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Yorkshire Water receives fresh funding despite sewage fines and pay row Private equity group EQT to take 42% stake as supplier faces scrutiny over environmental record and CEO’s pay

Yorkshire Water receives fresh funding despite sewage fines and pay row

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Great to see this review of Rebecca Solnit's latest book 'The Beginning Comes After the End' shared by @bylinesnetwork.co.uk

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How hope can be realised...

UK must stockpile food in readiness for climate shocks or war, expert warns Prof Tim Lang says country produces far less food than it needs to feed population and is particularly vulnerable

The UK relies heavily on imports of food. Recent events have shown, in an increasingly volatile world, you can't always count on ships being able to move about.

Some countries are stockpiling food to prepare for climate shocks, the UK should too, says Prof Lang:

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Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

It doesn’t matter whether the rate of global warming is increasing. It’ll never cease to amaze me that people don’t care that it’s happening at all. It should be the most alarming thing ever.

‘Toxic’ Black Rain Falls on Tehran After Oil Sites Struck Israeli air strikes targeted an oil storage facility in Tehran on Saturday night, according to reports.

-Iran's Red Crescent warns rain tainted with combusted oil could cause 'chemical burns & lung' damage

-Urges people to shelter indoors during rain

-cover doors & windows with damp cloth

-remove contaminated clothes & seal in bag

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Water Security Atlas - showing incidents of water related conflict in Jordan, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Oman

We loaded Pacific Institute data on water conflict onto our Water Security map, so you can explore incidents of water-related violence around the world:

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Dramatic rise in water-related violence recorded since 2022 Experts say climate crisis, corruption and lack or misuse of infrastructure among factors driving water conflicts

As we witness the horror of attacks on desalination plants, we need to be aware, on a warming planet, conflict over water, using water as a weapon of war, & targeting people seeking water is on the rise

- in the past 4 years, it's nearly doubled:

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Great to see this review of Rebecca Solnit's latest book 'The Beginning Comes After the End' shared by @bylinesnetwork.co.uk

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Review of ‘The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change’ by Rebecca Solnit Rebecca Solnit argues that the future isn’t fixed: through stories, ideas and small actions, ordinary people can reshape the world

Rebecca Solnit argues that the future isn’t fixed: through stories, ideas and small actions, ordinary people can reshape the world | Brian McHugh

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Review of ‘Plastic Inc.’ by Beth Gardiner Let’s start with a visual experiment. Look around the room which you are in and see how many objects you can spot which are made of plastic. The television? The television remote? Your laptop? Your…

‘Plastic Inc’ allows us to see that this plastic pollution of our world has been a concerted and calculated strategy by the fossil fuel industry over decades, intent on profits at all costs.'

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Review of ‘Plastic Inc.’ by Beth Gardiner Let’s start with a visual experiment. Look around the room which you are in and see how many objects you can spot which are made of plastic. The television? The television remote? Your laptop? Your…

‘Plastic Inc’ allows us to see that this plastic pollution of our world has been a concerted and calculated strategy by the fossil fuel industry over decades, intent on profits at all costs.'

climatewithbrian.com/2026/03/08/r...

Review of ‘Plastic Inc.’ by Beth Gardiner Let’s start with a visual experiment. Look around the room which you are in and see how many objects you can spot which are made of plastic. The television? The television remote? Your laptop? Your…

‘Plastic Inc’ allows us to see that this plastic pollution of our world has been a concerted and calculated strategy by the fossil fuel industry over decades, intent on profits at all costs.'

climatewithbrian.com/2026/03/08/r...

Review of ‘Plastic Inc.’ by Beth Gardiner Let’s start with a visual experiment. Look around the room which you are in and see how many objects you can spot which are made of plastic. The television? The television remote? Your laptop? Your…

‘Plastic Inc’ allows us to see that this plastic pollution of our world has been a concerted and calculated strategy by the fossil fuel industry over decades, intent on profits at all costs.'

climatewithbrian.com/2026/03/08/r...

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Gardiner details the impacts of fracking, endocrine disruptors and microplastics -the chemical cocktail which poses clear physical risks to humans, marine life and many other life forms. Fossil fuel companies have unleashed a ‘plastic chemical virus’ then blamed us for its impact.

Review of ‘Plastic Inc.’ by Beth Gardiner Let’s start with a visual experiment. Look around the room which you are in and see how many objects you can spot which are made of plastic. The television? The television remote? Your laptop? Your…

‘Plastic Inc’ allows us to see that this plastic pollution of our world has been a concerted and calculated strategy by the fossil fuel industry over decades, intent on profits at all costs.'

Review of 'Plastic Inc' by @bethgardiner.bsky.social

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Will Rushcliffe Borough Council’s upcoming decision force campaigners to seek judicial review? Tollerton Airfield housing development reaches significant moment This coming week will see Rushcliffe Borough Cabinet meet again to discuss and decide on a planning decision which will allow for a…

Will Rushcliffe Borough Council’s upcoming decision force campaigners to seek judicial review?

Tollerton Airfield housing development reaches significant moment

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#Pollution
#RushcliffeBoroughCouncil

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‘They pushed so many lies about recycling’: the fight to stop big oil pumping billions more into plastics Plastic production has doubled over the last 20 years – and will likely double again. For author Beth Gardiner, metal water bottles and canvas tote bags are not the solution. So what is?

Petrochemicals for plastic are "expected to be the largest single driver of oil demand in the decades to come".

Fascinating interview with Beth Gardiner about her new book: Plastic Inc: Big Oil, Big Money and the Plan to Trash Our Future

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Review of ‘Plastic Inc.’ by Beth Gardiner Let’s start with a visual experiment. Look around the room which you are in and see how many objects you can spot which are made of plastic. The television? The television remote? Your laptop? Your…

‘Plastic Inc’ allows us to see that this plastic pollution of our world has been a concerted and calculated strategy by the fossil fuel industry over decades, intent on profits at all costs.'

Review of 'Plastic Inc' by @bethgardiner.bsky.social

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Life on Kenya’s largest dump: the invisible workers sorting the world’s rubbish Plastic, textiles, e-waste and more end up at the vast Dandora site, where waste pickers spend all hours sifting through toxic debris looking for recyclables

Life on Kenya’s largest dump: the invisible workers sorting the world’s rubbish

Nothing is ever thrown away.

There is no 'away'

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This is my backyard, my village, my parish. Rushcliffe Borough Council is due to make a critical decision based on missing information they previously said was required

Will Rushcliffe Borough Council’s upcoming decision force campaigners to seek judicial review? Tollerton Airfield housing development reaches significant moment This coming week will see Rushcliffe Borough Cabinet meet again to discuss and decide on a planning decision which will allow for a…

Will Rushcliffe Borough Council’s upcoming decision force campaigners to seek judicial review?

Tollerton Airfield housing development reaches significant moment

#Tollerton
#Pollution
#RushcliffeBoroughCouncil

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Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

And in other news

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before

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UK must stockpile food in readiness for climate shocks or war, expert warns Prof Tim Lang says country produces far less food than it needs to feed population and is particularly vulnerable

UK must stockpile food in readiness for climate shocks or war, expert warns

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UK must stockpile food in readiness for climate shocks or war, expert warns Prof Tim Lang says country produces far less food than it needs to feed population and is particularly vulnerable

UK must stockpile food in readiness for climate shocks or war, expert warns

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Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth None of them through the Strait of Hormuz

Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth

None of them through the Strait of Hormuz

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Review of ‘The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change’ by Rebecca Solnit When Solnit speaks, the world should listen. Her writing, spanning the years, has echoed with a deep personal voice, rooted in place, as well as optimistic activism. She charts and traces the chang…

When Solnit speaks, the world should listen.

‘The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change’ is the most personal and uplifting book about the power of ideas and about our ability to be transformed.

We are all dreamers.

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Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

And in other news

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before

www.theguardian.com/environment/...