'Hazardous' waste can be a fruitful habitat www.theguardian.com/environment/...

British soldier lichen on an 'Iron Age' roundhouse roof

Ace at catering, not so good at spelling. Who cares? hellohistoria.substack.com/p/the-carefu...

Field Notes by Jess fieldnotesbyjess.substack.com?r=2zfa5k&utm...

Apres moi le deluge etc www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

'Dennis and Phillip Troman with their pet Jackdaw seen here at bath time' Bela Zola , 1952

I’ve posted this before but the light was perfect today- a little Victorian cat paw in a brick at the front of the old Norfolk & Norwich Hospital. As this is on the front-facing corner of the main gates, the bricklayer quite clearly put it there on purpose, at a height where children would spot it.

I have been delving into the life of this extraordinary woman who, I suspect, would not give modern foragers the time of day. She shot rabbits and ate them for breakfast. givehttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/26/life-of-exmoor-nature-writer-hope-bourne-recognised-with-exhibition

A short film about the death of a glacier. An instructive and moving foretaste of the future. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVvY...

Spotlight on: Bog Asphodel, Narthecium ossifragum. The latin ‘ossifragum’ means bone-breaker. This is because the species grows on soils poor in calcium that historically caused bone health issues in grazing livestock.

Edward Gorey 'In the middle of his kitchen he had a big marble ball fountain. Much of the art in the house consisted of found objects. He had an entire wall of antique cheese graters, which was very impressive, and an enormous ball of rope in the fireplace' Johnny Ryan

Happy to say that the only glacier I have ever visited (Drangajokull in NW Iceland) has not retreated - yet. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Playing Monopoly with green spaces www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Or you could try my alternatives

"Burying the truth of the Confederacy, rewriting its aims and ideas, and ignoring its animating words allowed for the terrorization of the Black population, the imposition of apartheid, and the destruction of democracy." www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Early potatoes archaeology.org/issues/march...

There's a terrific poem about eels in the form of a slim volume - by Steve Ely. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Opening next month at Somerset Rural Life Museum, 'A Life Outside' offers a new appraisal of the work & life of the writer and artist Hope Bourne, who recorded the landscape, wildlife, history & changing rural traditions of Exmoor www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/08/a-li... Image © The Exmoor Society

Should Paviland’s Red Lady “Come Home”? www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...

Microbes meet across a crowded room... www.sapiens.org/biology/micr...

Wish I could stay alive long enough to see how this plays out - innoculating new woodland with mycorrhizal spores www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘There are so many words for cutting benefit payments to the needy and vulnerable, as once there were so many for words for the cutting of a field.' Restricted access to the benefit system is a re-enactment of the Acts of Enclosure, writes Sean Prentice www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/08/tres...

(More) toxic colonial history www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Natural rewilding of clearfelled forest www.scotlandbigpicture.com/rewilding-st...

Plus ca change... (apart from the means) www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Hunter/gatherer lifestyles : the gathering aspect is arguably the more creative and more crucial to human evolution www.sapiens.org/biology/huma...

This article… … is, by a long way, the clearest account of the UK government’s complicity in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza that I have ever read. Please read and share.

'Starving children to death won’t win Binyamin Netanyahu the war on Gaza. It will ensure it lasts for decades.' Read the latest from Paul Rogers here ⤵️ https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/israel-gaza-starving-children-to-death-destroy-reputation-security-hamas-us/

The force that through the green fuse drives... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

www.theguardian.com/environment/... There needs to be a comprehensive study of the effect of the deer population on vegetation. We no longer have native woodland to spare.

The Empire Has Accidentally Caused The Rebirth Of Real Counterculture In The West www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-empire...

To fight ban on Palestine Action, we must learn from university protesters

Going, going... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Why do we throw so much perfectly good water away? I use it to water my vegetable garden. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Even though I wear my clothes to death (= holes) what becomes of them after that? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Perpetuating a local tradition is one thing, exporting this stuff for garden compost is quite another www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A great man gone: photographer, ecologist, good human being.

A novel use of (edible) glitter - how ingenious is this? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I started listening to Half-Life yesterday. The best show I’ve listened to in 2025, hands down.

It's here because it's here because it's here www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This is very good www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...