The hot weather has caused an upsurge in trees falling, as they are unable to replenish the water they lose from their leaves, creating “water stress”. Cracks can develop within branches and trunks, weakening the strength of the tree.
Cllr Sam Casey-Rerhaye
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The state of this. A lovely day out for Badenoch and Philp, playing dress up and making pronouncements about early release schemes - having left the country with one hundred available men's prison places, after fourteen years in charge. You read that right. One hundred places.
Crop yields down, our countryside scorched and over 2800 people are dead due to this summer's heatwaves. Meanwhile fossil fuel giants are raking in record profits. We must end this rampant profiteering, and cut fossil fuels from our energy mix as soon as possible.
Damian Carrington@dpcarrington.bsky.social · yesterdayBP profits more than double to $5.7bn in three months as Iran war sends oil prices soaring - "While BP banks enormous profits, millions of households are paying the price" #energycrisis #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Cllr Sam Casey-Rerhaye, who proposed the SODC motion, said: “The Code of Practice creates a real risk that trans people will be excluded from essential services and public spaces. We want to ensure everything is done to prevent this. It is heartening to see such cross-party support.”
England's children's social care system has reached crisis point, but poverty, not asylum seekers, is to blame, says a University of Oxford study that has interrogated 50 years of data. www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-07...
3 million chickens died over three days in the recent heat wave in France. Brought to you by fossil fuels.
Zeteo UK is going to be launching officially on September 14th at the Barbican. I'll be in conversation with @mehdirhasan.bsky.social & Shehab Khan - Join us! You can get your tickets here 👇🏽 www.eventbrite.com/e/zeteo-uk-l...
You gotta think even Telegraph readers aren't buying this shit as their holiday home near Bordeaux goes up in flames...
Roland Smith@rolandmcs.bsky.social · 7d agoNighty night.
Trying not to share X content on here. But rules exist to be broken and this is just too funny.
Jason Hickel: "This new study finds that the total death toll in Europe during the June heatwave exceeds 20,000 people." "This result highlights the accelerating threat of mass heat mortality events in Europe despite previous adaptations to heat." Pre-print below.
According to the data from flight trackers July 23rd was the busiest day for commercial air travel ever recorded, and in other news, as this summer of extreme heat continues multiple countries are being consumed by wildfires, but that is probably just a coincidence.
#FactoryFarming - a huge threat to #PublicHeath #OnHealth www.theguardian.com/food/2026/ju...
Industrial chicken farming accelerating spread of diarrhoea bacteria, study finds
Intensive nature of modern chicken farming creates ideal conditions for campylobacter, allowing bacteria to evolve
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We tend to think of “charitable giving” as unambiguously good because we equate “charities” with organizations that help the poor and equate “giving” with generosity. But both assumptions are wrong.
"Charitable Giving" Isn't What You Think
And the gusher of it is just beginning
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Just if your days are filled by devising measures to stop the customers using your product to harass and secretly spy on others do you think you'd wonder if your product was bad? www.thetimes.com/uk/london/ar...
Terrifying to see wildfires raging through Scotland. The climate crisis isn't a distant threat - it's right here and right now. How many warning signs and alarm bells until Andy Burnham takes action to end oil and gas drilling?
Love rivers? You need to read this.
Besieged by lobbyists, will UK ministers protect our ecosystems? No, they’ll chicken out | George Monbiot
Industrial poultry farming is killing our rivers. But rather than stop it, the government has been facilitating it. Will Andy Burnham end this ecocide, asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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France plans to ditch all fossil fuels by 2050. “France announced a ‘first of its kind’ plan to phase out coal by 2030, oil by 2045 & gas by 2050…The roadmap was published as dozens of nations gather for the first-ever international talks on how to transition away from planet-heating fossil fuels.”
France unveils plan to ditch all fossil fuels by 2050
France on Tuesday announced a “first of its kind” plan to phase out coal by 2030, oil by 2045 and gas by 2050 during a global conference aimed at breaking reliance on fossil fuels.
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James Lovelock is one of the greatest climate scientists that ever lived. We're about find out how on point his statements from over 18 years ago were.
Oooooops we did it again Melting in #Greenland ...and today is even warmer #ClimateCrisis #cryosphere #Metacrisis
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
Western Europe had its hottest June on record.🔥 Intense heatwaves broke temperature records, with peaks up to 9°C above average in France and Germany, according to Copernicus data. Only Cyprus and Malta had normal temperatures. Climate change is here and we are feeling its effects
Wow! No understanding of “e-bike”. An e-bike refers to a legal bike with e-assist limited to 15.5mph. An e-bike won’t move without the rider pedalling. An illegal e-bike has a throttle, is not speed restricted and moves without the rider pedalling. These need regulation.
Wandsworth Living Streets@wandsworthls.bsky.social · 2w agoRegrettably, both the BBC and the Met Police have contributed to this widespread confusion by using term 'e-bike' wrongly, e.g. see BBC report of 30 Dec 2025 on a Met Police operation in #Merton. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It's Day 1 of Andy Burnham being Prime Minister & Donald Trump is celebrating the destruction of our planet. Meanwhile Spain doubled it's renewables - before they had some of the highest bills in Europe and now some of the lowest bills. Labour need to stop appealing to Trump.
Andy Burn 'em - surely not how he'd want to be remembered
Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2w agoIt's Day 1 of Andy Burnham being Prime Minister & Donald Trump is celebrating the destruction of our planet. Meanwhile Spain doubled it's renewables - before they had some of the highest bills in Europe and now some of the lowest bills. Labour need to stop appealing to Trump.
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
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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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I ask Sadiq Khan about new oil and gas on Thursday: he refuses to answer properly. By the afternoon: we find out he's a Labour Lord. 48 hours later: we find out Labour are pushing ahead with this climate crime. We cannot trust Labour to tackle the climate crisis.
Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3w agoExtreme heat is killing thousands. Wildfires are burning. In order to secure a liveable future we have to leave all fossil fuels in the ground. Why can't Labour party politicians be honest & direct about that?