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Apr 27 7 tweets 2 min read
REVEALED: Tory operatives are running a network of closed anti-Ulez Facebook groups. We got into 6 groups and found dozens of racist, Islamophobic and violent messages, including virulent abuse of Sadiq Khan.

Full the story here: unearthed.greenpeace.org/2024/04/27/con… And in @ObserverUK here: theguardian.com/politics/2024/…
Dec 23, 2022 21 tweets 6 min read
NEW from us:

Our favourite environmental journalism of 2022.

The stories we wish we'd written this year.

unearthed.greenpeace.org/2022/12/23/bes… The dirty road to clean energy restofworld.org/2022/indonesia…
Dec 23, 2022 21 tweets 33 min read
As we sign off for the year, here’s a thread of our reporting in 2022 🔍 With @TBIJ, we discovered that soya sold in the UK and touted as free-from-deforestation under the landmark Amazon Soy Moratorium was grown on farms that were still tearing down rainforest for cattle and other crops

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Dec 24, 2021 17 tweets 12 min read
NEW:

The best environmental journalism of 2021, as chosen by our reporters and readers.

Here are the stories we wish we'd written this year.

unearthed.greenpeace.org/2021/12/24/bes… Life at 50 degrees C

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Mar 18, 2019 10 tweets 4 min read
'The operator is seeking an increase of the regulatory threshold on seismicity before commencing further drilling' — and there you have it, the largest shareholder in the UK's only fracking company has said it will not drill without weaker tremor rules 1/ Last year @UE reported on a letter from the UK's energy minister which said the government were looking to relax the standards after drilling had started 2/ bit.ly/2C6HEIb
Mar 11, 2019 6 tweets 3 min read
Today, at the UK’s High Court, the legal challenges to Heathrow expansion are beginning

It could be a major threat to UK climate targets, so here’s a little tour of our greatest hits on what is already one of the world’s busiest airports...

independent.co.uk/travel/news-an…

🛫 👇 First up, the budget for upgrading transport links around the airport. We started digging into it three years ago after the Airports Commission put the price tag at £4.2bn.

But internal docs from TFL revealed they estimated it could cost up to £18bn.

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Oct 11, 2018 9 tweets 4 min read
Hey there. 👋 We just spent five months trying to find out who owns the UK's fishing quota. And we found out some pretty wild stuff. This is going to be a thread. 1/

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unearthed.greenpeace.org/2018/10/11/fis… So it turns out that more than a quarter of the UK’s fishing quota is owned or controlled by five families on the Sunday Times Rich List. 2/

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