Scientists warn that the Trump administration's push to dismantle a vital network of ocean-sensing instruments will stymie crucial weather and climate monitoring in the Pacific and Atlantic
Two companies are aiming to preserve Arctic ice by pumping water onto the sheet and letting it freeze, but only one of the trials found that this delayed melting in the summer
A patch of ocean south-east of Greenland is the only place on Earth that is cooling, and it could be a sign that the warm water "conveyor belt" in the Atlantic is slowing down
Scientists warn that the Trump administration's push to dismantle a vital network of ocean-sensing instruments will stymie crucial weather and climate monitoring in the Pacific and Atlantic
Two companies are aiming to preserve Arctic ice by pumping water onto the sheet and letting it freeze, but only one of the trials found that this delayed melting in the summer
A patch of ocean south-east of Greenland is the only place on Earth that is cooling, and it could be a sign that the warm water "conveyor belt" in the Atlantic is slowing down
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After he ran out of oxygen, Dawa Sherpa spent six days hauling himself down Mt Everest through crevasses & avalanches, the 1st person to survive an accident at 7,500 meters alone www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Peat PV could be a win-win-win for climate, biodiversity and landowners' wallets.
Why isn't the UK looking into this more? www.newscientist.com/article/2529...
@sparkes.bsky.social almost got hit by a Waymo on his bike: "The AI didn’t look like it was going to stop, so a human jumped in".
While AI has potential to be safer than human drivers, that can change with one tweak to the algorithm, so cities need to be vigilant www.newscientist.com/article/2529...
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Trump’s dismantling of the Ocean Observatories Initiative moorings will leave the US “flying blind” into El Niño, with little view of the impacts on major fisheries like the Pacific NW
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EVs are cheaper to buy and cheaper to run. In the UK, you now pay 2x as much to operate a gas car www.thetimes.com/money/family...
Approvals for new gas-fired power plants rose to a 25-year high last year
Until 2023, most gas-fired power plant approvals were in gas-importing countries, but the US now dominates orders, driven by data centre demand
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A diverse range of bird species has been recorded at a solar park on rewetted peatland in Germany, suggesting that combining energy generation with habitat restoration could benefit biodiversity, the ...
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Scientists warn that the Trump administration's push to dismantle a vital network of ocean sensing instruments will stymie crucial weather and climate monitoring in the Pacific and Atlantic
Good morning with good news: China's ICE sales fall 79%!
China is ending internal combustion only vehicles.
China's sales of ICE vehicles plunge 79% in May 2026 from peak ~10 years ago.
ICE sales fell from monthly peak of 2,660,000 to 560,000.
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A near miss with a Waymo while cycling through London hasn't changed my optimistic stance on driverless cars, but we can't ever let our guard down, says Matthew Sparkes
