Kuwait says Iran attacked a power and water desalination plant, causing widespread damage to the station. The country relies heavily on desalination for drinking water, so any disruption poses a serious threat.

El Niño is here, and it’s already looking like it could be 'mind-blowing' 'I think we should prepare for some pretty significant impacts,' says climate scientist www.cbc.ca/news/science...

I'm never going to get over the fact that the president of the United States paid a woman more than $5 million after a jury found him liable for raping her. And he's still president. And people still support him. Never. Get. Over. It.

True friendship shown as dolphins guide stranded whale out of WA estuary

Archaeologists have uncovered a well-preserved Byzantine residential city in Egypt’s Dakhla Oasis, offering a rare look at life in the Western Desert during the fourth and fifth centuries CE... More information: archaeologymag.com/2026/07/byza...

Activists damage the building foundations of data centre 🫡 > The group said that they threw water balloons filled with a mixture of hydrogen peroxide, acetic acid, salt, and acrylic paint at the under-construction facility.

The Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, the Arctic island's leading environmental and natural-resource research centre, is halting new collaborations with US partners to protect its data and scientists. www.msn.com/en-ca/news/w...?

“On ne veut pas voir ses animaux mourir” : en France, alerte canicule dans les élevages de volailles

'St Ives Beach' by contemporary Welsh painter Sarah Evans #Womensart

Le Japon adopte une réforme de la succession impériale, les femmes en restent exclues

For generations, dairy farmers have been taking calves from their mothers to get the most milk possible but there is growing evidence that keeping cow and calf together can not only improve animal welfare but provide farm-wide benefits too. My latest in #FarmingScotlandMagazine

I do not want anyone wearing pervert glasses near me or mine.

Resistance is not futile

These years of anti-immigration hysteria we're living through right now are going to look utterly incomprehensible in the coming era of closing schools, ageing populations and massively understaffed public services

Interesting event for your diaries in Sept, if you love stained glass, conservator and PhD student Vivienne Kelly and structural biophysicist Dr Craig Kennedy will be at Dunfermline Abbey to talk about the science and history of stained glass conservation. Details here 👇 rse.org.uk/event/throug...

Your 'moment of doom' for July 16, 2026 ~ Stormy weather. "the areas without irrigation are particularly hard hit, as agriculture there has always relied on normal rainfall in spring and summer, rather than a complete lack of rain." www.swissinfo.ch/eng/climate-...

EXCLUSIVE: The far-right National Rally’s push to privatize French public broadcasters would destroy them, the head of France Télévisions told POLITICO. 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/far-...

Brexit makes us significantly more vulnerable to food shortages at a time when the climate emergency and global instability is reducing harvests. This was known, and warned of, in 2019. Political cowardice and cynicism took us out anyway.

Overfishing Affecting Evolution Of Marine Life Overfishing happens when fish are caught faster than they can be replenished, resulting in an overall depletion of the fish population emagazine.com/overfishing-...

It is 'sort of bizarre' for Israel to have Ireland as the home state for its bonds in the EU, the Governor of the Central Bank said, noting they are not marketed in the country 'at all' jrnl.ie/7103482

Ooh, Bluesky acquired the "AT Protocol" and related trademarks, something I fully expected, since there was the risk mentioned here of someone else being punitive with it. atproto.com/blog/at-prot...

Bessie MacNicol, Under the Apple Tree,1899, Scottish painter, one of the 'Glasgow Girls' group of artists #WomensArt

What would be funny would be if Spain won and Lamine Yamal ran up to Messi with a bucket and was like tables turned

SNAPSHOT | Loke: Harapan unfazed by possible BN-PN pact; call to defer Penang water tariff

“Palantir’s first outside investor was the CIA’s private venture capital arm, In-Q-Tel. The agency was its first customer. Thiel once joked that ‘the CIA is a front for Palantir.’” July 2026…1/

This is a "very serious terrorism charge against a young boy" that is "particularly concerning" to the Muslim community Via @skwawkbox.org

Since the mysterious deaths of a husband and wife in the Medici family, a powerful Italian dynasty that ruled Florence and Tuscany almost uninterruptedly from 1434 to 1737, rumors have swirled about what led to their untimely demise. Now, scientists believe they have an answer.https://cnn.it/44sDXJ5

"UK govt. has officially ratified the Global Ocean Treaty, that can protect almost two thirds of the world’s ocean from industrial fishing and oil drilling" oceanographicmagazine.com/news/the-uk-...

In the face of fascism, we stand strongly together.

These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...

Two Minnesota solar farms seeded native wildflowers under their panels, and 5 years of counting revealed native bees had multiplied twentyfold, then crossed the fence to pollinate the neighbour's soybeans

Ban pervert glasses everywhere www.politico.eu/article/eu-r...

No Dignity at Allenby: Palestinian Babies "Are Suffocating in 95°F Heat" Israeli border inspectors had launched a wildcat strike. Palestinians seeking to cross the only international border crossing suffered the consequences www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026...

For years now I have had a rule when watching TV shows and movies: If there is a sexy naked female corpse lying on a slab and the camera lingers I STOP WATCHING AND TURN IT OFF.

The shamelessness of a political party which is led by a man who just weeks ago called for "pure cold rage" on the streets, shortly before migrants were literally burnt out of their homes, now accusing their opponents of "stochastic terrorism" against them, is quite something

E. Jean Carroll, the writer who won a pair of civil lawsuits alleging sexual abuse and defamation by Trump, received the more than $5.6 million in damages he owed her, according to a court filing. The payment marks a significant victory that Trump has fought hard to prevent since his first term.

Gibraltar celebrates. They voted to remain in the EU. Westminster negotiated with the EU to give the people of Gibraltar freedom of movement. Scotland also voted to remain in the EU. Westminster told us to get back in our box.

Zia Yusuf, and Reform UK, are doing a shameful, but disappointingly predictable, press statement, exploiting the murder of Ann Widdecombe as the party twists on the hook of alleged corruption and wrongdoing.

“I investigated Palantir’s foothold in the British state – and what I found should worry us all” @petergeoghegan.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Not only would this criminalise the use of Gaelic in Scottish elections, it would threaten to jail anyone who uses British Sign Language in a campaign video. At their first whiff of power Reform's priority is to make our democracy less accessible and threaten their political opponents.

Reform donor lost thousands betting on Iran and Starmer Farage ally George Cottrell, previously convicted of fraud in the US, lost more than $1m in crypto gambling on prediction markets, reports Catherine Neilan https://bit.ly/4f6iGJX

Tomorrow's front page: Reform's bid to criminalise all election materials not in English or Welsh - including Gaelic and Scots - is pure ignorance ... in any language.

There's a want about these grifters.

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A good explainer on one of the threats from the climate crisis and how, with the climate, everything really is connected.

Terrifying.

The extreme weather we have now is not the new normal. It’s going to keep getting worse as long as we continue to burn fossil fuels.

Les câbles sous-marins de télécommunication, invisibles et pourtant stratégiques

A new Met Office report: "more extreme weather is becoming the normal now in our climate" Climate change is here. Where is the national conversation about the urgent need for adaptation in the years ahead? Instead what we get is politicians demanding billions more for bombs