Current infrastructure for alerting people to wildfire risk is inadequate, according to @emmahowardboyd.bsky.social from the National Heat Risk Commission. Government should adopt Met Office-style alerts for wildfire risk she says, as we face the prospect of increased fire activity.

"Climate change is real and the Right needs to get serious about it" Dismissing a crisis destroying farming, rural tradition and everything conservatives claim to love, the Online Right has got climate change badly wrong, argues Telegraph columnist Tim Stanley. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/07...

"Now is not a time to walk away from the international negotiating table. Now is the time to double down." The clean energy transition is creating British jobs and attracting global investment, nations are asking how to follow suit, argues Rachel Kyte, the UK's Special Representative for Climate.

"What we used to think of as extreme, we increasingly consider as normal." 2025 was the UK's warmest year on record, the sixth time this century, The last four years all in the top five warmest on record. Mike Kendon, lead author of the State of the UK Climate report, speaks on the Today programme.

A tragic example of how heatwaves are taking lives today. Prof Emily Shuckburgh, director of @CambridgeZero and chief scientific advisor at @DESNZ_stats, reveals on @BBCr4today how her own father was the victim of a 36ºC heatwave last month.

Electric cars are better at keeping cool in the heatwave Pre-cool the cabin before you get in, run the air con while parked without idling, and power fans or cool boxes directly from the battery. Standard features across most of the EV market. www.drive-electric.co.uk/news/beat-th...

Energy costs are stopping manufacturers from cutting emissions. "UK companies want to invest, innovate and decarbonise, but they cannot do so while electricity prices remain internationally uncompetitive," says @MakeUK_, as soaring bills pose a £85bn hit to the UK economy if firms go to the wall.

In his first interview since winning the Makerfield by-election, PM-in-waiting Andy Burnham says water, energy, and transport need to be put under "more public control" to get those "bills down".

Europe experiences "most severe and widespread heatwave" ever @wwattribution.bsky.social

A ten day heatwave reduces productivity as much as a five per cent energy price spike, says the OECD's Hélia Costa.

Adapting homes for a hotter future As the UK faces another spell of extreme heat, practical changes can help keep homes cooler and more resilient as hotter summers become the norm. Polly Turton from Shade the UK gives advice on BBC Radio Ulster.

Cool spaces available across London during heatwave As temperatures near record June highs and schools close across England and Wales, Emma Howard Boyd discusses practical ways to stay safe in extreme heat, including London's network of cool spaces on BBC Breakfast. apps.london.gov.uk/cool-spaces/

As UK braces for record heat, lessons from 2022 remain Britain's first 40C heatwave exposed vulnerabilities across transport, schools and hospitals, highlighting the need to prepare infrastructure for more frequent extreme heat. Emma Howard Boyd CBE speaks to Sarah Montague on the World at One.

The government is set to U-turn on electric cars for the third time in three years. "There are already flexibilities within the mandate." Reports suggest the ZEV Mandate will be watered down again. Vicky Read speaks to BBC on how the target is being misrepresented.

India's tuk-tuks are going electric. The three-wheelers are leading the shift – nearly 70% sold in India last year were battery-powered. At 0.50 rupees per km versus 2.50 for petrol, the economics made the case. www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

EV sales hit highest market share of 2026. “The industry has already met its targets for the ZEV mandate this year, customers continue to buy EVs,” - James Court, Public Policy Director, Octopus Electric Vehicles. Battery electric vehicles accounted for 27.3% of new UK car registrations in May.

Recycled wind turbines could become a key UK source of rare earth materials. A new report says recycling neodymium from decommissioned turbines could be over 70% cheaper than importing. The material could supply magnets to 1 million EVs and boost UK manufacturing. www.imeche.org/news/news-ar...

"We can expect certain food imports to become more expensive, and that'll have a knock on impact on inflation." The El Niño year declared by the @wmo-global.bsky.social will threaten crop yields and destabilise the global food system, @oxmartinschool.bsky.social's Professor Myles Allan says.

London's penguins will finally see daylight. 🐧 After a two-year campaign by the Daily Express, Born Free and Freedom for Animals, Sea Life London has agreed to move 14 gentoo penguins from a basement to a larger outdoor enclosure. @stephspyro.bsky.social who led the campaign spoke to Matthew Wright

"In just about two days, we had temperatures going up by 10 degrees." Heat spikes, temperatures surging by 10°C in just two days are becoming more common in the UK. Dr Akshay Deoras, Senior Research Scientist at the University of Reading explains on the Today programme.

School streets are "making the road safer and less polluted for children and siblings, parents and carers," says @mumsforlungs.bsky.social's Jemima Hartshorn. @tflondon.bsky.social has announced 200 new streets, on top of 800 schemes, which restrict traffic at drop-off and pick-up times.

Utah AI data centre sparks concern. A proposed 9GW facility in Utah could generate waste heat equivalent to 23 atomic bombs per day. Its power demand matches New York City, with build costs over $300bn. datacenters.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/investm...

Burger King UK goes wind-powered. A Dorset wind farm will supply a franchise's restaurants in an 8MW deal arranged by Evolve Energy, with real-time half-hourly matching of restaurant electricity demand with wind generation. renews.biz/111814/evolv...

Only 5% of UK homes have air conditioning, says CCC. With record May temperatures, campaigners are calling for air con in hospitals, schools and care homes to protect the vulnerable. Air-to-air heat pumps heat and cool, one technology, two jobs. @richardlowes.bsky.social @regassistproj.bsky.social

"If we start preparing now to think about transport, offices and homes in temperatures exceeding 40 degrees, we can avoid major problems. But we do have to start thinking of it now," says @ucl.ac.uk's Professor Ilan Kelman.

“For every one unit of energy you put in, you get two units out.” Air conditioning, effectively heat pump technology, will be vital as extreme heat becomes more common. Climate advisers say 9 in 10 UK homes aren’t built for rising heat, and fewer than 5% have air conditioning. @eciu.net

🌡️"We have a minimum temperature in the workplace, and yet we're becoming a warmer country." The UK should enforce a maximum working temperature, Baroness Brown of the government's climate watchdog, @theCCCuk says. She adds extreme heat could mean 10,000 heat-related fatalities in future summers.

Bitter news for tea lovers. Climate change is driving extreme weather in Kenya, India and Sri Lanka, threatening to make Britain's favourite drink more bitter and less consistent, Christian Aid warns in a new report. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05...

"Recycling cannot keep up with the volume being produced." UK households bin 1.6 billion pieces of plastic packaging every week. Only 16% gets recycled, 59% is burned, the rest landfilled or shipped abroad. Daniel Webb speaks to LBC News on the results of the UK-wide Big Plastic Count.

"If you can produce your own energy, you bring down your bill." Homegrown energy is the best way to insulate ourselves from global fossil fuel shocks, as has happened after the Iran conflict, says Electrify Britain CEO Camilla Born on GB News.