Alec Luhn
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Environment reporter @NewScientist.com | Kavli, Schmidt & Covering Climate Now winner 🏆 | 2x Emmy nominee | non-beefeater 🚫🐄 | icemushroom.substack.com ✉️
Truly startling - across swathes of England and Wales, dozens weather stations recorded ZERO rainfall in July, for the first time in their history www.newscientist.com/article/2583...
Parts of the UK endure first ever month without any rain | New Scientist
For the first time since records began, there was no rain at all for parts of southern England and Wales in July, in a “truly exceptional” month of heat and sunshine
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BP profits more than double to $5.7bn in three months as Iran war sends oil prices soaring - "While BP banks enormous profits, millions of households are paying the price" #energycrisis #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/business/202...
BP profits more than double as Iran war sends oil prices soaring
Energy company’s $5.73bn quarterly profits come after Shell posted second highest quarterly earnings on record
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Paradoxically, suppressing wildfires has also made European countries more vulnerable to huge blazes like those seen in France and Spain this week. With global warming also amplifying the danger, some experts are calling for a change of strategy
How Europe can make its landscapes more fire-resilient | New Scientist
Paradoxically, suppressing wildfires has also made European countries more vulnerable to huge blazes like those seen in France and Spain this week. With global warming also amplifying the danger, some experts are calling for a change of strategy
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More prescribed burns, more just letting wildfires burn. With brush building up and global warming increasing extreme megafires, Europe has to get more comfortable with fire. open.substack.com/pub/icemushr...
Why the solution to Europe's fires is more fire
The fastest-warming continent, which seems headed for another record wildfire season, needs to do more prescribed burns--and even let some wildfires burn
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SURELY, with wildfires causing the worst damage in Europe since WWII, politicians will take the opportunity to transform our approach to the climate crisis, right?? Report from me, @pennysarchet.bsky.social, @mjflepage.bsky.social and @alecluhn.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5Sn...
Heatwave and Wildfire Crisis: Why 2026 Is So Dangerous
YouTube video by The World, The Universe And Us
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How should Europe respond to more fires? With more fire. Experts in 🇫🇷, 🇪🇸, 🇩🇪 & 🇬🇧 say Europe needs to more intensively manage woodlands, including prescribed burns & letting some wildfires burn 🔥 www.newscientist.com/article/2582...
How Europe can make its landscapes more fire-resilient | New Scientist
Paradoxically, suppressing wildfires has also made European countries more vulnerable to huge blazes like those seen in France and Spain this week. With global warming also amplifying the danger, some...
newscientist.com
Yet another heatwave in the US & Europe shows why we need to install more cooling--just not the kind you're thinking of www.newscientist.com/article/2582...
Is district cooling the solution we need for extreme heat in cities? | New Scientist
Networks of pipes carrying chilled water have proven to be an efficient way to cool hospitals and universities. Now, they are expanding into cities as heatwaves increase in the US and Europe
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That “Mediterranean life” has burned 3,000 square kilometres of Spain and France this summer www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2026...
Britain can’t stop climate change. Scrap net zero and embrace Mediterranean life
We’ve lost the war against global warming so let’s learn to handle hotter weather
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It's a point I've been trying to make for a long time: there is no good way to meet even 10% of current demand for animal products. They trash the living world, whichever way you do it. If you want to reduce your impact, switch to a plant-based diet. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Organic eggs have worse impact on climate than eggs from caged chickens
Adopting organic free-range model in UK could lead to greenhouse emissions equivalent to 2,316,000 tonnes of CO2, study suggests
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A pyrocumulonimbus--i.e. a thunderstorm that forms over a wildfire--has been seen in France for the 1st time as fires get worse in Europe. Unfortunately these storms don't usually result in rain--just wind & lightning 😬 www.newscientist.com/article/2581...
Unprecedented 'fire clouds' are fanning the flames in France | New Scientist
Flame-generated thunderstorms known as pyrocumulonimbus clouds can make wildfires even more intense, and they are expected to become more common in Europe
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The company donated more than $3.6 million to conservative groups between 2020 and 2025, including $1 million to the MAGA Inc. super PAC.
Taylor Farms Spent Big on MAGA and Anti-Regulatory Lobbying Before Diarrhea Outbreak
The company donated more than $3.6 million to conservative groups between 2020 and 2025, including $1 million to the MAGA Inc. super PAC.
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Breaking News from @theathletic.com: Tadej Pogacar won his fifth Tour de France title, tying the all-time men’s record. nyti.ms/4wsiOuS
MeteoÁvila: ⏰16:35h 🔥 Burgohondo wildfire ⚠️ The fire front in La Adrada, Ávila, is also gaining strength.
Never thought this was literally about climate change.
This Is Fine Dog Meme in Burning House
Alt: This Is Fine Dog Meme in Burning House
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News outlets that covered the US-Saudi nuclear deal without mentioning that Jared Kushner, Trump’s top foreign policy advisor, is getting paid by the Saudi government: WSJ NYT AP Reuters CNN NBC ABC CBS The Guardian Semafor Washington Post Fox News New York Post BBC Newsweek MS NOW
A nuclear deal for the Saudis. A media blackout for Kushner’s corruption.
On Wednesday, the Trump administration signed a 30-year nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia that paves the way for the kingdom to enrich its own uranium.
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Astonishing. RFK Jr. adds 8 members to a 6 member FDA advisory panel. 6 of them were sellers of peptides, and the 7th a compounding pharmacist. In an 8-6 vote with all 8 votes coming from these new panel members, the panel approved 4 peptides against the objections of FDA scientists.
FDA Panel Supports Lifting Restrictions on Four Peptides (Gift Article)
In an all-day hearing, the agency’s scientists argued against allowing broad access to unproven drugs that the agency had banned three years ago.
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It's safe to assume that all major LLMs are scraping Bluesky data to train future models. As an open protocol, Bluesky is one of the few sources of fresh human-generated content that anybody can gobble up. So all this is probably going in the models. There are submarines in the Great Lakes.
The super El Niño now developing in the tropical Pacific has a 90 per cent chance of becoming the strongest in 150 years, breaking global temperature records and unleashing extreme weather
This El Niño will be the hottest by a huge margin | New Scientist
The super El Niño now developing in the tropical Pacific has a 90 per cent chance of becoming the strongest in 150 years, breaking global temperature records and unleashing extreme weather
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Not now, millionaires, we're too busy trying to squeeze more money out of developing countries for climate aid! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK millionaires ask Andy Burnham to tax them more
A group including former England footballer Gary Kineker write to the new PM telling him "we can afford it".
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“Burnham has immediately adopted the instinct that has made such a complex hash of the UK tax system — playing with a differential VAT rate on domestic power rather than shifting green levies away from electricity to accelerate electrification” www.ft.com/content/94a7...
Will Burnham go big or go home?
Reasons to be sceptical about the UK’s new prime minister
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Low cloud cover has been expanding since 1979, reflecting more sunlight into space, but scientists expect that trend to reverse and accelerate global warming
Cloudy skies have slowed global warming – but that may be changing | New Scientist
Low cloud cover has been expanding since 1979, reflecting more sunlight into space, but scientists expect that trend to reverse and accelerate global warming
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The 2026 Tour de France has been the hottest ever. Norwegian-method pioneer and Uno-X Mobility coach Olav Aleksander Bu reveals how Nordic athletes have been learning to beat the heat
How elite athletes have started training to compete in extreme heat | New Scientist
The 2026 Tour de France has been the hottest ever. Norwegian-method pioneer and Uno-X Mobility coach Olav Aleksander Bu reveals how Nordic athletes have been learning to beat the heat
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At the request of the Trump admin, a federal judge has stripped protections from a small lizard found only in the Permian Basin, an oil and gas hotspot. w/ @catrineinhorn.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/c...
Dunes Sagebrush Lizard Stripped of Endangered Status by Judge
The dunes sagebrush lizard, found only in the oil-rich Permian Basin, was classified as endangered two years ago.
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Wednesday El Niño update - Sea surface temperature anomalies continue to steadily rise in the key Niño 3.4 monitoring area, which also remain at record high levels for this time of year. Over the last week, there has been a general warming across the central Pacific. Data from NOAA OISSTv2.1. 🌊
Today’s natural gas-dependent world was not inevitable. Big oil and gas have worked hard to create it for over 50 years, deceiving the public about the climate harms of natural gas. Our report exposes this deception for the 1st time. See ⬇️ for a Dirty Dozen of key investigative findings.
The Fraud of “Clean” Natural Gas | Center for Climate Integrity
How Big Oil and Gas Created the Myth that Natural Gas is a Climate Solution
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What a wonderful new idea, appealing to voters with tangible actions instead of convoluted words www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Burnham announces bus fares across England to be capped at £2
Measure to cost more than £500m, with money allocated to allow devolved nations to do the same
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57% of UK voters said they felt the Labour government has not been doing enough to protect nature & climate The same proportion thought Starmer had performed badly on nature www.businessgreen.com/news/4533134...
Poll: Most voters want Andy Burnham to accelerate UK climate and nature action
More in Common polling highlights deep public concern about climate impacts and nature loss, with more than half feeling Labour's efforts to date have not been ambitious enough
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