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REVEALED: How Exxon held back climate action for decades, and is still doing it today. We went undercover with Exxon’s lobbyists to expose the truth. Watch and share.
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BREAKING: Leaked ministerial briefing warns Liz Truss’ department will push to weaken UK food standards to get US trade deal.
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Theresa May should tell Trump to 'stop governing in self-interest' with regards to climate change, Mayor Sadiq Khan tells @UE ahead of #TrumpVisit
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Temperatures passed 50°C in northern India this weekend as an unrelenting heatwave triggered warnings of water shortages and heatstroke
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NEW: Liam Fox’s department just sent us a document by mistake. They asked for it back, but we thought we'd do a story on it instead. So here it is: a minister lobbied the Brazilian government on BP and Shell’s behalf.
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BREAKING | Take a look at our latest drone footage revealing the scale of deliberate burning on peatlands across northern England's national parks. Full story H/T @wildmoorsuk
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We're obsessed with this. The countries with the largest cumulative CO2 emissions since 1750 from @CarbonBrief
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BREAKING: A leaked agenda shows Brazil’s environment minister, Ricardo Salles, will meet with BASF, Bayer, VW and British fossil fuel and mining interests during his trip to Europe next week.
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Read the full story here 👇. Inside Exxon’s playbook: How America’s biggest oil company continues to oppose action on climate change.
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BREAKING: An enormous leak of documents to Unearthed has revealed how major meat- and oil-producing nations are attempting to water down a critical UN climate report
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Today Michael Gove launches a new fisheries bill to 'take control' of British waters. Our latest fish quota investigation reveals that control is firmly concentrated in the hands of a tiny clique of super rich families. Read it here:
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David Attenborough saw "heartbreaking" plastic pollution during making of #BluePlanet2. Watch full interview here:
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We have identified nearly 1,200 storm overflow pipes within 50 metres of internationally important ecosystems. Last year they discharged sewage for more than 300,000 hours.
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Happy birthday Sir David Attenborough 🎂 At 92, still one of the greatest environmental storytellers around. Watch our full interview with the man who says boo to sloths:
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"Most people would be incredulous when they think they’re buying a piece of chicken in Tesco which has been fed on a crop responsible for one of the largest wholesale tropical forest destructions in recent times” - @ChrisGPackham
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Liz Truss held "off the record" meetings with hard-right think tanks in Washington to learn about deregulation. She's now in charge of negotiating a US trade deal.
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NEW | "The way we interact with the ocean and with the world is insane, because we behave as if we had another planet – and we don't.". Watch our in-depth interview with fisheries scientist Daniel Pauly:
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BREAKING: Our brand new investigation reveals that a few wealthy families control huge swathes of fishing rights in the UK.
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We wanted to know who was behind the dozens of closed Facebook groups opposing the rollout of London’s clean-air zones. Turns out the groups are all run by Conservative councillors, staffers and activists - and what we found when we got into the groups shocked us
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We found out that research by the Institute of Economic Affairs pushing back against a crackdown on tax havens was funded by banks based in tax havens. #IEAtapes #Unearthed2018.
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Dutch citizens sued the government to tackle climate change and WON. This changes everything http://t.co/t2wj01tV4P
http://t.co/V8PCn2kX7r.
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We've found out that the UK has exported more than 50 tonnes of shark fins since 2017 . #SharkWeek 🦈
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Dr Frank Mitloehner is one of the most prominent academics in the world of animal agriculture. We have more than 100 documents of correspondence between his research centre and its agribusiness donors.
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We’ve just got back from Malaysia, where we found plastic waste from UK recycling bins strewn around illegal dumps. Obviously, that’s not where it’s supposed to be. Here’s how we found out. THREAD 👇
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Brazil under Bolsanaro: Withdraw from Paris Agreement, close the ministry of environment, build a paved highway through the Amazon, open Indigenous territories to mining, ban environmental NGOs
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The last coal generator came off the system at midnight on 9 April. No coal has been burnt for electricity since
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BREAKING | How ExxonMobil works through front groups to head-off regulations on toxic chemicals and plastics: .
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Investigation: We found waste from British recycling bins - and bags from 5 councils - illegally dumped in Malaysia.
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Breaking: New drone footage shows the devastation caused by unprecedented wildfires in Siberia this summer. Scientists are now warning that these huge fires in the Arctic circle could become the new normal due to global heating.
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David Attenborough saw "heartbreaking" plastic pollution during making of #BluePlanet2. Watch full interview here:
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The global nature crisis is as urgent an issue as climate change. Here's why. #IPBES7 #GlobalAssessment #EcologicalBreakdown.
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The boreal forest: What 750 billion trees circling the top of the planet can do about #climatechange
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Exclusive analysis of UK bailout money: .- airlines = £1.8bn.- pesticide companies = £1.6bn.- carmakers = £1.6bn.- oil and gas services = £750mn.
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Brilliant investigation by @joaofellet and @CPamment — 'Parts of Brazil's Amazon rainforest are being illegally sold on Facebook' .
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NEW: Climate migration is already dramatically changing lives in the Global South. In Kenya, we met with women who've been forced to move because of this year's exceptional drought. Our latest story is a collaboration with @galdemzine. Read more here:
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#Biodiversity loss gets 3x less media coverage than climate change. But @georgemonbiot believes the media has failed to cover either crisis enough. Watch ‘As dangerous as climate change’ now
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BREAKING: A major new investigation by Unearthed and @PublicEyeSuisse shows the UK is by far Europe's biggest exporter of toxic banned pesticides to poorer countries.
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Great Barrier Reef bleaching is 175x more likely thanks to human-caused climate change
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Has sewage spilled into your favourite nature spot? Use our new interactive map to find out.
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Breaking: More than a quarter of the offshore oil and gas sites licensed by the UK government last month sit within 'marine protected areas' intended to protect rare habitats and species.
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Next week China closes its doors to imports of "foreign garbage": where will the UK's #plastic waste go? #Bestof2017
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"Unless we take action, in a few years Blue Planet will have to be renamed Plastic Planet."
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WATCH | Here's one of ExxonMobil's (now former) top lobbyists explaining to an undercover reporter how he lobbied Congress to protect Exxon's huge investments in Russian oil and gas from US sanctions, following Putin's annexation of Ukraine in 2014.
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Trump approved the Keystone XL pipeline 18 months ago, but a US judge has just put a halt to it.
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This week's big climate news: China orders nearly all its provinces to stop approving coal plants
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A 20% speed reduction would cut greenhouse gases and curb pollutants that damage human health such as black carbon and nitrogen oxides. It would also cut underwater noise by 66% and reduce the chances of whale collisions by 78%.
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On #IntlForestDay, watch how 750 billion trees at the top of the earth could make or break climate change
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UK's richest man to govt: let me break EU pollution rules or thousands of people will lose their jobs
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Hey there. 👋 We just spent five months trying to find out who owns the UK's fishing quota. And we found out some pretty wild stuff. This is going to be a thread. 1/ . 🐟🐡🐟🐡.
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New climate plan from 8 EU countries .🇫🇷 🇧🇪 🇱🇺 🇩🇰 🇳🇱 🇵🇹 🇪🇸 🇸🇪.- net zero by 2050.- higher 2030 paris agreement target.- ensure imports of good climate standard.- 25% EU budget for climate projects, ban on anti-climate spending.
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The Greek island of Tilos will become the first in the Mediterranean to run only on renewable power
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“If we consider the climate problem hard now, just think about how much harder it will be without the land serving as a large sink for carbon dioxide emissions.”. A leaked UN report urges us to seriously reconsider current land use.
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REVEALED: How Exxon wants to stop bans on plastics - just as it pushed back against action on climate change. "We're hoping to come up with, if not solutions, at least some talking points," says a senior lobbyist. Full story and company response here
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Replacing India’s expensive coal plants with solar and wind could save billions, analysis finds.
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We found out that European companies are selling pesticides in Brazil that are banned in the EU on public health and environmental grounds. Read our latest investigation into the pesticides boom under President Bolsonaro.
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NEW | Treasury secretary Liz Truss held meetings with five libertarian organisations during a recent trip to Washington DC. The groups are prominent backers of Trump's drive to ditch environmental regulations:
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BP presents itself as a leader on reducing methane emissions but our investigation found the company intensively lobbied to roll back two major regulations of the potent greenhouse gas:
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David Attenborough on what the rise of nationalism means for climate change: "We need more talking, not less. More agreements, not less"
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"The reason the world hasn’t been fighting climate change as hard as it should is because powerful people don’t want to stop exploiting people of colour. The urgency of climate change is also an urgency for racial justice."
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'Unfit for this job': Caroline Lucas slams appointment of Michael Gove as Environment Secretary
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72% of England’s most important nature sites haven’t been monitored in over six years - the period set out by the government’s nature advisor. A quarter haven’t been assessed since the Conservative government first came to power in 2010.
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WATCH | A top lobbyist for ExxonMobil told an undercover reporter that the company is using the same playbook to head-off regulations on plastic that it used for fighting early action on climate change:
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Breaking: The UK government is on course to ditch a landmark EU legal commitment to end overfishing by 2020, despite promising a ‘green Brexit’
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BREAKING: Conservative operatives are running dozens of closed Facebook groups opposing London's clean air policies. We got into 6 and found that racism, Islamophobia and abuse were widespread.
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We found a PDF plan for "shadow trade talks" run by a transatlantic network of conservative think tanks. When we asked the organisers about it, they deleted it from their website:
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We found UK household plastics, shipped abroad as recycling, abandoned in illegal dumpsites in Malaysia. Read the full investigation Watch the video
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The beef industry is creating an army of influencers and citizen activists to help amplify a message that will be key to its future success: you shouldn’t be worried about the environmental impacts of its production.
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Emails show Boris Johnson waived a £6,000 room hire fee for the launch of a hard-Brexit think tank at the Foreign Office's buildings - read the documents here
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Donna Strickland, from Canada, is a winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics. She is the first woman in 55 years to win it, and only the third ever
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Mining giant BHP Billiton just confirmed rumours that it's abandoning plans to drill near the Amazon reef
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Did you know that if you darken ice – by covering it in dust, algae and black carbon, say – it melts faster?
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We obtained documents showing a lobby group backed by many of the oil majors lobbied against a new international agreement that limits plastic waste entering low- & middle-income countries.
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NEW | Liz Truss held "off the record" meetings with some of Trump's favourite think tanks to discuss deregulation. She's now in charge of negotiating a US trade deal.
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Solar geoengineering would spread sun-blocking particles into the stratosphere to cool the earth, and researchers have found it could be "remarkably inexpensive." But others argue it could weaken efforts to tackle the cause of emissions or cause droughts.
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"You stick to highways and bridges and a lot of the negative stuff starts to come out". Why ExxonMobil wants a smaller infrastructure bill. Watch the film that exposes how the firm lobbied on climate and still does today.
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The Irish government is going to ban all single-use plastics from its government departments, following the EU-wide ban on single-use plastics that was voted through in October and comes into effect in 2021.
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Want more content about coral reefs? (Who doesn't?) Here's a video we made earlier in the year (feat. beautiful underwater scenes).
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Breaking: Unopened recycling bags picked from the line and sent for incineration as workers battle rats, cockroaches and targets – inside a London recycling centre. Read our new joint investigation with @Telegraph:
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BREAKING: US Senator Ted Cruz's favourite climate expert is funded by fossil fuels
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A young Ugandan climate activist’s challenge to Joe Biden:. "If there’s only going to be climate justice in the Global North, then it isn’t justice at all.”. - @vanessa_vash.
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