Senior journalist with #BBCVerify, reporting on climate change mis- and disinformation. @BBCNews 🔎
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Judging by how often US President Donald Trump has repeated the slogan “Drill, baby, drill”, you might be tempted to think he coined the phrase. 🧵
An image appearing to show an elderly couple almost naked on the streets of Paris during riots has gathered millions of views - but it’s an AI fake. #BBCVerify
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Macron accuses foreign leaders of exploiting French riots bbc.in/4z53BRQ
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Images appearing to show the Pink Panther rioting in France have gathered millions of views across social media, but they’re actually AI.
Read more on the protests: bbc.in/3VZi2YS
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A new species of cat has been identified for the first time in a century—and experts think that there may be even more to discover around the world: on.natgeo.com/n5nxra
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RNLI reviews security after volunteers targeted online bbc.in/4r3JFva
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RNLI volunteer targeted online and branded 'traitor' after Portsmouth protests bbc.in/4cChNsp
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Fires are smoldering in Indonesia, which is in a severe and widespread drought. Some of these are tropical peatland fires, which burn slowly, release higher amounts of air pollution, and are notoriously difficult to extinguish.
ALT NASA satellite image of fire smoke covering much of Indonesia and Malaysia on September 1, 2026. The plumes are gray, with only some areas of green and brown land visible through the smoke. Red dots have been added to show where the MODIS instrument detected fires. The dots are primarily on the western and southern parts of Indonesia and often cluster together. Credit: NASA
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Satellite images show impact of heatwaves and drought on UK landscape bbc.in/45vKsev
Factcheck: No, Europe is not having its ‘quietest’ year for wildfires carbonbrief.org/factcheck-no… via @CarbonBrief
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Disinfo: real world, potentially fatal effects when it comes to Ebola. Outstanding reporting by @BBCMarcoSilva & @MwaiPetrov - bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c79y…
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It's been a cool May - so far🌡️
That's set to change quite dramatically over the coming days. A prolonged period of very warm weather is now increasingly likely. Temperatures will rise to well above average for May with the hottest spots possibly exceeding 30 Celsius📈
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Satellite images capture active California wildfires bbc.in/49ZNU3F
Adverts for Nike, Superdry and Lacoste have been banned for making misleading claims about their green credentials: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgm…
Snowfall❄️ in parts of the UK in the last two days has led some social media users to falsely claim that cold weather disproves climate change. 🧵
It also says that 2025 is likely to be the second or third warmest year on record, with average temperatures between January and August 1.42C above levels of the late 1800s. 🌡️☀️ wmo.int/media/news/2025-set-…
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (@IPCC_CH) says this is “unequivocally” being caused by human activity — mainly through the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil, and gas. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9w1…
