Daisy anemone (Cereus pedunculatus), Camusdarach, Scotland: last of four sea #anemone species seen while exploring #rockpools this summer (others in chain of posts below). Buries itself in sandy crevices with only mouth and short tentacles showing: many hundreds of them waiting to trap unwary prey.

🚨 MSF FORCED TO SUSPEND ACTIVITIES IN GAZA CITY 🚨 Our clinics are now encircled by Israeli forces. There are continued airstrikes & tanks advancing closer & closer to our healthcare facilities. This is an intolerable level of risk for our @msf.ca staff. I am outraged, and you should be, too.

Found a secret door in the back of my washing machine. Behind it a tiny room with rows of mice fast asleep in odd-sock sleeping bags.

Such a pleasure to be involved with this short film, filmed and scripted by the amazingly talented @amykingwild.bsky.social. Woods Mill is my local woodland managed by @sussexwildlife.bsky.social. Amy has captured it wonderfully - makes me want to go for an autumnal woodland scamper right now!

Six of the best stress-free UK breaks by train

Couple of highlights from a churchyard survey of lichens today - Dermatocarpon miniatum forming rosettes on a limestone tomb and the form of Lecidella elaeochroma with soredia, which show as very bright yellow under UV #lichenGBI #lichens

Nathan Gill, Reform's leader in Wales at the last Welsh parliament election, has pled guilty to 8 bribery charges, taking Russian cash while he was one of Nigel Farage’s MEPs to speak in favour of Putin's Russia in that parliament www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Hi @npr.org! We worked late tonight putting together this handy pocket guide! It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers. It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!

Here hare petition here.

Just arrived from the printers. The Book of Bogs began as a community response & has grown beyond the Walshaw Moor into a wider celebration & campaign for bogs & other peatland ecologies. This was the most brilliant crowdfunded project, with over 40 contributions from artists & poets. OUT NOW.

The government are wrong to think places and nature don’t matter to the public. ❌ All evidence shows the opposite. Weakening protections for our National Parks would be a devastating step backwards for nature, and for the landscapes millions love.

On the blatant double standards the media - BBC included - deploys while showcasing Nigel Farage. He is constantly given a free pass not granted to other politicians. bylines.scot/news/the-far...

If rumours are true the decision to repeal the Protected Landscapes duty would be devastating. We campaigned for this for over 30 years. The duty was hard won, to backtrack now would be betraying our National Parks & Landscapes. We will not let this happen. www.thetimes.com/uk/history/a...

A 7% decline in English birds in just 5 years is astonishing The web of life is unravelling fast

PLEASE READ! No more #BeeWashing. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

It is possible to cherish the BBC as an institution while also saying that BBC News is failing very badly, day after day, in its duty to inform and that it always fails in a right-wing direction. It desperately needs to recover its integrity

We need help to #SaveCoulLinks!📢 One of Scotland’s last remaining undeveloped dune systems is under threat again. Plans to build a golf course would destroy this beautiful & vital ecosystem. Join us & send a message to Scottish Ministers 👉 https://loom.ly/rnKdZDw#SaveCoulLinks 📷Craig-Allardyce

What on Earth is this? An "in depth" BBC article about free speech in the UK that only cites examples of right-wing/ 'anti-woke' speech being suppressed. How can you mention Lucy Connolly but completely ignore Palestine Action / Just Stop Oil? Gob-smacking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Please know that this is Trump scaremongering. There is no good scientific evidence linking paracetamol (Tylenol) to autism. A 2024 Swedish study of 2.4 million births found no relationship whatsoever between exposure to paracetamol in utero & subsequent autism. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

We enjoy everyone's fungi posts but please note: some fungi are edible, many are toxic & some can be fatal. It’s really difficult to identify fungi & even the experts are cautious, so it’s vital never to eat anything you find. Foraging is forbidden on all our reserves. 📷 Kirsty Gibbs

Seven Boletids in a single day in a West Yorkshire valley, from top left clockwize - Suillus grevillei, Imleria badia, Xerocomellus cisalpinus, Leccinum scabrum, L. cyaneobasileucum, Xerocomellus pruinatus, Neoboletus erythropus.

I'd like to add that inciting hatred and racial violence, as our media and politicians are doing, makes life more dangerous for *literally everyone*

So Reform / Farage want to deport hundreds of thousands, possibly millions of UK residents, turning the country into an effective police state, breaking treaties, and impoverishing the economy and health service? Just focus on all that. The moral gutter of politics.

Things are feeling bleak right now, so it's worth sharing how California, the world's 4th largest economy, is doubling down on offshore floating wind.

The sporing season for lichens. Stereocaulon lichens were going crazy on the rocks. I was itching to put these apothecia under the microscope but this is a park and I don’t have permission to take samples. Yachiho Kogen, Sakuho-machi, Nagano #Lichen #FungiFriends キゴケの仲間が胞子を飛ばしていた。長野県佐久穂町八千穂高原 #地衣類

This is a brutal graph. Governments justify continued fossil fuel production with the rhetoric that "if we don't supply it, someone else will". It's drug-dealers' logic.

Absurd. How little does this Government care about the climate? Squeezing out 100k more flights a year won’t improve people’s daily lives. Investing in a growing green economy to lower bills, create high-paid jobs and cut deadly air pollution will! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Aviation expansion is a disaster for the climate crisis. Anyone who's been paying any attention to this shambles of a Labour Govenrment knows they don't care about people in poverty, don't care about nature nor for the planet. Just big business & their own interests. #Gatwick

Today's Sussex sky was full of hundreds of House Martins feeding up for the journey ahead #birds

A few lovelies from Friston Forest, Sussex, today - Tan Ear, Crested Coral, Porcelain fungus, and last, but definitely not least, the beautiful Saffrondrop Bonnet #FungiFriends #fungi

A Crowdfunder to save Beer Mill farm - 112 acres of rare, species rich land in Devon. There's matched funding, so your donation would be doubled. Please chip in if you can. @guyshrubsole.bsky.social @chrisgpackham.bsky.social @rewildingbritain.org.uk

A huddle of gossiping Bonnet fungi in the forest - Friston Forest, Sussex #FungiFriends #fungi

I of course welcome the recognition of the state of Palestine. And there won't be a Palestinian state left if government's continue enabling Israel's unfolding genocide. Labour can't credibly support Palestinian statehood whilst also continuing to arm Israel.

#GoodNews on High Seas Treaty. And a demonstration that positive international cooperation is still possible, as well as essential for #biodiversity www.bbc.com/news/article...

America plunges headlong into Onion territory Oklahoma lawmakers introduce legislation requiring every public university in the state to construct “a Charlie Kirk Memorial Plaza”, with a statue and a sign calling him a “modern civil rights leader" Or get fined www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This has received no publicity but is damning. A clear explanation of why this type of reintroduction is not just a distraction and a waste of resources but is ACTIVELY HARMFUL to conservation. Environmental journalists please note and please publicise. operationturtledove.org/captive-rele...

Power is the rock on which truth founders. The mainstream media, with a few exceptions, is a single-issue lobby group, whose purpose is to assert the rights of capital. Here's what I've learnt about the industry in 40 years in journalism. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The UK is the 15th largest contributor to tropical forest deforestation. The Environment Act passed in 2021 — so why are the scheduled 17 regulations still delayed? Who benefits from this? Big business? Foreign governments? #Deforestation #EnvironmentAct

Big US tech company Nvidia saying they're gonna build data centres in the UK and we have to burn more gas to power them? Uh, no. British people shouldn't be paying higher bills and suffering accelerated climate change for your bottom line.

Private Eye

Beyond belief. Downing Street pandering to Trump by literally shutting down UK free speech. Shame on the government for its spinelessness. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/s...

GPs’ heavy workloads, increasing demands from patients they are facing & widespread frustration that they have too little time to care for patients properly are behind burnout among family doctors that is fuelling their increasing dropout from the NHS www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Trumpets against Trump a favourite highlight #TrumpDemo

Over the weekend, the world's richest man appeared on screens in central London to call for a race war and for the UK government to be overthrown. No arrests were made in connection with that communication.

UK public has paid £200bn to shareholders of key industries since privatisation – study

Fungi season is here! 🍄 Join #WaxcapWatch — our citizen science project to help protect ancient meadows by recording waxcap fungi. No ID skills needed!

Written by a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital, London after the Tommy Robinson march on 13/9.

“A row of men lean against the metal shutters that keep them out of Westminster tube station, as they piss through the bars directly onto the steps on the other side. Nearby a furious man in his early 30s yells ‘bring the cocaine here now, mate’. It is not yet 2pm.”

Encountering the fascists outside Waterloo iandunt.substack.com/p/encounteri...

Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men