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!

I gave a talk at @kneppwilding.bsky.social. A huge honour, and a real treat. Thanks for all the questions, it was a great debate.

So many podcasts have become worse now they're all being filmed

If conservatives don't want people to think they promote violence, maybe they should stop using their speeches to tell their supporters to fight all the time

Conveniently, 2025's best pastel de nata was from the same bakery as 2024's best pastel de nata, meaning this article from last year remains almost entirely relevant a full 12 months later www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/artic...

I'll be at @kneppwilding.bsky.social next week to talk about getting nature into cities, with the great Isabella Tree. Drinks & dinner included 🌳🏠 Some tickets still available, follow the link 🔗 knepp.co.uk/view/events/...

"One long walk" = 10–15 minutes, by the way www.bbc.com/news/article...

There's no therapy as good as uninstalling apps, unsubscribing from newsletters... getting all that filler out of your life

I'm sure it's more complicated than this. But I've not seen any explanation for why the whales couldn't simply live... in the sea 🐋 www.bbc.com/news/article...

If you've not seen it, 'Jane' on Disney is a great insight into what it was like for Jane Goodall struggling to be taken seriously in the 60s

I'm giving a talk at @kneppwilding.bsky.social in November, and you could be there 🦋 knepp.co.uk/view/events/...

Not exactly news, but good to be reminded www.utu.fi/en/news/pres...

Thinking of starting a thread of all the research showing how Wild Cities were the best places to be during the pandemic medicalxpress.com/news/2025-08...

A moment to celebrate green rooftops 🌿 It's only when you see inspiring buildings that are really embracing the opportunities available to green up their roofs, that you realise how bleak, grey and dead most cities look from above.

Time to re-reintroduce myself. My name is Chris Fitch, I'm a writer and author whose latest book is Wild Cities, a scientific travelogue exploring the benefits and challenges of nature and wildlife in urban spaces 🌴🐝🏡🦜🦁🏢🦭

Look, I got it wrong. I stuck it out on twitter. Then I switched to threads. Two bad decisions. It's ok, I'm here now.