Becky Dale

In maps: Strikes across Iran and the Middle East Iranian strikes on targets across the Middle East and Gulf regions continued on Monday after the US and Israel launched strikes on Iran killing the country's supreme leader.

Back from leave and back to mapping.

BBC Verify is keeping close tabs on the conflict in the Middle East

In maps: Strikes across Iran and the Middle East www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Naked images remained in Epstein files despite outcry Four images seen by BBC Verify show partially clothed women with their faces and bodies unredacted.

Amidst the Epstein Files clamour, we’re still finding evidence of poor and inconsistent redactions. Days after the initial outcry: Naked images remained in Epstein files despite outcry www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Would love to be at this in November!

Solar's not the biggest renewable in Britain but it drove last year's rise to record renewable generation.

From @beckydale.bsky.social @markpoynting.bsky.social & Jess Carr's

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Two part graphic showing the daily contribution of solar in Great Britain’s electricity. The top half is a single tile chart arranged in 30-minute blocks from midnight on left to 23:59 on right with each row representing one day and ordered top-to-bottom from 1 January to 31 December 2025. Blocks are shaded by strength of generation share. In 2025, more than a dozen blocks are dark orange to show share above 40 percent. Contribution in summer days is longer and generally stronger than in winter. The second part of the graphic repeats the format as a small multiple with one fart for each year from 2013 to 2024. Each year increases in strength over that period but 2025 is the greatest contributor overall.

New record year for renewable electricity in Britain - thanks especially to strong solar output.

Read our analysis of 2025 here www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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.

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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#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

How mega batteries are unlocking an energy revolution Vast battery units are shoring up grids and extending the use of clean power

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

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

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.

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...

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

Been playing the newly launched Chartle game and pretty happy to have got today’s in one go.

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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.

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...

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...

Europe is breaking its reliance on American science - Reuters

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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.

The court ruled that developing nations have a right to seek damages for the impacts of climate change

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E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...

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

Final report into 'broken' water industry says regulator Ofwat should be scrapped

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"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.

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.

Serious water pollution in England up 60%, government says Last year had the highest number of pollution events by water companies ever recorded.

Serious water pollution incidents up 60% in England, Environment Agency says www.bbc.com/news/article...

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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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

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.

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.

Giant iceberg on crash course with island - penguins and seals in danger www.bbc.com/news/article...

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.

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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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.

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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ဖရဲသီးတွေရဲ့အကူအညီနဲ့ တော်လှန်ရေးသမားတွေ ကြီးမားတဲ့ အောင်မြင်မှုရ - BBC News မြန်မာ စစ်တပ်သတင်းပေးတွေက ဒီမိုကရေစီ ဘက်တော်သားတွေ အရင်က မတွေးနိုင်လောက်တဲ့ အောင်မြင်မှုတွေရအောင် ဘယ်လို ကူညီပေးနေတယ်ဆိုတာ BBC Eye ဌာနက ဖော်ထုတ်ခဲ့ပါတယ်။

And if you’d rather test your language skills, head to BBC Burmese www.bbc.com/burmese/arti...

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.

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...

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 🦋

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.

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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