“While BP banks another round of enormous profits, millions of households are paying the price through sky-high energy bills and a climate crisis accelerating rapidly out of control.” - Rosie Downes, the head of campaigns at Friends of the Earth. 🧵👇 www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...

Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis

Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage

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Communities across the country are experiencing drought, stifling temperatures and even evacuation due to wildfires. It's clear we need a stronger National Adaptation Plan now to help the UK prepare and protect people from increasingly extreme weather. Head to the link in our bio to demand action. ✊

“While BP banks another round of enormous profits, millions of households are paying the price through sky-high energy bills and a climate crisis accelerating rapidly out of control with increasingly severe heatwaves, wildfires and droughts.” - Rosie Downes, FoE. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

BP profits more than double as Iran war sends oil prices soaring

Energy company’s $5.73bn quarterly profits come after Shell posted second highest quarterly earnings on record

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"These profits have been built on an energy crisis that's left households across the country struggling with high energy bills at home and expensive fuel at the pumps. This underlines the urgent need to end our dependence on costly oil and gas." - Danny Gross, FoE. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Shell profits double as oil prices rise due to Iran war

Disruption to global supplies of oil and liquid natural gas through the Strait of Hormuz has pushed up prices.

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Today Shell announced its profits from April-June 2026 more than doubled compared to the same period last year. 🤯 Want to break the UK free from our dependence on fossil fuels and save us from spiralling energy bills? Add your name via the link in our bio. ✊ #shell #fossilfuels #climatemergency

Wondering how to keep your kids busy this summer holidays? Don't worry, we've got you covered. Check out our fun and educational nature activities for kids. 👇🌱🦋 foe.uk/j63tl

Nature activities for kids | Friends of the Earth

If you're looking for things to do with your kids and want to introduce them to nature then explore our nature activities for children, including free printable worksheets.

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🚨 Approving more fossil fuel extraction in the North Sea will not bring down UK energy bills. If Andy Burnham wants to reduce the cost of living, we need to power our economy with cheap homegrown renewables, insulate our homes and make big polluters pay for a greener and fairer future. 🧵👇

@richmondcouncil.bsky.social are holding a public meeting on 23rd July to seek your views on #Heathrow expansion & provide advice on the latest consultation. It's important to show them we feel strongly against expansion. Register here: richmond.gov.uk/news/news_ju...

Andy Burnham reinstating the £2 bus cap is commendable and will help ease the cost of living. But funding it by reducing financial support for countries least responsible for the climate crisis - replacing climate grants with debt-creating loans – is a travesty. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Funding bus fare cap from aid budget will hit world’s poorest, Burnham told

Proposal ‘throws global south countries under the bus’, says ActionAid UK directorr

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Andy Burnham has officially become Prime Minister and with this he inherits Labour's 2024 manifesto pledge to ban fracking permanently in England. He must honour this commitment and close the loophole that currently allows lower volume fracking to take place.🧵👇 @channel4news.bsky.social #fracking

Approving Horse Hill would be a backwards step that we cannot afford to take. Oil drilling in Surrey will do nothing to help the cost of living crisis and fossil fuel companies will continue to profit from the climate crisis they are driving, while we pay the price. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Horse Hill campaigner fights oil drilling plans for second time

About 600,000 tonnes of oil could be extracted at Horse Hill over 20 years, campaigners say.

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The government promised in 2024 that they would ban fracking for good. But it looks like they’re going to leave a loophole open, which would allow lower-volume fracking. But lower volume doesn’t mean lower risk. The threat of earthquakes is equally large. channel4news.substack.com/p/the-loopho...

The reason why fracking could still go ahead in England

Exclusive data shared with Channel 4 News shows 79 areas where fracking could take place, despite Labour’s pledge of an outright ban, writes Andrew Misra.

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Bringing down bills, making transport more affordable - definitely the right sounds to be making. But anything short of rejecting disastrous projects like Rosebank, Jackdaw and Heathrow expansion would see Burnham turn his back on those he swore to help.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/clywy2n7g4dt

Andy Burnham says 'I have a plan' as he is confirmed new Labour leader

The Makerfield MP thanks Keir Starmer "for his service" and says he is yet to decide who will be in his cabinet when he becomes PM on Monday.

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With the UK experiencing its third heatwave in 2 months and the last 4 years being some of the warmest on record, it’s evident that our climate is changing. Our climate adaptation plan is completely inadequate against extreme heat, droughts, wildfires and flooding. 🧵👇

It’s clear to see that the climate is rapidly changing and is harming both people and nature with extreme heat, wildfires and dwindling rivers. It is astounding that some politicians are still saying we should ignore climate change.🧵👇 www.ibtimes.co.uk/uk-extreme-w...

Britain Faces More Extreme Weather After 2025 Becomes Hottest Year on Record

The UK's 2025 climate report confirms record-breaking heat and increasing weather extremes, urging adaptation to a rapidly changing environment. Scientists highlight the urgent need for resilience aga...

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Today we’re revealing our new research that sheds some light on how megadonors - including ones with ties to the fossil fuel industry - are influencing British politics.🧵👇 #ukpolitics #britishpolitics #fossilfuels

Breaking in The Guardian today 🚨 the UK must change direction on Palestine. ✊ Polling from Friends of the Earth and @pscupdates.bsky.social found 82% of ex-Labour voters who now intend to vote for other progressive parties support stronger UK government action against Israel. 🧵👇 #palestine

Democracy shouldn’t be for sale. Our new analysis looks at the small number of ‘megadonors’ with ties to polluting industries donating more than £1m to political parties and having an increasingly outsized influence on British politics. Read more👇 @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Reform UK would lose 85% of funding under proposed donation cap, analysis shows

Exclusive: Party would have raised £4.1m instead of £26.7m last year if £100k funding limit had been in place, Electoral Commission data suggests

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“The government’s failure to protect people – especially older and disabled people – is turning heatwaves into preventable public health crises. A credible climate adaptation plan is essential to safeguard lives and livelihoods."- Fran Di Giorgio, Friends of the Earth. www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...

UK weather: Amber heat health alerts in effect as heatwave conditions continue

Temperatures are set to rise as high as 36C (97F) for parts of southern England this week.

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Nature for people, not billionaires. We stand in solidarity with Friends of the Earth Albania/ the Environmental Centre for Development and Networking (EDEN), and the movement of people in Albania against development plans in #VjosaNarta, one of Albania's most important coastal ecosystems.

Extreme heat in the UK recently led to school closures, cutting of rail services and health warnings. With another heatwave on the horizon, it's clear the UK is dangerously unprepared to protect everyone from extreme weather - especially those most at risk. 🧵👇 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

How extreme heat is exposing extreme inequality

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Today we’ve brought together some amazing community organisations and activists impacted by extreme weather to build relationships and outline why Friends of the Earth is taking the UK government to the European Court of Human Rights over its inadequate plans to cope with extreme weather. 🧵👇

New analysis from the Environment Agency and Natural England, in collaboration with Friends of the Earth, has revealed the millions of people living with overlapping environmental threats, like pollution or risk of flooding, on their doorstep. 🧵👇

MPs recently voted to approve the seventh carbon budget - a limit on the UK’s climate emissions between 2038 to 2042. But as soaring temperatures broke the record for the hottest day in June ever, the Conservatives, along with Reform, voted against a carbon budget for the first time ever. 🧵👇

No one is safe from extreme weather, but those most at risk are hit hardest. The oppression of marginalised groups could become more pronounced in the near future due to extreme heat. We need government action now!🧵👇 shorturl.at/I5HVH

‘We feel like the peasants’: women and low-income families bear brunt of heatwave

As temperatures soar across Europe, cities are struggling to adapt, further exacerbating socioeconomic divisions

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Just when you thought it couldn't get any hotter… Datacentres can be a risk to communities and the environment - the government mustn't rush headlong into building more and more at the cost of health and the climate. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Slough is like an experiment’: Europe’s largest datacentre hub leaves town sweltering

Emerging research suggests datacentres create a heat island effect, pushing up temperatures in the immediate vicinity by as much as 9C

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In case it needs saying: we're seeing the climate crisis unfold in real time. It's a preventable crisis we and one we're not prepared for. The government must urgently strengthen its national adaptation plan to protect those most impacted by extreme weather. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

European heatwave is worst ever and impossible without climate crisis, scientists say

Study also finds high humidity means people in hundreds of cities are enduring their worst ever heat stress

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In partnership with The Co-operative Bank, we're funding Postcode Gardeners in communities across the UK, to green up their spaces in the way they want. John Pickles is a Postcode Gardener's helping to create healthier and greener streets in Hull. 👇 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg4wx2l4z4qo

'Right to grow' helping wild flowers bloom in Hull

Supporters say growing flowers or food on unused land can improve mental health and local pride.

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For many disabled people, heatwaves are a threat to life, dignity and safety. The main reason is not their health condition, impairment or neurodivergence. It's a government failure to make buildings where disabled people live, work and receive medical care safe in a warming climate. foe.uk/ttwsm

This heatwave isn't just a weather event. It's a disability rights emergency | Friends of the Earth

Fran Di Giorgio, Youth Action Lead and Disability Justice Campaigns Specialist, outlines how for many disabled people, heatwaves are a threat to life, dignity and safety.

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Yesterday Friends of the Earth joined Indigenous leaders from rainforest territories, alongside partners from the NGO Forest Coalition, outside Parliament to open London Climate Action Week. Our message: the people protecting the world's rainforests must be at the centre of climate action. 🧵👇