Category Archives: Nature Emergency

Plastic recycling is (mostly) not a thing!

A guest blog by João Craveiro. The global plastics industry (mostly overlapping with the fossil fuel industry) has pretended for decades that the plastics issue can be recycled away. It can not. We all consume plastic. By this I don’t mean consume in the sense that we use it – I mean that we eatContinueContinue reading “Plastic recycling is (mostly) not a thing!”

Birds and Climate Change

People often ask me “How do I keep going?” Isn’t it too depressing to keep writing and thinking about climate change? What boosts me, I tell them is getting close to nature and seeing the amazing wildlife on our doorstep. A Golden Plover chick by James Pearce-Higgins So as I stepped out to join theContinueContinue reading “Birds and Climate Change”

Singing flash mob descends on St. Paul’s Cathedral to demand the Church protects nature

Ahead of World Wildlife Day, 200 members of the Climate Choir Movement use their voices to call on the Church of England, one of the country’s largest landowners, to urgently address the dire state of their land On Saturday, the Climate Choir Movement, including singers from Sheffield Climate Choir, joined forces with grassroots campaign groupContinueContinue reading “Singing flash mob descends on St. Paul’s Cathedral to demand the Church protects nature”

CAN Bill kicked down the road by Labour.

On Friday Parliament debated the Second Reading of the Climate and Nature Bill. Many Sheffielders have worked hard for this Bill and have persistently lobbied local MPs. We had gained the commitment of two MPs, Olivia Blake and Abtisam Mohamed, to attend and vote for the Bill. When it came to it, of the SheffieldContinueContinue reading “CAN Bill kicked down the road by Labour.”

Rescue our Rivers Action in Sheffield

On Saturday this giant Angler Fish toured Sheffield City Centre, bringing smiles and curiosity from the good folk of Sheffield. It was accompanied by signs saying “Warning Sewage Ahead”, large turds dangling from poles and signs saying “Yorkshire Water is full of s**t. https://youtu.be/QYXRuKMlEok Extinction Rebellion brought the dire state of our rivers to theContinueContinue reading “Rescue our Rivers Action in Sheffield”

Goodbye to 2024. Will 2025 be better?

2024 was a disastrous year for the environment, the climate, world peace and the future of our planet. It is set to be the hottest year on record and the 10 hottest years have all been in the last decade. But this blog has seen some successes which are worth celebrating. In January we challengedContinueContinue reading “Goodbye to 2024. Will 2025 be better?”

COP 29 was yet another failure, while Storm Bert reminds the UK what climate change means.

Most commentators agree that COP29 was yet another failure. Not only have the rich countries failed to adequately help the global south, who have suffered far more as a result of the already changing climate, but no progress has been made on limiting future emissions. Here are some BlueSky posts from the point of viewContinueContinue reading “COP 29 was yet another failure, while Storm Bert reminds the UK what climate change means.”

Plastic is polluting our bodies

A guest blog by Karine Nohr I have written about plastics in this column before, and I thought that I knew quite a lot about the dangers of plastic pollution, but a recent interview that I listened to, with Gynaecologist Dr Jane van Dis, brought me up short.  In my early medical career, I tooContinueContinue reading “Plastic is polluting our bodies”

Shame on Syngenta 

Activists from Extinction Rebellion, Friends of the Earth and other groups around the North of England, many from Sheffield,  gathered in Huddersfield on Saturday, November 9th, to raise awareness about Syngenta’s shameful operations. The company exports dangerous pesticides banned for use in this country to other countries worldwide. Campaigners visited three city centre locations, startingContinueContinue reading “Shame on Syngenta “