US Rep Mike Bost (R-IL) & the Farm Bureau want to limit federal subsidies for solar projects on farmland.
"I'm not telling a person they can't do what they want with their property, but I do not believe we should be subsidizing them."
Ok Mike, now do ethanol and crop insurance.
The Guardian on our new study, which shows that global heating is significantly gathering speed. Our efforts to overcome our fossil fuel addiction should do the same.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The latest EV batteries from BYD can charge to 70% in 5 minutes and 97% in 10 minutes.
They're leaving American manufacturers in the dust, and after Trump's all-out war on renewables and EVs, we may never catch up. China is probably going to supply the world.
insideevs.com/news/789094/...
New paper! Bird nests (Wood Warblers) are hubs of invertebrate biodiversity on forest floor, hosting more species/individuals than leaf litter. Probably due to heat & food detritus. Losing Wood Warblers = ecological networks lost. #ornithology
resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Israel is bombarding, literally bombarding, two Middle East capitals, Beirut and Tehran, killing 100s of civilians, and yet the US and UK media continue to portray Iran as the threat to the region.
Israel has nukes, but Iran is the nuclear threat.
We live in Orwellian times.
This paper's from 2019, but increasingy pertinent to researchers in the USA and elsewhere as science comes under growing political attack
Inspired by #QuitGPT, please join me for what is already the largest boycott of anything in history of all humanity: the #QuitCoke campaign
Already, fifteen million people have considered the thought of signing a pledge to #QuitCoke
Here's a video, with some discussion of alternatives to consider!
Butcher Benjamin Netanyahu is telling Western media this war is to "free" Iran - but to Hebrew media he's discussing how to 'kill them all'
Wind and solar have eaten most of the coal industry's lunch, and batteries are hoeing into its dinner reneweconomy.com.au/wind-and-sol...
Your 'moment of doom' for Mar. 5, 2026 ~ RIP tropical insects.
"Since insects fulfill central functions in ecosystems as pollinators, decomposers, and predators, there is a threat of far-reaching consequences for entire ecosystems."
phys.org/news/2026-03...
A remarkable interview in which a Spanish politician clearly articulates what many Europeans are thinking about America and Donald Trump.
We need more of these grown-ups in the room, please.
There is an assumption that democracies must basically be good and decent - but the freedom they bring often only applies to the in-group. Israel is a democracy yet it has killed a hundred thousand civilians in last couple years. The US is a democracy but acts as a drunk Empire.
www.iatp.org/poor-climate.... Why poor climate choices undermine a fair transition for Irish dairy and beef farming. Irish policy reluctance to tackle methane emissions fails everyone including farmers via @iatp.bsky.social
You know what else died in the Middle East? The myth of Western humanity.
Western leaders they’re just watching hospitals and schools in flames and children buried beneath rubble.
I never want to hear any Western leader ever talk about human rights.
I too see and smell change (at least in West Cork).
Actually regards land and private property rights I see a big parallel between the behaviour of settler colonialists in the US with post-revolutionary Ireland. Almost a recolonisation of land here.
Replacing sheep with cattle at a nature reserve in the Yorkshire Dales has led to a boost in biodiversity, a research project found...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
If we want a stable, secure, peaceful world, our governments should support democracy and self-determination everywhere, whether or not they agree with what the people want. Instead, for centuries, they have attacked democracy and self-rule, and we all live with the consequences.
For anyone who would like the clip (including George).
FFS! ⬇️
We wrote this report with the OTB in mind, but it equally helps explain the Govnt's refusal to condemn the illegal US-Israel bombing of Iran.
'Ireland’s economic dependency on the US ensures that the US holds a de facto veto over Irish foreign policy.'
www.uplift.ie/neutrality-f...
While the world burns, our politicians adopt an idiotic law that tries to make it burn faster.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
What we see here is Donald Trump, acting as he always does, as a global chaos generator.
The further we stand away from that, the better off we will be.
Well said @georgemonbiot.bsky.social 👏
#bbcqt #IranWar
Yes I have been reading what I can about Israel's nukes. The only country to avoid international inspection. Israel is a danger to humanity.
Very pleased to see apartheid free zones appearing around Cork….
Well done all the businesses doing the right thing!
#WestCork4Palestine
The EP’s envi committee just voted to maintain a standalone LIFE asking for €6.4 billion
Well done
Now the EC should cissue an emended MFF proposal that preserves this crucial tool, both for adressing the biodiversity crisis and to enable local level constructive cooperation between stakehonders
This is amazing. Genuinely thought it was from The Onion when I first glanced at the title.
#OtD 5 Mar 1871 Jewish revolutionary socialist, Rosa Luxemburg, was born. A critic both of reformist socialists and Lenin's "ultra-centralism", she was murdered by right-wing paramilitaries on behalf of social democrats after the failed 1919 uprising shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
When the target of the much-vaunted “precision weapons” deployed by Israel and its puppet, the US is a girl’s primary school, with 150+ defenceless children massacred, you’re left in no doubt that this is state terrorism and the perpetrators are vile criminals.
news.un.org/en/story/202...
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
