@olliemilman.bsky.social
Write about the environment for the Guardian. Author of the Insect Crisis. Just about able to play Let it Be on the ukulele. LFC always.
@olliemilman.bsky.sociallatest by me - the number of people cut off from their electricity surged in July, the hottest month ever recorded in the US.
Americans describe cutting back on food and suffering heatstroke as inflation and the climate crisis collided this summer
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
@olliemilman.bsky.socialthe big hitters keep coming at Climate Week, with Elmo recounting the harrowing tale of Sesame Street being hit by a major storm
@sarasneath.bsky.socialReposted by @olliemilman.bsky.socialInstead of talking about political stalling and backsliding on climate action, leaders speaking at Climate Week, which runs alongside UNGA, focused on the security and economic reasons that are making the need to transition impossible to ignore. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
@theguardian.comReposted by @olliemilman.bsky.social‘Planetary boundaries’ necessary for flourishing of life have been massively breached, scientists warn
@olliemilman.bsky.socialsobering gibbon news www.theguardian.com/environment/...?
@olliemilman.bsky.socialWhile erasing any limit to planet-heating pollution from power plants, Donald Trump's EPA made two bold claims - that this will lower Americans' energy bills and the pollution doesn't even matter anyway.
The EPA's own documents tell a very different story www.theguardian.com/environment/...
@olliemilman.bsky.socialon the heels of America's hottest summer on record, we are now set to get a lot more planet-heating pollution www.theguardian.com/environment/...
@olliemilman.bsky.socialIn a quiet corner of Louisiana sits an Energy Transfer gas processing plant that may well be the largest emitter of methane - a powerful plant-heating gas- in the US, a new study has found.
@olliemilman.bsky.socialAs our forests burn, permafrost melts and freshwater heats up, huge amounts of planet-heating emissions are being released.
These climate 'feedback loops' are often overlooked but could add upto 30% to existing global heating this century, stark new study finds www.theguardian.com/environment/...
@georgemonbiot.bsky.socialReposted by @olliemilman.bsky.socialIt's not often you can pinpoint real, positive change a journalist has caused. But as Turkmeni sources state, @dpcarrington.bsky.social's persistent and probing coverage of this issue has been critical to a change of policy, with massive implications. Big congrats www.theguardian.com/environment/...
@olliemilman.bsky.sociallatest from me: new study finds global heating from the burning of fossil fuels is supercharging natural El Nino events, such as the super strong 'Godzilla' event that's currently developing www.theguardian.com/environment/...
@dpcarrington.bsky.socialReposted by @olliemilman.bsky.socialPaul Brown, the pioneering environment correspondent for the Guardian, has died
He was a brilliant journalist, colleague and human being and will be much missed, and always remembered
@olliemilman.bsky.socialWhile writing this story I learned that if you scare an otter it is able to emit a scream loud enough to be heard 1.5 miles away www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
@olliemilman.bsky.social‘Irresponsible’: backlash as Utah approves datacenter twice the size of Manhattan
