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Despite impending drought, no one knows just how much water the UK's thirsty data centres are using - and the demand will only grow as more are built. Important piece by @adamvaughan.bsky.social including @foxglovelegal.bsky.social research www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

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How much water do Britain's data centres use? Bafflingly, there is no official figure. So here's my best estimate after weeks of reporting: circa 10 billion litres of water a year. And that's before any big UK AI boom. Story in @thetimes.com 👇 www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

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Ed Miliband set to reject proposal for £20bn-plus undersea power cable from Morocco to England www.ft.com/content/a4bd...

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UK government confirms sandeel fishing will remain banned in English waters in the North Sea, after an UK-EU court spat over the post-Brexit trade deal www.gov.uk/government/n... (More background here: www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...)

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NEW Nearly two hundred thousand litres of raw sewage was spilled in one day into a lake flowing into Windermere, according to campaigners who claim the discharge was illegal. www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

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Scientists have found Earth will be committed in just three years to breaking the Paris Agreement goal of holding global warming to 1.5C, if carbon emissions continue as they are today. Story 👇 www.linkedin.com/pulse/world-...

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China nears peak oil demand amid ‘extraordinary’ EV sales. @emilygosden.bsky.social reports: www.thetimes.com/business-mon...

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Can targeting a small number of coastal cities stop a third of the world's plastic pollution entering the ocean? 30-year old Dutch entrepreneur Boyan Slat thinks so. Here's one of the good news projects announced at the UN ocean summit in Nice this week 👇 www.linkedin.com/pulse/can-ta...

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Good chance of 2025 being 2nd warmest year on record despite being a La Niña year (which has a cooling effect) "The probability that 2025 will be the warmest year on record has decreased to 6%, while the likelihood of it being the second warmest stands at 50%." berkeleyearth.org/may-2025-tem...

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Carbon stored in landscapes for thousands of years is leaching back into the atmosphere via rivers, and human activity may be to blame

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The UK is one of 95 countries that have banded together at the Nice ocean summit to call for an ambitious plastic pollution treaty later this year The group wants a target for reducing plastic use -something big oil states don't want - rather than just more recycling Now for Geneva talks in Aug

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Good morning from Nice, where the UN ocean summit is taking place. 👋🌊 Big progress towards a high seas treaty yesterday but it’s not quite over the line (www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...). Must say I have been to worse places for UN environmental meetings…

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If the decisions the UK government makes in its upcoming spending review are not in line with the net zero climate target it risks being taken to court again, @friends-earth.bsky.social has said. @fionaharvey.bsky.social reports www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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NEW Solar panels will be mandated on 99% of new homes from 2027, government confirms as it promises future homes standard will be published in autumn www.gov.uk/government/n... (Confirmation of news first reported by The Times in April: www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...)

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430.2: a grim milestone! For the first time, atmosperhic concentrations of CO2 have exceeded 430 parts per million for a month (May), according to long-running records at a volcano in Hawaii. Last May it was 426.7. Before humanity started burning fossil fuels, it was 280. keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

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Britain’s sunniest spring yet has generated a record amount of solar power, delivering a windfall for the 1.5 million households with solar panels. New analysis by @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org of @carbonbrief.org Story 👇 www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

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London ‘needs £2 billion to save it from surface water flooding’ @ben-cooke.bsky.social reports: www.thetimes.com/uk/london/ar...

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The UK just had its warmest spring on record. It was also the sunniest on record. And the driest in more than 50 years. "A sign of our changing climate", says @metoffice.bsky.social www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

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How Attenborough’s Ocean exposed ‘violent’ bottom trawlers. “We were aghast, it was a shock,” said producer Toby Nowlan, recalling the first time he saw video of the destructive fishing practice, where weighted nets are dragged across the sea bed. 👇 www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

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"Yeah, but global warming will be great for the UK." Ummmm...Just look at this map of marine heatwaves around the UK and Ireland right now. Sea surface temperatures are up to 4C warmer than usual for this time of year, reaching about 17C off the Irish coast. 👇 www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

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NEW Farmers caused an unprecedented number of damaging pollution incidents in English rivers last year, The Times can reveal Story 👇 www.thetimes.com/article/3ad4...

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It's not just England and Scotland that are very dry. The whole of Wales has just been officially reclassed from ‘normal’ to ‘prolonged dry weather’ status. February to April 2025 saw cumulative rainfall in Wales at 59% of what's expected for that time of year.

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A record number of criminal investigations have been launched into water companies flouting environmental rules in England 81 investigations have been launched since July last year However, historically, few investigations have led to prosecutions Story👇 www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

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Great graph by @carbonbrief.org telling the story of why UK energy prices have risen in recent years It makes clear that it's largely due to wholesale gas prices. Which isn't news, and shouldn't need reiterating, but sadly does because of misinformation... www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-wh...

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“Without very massive mitigation over the next 20 years, or a massive volcanic eruption, I think it’s inevitable that we have entered the period at which we do cross the 1.5°C above pre-industrial threshold.” Story by @tinymaddie.bsky.social www.newscientist.com/article/2480...

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No surprise, but another warning here of summer drought risk in England & Scotland "Without appreciable late spring rainfall, summer will most likely commence with widely depressed river flows, with potential for environmental impacts and pressure on water resources" nrfa.ceh.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

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Gotta love this line in @fionaharvey.bsky.social story “There’s quite a few scientists that say we don’t need to get to net zero by 2050.” [Shadow UK energy minister Andrew] Bowie and his office were unable to name such scientists when pressed. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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UK energy secretary Ed Miliband has just given the planning green light to another major solar farm This one is 400MW and in East Yorkshire. Boom Power is the developer The govt has now approved >3GW of large-scale solar power since July infrastructure.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/wp-content/i...

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Why shouldn’t rivers have rights? Companies do, says nature writer @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social @thetimes.com interview here on his new book, Is a River Alive? 👇 www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

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The two men accused of felling the Sycamore Gap tree, Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers, have been found guilty, PA News Agency reports

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For the sake of clarity... No, the UK government is not going to "dim the sun" to tackle climate change UK climate minister Kerry McCarthy confirms there are no plans to deploy solar radiation management (aka solar geoengineering) questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques...

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Good stuff by @hugorifkind.bsky.social on Reform's anti net zero "ideologues" "We don’t want to end up as a dirty, backwards nation, still reliant on setting fire to stuff long after the likes of India and China have started asking us to stop." www.thetimes.com/article/68ea...

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Globally, April 2025 was the second-hottest April on record, continuing the long sequence of months over 1.5ºC above pre-industrial. Continuous #climate monitoring is an essential tool for understanding and responding to the ongoing changes of our climate system. 🌡️🧪⚒️🌊🌎🛰️

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Sir David Attenborough celebrates his 99th birthday today. Over his lifetime he has witnessed incredible changes to the biosphere. eg... When he was born in 1926, the atmospheric concentration of CO2 stood at 306 parts per million. Today, it has risen to 431ppm - and is still rising fast...

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The world’s largest offshore wind developer is halting work on a vast UK project blaming rising costs and risk of delays, in a blow to Britain’s clean energy goals. Ørsted said it was stopping spending and cancelling contracts for its Hornsea 4 project in the North Sea. www.ft.com/content/7015...

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Solar panels could be mandated on top of new car parks across England, Wales and Northern Ireland under plans being considered by ministers www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

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Elk could be reintroduced to Britain after 3,000 years #rewilding #greensky www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

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This is why mooting 'ditching net-zero' as the solution to Labour's woes is so silly. It's a policy that is popular with their core voters, critical to progressive voters they need to woo back, and Reform voters are sceptical but it's way down their priority list.

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NEW A court has ruled the UK's decision to ban sand eel fishing in English waters was a breach of the EU-UK trade deal. This is the first formal post-Brexit trade spat, over tiny silver fish. UK ban was to help puffins and other seabirds which rely on sand eels. pcacases.com/web/sendAtta...

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