Sam Kipling

As National Parks turn 75, a new report highlights only 6% of their land is recorded as being in good health for nature - with the Yorkshire Dales having less tree cover than York and waterways across these special places heavily polluted by sewage released from storm overflows.

W Antarctic ice shelf melt 'unavoidable'. The⁦⁦ result is potentially appalling. Why no graphic on ⁦@BBCNews⁩ site showing how many cities would drown without massive spending? And what about farmland? ⁦@rburgessbbc⁩ ⁦@BBCJustinR⁩ bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…

This is 23-year-old Bobbi Gibb in 1966, right after becoming the first woman to run the Boston marathon. A few months earlier, Gibb had received a letter in the mail, disqualifying her for the marathon. The letter stated that women are "not physiologically able to run a marathon." The Amateur Athletics Union even went as far as prohibiting women from running more than 1.5 miles (2.4 km), and the organizers of the Boston Marathon did not want to "take the liability" of having a woman compete. However, the rejection letter only emboldened her. On the day of the race, Gibb showed up wearing a blue hooded sweatshirt over a black swimsuit and her brother's Bermuda shorts. She hid behind a bush near the starting line and waited. When the starting gun fired, Gibb waited some more until about half the runners had passed. She then jumped in and blended into the pack. However, it wasn't long before the men saw that she was a woman. To her surprise, she was not met with hostility but with encouragement and support. She removed her sweatshirt and finished the race in 3 hours and 21 minutes and 40 seconds, beating two-thirds of the runners. Diana Chapman Walsh, who later went on to become the President of Wellesley College, recalled that day many years later: "That was my senior year at Wellesley. As I had done every spring since I arrived on campus, I went out to cheer the runners. But there was something different about that Marathon Day-like a spark down a wire, the word spread to all of us lining the route that a woman was running the course. For a while, the 'screech tunnel' fell silent. We scanned face after face in breathless anticipation until just ahead of her, through the excited crowd, a ripple of recognition shot through the lines, and we cheered as we never had before. We let out a roar that day, sensing that this woman had done more than just break the gender barrier in a famous race..."

Surprising. Astounding. Staggering. Unnerving. Bewildering. Flabbergasting. Disquieting. Gobsmacking. Shocking. Mind boggling.

🚨Last week was 1.9C hotter than pre-industrial temperatures, the biggest anomaly ever recorded carbonbrief.org/debriefed-29-s…

BBC News - Antarctic sea-ice at 'mind-blowing' low alarms experts bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…

Managed to find the most important part of the Royal Armouries. Tucked away in a quiet corner. The peace section. 🕊️

‘Gigantic’ power of meat industry blocking green alternatives, study finds - Analysis of US and EU shows livestock farmers receive about 1,000 times more public funding than plant-based and cultivated meat #meat Story by me theguardian.com/environment/20…

This image breaks me. At 2.7 degrees of warming, which is our present policy trajectory, two billion people will be exposed to extreme heat. 99.7% of those people live in the global South. People who have done nothing to cause this crisis. The injustice is staggering.

I don't know how it is possible that Biden doesn't understand all that is at stake here, but, based on his consistent eagerness to expand fossil fuels, I am convinced he does not. He must declare climate emergency. Now. My latest piece: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

1. Global warming will continue until we reach net-zero. 2. The climate consequences will keep getting worse until we reach net-zero. 3. After reaching net-zero we will have to live and suffer in a warmer world for generations. Do we act now or delay further?

One year since record-breaking temperatures hit the UK, new heat-maps published today visualize the dramatic cooling effect of trees in some urban areas. @SeabrookClimate @GreenpeaceUK @ChloeFarand @natalieben news.sky.com/story/heatmaps…

Today, @UNSG @antonioguterres urged for more ambition & action to cut carbon emissions by 45% by 2030. #IPCC's #ClimateReport shows that current policies are not on track to limit #globalwarming to 1.5°C. 👉 bit.ly/SRYRpt23

Exactly 120 years ago today there were large floods across southern England. We have maps of the rainfall and photos of the consequences. Yes, flooding has happened before, but what if the same weather patterns occurred now, in a warmer world? Would there be more rain?

Three of the most terrifying graphs on the internet right now.

Another day, another record for the North Atlantic. Everything is happening so fast, it's hard to get a sense of the enormity of these anomalies, let alone their consequences.

FACTCHECK: Me in the @guardian on why Rowan Atkinson has been "duped" about electric vehicles – just not in the way he thinks theguardian.com/environment/20…

“It is difficult to see how Britain would be in the position it is in now – weakened politically and economically … –if a truly independent and accountable press had provided the necessary checks on power all healthy democracies need.” bylinetimes.com/2023/06/06/pri…

@TheBishF1 Triumph spitfire in American car park

As floods & fires rise, oceans boil & ice melts, and "safe" temperatures are breached, something momentous just happened in the heart of the EU. No one has heard about it: journalists were present, but their editors refused to publish 🤯. 🧵, please RT. #BeyondGrowth2023 1/