For decades, coastal mangrove forests have been decimated by development. But just this past week, forty years of satellite data confirmed something remarkable ...

🌿 Good news: Mangrove forests worldwide are now growing back faster than they're disappearing, with forty years of NASA satellite data showing the decline has reversed thanks to conservation, restoration, and regrowth.

💰 Not-so-good news: A new study finds biodiversity loss carries a steep price tag that financial markets haven't priced in, with $83 trillion in assets potentially mis-priced and some countries facing GDP losses over 15% by 2030.

🌡️ What you can do: Reuters just launched an interactive tool showing how much hotter today is than normal wherever you live. Look up your city and use what you find to start a conversation today!

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For the first time on record, solar generated more electricity than coal across the entire U.S. - despite active federal policy pushing the other direction.

☀️ Good news: The UK shut off its last coal plant in 2024. China now installs more wind and solar annually than the rest of the world combined. And last month, the U.S. crossed a milestone that seemed impossible five years ago: solar beat out coal on the national grid, for the first time in history.

🌡️ Not-so-good news: A super El Niño is set to supercharge heatwaves, droughts, and floods in the coming year. These in turn impact everything from coral bleaching risks to food price spikes worldwide.

🌈 What you can do: Find the warming stripes for your city at Show Your Stripes, share them, and use them to start one conversation. Those conversations matter more than you think!

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Climate action is often dismissed as a money-making scheme. But if “green” is the scam, who’s actually cashing the checks?

In this episode of Cold Facts, Hot Takes, I dig into one of the internet’s favorite climate claims: the idea that “Big Green” is enriching itself off climate solutions and giving us scientists a cut.

The trolls might be right that there’s money distorting this conversation — but they’re pointing at the wrong industry. Let’s follow the money and talk about fossil fuel subsidies, oil company profits, and why some of the loudest accusations about climate “grifters” point in the wrong direction.

Watch the full video here: youtu.be/0XLpFVHC5Ag

Today is #ShowYourStripes day!

The warming stripes, created by climate scientist Ed Hawkins show how the place where you live has changed over time.

They've been used on electric busses, concert backdrops, sports uniforms + more to raise awareness. This year, the UK's National Trust is projecting warming stripes onto Glastonbury Tor with the message: "Start a conversation about our warming world."

Find yours at showyourstripes.info - there are stripes by continent, country, and even city. Download them, share them, and start a conversation today.

🔋 Good news: The world installed 112 gigawatts of new grid battery storage in 2025, a tenfold increase from just four years ago, and Australia is quietly out front: one in every 25 homes now has a residential battery.

🌊 Not-so-good news: Islands in India's Hooghly estuary have already been lost to rising seas and erosion and their residents are now climate refugees. As one journalist put it: the engineers knew, the scientists warned, and the decision was made not to act.

💰 What you can do: Check whether your retirement savings are invested in fossil fuels. Free tools like Fossil Free Funds (US and Canada), Ethical Consumer (UK), and Market Forces (Australia) make it fast and easy to find out. Then, take action.

Click the link below to read this week's full newsletter, and share one thing you learn with someone else. That conversation matters more than you know ... and you might be surprised where it leads! talkingclimate.ca/p/the-batter…

There are still some spaces available for our Saltmarsh, Sea and Sustainability walk and talk next Wednesday, the 17th June, 10am-12noon just outside of St Andrews, Fife.

Get in touch with greenshores@st-andrews.ac.uk to book your spot and for the meet up location.

This is part of the Fife Climate Festival

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#Saltmarsh #Restoration #FifeClimateFestival

What do a giant new marine sanctuary, the loss of climate journalism, and plug-in solar panels for apartment balconies have in common?

They all show how much the future depends on the choices we make today.

🐠 Good News: Papua New Guinea just created the largest marine protected area in its history, safeguarding a stretch of ocean nearly the size of the UK in one of the most biodiverse marine regions on Earth.

😱 Not-So-Good News: NPR's climate desk has been dismantled, and many other major news organizations are doing away with climate reporting altogether. But the climate crisis doesn't go away when we stop covering it.

😎 What You Can Do: If you rent or live in an apartment, check out "balcony solar." And if local regulations are standing in the way? Use your voice to advocate for change. That's how the system changes.

Read more here and, as always, don't forget to use what you learn to start a conversation today! talkingclimate.ca/p/an-ocean-s…

A stack of biodegradable BESE elements we are planning on trialling as protection for newly planted saltmarsh grasses and sea plantain.

#TextureTuesday #SaltmarshRestoration #NatureBasedSolutions

One of the biggest challenges in climate action is imagining what a better future could actually look like: especially when solutions are so often framed as sacrifices that require loss, instead of opportunities to benefit from. This week's good news and what-to-do takes those on directly --

🏡 Good news: A new net-zero community in Ontario combines climate-friendly homes with walkable streets, hills and lakes, clean energy, and cold-climate heat pumps.

🚨 Not-so-good news: A new study from Houston found that climate disasters are making already dangerous prison conditions even worse, with extreme heat, flooding, and loss of basic necessities during storms.

🚶‍♀️What you can do: Try taking a “climate walk” through your own neighbourhood this week. What makes it livable? What could make it better? Climate solutions become much more tangible once we can actually imagine them around us!
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What does it actually look like to move beyond fossil fuels — not someday, but now?

🌍 Good news: In Colombia, 57 countries gathered last week for the first-ever global conference dedicated to transitioning away from fossil fuels. Together, they're creating practical roadmaps for reducing fossil fuel use.

🌊 Not-so-good news: A new study warns that much of coastal Louisiana may eventually be lost to rising seas, erosion, wetland loss, and sinking land. New Orleans could become an island in the Gulf.

♻️ Inspiration: In Louisiana, Glass Half Full is turning recycled glass into sand and gravel for coastal restoration - reminding us that solutions don’t have to start big to matter, and that we can feed two birds with one scone!

(yes, you see what I did there)

Read more in this week’s Talking Climate and don't forget to share what you learn, to make change contagious! talkingclimate.ca/p/introducin…