Can you lobby your MP to pressure the government to legislate against planned obsolescence? The number of perfectly good computers about to hit landfill because of Microsoft abandoning Windows 10 is grotesque. @therestpolitics.bsky.social Your ruddy advert🙇🏼‍♀️ therestartproject.org/right-to-rep...

Really cool story about long-distance pollen transport by migratory hoverflies. The actual research paper is here: doi.org/10.1111/1365...

👇 the bit everyone forgets about when they focus on plants for pollinators...

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot. Biodiversity crisis, anyone?

BBC championing Reform again 🤦🏼 I can feel the cancellation of my licence coming on...

What climate crisis? Plus, the noise and pollution of Heathrow already directly blights the lives of millions of Londoners. Who are these businesses anyway - have they not heard of Zoom? Humankind continues to fiddle while the planet burns.

Love the Scots. The National's front page was a cracker too.

Killing children - not ok. Starving children - not ok. Depriving children of medicine - not ok. Supplying arms to a state that is doing all this - not ok. Locking people up who say the above - not ok. How can any of this be allowed to continue? @stevewitherdenmp.bsky.social

Nice explainer. Buy independent, buy local, where you can...

How can these people not give a hoot about the future for their children and grandchildren?

What a stunning photograph...

Interesting...

Life-cycle impact assessment of offshore wind energy development on migrating bird diversity in the North Sea 🐦 The combination of long-term bird ringing data & LCAs could be a useful tool for comparing potential impacts across proposed wind farm sites 🧪 🌏 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Even-handed reflection on Labour's first year. Enlightening insights into goings-on hidden behind the nonsense politician threatre. I'd lost all track of most of their achievements: industrial strategy, workers' rights, net zero, EU alliances, assisted dying, abortion. Some good news for a change.

📝 Blog: Whose farming future is it anyway? Dr Charlie Taverner asks whether, amid a flurry of roadmaps, strategies & visions, have decision-makers spent enough time talking to people who these policies will affect? And will these policies help farmers live better lives? ffcc.co.uk/conversation...

Catching up on podcasts while gardening... On average children in the UK are consuming less than half the recommended amount of fruit and vegetables and over twice the amount of sugar. Good to hear govt is [still] working on a national food strategy. Hoping for some urgency! pca.st/podcast/c753...

How wonderful! And how terrific to see some good news! Good news from here too - 5 swallow chicks have just fledged after 3 years of failures. Over the moon!

More, better, and more joined up...

Taxing frequent flyers feels like a no-brainer. As does reducing the cost of train travel. Sat afternoon Eurostar at the start of the summer holidays last year was only one-third full 🙇🏼‍♀️

Never thought I'd see anything like this in the US.

And the other source we never hear about is the waste from all our private septic tanks that gets sprayed over farmland.

Exactly the sort of work going on here in Montgomeryshire. Interesting how much traditional agriculture has to teach us about managing landscapes in ways that benefit nature...

NEW EPISODE No you are not hallucinating, this is a new podcast episode! I chat to Becky Pullinger from @the-wildlifetrusts.bky.social about the Planning and Infrastructure Bill and why it will be such bad news for wildlife in the UK Listen here: www.uk-wildlife.co.uk/ep95-why-the...

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Out today in Nature, our paper on the drivers of the record 2023 summer heating of the North Atlantic. Temperatures warmed to record levels in just a few months. The impacts on climate & ecosystems were severe. A thread on how this work came about and what we found.👇👇🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Reading Rachel Carson's Silent Spring this evening. She was writing about the dangers of dog flea treatments 63 years ago. Is it any wonder our rivers are in such a state?

All power to them...

Terrific to host Montgomeryshire Moths Group this morning. 211 of 45 species. Cat B Clouded Buff and Cat C Bird's Wing. #TeamMoth

Big Meadow Search 2025 starts today until 31st August. Everyone welcome, you dont need to be an expert, just record species you know. Please help us add more sites to the map. There will be daily plant ID or plant association posts to look out for. bigmeadowsearch.co.uk

Can't wait to visit this year. Excited to see nature and farming going hand-in-hand. Hoping land use change can be avoided...

What is happening in Gaza is beyond my comprehension. How can the world allow any of this to happen?

One to add to the list of #PlantsforPollinators This climbing hydrangea is abuzz all day at the moment. At least 7 species of bees, hoverflies, solitary wasps and flies at a quick glance yesterday.

All you need to know about Elon Musk’s stunning success is that he lasted 2.65 Liz Trusses and lost 150 billion dollars.

Unexpected indeed but rather cool, albeit in a way that my son says has put him off his breakfast 🤣🤣🤣

No wonder Putin looks so smug as western leaders talk the talk on standing up to Russia while being thoroughly dependent on its oil.

This is what farming with climate change looks like After the second worst harvest on record in 2024, farmers in England have had record breaking rain in September, followed very little rain and record breaking sun & heat in March & April Good for berries I guess, less good for lots of others!

How lovely it would be if the British media took note of this and their coverage reflected it...

Yellow Flag iris against the frothy white backdrop of Hemlock Water-droplet by the Montgomery Canal for this week's #WildflowerShow for #WildflowerHour

No longer surprised...

Windows through a natural rock ceiling onto blue sky, green light. The rare magic of an Irish rainforest, reduced to a mere ~1% of its natural extent. 🌍

My new blog on whether a new Food Strategy - and it's industry dominated Advisory Board - can really innovate to support nature friendly, healthy, resilient food and farming? www.wildlifetrusts.org/blog/vicki-h...

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Who would want happier, healthier employees anyway - definitely need to get everyone back in the office 🤦🏼🙇🏼‍♀️🙇🏼‍♀️🙇🏼‍♀️ [We all work remotely and it's one of the best teams I've ever worked in.]

A bit of a chilly night. 21 moths/ 11 species. Today's favourites: Flame shouldered, Buff-tip (so much bigger in real life than photos - bigger than my little finger), Green Carpet, Treble-lines. #TeamMoth

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Have you added your sightings of Common Frog and Common Toad spawn to the PondNet #SpawnSurvey? 🐸 If not, you have until May 31st to upload your records. We can't wait to share this year's results with you! Add your sightings: freshwaterhabitats.org.uk/advice-resou... Toad spawn photo: Kate Wright