UK supermarkets to pull disposable barbecues due to wildfire risk. Tesco and Sainsbury's are among the supermarkets pulling single-use grills off their shelves after significant wildfires grip parts of the UK. www.aol.co.uk/articles/tes... #wildfires #disposable

Tesco and Sainsbury’s among supermarkets to pull disposable BBQs from shelves amid wildfire risk - AOL

Supermarkets suspending sales are understood to have acted in line with voluntary guidance from the National Fire Chiefs Council amid warnings of a heightened risk of wildfires

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Britain has run out of air conditioning units After four consecutive heatwaves, warehouses are empty and some portable coolers won't be available until April 2027. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

UK supermarkets to pull disposable barbecues due to wildfire risk. Tesco and Sainsbury's are among the supermarkets pulling single-use grills off their shelves after significant wildfires grip parts of the UK. www.aol.co.uk/articles/tes... #wildfires #disposable

Tesco and Sainsbury’s among supermarkets to pull disposable BBQs from shelves amid wildfire risk - AOL

Supermarkets suspending sales are understood to have acted in line with voluntary guidance from the National Fire Chiefs Council amid warnings of a heightened risk of wildfires

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Record EV uptake in leasing and sales due to petrol prices Used electric car leasing has risen by 170% in the UK over the last year due to surging petrol prices from the Iran War, figures from the British Vehicle Rental and Leasing Association (BVRLA) shows. www.aol.co.uk/articles/sec...

Secondhand EV leasing hits the fast lane as more UK drivers explore ways to cut motoring costs - AOL

Numbers using finance rises 170% in a year as leasing firms boom alongside leapin secondhand vehicle supply and surging fuel prices

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Solar is booming where Europe least expected Solar is reaching places once thought too dark or cold, from projects near the Arctic Circle to across northern Scotland and the Faroe Islands, one of the world’s cloudiest places, which now has 60 solar installations. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Solar’s Boom in Europe Is Reaching Places Once Deemed Too Dark

For decades, Europe’s renewable energy map looked straightforward: solar was mostly used in the sunny south, while the north relied on wind. But plunging equipment costs and higher electricity prices ...

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Brits want to dodge extreme heat and take 'coolcations'. Traditional holiday destinations like France, Italy and Greece have become too hot, say three in four people surveyed by InsureandGo. inews.co.uk/news/french-...

How French wildfires could speed up 'coolcation' getaways for Britons

Data reveals 237 per cent increase in searches for cooler destinations in summer

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"This is the climate signal picking up, and it will drive food price inflation." England has had three of its five worst harvests on record, all since 2020. Heatwaves driven by climate change are putting crops, fruit, veg and livestock under strain. @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social on Times Radio.

Current infrastructure for alerting people to wildfire risk is inadequate, according to @emmahowardboyd.bsky.social from the National Heat Risk Commission. Government should adopt Met Office-style alerts for wildfire risk she says, as we face the prospect of increased fire activity.

Ferrari already meets Luce EV sales target The Italian carmaker hit its 2026 target of just under 500 units within two months of launch, driven by strong demand from China and positive feedback from US tech entrepreneurs. www.ft.com/content/11ac...

Ferrari hits 2026 sales target for polarising Luce EV within two months

Italian carmaker reports strong demand from China for electric model derided for its unconventional design

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Hedgehogs are getting heatstroke 🦔 RSPCA wildlife centres are "fit to bursting", with hedgehog admissions up 56% in June. As the UK's fourth heatwave continues, they're urging people to leave out water and create shade for wildlife. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/07...

Hedgehogs taken to animal hospitals with heatstroke

Rescue centres ‘fit to bursting’ as they see surge in wildlife distressed by the hot weather

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Scotland's data centre boom is facing growing backlash Communities fear huge AI data centres will strain electricity and water supplies, damage rural landscapes, and deliver few local jobs. www.ft.com/content/90bf...

Scottish data centre boom spurs backlash

Communities fear they will squeeze access to electricity and water, spoil rural areas and boost tech giant profits with limited local job creation

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A UK zoo has saved a snail species from extinction Madeiran land snails were down to just 21 survivors on a remote Atlantic island. Conservationists bred 300 from the last of their kind and returned them to the wild. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Chester Zoo staff rescue near-extinct snails from remote rock

Just 21 Madeiran land snails were found clinging to a rock on Portugal's Bugio Island, say conservationists.

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"Climate change is real and the Right needs to get serious about it" Dismissing a crisis destroying farming, rural tradition and everything conservatives claim to love, the Online Right has got climate change badly wrong, argues Telegraph columnist Tim Stanley. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/07...

Britain's best-loved birder, Bill Oddie, has died aged 85 The comedian and conservationist came to fame with The Goodies before dedicating his life to wildlife, presenting BBC Springwatch and Autumnwatch, and spending decades campaigning for the environment. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Bill Oddie: The Goodies and Springwatch star dies at 85

His agent pays tribute to the "multi-talented" broadcaster, comedian and conservationist.

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Drought has been declared in parts of Wales in what could be its driest July in 200 years. North Wales and the Upper Severn were officially in drought as of yesterday, with the regions receiving only two percent of their average July rainfall so far this month. www.dailymail.com/news/article...

Drought is officially declared in North Wales

The area has enjoyed less than 2 per cent of the rainfall expected for July so far, leaving river flows at a perilously low level and swathes of land completely dried out.

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Japan has recorded its first official "cruelly hot day." "Kokushobi" was chosen by 400,000 public votes in February, beating rivals including "sweaty day" and "sauna day," for any day above 40C. Three cities hit the threshold on Tuesday. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Japan temperatures soar over 40C, marking first 'cruelly hot day'

The term was introduced in April by the weather agency to describe days when temperatures reach 40C.

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Two Scottish trees that survived lightning strikes are shortlisted for Tree of the Year A 500-year-old oak in Dumfries and Galloway once hid an outlaw from government troops. An ash tree in Balloch has survived a hurricane, multiple storms and ash dieback disease. news.stv.tv/west-central...

Oak and ash in Scotland that survived lightning strikes shortlisted for Tree of the Year

An Earlstoun Lightning Oak in Dumfries and Galloway and an ash tree which in Balloch have made the shortlist

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What looked like a pause in Arctic sea ice loss was just a temporary slowdown The area covered by Arctic sea ice shrank by 5.8% between 2024 and 2025, the biggest single-year drop in the satellite record since 1978. news.sky.com/story/why-la...

Why last two years are worrying for future of Arctic

It saw the largest year-to-year wintertime drop in levels of Arctic sea ice since at least 1978 – a sign of significant global warming.

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Soon, you may be paid to use electricity As renewable energy surges, supply will increasingly outstrip demand on sunny, windy days. Smart meters could offer negative prices, incentivising households to run appliances and charge cars when energy is abundant. theconversation.com/soon-there-w...

Soon, there will be so much electricity you might be paid to use it

Encouraging people to use electricity when it’s clean and cheap may be better than temporarily disconnecting solar and wind farms.

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Doctors share the effects of air con on your body It keeps you cool and can protect against heat-related illness, but it can also dry out your skin, eyes and throat, and worsen respiratory conditions. GPs share how to reduce the impact. www.independent.co.uk/life-style/h...

Doctors share what air conditioning does to your body and health

Air conditioning offers lots of benefits, but there are some notable drawbacks

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A Belfast researcher 3D-printed a £74 battery that costs £3,000 to buy commercially Using iron instead of rare vanadium, the design is being shared for free with labs around the world to accelerate flow battery technology in order to store renewable energy at scale. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Renewable energy: QUB flow battery breakthrough

A 3D-printed battery designed at Queen's University Belfast could speed up energy storage research.

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Owners of electric vehicles will benefit from smaller rises in their road tax bill than petrol and diesel drivers, with the government's new EV duty uprated by CPI compared with the older system's use of the often faster-rising RPI measure. telegraph.co.uk/money/bills/....

Salt batteries are coming to Europe Salt is the new lithium. The world's largest battery maker, CATL, has signed a deal to supply 5GWh of its sodium-based energy storage system to the Netherlands and other western European countries from 2027. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

CATL Signs Deal to Deploy Sodium Battery Storage to Europe

Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd. has signed a deal to supply its recently launched sodium-based energy storage systems to Europe, part of a dual-track strategy to advance both lithium and sodi...

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Hot nights are costing people nearly a week's sleep a year The average person lost nearly 56 hours of sleep a year due to rising night-time temperatures driven by climate change. Sleep loss linked to heat has at least doubled since the early 1970s. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Climate Change Literally Keeps People Up at Night, Study Says

Climate change is contributing to higher nighttime temperatures that are causing people to lose an average of almost 56 hours of sleep a year and threatening health, according to a new study.

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"Now is not a time to walk away from the international negotiating table. Now is the time to double down." The clean energy transition is creating British jobs and attracting global investment, nations are asking how to follow suit, argues Rachel Kyte, the UK's Special Representative for Climate.

"What we used to think of as extreme, we increasingly consider as normal." 2025 was the UK's warmest year on record, the sixth time this century, The last four years all in the top five warmest on record. Mike Kendon, lead author of the State of the UK Climate report, speaks on the Today programme.

JLR launches Europe-wide charging network. With over one million chargers, the network comes before the launch of the first electric Range Rover later this year and an all-electric Jaguar lineup in 2027, after the company axed its only pure EV in late 2024. www.fleetnews.co.uk/news/jlr-int...

JLR introduces Europe-wide charging service

JLR has expanded its electric vehicle charging service to include more than one million points across Europe.

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A tragic example of how heatwaves are taking lives today. Prof Emily Shuckburgh, director of @CambridgeZero and chief scientific advisor at @DESNZ_stats, reveals on @BBCr4today how her own father was the victim of a 36ºC heatwave last month.

Balcony solar will be available in UK shops by the end of Summer, sources say. The devices, which can shave £100 off energy bills, allow householders to have solar panels without professional installation – including in places traditional panels would not fit like balconies. t.co/5Blr9BpCre

Eurostar is buying trains built for 55C summers The company upgraded its £1.7bn order after this year's heatwaves, the original spec only covered 45C. With trains expected to run until the 2060s, the Met Office projects UK temperatures could reach 45C by 2056. www.ft.com/content/b9ed...