CaroBar
@carobar.bsky.social
Nature-lover, reader, runner. I find joy in the small things. UK-based.
Wow. Precisely why we should encourage and value research.
SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19)@covid19disease.bsky.social · 4d ago🚨 After 40 years of research, Brazilian scientist Dr. Mariangela Hungria wins the World Food Prize for pioneering a $2 nitrogen-fixing bacteria treatment that replaces costly fertilizers, saves farmers $25 billion annually, and cuts 230 million tons of CO₂ emissions.
Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.
No rain here, but it came within a field or two. Close enough that we could hear the rain laughing, hear the rain handing out crisp new five pound notes, hear the rain praising home decoration choices of the houses it fell upon.
Today experienced the 24th day of year hitting 30C in London. For perspective in whole of 1980s we had 21 days.
The Office: Woman Holding 'HOT' Sign
ALT: The Office: Woman Holding 'HOT' Sign
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Holiday in the climate emergency. No that’s not AI or edited, just a snapshot I just took with my phone on Lacanau beach in France. What future will this boy grow up in? It is in our hands, but time is running out.
A total of 254,388 hectares have been burnt in Europe (in particular in Spain, France and Italy) so far this year, which is roughly the size of Luxembourg. We applaud the courage of the rescue teams on the ground. We need to do more. We need climate action now.
We are delighted to announce that his autumn, we are holding our first ever Words of the Wild Book Festival, featuring a range of events with some of today's top nature writers 📚 The festival will run from Tue 30 Sep – Sat 3 Oct. Find out more on our website 👇 buff.ly/QJaepKE
We can now see the smoke from the Canadian wildfires in the UK. Meanwhile, the rightwing press are pushing for more drilling in the North Sea, and Badenoch is banning Tory candidates who support net zero. Cool cool bsky.app/profile/meto...
Met Office - weather and climate@metoffice.gov.uk · 2w agoHave you noticed an opaqueness to the blue sky this morning? Wildfire smoke from North America is drifting south across the UK, meaning the clear skies may not be as blue as you might expect 🌤️
Been on the apocalypse beat this week. Surveying English and Welsh fire services, we count 250+ significant wildfires in the first two weeks of July, destroying thousands of acres: www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
How a ‘firewave’ gripped Britain with 250 blazes burning
An exceptionally hot, dry summer has turned the country into a ‘tinderbox’ as fire crews tackle dozens of incidents a day
thetimes.com
Various kinds of pollinator I found in action today. Hope you like them. #nature #bees #bumblebees #wildflowers #photography
Rather like this photography I got of a sunlit bumblebee on flowering teasel #nature #bumblebee #wildflowers #photography
Oh no! Who poured all the burning gold into the canal this morning?
This wooden fingerpost is hoping someone will love it enough to take it home and give it a new life. #fingerpostfriday
Morning fog over Morecambe Bay this morning. A foghorn was sounding somewhere. The water was so calm, it was like a mirror. #morecambebay #weather #heatwave #phonepics
Switzerland bolted 5,000 solar panels onto a dam wall 8,000 feet up in the freezing Alps where everyone said solar made no sense, and the plant now makes three times more winter power than any farm down in the valleys share.google/nw0ojKKXnID1...
Switzerland bolted 5,000 solar panels onto a dam wall 8,000 feet up in the freezing Alps where everyone said solar made no sense, and the plant now makes three times more winter power than any farm do...
High in the Swiss Alps, on a concrete dam wall more than 8,000 feet above the sea, someone bolted thousands of solar panels to a place almost no one thought
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A very fresh-looking comma butterfly in my garden. The first one I've seen this year. #butterflies #nature #wildlife
"US spy tech giant Palantir paid an effective tax rate of just 8% on their £25.3m UK profits. Most companies with profits above £250,000 pay 25%. How is a company that’s won £670m in UK public contracts (including a massive £330m NHS deal) able to dodge our tax rules? " via 38 degrees
A huge crater from the Russian attack on #Kyiv. Just compare its size with the people. Thank God it didn't hit the residential buildings close by.
We're looking for volunteers for a citizen science project that's helping to deliver aid in Venezuela 🌍 The Planetary Response Network uses crowd-sourced data to identify damage to buildings, access difficulties, and signs of people in distress by reviewing satellite images.
Appeal for citizen scientists after Venezuela earthquakes - Lancaster University
Scientists from Lancaster University are appealing for volunteers to help a citizen science project helping the delivery of humanitarian aid in the wake of two earthquakes within less than one minute of each other in Venezuela.
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Some good news here that deserves wider recognition. And to be used to remind any climate sceptic who thinks Net Zero costs too much. Clearly, given this heat wave, we need to work on every country getting there! And on the UK pushing thru on it.
Stephen Cox (new books coming Sept and TBA)@stephencoxauthor.bsky.social · last mo.More than half way to Net Zero in UK The key fact is that most people believe it is a long way off and hard. Only 8% believe we're halfway there. www.gov.uk/government/n...
Glad to see this getting more coverage. We urgently need to tighten up the uk laws to protect swifts.Their nesting sites need further protection from those seeking to block or remove them before swifts return to breed. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Migrating swifts loyally return every year to nests in buildings, study finds
Conservationists emphasise importance of protecting nesting sites used by ‘strongly faithful’ red-listed species
theguardian.com
This angers me so much. Look outside. The planet is boiling. People are dying. Nature is struggling. I feel sorry for the people of Sunderland. They deserve better www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sunderland Council rescinds climate emergency declaration
Reform councillor Bill Blackett says polar bears are not extinct and the Maldives has not sunk.
bbc.co.uk
