🚨 "Scientists say global blazes account for 10% of UK’s particle pollution – and the climate crisis could make the problem worse."

Why Britain is breathing the world’s wildfire smoke

Scientists say global blazes account for 10% of UK’s particle pollution – and climate crisis could make the problem wors

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Read how Elon Musk and Donald Trump are once again trying to poison the planet we live on for profit. Seriously, Musk is a ghoul. People using his platform are subsidizing him and every effort he takes to undermine democracy. apnews.com/article/trum...

A pillar of environmental enforcement is targeted by Trump and Musk's AI company

Right-leaning legal activists and Elon Musk's AI company are challenging the right of private groups to sue to enforce several major laws.

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Hahahaha. Farage now whining that he was badly advised by his overpaid team into calling his stupid by-election. Confirming then that he’s incapable of working it out for himself. Too busy counting his money. Honest to god, Clacton. Don’t be the constituency dunces he needs you to be. (Times)

The energy company RWE has reached a $1.22bn deal with the US govt to relinquish its offshore wind leases and redirect funds towards fossil fuel investments 11,900 people have died from heat this year in Germany Climate change is costing lives. We need to invest MORE in renewable energy, not less

Trump administration to pay German firm $1.22bn to cut offshore wind leases

Agreement with RWE is fifth deal Trump team has made with energy companies, offering payouts to give up projects

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The cost of rebuilding from the megafires will run into the billions. Lost productivity due to heat is costing companies dearly, and drought is destroying harvests. It's a reminder that efforts to slash planet-warming pollution are a sound investment rather than an economic disadvantage.

The economic toll of Europe’s infernal summer

Global warming, not climate policy, is bad for business, experts warn.

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What we should grasp is that this is what Trump is *for*. It's why fossil fuel companies and the ultra-rich backed him. The kleptocracy, the cruelty, the culture wars, all these, while real & grim enough, distract us from seeing the true purpose of his presidency. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Trump administration to pay German firm $1.22bn to cut offshore wind leases

Agreement with RWE is fifth deal Trump team has made with energy companies, offering payouts to give up projects

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Trump administration to pay German firm $1.22bn to cut offshore wind leases and instead redirect funds towards fossil fuels. Govts captured by oil/gas companies suffocate people and the planet to reward their paymasters. Disaster politics.

Trump administration to pay German firm $1.22bn to cut offshore wind leases

Agreement with RWE is fifth deal Trump team has made with energy companies, offering payouts to give up projects

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All of England's rivers and lakes polluted with toxic chemicals. Pollution from sewage and farm runoff. Half of rivers exceed safe levels. Won't meet standards until 2060s Result of indulging water and farming industry. Polluters won't pay. People suffer as profits prioritised over people.

All of England's rivers and lakes polluted with chemicals, officials say

A comprehensive assessment of England's waterways is the first in six years and shows little improvement.

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UK Govt contracts to require job creation instead of green targets under new rules. Why does it have to be either, or? Job creation should not be a trade-off with protecting the environment Govt appeasing corporations whilst planet burns, crops fail, food prices rocket.

Government contracts to require job creation instead of green targets under new rules

Louise Haigh says taxpayer money must benefit local communities amid backlash from environmental groups

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I know he has a lot on, but in the midst of a ferocious drought, fires, heat events and severe threats to food production, it would be quite edifying to hear Andy Burnham mention climate breakdown.

There's been a real failure on the part of progressive leaders this summer to link the weather and Net Zero in the public mind. Most people get it, but the consensus is crumbling and it would be useful to reinforce it.

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 4d ago

I know he has a lot on, but in the midst of a ferocious drought, fires, heat events and severe threats to food production, it would be quite edifying to hear Andy Burnham mention climate breakdown.

@privateeyenews.bsky.social this week reveals the shocking ignorance of two BBC Countryfile presenters - one of whom, Adam Henson, is a livestock farmer - about the treatment of farm animals. I see such lapses as *professional ignorance*: there are things that are safer not to know.

The arguments trotted out against leaving fossil fuels in the ground are strikingly similar to the arguments trotted out against ending the slave trade, 230 years ago. 1. If we stop trading slaves / extracting fossil fuels, Britain’s economy will collapse 🧵

Experts debunk Donald Trump's ridiculous claims about wildfires in Canada.

Climate change contributed to big Canada fires, study says as Trump blames mismanagement

A new study calculates that human-caused climate change doubled the likelihood of the tinderbox weather conditions that

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We are seeing the devastating impact of climate change before our very eyes. We need to act now. "Droughts that were once a century now happen every year, and the impact on wildlife, industrial output and culture itself is catastrophic."

Europe’s rivers are running dry, and the knock-on effects are disastrous | Yiannis Baboulias

Droughts that were once a century now happen every year, and the impact on wildlife, industrial output and culture itsel

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He's truly the scum of the earth along with all those who enable him and voted for him.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 5d ago

NEWS: Trump just bragged about gutting endangered species protections so oil drilling, logging, development, and even military training can expand with fewer restrictions.

Very obliging of #r4today to lead with Reform’s ‘plan’ to stop the boats using the Royal Navy, pretending it’ll be some great WWII-style escapade, rather than a hateful, costly, diplomatically incontinent mess. A total waste of everyone’s time as they’ll never be in power and it’s unworkable anyway.

It's not new. The BBC favoured the right and extreme right from the very beginning. But the rightwing media has managed to persuade us that it's a left-liberal institution, and has used this myth to push it ever further rightwards. This book should be widely read. www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

The BBC

The BBC is one of the most important institutions in Britain; it is also one of the most misunderstood. Despite its claim to be independent and impartial, and the constant accusations of a liberal bia...

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Climate change affects us all, but in different ways. More wealth and resources mean greater protection from extreme heat - we need to fight this inequality. "Global heating will reinforce old patterns of inequality, but it will also create new ones. Societies and governments must prepare for both"

The Guardian view on drought: hot, dry conditions make inequality starker | Editorial

Editorial: Water is a vital shared resource, and privatisation has made a just transition harder

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We're all feeling the devastating impacts of climate change in real time. Urgent action is required to combat it.

England and Wales suffer driest July on record

Some areas of England saw the driest month ever

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And 25% of voters would put these ridiculous moneyed fools in charge of the govt and treasury, would they? How many investigations into Reform’s dodgy finances are there now? I’ve lost count. And no, it’s not an ‘establishment’ plot. It’s just what happens when corruption/incompetence meets scrutiny

Paul Brand@paulbrand.bsky.social · 7d ago

BREAKING: Parliamentary standards commissioner is now investigating Reform UK’s Deputy Leader Richard Tice (as well as its paused investigation into Nigel Farage). Tice is being investigated for allegedly failing to declare a financial interest.

Strawberries, cherries, broccoli, peas, pumpkins, sweetcorn, cauliflower, eggs, milk, beans, cucumber, potatoes. All at risk of shortages. This is the reality of living in a climate emergency. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/drought-heatwave-food-supply-risk-england-b3024535.html

The British food items at risk due to extreme drought conditions

Farmers and food supply experts have warned of supermarket shortages as British farmers tackle extreme drought condition

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The world is on fire & the cause is climate change. But, Felon Trump & his fossil fuel/oil/gas buddies don’t want you to know the truth. @michaelemann.bsky.social explains the real causes of these unprecedented wildfires & what you can do to help slow down climate change. youtu.be/GXL1e1vPn0M?...

Trump DESPERATELY HIDES the TRUTH as the WORLD BURNS!!

YouTube video by Katie Phang

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A president who increasingly loses his train of thought. Who struggles to make the quips & connections he once did. A surrounding team that is sycophantic to the point of absurdity. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-sean-duffy-freedom-haulers-trucks-b3024903.html

Trump’s ‘Freedom Haulers’ event revealed something unsettling about the president

Trump struggled to speak off-script and his transportation secretary jumped in to praise him. It was an uncomfortable dy

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A Reform-run council has all but condemned 100 acres of precious ancient woodland to be razed. 😡 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/30/oaken-wood-ancient-woodland-kent-quarry-expansion-reform-council

‘It’s irreplaceable’: Fury over Reform plans to expand quarry in ancient Kent woodland

Forty hectares of Oaken Wood could be razed after it was identified as potential site of expansion by Reform-run council

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Climate change is real.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... This! The world leaders that have decent values must unite and stand up to Trump because he’s destroying the world.

Europe is burning – and if Trump’s war on the climate is not met with sanctions, things will only get worse | Alexander Hurst

The White House seems committed to ecocide. The EU should harness the power of the single market to force it to change course, says Guardian Europe writer Alexander Hurst

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The UK is on fire. Reform UK is still arguing against the existence of man-made climate change. Make it make sense.

Why did the British government suppress a report warning that ecosystem collapse must now be treated as a core national security threat? That’s what Caroline Lucas explores in a column for the Nerve and in her new podcast When Nature Becomes A Security Threat, from The Rest is Politics.