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Simply cannot process that the guy leading the line for Brazil at the World Cup plays for *Brentford*

Here are three reasons why we should bring the lynx back to Britain 🐾 1. Lynx would thrive in Britain. There is a suitable habitat to bring them back to. Scroll for reasons 2 and 3👇 🧵1/3

The result is that atmospheric CO2 concentrations would have been approximately 8 ppm higher if global emissions had not plateaued over the past 13 years. This represents some real progress, though we need to deeply reduce emissions rather than just flatting them.

At the same time, we have seen a real plateau in global CO2 emissions. They went from growing at >2% per year in the 2000-2013 to flatlining, having only increased ~3% between 2013 and 2025.

Hoppers. Never thought I'd see a Pixar movie based entirely around the ecological importance of a keystone species 🦫

Happy majority-of-people-now-live-in-towns-and-cities day to all who celebrate 🥳 #May23 19 years and counting!

You're welcome, football. You're welcome

Eurovision have finally learned how to reveal a winner! How did it take a decade to realise just reading out numbers isn't very exciting?

This is the best analysis I've read on the topic The main takeaway: people still *want* children. But insecure housing makes it unaffordable (plus there's less socialising and coupling up than there used to be) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

I know we don't really get going until Saturday, but 🇫🇮 and 🇮🇹 are head and shoulders better than everyone else from what we've seen so far #eurovision

Politicians really thought they could turn an entire generation into permanent renters... and there would be no consequences?! It's staggering

The photos from Artemis aren't that different from the photos from Apollo. The evidence is the same. It's how we read it & what we choose to do with it that matters. More photos won't change that. More artists, writers (& scientists?) experiencing and interpreting that view might.

If I was in charge of space missions, I wouldn't be sending engineers or scientists or wannabe space colonists up there. I'd be sending artists, poets and writers - the people who can look back at Earth and share what it feels like to see directly how beautiful, fragile & unique our planet is. [1/2]

Pretty great planet. Deserves better, to be honest

These camera trap pictures from the Masaai Mara are absolutely, jaw-droppingly beautiful. Great story as well. blog.burrard-lucas.com/2026/04/secr...

I cannot even conceptualise 'too much free time'. What does that even mean? There are *thousands* of fun and interesting things I would do with my life, if only I had more free time

Publication day 🎉 If you've ever wondered if maybe your local environment could use a little more greenery, or some exciting urban wildlife, pick up one of these, and take a glimpse into real projects from around the world that show just how much is possible! 🌳🦊🦜🦋🏢

A fascinating story about the Bristol Airport expansion, superbly reported by Laura Cole open.spotify.com/episode/5ZRZ...

You ever think about how good we collectively all are now at identifying traffic lights, motorcycles and buses? How do we harness these powers?

The latest way in which podcasts are becoming unbearable is the apparently obligatory 30-60 seconds of random gibberish taken from the episode and thrown in without context at the very start. So stupid, so unnecessary, so annoying to have to skip each time

I assumed "too old" meant the moon was too old to be worth visiting....

One week to go ✨

I never thought Project Hail Mary could be a movie. Too much abstract science, too much inner monologue, generally too nerdy and cerebral. But it really works

Nottingham people! I'll be at Five Leaves bookshop in April to talk about adding nature to our cities, come along for a chat 🍃🏦 fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/wild-...

What's happening to the global economy because the Strait of Hormuz is closed provides all the proof you need that there is no "decoupling" the economy from the material conditions of the planet. We're embedded in the environment, folks. There is no economy without nature.

I grew up with Aussie money, and yeah, that 20 cent platypus was king

Shame they waited until cash as a concept had basically gone extinct to do this www.bbc.com/news/article...

Updated climate indicators graphics, now including 2025 ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...

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What a bargain! Pre-order the beautiful paperback of Wild Cities this week and get 25% off 😲 www.waterstones.com/book/wild-ci...

Not allowing dual nationality in the globalised 21st century is barbaric. The EU should enforce it in all members

Weirdly I've not seen any international coverage of this, but the Socialist candidate destroyed the far right guy in the Portuguese presidential runoff yesterday. So that's nice 🇵🇹

Imagine a technology where sea turtles could regrow injured flesh, and safely return to the ocean... Well, it exists. New article from me reporting from the Maldives 🇲🇻🐢 geographical.co.uk/news/stemmin...

"Finally, I felt it. The thrill of discovering wildness in a city" The lovely people at @forestandbird.bsky.social let me write about how a month in Wellington inspired me to write a whole book celebrating urban nature www.forestandbird.org.nz/resources/wi...

With NASA soon set to send a crew around the Moon again for the first time in half a century, it will be notable to see how this generation of earthlings reflects on the images sent back. In Dec 1968, Apollo 8 crew returned with perhaps the most iconic and impactful image in history...

New cover ✨ Paperback on the way, out in April

Tired: nostalgia for 2016 😒 Wired: nostalgia for 2006 😍

I made this work in 2012. I filled a humming top with plastic objects found in the stomach of one albatross chick on Kure Atoll (Northwestern Hawaiian islands). 340 g. Cigarette lighters, plastic fragments, toys and mainly bottle caps. There is a reason why the lids no longer come off the bottles!

ANALYSIS: World’s biggest historic polluter by far – the US – is pulling out of UN climate treaty Historic CO2 1850-2025 🇺🇸🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 🇨🇳🔥🔥🔥 🇷🇺🔥🔥 🇧🇷🔥 🇮🇩🔥 🇩🇪🔥 🇮🇳🔥 🇬🇧🔥 🇯🇵🔥 🇨🇦🔥 Per capita, the US impact is even more disproportionate www.carbonbrief.org/...

I'm in this photo and I don't like it

2006-08 really was the sweet spot for technology. Mobile phones, email, the internet, early Facebook... before smartphones and algorithms ruined everything

Wake Up Dead Man is such a strong sequel to Knives Out. Probably for the best that we all pretend Glass Onion never happened

As soon as the presenter says some variation of 'as you can see...' you realise, oh, this isn't for me, the listener. I'm not welcome. It's so alienating

Cool to see this in the middle of a busy town!

Also there's a new Wild Cities podcast episode out, the first for *cough* 6 months... It's an interview I did with the 10Adventures podcast, on what travelling the world taught me about making cities into more ecological spaces, and why it matters 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/6wwv...

"A truly uplifting read." The Independent have picked Wild Cities as one of their top books of the year 💪 www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

Just spoted some pigeons hanging out on a Waitrose sign. But can't stop thinking why the pigeon on the middle point of the 'W' hasn't just jumped over the top of the 's'? Prime pigeon real estate is surely the cosy snugs inside the 'a' and 'o', though...

It's not really enshittification, but Spotify has stopped remembering to play pods at 1.2x which, sigh, it's just a micro-hassle that didn't previously exist

The original sin of Wicked was splitting it into two films. From that point, the second one was always going to be weaker, thinner, more in need of filler. In that context, it's pretty much as good as anyone could do. Except, they apparently forgot that their source material is THE WIZARD OF OZ!