A lot of incredible small presses in the US facing devastating funding cuts if you're able to support them with a purchase, including Milkweed Editions, Coffee House Press, Red Hen, BOA, Torrey House Press and many others.

"The river won, the forest won, the memory of our ancestors won." Terrific piece by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social on the courageous and against-the-odds activism of Indigenous river defenders in the Brazilian Amazon. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Matt Goodwin lost to a white woman and a party led by a Jewish man — and somehow he’s blaming Muslims? No, mate. This one’s on you: your misogyny, your shallow, divisive tactics, and your empty obsession with “us vs them.” Gorton & Denton saw right through it. Hopefully one day you will too.

Amid all the talk about why this or that party won or lost, we shouldn't lose sight of the fact that Hannah Spencer was a great candidate - pretty nearly the perfect pick for this constituency.

What a result!! Huge congratulations to the amazing Hannah Spencer - everyone in Gorton and Denton has just made history. This result shows @greenparty.org.uk can win anywhere, that the politics of hope can win over the politics of hate & there is no longer any such thing as a Labour safe seat 💚

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

"As long as the occupation continues apace, and as long as the extreme Israeli right is in power, democracy in Israel will be sick at the core. It cannot be healed without our recognizing Palestinians as human beings with equal rights." @nybooks.com www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Lovely tribute to the island of Corfu, its generous hospitality and its magical literary festival by @alexpreston.bsky.social. So looking forward to his new book, A Stranger in Corfu, that's out now! www.theguardian.com/travel/2026/...

"This is Europe’s new reality: under water in winter, withered in summer. Yet even as the weather extremes worsen, the voices of denial have grown louder and more influential." Excellent piece on the distance between lived realities and ideological denial. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

E&T paperbacks which will inspire you to get outside this Spring. All with 25% off @waterstones.bsky.social: bit.ly/4rlYNDA ☀️Lifelines by @julianhoffman.bsky.social 🪏This Allotment edited by Sarah Rigby 🪶Nature Needs You by @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social 🥾Pathfinding by @kerriandrewsuk.bsky.social

It seems like only yesterday that LIFELINES was out in hardback but with the first signs of spring appearing here in northern Greece it means the paperback is already on its way. And Waterstones is offering 25% off from today until Friday for online pre-orders! www.waterstones.com/book/lifelin...

Moss-glow between the mist-screens.

It is publication today for Late Heaney I am told, although I imagine it’ll be a while before I see it between ice storms and the broad Atlantic. I thought I’d share a few thoughts about it, as it’s a different kind of book for me in form and style. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Excited that the North American edition of LIFELINES went to the printers today! Publishing on April 14, it's available to pre-order from your favourite bookstores in Canada and the US now. So grateful for the generous quotes, incl from brilliant @ziyatong.bsky.social! bookshop.org/p/books/life...

Farage & co if they actually cared about migration would care about climate change. In fact, they see an opportunity: Petro-populists deny the existence of climate change, do all they can to turbocharge it, desperate mass migration ensues & they use anti-migrant feeling to perpetuate their power.

The brown bear population in Greece has nearly doubled in recent years without a rise in damage to livestock, beekeeping or agriculture, according to a study by the environmental organization Arcturos. www.ekathimerini.com/news/environ...

Great to be out in Prespa for yesterday's International Waterbird Census. Pygmy cormorants flared from the reeds, Dalmatian pelicans glided past, and a group of male smews appeared like a sudden squall of snow. And in the deeps, an extraordinary raft of 1,200 pochards on the silvering winter waters.

solidarity of light

When cliffs become rivers after heavy rains. Mastorochoria, northern Greece

🥂 Congratulations to @julianhoffman.bsky.social, whose beautiful memoir #Lifelines: Searching for Home in the Mountains of Greece has been longlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award! #NatureWriting #Conservation #memoir #NonFiction #Awards #TravelWriting #Travel #Greece

Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.

Scenes from our winter stream today, where the mountain cold has taken hold of the flow. Wishing everyone a very happy new year, full of love, joy, kinship and solidarity!

Always nice to find some quality books in my Christmas stocking. Browsing the Wildlife Photographer of the Year portfolio a bit a tradition. Looking forward to reading new books by @jonathanslaght.com @julianhoffman.bsky.social which if they are as good as their previous work should be a real treat!

My final piece in 2025 is on the Greek Civil War & the traces it has left in the Prespa basin based on “Lifelines” by Julian Hoffman, one of my favourite reads this year. The essay is part of the latest edition of @elsewherejournal.bsky.social, “Palimpsest”. www.elsewhere-journal.com/palimpsest/2...

Another reason why airports shouldn't be built in vitally important wetlands in an age of climate change. Not only destructive to a vast web of life but fundamentally unhinged given the rising waters and heavier rains. Yet the Albanian gov't persists. 📷 Arsen Rroshi www.euronatur.org/en/what-we-d...

This summer was the first time I'd seen the shocking phenomenon of fir forests in the Peloponnese scattered with brown and dying trees. Sudden changes to once resilient systems as a result of cumulative pressures triggered by a heating climate. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Hi ☺️ it’s Benji here 👋 I hope people will see my artwork and remember to care for nature 💚 I’m trying to raise money for charity by selling cards and prints of my artwork. Every single card really makes a difference 🥰 Please share 🙏thanks so much ❤️ benjaminfallow.etsy.com

Looking forward to speaking with the wonderful Lucy Durneen about LIFELINES for Cambridge University on Tues Dec 16th, 7pm UK. It's online, free & open to all. And I've been asked to talk about bears in case anyone needs a pre-Christmas ursine fix! Registration ⬇️ www.pace.cam.ac.uk/events/2025/...

A wonderful set of collotype images from the early 1900s, made when John Henry Elwes and Augustine Henry embarked on a project to catalogue over 500 tree species found growing in Britain and Ireland at the time. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

A little good news for Bay Area folks: www.sfgate.com/local/articl... Local groups have spent the last 20 yrs working to restore the Alameda Creek watershed: building fish ladders, removing dams, relocating a PG&E gas pipeline, and restoring the area’s native riparian habitats.

Experts emphasized that no engineering project can replace natural drainage. “We need to open up space so the streams have the ability to carry a lot of water,” said Michalis Diakakis, assistant professor of natural disaster management. www.ekathimerini.com/news/environ...

None of this is okay. Such a hard read. Utterly devastating and heartbreaking.

Book of the year 3. Beautifully written combination of memoir, history, and nature, set where mountains, countries and lakes meet in Northern Greece. With bears and pelicans too. I had to take this opportunity to boost with the American edition on the way.

Arrived home the other night to find this beautiful advance proof of the North American edition of LIFELINES waiting for me. With the stunning design of Nicole Caputo on the cover, it will be published on April 14th by Godine and is available to pre-order now! bookshop.org/p/books/life...

My penultimate review before I reveal my blog's Book of 2025 at noon. Sunday book review: Lifelines by @julianhoffman.bsky.social Review: markavery.info/2025/11/30/s... Publisher: @eandtbooks.bsky.social "Very enjoyable & recommended to those interested in both people & wildlife" #naturewriting

Wonderful to finally meet up with Julian Hoffman @julianhoffman.bsky.social at the Kendal Mountain Festival yesterday where he was interviewed by local author Kate Rawles, and gave an inspiring talk about his latest book ‘Lifelines’. Thanks Julian.

Thank you, @julianhoffman.bsky.social! Your new book just arrived and I’m so looking forward to reading it!! Also, love the iconic pelican on the cover. 🫶🏽

After the rains, the silvering lake. Hill-oaks sloping to the shores in a swell of burnt orange. A single raven sculling north over the forests. Lesser Prespa Lake, northern Greece

"Nature still holds many surprises for us." ~ Urák István Extraordinary discovery in a cave on the river system that's the focus of my next book: the largest spider web ever recorded, home to two different spider species and 110,000 individuals. www.scientificamerican.com/article/worl...

"There is so much we can do when our hearts can’t take it anymore." What a wonderful, rich conversation between @alexismarieadams.bsky.social and @julianhoffman.bsky.social

This is deeply disappointing from Starmer. The UK *helped design* this 'TFFF' fund, designed to stop deforestation, and supposedly 'continues to back the fund' (in theory). But now isn't putting any money into it 🤯 How embarrassing for the UK. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Delighted to be speaking about LIFELINES at the University of Glasgow on Nov 25th at 4pm for the School of Modern Languages and Cultures. The event at the university's bookshop is free to attend and open to the public but registration is required via the link. events.bookitbee.com/university-o...

So many thanks to my friend @julianhoffman.bsky.social for taking time with talk with me for @orionmagazine.bsky.social about his incredible new book, Lifelines. Grateful, too, to Orion, a guiding light during these dark times. orionmagazine.org/article/hear...

A sky of scattered gold.

Autumn falling over the valley.

This is wonderful - a conversation between two of my favourite writers on one of the most important topics (or confluence of topics) for all of us right now.

“Place fascinates me, and it always has. Why do some places resonate with us in often inexplicably profound ways while others don’t?” Julian Hoffman and Alexis Marie Adams talk about Hoffman’s latest book, ‘Lifelines,’ the magic of place, grief, hope, conservation and more.

Deeply grateful to @orionmagazine.bsky.social for giving @alexismarieadams.bsky.social and myself the opportunity to have a conversation about borders, belonging, writing, rivers, grief and resistance, as well as our shared love for the more-than-human world. orionmagazine.org/article/hear...

Deeply grateful to @orionmagazine.bsky.social for giving @alexismarieadams.bsky.social and myself the opportunity to have a conversation about borders, belonging, writing, rivers, grief and resistance, as well as our shared love for the more-than-human world. orionmagazine.org/article/hear...

"As an Indigenous man, I know very well the pain of the forest, because its body is an extension of ours. When I speak of the body of the forest...it is everything." Powerful and important piece by Wajã Xipai on rivers, forests and interviewing António Guterres. www.theguardian.com/environment/...