Just look at this: The BBC website has two top stories: The world breaching the ‘safe’ upper limit of temperature rise for a whole year, and, simultaneously, Labour ditching its flagship climate economic investment plan. #SatireIsDead #LabourShame #VoteClimate

#Globalwarming of 1.1°C has resulted in more frequent & more intense extreme weather events that have caused dangerous impacts on nature & people worldwide. Every increment of warming results in rapidly escalating hazards. #IPCC's Synthesis Report 👉 bit.ly/SRYRpt23

"These fires are a watershed moment, not just for residents of LA, but emblematic of a new era of complex, compound climate disaster. Conditions for a January firestorm in Los Angeles have never existed in all of known history, until they now do." theguardian.com/world/2025/jan…

The waterfront properties in Malibu, California are gone.

Scientists from the University and globally have called for action to help prevent the accumulation of space junk 🌕🚀 🗑️ plymouth.ac.uk/news/a-sustain… #SpaceJunk

Interesting piece by Martha Gill on the disconnect between protections given to human-created culture, buildings, landscapes & historical sites & that afforded to Nature & our irreplaceable natural heritage. We have a long way to go to bridge this divide, but it’s good that

Back the Climate and Nature Bill—don’t block it! 💚 A Bill for prosperity and wellbeing. 🫂 A Bill for people and communities across the UK. 🌎 A Bill to restore nature and tackle climate change. Prime Minister, Keir Starmer — will you back the #CANBill on 24 January?

In the 18th & 19th centuries, when the River Roding in Barking hosted the largest fishing fleet in the UK, they used to flood the vast riverside marshes every winter to provide ice to preserve the fish. Since then, most of the marshes have been lost to drainage & development. A

We at Wild Justice want the UK to be a better place for wildlife and people and we believe that is possible - but only if we act decisively and rapidly to put an end to destructive practices . . . please take a couple of minutes to sign this petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7000…

They don't care about you .

There are 10,000+ of them Some are toxic They don't break down They're here forever They pollute water, air, soils, animals, you They'll cost £1.6 trn to clean-up Industry is fighting regulation hard Today begins a series of stories in the Guardian on PFAS forever chemicals:

On CBC last night, I spelt out the moral case to keep on trying, however hard it might be. Defending the living planet is not an option we can abandon. Ultimately, it is all that counts. youtube.com/watch?v=qX2VwB…

If Nando's's ads* were honest about killing our rivers.. 👀 📍Across the London Underground. (*spoof, obviously) #CheekyNandos Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall Chris Packham @pplvprofiteers

The results of the first ever comprehensive water testing programme on the Roding are in! I took part in the project, which brought together Thames21, River Roding Trust & local volunteers in an excellent example of local coordination & action. The results are both good & bad.

We seem to have an anti-nature Government What could be more penny-pinching than to raid the river restoration fund?? Has the principle of “Polluter Pays” been abandoned?? ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Treasury seeks to keep water firm fines earmarked for sewage cleanups theguardian.com/environment/20…

⏰The Govt have under 2 weeks to block the bailout of Thames Water. 📑25,000 people have signed the petition to take Thames Water into public ownership. #Thames has failed and shouldn't be rewarded with a £3 billion bailout. Agree? Sign our petition tinyurl.com/yxht3p94

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Well that didn't take long. Less than 10 minutes into the hearing and the water industry is already trying to blame Ofwat for the devastating lack of investment. Let me remind them, for 35 years WCs have annually "Certified" to Ofwat that they know

Teddington RNLI crew exercise became a rescue when they helped kayakers in difficulty near Teddington Lock #teddington #teddingtonrnli #rnli #lifeboats はうはう

By a majority of 277, the House of Commons has (finally!) voted to introduce a Deposit Return Scheme, by approving the Deposit Scheme for Drinks Containers… Regulations 2024. Whilst the introduction date of October 2027 feels unnecessarily far away, as a river guardian &

⚠️ Spring tides this week, and combined with all the recent rain, we’re expecting high river levels on the tidal #Thames at high tide over the next seven days or so. Flood Alert to be updated daily. I’m back on Thursday so see for myself.