Professor Saleemul Huq OBE (1952-2023) It is with deep sadness that we share news of the passing of Professor Saleemul Huq, an environmental and climate change giant, and senior fellow and dear friend of IIED and many IIED colleagues past and present.

Love this reimagined London tube map. @tfl celebrates the engineering icons that built it. Let’s hear it for our public transport! 👏👏👏👏👏 londonblog.tfl.gov.uk/2023/11/01/eng…

Developing countries need 10-18 times more global public finance – US$215-387bn A YEAR – to adapt to floods, droughts, cyclones, wildfires, heat + other climate impacts hitting now Yet we are spending less on climate adaptation Not more Sobering msg from UN Environment Programme to Francisco Blasco

An amazing, inspiring night out at Ashden☀️🌎💡 Awards, in a room full of world-leading change-makers. Congratulations to all the winners 💫🌱💚

A fab talk by writer Sandra Lawrence about the magic of mushrooms and why we tell so few folk tales about named fungi 🍄 Including a cultural ick factor Fortean Times London Fungi

Methane from farms/industry/landfill is a massive problem. I've mapped the UK's emissions hotspots but there's a scrap over whether the official gov figures are worth the paper they're written on... theguardian.com/environment/ar… Explore the map: watershedinvestigations.com/home/find-out-…

This incredible Scottish find highlights how people and goods have always criss-crossed our little islands. In this early case, from across the Middle East… theguardian.com/science/articl…

A fab morning out at Vital Signs, the thought provoking new collection ⁦Science Gallery London⁩ feat a reading by ⁦Ben Okri⁩ from Tiger Work

Let's keep talking on a friendlier forum... join me @ktenvironment.bsky.social and @greenermagazine on Substack

Forage fiercer Free read: greener’s monthly column on what to pick or gather. Less about food, more about getting out in - and reconnecting to - nature… This month; lime blossom 💚 shorturl.at/62xJd

Let’s show our rivers some love People-power can push government and business to clean up our waterways. A new column on how showing some love during #LondonRiversWeek could just be the start... Thames21 South East Rivers Trust LDNMayor Environment shorturl.at/gt3Rw

Quote of the day from Lauren MacDonald🌻 #StopRosebank at #earthfest: “The UK has been through harrowing austerity: 6m households live in energy poverty. Yet Equinor has made record profits. Oil and gas is making the obscenely rich obscenely richer - at the expense of everyone else”

How do we protect our waters from canal to coast? ➡️ Use less plastic personally ➡️ Join a litter pick ➡️ Get water firms to clean up their act ➡️ Tackle fishing industry ghost nets ➡️ Don’t buy trawled fish ➡️ Ban trawlers from MPAs and high seas #Earthfest

Bottom trawling, delivering on the promise of 30x30 marine-protections, deepsea mining - it's all on the agenda at this week's UN Ocean Summit in Nice. Here's why the outcomes matter to all of us... 🐋🐚🏄‍♂️🦈🦑 shorturl.at/IIr3u

Celebrating the people and startups turning climate talk into climate action, at home and abroad, at the Ashden awards Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) tonight. Featuring vanessa nakate, Ashish Chavan_org @ashden-org.bsky.social Just don’t call it the #greenOscars 😘

Walking with cuckoos... or things we've loved and lost. r.fibr.ai/edhjcg1f

When your clothing clutter is emotional baggage... Let it go! shorturl.at/23Wym

Foraging in a heatwave? Yikes! But when better to head into a shady park or woodland to harvest nettle seeds - an ancient pick-me-up for stressed times... shorturl.at/s55ZU