Homeowners will be encouraged to lease their electric car chargers to neighbours to cope with demand from motorists. Story feat @joelteague.bsky.social, @thecccuk.bsky.social and Louise Marix Evans 👇 www.thetimes.com/uk/transport...

Share your car charger to ease growing demand, say climate advisers

Letting neighbours use a home electric vehicle charger may encourage those without driveways to switch to greener cars as the UK tries to hit ambitious targets

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The UK's record heatwaves have made a chunk of voters more worried about climate change and impatient for help from the government Public First polling for Politico found - 36% now more supportive of renewables - over 40% now more concerned about climate www.politico.eu/article/heat...

The heat waves are Andy Burnham’s problem now

Worried voters want action on air conditioning and more clean power, polling shows.

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100+ travel companies are advertising a Thai resort where an abused elephant killed a British tourist. Tripadvisor, Expedia, Marriott Bonvoy and Booking.com all took down ads for Nong Nooch Pattaya Garden after @ben-cooke.bsky.social contacted them 👇 www.thetimes.com/world/asia/a...

As efforts to alleviate the effects of climate change go, delivering a small jolt of electricity to clouds is among the more outlandish. Yet that’s exactly what British scientists hope to do next year as part of a £57 million programme to cool the planet. www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

This summer's first two heatwaves led to more than 2,700 excess deaths in England and Wales, experts have estimated. Toll likely to go up due to third heatwave in July, @frediotto.bsky.social said this morning. www.thetimes.com/uk/weather/a...

North Wales wildfire: UK on alert as heatwaves blamed for 2,700 deaths

UK wildfire alert as residents near Conwy Mountain in north Wales evacuated. See forecast map of fire risk severity

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A rare extreme marine heatwave has arrived around the UK coast More on what this means in story earlier this week: bsky.app/profile/adam...

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🌡️NOC's MARINE HEATWAVE UPDATE - as of 8 July 26 🌊 🔴 Small pockets of water are now categorised as a category IV MHW, which is highly unusual for UK waters. 🌊SST anomalies have increased across the entire region

🌊Some good news for a Friday. The UK has ratified the high seas treaty (BBNJ to the ocean wonks) Britain a little late to the party. The treaty came into force this year after 60 countries ratified it last year. UK should take ratification total to 92 countries. www.gov.uk/government/n...

World’s ocean to be better protected as UK ratifies landmark treaty

UK ratifies the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Agreement.

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Sizewell B nuclear plant to stay open 20 years longer than planned www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Sizewell B nuclear plant to stay open 20 years longer than planned

The Suffolk power station will continue generating electricity until 2055 under a provisional deal as other sites are being built

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@frediotto.bsky.social: “If you don't want to live in a world that gets hotter and hotter, then there is just no other way than getting to net zero. It's not an ideological question." Story in Times T2, pick up a copy in print today. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

I had my first story in The Times features supplement T2 today. It's an interview with Friederike Otto, professor of climate science at Imperial College London. She talks heatwaves, the causes, Wo...

I had my first story in The Times features supplement T2 today. It's an interview with Friederike Otto, professor of climate science at Imperial College London. She talks heatwaves, the causes, World ...

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Britain is facing a very rare “extreme” marine heatwave that scientists warn could be the country’s worst on record. They said the exceptional sea temperatures could result in mass die-offs of fish and be contributing to the warm nights on land. Story: www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Anyone finding their fruit trees are ripening much earlier than usual, because of the ongoing hot and sunny weather? I'd like to hear your UK examples, please, for a The Times story later this week. Drop me a message here or email me (adam.vaughan@thetimes.co.uk).

NEW and EXCLUSIVE: One of the UK's most powerful supercomputers, called Dawn, spent a week offline after the late June heatwave. Uni of Cambridge says full cooling capacity for Dawn and other affected services has now been restored... My first for @thetimes.com: www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...

AI supercomputer shuts down in heatwave and cancer work is on hold

University of Cambridge says access to Dawn will be restored after technical problems during last month’s record-breaking temperatures

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Some Tuesday joy. Great video of beaver kits recently born at @healrewilding.org.uk in Somerset www.youtube.com/watch?v=twef...

1, 2, 3, 4, 5 beaver kits

YouTube video by Heal Rewilding

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Thames Water has significantly slowed the rate at which it reports pollution incidents to the authorities, figures released under transparency laws reveal. One campaigner accused the company of showing “contempt for the public”. Story 👇 www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

This is very effective Listen to Britain’s dawn chorus of 1976: the dramatic loss of birdsong in 50 years www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Listen to Britain’s dawn chorus of 1976: the dramatic loss of birdsong in 50 years

Guardian recreates audio landscape of past filled by loud morning symphony before 73m wild birds were lost

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The UK public's concern about climate change and support for renewable energy remain high, a long-running attitude tracker finds. Latest polling undertaken in March and April. www.gov.uk/government/s...

The UK government has gutted a £90m fund to save the Congo Basin, the world’s second-largest rainforest. Boris Johnson first announced the support at the #COP26 climate summit in Glasgow. Story here 👇 www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Ministers cut £90m fund earmarked to save crucial African rainforest

The collapse of the Congo Basin rainforest could lead to a rise in extremism and disruption to critical supply chains, according to a government report

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🌊 Ocean alert ⏰ The global average sea surface temperature hit a record high for June, of 21C. Meanwhile, parts of UK seas are 5C warmer than average for this time of year. climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-m...

NEW Britain will make supermarkets stamp out ingredients in chocolate, shampoo and other products linked to the destruction of the world’s rainforests. Story 👇 www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Supermarkets to ban ingredients linked to rainforest destruction

Regulations will target commodities such as palm oil and cocoa in everyday goods to clean up corporate supply chains and show Britain is ‘leading by example’

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Think this week is hot in the UK? In 30 years' time this could look mild, according to a new @metoffice.gov.uk forecast of a 1976-style heatwave in 2056. The forecast suggested a peak of 45C and nine consecutive days at more than 40C. Story soon.

Battery boom! 🔋UK household battery installations nearly double during Iran war 🔋Grid scale battery capacity has overtaken nuclear Story 👇 www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Plug-in solar panels costing only hundreds of pounds are poised to go on sale within months after a review found they were safe to use in the UK. Story 👇 www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Plug-in solar panels on sale ‘within months’ after safety nod

Costing hundreds of pounds rather than thousands, the panels could help consumers offset the rise in energy bills when the price cap increases next month

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Any decision to lower the UK’s electric vehicle sales targets will give Chinese car manufacturers an edge and cost billions of pounds in investment, the government has been warned. Story 👇 www.thetimes.com/uk/transport...

Relaxing electric vehicle target ‘will only aid Chinese firms’

Plans to water down the zero-emission vehicle mandate will cost billions of investment in British industry, a report has warned

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A water company has pledged to restore Windermere to its natural levels of cleanliness through a seven-year mega-project that will divert pollution away from England’s largest lake Story feat @savewindermere.bsky.social 👇 www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Windermere ‘super-sewer’ plan to clean up England’s largest lake

A mega-project modelled on the Thames Tideway would aim to restore the health of the freshwater body after years of polluting sewage spills by United Utilities

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A marine heatwave around the British Isles could have contributed to the UK's record 35.1C heatwave on land last month, according to scientists. Story feat @oceanterra.org & @noc.ac.uk 👇 www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Cattle vaccination should replace badger culls to end bovine TB, expert panel recommends www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Vaccination ‘should replace badger culls’ to end bovine TB

Experts have drawn up a 12-year plan to eradicate the disease and stop the slaughter of tens of thousands of cows a year

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NEW Officials have admitted Britain’s data centre boom could draw 40 per cent more electricity than thought a few months ago, a surge that could push up energy bills. Story 👇 www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Data centre boom may need 40% more energy than previously thought

The increased demand, driven by the rise of artificial intelligence, could push up household bills, campaigners say

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Almost four times as many areas of England are suffering from illegal levels of air pollution than official government figures suggest, according to local data. @asthmaandlung.org.uk & @healthyairuk.bsky.social accuse the govt of downplaying the scale of pollution. www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

The UK government has laid legislation to adopt a target of an 87% cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2040. Energy secretary Ed Miliband says the Iran war has made the case for the goal "stronger than ever". questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-stat...

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...