"None of England’s fire and rescue services are thought to have direct access to firefighting aircraft." It's outrageous. Make the fossil fuel companies pay. www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/country-and-...

Fossil fuel producers should pay for wildfire helicopters, Zack Polanski says

Next week is the anniversary of the start of the Langdale Moor Fire in North Yorkshire, the largest wildfire in the country last year.

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Zack Polanski, "One of my biggest achievements in my one year as leader of the Green party was helping topple an unpopular prime minister" "If we had not won Gorton and Denton, Keir Starmer would not have the leadership crisis that we had, and we wouldn't have had Andy Burnham turn up"

Zack Polanski has challenged Andy Burnham to stick to Labour’s manifesto promise to ban new oil and gas projects 🚨 He spoke alongside a former solider who called climate change the 'greatest threat to human security we face'

Zack Polanski in oil and gas challenge to Andy Burnham amid drought and wildfires

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Zack Polanski delivers ‘reality check’ to Burnham over ‘biggest crisis since WWII’ after summer of extreme heat

Israeli forces used small aircraft to cross the border and spray high concentrations of the herbicide glyphosate over farmland in southern Syria and Lebanon, a new report has revealed. According to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, the spraying halted the growth of several crops

"I'm getting fed up with getting pulled by you guys, so this one will result in a complaint," says the driver with 59 points on his licence. 59 points, and still driving, and he didn't go to prison. The system is broken. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Reducing carbon emissions was a key Social Value criterion - now ditched by Burnham’s Labour in its suicidal pursuit of infinite unsustainable growth. join.greenparty.org.uk

Lucy Fisher@lucyfisher.ft.com · yesterday

EXC: UK govt is “stripping back” onerous public procurement rules in pro-growth shake up of system, Louise Haigh tells FT Overhaul will make job creation/skills development the only ‘social value’ requirement for biz competing for Whitehall contracts worth £90bn annually www.ft.com/content/9878...

Code Black for water shortage in the Delft region of the Netherlands! No use of surface water (canals, lakes) allowed anymore. Water managers fear intrusion of salty seawater, as damage to dikes due to low water levels need to be prevented. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

Vanwege de droogte voor het eerst de sluizen dicht in het waterrijke westen: ‘Het is code zwart, vanaf middernacht is water onttrekken verboden’

Droogte: Vanaf woensdagnacht gaan in het Hoogheemraadschap van Delfland de sluizen dicht en gaat een verbod in om oppervlaktewater te onttrekken. Dat besef lijkt nog niet bij iedereen ingedaald. „Voor...

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“It’s perverse that people who want to walk and cycle are penalised because the motor traffic is too polluting". National Highways closes cycling and walking routes beside heavily polluted roads lauralaker.substack.com/p/national-h...

National Highways closes walking and cycling routes beside heavily polluted roads

Roads body accused of 'perversely penalising' walkers and cyclists for motor traffic pollution

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www.thenational.scot/news/2641894... This is great and all, but the police already ignore it when Nazis turn up with Combat 18 flags and combat 18 has been banned since they went on a bombing spree in Muslim Jewish and Gay areas in London.

Petition launches to make Nazi salutes criminal offence in UK

A PETITION has been launched to make the performance of Nazi salutes a criminal offence in the UK ...

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Gatwick chief executive claims the process "carefully tested and scrutinised every aspect of our expansion plans". <government waves hands, sprinkles technofix fairy dust over massive climate impact, chants "economic growth" three times and closes their eyes to ignore heatwaves, wildfires & floods>

Gatwick airport to open second runway after legal challenge fails

£2.2bn project will allow about 100,000 more flights a year to use Britain’s second busiest airport

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Excellent letter from @greenparty.org.uk @carolinerussell.bsky.social to @london.gov.uk Incl during this years London Trans+ Pride, the Mayor is a vocal supporter of Trans+ Londoners Now it's time to turn those words into action - deliver the protections and leadership Trans+ Londoners deserve

Caroline Russell@carolinerussell.bsky.social · yesterday

I’ve written to the Mayor of London: “I urge you now to work with councils across London to support their efforts to make sure the (EHRC) guidance cannot be used to diminish the everyday rights of 🏳️‍⚧️ trans Londoners and to seek the wider adoption of these approaches across our city.” [1/3]

Labour under Burnham is still committed to ecosystem collapsing unsustainable infinite growth. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Gatwick airport to open second runway after legal challenge fails

£2.2bn project will allow about 100,000 more flights a year to use Britain’s second busiest airport

theguardian.com

Obviously, the non-American world has a digital sovereignty problem - Trump has means, motive and opportunity to order his tech companies to shut down any public official, large corporation, or individual who displeases him: pluralistic.net/2026/06/18/t... 1/

EXCLUSIVE: Outlander star Sam Heughan has hit out at the boom in AI data centre proposals across Scotland saying 'they cannot be allowed 👇🗣️ Read more: www.thenational.scot/news/2...

Hungary's Paks nuclear plant is close to complete shutdown due to low water levels on the Danube The river just hit the lowest level in more than a century, amid an ongoing European drought and heatwave

Why is Britain a tinderbox? Because: 1) The climate crisis, obvs; but also - 2) *6.4 million hectares* of farmland in England & Wales is riddled with field drains - draining water from the land where it could be retaining it. Make Britain Wet Again! ahdb.org.uk/drainage

Our prisons are overcrowded because the system is broken. The answer isn't endless emergency releases. It's investing in prevention, rehabilitation and giving people the support they need to rebuild their lives.

Institutional investors on North Sea drilling: “If what you’re trying to achieve is the trifecta that most governments appear to be looking for ... affordability, energy independence and decarbonization,” then increasing North Sea drilling “doesn’t achieve any of those."

Investors Raise Alarm on Prospect of More UK North Sea Drilling

Institutional investors are raising concerns over the prospect of UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham supporting more oil and gas drilling in the North Sea.

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Low flow on the Danube means Romania is about to close its only nuclear power plant (20% of total energy production). Breathless 24/7 coverage of the historical drought and impending energy crises, not one mention of climate change. In fact pundits are angry Romania recently closed a coal plant.

And @meadwaj.bsky.social has been warning about the impact of global warming on nuclear power plants for so long on @macrodosepod.bsky.social The water needed to cool them down is impacted by hot temps and droughts. So even our solutions are barely outrunning #CimateChange

FRANCE 24@france24.com · 2d ago

Conséquence de la #sécheresse en #Europe : le niveau du #Danube est historiquement bas, empêchant les centrales nucléaires qui en dépendent de fonctionner normalement

Very disappointing from the new Prime Minister, very much sounding like the previous PM. These are among the world’s most vulnerable and desparate people. They need safe routes and humanity from responsible politicians, not grandstanding. This isn’t doing politics differently.

Proud to be a Southwark Green. www.southwark.gov.uk/news/2026/so...

War kills. War makes life unaffordable for the many. But war is great for profits. “Profits accounted for 13.9% of US economic output in the first quarter, the highest share recorded.” JPMorgan CEO Dimon said the environment was “getting close to as good as it gets”.

We knew about the Energy Trilemma over a decade ago. I remember at the time it was estimated that we needed to have addressed it by the second half of the 2020s - and (spoiler alert) we haven’t. www.cnbc.com/2016/10/07/t...

The WEC's energy trilemma: What is it?

CNBC gives you a quick guide to the World Energy Congress' 'energy trilemma'.

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Fun fact: as part of their Water Resources Management Plans, water companies are required to assess the full range of options for securing water supplies, which includes... ...towing *icebergs* up the Thames

Akshat Rathi@akshatrathi.bsky.social · 2d ago

This wasn't on my adaptation bingo card. "Romania used 180kg explosive to blow rock to divert water from drought-hit Danube to nuclear reactor." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

"losing *more* votes to the Greens" is the absolutely key phrase here: Sturgeon does actually get it! The wing currently in the ascendence in the SNP are all absolutely convinced that the end of the BHA saved them, as opposed to SNP polling remaining flat from before collapsing it until this year

The National@scotnational.bsky.social · 2d ago

Nicola Sturgeon has warned John Swinney that the SNP risks losing more votes to the Scottish Greens under the party’s current policy direction 👇

Country is burning, so ofc, Burnham et al push ahead with plans for more data centres

Paris continues to raise the bar for cycling infrastructure. The 1,200-space bike parking at Gare du Nord draws on Dutch expertise to create a seamless connection between cycling and rail travel. With direct access from the cycle network, smart wayfinding and a user-friendly design: buff.ly/uP5S5g5

I simply don't understand this. No one was proposing that the government pay for them. Business rates on car parks cost about £1,000 per car per year. All they had to do was say £500 for solar, £1,500 for no solar and it would have happened all by itself. @miattafahnbulleh.bsky.social

Bylines Network@bylinesnetwork.co.uk · last mo.

As Britain swelters through another heatwave, few people will have heard that ministers have quietly dropped plans for solar carports. Cars cooler in summer. Shelter from the rain in winter. Clean electricity all year round. A missed opportunity? @eastangliabylines.co.uk