Elaine Marshall

Born 328ppm🇿🇦Mum, Nature lover, citizen of the world 🌍 Living Cambridge, PhD Trinity, Dublin-NbS🌳SDGs Gender💚Own views; she/her🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

BAM! Colombia has announced a historic ban on all new oil and large-scale mining projects in its part of the Amazon Rainforest, protecting an area roughly the size of Sweden. 🌿

Experts say the move could help protect one of the planet’s most important ecosystems—often called the “lungs of the Earth.” 🌎🌳

Nature is amazing. Protect it.

#ActOnClimate #nature

[Mambo Italiano @mamboitaliano__]

This is truly the most beautiful video I’ve seen lately

So tender and heart-warming, yet it makes you stop and reflect, with a subtle touch of sadness

We may have gained so much, but perhaps we’ve lost even more✨

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

"It breaks my heart": UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher says "we're seeing staggering amounts of money, reportedly a billion dollars a day” being spent on the Middle East war, rather than addressing the world’s “huge humanitarian caseload.”

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Spain’s MEP Irene Montero:

“Danger doesn’t walk the streets.
It wears a suit and tie.
It boards private jets.
It flies to Epstein’s island.

Where are the prison sentences for those criminals?

When the powerful are rapists, it isn’t a glitch in the system. It is the system.”

[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

Shepherds in Ávila say they’ve never seen anything like it.

After weeks of relentless rain in Spain, sheep have been filmed with green shoots literally sprouting from their wool. Yes, actual grass growing out of their fleece.

Seeds from hay get trapped in the dense wool, the constant moisture creates the perfect conditions, and they germinate.

[𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐔𝐍𝐄𝐒 @Antunes1]

Pope Leo condemns Israel.

“Sadly there’s been an increase in violence against the Palestinian population which has the right to live in peace in ITS OWN LAND.”

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

IOC bans Vladyslav Heraskevych from wearing helmet featuring teammates slaughtered by Putin. What a dumb, inhumane, depressing decision. I so admire him for standing by his principles 👊👊👊

[Elaine Marshall @lainiemarshall]

@implausibleblog Yes to all of this. Beautifully articulated @AyoCaesar oh! And also Scottish, and Irish and Welsh culture …

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Ash Sarkar, "Jim Ratcliffe is a stinking hypocrite"

"He became a tax resident of Monaco to save £4 billion that could have gone towards British schools, the British NHS, towards British defence, instead he decided he wanted that money for his own pocket"

"If it wasn't for immigration, Manchester United would have had just three of their starting eleven last night - not really going to beat West Ham with that"

"The kind of language: being colonised by immigrants"

"That moves beyond talking about immigration as a policy"

"You're talking about people who come here to live, to work, to have families, as though they are a hostile occupying force, taking away your language, your culture, your ability to survive"

Victoria Derbyshire, "Some voters believe their language is taken away"

Ash Sarkar, "There are some people who believe the moon is made of cheese, but it doesn't mean they are right"

Well said @AyoCaesar 🧀

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws1]

⚡️BREAKING: Freed photojournalist Shadi Abu Sido, kidnapped on March 18, 2024, during Israel’s raid on Al-Shifa Medical Complex, spoke after nearly 20 months in captivity, expressing shock at global silence.

“For two years I was starved, I went in starving and came out starving,” he said. “They hung our bodies day and night, naked, abused and insulted us. They told us, ‘We killed your children. Gaza is gone.’”

Translation: @translatingpal

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

UN says it's genocide.
HRC says it's genocide.
PVA says it's genocide.
ICJ says it's genocide.
ICC says it's genocide.

Anyone who knows anything about genocide says it's genocide. Everyone is lying except Israel who are committing genocide and ethnic cleansing.

[Elaine Marshall @lainiemarshall]

@declassifiedUK Brilliant journalism- thank you

[Elaine Marshall @lainiemarshall]

@ZackPolanski Spot on. Great to have you leading our Green Party Zack

[Elaine Marshall @lainiemarshall]

@mhdksafa Free Palestine 💔🇯🇴 #FreePalestine

[Elaine Marshall @lainiemarshall]

@MazMHussain 💔💔💔💔💔🇯🇴🕊️

[UN Biodiversity @UNBiodiversity]

“Our planet is trying to tell us something.
But we don’t seem to be listening.”

In June at @AMNH, @antonioguterres warned that humanity is at a moment of truth and must act to deliver #ClimateAction before it’s too late.

https://t.co/W7iqIcPAvM

#YearInReview

via @UN

[UN Biodiversity @UNBiodiversity]

Ecosystems sustain life: clean air, water, food, and climate stability.

Since 1970, wildlife populations have plummeted 73%. 😰

Act now for a #NaturePositive future: https://t.co/7RXaKSu2mp

via @NatureDeal

[Elaine Marshall @lainiemarshall]

@implausibleblog Brigitte’s face says it all ….

[Elaine Marshall @lainiemarshall]

@implausibleblog My brother was 8 days straight with no power last winter in Deeside …. ! 🥶

[Elaine Marshall @lainiemarshall]

❤️ 🇵🇸

[AJ+ @ajplus]

"You can pretend that falafel and hummus and zaatar are your ancient cuisines. But in the recesses of your being, you will always feel the sting of this epic forgery."

Palestinian writer and activist Susan Abulhawa delivered this passionate speech at the Oxford Union.