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🔴 NEW: UN Fails to Disclose Company Names on Biodiversity Summit Delegates List 📝 @rachelsherrington.bsky.social @clarecarlile.bsky.social & @brigitte-whl.bsky.social with edits by @hazelhealy.bsky.social 👇 www.desmog.com/2026/11/10/u...
🚨 New 🚨 : Turkey, host of the #COP31 UN climate talks, rode to Somalia's rescue during a devastating drought. Now, Turkey's state oil company is looking for oil off Somalia's coast. Somali MPs say they were denied an opportunity to scrutinise the deal. buff.ly/DOdnKDN
French oil giant TotalEnergies has won plaudits for voluntary steps to tackle methane. So why does the company fund moves to delay, dilute or dismantle regulations designed to curb leaks of the potent greenhouse gas? buff.ly/PXUGrLi
NEW: This Canadian AI company is pitching its services to the oil and gas sector to extract more fossil fuels, which can then power more data centres. buff.ly/3hwKhYf
🚨 New 🚨: French oil giant TotalEnergies says it's committed to tackling methane pollution. So why is one of the company's executives working with the Trump administration to 'kill' the EU's new methane rules? buff.ly/e26gqck
🔴 NEW - In Their Own Words: The Senior Reform and Tory Figures Who Have Lauded Trump The British right has aligned closely with an administration that has lost the American public. 📝 @writesbright.bsky.social
"Naomi and I are insistent that the planet is a player in our politics. Fascism always surges in moments of crisis." Read Canada editor/reporter Mary Stuart's Q&A with Astra Taylor, co-author with Naomi Klein of "End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World." buff.ly/J9KVO3i
"Naomi and I are insistent that the planet is a player in our politics. Fascism always surges in moments of crisis." Read Canada editor/reporter Mary Stuart's Q&A with Astra Taylor, co-author with Naomi Klein of "End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World." buff.ly/J9KVO3i
🔥 Public oppo to data centers may swing Ohio's senate election — so an AI industry superPAC helped fund an ad campaign that didn't name either candidate. buff.ly/7yMKQH6
🔴 NEW 🔴 US donors, including major Trump backers, have piled $20 million into UK right-wing think tanks over the past decade. MPs have also received over £300k for attending Trump-aligned events since 2024. 📝 @desmog.com with @mc00.bsky.social
🔴 NEW 🔴 The Trump administration says the EPA can't regulate greenhouse gases. But now it wants to keep the authority to regulate methane. So what's behind the contradiction? Read Rachel Santarsiero's latest for DeSmog. buff.ly/1cWruHq
🔴 NEW - Millions of Dollars Pouring into UK Democracy from Trump's America This funding, including significant sums received by MPs, "poses urgent questions for the government", campaigners say. 📝 @mc00.bsky.social & @writesbright.bsky.social
We found the first evidence in Ohio consistent with fracking wastewater polluting a family's drinking water. The state denies it, though it did not investigate the nearby injection well that had been pumping 400 million gallons of waste. www.desmog.com/2026/10/30/o...
🚨 NEW! 🚨 The AI data center boom threatens to super-heat the planet. Rei Takver and Edward Donnelly report for DeSmog on which tech billionaires may be the megadonors ultimately paying for a pro-data center ad campaign amid Ohio's lynchpin race for senator. buff.ly/7yMKQH6
In September, Canada unveiled principles for responsible data centre development. Some of the companies that signed onto these voluntary rules might be violating them. buff.ly/c68cwnU
🚨 New🚨: Shell knew that burning fossils fuels could harm the climate as early as the mid-60s. An interactive online archive has made the paper trail showing how much the company knew, and when, more accessible then ever. buff.ly/jEo8Zej
🛑 NEW 🛑 A MAGA-aligned lawyer for a group aiming to protect Trump and Big Oil from legal accountability told a NatCon audience in Jerusalem that countries should tolerate "mild amounts of corruption." buff.ly/2dI8iGf
NEW: Inside how a pro-fossil fuel group gets millions of online views for industry talking points. buff.ly/uZx77GT
🔴 NEW 🔴 In Pictures: 'Armageddon' at Europe's Swim Spots Linked to Climate Change and Factory Farm Pollution We spoke to residents & fishers in NI, Spain, France and Germany. This is what we found👇 📝 @enamgatti.bsky.social Santi Donaire & @clarecarlile.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2026/10/21/i...
The UN's new biodiversity fund was already voluntary - and Big Pharma has been lobbying to make it more so. The first piece I've been working on with @desmog.com @rachelsherrington.bsky.social @hazelhealy.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2026/10/20/h...
🔴 Oil Industry Consultant Joins Climate Denial Group Run by Tory Peer Kathryn Porter, an "independent" energy expert, has become a trustee of the Global Warming Policy Foundation. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social
🔴 NEW: How Big Pharma Tried to Weaken the Rules of the UN's Nature Fund Powerful trade bodies lodged a suite of objections to contribution terms, documents show. 📝 By @rachelsherrington.bsky.social & @hazelhealy.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2026/10/20/h...
🔴 NEW 🔴 Simon Dudley was apparently sacked by Reform in April after making - in the words of Farage - "shocking" comments about Grenfell. Now, just a few months later, it seems he's back in the fold
🔴 NEW - Reform Figure Behind 'Shocking' Grenfell Comments Still Involved in Party Simon Dudley, apparently sacked in April, appeared alongside Richard Tice at Reform's annual conference. 📝 @writesbright.bsky.social
A town devastated by wildfire needed help rebuilding. But the firm lobbying for it was also working for fossil fuel interests. Meet the "climate double agents." New investigation from @DeSmog. buff.ly/IzHH5p7
New - A leading UK gas microgrid company is selling gas-powered AI data centre projects, paired with unproven carbon capture, as "net-zero." AVK is behind Ireland's first gas microgrid data centre, and hopes to expand across the UK and Europe. My work @desmog.com www.desmog.com/2026/10/14/u...
🔴 NEW - UK Data Centre Power Supplier Accused of Giving 'Lifeline' to Fossil Fuel Industry Critics say the firm's deployment of unproven carbon capture technology risks contributing to a gas-powered AI boom. 📝 @rtakver.bsky.social
🔴 NEW: Orban's Favourite EU Think Tank is Back in Brussels. But Who's Funding It? 📝 By @joeygrostern.bsky.social & @clarecarlile.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2026/10/12/o...
🔴 Who Funds Reform UK? The Business Interests of Nigel Farage's Major Donors Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne aren't the party's only big money backers. 📝 @mc00.bsky.social
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently stated that "in a matter of days" it will announce a new oil and gas proposal. This has serious implications for methane rules. DeSmog has been tracking this story closely.