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Becky Dale
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Attempting social platform reboot… | Data journalist with BBC focusing on global storytelling and climate science
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Today’s story: 7 water companies have been ordered to reduce potentially harmful levels of forever chemicals in drinking water sources for more than 6 million people.

Water UK stresses the water is safe to drink but calls for a PFAS ban to prevent accumulation

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Firms ordered to reduce forever chemicals in drinking water for 6m people
The persistent pollutants which build up in the environment have been linked to serious illnesses.
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November 3, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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#Melissa makes landfall in southwestern Jamaica near New Hope as a powerful category 5 hurricane. For the latest updates visit http://hurricanes.gov https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G4XOBZmWcAAVNu6.png
October 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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NEW: How mega batteries are unlocking an energy revolution

Massive shipping containers packed with powerful batteries are shoring up grids & extending the use of clean power

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Latest visual story w/ @samlearner.bsky.social @inari-ta.bsky.social @samjoiner.bsky.social
How mega batteries are unlocking an energy revolution
Vast battery units are shoring up grids and extending the use of clean power
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October 13, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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History made for the ocean: #BBNJ Agreement enters into force, protecting high seas & deep seabed, safeguarding life under water.

“Our ocean is the foundation of our very existence. Today we took an important step forward to save our ocean, & to save our future” - ED @ingerandersen.bsky.social
September 20, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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Are you a journalist covering climate solutions? @jaimepalter.bsky.social and I have some advice for sharing these stories without hype, by balancing potential and challenges.

Online on 7 October 2025 at 13:00 (UTC-4)

Register here: uri-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
A promotional graphic for an online event titled “Balancing Hope with Hurdles: How to Cover Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal.” The headline is in large bold text, with "How to Cover Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal" in bright red. Below is a white box with black text that reads: “Register via Zoom: ow.ly/H3fu50WWJhX.” The event date and time are listed: “October 7, 2025, 1 PM (EST).” A description below states: “The Metcalf Institute and Solutions Journalism Network present a virtual, moderated training and Q&A to support journalists interested in telling nuanced stories on both the potential and obstacles of ocean-based climate solutions.” Two circular headshots of speakers appear on the right: Top: Jamie Palter, smiling with long blonde hair and glasses, wearing a red top. Text box reads: “Jamie Palter, University of Rhode Island.” Bottom: David Ho, wearing glasses and a collared shirt, with text: “David Ho, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.” At the bottom left is the Solutions Journalism Network logo in red and gray. At the bottom right is the Metcalf Institute logo in white, with the tagline “University of Rhode Island · Metcalf Institute.” The background is gray with a diagonal coral-colored section on the right edge.
September 15, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Been playing the newly launched Chartle game and pretty happy to have got today’s in one go.

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Line chart used in the Chartle game which shows the share of women in parliament by country from 2015-2024. One country’s line is highlighted red and the rest are white on a black background. The aim of the game is to guess the red country
September 14, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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Those small temperature changes are having an effect.

Record warm seas help to bring extraordinary new species to UK waters www.bbc.com/news/article...
Record warm seas help to bring extraordinary species to UK waters
The UK's seas have had their warmest first seven months of the year on average since records began.
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August 11, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Europe is breaking its reliance on American science - Reuters

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Europe is breaking its reliance on American science — Reuters
European governments are taking steps to break their dependence on critical scientific data the United States historically made freely available to the world, and are ramping up their own data collect...
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August 1, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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The court ruled that developing nations have a right to seek damages for the impacts of climate change

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Top UN court says countries can sue each other over climate change
The decision from the world's highest court has been welcomed by developing nations at most risk from climate change.
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July 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change
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July 23, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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Final report into 'broken' water industry says regulator Ofwat should be scrapped

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Final report into 'broken' water industry says regulator Ofwat should be scrapped - live updates
The major review led by former Bank of England deputy governor Sir Jon Cunliffe was issued by the government to
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July 21, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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The government of the tiny African kingdom of Lesotho has declared a two-year state of disaster, as its once-thriving garment industry unravels in the wake of Trump's tariffs threats.
"We are on our knees": U.S. tariffs devastate Lesotho's garment workers
The government of the tiny African kingdom of Lesotho has declared a two-year state of disaster, as its once-thriving garment industry unravels in the wake of Trump's tariffs threats.
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July 20, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Serious water pollution incidents up 60% in England, Environment Agency says www.bbc.com/news/article...
Serious water pollution in England up 60%, government says
Last year had the highest number of pollution events by water companies ever recorded.
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July 18, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Join the Copernicus WEkEO Service from 10-12 June for a two-day online workshop! Explore key climate challenges and learn how to use tools like Jupyter Notebooks, QGIS and R Studio for ecosystem monitoring. Register now!
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May 23, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.
Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund
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May 8, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Giant iceberg on crash course with island - penguins and seals in danger www.bbc.com/news/article...
A23a: Giant iceberg on collision course with island - penguins and seals in danger
More than twice the size of greater London, the expanse of ice is unpredictable and dangerous.
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January 23, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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The world has just seen its hottest-on-record year. Again.

2024 was also the first full calendar year to breach the critical 1.5C warming threshold, according to @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social

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A ridgeline chart with descending years from 1940 to 2024. Each ridge shows the distribution of daily temperature differences from pre-industrial levels. Until the 1970/, at least some days were still below the reference period, but afterwards years get increasingly warmer. By 2024, most days are clustered at and above 1.5 degrees warmer.
January 10, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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A good news story AND a pretty chart 🤩 🌬️🪁 !
Wind provided more electricity than ever last year as the UK moved further away from planet-warming fossil fuels to power the nation, new data shows.
Lovely work by @beckydale.bsky.social and Mark Poynting
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Chart of the growth of wind power in GB, with a blue-coloured slice for each day from 2009 to 2024. The intensity of the colour increases as a higher proportion of GB electricity in generated from wind. In 2009 the chart is very pale blue, indicating that a low proportion of wind power was used. By the 2020s this has increased significantly and there are now lots of days with 50% or more wind power being used.
January 7, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Myanmar's secret soldier-spies have been undermining military control. We've spoken to a few of them to learn.

Read about it here and watch The Watermelons documentary on BBC iPlayer: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Soldier-spies in Myanmar help pro-democracy rebels make gains
Leaked intelligence from military spies is helping turn the civil war in the resistance’s favour, BBC finds.
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December 20, 2024 at 9:13 AM
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You wanted starter packs to be searchable. Our engineers are busy keeping us online, so in the meantime, an independent developer built a new searchable library of starter packs. This is the beauty of building in the open 🦋
November 26, 2024 at 5:11 AM
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Another day another broken climate record.

The past 12 months have seen average temperatures above the 1.5C threshold for the first time.
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World's first year-long breach of key 1.5C warming limit
The last 12 months were the hottest on record, temporarily sending the world past a deeply symbolic mark.
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February 8, 2024 at 10:04 AM
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Hello world 🙃
July 2, 2023 at 10:58 PM