Val Lum
@val4081.bsky.social
Following: nature , conservation, rewilding, biodiversity, climate and similar. UK
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Here is an excellent summary of last week's National Emergency Briefing in London. Well worth a watch and please sign the letter to the Prime Minister linked at the end.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sa7...
#climatechange #impacts #energy #health #tippingpoints #nationalsecurity #foodsecurity
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sa7...
#climatechange #impacts #energy #health #tippingpoints #nationalsecurity #foodsecurity
This is not the video I had planned to make.
YouTube video by Just Have a Think
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December 1, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Here is an excellent summary of last week's National Emergency Briefing in London. Well worth a watch and please sign the letter to the Prime Minister linked at the end.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sa7...
#climatechange #impacts #energy #health #tippingpoints #nationalsecurity #foodsecurity
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sa7...
#climatechange #impacts #energy #health #tippingpoints #nationalsecurity #foodsecurity
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Two-day-old zebrafish larvae, as seen through a scanning electron microscope
November 6, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Two-day-old zebrafish larvae, as seen through a scanning electron microscope
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Mr & Mrs Bearded Tit sharing the same reed head near the sluice at RSPB Minsmere
#bird #birds #birdphotography #ukwildlife #wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #NaturePhotography
@rspb.bsky.social
#bird #birds #birdphotography #ukwildlife #wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #NaturePhotography
@rspb.bsky.social
October 18, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Mr & Mrs Bearded Tit sharing the same reed head near the sluice at RSPB Minsmere
#bird #birds #birdphotography #ukwildlife #wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #NaturePhotography
@rspb.bsky.social
#bird #birds #birdphotography #ukwildlife #wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #NaturePhotography
@rspb.bsky.social
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October 3, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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#PollinatorPals furry dronefly (Id by seek) on meadow sweet (I knew that one) #WildflowerHour at Velvet Bottom nature reserve
August 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
#PollinatorPals furry dronefly (Id by seek) on meadow sweet (I knew that one) #WildflowerHour at Velvet Bottom nature reserve
Gatekeeper butterfly quite likes spiky teasel #wildflowerhour
July 13, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Gatekeeper butterfly quite likes spiky teasel #wildflowerhour
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At this time of year, the oregano in my garden hums with bees, butterflies, hoverflies and other insects. Fitting, perhaps, that its name means “mountain of happiness”—from Greek oros (mountain) & ganos (joy). A herb much loved by pollinators! #FlowersOnFriday #FlowerFridayFamily
July 11, 2025 at 7:12 AM
At this time of year, the oregano in my garden hums with bees, butterflies, hoverflies and other insects. Fitting, perhaps, that its name means “mountain of happiness”—from Greek oros (mountain) & ganos (joy). A herb much loved by pollinators! #FlowersOnFriday #FlowerFridayFamily
20 episodes answering your questions about heat pumps, factual and expert
Sad news about the Happy Heat Pump Podcast.
Sorry to say, that after about 20 episodes, we’re drawing it to a close at the request of the BBC which worries it may be seen as steering into areas of public controversy.
1/2
youtu.be/RJPKgngqoX0?...
Sorry to say, that after about 20 episodes, we’re drawing it to a close at the request of the BBC which worries it may be seen as steering into areas of public controversy.
1/2
youtu.be/RJPKgngqoX0?...
https://youtu.be/RJPKgngqoX0?si=92B9xN4zy6BiWXqK
t.co
April 22, 2025 at 3:58 PM
20 episodes answering your questions about heat pumps, factual and expert
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Galium odoratum invert associates
Over 20 species of invert rely on Galium odoratum, Sweet Woodruff, as a larval host. Flowers late spring–early summer, in leaf from very early spring, in dappled shade in clearings & woodland margins. A distinctive coumarin scent develops in dried material.
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Over 20 species of invert rely on Galium odoratum, Sweet Woodruff, as a larval host. Flowers late spring–early summer, in leaf from very early spring, in dappled shade in clearings & woodland margins. A distinctive coumarin scent develops in dried material.
🌱
April 21, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Galium odoratum invert associates
Over 20 species of invert rely on Galium odoratum, Sweet Woodruff, as a larval host. Flowers late spring–early summer, in leaf from very early spring, in dappled shade in clearings & woodland margins. A distinctive coumarin scent develops in dried material.
🌱
Over 20 species of invert rely on Galium odoratum, Sweet Woodruff, as a larval host. Flowers late spring–early summer, in leaf from very early spring, in dappled shade in clearings & woodland margins. A distinctive coumarin scent develops in dried material.
🌱
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Good debunking here of some of the nonsense pedalled about the "bat tunnel" built for HS2
It's by people with skin in the game - @batconservation.bsky.social - but worth reading
www.bats.org.uk/news/2025/04...
See also @whippletom.bsky.social's read on this
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
It's by people with skin in the game - @batconservation.bsky.social - but worth reading
www.bats.org.uk/news/2025/04...
See also @whippletom.bsky.social's read on this
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
Revealed: how tunnel through the woods cost £300,000 per bat
A decision that ‘no bat death is acceptable’ will create an artfully designed £100m structure in Buckinghamshire — after a 12-year HS2 planning saga
www.thetimes.com
April 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Good debunking here of some of the nonsense pedalled about the "bat tunnel" built for HS2
It's by people with skin in the game - @batconservation.bsky.social - but worth reading
www.bats.org.uk/news/2025/04...
See also @whippletom.bsky.social's read on this
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
It's by people with skin in the game - @batconservation.bsky.social - but worth reading
www.bats.org.uk/news/2025/04...
See also @whippletom.bsky.social's read on this
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
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Oxlips in no mow area of the garden...important early nectar source...and distinguishable from cowslips partly as they tend to face one way
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social
#ildflowerhour
#Sepals
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#ildflowerhour
#Sepals
March 30, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Oxlips in no mow area of the garden...important early nectar source...and distinguishable from cowslips partly as they tend to face one way
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social
#ildflowerhour
#Sepals
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social
#ildflowerhour
#Sepals
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Reminds me of this campaign by the European Greens
December 30, 2024 at 2:35 PM
Reminds me of this campaign by the European Greens
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This Bombus terrestris is hanging from the flower of the stinking hellebore by the hooked ends of her legs. When I look at the shape of claws at the end of bees' legs and how they use them, always comes to my mind how similar they are to ice axes - which mountaineers use for the same purpose
February 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
This Bombus terrestris is hanging from the flower of the stinking hellebore by the hooked ends of her legs. When I look at the shape of claws at the end of bees' legs and how they use them, always comes to my mind how similar they are to ice axes - which mountaineers use for the same purpose
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1/ The UK government’s ‘growth vs newts and bats’ agenda has sparked a bit of a ‘Team Bat Team Newt’ response
It’s heartening and uplifting, but it plays right into their hands
🧵
Graphic: @rosie400.bsky.social
It’s heartening and uplifting, but it plays right into their hands
🧵
Graphic: @rosie400.bsky.social
February 7, 2025 at 4:31 PM
1/ The UK government’s ‘growth vs newts and bats’ agenda has sparked a bit of a ‘Team Bat Team Newt’ response
It’s heartening and uplifting, but it plays right into their hands
🧵
Graphic: @rosie400.bsky.social
It’s heartening and uplifting, but it plays right into their hands
🧵
Graphic: @rosie400.bsky.social
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Support the newts! Newts do not hold up planning applications these days
By now, everyone’s probably aware that the Government’s speech-writers love taking cheap shots at newts. Here's what we think about this at Freshwater Habitats Trust! freshwaterhabitats.org.uk/news/are-new...
January 31, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Support the newts! Newts do not hold up planning applications these days
Garden plants have turned into cacti overnight
January 11, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Garden plants have turned into cacti overnight
Still some lovely flowers still out at my local nature reserve, I particularly like the harebells, oh and any scabious. I can never decide on a favourite #wildflowerhour
November 17, 2024 at 8:47 PM
Still some lovely flowers still out at my local nature reserve, I particularly like the harebells, oh and any scabious. I can never decide on a favourite #wildflowerhour
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Hello everyone! just finding my feet with how this all works! Give me a repost to help find friends from other platforms! ☺️
November 15, 2024 at 8:09 PM
Hello everyone! just finding my feet with how this all works! Give me a repost to help find friends from other platforms! ☺️
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In case you missed this earlier in the week, another fantastic and exciting landscape-scale purchase by The Wildlife Trusts (requiring a bit of public fundraising too) – another exclusive story by my colleague Helena Horton. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Wildlife Trusts buy Rothbury estate in largest land sale in England in 30 years
Charities plan to create flagship for nature recovery on 3,850-hectare portion of estate sold by Duke of Northumberland’s son
www.theguardian.com
October 31, 2024 at 7:49 PM
In case you missed this earlier in the week, another fantastic and exciting landscape-scale purchase by The Wildlife Trusts (requiring a bit of public fundraising too) – another exclusive story by my colleague Helena Horton. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Ivy bees have arrived
September 26, 2024 at 8:27 PM
Ivy bees have arrived
Cross section of a tree (and ivy) that fell over a footpath, not sure I could have climbed over it
April 19, 2024 at 7:36 PM
Cross section of a tree (and ivy) that fell over a footpath, not sure I could have climbed over it
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MEGA FACTCHECK: Heat pumps are central for the transition to sustainable heating.
But heat pumps face relentless hostile media coverage. I comprehensively debunked 18 heat pump myths in Carbon Brief.
Find it here 👉https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-18-misleading-myths-about-heat-pumps/
But heat pumps face relentless hostile media coverage. I comprehensively debunked 18 heat pump myths in Carbon Brief.
Find it here 👉https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-18-misleading-myths-about-heat-pumps/
March 21, 2024 at 4:26 PM
MEGA FACTCHECK: Heat pumps are central for the transition to sustainable heating.
But heat pumps face relentless hostile media coverage. I comprehensively debunked 18 heat pump myths in Carbon Brief.
Find it here 👉https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-18-misleading-myths-about-heat-pumps/
But heat pumps face relentless hostile media coverage. I comprehensively debunked 18 heat pump myths in Carbon Brief.
Find it here 👉https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-18-misleading-myths-about-heat-pumps/
Excuse blurry phone photo, these are red kites and it’s 30 years since I saw my first one not far from here. I never get bored of seeing them
December 23, 2023 at 5:41 PM
Excuse blurry phone photo, these are red kites and it’s 30 years since I saw my first one not far from here. I never get bored of seeing them