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Forests across the planet are under threat. We need to act urgently to not only protect our existing forests, but to allow forests to return where they once were.
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The nature cure: how time outdoors transforms our memory, imagination and logic
Without engaging with natural environments, our brains cease to work well. As the new field of environmental neuroscience proves, exposure to nature isn’t a luxury – it’s a necessity
www.theguardian.com
The nature cure: how time outdoors transforms our memory, imagination and logic. Without engaging with natural environments, our brains cease to work well. Exposure to nature isn’t a luxury – it’s a necessity.
Includes a quote by @jamesgilbertmr.bsky.social
Includes a quote by @jamesgilbertmr.bsky.social
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Impressive view of the floods in #FriuliVeneziaGiulia.
Severe flooding has hit parts of #Udine and #Gorizia.
The #Copernicus #Sentinel2 image on Nov. 18 shows the aftermath of the recent events: large amounts of debris flowing from the Isonzo River into the Adriatic Sea. #climateemergency
Severe flooding has hit parts of #Udine and #Gorizia.
The #Copernicus #Sentinel2 image on Nov. 18 shows the aftermath of the recent events: large amounts of debris flowing from the Isonzo River into the Adriatic Sea. #climateemergency
November 20, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Impressive view of the floods in #FriuliVeneziaGiulia.
Severe flooding has hit parts of #Udine and #Gorizia.
The #Copernicus #Sentinel2 image on Nov. 18 shows the aftermath of the recent events: large amounts of debris flowing from the Isonzo River into the Adriatic Sea. #climateemergency
Severe flooding has hit parts of #Udine and #Gorizia.
The #Copernicus #Sentinel2 image on Nov. 18 shows the aftermath of the recent events: large amounts of debris flowing from the Isonzo River into the Adriatic Sea. #climateemergency
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#BottomTrawling not only destroys habitats in MPAs, it also fuels the #ClimateCrisis by resuspending seabed carbon. Yet European governments still subsidise it.
Ahead of #COP30, it’s time to end this destructive practice.
Read Enric Sala's op-ed ➡️ euractiv.com/opinion/the-...
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Ahead of #COP30, it’s time to end this destructive practice.
Read Enric Sala's op-ed ➡️ euractiv.com/opinion/the-...
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The hidden deforestation beneath the waves | Euractiv
Tackling the carbon emissions of bottom trawling is a fast and effective way to forestall climate change while protecting our precious marine ecosystems. But despite the minimal returns, governments a...
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November 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
#BottomTrawling not only destroys habitats in MPAs, it also fuels the #ClimateCrisis by resuspending seabed carbon. Yet European governments still subsidise it.
Ahead of #COP30, it’s time to end this destructive practice.
Read Enric Sala's op-ed ➡️ euractiv.com/opinion/the-...
@euractiv.com
Ahead of #COP30, it’s time to end this destructive practice.
Read Enric Sala's op-ed ➡️ euractiv.com/opinion/the-...
@euractiv.com
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A twist in the otherwise straight stem of a Scots pine in Glengarriff likely indicates where, one year, the central growth candle was damaged, and one of the lateral shoots took over.
A tree's shape can tell a lot about its life story.
A tree's shape can tell a lot about its life story.
November 20, 2025 at 5:35 AM
A twist in the otherwise straight stem of a Scots pine in Glengarriff likely indicates where, one year, the central growth candle was damaged, and one of the lateral shoots took over.
A tree's shape can tell a lot about its life story.
A tree's shape can tell a lot about its life story.
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The EU-Mercosur trade deal will be a disaster for rainforests and other natural ecosystems in South America, as well as the climate. Every environmentalist should be fighting this.
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IFJ probe 'undermines' EU-Mercosur trade deal, says IFA
The Irish Farmers' Association has said an investigation carried out by the Irish Farmers Journal in Brazil undermines arguments by the European Commission that the EU-Mercosur trade deal should be ap...
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November 20, 2025 at 7:54 AM
The EU-Mercosur trade deal will be a disaster for rainforests and other natural ecosystems in South America, as well as the climate. Every environmentalist should be fighting this.
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The catastrophic illegal waste dumping in Oxfordshire (see next post) is a direct result of the deregulation-by-stealth I wrote about in 2021, when my dead goldfish became a registered waste disposer. I warned it would let the mafia in. And here we are.🧵
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Britain through the looking glass: my dead goldfish is now a registered waste disposer | George Monbiot
Algernon Goldfish is long gone, but I was able to sign him up. No wonder so many crooks are illegally dumping and ruining our environment, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:11 AM
The catastrophic illegal waste dumping in Oxfordshire (see next post) is a direct result of the deregulation-by-stealth I wrote about in 2021, when my dead goldfish became a registered waste disposer. I warned it would let the mafia in. And here we are.🧵
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Laurence Rouil, CAMS Director, highlights the evolution of CO₂ in the atmosphere & how it is driven by human activity & impacts climate change. "With this, I hope global leaders are equipped with the insight to turn ambition into action."
#CopernicusAtmosphere #COP30
#CopernicusAtmosphere #COP30
November 19, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Laurence Rouil, CAMS Director, highlights the evolution of CO₂ in the atmosphere & how it is driven by human activity & impacts climate change. "With this, I hope global leaders are equipped with the insight to turn ambition into action."
#CopernicusAtmosphere #COP30
#CopernicusAtmosphere #COP30
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Colombia will no longer approve new oil or large-scale mining projects in its Amazon biome, which covers 42% of the nation’s territory.
Acting Environment Minister Irene Vélez Torres said the entire Colombian Amazon will be made a reserve for renewable natural resources.
Acting Environment Minister Irene Vélez Torres said the entire Colombian Amazon will be made a reserve for renewable natural resources.
Colombia bans all new oil and mining projects in its Amazon
Colombia will no longer approve new oil or large-scale mining projects in its Amazon biome, which covers 42% of the nation’s territory, according to a Nov. 13 statement by its environment ministry.…
news.mongabay.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Colombia will no longer approve new oil or large-scale mining projects in its Amazon biome, which covers 42% of the nation’s territory.
Acting Environment Minister Irene Vélez Torres said the entire Colombian Amazon will be made a reserve for renewable natural resources.
Acting Environment Minister Irene Vélez Torres said the entire Colombian Amazon will be made a reserve for renewable natural resources.
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European politicians are more interested in protecting the rights of people selling dead animals than they are of protecting the lives of Palestinian children who are still alive and being bombed to death by Israel.
Unbelievable.
Unbelievable.
European meat industry lobbying extends its footprint to the UK as terms like 'veggie burger' to be banned n order to protect meat sales
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Ban on veggie ‘burgers’: plant-based products may lose meaty names in UK under EU law
Exclusive: Trade agreement means UK is subject to some food labelling rules, with vote on vegetarian food terms this week
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:30 AM
European politicians are more interested in protecting the rights of people selling dead animals than they are of protecting the lives of Palestinian children who are still alive and being bombed to death by Israel.
Unbelievable.
Unbelievable.
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Beth Mead: ‘If we don’t adapt to climate change, football becomes a privilege, not a right‘: The Arsenal and England forward is backing new global campaign because talent and teamwork should decide the game – not the climate I’ll never forget stepping out on to the pitch in Switzerland fo...
Beth Mead: ‘If we don’t adapt to climate change, football becomes a privilege, not a right‘
Beth Mead: ‘If we don’t adapt to climate change, football becomes a privilege, not a right‘: The Arsenal and England forward is backing new global campaign because talent and teamwork should decide the game – not the climate I’ll never forget stepping out on to the pitch in Switzerland fo...
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Beth Mead: ‘If we don’t adapt to climate change, football becomes a privilege, not a right‘: The Arsenal and England forward is backing new global campaign because talent and teamwork should decide the game – not the climate I’ll never forget stepping out on to the pitch in Switzerland fo...
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A pattern that emerges:
Governments or ministers resigning after extreme events which caused more causalities than necessarily due to bad political decisions
The day will come when the empire will be questioned as humanity is now driven into extinction
Just continue current trajectories
#Earth
Governments or ministers resigning after extreme events which caused more causalities than necessarily due to bad political decisions
The day will come when the empire will be questioned as humanity is now driven into extinction
Just continue current trajectories
#Earth
Philippines ministers resign as flood scandal reaches presidential palace
Ministers implicated in scandal involving misused and stolen funds earmarked for anti-flooding infrastructure.
www.aljazeera.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:22 PM
A pattern that emerges:
Governments or ministers resigning after extreme events which caused more causalities than necessarily due to bad political decisions
The day will come when the empire will be questioned as humanity is now driven into extinction
Just continue current trajectories
#Earth
Governments or ministers resigning after extreme events which caused more causalities than necessarily due to bad political decisions
The day will come when the empire will be questioned as humanity is now driven into extinction
Just continue current trajectories
#Earth
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What happens at #COP30 in #Belém?
So far, #COP30 has been far more interesting than many expected (including myself) — and also more encouraging, given the otherwise very bleak global outlook on climate and almost everything else.
Here are my takeaways from the first week:
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So far, #COP30 has been far more interesting than many expected (including myself) — and also more encouraging, given the otherwise very bleak global outlook on climate and almost everything else.
Here are my takeaways from the first week:
🧵
November 19, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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The latest research confirms AMOC weakening together with a tipping point that is getting closer and closer. Governments are starting to notice with Iceland the first to declare it a national security threat.
drtomharris.substack.com/p/amoc-weake...
#climatechange #amoc #adaptation #tippingpoint
drtomharris.substack.com/p/amoc-weake...
#climatechange #amoc #adaptation #tippingpoint
AMOC weakening declared a national security threat
Iceland has declared the AMOC a national security threat and an existential risk in the coming decades, enabling its Government to prepare for worst-case scenarios. Should we be worried?
drtomharris.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:14 AM
The latest research confirms AMOC weakening together with a tipping point that is getting closer and closer. Governments are starting to notice with Iceland the first to declare it a national security threat.
drtomharris.substack.com/p/amoc-weake...
#climatechange #amoc #adaptation #tippingpoint
drtomharris.substack.com/p/amoc-weake...
#climatechange #amoc #adaptation #tippingpoint
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Big Polar Plunge across Europe as the jet stream takes a nose dive! Temps 10-20C below normal! Lots of snow in the mountains!!
November 19, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Big Polar Plunge across Europe as the jet stream takes a nose dive! Temps 10-20C below normal! Lots of snow in the mountains!!
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In 1824, Joseph Fourier noted that co2 was trapping heat and warming the planet
Over 200 years later its still a mystery to clueless deniers
Over 200 years later its still a mystery to clueless deniers
November 19, 2025 at 1:24 AM
In 1824, Joseph Fourier noted that co2 was trapping heat and warming the planet
Over 200 years later its still a mystery to clueless deniers
Over 200 years later its still a mystery to clueless deniers
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The rainforest the world forgot.
The Congo basin is the second largest rainforest on Earth, and a critical defence against climate breakdown and species loss.
Why then, is it so neglected?
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The Congo basin is the second largest rainforest on Earth, and a critical defence against climate breakdown and species loss.
Why then, is it so neglected?
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The rainforest the world forgot: the Congo basin is the second largest on Earth, so why is it being neglected?
It is one of the world’s most vital carbon sinks, but this tropical rainforest is losing out when it comes to climate policy and funding
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November 18, 2025 at 9:41 PM
The rainforest the world forgot.
The Congo basin is the second largest rainforest on Earth, and a critical defence against climate breakdown and species loss.
Why then, is it so neglected?
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The Congo basin is the second largest rainforest on Earth, and a critical defence against climate breakdown and species loss.
Why then, is it so neglected?
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Africa is our species' home.
It is the continent where Homo sapiens first originated, and from whence we spread across the rest of the planet. For that very reason, it's also where most megafauna survived – elephants, lions, hippos, etc... *
We are ALL Africans, every last one of us.
It is the continent where Homo sapiens first originated, and from whence we spread across the rest of the planet. For that very reason, it's also where most megafauna survived – elephants, lions, hippos, etc... *
We are ALL Africans, every last one of us.
Easy answer: Because it is African. African tragedies and problems have a history of being ignored by the rest of the planet, ALL OF IT.
November 19, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Africa is our species' home.
It is the continent where Homo sapiens first originated, and from whence we spread across the rest of the planet. For that very reason, it's also where most megafauna survived – elephants, lions, hippos, etc... *
We are ALL Africans, every last one of us.
It is the continent where Homo sapiens first originated, and from whence we spread across the rest of the planet. For that very reason, it's also where most megafauna survived – elephants, lions, hippos, etc... *
We are ALL Africans, every last one of us.
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Astonishing that it even needs saying, but sadly a very large portion of the planet’s human population is currently stuck in a death cult.
And they don’t realise it - which makes it far worse.
And they don’t realise it - which makes it far worse.
November 19, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Astonishing that it even needs saying, but sadly a very large portion of the planet’s human population is currently stuck in a death cult.
And they don’t realise it - which makes it far worse.
And they don’t realise it - which makes it far worse.
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I prioritise BOTH. And you?
Because if you're foolish enough to think it's one or the other, you should understand that killing off nature will be the death of us too.
Because if you're foolish enough to think it's one or the other, you should understand that killing off nature will be the death of us too.
You're almost there. You're nearly nearly there. Which do you prioritize more? Humans or non-human life...
November 19, 2025 at 7:21 AM
I prioritise BOTH. And you?
Because if you're foolish enough to think it's one or the other, you should understand that killing off nature will be the death of us too.
Because if you're foolish enough to think it's one or the other, you should understand that killing off nature will be the death of us too.
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New publication!
We Modelled the distribution of eight primate species in the Yabssi Key Biodiversity Area, and used the results to make recommendations for conservation planning across the landscape.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
We Modelled the distribution of eight primate species in the Yabssi Key Biodiversity Area, and used the results to make recommendations for conservation planning across the landscape.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
November 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
New publication!
We Modelled the distribution of eight primate species in the Yabssi Key Biodiversity Area, and used the results to make recommendations for conservation planning across the landscape.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
We Modelled the distribution of eight primate species in the Yabssi Key Biodiversity Area, and used the results to make recommendations for conservation planning across the landscape.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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80 countries insist that #COP30 must deliver concrete steps to move away from fossil fuels.
Btw the number 30 in COP30 means that there really were already 30 of these.
No joke.
Btw the number 30 in COP30 means that there really were already 30 of these.
No joke.
NEWS 🔥🔥🔥
Auf der #COP30 fordert ein breites Staatenbündnis gemeinsam, dass der politische Beschluss dieser Konferenz konkrete Schritte zur Abkehr von fossilen Energien enthalten muss. Zuvor hatte die COP-Präsidentschaft einen eher wachsweichen Textentwurf veröffentlicht.
Auf der #COP30 fordert ein breites Staatenbündnis gemeinsam, dass der politische Beschluss dieser Konferenz konkrete Schritte zur Abkehr von fossilen Energien enthalten muss. Zuvor hatte die COP-Präsidentschaft einen eher wachsweichen Textentwurf veröffentlicht.
November 18, 2025 at 7:23 PM
80 countries insist that #COP30 must deliver concrete steps to move away from fossil fuels.
Btw the number 30 in COP30 means that there really were already 30 of these.
No joke.
Btw the number 30 in COP30 means that there really were already 30 of these.
No joke.
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A Kingfisher bringing up a pellet, lovely.....
Everyone posts the glamorous side to this beautiful bird, but not today! 🤣
#birds #birdphotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography
Everyone posts the glamorous side to this beautiful bird, but not today! 🤣
#birds #birdphotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography
November 18, 2025 at 7:18 PM
A Kingfisher bringing up a pellet, lovely.....
Everyone posts the glamorous side to this beautiful bird, but not today! 🤣
#birds #birdphotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography
Everyone posts the glamorous side to this beautiful bird, but not today! 🤣
#birds #birdphotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography
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Biodiversity outcomes, with utterly weak programme for government positions, were dismal.
A few quid more but NOTHING systematic.
Honestly I can say after 5 years of the Greens in government biodiversity loss in Cork, the county I know, just continued. Maybe even at a worse pace.
A few quid more but NOTHING systematic.
Honestly I can say after 5 years of the Greens in government biodiversity loss in Cork, the county I know, just continued. Maybe even at a worse pace.
November 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Biodiversity outcomes, with utterly weak programme for government positions, were dismal.
A few quid more but NOTHING systematic.
Honestly I can say after 5 years of the Greens in government biodiversity loss in Cork, the county I know, just continued. Maybe even at a worse pace.
A few quid more but NOTHING systematic.
Honestly I can say after 5 years of the Greens in government biodiversity loss in Cork, the county I know, just continued. Maybe even at a worse pace.
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To be welcomed but we have a bigger problem. And it’s everywhere…
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects
A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:31 AM
To be welcomed but we have a bigger problem. And it’s everywhere…
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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What Ireland's uplands look like up close due to sheep: molinia deserts, with open wounds of erosion, as the vegetation that holds the soil together is stripped away.
This was once all rainforest, and with the sheep gone could be again.
In a time of ecological collapse, there is just *no* excuse.
This was once all rainforest, and with the sheep gone could be again.
In a time of ecological collapse, there is just *no* excuse.
November 18, 2025 at 7:27 AM
What Ireland's uplands look like up close due to sheep: molinia deserts, with open wounds of erosion, as the vegetation that holds the soil together is stripped away.
This was once all rainforest, and with the sheep gone could be again.
In a time of ecological collapse, there is just *no* excuse.
This was once all rainforest, and with the sheep gone could be again.
In a time of ecological collapse, there is just *no* excuse.
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Or we could let *nature* decide.
If wild native trees were there in the past, and seed themselves back in with the removal of sheep, who are we to say there's a problem?
If wild native trees were there in the past, and seed themselves back in with the removal of sheep, who are we to say there's a problem?
Sheep may well be part of the problem, but trees are only a solution on mineral soils. On deep peat you need appropriate vegetation.
November 18, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Or we could let *nature* decide.
If wild native trees were there in the past, and seed themselves back in with the removal of sheep, who are we to say there's a problem?
If wild native trees were there in the past, and seed themselves back in with the removal of sheep, who are we to say there's a problem?