Dave in Essex 🇺🇦 🇨🇦
@hennystdave.bsky.social
Organic gardener, bird watcher including surveying for BTO, butterfly surveying for Butterfly Conservation. Professionally in resilience where I still sit on British and International committees (Organisational, Energy and Infrastructure Resilience)
Really good article about how peat restoration is helping farmers - a good counter to all the nonsense from the usual nonsense about "fuel load" and "rewilding" from the minority. www.walesfarmer.co.uk/news/2614875...?
Elan Valley farmer speaks out after devastation of terrifying wildfire
A farmer has spoken out after watching the land she calls home ‘burn’ and the restored peatland that helped save it.
walesfarmer.co.uk
Quite impressive to completely undermine your own defence and insult most of your party's elected officials in the same sentence.
Chris Terry-Enescu@cjterry.bsky.social · 11h agoIt's OK for criminal ex-neo Nazis to run your bins is a hell of a line.
New old sayings about the weather The new Private Eye is out now.
It was the driest July on record at Kew since 1800 [caveat of likely a variety of different station placements since then], which also recorded no measurable rainfall - very impressive for the area. Local records go back to 1697.
There's a German joke that goes-"there are four phases of water - liquid, ice, vapour and Dutch tomatoes". Not any more it seems.
Dutch News@dutchnewsnl.bsky.social · 10h agoGlasshouses feel cost of drought as sprinkler ban imposed www.dutchnews.nl?p=271071
Went to the Constable 250 exhibition in Ipswich today. Great chance to see many great paintings together in one place. Not crowded so can take your time. Highly recommended
14 water butts & tanks are now completely dry. Bit like the old song 10 Green Bottles! Just depends on mains water now. No hoses etc either. 🌱🇬🇧
Great to see yet another strong month for EV sales - up ~50% from July 2025 - with sales now over a 1/4 for the year-to-date, above what's needed to hit ZEV mandate targets. Despite what industry says, the ZEV mandate is working. The Government should stand firm. www.reuters.com/business/uk-...
UK July EV sales beat mandate path, New Automotive data shows
Battery electric vehicle registrations in Britain jumped 49% in July from a year earlier, taking more than a quarter of the new car market and running ahead of the zero-emission vehicle mandate pa...
reuters.com
A farewell ceremony for the Voronov family in Radushne, Dnipropetrovsk region. Dad Artem (47), Mom Olena (41), their sons Mark (17) and Azarii Ilai (11), and their youngest daughter Emiliia (6), were killed by Russia. A Russian missile strike completely destroyed their home.
Anton Gerashchenko@antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 6d agoToday, a Russian Iskander-M ballistic missile completely destroyed the Voronov family's home in Radushne,near Kryvyi Rih,Dnipropetrovsk region At the time of the strike, 8 children were inside the house:Mark (17), Dominika (15),Viorika (14),Zakharii (12), Azarii-Ilai (11),Federika (10),Emiliia (6),
July 2026 was an exceptional month for the UK's climate statistics, with records challenged or broken for rainfall, temperature and sunshine. Read more in our press release ⤵️ www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...
Former Russian presidential candidate Boris Nadezhdin has left Russia for France. In July, he was detained, designated a "foreign agent," and barred from taking part in this year's parliamentary elections.
A joint team of Ukraine's State Emergency Service has arrived in France's Gironde department to help battle a massive wildfire that has already scorched more than 42,000 hectares The French side says Ukrainian firefighters will be working in the most challenging areas
Are there tigers in your neighbourhood? 🐯 Tiger moths are some of our most iconic day-flying moths with vibrant colours and flashy patterns, but some species can look quite similar. Here's what to look for 👇 #MothsMatter #MothMonday #TeamMoth
Today is the 20th day of the year in which a temperature of 32 °C or higher has been recorded in the UK - this exceeds the previous record of 19 days in 1995 📈
Earth is now warming faster than at any point in recorded geological history - around 10 times faster than the extreme warming event 56 million years ago and 20 times faster than at the end of the last ice age. We are almost certainly in a new extinction event.
⚠️ An amber Heat-Health Alert has been issued for East Midlands, East of England, South East of England, & London. A yellow Heat-Health Alert is in place for all other regions of England apart from the North East. Alerts are in place from 9am Monday 3 to 9am Wednesday 5 August.
Rewilding is the best defence against wildfires (and why the Telegraph is unsurprisingly wrong): spectator.com/article/rewi...
Rewilding is the best defence against wildfires
Rewilding is not the cause of Britain's worsening upland wildfires. Increasingly, it looks like one of the most promising solutions.
spectator.com
South Korea have warned people to “stop outdoor activities” as a record breaking heatwave continues to grip the Peninsula. Temperatures have exceeded 40°C for 5 days straight with a new all time record of 42.5°C recorded yesterday. Yet another area seeing record heat.
circumstance of the farmer in the fen growing nothing but 'Teazles' for the purpose of carding a nap on cloth they are stronger he says then the wild made so perhaps by cultivation
Hi all We have had reports of land devils over the last few weeks, some particularly strong (one looks to have caused damage in Swindon a few days ago) and are appealing for more information of any other reports you may have. Tomorrow may be particularly ripe in the south for further reports.
'London Gardens' by Ethelbert White (1891-1972) (Private collection)
The Arctic Circle just reached a temperature that once seemed almost impossible for such a frozen region: above 100°F, or 38°C … a shocking first … fragile regions are rapidly changing. Sometimes one number can tell a much bigger story … climate change is no longer distant. It’s here. It’s now.
In 2015, Tianjin launched the Urban Transport Improvement Project—the largest active mobility investment ever supported by the World Bank. Instead of focusing solely on roads or transit, it sought to create an integrated system where walking, cycling, buses and metro would work seamlessly together.🧵
Is Europe having a bad wildfire year? Our Deputy Editor @hannahritchie.bsky.social provides an answer this morning on her Substack, presenting data from Europe's Global Wildfire Information System.
Nice walk: Wickham around the Maplesteads. Buzzards, Kite, Yellowhammers #essexbirding and a field of Oats, with few oats showing in the ears. Some had been cut but it must be ~100acres with what appears to be a very small crop. Sparrowhawk caught a small bird in garden while we had coffee at home
