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🔋 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…

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The battery boom is here!

Record-breaking battery storage, India's climate impacts, and how to start impact investing
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It might not look like much, but this is what successful saltmarsh Restoration looks like! These Puccinellia maritima saltmarsh grasses were planted last year, protected behind storm fencing, and not only have they survived the winter, they have started to spread.
#SaltmarshRestoration #winning
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another grass growing in a sandy mudflat
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Climate solutions are here. Now what?

Project Drawdown's Jon Foley on agriculture, smarter climate investment, and how to SHIFT
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Cafe Scientifique: Cloudy with a chance of climate change

Joe Gallear of Rothamsted Research gave this talk back in February. I took video, and finally polished the footage. Here it is:

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Cafe Scientifique: Cloudy with a change of climate change


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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

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Saltmarshes, Seas and Sustainability - Fife Climate Hub

Join the Green Shores team for a walk to see Saltmarsh on the Eden Estuary, learn about the work Green Shores is doing to restore saltmarshes and see our plant hub where we propagate saltmarsh plants.
Jennifer Miller (Fife Climate Hub)
#restoration #saltmarsh #fifeclimatefestival

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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…

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An ocean sanctuary the size of the UK

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Arsenal fans at London St Pancras this morning

Arsenal apparently lost to Paris St Germain yesterday, but they still won the Premier League, and there were A LOT of Arsenal fans at and near London St Pancras this morning. Here are some videos:

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Arsenal fans at LSP


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Local climate stories give me hope

NPR's Climate Solutions Week, narrowing climate futures, and how to travel smart this summer
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Christophe

Quote “The world is no longer headed for the most catastrophic futures climate scenarios once warned about”.????
Seriously?
The world is going to suffer a wide recession in agricultural production in 2026 due to a super El Niño that is already frying Europe in may.
The image chosen for this post (a big American convertible car) is just stupid and represent the usual unconscious silly way of people wanting to travel whatever the consequences.
The speech should be : don’t travel!
Oups! Sorry it’s radical.
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Seriously, you talk as if people should be FLYING AT ALL? You depict a convertible CAR? These are the two things that Americans (and the rest of the world, mainly as copycats) need to address. Walking, hiking, public transport, sustainable and walkable/bikeable cities, infrastructure that works for all, not just car-drivers.

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RRS Discovery in Dundee

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RRS Discovery in Dundee


The RRS Discovery took Shackleton to the Antarctic on one of his trips there.


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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…

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Introducing the "Coalition of the Willing"!

A new climate coalition forms, New Orleans's future is underwater, and recycling that gives back
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This week, I’m delighted to welcome fellow climate Katharine, Dr. Katharine Wilkinson, as guest editor of Talking Climate.

🌍 Good news: The lawyers who contributed to the landmark International Court of Justice climate ruling reminds us how every one of us has unique gifts to bring to climate action.

⚠️ Not-so-good news: Young people are carrying an enormous emotional burden as climate impacts intensify, with many feeling fear and uncertainty about the future.

💚 What we can do: We don’t have to answer this question alone! Katharine's new book, Climate Wayfinding, and the accompanying program helps us move from climate anxiety and uncertainty toward courage, community, and action.

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Finding our way forward in the climate crisis

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If you are interested in talking about climate and climate action and you often have cookouts with friends, a terrific tool to help make those conversations happen is a social Tawi biochar producing cookstove.

The Tawi makes for a great outdoor gathering point, bringing people together to enjoy warmth, conversation, and ecological firecraft.

Social Tawi Biochar Stove Regular price£390.00 GBP Old Tree Soil
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Climate change is already reshaping our energy systems, our health, and even the basic medicines we rely on. But progress continues, and we can help.

⚡ Good news: Global investment in clean energy hit a record $2.3 trillion last year, outpacing fossil fuel investment for the second year in a row.

🦠 Not-so-good news: New research suggests that warming temperatures and drought may be fueling antibiotic resistance in soil, making infections harder to treat.

🌿 What we can do: The Nature Conservancy's free guide offers simple ways to get outside, from bird-watching to planting for pollinators to my personal fav: finding new ways to “wander and wonder.” Pick one thing and give it a try this week!

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How warming soils mean weaker antibiotics

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There's a job opportunity for a Conservation Connectivity Facilitator at St Andrews University, Scotland

Fixed term till the end of March 2027

Closing date is 11th May, details in the link.

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The Transition University of St Andrews are a good bunch of folks, getting things done.

#Job

Conservation Connectivity Facilitator

We have an exciting opportunity for a motivated, experienced individual to lead on the development phase of a nature conservation programme which will focus on engaging land managers to scope habitat ...
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We'll be back in the polytunnel tomorrow, taking cuttings and propagating more plants from our stock of polytunnel grown saltmarsh grasses.
It takes about a year for the grass cuttings to be ready to plant out, so although we've (mostly) finished planting for this year, there's always more to do.
#SaltmarshRestoration #Plants #Conservation
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