sentences handed to the five Just Stop Oil campaigners are utterly disproportionate. Four and five years in prison for peaceful protest? This is what you might expect in Russia or Egypt, not in a supposed democracy. theguardian.com/environment/ar…

Today we launched the #ConnectingClimateMinds Global Research and Action Agenda on #ClimateChange and #MentalHealth See the agenda: tinyurl.com/GlobalResearch… It includes clear priorities for understanding and acting on the mental health impacts of the #ClimateCrisis

✈️ We are joining the protest to stop London City Airport expansion! 📆 Saturday 27th July, from 10am 📍 Dept. for Transport, 33 Horseferry Rd, London SW1P 2AA. #NoAirportExpansion #OilKills #RefuseToDie

This is what we’ve just voted for , and this is what we need to hear . . . demands for accountability . Top work by Clive Lewis MP

#Carbon offsets ☠️ In #Cambodia, an #Indigenous community has been blocked from receiving land ownership by the REDD+ project proponent and pressured by government officials to withdraw land claims without free, prior and informed consent. Mongabay news.mongabay.com/2024/07/in-cam…

Help crowdfund to educate Labour MPs on the damage the DWP does to disabled people's lives : crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-us-tell…

Important image from an important new paper from Dr Courtney Howard + others - on preparing health systems for wildfires. Sadly, all too timely for friends in the west and north right now, and for the rest of us sooner than we'd like. Article: thelancet.com/journals/lanpl… @CAPE-ACME

Dear Angela Rayner, there are 700,000 homes in the UK standing empty (excluding holiday homes & second homes). If you want to get 1.5 million homes ready in the next five years why not set up an epic refurbishment programme to sort out those 700k and tick off *half* your target?

Still can't quite believe that when a boat carrying people seeking a better life sinks and kills 90, it registers as barely a blip on the news cycle Yet when a yacht carrying billionaires sinks, it's 3-day front page, rolling live ticker news theguardian.com/world/live/202…

Indigenous Australians have been burning their lands for 60,000 years, both to nourish soils and to prevent larger fires. In “Burnt Country” — Second-Place Winner of the 2024 Yale Environment 360 Film Contest — filmmaker Kirsten Slemint shows this practice at work. e360.yale.edu/features/2024-…

As a billionaire is doing the first private spacewalk, I am reminded of this. Whitey's on the Moon by Gil Scott-Heron.

Last year nearly 200 environmental defenders were killed — certainly an undercount. The leading culprit? The mining industry. The most dangerous region? Latin America. These are the stark realities we need to confront as we face a new mining boom linked to the energy transition

Labour's proudly showing off *Stansted airport's expansion* with a *solar farm* to feed the terminal's increasing electricity use and *EV charging stations*. Beautifully sums up this government’s approach to afterthought sustainability. Pure cli-fi guardian-series.co.uk/news/national/…

Here's a simple, progressive and eco-friendly way for Rachel Reeves to raise some of the money needed to fill her "black hole". theguardian.com/world/2024/oct…

We’re surrounded by nihilism, fatalism, hate, rage, idiocy, all the forms of ignorance and stupidity of the basest and most destructive kind. Just try to keep it at bay. Because you are what matters here. Not that.

Former Observer big-hitters inc Carole Cadwalladr Sarah Donaldson Jane Ferguson Imogen Carter launch title with redundancy payouts After Observer sale "We decided to launch a title that the journalists themselves would own, that would be truly independent" pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-ob…

What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own. Introducing....The Nerve!!! thenerve We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week. Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊

"One of my teachers at Columbia was Joseph Brodsky...and he said 'look,' he said, 'you Americans, you are so naïve. You think evil is going to come into your houses wearing big black boots. It doesn’t come like that. Look at the language. It begins in the language.'" - Marie Howe