📽️Footage just sent in of the Thames at Putney this morning‼️🤢

The Thames has been turned into a toxic soup of sewage - courtesy of Thames Water 💧, complete regulatory failure and shameful inaction from government. 📷©British Rowing

Feargal Sharkey Steve Backshall James Wallace

'Don't even think about wild swimming here... Treat the river as if it is a biohazard'.

Steve Backshall broadcaster, author and naturalist reveals the utterly shocking if not potentially lethal lab results he got from water testing in the River Thames. 🤮🤮🤮

This is terrifying.

Not the headline... I'm familiar with the science. No, what's terrifying is how far I had to dig through my news notifications to find this story.

What's terrifying is that this headline is not #trending on every social media platform.

1/4

Nick Clegg please reinstate - and enforce- the 16 yo minimum age requirement for WhatsApp.
#smartphonefreechildhood
thetimes.co.uk/article/whatsa…

. Munira Wilson MP 🇺🇦 Nature’s in crisis! We call on politicians to put nature at the heart of decision-making in order to secure nature’s recovery by 2030 and safeguard all our futures. Please act now #NatureCantWait

‘Everything is destroyed’: dynamite use sends shockwaves through fishing industries | Sri Lanka | The Guardian theguardian.com/environment/20…

When a man if considerable restraint delivers a speech like this…

Rhodes is burning...What really matters is not that a Tourist playground burns, its the animals burned, wildlife lost and Nature destroyed...but out headlines talk of cancelled flights and holidays. If we think this is inconvenient..you wait to see the inconvenience of climate…

Morning The Labour Party Conservatives Liberal Democrats I suppose the simple choice you face is staying in/grabbing short term power or helping secure the future of life on earth . . . We are watching . . . bbc.com/news/science-e…

Financial Times editor: We need a new Marshall Plan on #climate . There’s too much to do, and given the urgency and the need to get the solution right, this isn’t a task for your favourite ESG-focused portfolio manager or the tech bros. The sheer scale of the physical…

There has been much discussion about the likely failure of Thames Water in the last day or so. I’ve been looking at the accounts of England’s water companies for the last twenty years. My conclusion is that they are all environmentally insolvent. So, a thread…..

Start treating ultra-processed food like tobacco

thetimes.co.uk/article/5e8d6b…

Great article from ⁦⁦⁦Jenni Russell⁩ sharing practical on what everyone can do to support UK nature recovery. “A thousand steps little acts can help save nature”

thetimes.co.uk/article/0a99c3…

The ultimate irony and the ultimate insanity.

Burning coal to mitigate the impact of heatwaves caused by......burning coal (and oil and gas).

Laugh or weep, or both. Your choice.

theguardian.com/environment/20…

I believe in a free press. But I also believe in the rule of law. Both are essential to a healthy democracy. If both press and politicians defend breaches of the rule of law, we do not have a healthy democracy. 4/4

A startling info graphic from United Nations - even our ‘best case’ scenario regarding climate change and the impact on our coral reefs is dire and we are unlikely to limit warming to 1.5•C so things will be much much worse - are you ready to say good bye to 30% of all marine life?

We need a new mindset for this age of disruption

thetimes.co.uk/article/64521d…

Ecosystem collapse ‘inevitable’ unless wildlife losses reversed | Biodiversity | The Guardian amp.theguardian.com/environment/20…

Chemical cocktails harmful to wildlife found in 81% of English rivers and lakes theguardian.com/environment/20…