HonorPrentice

Prof. Emerita at Lund U, plant ecology & evolution, passionate about grasslands. Own views & retweets

[HonorPrentice @Honor_Prentice]

@ChrisGPackham Looks photoshopped

[HonorPrentice @Honor_Prentice]

@MerielGJones @wildflower_hour I think you have male white campion (or possibly a hybrid) with the red campion. The white one's calyx teeth are pointy not blunt.

[Henrik Svedäng @HSvedang]

Jag har skrvit om den hotade ålen och att fiskestopp hjälper. Läs gärna

Forskare: Därför måste Sverige införa ett totalt ålfiskestopp
https://t.co/hEnWTwJWGB

[jo turner 🍃💚🍃 @amongstwits]

Great news!!

[Journal of Ecology @JEcology]

🍃 Are forest plants quietly moving due to climate change? A new AI approach reveals where New Zealand's trees migrate to and identifies 19 species that can't keep up. Interestingly, it's not just the warmer climate to blame👉️https://t.co/fKNOiathZr

[Journal of Ecology @JEcology]

🌲Do Swiss trees change their niche as they grow? Studying 43 species across Switzerland, it was found that most don't! Juveniles & adults share similar climatic niches, with ontogenetic shifts being small & still seemingly unrelated to climate change 👉️ https://t.co/lpYkmUYXw4

[Angling Trust @AnglingTrust]

Flea treatments for pets are poisoning rivers, insects, birds and wider landscapes.

These chemicals are used to protect pets, but the evidence shows they are escaping into the environment and causing serious harm. Regulation has failed to keep pace, with weak warnings, poor monitoring and too little action.

Pet health matters, but so does the health of our rivers and wildlife. With safer alternatives available, it is time to stop turning everyday flea treatment into a hidden pollution problem.

Read the whole article here:
https://t.co/85JjbijgM6

[Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK @PIK_Climate]

🆕The Earth is accumulating heat at an accelerating rate. Human-caused warming reached 1.37°C above pre-industrial levels in 2025 & is expected to exceed 1.5°C within ~4 years. PIKs W. Lamb led the report’s assessment of global greenhouse gas emissions.

https://t.co/XVmjGL7EOj

[Ian Rotherham @IanThewildside]

Restoring ecology one small patch at a time!

Wildflower meadows & pollinator patches.

This is what can be done by one garden - just imagine what we could achieve with say 20 million private gardens in England.

[Katherine@EyesOpen😎🔥🙏 @TheBeanEyesOpen]

True story.

[Wildlife and Countryside Link @WCL_News]

📰 The news that Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) loopholes risk England's poorest communities being deprived of trees, green spaces and wildlife picked up a lot of attention last week - and rightly so.

People deserve homes surrounded by trees, nature and healthy green spaces and new development should help create greener, healthier places to live.

Read the report and find out more 👇

[Journal of Vegetation & Applied Vegetation Science @JVS_AVS]

Where are the biggest knowledge gaps in grassland ecology?

The Palaearctic Grasslands Special Feature seeks studies from underrepresented regions and grassland types, particularly from Eastern Europe, the Mediterranean, and Asia.

Learn more:
https://t.co/r1OM6NR8CJ

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Picturesque river polluted with sewage just 13 days after being given official bathing status."

Yep the River Avon at Salisbury was designated as a bathing spot on 15th May and just 13 days later on the 28th the EA have to issue a pollution warning due to E. coli levels. What a shambles.

https://t.co/nC3WWbwgt6

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

💔 THIS IS HEARTBREAKING. COULD DARTMOOR TRULY LOSE ITS PONIES? 🐴📉

A devastating warning has been issued by campaigners who fear that up to NINETY PERCENT of Dartmoor’s iconic semi-wild hill ponies could completely disappear from the moorland.

Over 23,000 people have already signed an emergency petition demanding action to protect them.

New rules drawn up by Natural England mean that grazing limits across the moors are being slashed. But here is the catch: campaigners say the famous ponies are being lumped into the exact same livestock quotas as commercial cattle and sheep.

Because they are competing for the same reduced space, it's feared farmers will be forced to remove the ponies to make way for more financially viable livestock.

The Dartmoor Hill Pony Association warns that numbers have already plummeted from 7,000 to just 900 in the last 25 years. They are already listed as an officially endangered native breed. Campaigners warn that once they are gone from the moor, they are gone forever.

Natural England says they want to ensure "optimal numbers" remain and that ponies are vital for restoring the landscape—but officials confirm they must be included in the total livestock count.

Dartmoor simply wouldn’t be Dartmoor without the ponies. Do you think it’s fair to treat these historic animals the same as farm livestock?

📸 Ben Ivory / Getty Images

[they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza]

The AMOC has reliably transported heat from the equator to the North Atlantic for the past 12,000 years, and sporadically for a lot longer than that. It’s the reason Europe is warmer than its latitude would suggest. Its collapse would be an irreversible ramping up of planetary climate chaos—a paradoxical deep freeze on a warming planet, with New England and especially Europe getting much colder temperatures and higher sea levels (in fact sea levels near me are already elevated from AMOC weakening). Like the date of its collapse, the overall effects are not fully known, but the AMOC has global impacts, regulating weather systems that feed billions. This isn’t just one more thing we’ll have to learn to live with; it would be calamity, a tipping-point-of-no-return that will split human history in two.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A massive nuclear waste tomb in the Pacific is beginning to crack and leak.

The Runit Dome, constructed in the late 1970s on a remote island in the Marshall Islands, was built to contain over 120,000 tons of radioactive debris left behind by U.S. nuclear testing. Among the waste is plutonium-239, a highly dangerous isotope that remains radioactive for more than 24,000 years.

The dome stretches roughly 377 feet (115 meters) across and was never properly sealed at the base. Instead, it rests directly on porous coral, allowing groundwater to flow freely beneath it.

Now, rising sea levels and increasingly powerful storms are stressing the structure. Cracks have formed in the concrete, and scientists have already detected elevated radiation levels in the surrounding soil and water.

While the current leaks are still considered relatively minor, experts warn that as oceans continue to rise, the risk of a much larger release will grow.

Built as a temporary fix decades ago, the Runit Dome now stands as a stark reminder: the radioactive waste sealed inside it will remain hazardous long after our civilizations are gone.

[Adrian Ramsay MP @AdrianRamsay]

While Westminster obsesses over by-elections and leadership contests, an official report warns that within years our food and water systems could fail. I’ve forced Govt to acknowledge a suppressed report on ecosystem collapse. But Ministers still aren’t facing the scale of the crisis.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention.

The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean.

And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them.

Record-breaking temperatures.

A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse.

The response?

Yank out the instruments and walk away.

That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency.

For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives.

The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.

That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.
https://t.co/MzE4AW1QBv

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Southern Water sparks fury with ‘absolutely disgusting’ sewage dumping plans."

So Southern Water's big plan to fix the sewage scandal is simply to extent their pipework and dump it further out to sea, no I'm not kidding, just as the good people of Whitstable. @SOSWhitstable

https://t.co/XZjO15OAqu