Carmel Ann
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#WordlessWednesday
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Ray Alexander
4 months ago
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says
One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/14/fossil-fuel-lobbyists-cop30
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Melanie Jackson
4 months ago
“There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate.” ― Robert Brault
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Peekaboo !
#FungiFriday
#FungiFriends
#Shroomscrolling
#Mushrooms
#Moss
#Sphagnum
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Tim Onion
4 months ago
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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Cold War Steve
5 months ago
Even I thought this was one of mine!
add a skeleton here at some point
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Office of Public Works
5 months ago
On the first Wednesday of every month, many OPW Heritage Sites open their doors free of charge to visitors and families. This November, why not explore one of Ireland’s remarkable castles, gardens or historic houses? Plan your visit at:
heritageireland.ie/visit/free-wednesday
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#MushroomMonday
#FungiFriends
#Mushrooms
#ShroomScrolling
#Nature
#Waterford
5 months ago
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My Sassafras is looking as colourful as my Liquidamber🥰
#Autumn
#AuutumnLeaves
#FallColor
#Trees
#Gardening
#Sassafras
#Liquidamber
5 months ago
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The Turk
5 months ago
Congrats to South Korea with 69 percent
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#FungiFriends
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Fact Point
5 months ago
France has introduced moss covered highways designed to clean the air by absorbing pollutants such as nitrogen dioxide, fine particles, and carbon dioxide. These green installations act like natural filters, turning roadways into living systems that help fight urban pollution.
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On its last legs!
#fungifriday
#mushroom
#fungifriends
#countryfinds
#biodiversity
5 months ago
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The J. Peterman
5 months ago
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Go Green
5 months ago
Absolute shysters as wildfires worsen and devastate huge areas of Europe this Summer EU lawmakers block any collection of data on forest health
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
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EU lawmakers cut down proposed forest health data collection law
Rejection by the centrist lawmakers axed further negotiations on the draft law proposed by the EU executive for member states to monitor and report on forest conditions.
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/10/22/eu-lawmakers-cut-down-proposed-forest-health-data-collection-law
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Outspoken™️
5 months ago
Nobody adds a ballroom to a house they plan on leaving.
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Go Green
5 months ago
Discarded phones, laptops, servers, cables, appliances and other e-products in EU27+4 (EU, UK, Switzerland, Iceland, and Norway) annually now contain roughly 1 million tonnes of critical raw materials 100,000 tonnes of critical raw materials lost
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
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Critical raw materials are a vital new currency; Europe’s e-waste is the vault
With European demand for critical raw materials growing alongside geopolitical tensions and supply risks, a major analysis offers vital new data on the rapidly expanding size and value of Europe&rsquo...
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1100938
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Catherine
5 months ago
Looks as though Kristi Noem's ICE raids abducting over 340 South Korean engineers who were here to train Americans, taking them hostage and criminalizing them in Georgia, has cost the U.S. 350 billion $ and 8,500 blue collar jobs.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Korea Says US Offered Alternative in $350 Billion Deal Talks
South Korea is reviewing a new proposal from Washington linked to its $350 billion investment pledge in the US, whose implementation has become a key obstacle to finalizing a trade deal reached in Jul...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-13/korea-says-us-offered-alternative-in-350-billion-deal-talks?embedded-checkout=true
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#thicktrunktuesday
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#FungiFriday
- under a Beech hedge, Waterford, Ireland
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Miaganga
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Fiona Dolman
6 months ago
You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make” Dr Jane Goodall, DBE 3 April 1934 - 1 October 2025
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Dr. Lucky Tran
6 months ago
"You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” Rest in power, Dr. Jane Goodall
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Go Green
6 months ago
EU environment boss tests positive for 'toxic' forever chemicals in her blood Chronic exposure to even low levels has been linked to liver damage, high cholesterol, reduced immune responses, low birth weights and several kinds of cancer
www.thejournal.ie/forever-chem...
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EU environment boss tests positive for 'toxic' forever chemicals in her blood
The Commissioner tested positive for three Pfas considered toxic for reproductive health, and hopes to raise awareness.
https://www.thejournal.ie/forever-chemicals-eu-6830218-Sep2025/
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#thicktrunktuesday
#thicktrunkthursday
Central square, Leskovik, Albania
#Albania
#planetree
#ancienttrees
#Melisemawinery
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Bridget123goooo 🌊🦋🏃🏻♀️⛰️
6 months ago
This is an Irishman that was kidnapped by ice bc they thought he looked like “a Mexican”. Listen to his horribly sad & traumatizing story and the next time a maga says that only criminals are being detained or bad people or whatever tell him about this lad.
#OnYourSide
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@belfasttelegraph.co.uk
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The EU wants to roll back vital environmental protections. Deadline to stop it: 10 September ⏰ Tell them to keep their
#HandsOffNature
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handsoffnature.eu?utm=.share.b...
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Hands Off Nature – Defend Europe’s Forests, Rivers & Wildlife
Stop the dismantling of European environmental protections. Stand up for forests, wildlife, clean air, and safe water - our nature depends on it.
https://handsoffnature.eu/?utm=.share.bluesky
6 months ago
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Patricia Devlin
10 months ago
So after quite a few weeks investigating Ireland’s culling of badgers to control TB, I found data that shows that a staggering 80% of the protected species killed by the Department of Agriculture were TB free.
jrnl.ie/6709659
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Over 80% of badgers culled in government TB programme found to be free from the disease
More than 8,000 badgers destroyed by DAFM in a nation-wide crackdown to eradicate bovine tuberculosis were found to be infection free following post-mortems.
https://jrnl.ie/6709659
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Go Green
7 months ago
Ireland no place for Trees -yet another majestic Tree gets the chop in a country with less than 1% native Trees remaining Iconic Letterkenny oak tree over 90 years old felled under the cover of darkness by local council despite opposition
www.donegaldaily.com/2025/09/03/i...
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Iconic Letterkenny oak tree felled for active travel works - Donegal Daily
FacebookTweetLinkedInPrint A 90-year-old oak tree in Ballyraine, Letterkenny, has been cut down despite a year-long community campaign to save it.…
https://www.donegaldaily.com/2025/09/03/iconic-letterkenny-oak-tree-felled-for-active-travel-works/
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☀️🌱SunCome🚫👑
7 months ago
Venezuelan strike or ANOTHER DISTRACTION, FOR THE EPSTEINTH TIME.
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Tiny grass mushroom
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spencer roberts 🦈
7 months ago
This sounds insane to speak out loud, but is a real statistic: The global seafood industry kills at least 1 trillion wild fish every year to supply 1% of the world’s food.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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My lovely lawn!😁
#gardenflowers
#bloomsscrolling
#gardening
#nativeflowers
#weeds
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Robert Reich
7 months ago
The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?
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8 months ago
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Go Green
8 months ago
Environmental impact of common pesticides seriously underestimated and far more harmful and persistent than previously thought finds research
envirotecmagazine.com/2025/07/16/e...
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Environmental impact of common pesticides seriously underestimated, finds research | Envirotec
The environmental impact of nine pesticides, commonly used in grape cultivation, may have been significantly underestimated, suggesting current pesticide ri ...
https://envirotecmagazine.com/2025/07/16/environmental-impact-of-common-pesticides-seriously-underestimated-finds-research/
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8 months ago
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Go Green
8 months ago
Rich countries dumping their rubbish in poorest countries Discarded U.K. Clothing Dumped in Protected Wetlands in Ghana Items from retailers Marks & Spencer, Primark, H&M, Zara, and Next were found piled up along the Densu River in Ghana
e360.yale.edu/digest/ghana...
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Discarded U.K. Clothing Dumped in Protected Wetlands in Ghana
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/ghana-densu-delta-wetlands
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Susie Dent
8 months ago
Word of the day is ‘swullocking’, from 19th-century East Anglian dialect: sultry, sweltering, and sudiferous (sweat-inducing).
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Go Green
9 months ago
Even worse Another report has suggested that a cruise ship's emissions are the same as 1 million cars: And the reason for this is that their engines run 24/7. Even if they're in the ports, they have to keep running their engines, because it's not only a transport mode
www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...
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Go Green
9 months ago
Mass surveillance - privacy gone - even stuff you delete remains recorded A court ordered OpenAI to "indefinitely" retain all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats, of millions of users
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
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Judge denies creating “mass surveillance program” harming all ChatGPT users
OpenAI will fight order to keep all ChatGPT logs after users fail to sway court.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/judge-rejects-claim-that-forcing-openai-to-keep-chatgpt-logs-is-mass-surveillance/
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RTÉ News
9 months ago
Children in Gaza dying of thirst after trucks carrying water blocked - UNICEF
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Children in Gaza are dying of thirst, says UNICEF
UNICEF has warned that while the world's attention is focused elsewhere, the situation in Gaza is "at the worst it has ever been" with the Palestinian territory hitting "rock bottom".
https://www.rte.ie/news/middle-east/2025/0625/1520187-israel-gaza/
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An Irish seashell😁
#Ireland
#WildAtlanticWay
#Shells
#Kerry
9 months ago
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Little Green Space
9 months ago
More than 4 out of 10 insect species face extinction. Others are declining badly. We can help in our gardens and community spaces by not being too tidy, planting nectar-rich flowers & trees, and not using weedkillers and pesticides. More:
bit.ly/2FCEJYz
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‘Wild’ Atlantic Way this am
#WWW
#WildAtlanticWay
#Kerry
#Ireland
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#veterantrees
#fungifinds
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