Do you live in the UK? Have you ever wondered how many England football players come from your area? Even if you haven't, you probably want to check out this new piece: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Does El Niño forecasting have their own version of a "hot models" problem? There are currently 13 seasonal forecast ensembles used to predict future El Niño / La Niña. Diversity is good, but there remains broad disagreement among them, with some suggesting all-time records. 🧵

Today the WMO issued a warning that El Niño is imminent. The team's been hard at work to show you how we got here and what it might mean. www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

As somebody only marginally interested in the activities (is that even the right word) of Tilly Norwood, this interview with her (it?) was deeply engrossing. Plus a delightful tribute to the art of acting near the end. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/m...

We have provisionally broken the UK record for highest daily minimum temperature in May... again 😮 Temperatures didn't fall below 21.3°C overnight at Kenley Airfield, making it a 'tropical night' (no lower than 20°C). Remarkably, the record was also broken yesterday.

Brilliant visual storytelling here from Jess Carr and Callum Thomson - analysing the seismic shifts seen in the local and national election results #dataviz #localelections2026 www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

Lovely story on the BBC about iceberg a23a, which has given us decades of fun but is now nearing its end… Really enjoyed talking with Mark Poynting about this one-time behemoth. www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

Back from leave and back to mapping. BBC Verify is keeping close tabs on the conflict in the Middle East In maps: Strikes across Iran and the Middle East www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Amidst the Epstein Files clamour, we’re still finding evidence of poor and inconsistent redactions. Days after the initial outcry: Naked images remained in Epstein files despite outcry www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Would love to be at this in November!

Solar's not the biggest renewable in Britain but it drove last year's rise to record renewable generation. From @beckydale.bsky.social @markpoynting.bsky.social & Jess Carr's www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

New record year for renewable electricity in Britain - thanks especially to strong solar output. Read our analysis of 2025 here www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Today’s story: 7 water companies have been ordered to reduce potentially harmful levels of forever chemicals in drinking water sources for more than 6 million people. Water UK stresses the water is safe to drink but calls for a PFAS ban to prevent accumulation www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#Melissa makes landfall in southwestern Jamaica near New Hope as a powerful category 5 hurricane. For the latest updates visit http://hurricanes.gov https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G4XOBZmWcAAVNu6.png

NEW: How mega batteries are unlocking an energy revolution Massive shipping containers packed with powerful batteries are shoring up grids & extending the use of clean power ig.ft.com/mega-batteri... Latest visual story w/ @samlearner.bsky.social @inari-ta.bsky.social @samjoiner.bsky.social

History made for the ocean: #BBNJ Agreement enters into force, protecting high seas & deep seabed, safeguarding life under water. “Our ocean is the foundation of our very existence. Today we took an important step forward to save our ocean, & to save our future” - ED @ingerandersen.bsky.social

Are you a journalist covering climate solutions? @jaimepalter.bsky.social and I have some advice for sharing these stories without hype, by balancing potential and challenges. Online on 7 October 2025 at 13:00 (UTC-4) Register here: uri-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Been playing the newly launched Chartle game and pretty happy to have got today’s in one go. chartle.cc

Those small temperature changes are having an effect. Record warm seas help to bring extraordinary new species to UK waters www.bbc.com/news/article...

Europe is breaking its reliance on American science - Reuters apple.news/A0Gs-nPUUS-u...

The court ruled that developing nations have a right to seek damages for the impacts of climate change www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Final report into 'broken' water industry says regulator Ofwat should be scrapped www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c4...

The government of the tiny African kingdom of Lesotho has declared a two-year state of disaster, as its once-thriving garment industry unravels in the wake of Trump's tariffs threats.

Serious water pollution incidents up 60% in England, Environment Agency says www.bbc.com/news/article...

Join the Copernicus WEkEO Service from 10-12 June for a two-day online workshop! Explore key climate challenges and learn how to use tools like Jupyter Notebooks, QGIS and R Studio for ecosystem monitoring. Register now! events.wekeo.eu/wekeo-4-clim...

Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.

Giant iceberg on crash course with island - penguins and seals in danger www.bbc.com/news/article...

The world has just seen its hottest-on-record year. Again. 2024 was also the first full calendar year to breach the critical 1.5C warming threshold, according to @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social www.bbc.com/news/article...

A good news story AND a pretty chart 🤩 🌬️🪁 ! Wind provided more electricity than ever last year as the UK moved further away from planet-warming fossil fuels to power the nation, new data shows. Lovely work by @beckydale.bsky.social and Mark Poynting www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Myanmar's secret soldier-spies have been undermining military control. We've spoken to a few of them to learn. Read about it here and watch The Watermelons documentary on BBC iPlayer: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

You wanted starter packs to be searchable. Our engineers are busy keeping us online, so in the meantime, an independent developer built a new searchable library of starter packs. This is the beauty of building in the open 🦋

Another day another broken climate record. The past 12 months have seen average temperatures above the 1.5C threshold for the first time. www.bbc.co.uk/news/science...

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