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Devastating European wildfires in maps - and how they're being tackled

A blaze near Bordeaux has torn through more than 162 sq miles (420 sq km) in less than four days, while the Madrid region is seeing its worst fires ever.

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📣 Registration now open for 6th National #Climate Impact, Risk and #Adaptation Meeting 🌡️🥵🌳🔥🌧️🧑‍🌾🌽🏠🥔🛰️💻 🔗 Registration form: tinyurl.com/j5hxnt5p 📅 Deadline: midnight 31st August 2026 🫰 Cost: free to attend! More info: climate.leeds.ac.uk/events/6th-n... @rmets.org @universityofleeds.bsky.social

6th National Climate Impact, Risk and Adaptation Meeting - Priestley Centre for Climate Futures

The 6th National Climate Impact, Risk and Adaptation Meeting is taking place on 8 - 9 September 2026. The two-day meeting is free to attend and will feature a variety of oral and poster presentations,...

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Interesting article! De-pave your garden for cooler surface and air temperatures 🧱🌡️🥵 ➡️ 🌳🌱😎 @leedscitycouncil.bsky.social has some great garden design guidance: www.leeds.gov.uk/planning/pla...

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There’s a growing trend to pave over front gardens.

🌡️ An intense June 2026 heatwave brought new June &, in some cases, all‑time temperature records in parts of Europe. Discover how Thermal Trace from #CopernicusClimate puts such events into context with 80+ years of global heat & cold stress data. 🔗 thermaltrace.climate.copernicus.eu/

Smoke from Canadian #wildfires affecting Great Lakes/NE US in recent days predicted to continue out to the N Atlantic in the #CopernicusAtmosphere aerosol optical depth forecast from 16 July 00z atmosphere.copernicus.eu/charts/packa... @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @ecmwf.int

Wildfires have exploded in northern Minnesota and Ontario in the last 24 hours, producing thick smoke plumes and even some pyrocumulonimbus clouds. The smoke has drifted across eastern Canada and the northeastern U.S., creating hazy skies over those regions today.

🛰️ Copernicus captures the Fontainebleau Forest wildfire, France, 13 July. 800 ha burnt, as hundreds of firefighters and water-bombing aircraft work to contain it. Climate change is expanding the fire season. 📍https://climate-adapt.eea.europa.eu/en/metadata/indicators/high-fire-danger-days

Last night's data from the Manchester Air Quality Supersite. We had some serious influence from the fires. (1/2) whitworth.cas.manchester.ac.uk/live/firs/ae...

Update on the fires at Manchester. Some people (like me) might be wondering why the smell has been coming and going, but all the while the sky has been persistently hazy. Our instruments see this as well, here showing PM coming and going. (1/2) whitworth.cas.manchester.ac.uk/live/firs/ae...

“UK in ‘firewave’ as extreme heat provides ideal conditions for wildfires, experts warn” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

UK in ‘firewave’ as extreme heat provides ideal conditions for wildfires, experts warn

National Fire Chiefs Council say emergency services dealing with 19 wildfires across Britain, many near urban areas

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'Exceptional' wildfire risk for parts of UK as heatwave health alerts issued

The warnings come as parts of the UK are set to enter their second week of temperatures above the heatwave threshold.

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Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) global aerosol optical depth (AOD) forecasts since 1 July highlight intense Saharan dust and wildfire smoke being transported in both directions over the North Atlantic Ocean. @ecmwf.int ⬇️

Yesterday marked 70 years since the UK Clean Air Act 1956 - the first national legislation to tackle air pollution, introduced in response to the devastating Great Smog of London in 1952. The graphic below is courtesy of airqualitystripes.info. 🧵 1/5

📣 New paper out! We compared research on local #climate impacts of tropical forests with priorities of environmental NGOs 🌳 The good news: strong alignment on 🌧️ and 🌡️ The challenge: NGOs need more evidence on #biodiversity, #health, #livelihoods and #agriculture 🦋🏥👩‍🌾🌽 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/pan3...

New research shows that tropical forests cool local temperatures and boost rainfall. However, for these findings to drive real-world change locally tailored data is essential, say NGOs from across the tropics. Explore our latest research below. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The impact of tropical forests on local climate: Comparing recent research with conservation practitioner information priorities

Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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Our heatwaves will get hotter and hotter and hotter until we get to global net zero greenhouse gas emissions and so stabilise the climate. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Portugal #wildfires & predicted surface #airquality impacts with enhanced ground-level PM2.5 concentrations for the Iberian Peninsula in the #CopernicusAtmosphere global 5-day forecast from 4 July @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @ecmwf.int

NGOs need more context-specific information from research -- often mismatch between the spatial scale of available evidence and practitioners' operating scale besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1... @domspracklen.bsky.social @drcarlyreddington.bsky.social @envleeds.bsky.social

The impact of tropical forests on local climate: Comparing recent research with conservation practitioner information priorities

Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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As we have experienced this week, extreme temperatures are no longer a future threat. They are a present danger. Today, I’m launching London’s first ever heat plan: a city-wide plan to adapt our capital, protect communities, and build a climate-resilient city.

⚠️⚠️🔴 Red weather warning issued 🔴⚠️⚠️ Extreme heat across parts of central/southern England and Wales Wednesday 0900 - Thursday 2100 Latest info 👉 bit.ly/WxWarning Stay #WeatherAware ⚠️

Excited to be at the #CSSP-Brazil Annual Science Workshop at #INPE-CPTEC and #CEMADEN -> discussing research on #climate, #wildfires, #drought, #rainfall, #carbon, land-use change and more! 🔥🌳🌡️🌧️ 🔗 www.gov.br/inpe/pt-br/a... @metoffice.gov.uk @universityofleeds.bsky.social

📣 Abstract submission deadline extension for the 6th National #Climate Impact, Risk & #Adaptation Meeting 🌡️🥵🌳🔥🌧️🧑‍🌾🌽🏠🥔🛰️💻 🔗Abstract submission: tinyurl.com/5n7wp22u 📅 Deadline is now midnight, 29th June 2026 More info: climate.leeds.ac.uk/events/6th-n... #CallForAbstracts #ClimateImpacts #ClimateRisk

📣 #CallForAbstracts for the **6th National #Climate Impact, Risk & #Adaptation Meeting** 🌡️🥵🌳🔥🌧️🧑‍🌾🌽🏠🥔🛰️💻 🔗Abstract submission: tinyurl.com/5n7wp22u 📅 Deadline is midnight, 14th June 2026 More info: climate.leeds.ac.uk/events/6th-n...

📣 New Research Fellow post in Modelled Forest-Climate Interactions with the fabulous @jesstreebaker.bsky.social ➡️ exploring how #tropical #forests can contribute to #ClimateChange #adaptation 🌳🌡️💻 🔗https://jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=ENVEE1876 @envleeds.bsky.social @earthandenvleeds.bsky.social

Really dirty looking plume of black smoke near M60 north of #Manchester. Tyre #fire? 🔥😷

To keep track of the rapidly growing field of attribution research, Carbon Brief has mapped every published study on how climate change has influenced extreme weather. Explore the interactive map here ⬇️ interactive.carbonbrief.org/attribution-...

📣 The *National #Climate Impact, Risk & #Adaptation Meeting* is coming to Leeds! ➡️ Bringing together #ClimateScience, #ClimateImpacts, #ClimateRisk & resilience communities across disciplines and sectors. 📅 8–9 Sept 2026 📍 Cloth Hall Court, Leeds 🔗 climate.leeds.ac.uk/events/6th-n...

6th National Climate Impact, Risk and Adaptation Meeting - Priestley Centre for Climate Futures

Please save the date and join us for two days bringing together the UK climate impacts, risk and resilience communities to discuss the latest research from across the UK. Building on the Success of pr...

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‘It could have been a second Great Fire’: how east London blaze showed scale of UK wildfire threat

‘It could have been a second Great Fire’: how east London blaze showed scale of UK wildfire threat

In record 40C heat on 19 July 2022, 18 homes were lost in village of Wennington – a signal for firefighters to adapt, but UK response remains fragmented

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🔥In 2025, Europe recorded its highest wildfire emissions since 2003 and largest burnt area on record (about 1.03 million hectares). Spain alone produced around half of all emissions, and with Portugal, accounted for around 65% of total burnt area. @wmo-global.bsky.social & @ecmwf.int More info ⬇️

The Priestley Centre’s Climate Evidence Unit (CEU) has supported a major submission to the UK Parliament’s Environmental Audit Committee inquiry on air pollution in England. Read the key findings here. climate.leeds.ac.uk/our-work/cli...

UK Parliament Call for Evidence on Air Pollution - Priestley Centre for Climate Futures

Overview Time Period: 23/02/2026 – 03/03/2026 Key Themes: air pollution Context Tackling air pollution is the subject of a new inquiry by MPs on the Environmental Audit Committee, launched January 202...

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