Absolutely insane footage of rock avalanches currently sweeping across the entire south face of the Matterhorn, as filmed from Cervinia! 🔥😱 📽️ Via @meteovalledosta

This really surprised me: a major source of certain pesticides in rivers is hand-washing by pet 🦮🐈 owners 🧪 “We detected [pesticides] in the wash-off even before we asked people to stroke their pets, so they’re just constantly on the hands of pet owners” www.newscientist.com/article/2583...

Should you stop using preventive flea treatments on your pets? | New Scientist

It has been assumed for decades that tick and flea treatments for pets pose no threat to wildlife or people, but there’s growing evidence that we have got it wrong

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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 · 9h ago

Glasshouses feel cost of drought as sprinkler ban imposed www.dutchnews.nl?p=271071

Not a stile, but I'm sure @lakesstiles.bsky.social will appreciate this footpath tunnel under the grounds of the Danesfield Hotel grounds in Bucks., especially the prism-like glass shards forming the panes of the two skylights. Not to be navigated in sunglasses.

Water flow in the Rhine river on its way to a new all time low. Red band: 5% lowest values for every date. Currently we're below the bottom: where the Rhine has never* gone before. Measured where it enters the Netherlands. Via www.linkedin.com/posts/niko-w... *) in recorded history, duh.

This steel lifting bridge in Amsterdam is being constantly sprayed with water pumped from the canal below to stop it expanding and jamming in the heat. A routine summer requirement these days apparently.

Hospital food was clearly a lot better back in Saxon times

House move, Amsterdam style

The drought is really starting to bite now. This poor clustered bellflower was looking decidedly dehydrated #wildflowerhour

Evacuation of the sixth biggest population centre in France under active consideration and some will still say "it's just Summer"

Andy Scollick@andyscollick.bsky.social · last wk.

Firefighters 'overwhelmed' and 'concerned about the city of Bordeaux' (Sky News)

"But what about the summer of 1976?" Well indeed....

MetJam@metjam.co.uk · 2w ago

The UK has just recorded its first three week long heatwave on record, based on recent Met Office observations - 21 days at Exeter Airport and Usk beats the record of 17 days at Cambridge in 1976 by 4 days. It has been a notable summer so far, with records continuing to tumble.

You see this frontpage and do genuinely wonder what on earth the conversation must have been between the senior editors when they were laying it out...

Glad we made it to Bordeaux by taxi last night and are now in the TGV train to Paris!

Vue de la Péninsule ibérique et de la France par #MTG d' @eumetsat.int . Les fumées des #Incendies envahissent quasiment tout le pays. Un fort système orageux se développe actuellement dans le Golfe du Lion avec en son sein de la grêle.

Voyager 1 can't phone home because we burned down one of the three receivers it can talk to. When Voyager launched in 1977 atmospheric CO2 was at 334 ppm.

Andy Scollick@andyscollick.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Madrid Deep Space Communication Complex at Robledo de Chavela municipality in the Community of Madrid, Spain on fire. Burgohondo wildfire. 📷 via Infues Avila

We decided to get out. Not sure whether we would have still made it tomorrow. The main road Lacanau-Bordeaux is already closed. #GlobalHeating #Wildfire

Beach pictures from a climate scientist on holiday in France, 2026.

Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf@rahmstorf.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEW – Factcheck: No, Europe’s heatwaves are not being ‘caused’ by declining air pollution ✍️ written by @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org 💬 with comments from Bjorn Samset, @erichfischer.bsky.social and Pedro Roldan-Gomez Read here ➡️ buff.ly/ukIO2fI

Factcheck: No, Europe’s heatwaves are not being ‘caused’ by declining air pollution - Carbon Brief

Scientists tell Carbon Brief that the framing of heatwaves being “caused” by declining air pollution is “wrong”.

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It's economic tipping-points like this I get the most excited about. When it's cheaper to do the smartest, lowest-impact thing, THAT's when stuff goes bananas: open.substack.com/pub/sammatey... (And it's when people who rely on existing systems to rake in massive profits start yelling the loudest).

The final page of a book published... ...56 years ago "In future, man will have to decide how hot or cold he wants the climate to be...It is far from clear than man has either the knowledge or the political good sense to exercise this power suitably"

Have you noticed an opaqueness to the blue sky this morning? Wildfire smoke from North America is drifting south across the UK, meaning the clear skies may not be as blue as you might expect 🌤️

This is what it looks like from underneath. I suspect it's elevated wildfire smoke

Dundee Satellite Station Ltd.@dundeesat.bsky.social · 2w ago

UK and IRELAND at 0820 UTC. EUMETSAT. Very cloudy, milky and hazy look across much of the countries.

Yellow loosestrife and water mint #stillflowering thanks to being next to the River Pang, but hemp agrimony, Old-man's Beard and fleabane (with bonus gatekeeper butterfly) also soldiering on valiantly in the bone dry meadows nearby #wildflowerhour

27.4ºC at Exeter Airport today ends the 13-day consecutive streak of ≥30ºC maximum temperatures in the UK, the highest since 2006; this puts the UK total of ≥30ºC days at 28. This is the second-highest on record annually, tied with 2018. 1995 holds the record with 34 days.

A Small Elephant Hawk moth in the trap this morning. What a beauty!

Telling it like it is

Earl Russell LD@earlrussell.bsky.social · 3w ago

My response to the annual Ministerial Statement yesterday on The State of Climate and Nature. ‘Can the Minister say whether the Government will finally match strong words on climate with equally strong action for nature? hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2026-0...

“England’s green and pleasant land” becoming “England’s brown and scorched land” — effects of a long-lived heatwave and little rainfall on vegetation in England evident in these images from NOAA-20 today (left) and 18 July 2024 (right) during closer to average conditions.

I am not a climate scientist but when I was a kid the number of times we couldn’t go outside because of Canadian wildfire smoke was zero times

These are Musa basjoo hardy bananas that fruit readily at nontropical temperatures. Mine certainly do. I don’t think they can be seen as a climate signal Now show me an edible banana fruiting…

Wildfires in Europe so far this summer have led to Spain's deadliest in decades, with temperature anomalies peaking around +9°C in France and Germany and a high of 45.1°C in southern Spain. But how is the UK 'fire wave' after its first 'megafire' that burnt for four days in Dava Moor in May? 1/n