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[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

On a hot July day, a single mature tree in your yard pumps somewhere around 100 gallons of water up from its roots and out through its leaves as water vapor. A mature elm with 150,000 leaves can clear that in a day.

As that water evaporates off the leaf surface, it carries heat away with it, the same basic physics that makes sweat work. The air around the canopy drops measurably.

The cooling effect of a single large tree transpiring 100 gallons of water is roughly equivalent to two household air conditioning units running all day. Except it runs on sunlight and groundwater, costs nothing, and has been doing it since before your house was built.

A yard with mature canopy runs 5 to 10 degrees cooler than a paved or treeless yard next door. That's not a feeling. It's a physics difference you can measure with a thermometer. The urban heat island is real, and it gets worse one removed tree at a time.

The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is this weekend, before another hot ass July like this one comes around.

[Orla Minihane @orlaminihane]

In the past 2 weeks over 40 BRITISH 🇬🇧 Girls between the ages of 13 - 16 have disappeared in ENGLAND alone and they are the ones we know about… WHY ARE YOU NOT REPORTING THIS? @GBNEWS @TalkTV @BBC @itvnews and @NatalieFleetMP @ShabanaMahmood
DO YOUR JOB !!!!!!

[Mark @Windy_Gent]

@LBFlyawayhome Blissful image!

[Donna Louise @DonnaLouise1212]

URGENT:

15-year-old Holly is MISSING from Bradford West Yorkshire

Holly, has fair skin, shoulder-length brown hair with blonde highlights, slim build.

Last seen wearing a pink top, pink shorts & black coat.

Every share helps bring her home safe. Keep your eyes open Bradford & West Yorkshire! ❤️

If you spot her or have any info contact your local police immediately.

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

Some scum bag near us run over Mum swan this morning near us 😔

I hope this driver is identified

[Mark @Windy_Gent]

@paulpowlesland @EnvAgency Read the room @EnvAgency, there's a good volume of poop you should be investigating. Despite the potential validity or otherwise of your issue here, I'd let it slide.

[Sheep In Stitches @sheepinstitches]

Stolen from GL4 (Glos) between 9pm Wed 10th & 6am on Thurs 11th June. Landrover 90 TDI. N463 UUX.
V. well used and v. distinctive. Series 3 drivers door, Mercedes front grill badge, multiple scars and dents and stickers including #hawkstonefarmerschoir Please share. Thanks!💔

[Mark @Windy_Gent]

@Perky_43 @RoyalMail @RoyalMail needs to have a word with the driver. Shocking behavior.

[Steve Perkins @Perky_43]

Royal Mail driver couldn't be bothered to avoid nesting ducks on Fishpond Lane, Holbeach, Spalding - they decided to run them over instead.

This road is well known for ducks & has warning signs, the postie would know to be careful.

Pure ignorance.

Any comment @RoyalMail?

[Vinnie Sullivan @VinnieSull1van]

Then, suddenly, you wake up in an English summer in 1986 only to realise that its all been a bad dream. ⏳️

[Mark @Windy_Gent]

@LNER Thank you very much!

[Mark @Windy_Gent]

@LNER could you please tell me the entry height restriction at your new Darlington station multistory or if there are additional spaces outside the new car park? Not sure my van will fit. Thanks!

[Dr Elaine Cox 🍃 💚 🍃🌽🥬🐦‍⬛🐌🇬🇧 @ElaineCox11]

Uncut grass keeps the ground at around 19.5°C
Grass cut to 10 cm raises the ground temperature to about 24.5°C
Bare ground in the middle of summer rises to over 40°C
It's important to raise awareness #NoMowMay

[ALEXIS ™I ❤️🇷🇼• @dufitalexis1]

Britain has lost around half its hedgerows since the Second World War. The wildlife that depended on them has followed a similar trajectory. 🌿

The old field boundary — a strip of blackthorn, hawthorn, dog rose, and elder two to five metres wide between cultivated ground — was not wasted agricultural space. It was a functioning ecological system that maintained pollinators, pest predators, and farmland birds across centuries of working land.

Each hedgerow is a nesting corridor for grey partridge and skylark, a foraging habitat for brown hares and hedgehogs, a site for solitary bee colonies, and a windbreak for the crops alongside it.

The field cultivated to its very edge gives the maximum return this season. It removes the populations of beneficial insects, farmland birds, and small mammals on which stable long-term production depended.

The field with a hedgerow yields a few percent less per cultivated hectare — but remains productive across decades without compensatory chemical inputs. The documented declines in grey partridge, lapwing, and skylark across the British agricultural landscape since the 1970s are directly linked to field consolidation and hedgerow removal.

Practical equivalents for the garden or smallholding:
- A strip of wildflower meadow at least one metre wide at the plot boundary
- A clump of nettles in a shaded corner as a habitat base for red admiral, small tortoiseshell, and peacock butterflies
- A native mixed hedge of blackthorn and hawthorn in place of post-and-wire fencing
- A section of uncut grass between rows of fruit trees

#HedgerowHabitat #FarmlandWildlife #NativeHedge #GardenWildlife

[Rupert Myers @RupertMyers]

What a letter

[Mark @Windy_Gent]

@LBFlyawayhome Some beauties in there. A generation who valued things.

[Hiroshi Suzuki @AmbJapanUK]

Happy St George's Day!! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🌹

[Patrick Christys @PatrickChristys]

I’m sorry but this is absolutely ridiculous

[Mark @Windy_Gent]

@sniffpetrol Rx7 wheels?

[UKSwifts @swifts_uk]

Retweet ❗️

This is a Swift. sometimes they can end up on the ground. This is where they need YOUR help!

Swifts arrive back to the UK from April/May to nest. 🪺 (A THREAD)