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Alan Underwood
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Ageing environmentalist. Earth science trained. Lifelong dream journaler. Chasing, recording and photographing dragonflies in retirement. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺
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Your #dreams ! Taking you to places where fresh perspectives and new views are unavoidable.
More variety at our #Abergavenny garden bird feeders today. Great to see the return of goldfinches bringing their bright colours back. Blue tits know that it’s time to make a hasty retreat when goldfinch turn up - they’ll want the feeders all to themselves. #nature #wildlife #birdrrswales #Waless
Plenty of comings and goings at our #Abergavenny garden bird feeders today. Here a Blue Tit comes in for a raid on the peanuts and then it’s off again with its prize to be consumed in a quiet spot away from the hustle and bustle at the feeders. #birderswales #birds #wildlife #nature
This morning’s walk around Castle Meadows #Abergavenny took us through the Community Orchard. Although they don’t show the distinctive shape we normally associate with this fruit these green globes are pears - perry pears, used for making - you guessed it, perry. #nature #monmouthshire #autumn
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Brazil has taken a dangerous step against the climate crisis and granted oil company Petrobras permission to drill oil wells into the Amazon Sea, one of the most diverse regions on the planet.

But we keep fighting✊ Sign the petition for an oil free Amazon >> act.gp/3XTSCtT
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“The NHS’s founding promise - care from cradle to grave - falters at the gumline” writes Zoe Beaty.

Deep inequalities are set to widen.

We can’t go on like this. Sign here👇
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fund-nhs-dentistry-now
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The hints and tints of autumn on a very enjoyable stroll around Buckland Hill in the #Usk valley and the wonderful @bannaubrycheiniog.bsky.social
National Park. On an incredibly still day when not a leaf or twig stirred. #Wales #nature #environment #seasons
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Fungi are coming out all over at the moment and we saw some great examples on our walk around Goytre Wharf and Goytre Hall Wood #Monmouthshire today so here are some autumnal examples of natural recyclers hard at work. #Wales #nature #wildlife #fungi
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Last month observed above average temperatures across large portions of both the #Greenland and #Antarctic Ice Sheets. Anywhere in dark red shading is more than 5°C warmer than the 1981-2010 climatological average.

Data available from doi.org/10.24381/cds...
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There is absolutely a path to 100% renewable energy – the technology already exists, and is getting better (and cheaper!) every year

What's missing is the political will from governments and the EU to fully plan an end to fossil fuels, insulate and cut energy waste, and go full-tilt for renewables
Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time
Record solar expansion and steady wind growth driving world’s shift away from fossil fuels in 2025, report finds
www.theguardian.com
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After compromising the climate COPs, the fossil fuel lobby - alongside their plastics and chemicals polluters - have now f*cked over attempts to reduce plastic pollution

Their zeal in ensuring that the environment is devastated knows no bounds

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UN plastics treaty chair to step down with process in turmoil
Exclusive: Luis Vayas Valdivieso says he is quitting for personal and professional reasons after reports of pressure behind the scenes
www.theguardian.com
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Last year, we were lucky enough to welcome Dr Jane Goodall to the Greenpeace stage at Glastonbury, where she shared this beautiful message of HOPE in tough times.

Rest in peace, Jane. Thank you so much for all the hope you gave to us all. 💚💚
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It's hard to overstate just how off the charts warm the Pacific is right now. The swath of the basin from California to Japan (a HUGE area) from 25N to 60N is ~3F (1.6C) above normal. To put it into math terms that is 6 Sigma/ standard deviations above the mean. More… 1/