Global #climate hazards @ukhsa.bsky.social 5th Aug 2026: 💦 #flooding affects India, Vietnam & southeast USA 🌡️ #heatwave grips South Korea & western USA 🌩️ deadly lightning strikes Yemen www.met.reading.ac.uk/~sgs02rpa/ex...

Latest @ukhsa.bsky.social global #climate & health hazards updated to the end of July 2026, including coverage of recent #wildfires, #floods and #heatwaves around the globe: www.met.reading.ac.uk/~sgs02rpa/ex...

Slowing emissions reductions means more financially crushing #climate change - was nothing learned from the pandemic? It’s the area under the curve that matters, in this case greenhouse gas emissions over time. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

EU proposes slowing down cuts to carbon emissions for businesses

Under the proposals, the EU plans to relax its emissions trading system to give companies more time to reduce their carbon output.

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In the journey towards tipping points, aspects of the #climate system can become more volatile. Commentary by @alevermann.bsky.social in @nature.com argues that the impacts of increasing regional instability of ocean, ice & atmosphere have not so far been properly assessed: doi.org/10.1038/d415...

‘Climate free fall’: why the biggest risk to our economies is yet to be recognized

Increasing instability of the ocean, ice and atmosphere threatens farming, finance and society. We all need to wake up to that fact.

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Global #climate hazards @ukhsa.bsky.social 15th July 2026: 🌀 Typhoon #Bavi hits Philippines, China & Taiwan 💦 #flooding affects Bahamas, China & Russia ⛈️ storms strike India 🔥 #wildfire aftermath in Spain 🌪️ Tornado hits Vietnam www.met.reading.ac.uk/~sgs02rpa/ex...

Hot, dry end to June in UK on top of a dry spring with dry soils in the south, low river flows in east Scotland & East Anglia and some depleted reservoirs/aquifers with increased pressure on water resources through the rest of summer unless it becomes unseasonably wet: nrfa.ceh.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

In some temporary, slightly good news before the El Niño gets going, the annual CO2 growth rate from last year has been relatvely low in 2026 so far compared with other years based on @noaa.gov Mauna Loa data: www.met.reading.ac.uk/~sgs02rpa/co...

Intensification of hot, dry periods is killing the UK’s trees and while adapted management and deep soil watering can help, the long term solution is of course limiting #climate change by more rapidly decoupling our society from fossil fuels: theconversation.com/heatwaves-wh...

Heatwaves: why British trees are shedding branches and dying

British trees struggle to survive as temperatures get higher, and many die.

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Global hazards @ukhsa.bsky.social 8 Jul 2026: 🔥 #wildfires Portugal, Greece, France & Spain 🌡️ #heatwave W Europe & USA east coast 💦 #flooding & landslides Bangladesh, India, China, New Zealand & central USA 🌪️ Tornadoes & Typhoon Bavi S China 🌩️ Lightning Pakistan www.met.reading.ac.uk/~sgs02rpa/ex...

Global #climate hazards @ukhsa.bsky.social 2nd Jul 2026: 🌡️ European #heatwave 💦 #floods Ghana/Côte d'Ivoire, India, Vietnam, Taiwan & USA 🌀 tropical storm hits Japan 🌩️ lightning strikes in India & Yemen www.met.reading.ac.uk/~sgs02rpa/ex...

Global #climate hazards @ukhsa.bsky.social 24th June 2026: 🌡️ #heatwave grips largeparts of Europe ⛈️ Lightning strikes & #flooding Germany, India 🌪️ Tornado hits Thoothukudi/India & Mount Vernon/USA 🔥 #wildfire Miami/USA www.met.reading.ac.uk/~sgs02rpa/ex...

Like the differing types of dangerous heat affecting the UK in May & June this year, #heatwaves over recent decades have involved contrasting synoptic drivers as shown in our @rmets.org paper led by Nedim Sladic written up from his MSc dissertation @unirdg-met.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1002/wea....

Contrasting the synoptic drivers of the UK heatwaves of 1976, 2003, 2018 and 2022

UK summer heatwaves are dictated by the polar jet stream position and sea surface temperature (SST) variability, affecting the Summer North Atlantic Oscillation (SNAO) index. The SNAO can determine a...

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The Caspian Sea is becoming shallower due to a dual attack from the extraction of water from river systems for human activities and increased evaporation due to #climate warming meaning there is a danger it could follow the trajectory of its sister, the Aral Sea: theconversation.com/the-caspian-...

The Caspian Sea has lost an area nearly the size of Sicily: human activities are a major reason why

The Caspian Sea is becoming warmer and shallower, with damaging economic and environmental effects.

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This week's global hazards from @ukhsa.bsky.social - 17th June 2026: 💦 #floods in Afghanistan & Canada 🌪️ #tornados hits central USA & Guangxi/China ⛈️ storms affect Vietnam & central/easterm USA www.met.reading.ac.uk/~sgs02rpa/ex...

Showery then record #heatwave in May 2026 over UK ending another dry spring with low river flows, dry soils mostly in south & variable groundwater, with temporary respite in an early wet June based on @ukceh.bsky.social assessment: nrfa.ceh.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

The global assessment of climate change indicators is updated to 2025: essd.copernicus.org/articles/18/... In a @uk.theconversation.com blog, focus is on rising energy imbalance as the gap between absorbed sunlight by the planet and infrared heat loss is growing: theconversation.com/earths-energ...

Global hazards from @ukhsa.bsky.social 3rd June 2026: 💭 dust storms engulf northeast China ⛈️ storms hit Vietnam 💦 #flooding in Thailand & Tennessee/USA www.met.reading.ac.uk/~sgs02rpa/ex...

There's more energy arriving than leaving Earth due to rising greenhouse gas levels and this is warming #climate & this energy imbalance is growing - a new study led by Herve Douville uses an observed reconstruction to infer this trend will not reverse before the early 2040s: doi.org/10.1029/2025...

Global #climate hazards @ukhsa.bsky.social 27 May 2026: 🌡️ #heatwave grips western Europe, northern India & Pakistan 💦 #flooding affects Afghanistan www.met.reading.ac.uk/~sgs02rpa/ex...

Our new Regius Professor is @hancloke.bsky.social which is a top choice and I look forward to the Dr Who regeneration from Keith Shine: www.reading.ac.uk/news/2026/Un...

Research provides evidence that fossil fuel companies’ deployment of renewable energy, biofuels, carbon capture and storage (CCS), green hydrogen & carbon offsetting isn’t designed to oppose decarbonisation, but to manage the conversation around renewables: theconversation.com/we-reviewed-...

Global #climate hazards @ukhsa.bsky.social 20th May 2026: 💦 #flooding across Turkiye, southern China, India, Sri Lanka ⛈️ Storms hit Vietnam 🏔️ Avalanche in Nepal 🥀 deficient rainy season heightens food insecurity in Somalia #wildfire Colorado/USA www.met.reading.ac.uk/~sgs02rpa/ex...

It was a dry April over much of the UK, particularly in the south & east and the @ukceh.bsky.social hydrological outlook indicates current below normal river flows in southern/central England are likely to persist into summer without significant rainall: nrfa.ceh.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

Global #climate hazards @ukhsa.bsky.social 13th May 2026: 💦 #floods & landslides affect Indonesia, South Africa & Somalia ⛈️ storms strike Nepal & Pakistan 🌪️ Tornadoes hit Mississippi/USA www.met.reading.ac.uk/~sgs02rpa/ex...

Assessing Terrestrial Water Storage Change Since the 1980s, just out for review @egu.eu doi.org/10.5194/egus...

Assessing Terrestrial Water Storage Change Since the 1980s

Abstract. Water availability for societies and ecosystems depends upon Terrestrial Water Storage (TWS), yet global, spatially resolved measurements are largely unavailable before the advent of the Gra...

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Contrasting the synoptic drivers of the UK #heatwaves of 1976, 2003, 2018 and 2022 - great work from Nedim Sladić to write up the dissertation written while studying @unirdg-met.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1002/wea....

New paper @rmets.org Weather magazine provides conclusive proof of a decline in Scottish mountain snow patches due to the authors walking all over them: doi.org/10.1002/wea....

All patches of snow in Scotland disappear in 2025, for the fourth consecutive year

No patches of snow survived on the hills of Scotland from the winter of 2024/2025 to the winter of 2025/2026.

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Global #climate hazards @ukhsa.bsky.social 6 May 2026: 💦 #floods & landslides over Tajikistan, Afghanistan, DR Congo & Brazil ⛈️ storms hit Türkiye & Viet Nam 🌡️ #heatwave grips Pakistan 🌋 volcanic ash affects Philippines www.met.reading.ac.uk/~sgs02rpa/ex...

Global #climate hazards @ukhsa.bsky.social 1st May 2026: 💦 #floods impact Kenya, Somalia, Yemen, Afghanistan, Indonesia & Brazil ⛈️ storms strike Ukraine, Bangladesh, Vietnam & USA ❄️ snow affects Russia www.met.reading.ac.uk/~sgs02rpa/ex...