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That renowned and respected lover of truth and journalistic integrity.... THE KREMLIN.... has stepped up to defend Trump in his battle against the BBC.
SO that's Farage, Netanyahu, Putin, and Boris Johnson...
SO that's Farage, Netanyahu, Putin, and Boris Johnson...
November 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
That renowned and respected lover of truth and journalistic integrity.... THE KREMLIN.... has stepped up to defend Trump in his battle against the BBC.
SO that's Farage, Netanyahu, Putin, and Boris Johnson...
SO that's Farage, Netanyahu, Putin, and Boris Johnson...
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Paths of poison across our oceans:
of 90411 oil spills from ships, only 474 were reported in a 5 year period - satellite analysis exposes high density "slick belts" coinciding with shipping lanes.
Our latest article with @pulitzercenter.bsky.social journalist Saroj Pathirana out now:
of 90411 oil spills from ships, only 474 were reported in a 5 year period - satellite analysis exposes high density "slick belts" coinciding with shipping lanes.
Our latest article with @pulitzercenter.bsky.social journalist Saroj Pathirana out now:
July 29, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Paths of poison across our oceans:
of 90411 oil spills from ships, only 474 were reported in a 5 year period - satellite analysis exposes high density "slick belts" coinciding with shipping lanes.
Our latest article with @pulitzercenter.bsky.social journalist Saroj Pathirana out now:
of 90411 oil spills from ships, only 474 were reported in a 5 year period - satellite analysis exposes high density "slick belts" coinciding with shipping lanes.
Our latest article with @pulitzercenter.bsky.social journalist Saroj Pathirana out now:
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Back in 1997, there were just 11 booming male Bitterns left in the UK – almost extinct. Thanks to conservation by @RSPB and @NaturalEngland, there are now 283 booming males in 2024.
eastangliabylines.co.uk/environment/...
eastangliabylines.co.uk/environment/...
Hidden wonders: my fascinating encounters with the Bittern
Elusive and majestic, the Bittern’s booming call echoes across Minsmere’s reeds – a symbol of hope and conservation success
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Back in 1997, there were just 11 booming male Bitterns left in the UK – almost extinct. Thanks to conservation by @RSPB and @NaturalEngland, there are now 283 booming males in 2024.
eastangliabylines.co.uk/environment/...
eastangliabylines.co.uk/environment/...
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Zack Polanski’s substack for @bestforbritain.org is worth your time.
👏 @zackpolanski.bsky.social
substack.com/@pimlicat81/...
👏 @zackpolanski.bsky.social
substack.com/@pimlicat81/...
Naomi (@pimlicat81)
Well said Zack Polanski
substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Zack Polanski’s substack for @bestforbritain.org is worth your time.
👏 @zackpolanski.bsky.social
substack.com/@pimlicat81/...
👏 @zackpolanski.bsky.social
substack.com/@pimlicat81/...
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Existing tools that work out the carbon footprint of flights greatly underestimate their warming impact, say the makers of a new calculator
Your flight emissions are way higher than carbon calculators suggest
Existing tools that work out the carbon footprint of flights greatly underestimate their warming impact, say the makers of a new calculator
www.newscientist.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Existing tools that work out the carbon footprint of flights greatly underestimate their warming impact, say the makers of a new calculator
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Note that still in post at the BBC is Robbie Gibb, who helped set up GB News, and John McAndrew, formerly director of news and programmes at GB News.
November 10, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Note that still in post at the BBC is Robbie Gibb, who helped set up GB News, and John McAndrew, formerly director of news and programmes at GB News.
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If This Is How Badly Reform UK Runs A Council, Who Would Want A Reform UK Government?
Reform UK’s Kent council chaos shows why it cannot govern
Reform UK’s Kent council is collapsing with suspensions, chaos and no financial plan. If it cannot run a county, why trust it to run the UK?
voxpoliticalonline.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:56 PM
If This Is How Badly Reform UK Runs A Council, Who Would Want A Reform UK Government?
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Claims of felling 250 year-old trees + shipping them thousands of miles to burn in a power station, releasing fine particulate pollution linked to breathing + heart conditions.
Perhaps, instead of subsidising this, our tax money could go to treating people with those conditions?
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Perhaps, instead of subsidising this, our tax money could go to treating people with those conditions?
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Official data from government of British Columbia, along with satellite monitoring, backs claims that a Canadian subsidiary owned by Drax sourced 250-year-old trees to manufacture biomass pellets as recently as this year
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say
Exclusive: report by Stand.earth says subsidiary of power plant received truckloads of whole logs at biomass pellet sites
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Claims of felling 250 year-old trees + shipping them thousands of miles to burn in a power station, releasing fine particulate pollution linked to breathing + heart conditions.
Perhaps, instead of subsidising this, our tax money could go to treating people with those conditions?
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Perhaps, instead of subsidising this, our tax money could go to treating people with those conditions?
🧵 1/2
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June 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Thank you to @theguardian.com for inviting us on to "It's Complicated" to talk about PFAS - the forever chemicals filling our lives and harming our health - you can catch the full episode here 👇
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
May 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Thank you to @theguardian.com for inviting us on to "It's Complicated" to talk about PFAS - the forever chemicals filling our lives and harming our health - you can catch the full episode here 👇
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Pledging to "scrap a deal" before reading it or having any idea what it contains tells you everything you need to know about Nigel Farage. ~AA
May 16, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Pledging to "scrap a deal" before reading it or having any idea what it contains tells you everything you need to know about Nigel Farage. ~AA
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🚨 Join us, Hugh, @domipalmer.bsky.social, @georgemcgavin.bsky.social—and campaigners across the UK—calling for #REALChange for a better Britain.
✊ Tell Keir Starmer to give the Climate and Nature Bill an emergency debate in Parliament.
✍️ Sign the open letter today 👉 action.zerohour.uk
🐝 #CANBill
✊ Tell Keir Starmer to give the Climate and Nature Bill an emergency debate in Parliament.
✍️ Sign the open letter today 👉 action.zerohour.uk
🐝 #CANBill
🚨 Tell Keir Starmer to give the CAN Bill an emergency debate in Parliament. #REALChange
YouTube video by Zero Hour: Climate and Nature Bill
www.youtube.com
May 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
🚨 Join us, Hugh, @domipalmer.bsky.social, @georgemcgavin.bsky.social—and campaigners across the UK—calling for #REALChange for a better Britain.
✊ Tell Keir Starmer to give the Climate and Nature Bill an emergency debate in Parliament.
✍️ Sign the open letter today 👉 action.zerohour.uk
🐝 #CANBill
✊ Tell Keir Starmer to give the Climate and Nature Bill an emergency debate in Parliament.
✍️ Sign the open letter today 👉 action.zerohour.uk
🐝 #CANBill
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With your support today, we can double our efforts to return #beavers to the northern #ScottishHighlands.
Every donation will be matched by Big Give. Double your donation. Double the impact 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sRi...
@biggive.bsky.social #GreenMatchFund
Every donation will be matched by Big Give. Double your donation. Double the impact 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sRi...
@biggive.bsky.social #GreenMatchFund
Trees for Life’s Rewilding With Beavers Appeal
YouTube video by Trees for Life
www.youtube.com
April 23, 2025 at 11:04 AM
With your support today, we can double our efforts to return #beavers to the northern #ScottishHighlands.
Every donation will be matched by Big Give. Double your donation. Double the impact 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sRi...
@biggive.bsky.social #GreenMatchFund
Every donation will be matched by Big Give. Double your donation. Double the impact 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sRi...
@biggive.bsky.social #GreenMatchFund
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When the moment came, Harvard didn’t hedge or flinch—it stood up. A reminder that integrity isn’t complicated, it’s just rare.
April 24, 2025 at 8:51 PM
When the moment came, Harvard didn’t hedge or flinch—it stood up. A reminder that integrity isn’t complicated, it’s just rare.
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"Each of us has not one but many roles we can play. Climate change is a big problem, but we live in a big, vibrant, creative village. Together, we can accomplish more than you might think." Words of hope and action from Project Drawdown's Tina Swanson. drawdown.org/insights/all...
All of us have many pathways to climate action
A recent conversation with a friend got me thinking another way about the “who” and the “how” of climate action.
drawdown.org
April 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
"Each of us has not one but many roles we can play. Climate change is a big problem, but we live in a big, vibrant, creative village. Together, we can accomplish more than you might think." Words of hope and action from Project Drawdown's Tina Swanson. drawdown.org/insights/all...
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From our friends,'Save our Suffolk Swifts' on X
"Apologies for straying off topic but the first House Martins and Swallows are now arriving back & Suffolk is bone dry. If you have an open area create a mud splat and keep it moist until we have rain if you can. Here is a big splat in Woolpit!"
"Apologies for straying off topic but the first House Martins and Swallows are now arriving back & Suffolk is bone dry. If you have an open area create a mud splat and keep it moist until we have rain if you can. Here is a big splat in Woolpit!"
April 4, 2025 at 9:26 PM
From our friends,'Save our Suffolk Swifts' on X
"Apologies for straying off topic but the first House Martins and Swallows are now arriving back & Suffolk is bone dry. If you have an open area create a mud splat and keep it moist until we have rain if you can. Here is a big splat in Woolpit!"
"Apologies for straying off topic but the first House Martins and Swallows are now arriving back & Suffolk is bone dry. If you have an open area create a mud splat and keep it moist until we have rain if you can. Here is a big splat in Woolpit!"
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Don't forget to record your HM sightings on our HM Mapper app available via Coreo (not Google Play Store etc..) 😊
housemartinconservation.com/house-martin...
housemartinconservation.com/house-martin...
April 5, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Don't forget to record your HM sightings on our HM Mapper app available via Coreo (not Google Play Store etc..) 😊
housemartinconservation.com/house-martin...
housemartinconservation.com/house-martin...
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Our first post on Bluesky - a georgeous female adder basking, celebrating all the hard work and efforts by our partners and volunteers on the Cannock Chase National Landscape adder conservation project to create and connect habitat including some rather impressive hibernation structures.
April 8, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Our first post on Bluesky - a georgeous female adder basking, celebrating all the hard work and efforts by our partners and volunteers on the Cannock Chase National Landscape adder conservation project to create and connect habitat including some rather impressive hibernation structures.
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Curating a Starter Pack that will hopefully be useful to folk coming over to BlueSky and looking for all of the UK conservation orgs and recording societies go.bsky.app/Nget1LP Will keep adding to this. DM or reply to be added and please share.
February 12, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Curating a Starter Pack that will hopefully be useful to folk coming over to BlueSky and looking for all of the UK conservation orgs and recording societies go.bsky.app/Nget1LP Will keep adding to this. DM or reply to be added and please share.
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"Gas set UK prices 98 per cent of the time in 2021 while the European average for fossil fuels was just 58 per cent."
#Renewables are our energy future
www.ft.com/content/2f25...
#Renewables are our energy future
www.ft.com/content/2f25...
Gas, not net zero, has driven up UK power bills
Britain has been unhelpfully exposed to international price shocks
www.ft.com
March 19, 2025 at 4:44 PM
"Gas set UK prices 98 per cent of the time in 2021 while the European average for fossil fuels was just 58 per cent."
#Renewables are our energy future
www.ft.com/content/2f25...
#Renewables are our energy future
www.ft.com/content/2f25...
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Wind pollinated plants re-establish fairly quickly in damaged grasslands, but it takes 75 years+ to restore the network of insect pollinated plants that rely on the right seed + the right pollinator in the right place, study finds. Can Biodiversity Net Gain offset 75 years?
phys.org/news/2025-03...
phys.org/news/2025-03...
A long wait for pollinators: Restored grasslands need 75+ years for full biodiversity recovery, study finds
Recovered grasslands need more than 75 years of continuous management to regain their biodiversity because specialized pollinators are slow to return. Kobe University's finding underscores the importa...
phys.org
March 19, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Wind pollinated plants re-establish fairly quickly in damaged grasslands, but it takes 75 years+ to restore the network of insect pollinated plants that rely on the right seed + the right pollinator in the right place, study finds. Can Biodiversity Net Gain offset 75 years?
phys.org/news/2025-03...
phys.org/news/2025-03...
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Fossil fuel firms subsidised $7trillion per year, says study that finds ending them would enable meeting climate goals & promote economic growth.
www.energylivenews.com/2025/03/18/w...
www.energylivenews.com/2025/03/18/w...
World oil and gas subsidies worth $7trillion - Energy Live News
Economic study says cutting fossil fuel 'hidden' subsidies would mean hitting climate goals now
www.energylivenews.com
March 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Fossil fuel firms subsidised $7trillion per year, says study that finds ending them would enable meeting climate goals & promote economic growth.
www.energylivenews.com/2025/03/18/w...
www.energylivenews.com/2025/03/18/w...
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The Esmeraldas province, where around 70% of all Afro-Ecuadorians live, faces contaminated water and destroyed livelihoods from a massive oil spill. news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
Oil spill in Ecuador’s Amazon devastates rivers and wildlife refuge
A massive oil spill in Ecuadorian Amazon, in the northwestern Esmeraldas province, has covered multiple rivers and a key wildlife refuge in thick, black sludge, impacting more than half a million resi...
news.mongabay.com
March 19, 2025 at 6:22 PM
The Esmeraldas province, where around 70% of all Afro-Ecuadorians live, faces contaminated water and destroyed livelihoods from a massive oil spill. news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
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Badenoch’s anti-science rejection of Net Zero is a shameless move to stoke culture wars.
1️⃣ The Climate Change Committee has shown that investing in Net Zero will generate UK annual savings of almost £40bn every year by 2050, delivering lasting prosperity.
Other experts agree—here are just some: 🧵
1️⃣ The Climate Change Committee has shown that investing in Net Zero will generate UK annual savings of almost £40bn every year by 2050, delivering lasting prosperity.
Other experts agree—here are just some: 🧵
March 18, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Badenoch’s anti-science rejection of Net Zero is a shameless move to stoke culture wars.
1️⃣ The Climate Change Committee has shown that investing in Net Zero will generate UK annual savings of almost £40bn every year by 2050, delivering lasting prosperity.
Other experts agree—here are just some: 🧵
1️⃣ The Climate Change Committee has shown that investing in Net Zero will generate UK annual savings of almost £40bn every year by 2050, delivering lasting prosperity.
Other experts agree—here are just some: 🧵