Scientists have released the closest images ever taken near the sun, captured by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flying 3.8 million miles above the solar surface. See more images of solar eruptions on the sun: wapo.st/3Irm3P3

June is Pride Month. Let's call out companies who show support for LGBTQ+ people while also advertising on GB News, a channel that pumps out LGBTQ+ hate. Tell these companies to pick a side - hate or Pride: action.goodlawproject.org/pick-side-ha...

The best boss and mentor you could ever hope to have. The best of the BBC. BBC arts broadcaster Alan Yentob dies aged 78 www.bbc.com/news/article...

🧵 1/Listening to writers ‪‪@sophiepavs.bsky.social, Poppy Okotcha + climate activist and creative educator @emmadesaram.bsky.social at Bookbag Exeter's latest Writing Nature event it was easy to feel that we still have hope.

And @righttoroam.bsky.social has won!! The Supreme Court has upheld the right to wild camping on Dartmoor 🎉👏. Huge congratulations to all involved! Now Government must step up & pass a comprehensive Right to Roam Act, to protect & extend public rights of access to nature across England

Gardening in drought - emergency tips for the continued dry spell www.wildway.info/p/gardening-...

Road Song Books (UK) is looking for novellas and narrative non-fiction (between 10,000 -12,000 words). Visit roadsongbooks.com/contact-us/

Pleasing lines on my #dailywalk in mid Devon this morning.

The cow parsley is in full froth and looks so beautiful with the afternoon sun filtering through it. The blackbird song is joyful too. 🐦‍⬛ 🎶 #gardening #wildgarden #nature

More Nightingale song from yesterday evening - 5.30pm. #nightingales #ukwildlife #ornithology

"An exotic zoo of poems... they come at you with arms flung open and invite you in." Thanks Alchemy Spoon for your great review of Mingle by @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social in the new Issue 15 www.alchemyspoon.org Dive into Mingle at a delicious sale price of £7.99 ninearchespress.com/publications...

SWIFTS NEED US! Join swift campaigner Hannah Bourne-Taylor in Bridport on the 9th May. Free and open to all. Scan the QR code for more info. @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social #BookSky

🌍 Writing for Earth Day - what if keeping it all together isn’t the point? What if the point is delighting in discovery, in all life’s small moments, about living in noticing and with uncertainty? 📖 Read: open.substack.com/pub/ysella/p... #naturewriting #earthday #creativeessay #slowwriting

🧵 1./ I've started exploring my Indian heritage and was excited but nervous to share what I've begun to discover at a live performance event, KARST x SOAK, featuring Bharatanatyam dance, historic sound archives, spoken word and music at KARST gallery in Plymouth.

It’s cold here this morning in mid Devon - yesterday there was ice on the hen’s water - but these forget me nots are bringing spring to the fringes of my veg plot. They’ve nested amongst velvety stachys, aquilegia, muscari and foxgloves. Sound up for the birdsong - such clarity. #gardening #nature

Magnolias looking resplendent in the spring light at our little local arboretum yesterday. #nature #gardening

In case you missed it! #nature

This is the most beautiful way to spend 59 minutes. Irish Ornithologist Sean Ronyane is on a mission to record the birdsong of all Ireland’s bird species. The production, pacing and storytelling are spot on. Plus Sean is a bloody hero. #birdsong #nature #Ireland

The government’s Land Use consultation is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to intervene in this critical issue. Here’s my response to it. Please feel free to borrow / copy & paste as much as you want. It’s crucial that we engage. www.monbiot.com/2025/03/23/f... 1/3 🧵

We’ve made it! I’m celebrating the #springequinox by putting my hands in the dirt and planting some seeds - cosmos and beans - and thinking of the days to come, moments of watching, growing and delighting 🌱 #gardening

🇮🇳🪷 These images are of my relatives from Tamilnadu in the early 1900s & I’d like to understand what the way they are dressed can tell me about them and their lives. Can anybody help or point me towards a resource that might be able to? Thanks! #India #tamilnadu #ancestry #HeritageAndProgress

Greta keeps track of the earth’s hearbeat the same way that some people track weather patterns. But is the year the swallows won’t return? Is there time to bring nature back from the brink? 📻 An audio short story set in rural Devon from @exetercityoflit.bsky.social #fiction #nature #climate

Loved Astronomer Royal for Scotland Prof Catherine Heymans’ poetic explanation of this morning’s blood moon as a ‘reflection of light from all the sunrises and sunsets around the entire globe.’ How beautiful is that? 🌏 #weareallconnected #lunareclipse #bloodmoon Photo credit Luke Pinker

1./ Late Light, a short 🧵 I recently heard Michael Malay talk about Late Light, his 2024 @wainwrightprize.bsky.social winning book at @thebookery.bsky.social - a memoir laced with natural history, a rich exploration of belonging, migration + extinction. #naturewriting #booksky

And now, following in the snowdrops’ wake come the wild daffodils. These are daintier and paler than the garden varieties and are very happy in this scrap of woodland carpeted with periwinkle next to the river Creedy in Devon. #nature #naturewriting #gardening

Huge win! Government announces plans to open up the Land Registry. If delivered, will finally reveal more about who owns land in England and Wales. Read my blog post for more details & how you can write to the Minister to make sure this now happens: whoownsengland.org/2025/03/06/h... 🧵1/

What’s helping to keep you on track while the world feels like a bin fire? I’ve written about the simple things (planet-spotting, sun-worshipping, mowing) that are helping me at: ysella.substack.com/p/reasons-to... Tell me what's helping you? #naturewriting #gardening #reasonstobecheerful

These are the little moments. The sun has come out, bringing the speedwell singing, along with the wren and the chaffinch, into the light. Coming from over the road, where men have been working in the sullen grey on a building site all winter, this morning, laughter. #naturewriting #spring

In light of the sad news from @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social today, I have removed the paywall from the Substack I wrote in autumn about extra things we can do to help bumblebees. One of them is growing crocuses undercover, which is working really well! open.substack.com/pub/katebrad...

"Daylighting" is the practice in urban design of restoring buried rivers to the surface. The River Sheaf been unburied in Sheffield city centre, after 100 yrs in the dark. Fabulous. A small light in the great gloom. “It is starting to make its own meandering path…” www.bbc.com/news/article...

1/2 Wren Nest-Building It takes a while to get the camera set-up correctly - with an add-on lens the distance has to be millimetre perfect. The male has several entry points to the log shed - this is the one he's mainly using currently. He always pauses for a fraction of a sec to check for danger.

The sun is shining and so is our chinese witch hazel. There’s a buzz of insects around it, as relieved for the blue skies and scent as we are 🐝🌱 #gardening

I was looking for reasons for hope in this grim February and Bernie Sanders provides one with a practical plan for change at grassroots level. Good to hear a positive, rational voice in the chaos of misinformation and disinformation Trump’s administration is pumping out.

A Romany name for February is ‘bita kaulo munthos’ - little black month & in ‘February’ Margaret Atwood calls it, ‘month of despair, with a skewered heart in the centre’. This year, for all the obvious reasons, it’s feeling a bit darker, so I’ve written about it - tell me your reasons for hope? 🧡

I’m having a jangly, grief-filled day, but here amongst the peace of the snowdrops and the softly churning river it’s all starting to feel a bit better. #gardening #naturewriting

Want to have your say? Tomorrow afternoon, we’re sending out our supporter survey to our mailing list. Sign up now using the link below to be able to share your thoughts and help shape the future of the campaign. www.righttoroam.org.uk

REVEALED: over 1/4 of England's ancient landmarks have no right of public access. Analysis from Right to Roam indicates over 5,500 scheduled monuments were off-limits, with trespass the only way to fully experience our heritage. Read more here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Small signs of hope amongst the existential angst and general February grim on my Devon #morningwalk. Snowdrops, catkins and pussy willow are doing their thing, there’s the first shoots of cuckoo pint and dog’s mercury in the undergrowth and the blue green of daffodils shooting under the trees 🌱

The Hosking Houses Trust supports women writers, artists and creative practitioners, usually over the age of 40 to develop their work through short-term residencies at Church Cottage nr Stratford-upon-Avon. Details in link. Please share :) hoskinghouses.org.uk

With the government trying to stoke division over environmental protections it’s more important than ever to follow ecological professionals and conservationists that know the real facts. This starter pack is a great place to start 🦇🦎🦇💚 go.bsky.app/UiaNNpD

Sharing for anyone looking for a shot of hope, of pragmatic optimism this morning. @georgemonbiot.bsky.social on top form on democracy, the nature of power and the power of commonality, on human nature, belonging, and village thinking 🌿 #naturewriting #hope #environment

A frosty morning in mid Devon, the sheep resting in their crunchy field, nestling against each other, heads lowered as the sun climbs into the pink streaked sky. And after my walk a moment to look at the sparkle up close, the shadows on the grass, the silver shimmer on the succulents. #naturewriting

Trump is capitalism in human form, stripped of its disguises. The violent seizure of other people's resources, the exploitation of other people's catastrophes, the predatory gleam in the psychopath's eye. #Gaza #Genocide

It’s back! The good folks of Black Lodge Press have printed a new run of 'A Radical Garden' — a lush risograph zine which collects posters and thoughts on the radical act of gardening and growing 🌱 In the shop now (£10) and never around for long buff.ly/3CDZ2G0

Some epic bumperstickering around Bristol today. A nice egg, now there’s the thing 🐓

‘A bohemian life in a freezing garret only sounds attractive to those who have never lived it. In a country proud of its literary history, we’re at a tipping point when the number of books and plays written could soon collapse with the number of people who can afford to create them.’

‘… the oaks, once part of ancient hedgerows — wavy lines of hawthorn, oak and dog rose — have been set adrift again, floating islands on a furrowed sea.’ So happy ‘Even the Trees are Lonely’ is up on @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social today amidst all the glorious #naturewriting 🔗 tinyurl.com/22pddyb8

Shaking off the week by putting my face into the pale winter sun tramping the mud of Mid Devon. I found snowdrops on the banks of the river Creedy, viburnum and ivy flowering in the flailed hedgerows, pennyworts in the lichened wall and silver lichen in the blackthorn. #naturewriting #winter

FULL STORY // University study finds decarbonisation slowing as city council continues to pursue failing Net Zero Exeter 2030 plan Exeter to miss 2050 target on current trajectory while annual city carbon footprint likely to be triple territorial total. exeterobserver.org/2024/12/22/u...