NEW: The UK is considering cuts to its £15bn Warm Homes Plan, just months after it was launched to upgrade millions of homes. CCS and hydrogen are also under scrutiny. With @oliviarudgard.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

UK Considers Cuts to Home Energy-Efficiency Plan to Fund Defense

The UK is considering cuts to its flagship program to upgrade millions of homes, as it seeks more than £2 billion ($2.6 billion) in energy-department savings to help fund higher defense spending.

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For over a year, I’ve been investigating coroner’s concerns about a piece of NHS software, a controversial owner and a company worth over a billion. Read my investigation below:

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TPP is Leeds' biggest tech company, providing digital health records for thousands of GP practices and the prison estate. So why did we find its flagship product, SystmOne, repeatedly cropping up in inquests? theexchange.news/tpp-systmone...

Thousands of people are now not just cutting bills with solar and batteries, they are making real money, sometimes $200 while they sleep and AI trades electricity buying low, selling high. Meet the new energy nerds. New feature with @oliviarudgard.bsky.social. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Almost Anyone Can Make Money Selling Electricity With AI and Batteries

More homeowners are taking advantage of volatile prices to buy power when rates are low, store it and sell excess energy back to their utility.

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Did not expect to be weeping about butterflies on this Bank Holiday Sunday but here we are. Beautiful story in the Atlantic. Treat yourself: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

The Return of the Monarch

After years of decline, butterfly populations are rising—for now.

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Rebecca Ochoa had a heat stroke during a high school volleyball tryout. That was 11 years ago. “I am still not the same as before this happened, physically or mentally,” she told @bloomberg.com. New story on the long recovery of heat stroke survivors (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

One Hot Day Can Change Your Body for Years

Heat stroke can damage the brain, heart, kidneys and liver. As extreme heat becomes more common, doctors are learning just how difficult recovery can be.

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In overheated British hospitals, patients are too sweaty to receive IV drips, medication is at risk of degrading and staff collapse on the job, reports @oliviarudy.bsky.social. A searing portrait of a health-care system unprepared for how much the climate has already changed:

‘Horrific’ Conditions Grip UK Hospitals Unprepared for Heat

“Horrific, horrendous, unbearable, unsafe.”

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New from me: Even the richest aristocrat in Britain can't get around planning rules that make it hard to update listed and heritage buildings to make them more heat-resilient. Now Grosvenor is asking the government to make the process easier. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Billionaire Duke’s Firm Sounds Heat Alarm for London Luxury Homes

Grosvenor Group Holdings Ltd. says the combination of rising temperatures and antiquated planning regulations threatens to dent the appeal of its vast portfolio of properties across Mayfair and Belgra...

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Gift link: “Wallonia’s housing was part of the challenge. Many residential buildings are aging and constructed to hold in heat, not keep it out. “It’s a country that is considered cold, culturally. People think more about heating their house than cooling their house.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/15/w...

Heat Deaths in a ‘Cold’ Country Are a Warning to the Rest of Europe (Gift Article)

A June heat wave in Belgium and neighboring countries exposed a lethal lack of readiness. That’s a risk as another wave hits Europe.

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🧵Weather maybe getting cooler, but what has been the impact of recent heatwaves on public attitudes to and salience of climate and net zero? Two thirds of the public say they are worried about hot weather and 86% think climate change at least partially responsible.

New from me: As heat wave after heat wave gripped the UK this summer, medical staff struggled to keep patients safe in overheating hospitals - and to avoid collapsing in the heat and becoming patients themselves. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

‘Horrific’ Conditions Grip UK Hospitals Unprepared for Heat

“Horrific, horrendous, unbearable, unsafe.”

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A temperature above 37°C has only been recorded on nine days in the UK since records began – three of those occasions have now been in 2026, including today. Reading University has recorded its warmest August day on record (since 1908), and second warmest day overall.

This is a lovely site which helps remind us of much of what we take for granted in material progress ordinaryabundance.com (HT @aveek18.bsky.social)

Ordinary Abundance

A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.

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Only a few yrs ago temperatures in the high 30sC in any month here in the UK was considered so unusual Highest temperature on record for the UK in August was only set back in 2003 when Faversham Kent reached 38.5C on 10th This Thursday we could see 37/38C for 2nd time this yr

Maybe you've seen the term "regenerative" at your local grocery store and wondered: What does that even mean? Light regulation and fast growth are making that question increasingly pressing, and raising concerns about consumers being misled. My latest for @bloomberg.com:

From Milk to Snack Foods, More Products Are Going 'Regenerative'

Unlike organic, regenerative agriculture has limited federal standards on how to use the term.

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New: The US is enduring one of its worst wildfire seasons in years, with blazes scorching millions of acres. It’s part of a global pattern of hot, dry conditions that favor fires becoming more common with climate change. Free link. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Global Wildfire Surge Hits US, Propelled by Rising Temperatures

Blazes in the Western US and Europe point to a global shift: Climate change is making fire weather more extreme and more widespread.

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Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.

New from me & colleagues in France, Spain and on the data team: Europe is waking up to a new era of unstoppable megafires, amplified by climate change. Gift link:

The Age of Unstoppable Wildfires Has Reached Europe

Climate change means giant fires of the kind that ripped across France and Spain are becoming common, with potentially dire consequences for Europe’s economies.

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What do people in 7 countries see as the biggest global threats? France: Climate change: 48% UK: Climate change: 35% Canada: Climate change: 31% Poland: Military attack: 43% USA: Political extremism: 39% Germany: Mass migration: 36% Australia: Religious terrorism: 31% yougov.com/en-gb/articl...

New: The US is suffering multiple climate-driven disasters this week - wildfire smoke, heat waves, flooding. These "compound events" are likely to become increasingly common, stressing emergency response amid Trump budget cuts. With @zhirji.bsky.social Free link. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Overlapping Disasters Challenge US Amid Trump Cuts

Heat, smoke, flooding: Climate change makes compound events more likely, and responding to them is harder than ever, experts said.

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New from me: In London, a too-hot office tends to be a cheaper office. No AC + overheating = harder to lease and sell. And owners face some tricky choices about what to do about it. Gift link below 🎁

London Offices Without AC Face New Price Risk Due to Heat Waves

London’s office market is weighing the possibility of lower prices for properties that don’t come with cooling options such as air-conditioning, according to real estate brokers and consultants.

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About 58% of S&P 500 companies that have set goals to reduce their direct, or Scope 1, emissions have reported flat or rising emissions since 2021, according to a new report. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

AI Surge Means Companies Are Falling Behind on Climate Targets

Corporate America is struggling to meet green targets.

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Best known for telecoms infrastructure and smartphones, Huawei has, in recent years, quietly become part of the backbone of the global energy transition. The latest for @bloomberg.com Gift link www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Huawei's $11 Billion Clean Energy Empire Is Opening New Markets

Best known for telecoms infrastructure, the Chinese powerhouse has quietly become part of the backbone of the global energy transition.

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New story (from the weekend): Arizona's Maricopa County has made progress in preventing heat-related deaths in recent years. But another scorching summer and dwindling funding threaten that trend. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Another Brutal Summer Tests Arizona’s Decline in Heat-Linked Deaths

Maricopa County has made progress in preventing heat-related deaths. But another scorching summer and dwindling funding threaten that trend.

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New from me: England's hallowed grass-based sports are under threat from climate change - and groundskeepers are struggling to keep up. Gift link:

Relentless Heat Waves Hit England’s Fabled Grass Playing Fields

When the England cricket team walks onto the field at Lord’s for a home Test, it’s to the strains of “Jerusalem,” an anthem based on a William Blake poem that extols “England’s green and pleasant land...

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From timing park visits to cold showers, parenting in Madrid offers a preview of how climate change is reshaping family life across Europe Read my latest story on @bloomberg.com for FREE! www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

How to Raise Young Children in One of Europe’s Hottest Capitals

From timing park visits to cold showers, parenting in Madrid offers a preview of how climate change is reshaping family life across Europe.

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Climate change: a status report 🧵

When even scientists are shocked by extreme weather, the only conclusion to draw: we're in trouble. Must-read story by @eroston.bsky.social 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Beautiful must-read by @sandralaville.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Listen to Britain’s dawn chorus of 1976: the dramatic loss of birdsong in 50 years

Guardian recreates audio landscape of past filled by loud morning symphony before 73m wild birds were lost

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New from me today: if you live in a flat in the UK, heat pumps and solar are hard to get. Balcony solar won't necessarily fix that. 🎁link below.

UK Apartment Owners Are Getting Locked Out of Money-Saving Green Tech

Leaseholders have limited control over the place where they live, including how it’s heated and powered.

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