EU’s energy crisis response is broader than expected: remote work mandates, heat pump subsidies, EV leasing schemes — plus electrification targets and new laws to tax electricity below fossil fuels.

Chernobyl's last wedding: The couple who married as a nuclear disaster unfolded Serhiy and Iryna married 40 years ago, unaware a nuclear reactor had exploded less than 3 miles away.

It was just after midnight. Iryna Stetsenko had finished doing her nails for her wedding. They had no idea that the world's worst ever nuclear accident was unfolding less than 2.5 miles (4km) away.

BBC 19th April 2026
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What does the new £1bn investment in community energy really mean? It’s the largest public investment in community-owned green power in the UK to date. But what exactly is being promised, and how can communities get involved?

UK £1bn investment in community energy to create opportunities for communities to take “a direct stake in a clean, green, more affordable energy future,” to deliver 8GW of locally owned clean energy by 2030.
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Dyslexia Superpowers: 6 Strengths of Dyslexic Thinking Discover 6 dyslexia superpowers that show how these neurodivergent thinkers excel at creativity, influencing, problem-solving, innovation, and more.

"Dyslexic people hold a unique set of skills that will be really important to the future of business—the ability to think flexibly, creatively, and solve really complex problems."
dyslexic entrepreneur Richard Branson
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Stunning growth of battery storage puts it at centre of global energy security needs, for cars and for grids The demand for batteries - for EVs and grid - has surged in the last year and is getting a further boost from the global fuel crisis as countries think energy security.

Stunning growth of battery storage puts it at centre of global energy security needs, for cars and for grids reneweconomy.com.au/stunning-gro...

Ending oil dependency cycle | The Express Tribune Ending oil dependency cycle

Pakistan went from <5% to 25%+ solar in 4 years. Remarkable.

I was cited in Pakistan's Express Tribune on exactly this — but also on what the Hormuz crisis revealed: electricity resilience ≠ energy security.

tribune.com.pk/story/2602438/ending-oil-dependency-cycle

100 Prozent erneuerbare Energien günstiger als gedacht Eine Simulationsstudie zeigt: 100 Prozent erneuerbarer Strom in Deutschland könnte günstiger und machbarer sein als gedacht.

Fully renewable electricity supply. German Federal Network Agency confirm this is fundamentally possible.

www.elektroauto-news.net/news/100-pro...

Record number of homes in Great Britain turn to green energy as fuel prices soar Iran war drives demand for solar panels, heat pumps and EVs, with energy bills expected to rise 18% from July

2026 Oil/Gas Price Spike is different!

Why?

Cheap EVs, cheap home solar, cheap batteries and better heat pumps are available to substitute for oil and gas burners.

China's low-cost, high quality EVs are also available in UK.

www.theguardian.com/business/202... #energysky

Good morning with good news: Cheap EVs arrive in UK with 2026 Oil Price Spike & UK solar/heat pump sales surge.

1. EVs cost less to buy for the first time!
2. Solar home system sales skyrocket ~80% in March.
3. Heat pump installations double in March.
www.publicnow.com/view/5B62B1A... #energysky

Community garden full of wildflowers in Cambridge, UK

How many people out there are giving wildflowers a chance by leaving areas of their gardens uncut this year? Please repost if you are offering a lifeline to pollinators like bees, butterflies, moths, hoverflies and bats by mowing less!

Earthjustice is suing Trump's EPA for failing to fully implement the lifesaving national soot standard that is supposed to protect us from dangerous air pollution.

Doctors and scientists have made it overwhelmingly clear that soot pollution sickens and kills people.

See an orangutan, take a photo, earn some money: A viable conservation model? In Kapuas Hulu district in Indonesia’s West Kalimantan province, a pilot program is attempting to change how people living in Borneo perceive and engage with wildlife and wildlife conservation.…

Can paying people to photograph wildlife save species?

KehatiKu, a program in Indonesian Borneo, is testing this model by paying citizens to log sightings. While the app has collected 175,000 records in its first year, experts question if financial incentives can sustain long-term conservation.

China Lifts Green Push With Plan to Double Clean Energy by 2035 China will seek to double its supply of non-fossil fuel energy by 2035, in a plan that analysts see as a boost to Beijing’s green targets.

HUGE!

China will DOUBLE its non-fossil fuel energy (not just power) supply by 2035!

China's 2025 electricity was ~42% non-fossil fuel or about 4,000TWh.

Given demand growth, doubling clean generation output would raise its share to ~66% by 2035. HUGE!
www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #energysky

Rehab center opens for Brazil’s golden-headed lion tamarins amid urban sprawl threat Brazil has opened its first rehabilitation center for golden-headed lion tamarins, an endangered monkey species threatened by urban expansion and the loss of agroforestry farms to monocrop…

The golden-headed lion tamarin’s range has shrunk by 42% since 1992. To combat a 60% population decline, a new Brazilian center is rehabilitating tamarins displaced by urban sprawl.

The goal: move them from dangerous city streets back into the native forests they need to survive.

Learn more! 👇️

‘A dream come true’: Brazil’s blue-and-yellow macaws return to Rio after 200 years An ambitious ‘refaunation’ project is bringing the much-loved birds and other lost species back to the city’s national park

Blue-and-yellow #macaws 🦜 are flying over #Rio again after about 200 years, thanks to a project that’s bringing back animals lost from the forest 🌳. They disappeared mainly because of #deforestation and wildlife trade, but scientists are slowly reintroducing them to rebuild the #ecosystem 🌎

Image is of the Rio Grande river cutting through a rocky canyon in Big Bend National Park. The sky is dotted with colorful clouds at sunset. Text overlay reads, "No border wall through Big Bend."

The Department of Homeland Security has unconstitutionally waived dozens of laws to fast-track border wall construction through the #BigBend region of Texas.

So we're taking them to court to stop this land-grab.

More info: biodiv.us/4muUKmM

The feds are moving forward with plans to wall off the Big Bend region. Some reports say walls are "off the table" in the state park, but DHS hasn't canceled construction contracts or restored the legal protections they stripped.

Nobody is crossing here. Look at those cliffs.

please follow Magyar's lead and vow to crack down on corruption AND IMPROVE public services. Enlist local groups and small and medium-sized businesses for a "revolution of entrepreneurs"

please follow Magyar's lead and vow to crack down on corruption AND IMPROVE public services. Enlist local groups and small and medium-sized businesses for a "revolution of entrepreneurs"

@morelle.house.gov please follow Magyar's lead and vow to crack down on corruption AND IMPROVE public services. Enlist local groups and small and medium-sized businesses for a "revolution of entrepreneurs"

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social please follow Magyar's lead and vow to crack down on corruption AND IMPROVE public services. Enlist local groups and small and medium-sized businesses for a "revolution of entrepreneurs"

A River Set Free: Restoring the River Breamish in Northumberland YouTube video by Tweed Forum

A River Set Free: Restoring the River Breamish in Northumberland. One of the largest and most ambitious river restoration projects in the UK!
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#waterways #eufunding #interreg #interregnorthsea | Connected River Project Waterway experts connect on the Seine in Paris 🌐 On Tuesday, the Connected River partner meeting kicked off in Paris, bringing together project partners, ecosystem stakeholders, and key representati...

Waterway experts connect in Paris, bringing together project partners, ecosystem stakeholders, and key representatives from across Europe for a multi-day exchange on the future of resilient waterways.
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Insects Are Disappearing — Here’s How to Help • The Revelator The world depends on healthy insect populations. As climate change and other threats cause their declines, simple actions can give them a much-needed boost.

Scientists say we’re facing an “insect apocalypse” as a growing body of research shows drastic declines in their numbers around the world.

As you can probably imagine, that's very, very bad.

Read how you can help in the latest from @therevelator.org. ⬇️

Public deliverables | Rewet Download the publicly available documents prepared by REWET project partners

The latest public deliverables from REWET are now live, bringing together research, methodologies, and practical insights to support wetland restoration across Europe.
www.rewet-he.eu/deliverables

A new bird species has been discovered in Japan after 45 years For decades, the research community thought that the small, olive-green songbirds found on two Japanese islands were identical. But a new study has revealed these birds are actually two distinct…

For the first time in 45 years, Japan has a newly described bird species.

What was long thought to be a single population of songbirds has been revealed as two distinct species, evolutionarily isolated for more than 3 million years.

Learn more in this report by Naina Rao.
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Lisbon to Host Global Bike Bus Summit as Movement Continues to Grow.
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Orban copied Trump. Trump copied Orban.

And in the end, the people of Hungary chose democracy and the rule of law. As will happen here too. But only if we do our work, like they did.

Testing Every Message: Believers are commanded to be discerning and "test" any spiritual claim, according to 1 John 4:1

Accountability for Followers: The Bible indicates that both the false prophet and those who follow them will face judgment, as seen in Jeremiah 14:14-16.