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Fish is often sold as the perfect climate-friendly dinner: highly nutritious and lower carbon than other forms of protein. But new research is increasingly bringing some of these eco marketing claims into question. In part, because industrial fishing – scientists and campaigners say – is weakening the ocean’s ability to act as a carbon sink. Read more from Sophie Kevany 🔗 https://loom.ly/6IZyoUM

Hazel Healy and Rachel Sherrington bring us our latest interactive map: how big ag, pharma, pesticides and other industries hope to sway the UN biodiversity talks. Explore the way corporations have found ways to be heard during negotiations on reversing the drastic global decline in plant and animal life. https://loom.ly/2tjwKKg

Have you explored Joe Fassler's map of the 6 billionaire family fortunes funding Project 2025? Understand the $122 million at play here! 🔗 https://loom.ly/zIo66cw

Mapped: How Big Ag, Pharma, Pesticides and Other Industries Hope to Sway the UN Biodiversity Talks Corporations have found ways to be heard during negotiations on reversing the drastic global decline in plant and animal life. 📝 Hazel Healy and Rachel Sherrington https://loom.ly/2tjwKKg

The Telegraph Ramps Up Anti-Climate Coverage During Labour’s Early Months 📝 Joey Grostern https://loom.ly/K0fYdpE

The Friendly New Face of Dark Money: How Fidelity, Schwab, and Vanguard helped wealthy donors pour $171 million of dark money into Project 2025 Read our new investigation from Joe Fassler here 🔗 https://loom.ly/eY8eFy0

The government of Alberta and Canadian newspaper chain Postmedia are being accused of publishing disinformation on the front pages of major Canadian newspapers. But critics are also pointing out the ad campaign distracts from the bigger issue of whether proposed emissions bans are sufficient given the severity of the climate crisis. Learn more from Taylor Naokes 🔗 https://loom.ly/sBS7R-Q

Conservative MPs have backed a campaign against raising fuel tax led by a Reform UK politician and lobbyist who has publicly claimed that “man is not responsible for global warming”. Read more from Joey Grostern 🔗 https://loom.ly/rWYQERg

Norway’s Equinor admits it “over-reported” amount of carbon captured at flagship project for years. Get the latest in this story of deception from Edward Donnelly 🔗 https://loom.ly/glEMgnE

‘Money in Exchange for Silence’: Behind Neom’s Green Image, Western Firms Cash in on Saudi Commitment to Oil Adam M. Lowenstein's latest article dives into the PR and consulting agencies that are being paid millions to focus the world’s attention on a promised “eco-city” — obscuring human rights abuses and Saudi Arabia’s long record of climate obstruction. https://loom.ly/hqJNREw