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Number of UK newspaper editorials arguing for more (blue) and less (red) climate action, 2011-2025. Some editorials also present a “balanced” view, which is categorised as advocating for neither “more” nor “less” climate action. These editorials are not represented in this chart. Source: Carbon Brief analysis.

NEW – Analysis: UK newspaper editorial opposition to climate action overtakes support for first time | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @sylviahayes.bsky.social

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19.01.2026 08:00 — 👍 165    🔁 115    💬 9    📌 53

A little egret standing in a clear fast flowing stream

Cheonggyecheon Stream in Seoul. A shallow clear stream lined with people, artwork and trees.

See also Cheonggyecheon in Seoul

12.01.2026 17:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

One of the world’s major megacities is about to completely run out of water. Why isn’t this a bigger news story?!

29.11.2025 14:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The BBC has so thoroughly culled its science team that the national broadcaster is now using journalists from other corporations as correspondents on its flagship Inside Science show, rather than the wealth of specialists I was able to draw from. What a sad loss

25.11.2025 10:35 — 👍 66    🔁 16    💬 1    📌 1

~$2.5bn in profits, ~35% profit margin

14.11.2025 17:46 — 👍 4    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

interested to see if you get a response. I didn’t.

07.11.2025 18:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

For 61 years the #BBCWorldService has been broadcasting the latest in science via its weekly Science in Action programme. That dies in the next half hour, with this final edition, reflecting on the fall in trust in expertise driven by malign interests over recent years.

30.10.2025 20:20 — 👍 305    🔁 197    💬 25    📌 25

For years Roland has worked tirelessly to inform BBC listeners about societally-relevant science. This is exactly the WRONG time, BBC, to be letting him go! 😠

30.10.2025 20:44 — 👍 128    🔁 53    💬 2    📌 1

Biallelic variants in the non-coding RNA gene RNU4-2 cause a recessive neurodevelopmental syndrome with distinct white matter changes Genetic variants in RNU4-2, which encodes U4, a key non-coding small nuclear RNA (snRNA) component of the major spliceosome, were recently shown to cause a prevalent neurodevelopmental disorder (NDD) ...

The headlines?

1) Variants on both copies of #RNU4-2 cause a recessive neurodevelopmental disorder with prominent speech delay
2) One of the hallmarks is distinct white matter changes on MRI
3) It is clinically and genetically distinct from #ReNU syndrome

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

18.08.2025 11:22 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

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What a huge loss for science communication and journalism. For what it is worth I will feed back to the BBC..any other suggestions?

- worldservice.letters@bbc.co.uk
- overtoyou@bbc.co.uk
- www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comm...

22.04.2025 11:12 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0