Writer on climate, ecology and culture. Freelance. Words in @BBC_Future @AtmosMag @HUCKmagazine @imagine5_real. (She/her)
Berlin, Germany
Joined October 2010
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Like spotting birds? It's probably doing wonders for your brain. My latest for @BBC_Future, including @age_uk's moving and important work to bring birdwatching to people experiencing dementia.
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@beccawarner meets the mushroom mappers unearthing a hidden kingdom, feat. @Giulifungi @spununderground @IUCNfungi
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In just 12 years, this patch of land went from housing three bird species, to over 200. Extraordinary.
For @BBC I wrote about how local knowledge helps restore important ecosystems – and the incredible speed that nature heals itself, if only we let it. bbc.com/future/article/20240…
Thanks as always to @izzygerretsen for excellent editing, and giving me the opportunity to tell such unusually positive stories about humans' relationship with the natural world 🦢
What happens when a forest has the same rights as a person? For @BBC_Future, I wrote about the legal case that saved an Ecuadorian forest from destruction, and was a landmark success in a bigger movement that's changing how we relate to the natural world. bbc.com/future/article/20240…
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Watch, read, listen: An article in @AtmosMag argued that the way humans talk about nature shapes their relationship to it – and asked whether “we [should] be paying more attention to the words we use?”.
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✍️I pondered my own death for @BBC_Future, to work out how to avoid poisoning the planet once I’m gone. The answer takes some digging (literally) and a new way of thinking about what ‘special’ might look like. bbc.com/future/article/20230…
Big thank you to @ndccharity, @watercremation, @recomposelife, @theplanetmark, @loopbiotech and the v brilliant Dr Julie Rugg @UniOfYork for helping me navigate a scientifically and emotionally complex question.
Beautifully put in @benmauk's newsletter today: "I believe that the experiences of daily boredom and idleness, and the obverse states of focus and mindfulness, are critically endangered psychic species." We are overly stimulated, stressed, entertained – and suffering for it
It’s easy to forget there was a time before hustle culture and rampant individualism. My latest for @HUCKmagazine is about a 1980s zine that put a middle finger up to the emergence of neoliberalism - writing it was somehow cathartic, hope reading it is too huckmag.com/article/chris-ca…
In 1981 Chris Carlsson co-founded ‘Processed World’ – a radical zine that foresaw the dystopian direction society was headed in. He talks to @beccawarner about its impact, his hopes for the future, and how stupid most jobs are.
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“She has made mushroom music and drawn the structures underpinning life itself. But her relationship to the non-human world is perhaps no more powerfully represented than in her latest creation: a book written in the language of trees.” @beccawarner imagine5.com/articles/the-la…
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TNT’s members are geographically dispersed across the US, Europe and Australia. Their goal is to publicly challenge climate disinformation so that others don’t take it at face value.
✍️ @beccawarner
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Obsessed with this visual 🤩
More on migratory bird tracking in my article about the brilliant @_BTO scientist following the extraordinary journey of the cuckoo @worldofTOPIA worldoftopia.com/tracking-th…
This is the migration of birds in Europe traced by GPS. It reminds us of just how interconnected our world really is.
Protect people and the planet. #ActOnClimate
#ClimateAction #climate #Deforestation #Nature #rewilding #birds #biodiversity #SDGs #IPCC
Excellent thread on the behind the scenes of this week’s landmark IPCC report. A stark (and scary) reminder that climate is a political game, with oh so many players
Commsy / sustainability folk ✍️🍃
Get in touch with @WriteUp_agency if you're available to help improve an environmental science textbook (paid)
Bernard is a family friend who is being held hostage in Iran. He was wrongly accused while on a trip with an Iranian tourism company, and has been held in harsh conditions since October. The situation is unimaginable. Please help by signing the petition: releasebernardphelan.com
‘I’ve lost one son. I’ve only got one left.’ Help release Iranian hostage Bernard Phelan. Sign the petition at releasebernardphelan.com
#releasebernardphelan
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Brilliant piece by @beccawarner for @HUCKmagazine about a group of outspoken and endlessly patient souls battling climate disinformation on social media. Team Ninja Trollhunters take no nonsense...
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