In contrast to the false narrative so desperately sold by some, rewilding and re-peopling of the countryside actually go hand in hand. With many rural communities in Ireland struggling due to lack of jobs and vitality, it's about time we started recognising this, bringing nature AND people back.

this is like an episode of Black Mirror. Burger King is launching an AI chatbot that will live in the headsets used by employees, and will check if employees say “please” and “thank you” www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Restore Britain's language is not just racist it's now indistinguishable from Neo-Nazi groups.

Nearly half our planet 🌊 lies beyond national borders — and for the first time, we have a global treaty to protect it. Join us live in our next #TalkLandscape episode to dive into the High Seas Treaty and its importance for the oceans: https://bit.ly/4qUGk04 📆 Wednesday, 25 February at 14:00 UTC

The #kakapo chicks are coming thick and fast! We're now up to 10 hatched. Here are Tiwhiri-A1 and Tiwhiri-A2 receiving a health check at Yasmine's nest on Pukenui/Anchor Island. 📸: Lydia Uddstrom #kakapo2026 #conservation #birds #parrots

BREAKING Lord Mandelson has been pictured being led from his home by plain clothed police officers

Sam Altman defends AI’s energy toll by saying it also takes a lot to ‘train a human’

This clip is all over the other place and has made its way onto GB News and Talk TV so I’ll do a bit of an explainer here too! The clip doing the rounds is of a fantastic police officer telling a group of Muslim men that a Christian preacher nearby is entitled to freedom of expression. 🧵 1/19

I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous

‘“I would rather have an interesting life than a couple hundred million dollars in my bank account. Racing cum is definitely interesting.” I found Eric very hard not to like.’ Delicious writing from Sam Kriss harpers.org/archive/2026...

London’s “worst mass eviction in recent history” is underway; hundreds of households across London told to get out of their homes this week by the same landlord, ahead of the renters rights act. The landlord? Billionaire Asif Aziz’s Criterion Capital. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

Why so many mangrove restoration projects fail news.mongabay.com/short-articl... 🧪 🦑 🌍️

Puffins and Shags seem to have been hit hardest by recent storms, with many reports of birds washed ashore. This includes one Isle of May Puffin that was ringed as an adult in 1995, making it at least 34 years old! #stormChandra #seabirds #winterstorms www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

NEW | ‘Inspired’ by that editor castigating a journalism graduate for not wanting a job just feeding the AI… AI;DR: Journalism's quislings for AI and why I'll never use AI to write this newsletter brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/aidr-journ...

Portugal urged to adapt to climate emergency after country battered by successive storms

In Tulaog Cave, the Dumagat–Remontado Indigenous people are navigating the impacts of unmanaged tourism while defending their rights, traditions and environment. 🌱 🔗 Read the full #ThinkLandscape story to discover more about this sacred site in the Philippines: https://bit.ly/4rl1Gos

New on FT website: Downing Street has refused to say whether Sir Keir Starmer knew Palantir was a client of Peter Mandelson’s lobbying firm when they both visited the company in Washington last February — ahead of it winning a £240mn UK government contract. www.ft.com/content/5bba...

Thousands of sea animals needlessly killed as bycatch of crayfishing industry in practice Dr Nick Payne of @tcddublin.bsky.social says is shameful www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

EXCLUSIVE: Reform UK just broke electoral law in Gorton and Denton. The party confirmed they sent out campaign materials without proper party imprint, something it insists was a mistake.

Storm Leonardo devastates southern Portugal and Spain – video

More than 35m unexpected salmon deaths at Scottish farms sparks outcry

The GLF Photography Awards 2026 invite photographers from around the world to share visual stories of rangelands, from savannas and shrublands to deserts, woodlands and tundra. 📸🌍 Ready to share your best shot? 🔗 Submit your work by 1 March 2026: bit.ly/2026PhotoAwards

Fundamentally flawed economic models mean #climatecrisis could crash global economy, experts warn - Shocks from extreme weather disasters and tipping points are entirely missed by the current models used by governments and financial institutions Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Remember that midnight raid in Chicago supposedly to arrest Tren del Aragua members? Newly revealed court docs show that the raid was facilitated by the building owners who are now accused of using the raid to evict tenants. DHS never mentions TDA in their filings: www.propublica.org/article/chic...

That thing we are seeing in Minneapolis that we haven't seen in a long time and need a helluva lot more of is solidarity.

En la Amazonía, la radio se convierte en una herramienta de resistencia: comunidades indígenas la usan para informar, organizarse y defender sus territorios. 📻🌱 Lee la historia completa en #ThinkLandscape en español: https://bit.ly/45LCVcd #PueblosIndígenas #JusticiaAmbiental

for connoisseurs of local journalism traffic farming, this is the latest frontier – you reprint ancient facts from Wikipedia and present them as news, in order to create curiosity gap headlines that appear in Google Discover / Apple News

Why isn't this a major news story?

PSA: Here's how the anti-net zero sausage gets made: 1. Oil companies fund climate denial groups 2. which incubate fake experts 3. who write policy papers for 'think tanks' 4. which get blurbed by politicians 5. & reported uncritically by right-wing media. Voila! www.desmog.com/2026/01/28/c...

Warnings about realistic but inaccurate #AI wildlife images & videos aren't slowing their spread which also provoke fear, panic & hostility, beside clicks: news.mongabay.com/2026/01/wild... Almost worse, gen AI is also invading the value of camera trapping images, as many fakes are now surfacing:

NEW: Meet the private-equity firm -- and its billionaire immigrant CEO -- making millions off some of ICE's cruelest deportation flights. After a five-month investigation, my story for @motherjones.com: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Record number of people in UK live in ‘very deep poverty’, analysis shows Joseph Rowntree Foundation finds problem is ‘deeper and more damaging than at any point in the last 30 years’ www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Translated: UK government moves to subsidise US tech giants at high risk of failure; despite a lack of evidence that LLMs boost growth. Prepare for the torrent of #WorkSlop...

It does seem slightly problematic for the British Polling Council that a pollster who over-estimated Reform by 5 points in their final poll at the 2024 general election is standing for the party within two years.

NEW Nerve investigation reveals extent of Palantir's enmeshment in UK state operations Peter Thiel's surveillance company has deals with government bodies amounting to at least £670m – inc. £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency By @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Charlie Young & Max Colbert 🔗⏬

How can #Asia nurture and welcome futures that serve people and the planet? 🌏 From 2–6 February 2026, join the GLF Asia Community & Action Digital Week 2026 for a free, online series of discussions with practitioners, community leaders, and experts: https://bit.ly/4bfG6MM #ActLandscape 🌱

Nigel Farage attended Davos on a pass sponsored by the family office of Iranian billionaire Sasan Ghandehari, which told the World Economic Forum that the Reform UK leader had advised the company since 2018. ft.trib.al/V138xDu

#OtD 26 January 2012 workers at a Pot Noodle (owned by Unilever, one of the world's largest consumer goods company) factory in Crumlin, Wales went on strike over pension cuts

We are opening an investigation into Grok because we believe that X may have breached the DSA. We have seen antisemitic content, non-consensual deepfakes of women, and child sexual abuse material. In Europe, no company will make money by violating our fundamental rights. link.europa.eu/Fh8h84

Took a look at some @insideairbnb.bsky.social data and saw that one in five Airbnb listings in Lisbon claim they are “exempt” from the city's short-term rental laws. (spoiler: it looks like many of them aren't) www.atlaslisboa.com/one-in-five-...

AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow

what do you MEAN Al Gore heckled Lutnick at Davos

NEW: NEW: Standards commissioner finds Nigel Farage committed seventeen breaches of MPs code of conduct. He failed to declare £333,000 in outside interests (more than 3x MPs annual salary)…

#Winterwatch is back ❄️ If last night’s episode reminded you why #wildlife matters, here’s something to add to your calendar… 🦉 Iolo Williams is coming to Theatre Severn this February, sharing stories from his career in #conservation and broadcasting. 🎟️ https://ow.ly/z03a50Y0vJO

Mozambique floods force many thousands to flee as rising waters cut off communities - The country has been hit by frequent disasters that scientists say have been exacerbated by the #climatecrisis HT @carbonbrief.org www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

OPERATION SCAPA FLOW: Boarding the @CalSleeper at Birmingham International (only its fourth departure from this new calling point), heading for Inverness, Thurso, Stromness & Scapa Flow. The Far North in January - am I crazy..?

"The underlying hum at the moment is how Americanised we’ve become, how much the far-right has penetrated our so-called mainstream politics, and how far we’ve generally shifted to the right," @zackpolanski.bsky.social tells Byline Times subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/82/z...

Dublin Bay’s oyster graveyard rises from dead in effort to restore rich ecosystem