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📚 Children’s author and paper engineer. 🕸️ Website & Blog: jonathanemmett.com 🌱 Green. Humanist. Tabletop gamer. 🇬🇧 Living in Nottingham, UK. 🌍 Dismayed by our generation’s indifference to climate breakdown.

Jonathan Emmett

It's HUGELY heartening to see schools doing this. 👏🏼 We stopped flying for family holidays when our kids were still at school, but let them fly on school trips because we didn't want them to feel excluded. I hope more schools will follow this lead and do the right thing for the planet. 🌎 #FlyingLess

GREAT DINOSAUR MISTAKES trailer! A new picture book written by Jonathan Emmett and palaeontologist Dr Adam S. Smith, Illustrated by yours truly.

Here's a trailer for GREAT DINOSAUR MISTAKES, my new picture book with Dr Adam S. Smith, @stievenvdp.bsky.social and @foxandinkbooks.bsky.social. Out 6 August and available for preorder now at @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social: uk.bookshop.org/a/16211/9781... #KidLitUK #BookSky #PalaeoArt #PaleoArt

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As every writer – and parent, and child – has been saying for years.

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🚨 Pressure continues to mount on FIFA to drop oil sponsor Aramco ahead of the 2026 World Cup. And this time, from the national broadcaster of Canada - one of the tournament's host nations. 👀 🧵 1/3

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The irony is that a failure to avoid #ClimateBreakdown will result in billions of climate refugees fleeing stricken, low-emission countries to take refuge, quite reasonably, in high-emission countries like the UK who are chiefly responsible for their plight. So Reform will be boosting immigration.

It’s like we’re facing World War Three and a tiny bunch of people with vast wealth are buying up all the information outlets to spread the idea that nuclear weapons are not so bad actually, and won’t somebody think of all the jobs they create.

"Again, again!" Jan Dubiel, specialist in Early Years Education, makes the case for giving young children freedom to choose their stories - even when that means returning to the same story over and over. Have you seen the benefits of returning to familiar stories again and again? Let us know!

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A government minister has admitted that 'overly complex grammar' may be being taught at the expense of reading enjoyment

Year 8 reading tests, GCSE English shortcomings, and the tricky balance between grammar and reading enjoyment were among the issues raised at an MPs’ committee today

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Reading for pleasure: 5 key challenges

Environmental advocates, doctors, and even players themselves demanding FIFA to cut ties with the fossil fuel industry, which they say is adversely impacting players' health, and threatening the futur...

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FIFA is facing pressure from doctors, players and climate advocates to cut ties with Saudi oil sponsor | CBC Radio

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Scientists have reached a consensus that human behavior is a big driver of climate change—but Americans aren't buying it.

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"We still want great opportunities for learning to happen, but it doesn't have to happen at the cost of the Earth." Hills Road Sixth Form College in Cambridge quit flying – a hugely positive move for the school community and the climate. Watch the inspiring story here 🎦👀 youtu.be/W0dB38gBBig?...

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Scientists have reached a consensus that human behavior is a big driver of climate change—but Americans aren't buying it.

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Most Americans Aren't Convinced Humans Are Causing Climate Change, New Data Shows