Freelance writer. I love trees and rocks.
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Out now in the December issue of BBC Wildlife Magazine: my story about searching for remote Arctic pingos for insights into our changing climate (including close encounters with wildlife and the adventure of fieldwork). Available in shops and digital editions.
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David Pidgeon retweeted
Despite overwhelming evidence of Israeli war crimes, the UK government continues to export weapons to Israel.
End this complicity. Immediately suspend all arms sales.
Newborn twins in Gaza were killed with their mother and grandmother as their father went to collect birth certificates earlier today.
According to local media, the family had been displaced from northern Gaza and had sheltered further south.
trib.al/FMWwdUq
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It's likely that we'll need to try the GOV petition route as and when a petitions committee has been formed, but for now, here is a change-org petition for a ban on plastic grass
chng.it/Wjp4vm6qkB
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Decades ago, Strawberry Hill farm in Beds was left to go wild, resulting in one of the highest concentrations of nightingales, turtle doves, warblers & other threatened species anywhere in the country.
Can you help us save it?
Find out more & donate at wildlifebcn.org/strawberryhi…
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WOW!!! WOW!!! WOW!!!
They’ve only gone and done it.
Wanna know what’s lurking in your backyard, next door, the next town, the whole damn country?
THE most comprehensive pollution map ever created brought to you by the magnificent @WATERSHED_i team. 👇
watershedinvestigations.com/…
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📢 New poll reveals the majority of people believe the main parties are falling short on addressing the nature and climate crises.
With nature in freefall and urgent action needed, it's crucial we hold our leaders accountable.🌎
Read more 👉🏼 wtru.st/4e906jc
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A major critic of Natural England has quietly been appointed to Natural England's board by Ministers.
Landowner Mark Tufnell, ex-President of the Country Land & Business Association, called for "a full scale review of NE's remit".
How landed power works.
gov.uk/government/news/new-m…
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Teenagers have started calling AI art “boomer art” and consider it cringe. I honestly couldn’t be happier.
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I couldn’t quite belief this when I read it. Our water industry has effectively stolen from all of us, with full permission from our government….
Here’s the full quote from the @FT
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The amount of coverage given to the Green Party, who have so far won 159 seats in these elections, compared to Reform UK, who have won two, has been quite something
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NEW CHART: How British electricity supplies are shifting decisively away from fossil fuels
Super pleased with this very beautiful graphic, by my colleague Tom Pearson and reminiscent of Joy Division's iconic “Unknown Pleasures” album cover
carbonbrief.org/chart-how-br…
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Nature doesn't have a voice , but we do .
Nature can't act , but we must .
Join us on June 22nd for a peaceful march with just one demand: Restore Nature Now .
Pledge to march at RestoreNatureNow.com
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Animals are often left out of models that describe how carbon cycles through ecosystems -- their biomass is tiny relative to plants/microbes. But animals have an outsized influence on how much carbon gets stored, according to modelling from @SchmitzLab.
newscientist.com/article/242…
The fate of plastic: 55% sent straight to landfill or discarded. 8% incinerated. Only 6% recycled - and, of that, most is then discarded to landfill. Jeeze I hope "advanced recycling" changes all that. newscientist.com/article/mg2…
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