Simon Collins

Help make space for water! We're a nature-depleted nation & are calling on the UK Government to fund farmers & landowners to #MakeSpaceforWater – restoring river corridors that protect against floods, improve WQ & bring nature back! Please sign: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7270…

I just recently returned from Ukraine. Two things struck me deeply. First, the mood is grim. You feel it in the air — in people’s eyes, in their silence. There is a constant anxiety about tomorrow. 1/n

Explosion in Kharkiv ‼️ it's probably the 4th attack on our city today. Is anybody even there, outside of this, is anybody listening?

I am not a volunteer. I am a soldier and my work is around the clock. I do these fundraisers to open up transparency but the truth is I’m barely talking about our needs. Everyday there is a cost. paypal.com/donate/?hosted… Tools for digging, new socks and fungus sprays to…

If there are any terminally ill persons around you, please make time to assist them in fulfilling their final aspirations to the extent possible. Please try to alleviate their suffering by filling their days with beauty and love. This will enrich your own life.

A deeply disappointing & short sighted decision from SCC that plonks a school on what they themselves admit will be a more car dependent site #Reigate bbc.com/news/articles/…

Mer de Glace has lost 4.5 m in thickness at the level of the ice cave (1750 m) since the 1st May 2025! 😲😱 On 5th July it has been recorded 5 cm of ablation in 5 hours... 🔥 Ablation rates are truly absurd now in the Alps! 🥵 Source/pics: Pierre Jeanneret / IG

BBC TV report on EA failure to test 10,000 water samples for pollution due to lack of staff. #anglersagainstpollution

Tré-la-Tête Glacier 2009 | 2025 Glacier collapse in the Alps is so rapid that it is leaving behind glacier tongues that have been cut into several pieces 🧊🔥 See what the former front of one of the largest glaciers of the Mont Blanc Massif now looks like... 😰 1/

Estonia raises alarm: russia is moving electronic warfare systems closer to NATO borders. Estonian Interior Minister Igor Taro reported that the russian army has deployed additional radio signal jamming equipment near Kingisepp, just 20 km from Estonia. This type of equipment…

OBR: Net-zero is much cheaper than thought for UK – and unchecked global warming far more costly | @DrSimEvans Read here: buff.ly/IGHVBLZ

Funny way to let everyone know you are a morally rotten human garbage.

Jetting off on Holiday to mainland Europe next week? Large parts, especially southern, from E Spain across Italy to the Balkans (heatwave currently) are forecast to temps some 1-4C below normal, thanks to slow-moving cut-off low with cool NW flow. UK slightly warmer than average.

Sir, the lack of information is part of the screening process. 😊

Today's Russian strikes on Ukrainian cities have caused so much grief and damage. Russia attacks Ukraine daily, and it has absolutely no problems with targeting civilians. ◾️ Kharkiv: 40 people are injured as a result of two KAB bombs hitting the city. 6 of them are children,…

Kharkiv, after today's russian attack by Reuters

My tweets about Kharkiv feel almost invisible today. I keep retweeting them over and over again so the world doesn’t miss what russia is doing to civilians there. Please don’t scroll past. Let it be seen.

Who needs beavers when you have water voles this size. This is the recently restored section of the River Chess, on Chesham Moor. Picture taken from the newly installed Beechey Bridge, thanks to Mick Finn visiting from Lincoln. ⁦@ChilternsNL⁩ ⁦@ChilternSociety⁩

A heatwave is building across the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East Temperatures will be widely 5-10°C above average over the coming days 🌡️

It's uncanny how well these past 24 hour rainfall estimates align with the anomalously dry versus wet pattern of July's rainfall through 23rd. The difference between SW UK & the rest is growing even larger.