An aging marine biologist inspects a giant old coral that’s fighting for its life due to anthropogenic heating.

Surrounding it are stands of recently dead and dying staghorn corals, for as far as the eye can see.

This is what mass-mortality looks like. theguardian.com/environment/20…

'Great Barrier Reef’s worst bleaching leaves giant coral graveyard'
This was entirely predictable - allowing fossil fuel pollution to continue as it has dooms coral reefs to near extinction. A quarter of marine life depends on them.
theguardian.com/environment/20…

“Ghostly white” sounds almost innocuous. About half of the corals in the photo on the left are already DEAD.

Severe mass bleaching events throughout the tropics are necessarily also mass die-offs of billions of corals, and of the myriad of species that depend on them.

'A challenging summer........'

How to normalize anthropogenic heating, and the worst and most extensive mass coral bleaching and mortality event ever recorded on the Great Barrier Reef:

🚨 Stand Against Home Office Raids: Supporting Asylum Seekers in the UK

Today marks the start of nationwide Home Office raids targeting asylum seekers. This is a call to action for solidarity and support 🧵👇 climatejustice.uk/migrantjustice…

Devastating flooding in east Africa with at least 155 killed in Tanzania. Parts of Kenya's capital, Nairobi, are underwater, with Burundi appealing for international aid.
aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/25…

Schools close in Bangladesh and the Philippines as millions of people across South and Southeast Asia face an extreme heat wave.
#ClimateCrisis theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

People are much more supportive of climate action than is perceived, Our World in Data shows.

As EU elections rapidly approach, would-be MEPs should use this data as reassurance that the question is not whether to act, but how quickly to act (spoiler: much, much faster).

'Russia's epic floods exposed lack of preparedness for climate crisis'
Last week floods submerged almost 18,000 homes in 210 Russian towns and cities. themoscowtimes.com/2024/04/24/rus…

Today outside Drax's AGM, campaigners protested Drax receiving literally billions in public subsidies to burn forests and harm the climate.
Alongside catering workers from Drax demanding an end to poverty pay and 50p more per hour. #Greenwash #JustTransitionNow

This morning, activists in #Liverpool protested at Edge Hill Station about Drax reckless so called biofuels 'renewable' energy which is in fact burning trees! Lots of leafets to commuters. Watch out for the #London protest at Drax AGM later today Stop Burning Trees

🌱🇵🇸 Join the Climate Justice Bloc on the National March for Palestine 🇵🇸🌱

📅 11:45am, Sat 27 April
📍 George Canning Statue, Parliament Square

We’ll march together to stand in solidarity with Palestine and demand a #CeasefireNOW .

🍉 Bring banners, placards and friends!

The radical roots of the first #EarthDay in 1970 are often forgotten.

Inspired by the anti-vietnam war student sit-ins 20 million Americans took part!

It led to the:
- Clean Air Act
- Clean Water Act
- Endangered species Act
- & the EPA

People power works ✊️🌍
#EarthDay 2024

Join us tomorrow for a training on Dos and Don'ts in a General Election: bit.ly/4d1KWvs

We'll explore how our groups and movements can best use our power to make an impact on the issues we care about. What's legal? What's strategic? How can we best work together?

BREAKING: The High Court has this morning dismissed the application of Robert Courts MP, the Solicitor General, to imprison Trudi Warner, a 69 year-old retired social worker, for holding a sign outside Inner London Crown Court in 2023.

Full press release: shorturl.at/ortKY

When we think of climate threats to our food supply, we tend to think of heat and drought affecting imported food - as we're seeing now with e.g. olive oil and cocoa prices. But this mild wet winter has also been disastrous for many UK farmers.
theguardian.com/environment/20…

NEW: Ryanair is Europe’s top polluting airline for a third year in a row.

While legacy airlines are still responsible for the biggest chunk of aviation emissions, budget carriers are polluting more than ever.

See the full ranking ➡️ transportenvironment.org/discover/low-c…

After investment in cycling infrastructure, cycling is now more popular than driving in central Paris
Bikes were used for 11.2% of trips inside the city centre (up from 3% in 2010) and cars just 4.3%. Walking and public transport still the most popular.
euronews.com/green/2024/04/…

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