Last summer, my son, then 9, swam in an English river and suffered 6 whole days of diarrhoea and vomiting. It was very worrying. His friend was almost hospitalised. And now we’re told the only way we can have more houses is by sacrificing any hope of cleaning up our waterways. It’s so depressing. Humanity can surely be better than this.
The July rains have started, our neighbour’s hayfield (manured this spring) is a collapsed mess, but our species-rich unfertilised hayfield is still standing tall. I know which will be easier to mow and also which will produce tastier hay! Both photos taken today in the rain.
Tunnel near Stonehenge approved (again). If it does happen, everyone who cares about the past should work to support archaeologists tasked with mitigating its impact.
We're losing wildlife. Frogs, butterflies, bumblebees, hedgehogs, moths, bats, insects, birds are all declining. But if more of us take positive actions for biodiversity in our gardens, communities, landscapes and towns, we can help nature bounce back. Who's in?
Hello, I'm a House martin. #TheFeatherSpeech is also for my kind. We have declined 37%.
Help us: email your MPs name to [email protected] + Hannah will send you a briefing note so you can ask your MP to take part in the parliamentary debate📷Carly Ahlen #EveryBirdCounts
"A giant dump of unused fast fashion clothing in Chile's Atacama Desert is now clearly visible to satellites."
The magnitude of irrational production for profit and planned obsolescence is hard to overstate.
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@RobGMacfarlane @RobGMacfarlane as you say horrendous and the reason I gave up eating seafood in the 1970s was the uncontrolled plunder and all these years no change only getting ever worse.
I’m in court today standing up to online abuse from the field sports community . The lies and the bullying people face from such hate ruins and takes lives. It’s time for accountability .Thanks to @RuthTingay for the crowdfunder - https://t.co/gBo1SZc9Tz
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Yesterday was the first day CO₂ at Mauna Loa was 425 ppm. This is:
-likely the first time in the past 800,000 years.
-possibly not seen in over 3 million years (mid-pliocene warm period).
-A CO₂ forcing equal to 2.5-4°C of warming and 5-25 meters higher global sea level.
Somewhere over Africa they are wheeling and whizzing , twisting , turning , rolling through fast air , heading here . . . and they need a home . Please sign https://t.co/ure3wpLV9I @HampshireSwifts@BBCTheOneShow
THEY'RE COMING! Good luck brave, feathered adventurers. Help give their counterparts - swifts + martins, a voice they so badly need. Sign #TheFeatherSpeech https://t.co/lboVopkAgB and please remember that our walls + barns also belong to adventures who are COMING HOME NOW.
Happy Equinox all 🌸🌼 Loving how light the days are becoming and all the plants bursting into life. Rainy day here today: a photo of sunset at Little Galva framing stones equinox '21 #Cornwall#Equinox
"There is remarkable variety in [British] woodlands... even rainforests – temperate ones - along our western shores"
Yes, you heard that right - tonight Sir David Attenborough is talking about temperate rainforests in #WildIsles!
Stay tuned for more later in the programme...
This bird is designed to cross the Sahara 40 times, spending most of its life in the SKY. Staying loyal to 1 hole in someone's wall, every year it will come HOME to us. Help our iconic neighbours: endangered #swifts by signing #TheFeatherSpeech petition ⬇️https://t.co/lboVopkAgB
#SirDavidAttenborough:“Britain is one of most nature depleted countries in world. Never has there been a more important time to invest in our own wildlife- to set example for rest of world & restore our once #WildIsles for future generations”. If we choose, we can do it🦡 🦅🦉
Today we took some cuttings from the ancient Grantham Oak to help grow ‘clones’ of this amazing tree that will continue its genes for centuries. #LivingLegends