When is a Green City better for the health & wellbeing of all it’s citizens? When it’s also a Nature City youtu.be/-hly5TA46hw #NatureCities #GreenInfrastructure #InclusiveDesign

🎆✨after #fireworks comes the cleanups ✨ #Sparklers remain hazardous when left in the environment. So… and extra Thanks to the meticulous #litterpickers 🚮

Another storm is on the way for the UK as we head into the weekend ⚠️ #StormBoelo will bring damaging winds with disruption expected, stay #WeatherAware Latest info 👉 bit.ly/WxWarning

🌳 🍂 Are you getting your autumn awe? 🐿️ 4 minute film highlighting the health benefits: ⏯️ youtu.be/poWwbW4sRJQ #AutumnWalks #SustainableWellbeing

This autumn, leave the leaves to help biodiversity in urban areas 🍂 It's a protective habitat layer insulating the soil, providing safe overwintering cover for animals, and feeding local food webs We all can help protecting habitats – starting in our gardens #worldhabitatday

RT @MayorofLondon: London’s rivers are getting the clean-up they deserve. This World Rivers Day, I’m celebrating our waterways and the wor…

Global warming is set to cross 1.5°C, pushing climate risks and impacts to increasingly dangerous heights, a new UNEP report warns.   Predicted impacts include extreme weather and threats to human health and economies.   Action now can still limit the magnitude and duration of the peak and preserve the possibility of returning to or below 1.5°C through an ‘overshoot, peak, and decline’ pathway   Explore more: unep.org/news-and-stories/pr…

Try eating just 2 meals per day | Tim Spector

Water safety experts tips for how to stay safe when swimming in open water. #HeatWaves #WaterSafety bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9q3…

Starting tomorrow, an amber heat-health alert has been issued across most of the country. It’s in place from 8-12 July. Many of us welcome the hot weather, but it can put some people’s health at risk - particularly if they’re vulnerable. Learn more ➡️ nhs.uk/live-well/seasonal-he…

⛱️ Lets keep beaches bottle free 🚮Preventing broken glass. #BeachSafety #LitterPicking 👣

Accelerating innovative & Nature Based Adaptation strategies is a priority.

Beautiful example of ‘out of the box thinking’ 🌇 🌦️

🧭Great initiative. … #ClimateAdaptation Civic & Infrastructure improvements must accelerate + Innovate to prevent #ExtremeWeather emergencies. #PEBuk

In 2025 and 2026, researchers confirmed something that should have been obvious but wasn't: forests are catching microplastics out of the air. Most microplastics in the environment were assumed to arrive in water. Rivers, runoff, ocean currents. But when scientists examined forest soil and compared it to nearby open land, they found microplastic concentrations were higher in forests, not lower. When they traced the pathway, the mechanism was clear: airborne microplastics drift in the atmosphere globally, including over remote wilderness. When they encounter a tree canopy, the leaves act as a filter. The microplastics settle on the leaves. When it rains, they wash off and fall to the soil. When leaves decompose in autumn, they carry the particles down with them. Researchers called this the "comb-out effect." The forest is combing microplastics out of the air. A 2026 study found that microplastic concentrations in rural forest soil were higher than in some urban areas. The forests farthest from cities, surrounded by the cleanest-seeming air, are accumulating plastic particles because they are efficient atmospheric filters. The implications are still being worked out. Forests are storing a new category of pollutant they did not evolve to handle. The question is what this means for soil ecology, root systems, and the organisms living in forest soils. So far: unknown. But the assumption that remote forests are pristine is no longer supportable. #nature #science #conservation #forestfacts

‘Play in the sunshine’ 🛝🌳🌇 With adequate shade, it is possible during hot summers. #urbanplanning #greeninfrastructure #outdoorplay 🍃

A short news clip looking at #LondonRiversWeek 23rd - 31st May 2026 youtu.be/nqhs-EoR6Y8

Heat can bring out the worst as well as the best in people ~ Handy resources here: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz6g… for reducing temperatures during hot summer weather. #Heatwave #Relaxation #KeepCool