Bumper edition of the Last Word on the environment with Matt Cooper today on Today FM, pod below.
Topics included illegal peat mining, ocean research scrapped; PHEVs far worse on emissions than reported
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The European Commission has taken Ireland to court for failing to stop illegal peat extraction.The Commission said there was “significant” cutting happen...
Meanwhile, not too far from where I am right now, it appears the US have changed sides since 1944 and now openly espouse the very Nazi ideology so many died defeating.
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Travel by ferry is certainly much lower emissions than flying, but here’s a reminder of the filthy fuels that still power almost all maritime transport
Not exactly Saving Private Ryan, but find myself landing in Normandy, by boat, on… June 6th
(en route to Holland, but that’s another story)
I attended American Diabetes Association conference in Boston in 2014 as a member of the press.
Fast forward 12 years and, shockingly, America has fallen to far-right thugs. Like the Nazis they’re modelled on, US fascists target academia & free speech.
Resistance is crucial.
Lunchtime student rush hour in Waginengen University, Netherlands, today.
This is media equivalent of the Dad Dance. The @economist.com squirms into tut-tutting irrelevance at the pesky latte-drinking youngsters unhappy with the current fuc*ed state of the world.
How ungrateful they are. How little they truly understand.
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We often label fossil fuel firms as #climate criminals (and they are) but spare a thought for the bankers without whose mega-funding this would not be possible.
They are every bit as criminally culpable.
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Iran is ruled by a truly odious regime, that has killed many of its own citizens, yet compared with genocidal maniacs ruling Israel, they are mere amateurs.
Israel richly deserves to experience everything that has happened to Gaza, and to suffer as they have.
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JPMorgan Chase leads 65 banks making decisions incompatible with restraining rising temperatures, researchers say
US president Donald Trump intervenes after both sides exchange strikes
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"Members of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) were escorted by police out of the convention center in New Orleans during the organization's annual meeting on Friday as they handed out copies of an editorial criticizing Trump administration changes to U.S. biomedical research."
Researchers told they could no longer attend the annual scientific sessions
