Funny bit of trolling by the civil servant who put together this chart in the Land Use Framework. Solar energy - a fixation of the rural right - so negligible in percentage land use terms there's not enough space to put a number.

VICTORY! Government to open up the Land Registry - bringing to an end a thousand years of secrecy shrouding who owns England. I’ve been campaigning for this for ten years: the new Land Use Framework, published later today, makes it government policy. 1/ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

meanwhile A sanctioned Russian tanker loaded with liquid natural gas is drifting out of control in the Mediterranean with no crew on board and a gaping hole in one side, prompting warnings of a "serious risk of a major ecological disaster". www.bbc.com/news/article...

Favorite detail of this op-ed I published today: Honduran currency now depicts Berta Cáceres, their 1st to feature a woman (and an Indigenous one, too) It marked Int'l Day of Women in Multilateralism, which recognizes women's key roles in promoting #humanrights peace & sustainable development:

Revealed: the world’s worst mega-leaks of methane driving global heating - Fixing a leak can be simple and equivalent to closing a coal power station, making lack of action ‘maddening’, say analysts #climatecrisis Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Shipworms aren’t worms. They’re bivalves that eat wood with the help of symbiotic bacteria turning wooden shipwrecks into functioning ecosystems. #MolluscMonday Fantastic image from seahistory.org/sea-history-...

Important story by my colleague @pgreenfielduk.bsky.social on the threat caused by mining tailings dams, many of which are ill-equipped to withstand worsening extreme weather from climate crisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Modified salmon cannon, obvs

the Black Country Museum, where you spend a day exploring the Industrial Revolution from point of view of a 19th Century urchin. Includes a school where they bully you before a trip down a mine. Haunting. 10/10 fish & chip shop. We went 3 times

Another use for a boring clam hole. An octopus rests in clam burrow on a rocky reef. Or maybe it's waiting for a crustacean to walk by, maybe both. Hey buddy, get that light outta my face!

Our work on building bird boxes out of mushrooms is featured in National Geographic! Mycelium (🍄) boxes are lightweight, biodegradable and carbon-neutral; we are trialling them against conventional bird boxes. 🪶 🧪 Read more here: www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti... by @interspecies.agency

In which researchers learn about cicada "towers" and how they function by putting condoms over them. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The biggest conservation win ever for the endangered Palm Cockatoo! On the back of 18 years of my research on this difficult species, People for Wildlife and Indigenous rangers and I were able to make an install an artificial hollow that was immediately used! 💥 capeyorkweekly.com.au/artificial-h...

For decades biologists assumed ravens follow wolves to their kills. Our paper @science.org shows something different: ravens rarely follow wolves far. Instead they remember areas where wolf kills are common and return to them—sometimes from >150 km away. doi.org/10.1126/science.adz9467 📷Dan Stahler

Just incredible shoebill awareness-raising from this Hong Kong teens' magazine

Hell yeah www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Green cement startup Sublime Systems has laid off 2/3 of its current workforce after the Trump admin canceled a crucial grant that would have supported the producer’s first major manufacturing facility, @akshatrathi.bsky.social @emmarcourt.bsky.social report: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Kemi Badenoch's spokesman denies she is ashamed of British animals, after the Conservative party call the Bank of England's decision to put British wildlife on our banknotes "deeply depressing"

Understanding how “marine snow” acts as a carbon sink 👇 news.mit.edu/2026/underst...

'Rewilding' borders to deter invasion isn't such a new concept - Britain did the same in 1940s by flooding much of the east coast to deter Nazi invasion, which famously created the Minsmere reserve and the recolonisation of Avocets etc.

Think a lot about how losing things—like Louisiana's wetlands in this case—to climate change and bad policy also means losing culture and community.

A Finnish government study, to be published in May, will outline a plan to “build” a “Verdant Wall” along #Finland’s Eastern border by #rewilding and restoring natural habitats, especially marshlands, as barriers to invasion. Win win win! #biodiversity #defence

BrewDog sold highland estate for knockdown price after abandoning reforestation plans

Solar farms could increase global crop yields by hundreds of billions of pounds, thanks to the protective microclimate created beneath their panels. www.positive.news/environment/...

#Primates 👍

What can biodiversity patterns during the Black Death tell us about our relationships with nature? (hint: its not all bad!) Read more in our new paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🌏🧪🌐

Anthropogenic change is causing behavioral traits to converge across individuals, populations, and species, often in urban environments. @birder158.bsky.social &co describe these changes and discusses their ecological and evolutionary consequences. 🧪 #EcoSky #GlobalChangeBiology plos.io/4b6FcRb

It’s the first time a frog—or any amphibian—has been observed pollinating a plant, researchers reported in 2023. Learn more on #WorldWildlifeDay: https://scim.ag/4riUU1G

"When a Bayesian agent is provided with data that are sampled based on a current hypothesis the agent becomes increasingly confident about the hypothesis but does not make any progress towards the truth." #TheStupidestTimeline

*Gift article* A good news article, which I figure we all can use about now. "As it turns out, when you see a whooping crane, you cannot doubt you are seeing one. No other living thing like it exists in all the world." #Birds #Wetlands #EnvironmentalProtection #EndangeredSpecies

Chronic ocean heating fuels ‘staggering’ loss of marine life, study finds Fish levels fall by 7.2% with as little as 0.1C of warming per decade, northern hemisphere research shows www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"The company has purchased an area of forestland in Heinävesi, Eastern Finland, which it will manage using environmentally progressive methods." A Finnish high-end wood design company has to acquire its own forests, because the Finnish forestry model produces slop. www.artek.fi/en/news/arte...

My review in their latest newsletter of @britishwildlife.bsky.social Wilding for Conservation is now out. www.britishwildlife.com/wilding-for-... An important publication & resource. @landethics.bsky.social @irishrainforest.bsky.social @whittledaway.bsky.social @jmbecologist.bsky.social #rewilding

I am working on a story about burrowing owls and came across this delightful photo Source: www.aza.org/connect-stor...

AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases www.newscientist.com/article/2516...

Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.

Something positive for your scrolling today: Apparently kakapo are having a great year. apnews.com/article/kaka...

An alarming UK climate security report backed by the intelligence services has been quietly buried. Our governments are not taking the climate crisis seriously. theconversation.com/a-uk-climate...

Bernd & Hilla Becher show at Spruth Magers in London is phenomenal.

the new paper on bouba/kiki in chicks is utterly compelling canonical, elegant method from comparative cogsci & its partner in developmental science, ultra-simple design, ultra-clear effects, no need for fancy analyses, machine learning, or AI it appeared in an appropriately badass venue (Science)

AN INTRODUCTION TO FORAMINIFERA paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2013/06/17/a...

“If you removed all people from the planet, Hawaii would be on a completely different evolutionary ecological trajectory". This article by @interspecies.agency explains how Hawaii's so-called ‘freakosystems’ offer an unsettling glimpse of the future. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Ever since I started partnering with Matter of Trust, I’ve been fascinated by this technology. Our bodies are fields that naturally produce things to help nature thrive.

The importance of Indigenous knowledge for finding creative solutions to impacts of the climate crisis: www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/...

🚨New paper in @ecography.bsky.social! First Pan-Arctic study on how large herbivore exclusion shapes mycorrhizal fungi, brilliantly led by @colebrachmann.bsky.social. Key insight: AM fungi—often overlooked in Arctic research—respond most strongly to herbivory while EcM and ErM vary locally. Thread 👇

This GOOD BOY ran onto the course during the Women’s Cross-Country Skiing Team Sprint event, crossing the finish line and being automatically recorded by OMEGA’s photofinish camera 😆

There are lots of climate journalists around, myself included. If you want more reporting on climate, try sharing our stuff, write to editors and demand more such reporting, etc - basically, give them an audience they can't refuse.

Using our bee-tracking drone, we discovered that honey bees 🐝 have highly precise and individual routes. Now published at @currentbiology.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

Now published: Landscape connectivity across Canada and the USA. A seamless, high resolution connectivity map across both countries. 🧪🌎 Open access in Facets, including open data www.facetsjournal.com/doi/full/10....

Wow! Palestine Action win judicial review - Guardian report. This is a *big* legal win. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...