We are fast approaching another environmental limit: this time it’s groundwater.

According to new a study, researchers found that peak ground water withdrawal will happen around 2050 & expose nearly half of the global population to groundwater stress. nature.com/articles/s4189…

New DeSmog piece from me and Matthew Green –  FT, Reuters Pull Saudi Aramco-sponsored Climate Content

desmog.com/2024/04/23/fin…

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NEW: More than 100 residents of a community in Brazil are launching legal action against a UK mining company.

The company say they're uniquely placed to make the world's steel industry greener. The community allege they've damaged the environment there:

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Great interview with climate protestor Trudi Warner on a year being pursued by government lawyers determined to prosecute her over a jurors’ rights protest - by Sandra Laville theguardian.com/environment/20…

Read our investigation on many of India’s more than 4 million fishers r sailing beyond the country’s exclusive economic zone into d high seas in search of a better catch published on Mongabay, supported by Journalismfund Europe.
Imran Muzaffar Saqib Mohammad

(shorturl.at/fNVX4)

Evan in court today. Unbreakable. #IStandWithEvan

Since a lot of folks seem to be misinterpreting this Carbon Brief graph, a quick explainer:

Yellow line is the Biden administration target.

Blue line is the modeled effects of policies (e.g. the IRA) passed in Biden’s first term.

We need stronger policy to bridge the gap.

EU green deal at ‘very high’ risk of being killed off, says Greens co-leader theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

Your periodic reminder that England, a windswept nation with more potential for onshore wind power than almost anywhere else in the world (other than Scotland), banned new onshore wind farms in 2017.

'The 'wood-wide-web' narrative gives us the trees for our times: anti-capitalist, feminist and extremely online.'

Today's The Guardian Long Read by Daniel Immerwahr theguardian.com/environment/20…

Never imagined our investigation would lead us here

The 1st time anyone has started legal action against a major oil firm over its flaring practices

Proud of everyone who worked so hard to get us here especially Ali's father channeling his grief into this landmark battle

Great interview with Chris Stark, outgoing chair of the climate change committee, by Fiona Harvey theguardian.com/environment/20…

Hmmm.

Under President Joe Biden, the US has become the biggest oil producer in the history of humanity.

In 2023, the US pumped out nearly 13 million barrels every day, far more than Russia, Saudi + other OPEC nations. Production is set to grow.

#EarthDay2024 ?

Judge throws out case against UK climate activist who held sign on jurors’ rights

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1. Super interesting new review study (with really cool graphics) about how climate change is shifting the range of many species around the world…

🧵Quick thread with some of their cool figures…

I did not agree to this endorsement.

Another article, this time by John Harris, which draws together disparate, but intimately related threads: access to land, nature deprivation & mental health, ecological crises, Rights of Nature, direction action for nature, guardianship of nature etc

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Louisiana’s flagship university lets oil firms influence research – for a price

By Sara Sneath

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A radical British politics rooted in nature is spreading – and the establishment doesn’t like it | John Harris theguardian.com/commentisfree/…