ElaineCox11
elainecox11.bsky.social
ElaineCox11
@elainecox11.bsky.social
Eco-warrior, author & editor, academic, INTJ, functional minimalist, scientific pantheist - trees, birds, allotments, wildlife, climate, air quality, dark skies
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Somehow we need to stop the Planning and Infrastructure Bill 2025 in order to protect nature. Please sign and share. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
Petition: Stop the Planning and Infrastructure Bill 2025 to Protect Nature
We think the Planning and Infrastructure Bill 2025 threatens irreplaceable habitats, weakens environmental protections, and ignores pressures on public services. We urge the Government to withdraw it ...
petition.parliament.uk
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Just two weeks until our end-of-year party!

Celebrate #FlightFree2025 with us with our fave travel stories from the year, entertainment from our climate poet, and our legendary quiz.

Join online from the comfort of your armchair!
📅 15th Dec
⏱️ 7.30pm

Register: www.tickettailor.com/events/fligh...
December 1, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Research by the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit found 80% of farmers are concerned about the impact of climate change - 87% have experienced reduced productivity due to heatwaves, floods or other climate change-induced extreme weather. theconversation.com/you-cant-eat...
‘You can’t eat electricity’: how rural solar farms became the latest battlefront in Britain’s culture war
Reform UK is exploiting opposition to solar panels – but most farmers are more worried about climate change.
theconversation.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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North Oxfordshire needs its wildlife and green fields not a theme park. This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Stop the Puy du Fou UK theme park
Puy du Fou wants to build a theme park in the tiny village of Bucknell near Bicester, Oxfordshire. The proposed park would occupy an area of productive farmland bigger than Hyde Park, destroying green...
you.38degrees.org.uk
October 19, 2025 at 7:07 AM
This gift to housebuilders from Labour is shameful | Letters
October 21, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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They seem to have slowed now but this has definitely been an excellent year for Boletes. I’ve seen many species for the first time this year, including Devil’s Bolete, Bilious Bolete, Inkstain Bolete, Oak Bolete, a white Penny Bun & more! #Fungi #Mushrooms 🍄‍🟫🍄‍🟫🍄‍🟫
October 18, 2025 at 10:33 AM
North Oxfordshire needs its wildlife and green fields not a theme park. This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Stop the Puy du Fou UK theme park
Puy du Fou wants to build a theme park in the tiny village of Bucknell near Bicester, Oxfordshire. The proposed park would occupy an area of productive farmland bigger than Hyde Park, destroying green...
you.38degrees.org.uk
October 19, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Somehow we need to stop the Planning and Infrastructure Bill 2025 in order to protect nature. Please sign and share. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
Petition: Stop the Planning and Infrastructure Bill 2025 to Protect Nature
We think the Planning and Infrastructure Bill 2025 threatens irreplaceable habitats, weakens environmental protections, and ignores pressures on public services. We urge the Government to withdraw it ...
petition.parliament.uk
October 18, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Today's column is about the government's huge, unprecedented assault on nature ... and about the eerie, astonishing silence of the big nature groups. The RSPB, National Trust, Wildlife Trusts have 7.5m members between them. A vast force, completely unmobilised. 🧵
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Wage war on nature to build new homes: that’s Labour’s offer, but it’s a con trick | George Monbiot
The government’s new planning bill is tearing down environmental protections to benefit developers. This nation of nature lovers won’t stand for it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
October 16, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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We get left with the worst of both worlds. Nature is trashed in the name of building the homes that the underhoused people of England desperately need. But they are not actually built. Instead, the big corporations get to destroy our wild places for more lucrative but socially useless projects.
October 16, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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Please read my column today in conjunction with Aditya's. The government pretends to be delivering housing to those who need it, but is in fact just appeasing the big corporations. Then it blames nature protections, and rips those down at their behest as well.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A leaked memo, a Maga-style hat and a trail of broken pledges – it’s Labour’s great housing betrayal | Aditya Chakrabortty
Ignore the bombast: Steve ‘build, baby, build’ Reed’s boast looks likely to end in targets more pathetic than they are now, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
www.theguardian.com
October 16, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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As we continue to obliterate the natural world, it is responding by swapping dazzling colours for drab greys and browns

Yet one more grim outcome of humanity's never-ending campaign of destruction

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fade to grey: as forests are cut down, butterflies are losing their colours
The insects’ brilliant hues evolved in lush ecosystems to help them survive. Now they are becoming more muted to adapt to degraded landscapes – and they are not the only things dulling down
www.theguardian.com
October 6, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Allotments are vanishing when the UK urgently needs more of them …
theconversation.com/allotments-a...
Allotments are vanishing when the UK urgently needs more of them
In praise of digging for potatoes.
theconversation.com
August 9, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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Finding Britain’s ‘shadow woods’ offers the fastest way to reforest the countryside. Survivors from earlier landscapes are found across the countryside. Finding these patches could unlock future woodlands rich in currently rare species.
theconversation.com/finding-brit...
Finding Britain’s ‘shadow woods’ offers the fastest way to reforest the countryside
Atlantic rainforests once lined the island’s west coast – and could one day return.
theconversation.com
August 14, 2025 at 12:49 PM
How climate change is making Europe’s fish move to new waters
theconversation.com/how-climate-...
How climate change is making Europe’s fish move to new waters
Our modelling of European fish species shows a patchwork of winners and losers as sea temperatures rise.
theconversation.com
August 21, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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Adorable Elephant feel all loved with cuddles.. 🥰
August 14, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Finding Britain’s ‘shadow woods’ offers the fastest way to reforest the countryside. Survivors from earlier landscapes are found across the countryside. Finding these patches could unlock future woodlands rich in currently rare species.
theconversation.com/finding-brit...
Finding Britain’s ‘shadow woods’ offers the fastest way to reforest the countryside
Atlantic rainforests once lined the island’s west coast – and could one day return.
theconversation.com
August 14, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Blackbirds.
Less than 8 wks before the survey closes.
Many Blackbirds are moulting at the moment (as here) & as a result they may be hiding in cover more.
Are your birds out and about?
It would be great to get as much data entered as possible.
@ianparsons.bsky.social @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social
August 8, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Allotments are vanishing when the UK urgently needs more of them …
theconversation.com/allotments-a...
Allotments are vanishing when the UK urgently needs more of them
In praise of digging for potatoes.
theconversation.com
August 9, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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Another day at the green oasis - slowed down to half speed for a better appreciation of the wild pond and all who sail in her.
To attract Greenfinches plant a Field Maple tree. They are easy to grow and will proliferate in the local hedgerows, as their seeds spread.
#ukbirds #rewild #wildlifegardens
July 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Dear councils, 97% of meadows are gone. So please, value our wildflowers. If you are lucky enough to have them growing in verges and public spaces, don't poison or over-mow them. Let them grow as a lifeline for bees, butterflies and hoverflies 🐝
July 29, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Raynor Winn has published all of Moth’s medical diagnoses and countered every single attack on her by the Observer on her website.

www.raynorwinn.co.uk
Raynor Winn
www.raynorwinn.co.uk
July 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Earth systems expert James Dyke discusses his documentary, System Update: Rebooting Our Future.
Society needs a systems update to cope with climate crisis – my new film explains why
Earth systems expert James Dyke discusses his documentary, System Update: Rebooting Our Future.
tcnv.link
June 23, 2025 at 3:34 PM