The aurora last night here in Beaver, Alaska was extremely bright and active. Here is a video showing the real-time motion and the brightness of the aurora reflecting off the snow and turning it a bright green color.

Storm #Marta sweeping in across Iberia..

“You can’t play if you get sick”: Measles vaccination in El Geneina, Sudan A six-day campaign immunized more than 174,000 children against this deadly disease.

A six-day campaign immunized more than 174,000 children against measles in Sudan. ❤️
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#bbcaq If Norway is the model, then perhaps its lead in pushing EVs is the aspect to focus on.

Absolutely - if it was wrong to appoint Mandelson as the UK's US ambassador because of his links to Epstein, and it was; it is equally as wrong for Farage to have appointed Nick Candy as Reform's treasurer. There is no getting round that ... except there is because Farage is a scrutiny free zone.

The Icicle Works - Live Is Full of Wonderful Colour, and/or Evangeline and/or Understanding Jane.

26 days in a row with rain in Reading. Longest such sequence on record in observations at the University going back to 1908.

The US state department is set to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities across Europe to disseminate Washington's policy positions and challenge perceived threats to free speech. Senior state department official Sarah Rogers travelled to Europe in December to meet influential rightwing think-tanks and has spoken to key figures in Nigel Farage's populist Reform UK party about deploying a pot of money to spread American values, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. The funding was linked to the 250th anniversary celebrations of US independence later this year, the people said. It is likely to cause consternation among Washington's allies, particularly centre-left governments such as Labour in the UK, which will be concerned that US government funds are being deployed to undermine their policies.

Remember the controversy when Obama was accused of intervening in UK politics? This is the current US government openly seeking to undermine liberal democracy in Europe.

Map of UK showing detail for February 2026 UK Hydrological Outlook

Latest UK Hydrological Outlook 🌧️

River flows in eastern Scotland likely normal to above normal over next 3 months; flows elsewhere in the normal range except southern England. Here, river flows & groundwater levels likely above normal to notably high.

See more: hydoutuk.net/latest-outlook 🧪

Although there will of course be commentary on the political fallout of the Epstein files, as that will likely be consequential, the number one focus and priority must be absolutely clear: the industrial scale abuse of women and girls by powerful, rich men.

While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot.

I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

The comms rep just had no ability to comprehend that AI takes in the information that already exists in the world and repackages it. Our reporting had yet to be published and therefore wasn't out in the world hadn't been ingested by any chatbot.

And they just... believed the chatbot.

We need to talk about drought. Yes, that's right, drought! Our weather is experiencing extremes – from flooding to drought – so on the next episode of Counting the Earth, we'll be delving deeper into this whiplash weather.

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‘If I think about what this means, I want to cry’: what happens when a city loses its university? When Essex University’s Southend campus opened, it was a message of hope for a ‘left behind’ UK seaside town. Its closure will be felt far beyond its 800 students, some of whom will not get their degr...

Excellent article but stark reminder that for all the perceptions of universities as ivory towers for elites, they are actually vital hubs in towns n cities supporting local businesses and providing key services as well as education….

For those commenting that Voyager 1 will be 1 light day away in November 2026, that's from Earth. My post said from the Sun. That happens on February 3, 2027.

Nice summary of observed climate fingerprints, as climate stripes.

The stratosphere cooling is an important sign of human influence. With more GHGs absorbing outgoing heat, less reaches the stratosphere and it cools.

Other causes - if the sun got hotter - would not cool the stratosphere.

Warming stripes for different layers of the atmosphere and ocean from 1960-2025. The ocean and troposphere are warming, the stratosphere is cooling.

Climate 'fingerprints' mark human activity from the top of the atmosphere to the bottom of the ocean

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#Mozambique is facing its worst #floods in decades. Nearly 700,000 people have been affected, over 100 are dead and many remain missing. Homes and critical infrastructure have been destroyed.
The video shows #Copernicus #Sentinel2 before and after the #flood. #climateemergency

In 1 year from today, Voyager 1 will be one light day from the Sun. 🔭
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One from the archives. A sea urchin larva moving very gracefully across my slide. Did you know sea urchins started life like this?

#marineplankton 🦑

Person: say, i am alive. Computer: I am alive. Person: oh my god.

Northern Ireland sees wettest January in 149 years as 2026 gets off to a wet and windy start January 2026 was a notably unsettled month for many across the UK, with persistent spells of heavy rain and strong winds.

Northern Ireland has seen its wettest January in 149 years - it’s 2nd wettest on record - according to provisional Met Office statistics.

🌧 Southern England has seen its 6th wettest Jan on record
🌡️ Mean temps have been just below average
☀️ Sunshine has been average

Read more in our press release:

My jaw has hit the floor. The second strongest Earth-facing #SolarFlare since 2017 is currently underway on the Sun! X8.0-class levels exceeded.

It's very good, but I'm slightly disappointed there's no Enceledus.

The pivot from 'we shouldn't bother with Net Zero 'cause China' to 'How does China have a massive lead in so many key 21st century technologies' doesn't seem to have caused any reflection at all from quite a few parties.

On immigration, a fruitless pursuit of Reform voters, fuelling the deluded obsession with small boat migrants.

(More people attend English League Two football matches to watch the likes of Accrington Stanley and Crawley Town in an average week than arrived by small boat in the whole of 2025.)

3/n

New research in Nature shows climate change could greatly disrupt malaria control across Africa.

Extreme weather poses the biggest threat, potentially leading to 100m+ extra cases and 500k additional deaths by 2050.

Read more in our latest blog ⬇️
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A kākāpō egg being candled. Credit: Andrew Digby

Working with #kakapo, this is the best thing you'll ever see. When "candling" an egg you hold your breath, hoping to see this: beautiful embryo development in a fertile egg. This is Tiwhiri's second egg, about 8 days old. About half of eggs are infertile. #kakapo2026 #conservation #birds

Yeah, I’ve not seen ads in years on the new or old app. I must have paid the small amount to remove them & it remembered, but it was long enough ago I don’t remember doing it.