Relentless "improvement" of the countryside leaves no space for nature.

But ever more people are now helping the wild return, through *rewilding*.

No matter who you are or where you live, you too have a part to play in the fight.

There is no better New Year's resolution.

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.

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Under current climate policies, 79 per cent of the world’s glaciers will disappear by 2100, endangering the water supply for 2 billion people and raising sea levels dramatically

Bioabundance: A Tudor account of insects washed downstream by a winter flood on the River Severn, in such vast quantities that they jammed up water mills for four days and had to be dug out by the shovel load.
Source: Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, vol 1, 1812.

“United in diversity", the motto of the European Union, first came into use in 2000. Now there is something to get behind and support!

OpenAI's $500 billion valuation is based on the assumption they will have 2 billion - yes, 2 billion - paid-up users. www.wired.com/story/openai...

Recently, my book THEY CALLED US ENEMY was banned – again – in Tennessee. Book bans are out of control. Huge parts of American history are being restricted. To join me in standing up for the freedom to read, go to pen.org/action. @penamerica.bsky.social @topshelfcomix.bsky.social @idwpublishing.com

I took this photo less than 10 years after the deer fence behind was erected. Before it went up, the land behind was just grass, exactly like the foreground where he sheep are.

*Nothing* was planted here.

"It's not rocket science" is an understatement.
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The infrastructure for the European Digital Twin of the Ocean exists! Check out our data lake of #EMODnet and #CopernicusMarine data : dive.edito.eu

Dead wood and the circle of life (by Jeroen Helmer)

So next time you see a tourism ad for #Iceland, remember that they still hunt whales there …. 🥲

Highlight of the week may have been learning about the Belgian seagulls that mysteriously made a 50 mile trip inland once a day, only to find out that their destination was a potato chip factory. Can relate!

Looking at the viability of using Earth Observation data to monitor Irish lakes: www.epa.ie/publications...