please look at this sparrow looking at you

Happy Earth Day! 🌼🌱🌏

why don't suitcases have brakes ??

Thank you to @theverge.com for posting the full clip of Microsoft's Copilot event - including the moment when Microsoft employee Ibtihal Aboussad protested the company selling AI tools to Israel for the use of murdering families (she was immediately fired) youtu.be/Do6yrtur4AY?...

My introduction to the planning system was when they built a supermarket on heathland near my childhood home. It was a site for the silver-studded blue butterfly. Sainsbury's made a stained glass window of the butterfly whose habitat they had bulldozed. I was about eight and I still feel rage.

Good news for sustainability of EVs as researchers in China reveal process for recycling almost all lithium from batteries cleantechnica.com/2025/03/17/n...

My timeline is filled with people tagging the @royalsociety.org to protest their continuing endorsement of Elon Musk, FRS. Good. More people should do it. A vid I took when I got to handle the incredible Fellows’ Book and read all those inspirational scientists’ names alongside a businessman’s

The death toll in Gaza has already been updated to 61,709. The true scale of Israel's atrocities is only just emerging - and officials must face justice for every single life lost. So should those who continued to send weapons, knowing full well they were enabling genocide.

"any economic benefits of airport expansion will be largely confined to the airports themselves" neweconomics.org/2023/07/boom...

BREAKING 🚨: WE WON OUR CASE AGAINST ROSEBANK. The court has ruled the oil field UNLAWFUL and Rosebank’s approval has been overturned. This is a monumental victory in the fight for a liveable future for all.

Below is a list of initiatives and resources to support Palestinian students, academics and universities, particularly in the UK and Ireland (but some opportunities are further afield). Please use the form below to add to this list, and please share widely. docs.google.com/forms/d/1mKm...

It's doubtful that the third runway will ever go ahead but this decision will damage the UK's global standing. Reeves' suggestion that there is a binary choice between growth and tackling climate change sends a bad message to developing economies. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg...

I mean this really apart from tactics, or domestic benefits, or the sovereign wealth fund etc. Did any country ever say out loud that they want to be the last ones producing asbestos, or manufacturing cigarettes, or selling leaded petrol or palm oil? Fossil fuels are wild, man

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 2024 is the year we officially breached 1.6°C of #GlobalWarming. The #ParisAgreement is in tatters World leaders have failed us Now we face the devastating reality of a planet pushed beyond its limits. This is the #ClimateEmergency This is a CODE RED for humanity WHY? 1/3

Friends, a petition I've created to go to Parliament for the protection of Trans Healthcare in the UK has just gone live. If you are in the United Kingdom, please sign and share this. If you are not in the United Kingdom, please share it. #Trans #LGBTQ #UK petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

I must have walked by this fence hundreds of times but today I noticed that the posts are crowned with little snail sculptures of varying sizes and poses.

at the end of a 14hr flight into LAX, the pilot told us not to be alarmed if we smelled smoke, the plane wasn’t on fire, just the city

often thinking about this scene from Mum (2016)

Absolutely love this work! With my participation hat on: so much conservation work arouses ire because it's not well explained. Telling people what you're doing & why = a chance to engage new publics with nature. (Some might just become future volunteers) www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 @mbarinews.bsky.social internship deadline Feb 28, but good time to think about your letter of recommendation while you are on holiday break! www.mbari.org/about/career...

OpenAI doesn't report a single number for its climate impacts - not anywhere, in any way, shape or form. It sounds kind of obvious but the fact that a company with such incredible electricity hunger isn't disclosing basic information about its energy consumption and associated emissions is v bad..

20 years ago the Indian Ocean tsunami hit our resort in Sri Lanka, and miraculously my family and I all escaped. Almost a quarter of a million people weren't as lucky as us. Today we went to pay our respects at the memorial in the Natural History Museum gardens.

A real pinch me moment! Greenhood and I feature in the latest BBC ASIA series! During my MPhil in Cambridge, our classes were held in David Attenborough Building. Previously, most batches had an opportunity to meet him in person over a formal dinner, but we missed that chance due to COVID. 1/

Ooo barracuda!! My what big teeth you have!! #barracuda #teeth #chompers #jawsome #chomp #ooobarracuda #isopod #parasite #closeup #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #miamibeach #biscaynebay #coralcity #civicpridethroughbiodiversity #glennnevis

just remembered last night when the grinch walked into the pub, necked a pint, and left

As Gaie's MP I tried everything I could to challenge this decision to send her back to prison - including writing to the prisons minister Lord Timpson and the probation service. But they would not budge a millimetre. 🧵... www.channel4.com/news/77-year...

Incidentally, the policy Gaie was campaigning for, no new oil and gas extraction licences, is now, we are told, government policy. Absurd doesn't begin to cover it. Do we think that, perhaps, this government might be getting its priorities wrong?

Working with collaborators in the Global South it upsets me how many pay expensive software license fees, or use insecure pirated versions, when free open-source alternatives are available. Below is a list of easy swaps. Please add to it and share! 👇

2/4 The pollution has spread across 50 kilometres of coastline near Anapa, devastating one of nature’s rich habitats. The aftermath is heart-wrenching. A thick, suffocating layer of oil blankets the sea and shore...

“It's amazing how pollution has dropped in #Paris in 15 years. @annehidalgo.bsky.social has filled the city with bike-lanes & not only has she reduced pollution by 40% but she’s also been re-elected.” Trading car space for green space, bike space, kid space…trading pollution for people. Good trade.

“Entire systems are actually going to collapse because of the risks that climate change poses. We need radical change now, we can't be thinking about incremental change,” said Chandni Singh, Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore. youtube.com/shorts/UeNgE...

“Everyone in positions of influence should ask themselves the question: are you treating those fighting to save the planet more harshly than those fighting for inherited wealth? If so, why?” @josiah.writes.news bylinetimes.com/2024/12/12/t...

1/ To achieve affordable homes, clean energy & a growing economy, we must get building - and do so while protecting & enhancing the environment. #NPPF changes favour Green Belt development over urban densification, risking creating low density car dependent communities. www.gov.uk/government/n...

A new study has found that almost half of children in Gaza wish to die, as a result of the trauma they have been forced to endure. Every single supplier of arms to Israel has blood on its hands — and the world will never forgive them.

Please help us get the word out about the horrors that are happening on new build estates! We urgently need to build pressure for change on this vital issue. This isn't about 'nurturing newts' - a healthy ecosystem is essential for human survival and flourishing.

NEW report from us @wildjustice.bsky.social today - #LostNature - which details how housing developers are failing wildlife across the board on every measure . 🧵

The Arctic Could Be Functionally Ice-Free in Just a Few Years The Arctic is likely to become “ice-free” by midcentury—and could pass that grim milestone much sooner—unless much more is done to combat climate change www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

Adding stock-image children to a bike lane design should be a necessary planning step.

Good morning, please have a nice bug*. #invertebrates #BugADay #Bugsky *Dogbane Beetle, in French Creek State Park

Unimaginable. The liberation of the women/children section of Sednaya prison. Cut off from the world, they’ve no idea what’s happened. A man shouts: “You are all free now. Don’t be scared. Go home.” “What happened?” a woman asks “The Regime fell. You are free.” #Syria 🇸🇾 (🎥Credit: Galyarahal)

Do the folks who want to tear up bike lanes not understand that if the cyclists are not in the bike lanes they are in the lanes with the cars? In most cases in their own cars? Which means they are now (noisy, polluting) traffic? More car lanes just means more cars.

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3. Whipped votes shut down the intelligence of our “representatives” and force them to close their minds. Tribalism replaces thoughtfulness. MPs bray, jeer and mock. They behave more like spectators at a boxing match than deliberators combining their minds to solve complex problems.

Israel has just killed three more World Central Kitchen aid workers in Gaza. This is the second time Israel bombs World Central Kitchen staff this year. The RAF has spy footage from the day of the previous bombing in April - but refuses to publish it. www.declassifieduk.org/uk-covers-up...

very interesting to find out that 52% of all battery production does not require nickel and cobalt anymore, including for EVs. Deep-sea mining needs to be completely taken off the table now pls

if my scarf isn't essentially a neck brace there's no point