内容摘要：Mr Brown's active, highly engaged Facebook audience is indicative of how more members of the public are turning to social media for news and weather updates - in the US, it's how 20% of adults get this information,

Mr Brown's active, highly engaged Facebook audience is indicative of how more members of the public are turning to social media for news and weather updates - in the US, it's how 20% of adults get this information,

They are likely to show the UK has experienced one of its driest springs, despite heavy downpours in some areas in recent days., according to Natural Resources Wales (NRW).

By the middle of April, Wales' three fire services had responded to more than 1,300 grass fires, with charities warning some areas could take decades to recover from the destruction., with many rivers reported to be "low or exceptionally low".Rhian Thomas, sustainable water and nature manager at NRW, said: "Such a dry start to the year is causing considerable concern for the health of our ecosystems and habitats, as well as for land management and the agricultural sector."

She urged people and businesses to "use water wisely" to ensure water can continue to be supplied without damaging the environment.A record number of puffins have been recorded on a small island off the Pembrokeshire coast, despite global populations declining rapidly.

According to the Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales (WTSWW), 43,626 puffins were counted on Skomer Island this year - a record high.

The WTSWW said the increased number of puffins on the nature reserve was a "conservation success story", but warned that the birds were still a species under threat which should continue to be protected."Our current government… they are really enforcing this kind of public-private collaboration," says the programme's director Kirsi Kokko. "I think they understand the urgency."

Despite the rapid growth of defence tech in Finland, the sector is facing a range of local and European-wide challenges.Mr Hietala, the founder of airship technology platform Kelluu, describes something of a "culture clash" between agile start-ups and large defence companies and governments that have typically required years of experimentation and prototyping before acquiring new technologies.

"That's really on the opposite side of the spectrum for start-ups, in which the DNA is that we will fail fast and rapidly, and you don't have every start-up succeed."At Business Finland, Ms Kokko says the Nordic nation is also impacted by strong global competition for the software talent needed to grow defence tech and dual use businesses.