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Megaphone for the ocean. Still going.

Communications Director, Blue Marine Foundation.
Trustee, Cornwall Wildlife Trust.
Guardian alumni.
Does it get more Christmassy than sitting on the GWR to London frantically writing Christmas cards…?! 🎄🎄
December 10, 2024 at 7:05 PM
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Our seabirds are in trouble. ❌

The Solent Seascape Survey project team and partners are working to help their populations thrive once more in the Solent.

Watch our new #film ‘Keeping Britain’s rarest #seabirds safe 👇

www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-xw...
Restoring seabird nesting sites
YouTube video by Solent Seascape Project
www.youtube.com
November 22, 2024 at 2:19 PM
“This is an advocacy series in disguise – and a necessary one.” Congrats to @inkacresswell.bsky.social James Hobeyborne and the whole team at Freeborne for this masterpiece on the ocean. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Our Oceans review – Barack Obama’s nature show might be the most beautiful thing you see all year
Yes, the ex-president’s soothing voice was made to narrate this gorgeous wildlife programme. But the absolutely majestic visuals are the real star
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2024 at 8:44 AM
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The River Wye is dying—& the River Severn is going the same way.
Blistered fish, algal blooms, sewage fungus sludging the riverbed.
The only good news is the response: a “volunteer army” of citizen scientists & activists rising up to protect & heal the river.
👇💪
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘The sores on the fish are nasty’: what’s behind the changes in the River Severn?
Faced with a dearth of data on the impact of local mega farms, volunteers have shown sewage pollution has soared
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2024 at 7:38 PM
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#NEWS: Scientists discover world’s largest #coral in the southwest Pacific #Ocean 🪸

The mega coral is about the size of five tennis courts and is 34m wide, 32m long and 5.5m high and has grown over a span of three centuries.

Read more in Nat Geo 👇
www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/...
November 19, 2024 at 1:13 PM
An absolutely fascinating Media Confidential with @mariannaspringbbc.bsky.social and @arusbridger.bsky.social about the boom of disinformation on new media and its affects on not just individuals but society as a whole. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...
Marianna Spring: Truth and the social media scandal
Podcast Episode · Media Confidential · 14/11/2024 · 38m
podcasts.apple.com
November 19, 2024 at 9:11 AM
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#ClimateCrisis to blame for dozens of ‘impossible’ heatwaves, studies reveal

Exclusive: Stark evidence of how global heating is already supercharging deadly weather beyond anything ever experienced by humanity

#COP29
Story by me
Data @carbonbrief.org
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Climate crisis to blame for dozens of ‘impossible’ heatwaves, studies reveal
Exclusive: Analyses are stark evidence of how global heating is already supercharging deadly weather beyond anything ever experienced by humanity
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2024 at 8:19 AM
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And so Jurassic Antarctic Park was born…

First-Ever Amber Discovered in Antarctica Shows Rainforest Existed Near South Pole
www.sciencealert.com/first-ever-a...
First-Ever Amber Discovered in Antarctica Shows Rainforest Existed Near South Pole
Imagine a time machine that could whisk you back to the age of the dinosaurs.
www.sciencealert.com
November 17, 2024 at 10:50 PM
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The #BBNJ Treaty can be a climate solution!

As world leaders gather at #COP29, countries must incorporate the Treaty’s protections into their National Adaptation Plans, strengthening ocean-based climate action and reinforcing commitments to climate resilience.
November 15, 2024 at 12:20 PM
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Among the trolls. @mariannaspring talks to @lionelbarber and myself about the murky world of dis- and mis- information on the latest @mediaconfpod mediaconfidential.lnk.to/podcastAh
Media Confidential
Alan Rusbridger and Lionel Barber dive into the hugely important world of media. What—and who—drives it? What do they get right... And what do they get wrong? Lionel, former editor of the Financi...
mediaconfidential.lnk.to
November 15, 2024 at 8:37 AM
All brits:
Come to 🦋,
Re-find all the journalists,
Re-follow the weather @metoffice.bsky.social,
And relax..
two men are sitting in recliners in a living room .
ALT: two men are sitting in recliners in a living room .
media.tenor.com
November 14, 2024 at 6:57 PM
@emilybell.bsky.social knew I’d find you here x
November 14, 2024 at 6:30 PM
Let’s start again, then, shall we?
a close up of a man 's face with the word woo written below him
ALT: a close up of a man 's face with the word woo written below him
media.tenor.com
November 14, 2024 at 6:26 PM