“Dubai presents the hard-right vision of utopia: a place stripped of workers’ protections or the right to protest, a place of pure environmental dereliction”

Good piece on the dystopian vision Farage, Tice & Reform are reaching for:

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Sad that some are so disengaged from the natural world that they feel the need to express this level of disdain for something that dares to cope with the human onslaught!

Two teens and 5,000 ants: how a smuggling bust shed new light on a booming trade

Interesting survey in Aisholt Wood on the Quantock Hills. Oxalis looking pretty, Minotaur beetle and a Red deer skeleton.

Here’s a poem called ‘From The Encyclopedia of Alternative Facts’.

New data shows all bad news for England's priority wildlife habitats.

❌big drop in monitoring: Natural England needs funds to keep up
❌fall in favourable management in & outside SSSIs
❌fall in SSSIs in good condition: better incentives & enforcement urgent.

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That's linear extrapolation of the 30-year trend.

As acceleration (from NASA satellite and Ocean Heat Content data and forcing estimates) started after 2010, including the preceding 15 years provides a false sense of security.

Using an extrapolation of the 15-year trend puts 1.5 on September 2025:

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🎉 Congratulations #Niger for eliminating Onchocerciasis, commonly known as river blindness, the first country in the African Region to do so bit.ly/40Ur7lV

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Home truths: the only thing Labour is building is a bigger, more dysfunctional housing market | George Monbiot