Glad I was able to catch this event. It's really interesting to see how these two publications are keeping local news alive (and holding local government to account).
India’s monsoon has had an unusually weak start and the lackluster rainfall is likely to persist, threatening crops and industrial activity as the El Niño weather phenomenon takes hold.
Forty drown across France in heatwave and parts of Spain above 30C at night
On the remarkable Biodiversity Heritage Library, & the threats to its funding:
"The BHL is an invaluable online archive of historic texts on species living & lost supplied by the world’s leading museums & universities. Now its future is in doubt"
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#History
🔴 NEW - Senior UK Politicians to Mix With Oil Execs, Far-Right Figures, and Anti-Abortion Activists at London Conference
📝 @writesbright.bsky.social & @unearthednews.bsky.social
pool still green even though trump want pool blue
It is 2040. Vast Swathes of the UK are approaching a fatal wet bulb temperature, with government mandated evacuations to Scotland. The BBC has run with a picture of people on the beach and the title “The Great Summer Getaway”
NEW: The UK plans to use AI face scans to determine the age of asylum seekers at the border from next year.
However, a leaked report shows the government has known the tech isn’t accurate for more than a year.
In some cases, the technology could predict a 13.5-year-old to be an adult
🔴 SCOOP: Farage doesn't seem to want to answer questions about his money.
So I went looking - and found that the Reform leader's personal company is in breach of UK company law
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-n...
Global heating takes another life
www.theguardian.com/environment/...