Great new story from the Climate Justice Fellows at @globalvoices:

"Climate finance has become a global arena of influence. China, now the world’s leading supplier of solar panels, batteries, and hydropower engineering, is increasingly central to this story. In South Asia, the question is not only whether climate finance will arrive, but who defines the terms."

https://globalvoices.org/2025/11/26/the-green-fault-line-the-global-north-china-and-the-politics-of-climate-finance-in-south-asia/

My charity @ProtectEarthUK is five years old this week.

Some stats. 🧵

- Planted 157,453 trees

- Created 4,985m of hedgerow

- Removed over 15 acres of invasive species (Japanese knotweed, rhododendrons, bamboo and Himalayan balsam)

- Run 5 free hedge-laying courses for Welsh farmers.

- Working on 100 sites across England, Wales, and Scotland.

- Never sold a single carbon credit to anyone.

#biodiversity #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #AncientWoodland

World’s Oldest Song Is 3,400 Years Old and You Can Listen to It Today

By Livia Pereira

https://mymodernmet.com/hurrian-hymn-oldest-song-world/

More information:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurrian_songs

#music #ancientworld #culture

What do you want your last words to be?

Or is there another way to think about it? A chat with @MichaelErard author of "Bye Bye I Love You".

Hear the full episode on your podcast app, or here:
https://becauselanguage.com/114-bye-bye-i-love-you/

@mitpress @penguinbooks

Swear words disable Google's A.I. Overview!

Plus spaghetti.

From upcoming episode 114: Bye Bye I Love You (with Michael Erard @MichaelErard)

Thanks to the Last Words project, a collaboration between the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, the Heroes of the Resistance remembrance association & volunteers, letters written by Belgian resistance fighters to their loved ones before the Nazis murdered them have surfaced.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/09/you-are-free-again-farewell-letters-of-executed-belgian-resistance-fighters-found-80-years-on