The ridiculous heat wave hitting western Europe is showing up in SST anomalies as well, with many locations now exceeding daily anomalies of +3°C. 🥵

If you'd like to read more on this risk, my article in Oceanography is open access: tos.org/oceanography...

Today’s UK records are part of a wider picture in Europe and beyond.

Think of CO₂ removal like a time machine. How far back does planting 100 million trees take us? One mature tree takes up ~25 kg of CO₂/year, so 100 million trees will take up 2.5 MtCO₂. That's a time machine that takes us back ~33 minutes in a year. Nature will not save us from fossil fuel CO₂.

The UK is likely going to see its hottest spring day on record by some margin in the next few days. The climate we built for no longer exists. The climate we’re in isn’t even well-defined, as things continue to change faster than we observe the extremes. We are underprepared.

Interesting post by the author of @allaboutberlin on how AI is killing his awesome website. #ai #openknowledge #berlin

How little we know about the #Biodiversity we are fast trashing phys.org/news/2026-05...

Record "warmth" in the subantarctic Australian island of Macquarie: Few days ago it had a Minimum Temperature of +7.6C, its warmest May night on record. Penguins are waiting for wintry conditions.

And TechCrunch are here to get you started: techcrunch.com/2026/05/21/s...

Hello Bluesky! From environment to sport, finance, and more, chances are that select committees are working on a topic that's relevant to you. Help us hold the Government to account: follow to learn about our work and share your views, experiences, and expertise. #UKPolitics #UKParliament

No idea who said this first, but it’s good. #DunningKruger

Icon on ice: Moves to enhance protection of emperor penguins blocked at annual meeting of Antarctic Treaty nations (@news.abc.net.au @southernsky.bsky.social) ▶️ www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05... Emperors at Auster colony 📸 Jan Wallace

In 2021, 80% of us said reducing #AirPollution was a priority. By 2025, that fell to 67%. Air pollution damages woodlands, rivers & wildlife - even when we can't see it. Find out what the #CleanAirForNature survey found & why #CleanAir matters for #NatureRecovery 🔗 bit.ly/JNCC-CleanAir 🧵

You can support your local mason bees by providing houses, making mud available, planting spring flowers, and reducing or eliminating pesticide usage in your yard. Then your garden can have these docile pollinators happily flitting around, making the world a better place. Happy World Bee Day!

I'm down a rabbit hole on thermal batteries. These tanks use water, sand, salt, crushed rock or virtually any other substance to hold heat generated by transient or off-peak power generation. It operates at ultra-low cost, has efficiencies of 90-99%. I had no idea how practical they were!

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY. There was also a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

📢 #RTPs, #engineers, #technicians & #SoftwareSpecialists - registrations and abstract submissions are open for #NERCTechForum2026 at PML 🌊 Join the NERC community to share knowledge, showcase technology & spark new collaborations: pml.ac.uk/event/nerc-t...

Thought this was a model response from @celiarichardson.bsky.social to a pretty harsh article in the Spectator about the National Trust

Good data is essential for policy. Today it’s been a year since we had a permanent National Statistician. No news on what is happening with the current recruitment which began Oct 2025. This is an under the bonnet issue that points to state failure 🧵 uksa.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/news/stateme...

#NatureCrisis - so much #biodiversity is at risk phys.org/news/2026-05...

this could be us

"Stop messing with rumen microbes and focus on reducing ruminant populations for environmental and human health" There are nearly 4 billion domesticated ruminants on Earth. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

The Royal Society Summer Science exhibition is coming up (June 30th - July 5th), and I'll be speaking at one of their MANY events, on fast fashion and ocean health. Do take a look at the rest of the programme - there's loads to see and do! royalsociety.org/science-even...

As is this from @robertshrimsley.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/f9ee...

Like a gut punch, this quietly spoken sentence from Lubaina Himid who is representing the UK at the Venice Biennale www.ft.com/content/2a58...

7/ And these feedbacks are already activating. Permafrost thaw & Arctic wildfires are eating about a quarter of the carbon budget for 1.5°C. This is already happening now, sooner than the standard scenarios assume.

We used 325.4kWh of grid⚡ in Apr-2026 with 94kWh for EV 190kWh general household activity 193kWh for ASHP Delivering 650kWh heat our PV generated 357kWh, with 298kWh self consump and ~59kWh export Total cost of elec: £46.53 inc VAT and standing charge (but excluding FiT payments for our PV).

Marine CO₂ removal R&D has focused on efficacy, treating ecosystem harm as a gating criterion to overcome. Hence, these efforts have made only minimal measurements of environmental impacts and then claimed that no harm was observed. It’s the attitude that if you don't measure it, it doesn't exist 🌊

A last look at March in the #Arctic, with a zoomed-in view of Svalbard where temperatures were more than 5°C warmer than the 1981-2010 baseline. This extended to the Greenland Sea and Fram Strait as well and coincided with less sea ice to the east. Data from doi.org/10.24381/cds...

That rate of warming varies across Europe.

This is such an important report climate.copernicus.eu/esotc/2025

Europe is the world’s fastest-warming continent. We’ve seen record heatwaves from the Mediterranean to the Arctic, while glaciers have been shrinking and snow cover melting. The evidence is unequivocal: climate change is not a ‘future’ threat. It is our present reality. ⬇️

There's a terrific new article by @carbonbrief.org on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation with some great animations. Strongly recommended. I've been reading it ahead of giving a lecture on the risks of climate change tomorrow. interactive.carbonbrief.org/amoc-explain...

This evening in Milton Keynes talking #GreenThinking. If that is your patch hope to see you there www.tickettailor.com/events/milto...

In the UK, solar farms are becoming bird havens.

Buzzard dies after being tied to a tree root in Powys, Wales - RSPCA appeals for information. Details ⬇️ #RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime #birdingwales raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/04/22/b...

As Ed Miliband seeks to 'double down' on the UK energy transition to clean power, this is a reminder of why that matters to consumers: The highest proportion of fossil fuels in the energy mix leads to the highest prices according to Fidelity international www.ft.com/content/6b4e...

Good account here: www.spitsbergen-svalbard.com/2026/04/20/e...

Can we finally agree that burning wood for energy is a terrible idea and won't be carbon neutral, let alone carbon negative, in our lifetimes? BECCS using wood certainly shouldn't qualify as CO₂ removal (CDR).

Bio-precipitation cycle with fungi: "As wind kicks up, their ice-making proteins are launched into the clouds. They act as powerful "seeds". And industrial agriculture relies on extensive use of fungicide. We need to #Unlearn it www.sciencealert.com/tiny-microbe...

“The hypothesis that thawing of permafrost could release sufficient climate forcing gases not only to continue but to accelerate climate change is one step closer to being confirmed by the results we are publishing today.”

Real Country Sizes Shown on Mercator Projection Credit: Engaging Data Animated Map: brilliantmaps.com/mercator-...

How little we understand about the damage we are doing on this #PoisonedPlanet phys.org/news/2026-04...

Heat pumps are the most efficient heating technology ever invented. They harvest and compress pre existing heat in the air, ground or water and transport it where it is needed. That energy is all around us. And it does not have to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.

As war-driven fossil prices ripped through global markets, Britain's clean energy buildout provided the nation with an impressive buffer. Wind and solar cut gas generation to just 2.4% of their power mix in late March, helping prices fall to their lowest since October. news.fixthenews.com/3Alnv6S

Nearly 1 in 6 UK species are threatened with extinction. We've lost 97% of our wildflower meadows since the 1930s. We have 73 million fewer birds than in the 1970s - a decline of almost a third. And yet some politicians still just see wildlife as a blocker to progress.

In honor of Kinari’s first birthday this Sunday, we wanted to highlight wolf pup developmental milestones 🐺 🔗Read more on our blog: https://nywolf.org/2026/04/wolf-pup-development-milestones-in-their-first-year/

We are looking for a Conservation Projects Manager (Species Recovery) maternity cover 🐝 It’s an exciting time to join the team and be part of our species recovery work. See our vacancy page for the full details: https://ow.ly/gKk750YFEIH

"In 2023, pesticide use reached 3.73 million tons globally, roughly twice the amount used in 1990." "Pesticides appear to drive not just population shifts in the microbes, but also changes in their activity." #PoisonedPlanet - #PublicHealth concern mounting www.science.org/content/arti...

ICYMI. Free to hear, universally available in the UK, funded by >49p per day per UK household licence fee. Only the BBC among UK broadcasters would and could do this. Discover…