Extremely important investigation - I cannot emphasise enough how every single freaking day we are dealing with the consequences of the success of this lie. Gas is basically treated like it's not a fossil fuel, even among some climate / energy advocates. It is so so so bad

Reclaiming the streets: it took a year, but today I drove through the local Oxfordshire town and villages and for the first time didn't see a single flag of intimidation on a lamppost. Last month there were hundreds. Great job by the council. www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2626721...

"My message to the people of the UK is that I'll train the new guy but you're going to have to stick with one of them eventually."

Beachy Head: My first Willow Warblers of autumn, 4+ flitting around in nettles behind Cadence Cafe, Yellow Wagtail over, a few Swift thro east and Sand Martin. Bob had a Whinchat at Birling Gap y'day.

The SMP Annual Report often highlights mammalian predators, such as rats, as a factor in the decline of some seabird species. This is a brilliant example of the difference their removal can make! #Seabirds

Badenoch just said, on national TV, that UK's carbon emissions have gone up "in total" because of the 2008 Climate Change Act. They have, in fact, declined by more than half. Did #Kuenssberg break in to point this basic fact out? Of course not

Seems to have been a big arrival and/or hatch of Painted Ladies and Hummingbird Hawks around the island today - the mint-fresh Painted Ladies are perhaps most likely locally-bred but the four Hummingbird Hawks trapped overnight in the Obs moth-traps suggests some of them might be new migrants

“Paris has embarked on a grand transformation, planting 155k trees, adding hundreds of kms of bike lanes, pedestrianising 300 school streets and banning cars from the banks of the Seine. Parking has been turned into green space…Fewer parents fear their child being run over when they walk to school.”

Big trouble in Little Clacton – The Great Clacton Bin-Off How Count Binface accidentally provided one of the most hilarious political circuses of all time, leaving Nigel Farage looking on in Clacton | Mark Cunliffe

US politicians blaming Canada for the wildfire smoke is deplorable. The USA is the #1 producer of oil and gas on this planet. Fossil fuels companies have lied to us for decades about the energy transition. Their product and lies are the cause global heating. It is harrowing to know what is coming.

"The consequences of climate collapse are increasingly visible and intrusive ... The space for populist, pro-climate politics will only get bigger – and if Andy Burnham doesn’t occupy it, Zack Polanski certainly will."

This generation of politicians will burn this planet to a crisp instead of doing the cheaper and smarter thing of renewable energy.

Some migrants - Bordered Straw (1), Small Mottled Willow (2), Cydia amplana (15, but probably resident) and the best was a Ni Moth - the first since 2022. #teammoth

I am a climate scientist and, same.

really thinking about this tweet as i’ve been struggling to breathe through nausea for the last 5 hours

The US government has declared ideological war on Europe's centrist leaders. But those leaders have either not noticed, or they don't want to acknowledge it. Will they wake up before it's too late?

Kemi declares war on net zero – and what remains of her party | John Crace | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Most UK media reports on June heatwave failed to mention climate crisis

British conservationists on a mission to reintroduce an extinct singing insect to the UK have pulled off an audacious operation at a French military base:

Remember the claim that a “quiet revival” of religion was occurring, especially among young people? It was utter nonsense, as Dr David Voas explains, in conversation with host James Hodgson: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...

I was involved with the PBS Nova version of this, and v excited to see it!

I had a few thoughts on the results of last years Dotterel survey that I was going to make but then realised the one glaring omission, when are Dotterel predicted to be extinct as a breeding bird in Scotland? Below line of best fit through the last four surveys - answer around 2030, in four years!

The BBC cancelling Winterwatch is such a shame, especially when we need to be connecting with nature more than ever. If we want people to protect our wildlife, we have to show them it! Add your name to ask the BBC to reconsider. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/do...

If, like me, you’re not British and you only kinda sorta knew what was going on with Binface, this is both an excellent primer and a surprisingly touching piece about the real person beneath the bin.

🐦🌙 Happy to see this big collaborative paper out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! We address a seemingly simple question using geolocator data collected across many species and individuals: how much of bird migration actually happens at night? www.cell.com/current-biol... A short🧵

What, and what on #FoodSecurity? "Mary Creagh, minister, told MPs a redacted 14-page version, published after repeated freedom of information requests, should provide enough information. Cabinet Office refused to send a minister or official" www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

"By 2030, they could be using enough water to meet the basic needs of all 1.3bn sub-Saharan Africans for a year" www.ft.com/content/7800...

Just imagining a scenario where England won the world cup and Count Binface won the Clacton by election...

YES! It’s the only way. 👏

Glorious

Take Back Power have been replacing UK and England flags with a "Tax the Rich" one, for "solidarity, community and welcome. The Union Jack is being used by groups as a symbol of hate and division. The only minority destroying our country is the super rich" Here in Clacton linktr.ee/takebackpower

This coming week's heatwave seems to have upgraded on modelling - more of a southerly flow being introduced from Wednesday, and this is helping bring the 20ºC 850 hPa isotherm into the UK. Considering the current pre-conditioning and this now being modelled, the week after could be very hot indeed.

Burnham could hoof Palantir out of the NHS if he becomes PM. A good start, but he needs to go further. It’s time to completely break our dependency on US tech firms. With open source tech, we don't have to start again with a new platform when changing vendors. Go big, go for Digital Sovereignty!

Times scoop: Farage failed to declare that a criminal and crypto gambler funded his office in the run-up to the election. Murdoch is coming for him.

DC parade is also cancelled due to extreme heat. +20F above normal today.

Gary Lineker on Gaza, "It's the worst thing I have seen in my lifetime. Constant images day in, day out of children losing their lives." "But the minute you raise your voice against it you get accused of being a supporter of Hamas."

Who said moths are dull and eat clothes? Royal Mail stamps issue, release date 9th July

It's been a record-breaking year for little terns at Long Nanny, Northumberland! A minimum of 126 breeding pairs are nesting at the site this season, far surpassing the previous record of 57 breeding pairs in 1994. They're the UK’s second rarest breeding seabird so this is good news.

No need to seed: restoring former arable land to species‐rich grassland by mowing & natural regeneration over 18 years. Paper published today by myself, with my amazing 86 year old father & farmer Derek Sayer. A visit to the meadow is like stepping back through time. doi.org/10.1111/rec.70487

Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.

Vagrant Yellow-browed Warblers don't come from near edge of range, but from ~2,000km east of the western limits. Suggests mass misorientation in near reverse direction. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #birdingscotland @alexanderlees.bsky.social @scottishbirding.bsky.social @btoscotland.bsky.social

Ocean surface temperatures hit a record high for June. European scientists warn of consequences for weather patterns, the global climate and marine life. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A major new report has shown that large-scale investment in nature recovery could provide a significant boost to the UK economy while helping tackle biodiversity loss, climate change and flooding:

Temperatures are closer to average in many areas this week. But the heat is likely to return soon 🌡️ Read our latest news update to find out more ⤵️ www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

A council meeting to debate scrapping West Norfolk's climate emergency was postponed because the chamber was too hot. Sometimes reality has impeccable timing. Our latest - Henry Durand reports