Alister Doyle
@alisterdoyle.bsky.social
Freelance environmental reporter, author of “The Great Melt”, formerly Reuters environment correspondent, MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellow
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Alister Doyle
@alisterdoyle.bsky.social
· Jul 23
Dining with Aliens: our starter course
"If you can't beat them, eat them": our recipes for limiting a scourge of alien invasive species of animals and plants in Britain, from grey squirrels to Japanese knotweed. Please subscribe!
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"Dining with Aliens". Please subscribe to our new Substack about novel ways to fight invasive species of animals and plants in the UK: "If you can't beat them, eat them". Launched today with environmental experts @nicknuttall.bsky.social and Roger Morgan-Grenville
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Pest or delicacy? Britain battles a Red Army of alien crayfish. My article for "DiningwithAliens":
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Pest or delicacy? Britain battles a Red Army of alien crayfish
Signal Crayfish, native to the United States, are choking rivers in Britain and ravaging local wildlife while also gracing menus in upscale restaurants. Eat them or simply hate them?
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September 24, 2026 at 9:24 AM
Pest or delicacy? Britain battles a Red Army of alien crayfish. My article for "DiningwithAliens":
nickrogeralister.substack.com/p/pest-or-de... @nicknuttall.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @ipbes.net
nickrogeralister.substack.com/p/pest-or-de... @nicknuttall.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @ipbes.net
Dear Mark Carney, I hope Canada succeeds in becoming the first "associate member" of the European Union but I've a problem. I try to buy Canadian products, but supermarkets here in Europe only seem to stock maple syrup. I´m getting a glut.
Could you recommend something else, please?
Could you recommend something else, please?
September 17, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Dear Mark Carney, I hope Canada succeeds in becoming the first "associate member" of the European Union but I've a problem. I try to buy Canadian products, but supermarkets here in Europe only seem to stock maple syrup. I´m getting a glut.
Could you recommend something else, please?
Could you recommend something else, please?
Britain’s “Frankenfish” is Europe’s Fine Dining - my latest chapter in our DiningwithAliens project with the incomparable @nicknuttall.bsky.social and Roger Morgan-Grenville
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Britain’s “Frankenfish” is Europe’s Fine Dining
One of the biggest freshwater fish in Europe, the Wels catfish has a reputation as an alien “River Monster” in the UK. Elsewhere, it's a chef's special
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August 20, 2026 at 10:50 AM
Britain’s “Frankenfish” is Europe’s Fine Dining - my latest chapter in our DiningwithAliens project with the incomparable @nicknuttall.bsky.social and Roger Morgan-Grenville
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Pink gin alchemy from ‘DiningwithAliens’ open.substack.com/pub/nickroge...
Himalayan alchemy: the seductive flower with a pink gin trick
Himalayan balsam is a beautiful invader, spreading on river banks from the UK to the U.S. But it has a magic secret: its flowers can create an ethereal pink fizz
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July 30, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Pink gin alchemy from ‘DiningwithAliens’ open.substack.com/pub/nickroge...
"Dining with Aliens". Please subscribe to our new Substack about novel ways to fight invasive species of animals and plants in the UK: "If you can't beat them, eat them". Launched today with environmental experts @nicknuttall.bsky.social and Roger Morgan-Grenville
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Dining with Aliens: our starter course
"If you can't beat them, eat them": our recipes for limiting a scourge of alien invasive species of animals and plants in Britain, from grey squirrels to Japanese knotweed. Please subscribe!
open.substack.com
July 23, 2026 at 8:27 AM
"Dining with Aliens". Please subscribe to our new Substack about novel ways to fight invasive species of animals and plants in the UK: "If you can't beat them, eat them". Launched today with environmental experts @nicknuttall.bsky.social and Roger Morgan-Grenville
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Canada's wildfires: sue Trump?
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Canada's wildfires: sue Trump?
Trump is threatening to slap tariffs on Canada for wildfires that are causing air pollution over the United States: maybe Canada can out-Trump Trump by suing the U.S. for stoking climate change?
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July 19, 2026 at 9:06 AM
Canada's wildfires: sue Trump?
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Sea level rise seems a huge, distant problem with ice melting from Greenland to Antarctica: here are my ideas for bringing it closer to home via fingernails, coins and phones open.substack.com/pub/alisterd...
Sea level rise: fingernails, wedding rings and cellphones
Sea level rise, driven by climate change, is a mind-bogglingly huge problem - maybe it's time to re-imagine it via tiny everyday objects?
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July 16, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Sea level rise seems a huge, distant problem with ice melting from Greenland to Antarctica: here are my ideas for bringing it closer to home via fingernails, coins and phones open.substack.com/pub/alisterd...
Should I support England or Norway in the World Cup quarter-final when I've citizenship in both? substack.com/@alisterdoyl...
Alister (@alisterdoyle)
Who to support in Saturday’s World Cup quarter-final between England and Norway when I’ve dual nationality in both? Tough choice! 🤔
Born in England, I’ve lived many years in Norway 🇳🇴, with a wonderf...
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July 10, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Should I support England or Norway in the World Cup quarter-final when I've citizenship in both? substack.com/@alisterdoyl...
«Oil Prices Rise on Possible Deal to Suspend Attacks in Gulf» this conflict is already weird enough - the headline is worthy of @theonion.com
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Oil Prices Rise on Possible Deal to Suspend Attacks in Gulf
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June 29, 2026 at 8:59 AM
«Oil Prices Rise on Possible Deal to Suspend Attacks in Gulf» this conflict is already weird enough - the headline is worthy of @theonion.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/b...
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I once invested my entire fortune in space: it was a huge success. But I won't be doing the same with Elon Musk's delusional dreams of colonising Mars alisterdoyle.substack.com/p/heaven-or-...
Heaven or hell? What Star Trek tells us about Musk's Mars dream
I once invested my entire fortune in space, but won't buy into Elon Musk and SpaceX's dystopian dreams of colonising Mars: aren't there are enough things to fix here on Earth?
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June 10, 2026 at 7:04 AM
I once invested my entire fortune in space: it was a huge success. But I won't be doing the same with Elon Musk's delusional dreams of colonising Mars alisterdoyle.substack.com/p/heaven-or-...
I was thrilled to be invited to talk to a group of German women about my book "The Great Melt". But the whole thing (including the flier below) is an unnerving new scam - created with AI and targeting only me rather than thousands of people
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The Great Melt: (almost) falling for a scam
A German group of 2,000 women wants to discuss my book about melting ice and rising seas. I'm elated, then deflated: it's a scam
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June 1, 2026 at 7:04 PM
I was thrilled to be invited to talk to a group of German women about my book "The Great Melt". But the whole thing (including the flier below) is an unnerving new scam - created with AI and targeting only me rather than thousands of people
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After King Muhammad XII surrendered Granada in 1492, marking the end of Muslim rule in Spain, he travelled into exile and, the story goes, sighed at this mountain pass as he gazed back. Sadly, this poignant event in history is barely marked at the spot medium.com/@alisterdoyl...
“The sigh of the Moor”: 1492 and today
Only a dilapidated monument marks where King Muhammad XII “sighed” on his way to exile in 1492 at the end of Islamic rule in Spain
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March 29, 2026 at 9:38 AM
After King Muhammad XII surrendered Granada in 1492, marking the end of Muslim rule in Spain, he travelled into exile and, the story goes, sighed at this mountain pass as he gazed back. Sadly, this poignant event in history is barely marked at the spot medium.com/@alisterdoyl...
Phil Noble’s iconic angst-ridden image of ex-prince Andrew isn’t his first that echoes ‘The Scream’ (below: Norwegian 400 metres hurdles world record holder Karsten Warholm - in a happier mood - after winning a race) www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... @theguardian.com @reuters
February 20, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Phil Noble’s iconic angst-ridden image of ex-prince Andrew isn’t his first that echoes ‘The Scream’ (below: Norwegian 400 metres hurdles world record holder Karsten Warholm - in a happier mood - after winning a race) www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... @theguardian.com @reuters
“The dose makes the poison,” said 16th century Swiss physician Paracelsus. Let’s hope U.S. courts remember that proverb ignored by Trump in this assault on climate action. Anything’s dangerous in high doses - and we’re overdosing on CO2 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c... @lisafriedman.bsky.social
Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change
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February 12, 2026 at 7:26 PM
“The dose makes the poison,” said 16th century Swiss physician Paracelsus. Let’s hope U.S. courts remember that proverb ignored by Trump in this assault on climate action. Anything’s dangerous in high doses - and we’re overdosing on CO2 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c... @lisafriedman.bsky.social
The girlfriend of the Olympic medal winner who confessed to cheating on her doesn't sound impressed. "It's hard to forgive," the unnamed woman told Norwegian tabloid VG. "Even after a declaration of love in front of the whole world". @philoconnor.bsky.social
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Norwegian Olympic medal-winner confesses to cheating on girlfriend, begs forgiveness
Norway's Sturla Holm Laegreid followed up his bronze medal in the biathlon at the Winter Olympics with a stunning confession that he had cheated on his girlfriend, before openly begging her for anothe...
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February 11, 2026 at 10:41 AM
The girlfriend of the Olympic medal winner who confessed to cheating on her doesn't sound impressed. "It's hard to forgive," the unnamed woman told Norwegian tabloid VG. "Even after a declaration of love in front of the whole world". @philoconnor.bsky.social
www.vg.no/sport/i/Gx3r...
www.vg.no/sport/i/Gx3r...
I just published "Trump is obsessed by the Nobel Prize: can’t he learn how it works?" medium.com/p/trump-is-o...
Trump is obsessed by the Nobel Prize: can’t he learn how it works?
Norway should do more to explain to to wannabe Nobel winner Trump that an independent committee awards the prize, not the government
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January 20, 2026 at 6:36 PM
I just published "Trump is obsessed by the Nobel Prize: can’t he learn how it works?" medium.com/p/trump-is-o...
Machado gives Trump a shiny medal - but apparently keeps the $1.1 million that comes with a Nobel Prize that the president won’t ever win www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/w...
Machado Presents Trump With Her Nobel Peace Prize
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January 16, 2026 at 7:31 AM
Machado gives Trump a shiny medal - but apparently keeps the $1.1 million that comes with a Nobel Prize that the president won’t ever win www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/w...
Leave Greenland alone! Fewer than one in five Americans support Trump's drive to get the island (...and a similar number haven't even heard of Trump's plans) @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Just one in five Americans support Trump's efforts to acquire Greenland, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds
Substantial majorities of Democrats and Republicans oppose using military force to annex the island.
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January 14, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Leave Greenland alone! Fewer than one in five Americans support Trump's drive to get the island (...and a similar number haven't even heard of Trump's plans) @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Trump steps up attack on science: quits 1992 UNFCCC climate treaty championed by Republican President Bush www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/c...
Trump Pulls Out of Global Climate Treaty
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January 8, 2026 at 6:36 AM
Trump steps up attack on science: quits 1992 UNFCCC climate treaty championed by Republican President Bush www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/c...
“Must try harder” - my report card on 10 years after the Paris climate agreement medium.com/@alisterdoyl...
Paris Agreement 10-year report card:“must try harder”
Ten years ago today, U.N. Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon was in a strangely relaxed mood hours before the Paris climate agreement was struck
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December 11, 2025 at 8:54 PM
“Must try harder” - my report card on 10 years after the Paris climate agreement medium.com/@alisterdoyl...
A barometer of climate change? Most @nobelprize.org winners have to wrap up in thick winter coats on Dec. 10 when they wave from an Oslo hotel balcony - today the daughter of peace laureate Maria Corina Machado was sleeveless in unusual mild weather www.reuters.com/world/americ...
December 10, 2025 at 8:25 PM
A barometer of climate change? Most @nobelprize.org winners have to wrap up in thick winter coats on Dec. 10 when they wave from an Oslo hotel balcony - today the daughter of peace laureate Maria Corina Machado was sleeveless in unusual mild weather www.reuters.com/world/americ...
Trump, gasoline-burning cars, climate change, and a little-known 1989 lawsuit (my story) medium.com/@alisterdoyl...
Trump’s car plan echoes landmark 1989 climate case
Disputes about President Donald Trump’s plan to promote gasoline-burning cars echo the first but little-known climate lawsuit in 1989
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December 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Trump, gasoline-burning cars, climate change, and a little-known 1989 lawsuit (my story) medium.com/@alisterdoyl...
I tracked down this spruce near Oslo, which will be felled on Friday and sent to London's Trafalgar Square as a Christmas gift. Its predecessors are icons of Xmas but often met with threadbare jokes medium.com/@alisterdoyl...
A Christmas tree’s hazardous trip to London from Oslo
Will this year’s “Queen of the Forest”, to be felled on Friday near Oslo and sent to London, be hailed as a beauty or derided as anaemic?
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November 20, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I tracked down this spruce near Oslo, which will be felled on Friday and sent to London's Trafalgar Square as a Christmas gift. Its predecessors are icons of Xmas but often met with threadbare jokes medium.com/@alisterdoyl...
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