Can’t say I recall ever seeing this before. More than half of France’s 30+ year-old weather stations set/tied their monthly high-temperature record in May 2026. Some did so as many as 9 times. Unprecedented to witness this level of heat so early in the year.

England just had its warmest spring on record. The record was last set in spring 2025. Before that, spring 2024. 9 of the 10 warmest springs have occurred since 2007. It's almost like there's a long-term driver causing this... www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

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.

Burning fossil fuels has made this heatwave hotter. True for the UK today, and everywhere else, all of the time.

"‪It would emit more CO2 than the entire nation of Jamaica."

For millenia, for the whole of the Holocene epoch, we have built housing, reservoirs, roads and rail, and agriculture to live in a climate that no longer exists. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UK should set maximum working temperature rules, advisers say www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Solent in Southern England is now heavily contaminated with 'forever chemicals' from sewage "This is one thing I don’t necessarily pin on the water companies because they don’t have the capacity to treat for them. That’s why they should be banned at source.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Google developers significantly misstate carbon emissions of proposed UK datacentres

The leader isn't Labour's problem Their problem is that people elected them to reverse the damage done by the Tories Whereas they just carried on doing more damage They need to tax wealth and invest in public services And challenge the oligarchs dominating our economy And focus on fairness

"Yorkshire Water was privatised in 1989 under the Water Act, launched debt-free and promoted as the start of a new, efficient era. What followed was anything but. Today, the company carries almost £7bn in debt. Our rivers are polluted, our bills keep rising, and we’re told to pay still more..."

"The change shows how ambitious policymaking can directly improve health in large cities." I visited Paris this month briefly and it was striking how clean the air was - and how much quieter it was - compared to visits a decade or more ago.

Huge congrats to Chris Ponting and the whole Decode ME team on their preprint on #genetics of people with #MECFS! Pre-print plus li'l video before we get into a deeper dive. Vid: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S5u... Preprint: www.pure.ed.ac.uk/ws/portalfil... 🧪 🧵

The anti-science Trumpers may be planning to destroy two working satellites that provide vital measurements about carbon dioxide & climate (and data that forecasts crop yield, drought conditions, & more). They cost $750 million to make but only $15 million/yr to operate. www.npr.org/2025/08/04/n...

It's time for your monthly climate change update: 🫣 + Global temperature: 📈 + Carbon dioxide (CO₂): 📈 + Methane (CH₄): 📈 + Nitrous oxide (N₂O): 📈 Graphic by zacklabe.com/climate-chan...

Hearing a lot lately that since the UK emits only 1% of greenhouse gases that we shouldn’t bother cutting emissions. Truth is that over 90% of nations in the Paris Agreement can make that same claim. We are not special. All countries must play an ambitious role, & no time to lose

Walk on fare for two from London to York at 4pm on a Monday: £345*. "Demand pricing helps smooth overcrowding and gives us all a better railway!" Peak trains:

EU’s ‘chocolate crisis’ worsened by climate breakdown, researchers warn0 - Cocoa one of six commodities vulnerable to environmental threats in ‘extremely worrying picture’ for food resilience #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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We could and should be cleaning the air in our schools and hospitals. That we aren't is one of the biggest lost opportunities of our covid response.

At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts. www.mesoscalenews.com/p/tornado-wa...

When it rains, it now rains more

⛳🧠 Proximity to golf courses linked to Parkinson’s disease A new study found living within 1–3 miles of a golf course was associated with higher Parkinson’s disease risk, likely linked to pesticide use and groundwater contamination. 🔗 doi.org/10.1001/jama... #SciComm #NeuroScience 🧪

NHS maternal mental health services slash funding. Unaddressed perinatal mental illness affects the whole family, costs UK economy £8.1bn a year Suicide is the major cause of death for women from six weeks to 12 months after birth. Put people B4 fiscal rules.

The latest list of the 25 most endangered primates includes nine from Asia, six from the Americas, six from the African mainland, and four from Madagascar. The report is also designed to spur conservation efforts for the listed species.

Disability benefit cuts to hit 700,000 families already in poverty, DWP estimates. The less well-off are always hit by govts. Govts won't hike taxes on the rich funding political parties. So they pick on the disabled, sick, poor, old. Class warfare is deeply embedded in the UK political system.

Don’t drink raw milk despite what the new US surgeon general would advise. www.independent.co.u...

After asset stripping England water companies warn of rationing. 35 reservoirs sold for £26m profit. Southern Water plan to decommission 43 of 93 reservoirs, build one. 1 trillion litres lost through leaky pipes. Companies have 1,135 criminal convictions. End the privatisation scam.

NEW Solar panels to be mandated on vast majority of new homes in England Currently about 40% of new builds have solar; new rules should push that to about 99% Story 👇 www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Exactly what #mecfs feels like, too. Recline with your feet elevated, or accept the incoming crash.

Just a mathematician popping up to say that 1969 was 56 years ago not 76. Perhaps poor math(s) is why humans haven't made it to Mars?

Yesterday I physically put out a campers fire in front of them. Today the glen is burning. Devasted.

Much of England & Wales had the driest March for over 60 years, with less than 1mm being recorded for the entire month. April is now predicted to have little significant rainfall. It's the main planting season for crops... we need to start talking seriously about #FoodSecurity & reducing #FoodWaste.

Government to extend ban on moorland burning - closing loopholes in existing rules Great news for nature, carbon, & people who’ll be spared from acrid smoke & flooding Bad news for dukes & billionaires who own grouse moors 🎻 Here's my quote running on PA newswire: 1/ www.gov.uk/government/n...

British Steel could close blast furnaces at Scunthorpe, 2,700 jobs at risk. Wants £1bn subsidy. Better to nationalise. Can't have defence industry without steel. Can't have steel industry without ending profiteering by energy companies.

Orexin system disruption may be driving Long COVID symptoms and chronic health issues www.thailandmedical.news/news/orexin-...

Cats &dogs are widely treated with flea-killing insecticides that enter rivers, killing wildlife Birds using tainted pet fur in nests have a higher unhatched eggs/dead chicks A flea treatment for a large dog contains enough imidacloprid to kill 25 million bees www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Breaking News! Code Yikes! After losing over 240,000 km² in the last 3 days, I'm calling the Arctic sea-ice extent maximum for this year. This year's maximum extent set a new record low of 13,783,000 km², beating the previous record low maximum set in 2017 by over 95,000 km². Interesting times.

Concerning #H5N1 development - serious concerns for #biosecurity www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Ratcliffe, who has an estimated fortune of about £12bn, quit the UK for tax-free Monaco in 2020. He is now urging ministers to help support the club’s vision of the stadium with public funds to regenerate the surrounding area.

#PlasticWaste and #PlasticPollution We are just starting to glimpse the danger it presents #PublicHealth #OneHealth www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Very worrying to read about toxic sludge being applied to farmland. This sludge contains a variety of chemicals including polyaryl hydrocarbons known for years to be damaging to cardiovascular systems and more recently from eg our lab immune cells. Legal loopholes enabling this should be stopped

Any PEM/PESE can potentially lead to a dramatic deterioration which is permanent There's no treatment for it & every #pwME is constantly doing their best to manage this Until this is understood by every Dr & HCP #pwME are not safe when under their care #ME #MEcfs #LongCovid

1 billion people in mountainous areas under threat as their water supply dwindles owing to the retreat of glaciers www.theguardian.com/environment/...

For centuries cadged birds were used to alert us about poisonous air. Now researchers have found #micro-plastics accumulating in bird lungs across 51 species. My latest piece for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A gobsmacking story. Water companies let toxic waste disposers, for cash, dump their loads into sewage farms. The sewage sludge is then spread, untested, on farmland, potentially poisoning vast areas, entire ecosystems and the people (you and me) eating the food. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Dr Gilbert said he felt "ignored" by the last government and "abandoned" by the current one. "I think most of the world wants to get on with ignoring Covid and forgetting about the pandemic.” #longcovid #me/cfs

We reported on this a few days ago, but I want to point out this headline because this is where we are at. A bill in Arkansas would ban gender affirming HAIRCUTS for transgender youth. HAIRCUTS. This is a straight up North Korea state sanctioned hairstyle proposed law for youth.

Israeli airstrike on UN headquarters in Gaza kills staffer, wounds five others. Imagine if that headline involved any country other than Israel? It would rightly be internationally ostracised as the rogue state it is. Instead, the West supports it in every way possible. www.rte.ie/news/middle-...

The 10 largest contributors to historical CO2 emissions* *fossil emissions only, not including land use. From one of our data insights this week: ourworldindata.org/data-insight...