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Climate scientists issue urgent warning to UK government on new oil and gas drilling

Post author:Abi Perrin
Post published:14 August 2026
Post last modified:14 August 2026

A fifth heatwave is hitting us. Wildfires are overwhelming the fire brigade’s capacity to respond. Drought is devastating harvests. The impacts of a fossil-fueled Climate Emergency are more visible than ever, yet signals from the government suggest they’ll support Shell & Equinor’s plans to drill for new oil and gas. Against this backdrop, in their starkest warning yet, the UK’s top climate scientists have written to the new energy secretary, urging her to protect lives and livelihoods above polluters’ profits. Deadly heat & dire warnings I’m writing this early in the morning, curtains drawn, knowing that in a few hours’ time…

Campaigners demand urgent government action this Severe ME Day

Post author:Rachel Charlton-Dailey
Post published:7 August 2026
Post last modified:7 August 2026

Another Severe Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) Awareness Week will pass in absolute silence from the government. The Canary has reported extensively on how ME patients are left to die in hospitals by the NHS. People like Sophia Mirza who died in 2005 after being sectioned under the mental health act without even basic nurse care. 8 August would be Sophia’s 53rd birthday; instead, she died aged 32. Severe ME Day is held on her birthday, 8 August, to honour her memory, and many others who have since lost their lives to this devastating disease and neglect caused by the NHS. Or 27-year-old…

Big Oil must foot the bill for urgent heat protection as Europe swelters

Post author:The Canary
Post published:13 July 2026
Post last modified:13 July 2026

As deadly heat covers Europe, governments must act quickly to protect lives and force fossil fuel companies to foot the bill. That’s the view of campaign group 350.org. There were more than 10,000 excess deaths across Europe during record-breaking heatwaves in June. Deadly wildfires are still raging in France and Spain. And even in the normally less extreme UK, the death toll has topped 2,700 and multiple fires have taken hold. Climate campaigners urge European governments to take urgent measures to protect the public, especially vulnerable populations, from heat impacts. This includes measures such as upgrading hospitals, care facilities, schools and…