I support this legal case and have just donated £100 to its crowdfunder www.crowdjustice.com/case/protect... Please support Pat in her fight for our right to know. #HealthandSafetyExecutive #FreedomofInformation #EIRs #LeighDay #asbestos #Liverpool

In the latest play from Project 2025, the Trump Administration has announced plans to dismantle the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI), a $368 million network of more than 900 instruments that continuously monitor the ocean. This is a deliberate destruction of critical scientific infrastructure.

I often get asked: what impacts would a shutdown of the Atlantic ocean circulation #AMOC have on people? A good short overview is found in this expert report. Impacts include e.g. widespread domestic food insecurity in Northern Europe and strain on global food systems. pub.norden.org/temanord2026...

"Terrorism" on the left. "Protest" on the right.

Narrow-bordered Bee Hawkmoths, Hemaris tityus on Dartmoor. Having seen a male flying loops of a patch of rush he eventually landed. I crept over to find a mating pair, the female freshly emerged with her wings still scaled. They were still together 2hrs later when I left! #lepidoptera #dartmoor

Bombus vestalis (Vestal Cuckoo Bee), male. Seen @bbowt.bsky.social College Lake Reserve, yesterday. The bramble is flowering so early this year. @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social

Israel's escalating military campaign in southern Lebanon has already killed thousands of people and forced more than a million from their homes. This utter disregard for civilian lives is inexcusable. We saw these patterns in Gaza - it cannot happen again in Lebanon.

The point of these attacks is twofold: 1. Flood people with nonsense until it feels true. 2. Grind people down until they lose hope. We know the answer to that: fight back - with hope & a plan for change. There is absolutely no way they win this. Join.greenparty.org.uk

I just signed to help stop the horror of plastic grass and its consequent pollution by microplastics//

20/ That means weaving our struggles together, climate, housing, work, rights, showing up at each other's meetings, doors and pickets. That's what adds up.

Privatised water is such an obvious scam that it's achieved the impossible: getting 82% of Brits to agree on something. The only issue to score higher was the public’s desire for Tony Blair to stick to retirement.

This exceptional event (in terms of absolute temperature) is also unusual in coinciding with the time that we monitor breeding great and blue tits in Wytham Woods: we're hoping to do some assessment of possible effects fairly soon.

Timeless advice: "Your generation must come to terms with the environment. You must face realities instead of taking refuge in ignorance and evasion of truth." - Rachel Carson, commencement address, Scripps College, 1962 loa-shared.s3.amazonaws.com/static/pdf/C...

OK, here is a thing that happened on Tues 26 May 2026 at one of the longest-lived weather stations on planet Earth.

Yep - framing needs to be much more along the lines of "this is likely to be one of the coolest summers for the rest of your life"

Four pro-Palestine activists could be sentenced as terrorists next month. The authorities are refusing to say when offences cross the threshold into terrorism. This is an unprecedented situation which infringes on civil liberties. How did we get here❓ www.declassifieduk.org/revealed-how...

“This government has received serious scientific, intelligence and policy advice that it should take significant action on food security, but it keeps signalling all is OK. It’s not.”

Make your voice heard on pesticides…tell the Government you don’t want glyphosate in your gardens, parks, playgrounds and public spaces. ✋ Add your name to their #GrowersAgainstGlyphosate petition gardenorganic.org.uk/glyphosate-campaign.

It’s increasingly hard to escape the conclusion Blair’s primary interest in climate and energy issues is to make sure there’s more gas for use to power AI data centres. The fact TBI gets lots of money from AI backers and a petrostate must be a very inconvenient coincidence.

Tony Blair. What the billionaire class have paid for.

“If you think the temperature uncomfortable today, let me take you to the last day of July 2052…” Bill McGuire - Emeritus Professor of Geophysical & Climate Hazards at University College London. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Two times I had severe Lyme working in a location with many Pheasants, one of a number of people working there.

"Of the approximately US$540 billion (£400 billion) annual subsidies to agriculture, the largest recipients are beef and milk producers. Many subsidies provide support to buy pesticides and fertilisers. Imagine if such funds were redirected to food production for human need and planetary health?"

The larva of the Great Diving Beetle (Dytiscus marginalis). A whopping 6 cm long. Ready to pupate now in soft soil near the pond. Buckinghamshire garden today. @colsocbi.bsky.social

There was a time, not long ago, when peaceful protestors were never sent to jail in the UK But at least 286 people have been locked up for protesting climate breakdown and genocide in recent years It's a fucking scandal

Sign the petition NOW! www.saveournewts.org Support this campaign and make a stand for nature. London’s largest breeding colony of Great Crested Newts is under threat from development. If this goes ahead ,it sets a dangerous precedent, allowing nature to be brushed aside when it’s inconvenient.

Meanwhile, if you are using glyphosate (Roundup), or indeed any pesticides or herbicides in your garden, please stop There is no justification for killing nature to create aesthetically pleasing gardens www.theguardian.com/environment/...

In little over 24 hours, the petition for government to stage a UK-wide briefing on the climate & nature crisis has passed the 10,000 milestone. Please help us get this to 100,000 to secure a parliamentary debate - by sharing widely. #NationalEmergencyBriefing #TimeToStepUp

British media doing what it does best: obfuscation. Ben-Gvir is being condemned for taunting handcuffed Gaza flotilla activists only because it’s on video. Israel doesn’t appear to be being condemned for kidnapping and handcuffing 430 people for trying to deliver aid to Gaza.

The government’s new assault on the right to challenge planning decisions is another example of its authoritarian reflex. We very much need a fast green transition, which means large-scale renewables. But instead of bringing people along, it goes straight for coercion.🧵1/8 www.gov.uk/government/n...

Sometimes, #science does not go the way you plan. That is usually framed as failure: the experiment did not work, the results were inconclusive, the story was unclear. But science can also advance when we go back to old data and ask a different question: jeffollerton.co.uk/2026/05/21/w...

We are in stuck in an affordability crisis with people struggling to pay for food and heating. But MPs think it's funny to drink at a discount on the taxpayer and vote on crucial issues. It's wrong. #DontDrinkandVote

Astonishing footage. Amazing to see this behaviour close up

This focus on restoring woodlands & peatlands is not helpful Other habitats - such as chalk & limestone grasslands - have been lost to a much greater degree & host huge & unique biodiversity

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Immigration make Britain brilliant

Our wars do not just kill humans...

Oxford museum sees 47% decline in swift numbers www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BREAKING Reporting restrictions on the so-called “terrorism connection” in the Filton retrial have been lifted. For the first time in British history, a judge is seeking to sentence protestors as terrorists despite the jury convicting them only on criminal damage charges. 🧵

A link to the map: www.nebriefing.org/screening-map

What kind of justice is this? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Wes Streeting would be the final nail in Labour's coffin. More neoliberalism, more privatisation, more austerity, more grovelling to economic power, when we desperately want change.

Zeteo documentary ‘Gaza: Doctors Under Attack’ just won a BAFTA in the current affairs category. Yes, the same documentary that BBC refused to air, once again proof that independent journalism is the future. Subscribe to watch the full film on gazadoctors.film.

Residents in Fayette County, Georgia noticed their water pressure was unusually low. Turns out that a data center 20 miles away had been drawing 30 million gallons of water in secret through connections the county didn't know existed. Is it any wonder why so many are opposed to data centers?

"The latest research makes the case for speed. The question is no longer whether the evidence warrants action. It is whether the institutions responsible for national preparedness are looking at the right problem." #AMOC #Climate nationalpreparednesscommission.uk/publications...

Petition: gardenorganic.org.uk/glyphosate-campaign

Sunday 17 May is your big chance to stock up with plants for your garden, buy second-hand tools, gardening & wildlife books, homemade produce and apple juice. @bbowt.bsky.social Chilterns Group Plant and Produce Market at Great Missenden Memorial Centre 11am - 1pm. Support your local Wildlife Trust!

🚨BREAKING -- The Court of Appeal has ruled that Mr Justice Johnson had no jurisdiction to refer Palestine Action barrister Rajiv Menon KC for contempt of court proceedings. These proceedings were brought against Menon after he reminded a jury earlier this year of its absolute right to acquit.