watershed_investigations
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Award-winning independent not-for-profit investigative journalism in the public interest. Watershed is @RachSalv and @leanahosea
Is your home in a toxic hotspot? Living by landfill? Swimming in slurry? Poisoned by PFAS? We've take a deep dive to produce the most comprehensive map of UK pollution. Find out what you're living next to via our brand new map, out now 👇 bit.ly/4czdDPk
As @fionaharvey writes, countries with a range of strong industries have more ability to change to a green economy, while countries like Russia, where the economy is heavily reliant on oil + gas, have a lot more to lose in switching from fossil fuels: share.google/WH6HpHE4ib6Wu5…
Oil, mother of poisons - seeping into our homes, our families: theconversation.com/children-livin…
A pop up talk to share the eel story with some young people from inner cities…showing the best parts of the countryside - eels, owls, pond dipping and more and having a happy time, lovely children x
10 million Thames Water customers taking 4 minute showers wouldn't have been enough to offset the amount of water that leaked from their pipes in one day - get the feeling the problem isn't us?
💧 Since Thames Water’s hosepipe ban began at midnight: 🚨 Over 408 million litres have leaked from their network. 🚿 = 10.2 million 4-minute showers. Track the waste: 🔗 bit.ly/ThamesLeaks 🔁 It’s not on us. It’s on them. #ThamesLeaks #HosepipeBan #SpecialMeasuresNow
We spoke to Bethanie Carney-Almroth + @TimiTiamiyu for our podcast - they explained, as fossil fuel companies lose dominance of energy markets, they're aiming to ramp up plastic production to offset those loses: share.google/8KzBIsU6vKIlNQ…
Oil + gas are source materials for most plastic + most chemicals added to plastic. It's alleged some petrostates are working to prevent limits on plastic production + restrictions on use of hazardous chemicals in plastic. Now, why would they do that? theguardian.com/environment/20…
Oil + gas are source materials for most plastic + most chemicals added to plastic. It's alleged some petrostates are working to prevent limits on plastic production + restrictions on use of hazardous chemicals in plastic. Now, why would they do that? theguardian.com/environment/20…
From the moment of conception, children are cocooned in chemicals. Pregnant women in rural areas were most likely to test positive for multiple pesticides, but levels were high even among city dwellers. Exposure to a mix of pesticides increased risks of pregnancy complications.
We cannot continue to "default that it's safe until proven otherwise" - we need to thoroughly investigate whether chemicals, including pesticides, are harmful before they are permitted for use - making decisions to protect people not profits. share.google/JtTyxyaYp21DCp…
💧 Since Thames Water’s hosepipe ban began at midnight: 🚨 Over 408 million litres have leaked from their network. 🚿 = 10.2 million 4-minute showers. Track the waste: 🔗 bit.ly/ThamesLeaks 🔁 It’s not on us. It’s on them. #ThamesLeaks #HosepipeBan #SpecialMeasuresNow
New maps reveal 73 million people exposed to PFAS in US drinking water above EPA standards thenewlede.org/2025/07/new-ma… #PFAS
UN: Five reasons why switching to renewables is ‘smart economics’ carbonbrief.org/un-five-reason…
We don't need to wait for new inventions to electrify industrial heat. Much of the tech is here. ⚡️ Solutions from electric boilers to industrial heat pumps are ready to deploy, especially for low/mid-temp processes. It's time to scale what works. raponline.org/wp-content/upl…
#News: 🇨🇴 #Colombia’s brown spider #monkeys face #extinction. 85% of their forests vanishing due to #palmoil #coca and #meat #deforestation. Forest corridors are being touted as a solution. #BoycottPalmOil and be #Vegan for them 🌴🙊 @palmoildetect news.mongabay.com/2025/07/forest…
As interest in Deep Sea Mining grows, scientists raise alarms about the potential ecological consequences, which could affect everything from sponges to whales. The long-term impact of these extractions remains uncertain. smithsonianmag.com/science-nature…
"No timeframe for hosepipe ban end, says water company." Did I mention by the way that according to Ofwat, Thames Water is worth a gobsmacking, head wobbling, stonking £21,008,425,000. Honest, I swear, I'm not making this up. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
With less than 100 days until the deadline for the government to update the UK's national climate action plan, campaigners, trade unions, and businesses have called on Ministers to ramp up decarbonisation efforts @dorfman_p @riadmeddeb @salhaj @Sdg13Un businessgreen.com/news/4516744/g…
World on brink of climate breakthrough as fossil fuels ‘run out of road’, UN chief says António Guterres says ‘sun is rising on a clean energy age’ as 90% of renewable power projects cheaper than fossil fuels theguardian.com/environment/20…
A national health survey in Australia has found that over 95% of people have two toxic #PFAS (PFOA and PFOS) in their blood These chemicals are banned under the Stockholm convention, but exposure continues Governments must do more to protect us 🔽 abs.gov.au/articles/per-a…
🔥 Climate change is set to drive longer, more intense heatwaves - posing serious risks to public health. @WHO's new technical brief outlines how heat stress and #AirPollution intersect, plus how we can address both to save lives ⬇️ bit.ly/4lBHQCg