'Breakthrough' pin-prick blood test at home could help more people spot Alzheimer's, say scientists ✍️ Mickey Carroll news.sky.com/story/breakt...

Snow in London (and it’s daytime). How rare nowadays

Why UK is in 'extraordinary times' over its climate news.sky.com/story/2025-o...

The UK is getting sunnier - and scientists aren't sure why In keeping with that trend, 2025 was the country's sunniest on record Driving a bumper year for solar power news.sky.com/story/2025-i...

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ICYM Govt reaction to a report on illegal dumping of waste was condemned as "complacent" and "deeply disappointing" by an environmental group of Lords yesterday: "It will give succour to the organised criminal gangs who are profiteering from waste crime and inflicting misery”

NEW 'Illegal, industrial-scale waste operation' suspected in London Have you been affected by possible waste crime? Get in touch news.sky.com/story/hundre...

NEW Indigenous people have defined the image and sound of the climate talks in Brazil - and today was no different COP30: Climate protest in Brazil's city of Belem aims to hold governments' feet to the fire news.sky.com/story/cop30-...

ICYM COP30 Climate summit starts with Trump-shaped hole and praise for China news.sky.com/story/cop30-...

NEW A lot of anxiety in politics about whether Brits have gone cold on going green. Our analysis finds people are still concerned about and believe in climate change, and are buying climate tech - but not always for climate reasons... news.sky.com/story/brits-...

Here we go again… the annual UN COP climate summit, on the edge of the Brazilian Amazon this year. It will hold a mirror up to how we’re doing on curbing by climate change. The reflection won’t be very pretty #cop30

"Spain is favoured by BYD because of its relatively low manufacturing costs and clean energy network." www.reuters.com/world/china/...

UK energy efficiency sector in crisis: New NAO report finds a staggering 98% failure rate for external wall insulation installed since 2022 under ECO scheme. It's a tragedy for the households suffering from poor installs and a massive setback for public confidence in the insulation industry. 🧵

Thousands of homes now need repairs after insulation fitted under government scheme More than 30,000 homes face damp or mould due to ill-fitted insulation, with a handful facing immediate risks like fires, a government watchdog warned. @seabrookclimate.bsky.social buff.ly/HvgyIB0

Year's worth of British bread lost this decade as extreme weather bites New analysis suggests that wheat production is down by the equivalent of over a year’s supply of bread for the UK, after extreme weather hits harvests. eciu.net/media/press...

NEW For the first time in history, renewable energy has produced more of the world's electricity than coal, finds new @ember-energy.org analysis Renewables outstripped coal in China & India in H1 2025, but reverse was true in US & Europe ✍️ @t0mclark3.bsky.social news.sky.com/story/renewa...

NEW: GLOBAL RENEWABLES OVERTAKES COAL How the heck did that happen so quickly?!...🧵

Business and energy groups alarmed by Kemi Badenoch plan to scrap the Climate Change Act It's the UK's landmark climate law that caps pollution, but which she blames for pushing up energy bills and delaying developments news.sky.com/story/busine...

Labour pledges permanent ban on fracking

NEW China has made a landmark climate pledge... that is 'critically short' of what some analysts say is needed. But it may well be better than it seems... news.sky.com/story/china-...

Super typhoon in China forces nearly 2m people to evacuate their homes, with flights cancelled and schools and businesses shuttered news.sky.com/story/china-...

Proposals to flush your loo with rainwater to battle England's drought - and unblock new homes

Bill payers to back 'super-battery' projects Long-duration energy storage (LDES) is hoped to address the problem of intermittent supply from wind & solar, which often produce excess power that can't be used at the time nor stored for later ✍️@pkelso.bsky.social news.sky.com/story/energy...

37% of FTSE100 chief execs went to private school 62% senior judges, 52% House of Lords (95% hereditary peers, half of whom went to Eton) 50% newspaper columnists 45% podcasters 47% political commentators About 6% of UK is privately educated www.thetimes.com/uk/education...

Now that GB Energy is set up in law, has a permanent CEO and Board and has started funding it's first projects, the government have today set out it's priorities for the years ahead. Aiming for it to be financially self-sufficient from 2030 (with any profits reinvested), 3 key areas to... 1/2

NEW stats on drought in England from EA: - More areas likely to declare drought in next few weeks - Reservoirs fell further last week. Now 56.1% full on average v 82.8% average for time of year - Lowest are Pennines group @29%, Yorkshire stocks 30.3% - Some Atlantic salmon streams have dried up

US & UK firms announce new nuclear energy deals ahead of Trump visit He's expected to sign an agreement with UK to speed up building process and generate thousands of jobs Industry says notoriously slow and ££ nuclear is now finally getting quicker and cheaper news.sky.com/story/uk-and...

This is pretty funny from Miliband. "I'll give you the energy and climate brief when you pry it from my cold, dead hands".

First came global warming, now there's talk of 'global weirding' because of just how strange our weather is becoming. Good chance of wetter and windier autumn in UK, but it may not clear the drought; in fact we could see drought and flooding in same place. Weird. news.sky.com/story/uk-wea...

If Badenoch is ousted and Jenrick succeeds her, Tories will move closer to Reform. But if Cleverly became Tory leader, it's likely he will reinstate net zero policies, creating more distance with Reform unherd.com/newsroom/tor...

"Ms Badenoch is right that the North Sea will be the cornerstone of UK's energy future, but what happens above the surface will be more consequential than what lies beneath "Wind power is already the engine room of the grid, providing 30% of UK's electricity last year" news.sky.com/story/drill-...

ICYM Brazil implores businesses to attend COP30 climate talks, despite 'second thoughts' amid Trump backlash Wording is v. diplomatic, but reading between the lines... There's clearly a worry about biz ditching climate initiatives, banking alliances and COP itself news.sky.com/story/brazil...

NEW Calls to charge SUV drivers more for parking amid anger at 'carspreading' "only fair that those vehicles that do more damage pay a fair share of the cost that society has to pick up" @cleancitiescampaign.org news.sky.com/story/calls-...

NEW Fresh probe intensifies scrutiny of Drax, which is subsidised by bill payers to burn wood to create electricity - an energy source deemed "important" but whose environmental benefits are disputed news.sky.com/story/energy...

Great chart from the FT showing the French nuclear fleet is now routinely flexing down, to accommodate rising solar generation (People often talk about how some reactors CAN flex; but it's often assumed that they WON'T, due to economic incentives)

'Shocked and amazed': remains of British researcher found scattered in a glacier, 60 years after he died and was almost rescued news.sky.com/story/shocke...

Question for energy/climate/science sky: What's the most controversial thing in science right now? Geoengineering? De-extinction? "Why can't we just adapt"? Something AI? Something else?

Mystery of what killed billions of starfish solved, say scientists

The lab investigating deaths we're all complicit in As UN plastics treaty talks begin in Geneva, after the last round collapsed by @t0mclark3.bsky.social news.sky.com/story/a-real...

England & Wales' main way of tracking the health of rivers is painting an "unduly pessimistic picture", says a review for the UK govt It suggests moving to a "surface water biodiversity audit" where the diversity of species is the main marker of health sciencesearch.defra.gov.uk/ProjectDetai...

Nature is pretty cool

Local campaign group sends leaflets touting green benefits of a third runway at Heathrow. Omits the fact it is funded by the airport Great story by colleague Sarah Taaffe Maguire news.sky.com/story/heathr...

NEW World court issues landmark ruling in biggest ever climate court case ICJ judges in the Hague say failing to protect the planet from climate change may breach international law, a decision that could open up routes for reparations and new types of lawsuits news.sky.com/story/a-new-...

The government argues the cash will boost British industry and jobs in a fast-growing market, and benefit the climate. Campaigners fear sustainable aviation fuels will fail to deliver. news.sky.com/story/could-...

The lawyer of a high-profile Gazan doctor, Hussam Abu Safiya, detained by Israel since last December, has spoken of her shock over his condition after being allowed a rare visit to see him in jail. news.sky.com/story/gazan-...

This can't come soon enough. I travelled to Geneva by train in March, and it was fine, but getting rid of the change in Paris would be a game changer news.sky.com/story/headin...

Latest heatwave thought to have killed 263 people in London Stark new excess death figures from @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social and @lshtm.bsky.social news.sky.com/story/heatwa...

Brand new story from @seabrookclimate.bsky.social and me: Heatwave likely killed 263 people in London, study estimates news.sky.com/story/heatwa...

After a heatwave we usually get excess death figures... but already people who died during Europe's now being identified A construction worker in Italy, a street sweeper in Barcelona. Those physically or socially vulnerable most at risk There will likely be 100s more news.sky.com/story/silent...

Truly frightening www.theguardian.com/environment/...