Our gardens can be a lifeline for our vital pollinators, but have you ever wondered which plants are best for them? 🐝🦋

We've listed some of the best plants you can introduce to your garden to create a 'nectar café' for bees, butterflies & other insects: bit.ly/3x3giBn

Completely agree! We are stuck in a consumer, capitalist, linear economy model. Buy, buy buy! That is not going to save the planet. We need a massive political shift.

Bike lanes look empty because they are highly efficient in terms of vehicular throughput.

Lanes with cars and trucks look like they are doing the heavy lifting in terms of transportation capacity because these vehicles take up remarkable amounts of road space and because they…

Environmental racism:

Air pollution, the single greatest environmental health risk, which contributes up to 10m deaths per year:

'Most affected are communities of colour.'

theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a…

In polluted cities, reducing air pollution could lower cancer rates as much as eliminating smoking would ehn.org/air-pollution-…

Earthworm – the soil-maker, without whom we’d struggle to feed ourselves theguardian.com/environment/20…

Why are you *still* actively removing benched from bus stops? Bee Network it's pretty insidious at this point especially when this stop often has older people relying on it and always much longer waits than timetabled Andy Burnham

Skyliner little lungs Bee Network Andy Burnham So many eco plans are impacting disabled ppl & the orgs responsible just don’t seem tgaf. It’s just awful Bee Network #DisabledNotDisposable #EcoAbleism #ClosedToUs #EcoExclusion Look at this nonsense now Mik Scarlet Flick Williams ⚫ 4 Wheels Rolling💜♿ another org failing inclusion 💔

We welcome the European Court of Human Rights ECHR CEDH ruling in #KlimaSeniorinnen case v. #Switzerland affirming that States have human rights obligations to sufficiently mitigate #climate change. Ruling provides a basis for determined action & justice globally - Volker Türk

For those interested in air quality who use Strava, you can now get track the air quality of your workouts...

airawarelabs.com/strava

The University is working in partnership with local residents and Ardwick Climate Action to explore pollution and road safety and what can be done to address them🛣️

Find out more: socialresponsibility.manchester.ac.uk/all-news/commu…

😷 We know the cost that dangerous #AirPollution has on our health - and on our NHS.

✈️ The flights from #London 's six airports expose Londoners to 3.23 MILLION cars’ worth of emissions.

🥀 But London's Labour mayor has failed to do what it takes to tackle this.

Strasbourg court’s Swiss climate ruling could have global impact, say experts theguardian.com/law/2024/apr/1…

In 2019 alone, more than half a million people died due to a stroke linked to high and low temperatures, a new study found. With the world getting warmer due to human-made climate change, that number is expected to rise.⁦CNN⁩ ⁦World Health Organization (WHO)⁩ cnn.com/2024/04/10/hea…

“Six million tonnes of tyre wear particles are released globally each year”

Large particles are carried from the road by rain into rivers… whilst smaller particles become airborne and breathed in. They are small enough to reach into the deep lung.  

imperial.ac.uk/news/243333/pr…

EGO or ECO? The question of human supremacy.

Out now: Episode 4 @UCL Generation One podcast: In this episode Professor Mark Maslin 𝕏 🙄 & I explore global climate policy. We were joined by Pierre Cannet, Global Head of Public Affairs & Policy at ClientEarth, to discuss how the law can be used to create change: ucl.ac.uk/climate-change…

Wow - huge dip in the Jet stream over the US. Big cold snaps as far south as the Tennessee Valley expected. #Plants and #crops need a stable #climate . These flip-flop weather conditions from a weakened Jet are hugely damaging to the #agricultural system & global food supplies.

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We just over 12,000 signatures away from triggering a parliamentary debate on welcoming Gazan refugees 🍉

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We have SEVEN days left to reach target petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6485…

As ever, Clive is spot on. We increasingly outsource emissions to other nations—making it “someone else’s problem. Many also complain of those same nations’ larger carbon footprints. Isn’t it right to take responsibility for UK consumption? Or at least begin to account for it?…