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/...
🧵Feels like shouting into the void, but it is essential to note that the Trump/Rubio gutting of the State Department and blowtorching of US diplomatic capacity and credibility is an accelerant to this spiraling war and will seriously undercut US/allied efforts to pick up the pieces after. 1/
This is what authoritarianism looks like
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🇲🇼 A 40-year carbon contract in Malawi, covering almost 6% of Malawi's land area.
🚨 With Mota-Engil, a Portuguese engineering firm. Trafigura will sell the carbon credits.
👀 Only 5% will go to local communities.
💲 75% will go to Mota-Engil and Trafigura.
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At the Business of Conservation Congress in Nairobi, one key message is clear: conservation finance must flow to local communities.
A new op-ed argues community-led approaches are more effective and without shifting funding, biodiversity losses will continue.
** Views are authors'.
So, in launching a huge bombing campaign on Iran they apparently didn't plan for:
- Who takes over;
- Interceptor shortages from sustained drone retaliation;
- How to defend US bases in the region;
- Threats to ships in the Strait of Hormuz; and
- How to evacuate Americans with airspace closed.
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As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.
They take from us our best, our brightest, our greatest leaders.
Beautiful piece by @ninalakhani.bsky.social
QEPD Berta
Two Panamanian environmental groups opposing the Puerto Barú port project face defamation lawsuits from developers.
The groups warn the port would damage mangroves and threaten sharks and rays, while their assets, including bank accounts and private nature reserves, have been seized.
The U.S killed three more people in a boat strike in the Caribbean yesterday. The toll of these these extrajudicial killings
now exceeds 150 people.
All known attacks are chronicled in our tracker, @theintercept.com
theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...
Quietly, the Trump administration is now ending even the life-saving aid that they had promised would be preserved
Reporting from @hana-kiros.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...
1. Pointing out that the Iranian regime's actions are horrific does not in any way subtract from the horror of the Israeli government's genocide in Gaza, or from other atrocities. There are, unfortunately, plenty here who seem to believe we should be partisan in our denunciations. They are wrong. 🧵
I've thoroughly enjoyed writing the CPUS section over the past four years. Keeping a close eye on U.S. practice has never been more important. I'm not involved in the appointment, but I'd be happy to answer questions from those who might be interested in applying.
⚡⚖️ Continuation (and end) of historic #climatelitigation hearing at Paris Judicial Court this afternoon in historic case against TotalEnergies.
👀 🧵 Follow in thread below for blow-by-blow reporting in English.
🧵 🇫🇷 See also here in French via @notreaffaireatous.bsky.social: bsky.app/profile/notr...
New at The Watch:
The Democrats' demands to "reform" Trump's immigration thugs aren't reforms at all. They're already the law, the Constitution, and widely accepted police practices. And in a free society, they'd never be negotiable.
At least five companies have been granted mining concessions in a community protected area next to Cambodia’s Lumphat Wildlife Sanctuary.
Since 2021, marble extraction has cleared forests and carved pits — residents say they weren’t consulted or compensated.
😧🤯
Colombia is pushing for a binding global minerals treaty to tackle mining harms through supply-chain traceability.
But resistance at UNEA-7 watered the proposal down to a nonbinding resolution — leaving traceability out as NGOs and some states vow to keep fighting for stronger rules.
exactly. this is not difficult.
as.ft.com/r/58ed1b23-d...
74% of Democrats support abolishing ICE, with 53% *strongly* supporting it, according to YouGov polling from last month.
Weak calls for "reform" are coming from *elected* Democrats like Chuck, not the average Democratic voter.
This is now without question the biggest politico-financial scandal in United States history. Teapot Dome was trivial in comparison.
Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)
I love the US. But if I were not American, I would not set foot in the US now.
As long as Stephen Miller is in power, the US cannot plausibly host international sporting events. (And all the *foreigners* they would bring.)
Harvard professor Steven Levitsky, who studies democracy backsliding, on Don Lemon's arrest:
“This is a new dimension. In democracies, journalists don't get arrested. In authoritarian regimes, journalists get arrested."
More in @status.news: www.status.news/p/don-lemon-...
graph tracking democratic backsliding is occuring more quickly in the US than elsewhere.
New from me: It is not just that the US is experiencing democratic backsliding. Authoritarianism has emerged more quickly than in other benchmark countries.
This graph from John Burn-Murdoch sums it up. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/autocracy-...
The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.
