More than 100 people have been arrested as climate change protesters continued to block UK oil terminals as part of a campaign to disrupt the fossil fuel industry.
Supporters of Just Stop Oil began the action in the early hours of Friday morning at refineries near London, Birmingham and Southampton by climbing on to tankers and gluing themselves to roads.
The activists continued to disrupt oil terminals on Saturday morning and said they had gained access to further sites.
Essex police said officers arrested a total of 83 people after protests in the Thurrock district.
The force said 63 were arrested on Friday following protests in Oliver Road, Grays, London Road, Purfleet, and Askew Farm Lane, Grays. Another 20 people were arrested on Saturday in Oliver Road and Stoneness Road, Grays.

Talks stretch past deadline as governments are accused of trying to water down findings
Fiona Harvey
The world must abandon fossil fuels as a matter of urgency, rather than entrusting the future climate to untried “techno-fixes” such as sucking carbon out of the air, scientists and campaigners have urged, as governments wrangled over last-minute changes to a landmark scientific report.

What most people think of as soil exists only near the ground surface and has terrible engineering properties: whatever gets built on top settles unevenly and rain ingress can lead to swelling and erosion. So all the organic stuff containing the worms and dead leaves tends to be excavated, leaving firmer soil below to build structures on. Sadly, removing all that soil organic matter is taking quite a toll ecologically and environmentally (globally, soil is our No 2 carbon sink, after the oceans) so we need to be doing more to ensure we always return the nutrients to the earth. Ted O’Hare
If you look at the challenges faced by urban street trees, that’s probably an indication of the soil quality under heavily concreted areas. City trees grow in soil that is very depleted in nutrients due to a lack of top soil and organic matter from fallen leaves and other plant and animal debris; the soil will be much more compacted and less aerated, and surrounding surfaces are largely impermeable to oxygen and rainwater, which is also likely to be more polluted. Urban areas also act as heat islands increasing moisture evaporation. Consequently urban trees have a much shorter lifespan than suburban or rural trees, reflected by the soil quality. Mrs Lessing

Last stop, underwater: the Spanish railway line being devoured by the sea

Stephen Burgen
The sea sparkles and laps against the shore of the Maresme coast, north of Barcelona, as the train runs alongside it, passing the few hopeful spring sunbathers and surfers. At points, Spain’s oldest train line runs so close to the shore it feels as if you’re travelling on the sea itself.
Last Sunday, that could well have happened. Heavy waves took a giant bite out of the coast, threatening a section of the track with collapse and forcing the train company to lay on a bus service between La Pineda and Malgrat de Mar.

The latest and quickly record breaking wave of Covid-19 has prompted the full lockdown of key business hub Shanghai and the mandatory closure of key trade events, for which China Cycle has now confirmed it is one.
“Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic and the control policy in China, the 31st China International Bicycle Fair (China Cycle 2022), scheduled on May 6th to 9th, 2022, has been postponed. We apologise for the inconvenience brought to you,” wrote the organisers in a statement to potential visitors of the key eastern trade fair.
Globally, there is greater attention as to what is happening at the ports in the face of various restrictions present in the country. Specialist shipping sites have in the past week reported “surging” congestion where not so long ago the situation had been improving; it was, in fact, the West more proportionately to blame for holding up global shipping.

The EU has become the first ever policymaking body to officially acknowledge the urgency of defining and tackling climate disinformation.
Lawmakers at the EU Parliament overwhelmingly backed a report last week calling on the EU to “prepare better to fight off foreign interference and disinformation” including from “malicious and authoritarian countries such as Russia and China”.
The report further urged MEPs to “urgently address climate mis- and disinformation” and to implement a “global code of conduct”. Misinformation refers to the accidental sharing of false information, whereas disinformation implies malicious intent.