Climate shocks, underinvestment, leaks, pollution and wastage… our water supply is in deep trouble

Foraging in a heatwave? Yikes! But when better to head into a shady park or woodland to harvest nettle seeds - an ancient pick-me-up for stressed times... shorturl.at/s55ZU

When it's time to love and let go... shorturl.at/23Wym

A slam-dunk by Sally Rooney.

Walking with cuckoos, or things we've loved and lost r.fibr.ai/edhjcg1f @futuregencymru.bsky.social @rspbcymru.bsky.social @bbcspringwatch.bsky.social

Celebrating the people and startups turning climate talk into climate action, at home and abroad, at the Ashden awards @RGS_IBG tonight. Featuring @nakate_vanessa, @ashden_org @ashden-org.bsky.social Just don’t call it the #greenOscars 😘

Bottom trawling, delivering on the promise of 30x30 marine-protections, deepsea mining - it's all on the agenda at this week's UN Ocean Summit in Nice. Here's why the outcomes matter to all of us... 🐋🐚🏄‍♂️🦈🦑 shorturl.at/IIr3u

This would be a game-changer. Ban bottom trawling *and* deepsea mining

How do we protect our waters from canal to coast? ➡️ Use less plastic personally ➡️ Join a litter pick ➡️ Get water firms to clean up their act ➡️ Tackle fishing industry ghost nets ➡️ Don’t buy trawled fish ➡️ Ban trawlers from MPAs and high seas #Earthfest

@laurenthesunflower.bsky.social tells #earthfest: “The UK has been through harrowing austerity: 6m households in energy poverty. Yet Equinor has made record profits. Oil and gas is making the obscenely rich obscenely richer - at the expense of everyone else”

People power is pushing government and business to clean up our waterways and create cleaner, greener riversides. Showing our waterways some love during London Rivers Week could just be the start... ⤵️

Forage fiercer greener’s monthly column on what to pick or gather. Less about food, more about getting out in - and reconnecting to - nature… 💚

Most of us - 89 per cent - want more action to tackle climate change and nature loss. But we also believe that we're alone in that wish. And if it's hard to act it's harder still to win the hearts and minds of others. What can we do..?

This. ⬇️

Sad news; a great photographer and an Earth protector who did so much to restore the land he lived on. Rest in power

Big decision; huge! 🐳 🎉🐬

"We dig as little as possible, to preserve soil health, although we plant tomatoes, chard and broad beans every spring. To keep costs down, we trade seeds and plants with neighbours and local growers - a lovely way to sow your own tribe."

Oops, oh my - greener has landed on Substack. Come join the ride! greener is for everyone who believes a fairer, greener future is necessary and possible 🦔💧🪴 tinyurl.com/4psftr62

“I’m fascinated by the ways in which the drive to eliminate the dissenting autonomy of water – of running water, of rivers, of springs – has marched often in lockstep with power that seeks to eliminate all forms of spiritual relationships with land and water, replacing the sacred with the fiscal.” 💙

No one who sees Ocean With David Attenborough can unsee the impacts of bottom trawling. It’s like napalming a rainforest. The film is a powerful call to arms for #oceanConservation #30by30 ahead of #UNoceanConference Let’s do this. 🐬🐙🐠🦑🪸🦈🪼🦀🐋

Ratsey bags - the fore runner of the #Tote_bag? They were made from a single piece of #sail_canvas sewn up the sides and used for carrying coal/ice to waiting #yachts. The design was adapted by L L Bean in making his original Tote bags. Trying to find original sources for this. #maritimehistory

The Greens now have nearly 200 more councillors than Reform. This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.

Barely a week after surveys found that 89% of us want governments to do more - not less - to tackle climate change... Tony Blair; Tone deaf!

Happy Earth Day. Let’s get a teeny bit braver! 💚🌱🌍

Red mason-bee day, UK. All feels right with the world 🐝

PR campaign may have fuelled food study backlash, leaked document shows

BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency. Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.

More green energy. But…

Dire wolves were not close relatives of gray wolves. They last shared a common ancestor more than 5 million years ago. What Colossal has done is make something new and slapped a dire wolf sticker on it, as if an organism equals a hypothetical genome.

Soil at Somerset House. A fascinating glimpse of the worlds below.

More and more fungi face threats from climate change, pollutants and habitat loss, IUCN reports

Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer Which makes it all the more urgent for insurers to start valuing and protecting, and to stop demanding the felling, of street trees… 🌳

Authors - act now! Meta has hoovered up hundreds of novels and short stories to train its AI models. It hasn’t asked or paid the writers. If this is you, use the @authorsguild's letter template to object: actionnetwork.org/letters/auth...

Earth hour 🌍 🌎 🌏

Brilliant news! At last, confirmation that the Govt *will* go ahead with the #NaturalHistoryGCSE 🎉 We have to get to know our fellow travellers on this planet again. Young people who know & love nature are far more likely to protect & restore it - as well as enjoying better physical & mental health

Sign the petition to protect the forest garden in Dartington, Devon that Martin Crawford set up three decades a go. It’s a vital and much-loved resource for education and research into regenerative food growing, soil health and working with nature 💚☘️🐸🌱🥦

A sobering watch, feat. motivated, underresourced people trapped in a system not of their making. All crying out for investment to adapt a creaking business to urban growth and climate impacts. Shocking and desperately sad. Pt 2 tonight

How would the mad exhaustion of the COP3 climate summit work as theatre? Saw and loved #kyotoPlay. It unmasks the interests beneath a thin skin of diplomacy. Being complicit, every audience member gets a delegate lanyard. A def go-see. 🌍 @goodchancetheatre.bsky.social @sohotheatre.bsky.social

It’s hanami time on the marshes Wild plum and blackthorn in flower, buzzing with early bumblebees. New signs of spring #longWinter #TottenhamSpring

I’ve published my submission to the government’s Land Use consultation. DEFRA has proposed lots of bold and interesting ideas, many of which I support. But they also underestimate the scale of land use change needed to restore nature & fix water pollution. 1/🧵 whoownsengland.org/2025/03/12/m...

New studies show just 17 percent of world cities have safe levels of air pollution. How polluted is the air you’re breathing? Click here to find out ⬇️⬇️⬇️

1. You feel powerless? Don’t know what you can do to resist the rise of fascism? Here is an answer: Good Things. Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine. Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it. The more we build community, the less it can take root. 🧵

Love this! A flashmob choir calling for nature restoration and rewilding hits St Paul’s cathedral 🌸🐇🦊🦔🦋🐞🕷️💚🪴

When did we reduce international women’s day to just another merchandising opp? #IWD25 Stop messaging us about buying merch! ✋

Privatised water has failed. Just look at your water bills or the sewage pouring into our rivers. Steve Reed - include public ownership as an option in your independent commission on the water sector. Sign the petition weownit.org.uk/act-now/stev...

Who might be up for this…? 🍄🍄‍🟫🍄🍄‍🟫🍄 #mushrooms #fungi #mycology #shrooms

Critical messaging from today’s UK Climate Change Committee report; in these cash-strapped times, with the right joined-up support, going green *is* the smarter choice. This from Carbon Brief:

The net zero economy grew 10% last year📈 so it's now worth over £80bn GVA and supports nearly 1 million jobs would be madness to advocate against net zero when it means growth & energy security according to a NEW report with analysis by CBI Economics: eciu.net/media/press-...

If you love to hear nightingales singing and nightjars croaking… 🌸🪶🪹🐦‍⬛🪺🦉🪲🕷️🐛🐞 Make Middlewick Ranges a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) chng.it/VqSFCmzh via @UKChange