Like a lot of people, I've been fairly weirded out by the sight of trees losing their leaves this summer. To me it's one of the eeriest impacts of climate change. And it could be about to get a lot worse - research by Kew Gardens suggests two thirds of London's trees will struggle to survive to 2090

Will heatwaves kill the trees on your London street? Use our map to check

With warnings of 48C temperatures by the end of the century, specialists are sourcing species from Iraq and Azerbaijan to keep the lungs of the capital breathing

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Revealed: just 20 out of of 6,600 Defra staff working on climate adaptation, as UK burns in fifth heatwave of this summer - FOI request by me @andyburnham.bsky.social needs to level with the country about the climate crisis & set out radical plan to tackle it 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Just 20 of 6,600 Defra staff working on climate adaptation amid drought and wildfires

Exclusive: England ‘desperately unprepared’ for effects of crisis including water shortages and heatwaves

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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

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Excited to share short version of Episode 1 of my podcast series - Government refusal to release the full version of the Joint Intelligence Committee Report on ecosystem collapse is unforgivable - how do we prepare for threats when their full extent is hidden from us? www.google.com/search?q=you...

So excited to see this! Over 4 episodes I cover the hugely alarming conclusions of the Joint Intelligence Ctte Report, shamefully suppressed by Government, & explore its implications for our food and water security. @nebriefing.bsky.social @climatemajority.bsky.social @chrisgpackham.bsky.social

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Climate breakdown isn't just an environmental issue - it's fast becoming a national security crisis. Our major new investigative series with Caroline Lucas starts Friday, exclusively for TRIP + members.

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...

Today’s GFS 18Z for 11 July showing max temperatures in England reaching 41°C Not to be taken as a deterministic forecast. However, this suggests that yet more extreme heat is possible in the next few weeks, which is made more likely and intense by climate change driven by burning fossil fuels.

The more we experience fossil fuel volatility, the clearer the case becomes: "The war has certainly accelerated clean tech adoption." This is what I told The Times for their piece on how the energy crisis drives adoption of solar, EVs and heat pumps. www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Britons embrace green technology to dodge rising fuel costs

Households are increasingly turning to heat pumps, EVs and solar panels to avoid big rises in the price of fossil fuels triggered by the Iran war

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WOW: The UAE’s decision to quit OPEC looks like one of the biggest crude producers joining the “peak oil demand” camp. Here’s why: 🧵

Britain could run without fossil fuels for first time since 1882 Story👇 www.thetimes.com/article/01d7...

Britain could run without fossil fuels for first time since 1882

This Easter could mark a milestone for the country’s transformation of the energy system, though the exact moment depends on our mercurial weather

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Hard to know which is more shocking - the dire warnings of the potential collapse of our food system in the UK or the fact that governments have tried to cover it up. Their complacency is off the scale. We urgently need to switch to growing more food domestically & to restore nature now

Britain’s food supply ‘at risk of catastrophic failure by 2030’

A report written before the 2024 election says climate change, habitat loss and geopolitical instability are a danger to food security — and it has been ignored

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Breaking: ministers ignored a report warning that Britain’s food supply is on course to collapse. Climate change, habitat loss and geopolitical instability are undermining food security so much that it could be “at strategic risk of catastrophic failure” by 2030. www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Britain’s food supply ‘at risk of catastrophic failure by 2030’

A report written before the 2024 election says climate change, habitat loss and geopolitical instability are a danger to food security — and it has been ignored

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Joint second in the notoriously difficult @carbonbrief.org quiz! Major bragging rights for our @newscientist.com team with Sam Wong, @alecluhn.com, me, Michael Holder of @businessgreen.bsky.social and @ben-cooke.bsky.social

Carbon Brief@carbonbrief.org · 5mo ago

And the 🏆 winners 🏆 of the #CBQuiz 2026 are.... CEEW (Council on Energy, Environment and Water) from India Congratulations, and thank you all for playing. You can take a look at the full leaderboard below. See you next year!

The story was broken by @bertiehb.bsky.social and @ben-cooke.bsky.social in @thetimes.com, and uncovered UK Foreign Office grants from 2016-2018 to support Xinjiang's regional government in developing carbon capture technologies. 2/7

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Read my latest investigation with @thetimes.com @landclimate.bsky.social & @ben-cooke.bsky.social We found that UK climate aid funds have been spent on tech that boosts Chinese fossil fuel extraction, including in Xinjiang while Uyghurs were facing mass internment www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...

As Norway closes in on its goal of 100% EV sales, I wrote about the lesson it offers for the UK's own shift to electric cars. Spoiler: it's not just "have an enormous oil-based sovereign wealth fund to spend on buying everyone a Tesla." www.thetimes.com/uk/transport...

What we can learn from Norway’s electric car revolution

Easy charging, driver perks and clear politics transformed driving habits in a decade. Following that path may be easier for the UK than many expect

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Hi @richardkbroughton.bsky.social , hope you're well. I'm working on a piece about whether feeding birds does more harm than good. Might we have a chat? All the best.

Back in the Autumn, No.10 blocked the publication of a report into the risks the UK could face if climate change causes ecosystems around the world to collapse. On Tuesday, after an FOI request, it published the report. But it turns out, that wasn't the full version. www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Suppressed climate report warned of mass migration and nuclear war

Unabridged document said disappearing forests and rivers drying up could drive people to Europe and lead to conflict in Asia

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2025 global climate highlights are out: 🌡️ 2025 was 3rd warmest year on record, 1.47ºC above the preindustrial level 📈 2023-2025 is the first three year period above 1.5ºC (according to ERA5) 🌍 The last 11 years have been the warmest 11 years on record See: climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima... ⚒️🧪🌊

Hello environment / climate peeps of Bluesky! I'm just doing some planning for what to write about in 2026. Do drop me a DM if you'd like to chat about anything you'd like to see the Times environment section cover this year.

Happy COP-mas Eve! To celebrate, on 1st day of COP-mas morn, under the tree you may find a sparkly chat with our friend @ben-cooke.bsky.social to set the expectations for the season. Check out wickedproblems.earth and/or your favourite media platform and Inshallah we will be there.

Pick up a copy of today's Times for 12 pages of in-depth coverage of the Cop30 talks, and the wider state of play for climate change and clean energy. It's got some brilliant stuff in it.

The US and China both have ambitions for energy dominance. But they're betting on very different visions of the global energy future. With China pumping out solar panels and batteries, and the US doubling down on gas, only one can be right. www.thetimes.com/world/asia/a...

Trump wants energy dominance — is he just drilling US into a hole?

The president is betting on fossil fuels while his superpower rival China is racing ahead on renewables

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We must be patriotically proud to be British but not to learn about or contribute to any of the culture that pride might be based on

Tim Worthington@outonbluesix.bsky.social · 11mo ago

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"

Excellent must-read by @ben-cooke.bsky.social clearest exposition I have yet seen of how problems with the #grid are holding up the Uk’s energy transition and imperiling Ed miliband’s #renewables ambitions. www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

The grid is struggling — and our green future hangs in the balance

Idle wind farms, a lack of batteries and protests by nimbys are hampering Britain’s clean energy drive. What are our options?

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Every day Britain loses 3 billion litres of water through leaky pipes - a big problem as Britain's summers become more arid. But water companies have some new tech with which to find them, including satellites that can spot leaks from space. www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Can satellites help these leaky pipe hunters end hosepipe bans?

A start-up is helping water companies to pinpoint leaks, saving millions of litres a day as the country faces more severe droughts

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We had the pleasure to welcome @ben-cooke.bsky.social in our CLEW team for 2 months for an IJP fellowship Ben’s stay was a truly enriching experience that showed just how powerful cross-border collaboration and exchange can be Read more about his experience: www.cleanenergywire.org/blog/why-wor...

Will hydrogen be the next LNG? That's the hope of a group of companies who want to ship the fuel from Oman to Amsterdam to power European industry. Tata Steel is onboard, but many analysts believe it's a fool's errand to ship the fuel thousands of miles. www.cleanenergywire.org/news/green-h...

Green hydrogen from Oman could power European industry - but at what cost?

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It is remarkable that the west is committing to spending 5% of GDP on defence, and almost no one has made the case that the most pressing threat to our security this century is climate change and we should be spending more on tackling that.

Electricity is the power source of decarbonisation. But in Germany it's expensive, hindering industries's efforts to go green. As Germany prepares to discount its steelmakers' bills, can it subsidise its way to a green future? Or is steelmaking going to move to places with more abundant renewables?

How Germany’s steel titans are powering ahead in push to go green

Ministers have handed out huge subsidies to give companies a headstart in the race to electrify the industry. Will the same work for Britain?

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