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Countries led by Saudi Arabia & Russia are pressing climate scientists to delay publication of a report, so it's not ready for a major evaluation of country commitments on cutting emissions Even in scientific processes the fingers of oil interests cause trouble www.theguardian.com/environment/...

IPCC is under pressure to delay publication of key global climate report

AR7 report was scheduled for 2028 in time for Cop33 summit but some petro-states and major developing countries want to postpone it

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my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...

STOP using X. It’s as simple as that. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Rupert Lowe set to be paid as much for divisive posts on Elon Musk’s X as for being MP

Restore Britain leader paid up to £1,476 an hour by platform, which critics say is financially incentivising inflammatory content

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There are over* 3,000 people in the UK who can't enjoy the heat. Because the heat killed them. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Reform’s Tice says people should stop fighting climate crisis and ‘enjoy’ heat

Deputy leader says it is ‘arrogant’ to try to halt global heating, despite UK being left reeling by summer firewave

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Is “pragmatic” the new, “grown up” word? Andy, there’s nothing “pragmatic” about drilling for more oil & gas - to even consider it with the planet literally on fire is total madness. How many times must we say it will do nothing for energy bills or security? It would be an act of utter recklessness

Burnham promises ‘pragmatic’ approach to North Sea oil and gas

PM tells reporters the government cannot ignore the energy resource ‘when people are struggling’

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Wildfires in the UK - last 48 hours Such events are now a common feature of summer and it is only a matter of time before lives are lost Meanwhile @andyburnham.bsky.social reportedly plans to allow more oil and gas to be sucked out of the North Sea Pure insanity

Wildfire in the Cairngorns? anyone? Burnham has an opportunity to really change the way we look at climate change and take it seriously. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Cairngorms wildfire is 'not contained' and still burning hard, residents warn

Community leaders criticised the Scottish government for describing the incident as "contained", despite flames spreading further.

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Ant ‘meeware’ Miller@meeware.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Minus two days to thoroughly disappoint. A new record. Burnham to announce plans for new North Sea oil and gas drilling www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hard to think of a more deeply damaging start to Burnham’s premiership than giving green light to new oil & gas in N. Sea, if true. It won’t lower bills or lead to greater energy security but will drive an even hotter planet. What a terrible signal to give to rest of the world #ClimateVandalism

BBC Breakfast (@BBCBreakfast) on X

Andy Burnham will announce plans for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea when he becomes prime minister on Monday, the BBC has been told. The announcement will form part of a flurry of policy m...

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This is simply a basic failure of journalism. If you aren't informing people, what is the point? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Most UK media reports on June heatwave failed to mention climate crisis

Exclusive: Analysis of nearly 2,500 articles finds almost three-quarters made no reference to global heating

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And this: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

June heatwave killed up to 440 people a day in England and Wales, data suggests

Extreme temperatures in May and June led to about 2,700 lost lives in total with climate crisis adding 3C to 4C

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Breaking News! y-axis alert! Nino 3.4 sea surface temperatures are now more than 3 standard deviations above the 1991-2020 mean, forcing an extension of the y-axis up to 3.5σ. And that line way at the bottom? That's 1988.

My lovely friend Mary Colwell has fought for a Natural History GCSE, supported by many, including Caroline. For it to be proper natural history, we need lots of naturalists to give their opinions on the proposed framework. Please consider visiting the public consultation www.gov.uk/government/c...

GCSE natural history proposed subject content

We are seeking views on the proposed subject content for a new GCSE in natural history.

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Caroline Lucas@carolinelucas.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Good news! Ministers have finally given green light to new #NaturalHistory GCSE. We’ve campaigned so long for this! Big hats off to tireless advocate Mary Colwell 🙌 Now our young people will have a chance to get to know & love the natural world, to feel awe & wonder, & gain skills to protect it 🌷🌳🦡

Gigatons? Metric tons? Megatons? Carbon Dioxide, Methane, F-Gases? 100 years? 20 years? Wow, greenhouse gas emissions are hard to understand sometimes. That's why we built the "Carbon in Context" website that helps navigate these confusing terms. Check it out! drawdown.org/carbon-in-co...

Carbon in Context

Carbon in Context is a calculator that converts greenhouse gas emissions metrics into friendly, easy-to-digest comparisons.

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UK folks, let's jump on this AI regulation petition the Society of Authors emailed out! It's an actual parliament one so the government HAS to respond if it reaches the signature threshold. It calls for regulations to make AI developers disclose copyrighted works trained on. Sign & repost!! ❤️

Petition: Protect creators' rights: require AI firms to disclose training data

We ask the Government to introduce a statutory duty requiring AI developers to disclose the copyrighted works used to train generative AI in enough detail for creators to identify use of their work, e...

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🧪 #AcademicSky 🇬🇧 30% staff cut in Chemistry at Nottingham. Two years ago, the Department received the RSC Prize in Excellence for Higher Education. Resources and talent going to waste. UKG doing nothing to preserve strategic know-how for the country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/notting...

Nottingham’s chemistry department faces loss of 30% of faculty amid university-wide staff cuts

The department's technicians and support staff are also at risk

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📣 Our ‘A Well‑Adapted UK’ report is live. How do we protect our way of life from the biggest climate risks we face today? www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLU7... ⬇️

🎥 State of Climate Action 2025 We need to take urgent #ClimateAction to avoid the worst of #ClimateChange! PL RP🩷💚💙Thank you! full #video▶️ youtu.be/SKx21eLLUqs report 📖 bit.ly/SoCA2025 #climate #cleanenergy #EndFossilFuels #ClimateChangeIsReal #Klima #ClimateActionNow #renewables #ActOnClimate

Do you want to see the "big picture" on climate change? Here it is. Emissions are on the left, and include CO2, CH4, N2O, and f-gases. Natural CO2 sinks (from healthy forests & oceans) are on the right. And carbon removal, what little there is, is on the right, too. All expressed as GWP100.

Six years of being ignored. Yesterday that changed... Four CVF members set the record straight. Starting with @larawong.bsky.social sharing our official statement: 1/

Sustaining food, health, governance and other human systems will be much, much more difficult between 1.5°C and 2.0°C than now. Systems will become dysfunctional and approach or cross interacting critical thresholds, possibly resulting in uncontrollable cascading consequences.

Prof. Eliot Jacobson@climatecasino.net · 7mo ago

Assuming accelerating warming since 1980, the planet will cross 2.0°C sometime around 2036-2037. As for where we are right now with respect to 1.5°C, check your rear-view mirror.

STILL seeing this at my local garden centre. Arrrgh! Peat needs to stay in the ground. It's an essential store of carbon, critical for biodiversity & under threat. Demand peat-free compost! And complain if you see peat on sale. The Royal Horticultural Society agrees: www.rhs.org.uk/advice/peat

Student loans: how fair is our repayment system? Today our Treasury Committee is launching an inquiry into this very topic - and we’d like to hear from young people in particular. Anyone over the age of 16 in the UK can feed in to our inquiry here: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

🚨 NEW DfE GUIDANCE - VENTILATION & AIR QUALITY - Clean air matters - especially for #ClinicallyVulnerable children, staff and families. This is an important recognition that airborne transmission is preventable. 1/

9,600 redundancies at just 24 universities. Imagine what the picture is for the sector as a whole. This is the other half of the student loan scandal picture, which has been national news lately. Nothing at all from the government on a key sector effectively in freefall…

Research Professional News@resprofnews.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Job losses at UK research-intensive universities double in two years. Exclusive: Scale of redundancies branded a “disaster”. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Important paper. Schools are high-risk environments for respiratory disease transmission MAINLY because classrooms are underventilated. This problem has a workable solution - it just needs political will. Air quality is as important as water quality for public health. MT @martinmckee.bsky.social

James Munday@jdmunday.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Our paper modelling transmission risk in schools is published in Nature Communications. **The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools** doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Excellent article but stark reminder that for all the perceptions of universities as ivory towers for elites, they are actually vital hubs in towns n cities supporting local businesses and providing key services as well as education….

‘If I think about what this means, I want to cry’: what happens when a city loses its university?

When Essex University’s Southend campus opened, it was a message of hope for a ‘left behind’ UK seaside town. Its closure will be felt far beyond its 800 students, some of whom will not get their degr...

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Just the latest devastating news on the climate breakdown front And make no mistake, we WILL see 2C by 2050 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Number of people living in extreme heat to double by 2050 if 2C rise occurs, study finds

Scientists expect 41% of the projected global population to face the extremes, with ‘no part of the world’ immune

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An across-government technical assessment published today recognises that "nature is the foundation of national security" and that "every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse". A rational response to this would be to get very serious about nature recovery. www.gov.uk/government/p...

Nature security assessment on global biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and national security

This strategic assessment explores how global biodiversity loss and the collapse of critical ecosystems could affect the UK’s resilience, security and prosperity.

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We’ve got 8 PhD studentships open in Durham for interdisciplinary research, especially projects sitting at the intersection of humanities and sciences. Many music psychology projects can tick these boxes! Feel free to get in touch www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...