Halla-bloomin'-lujah!! 💦💦💦🌱🌿🇬🇧🌱🌍🪲🦡🦔🐦‍⬛🐸🦊🐭

Everywhere I look today I keep seeing: 1) deadly wildfires ripping through our communities 2) people desperately trying to get by as energy costs soar 3) record oil & gas profits When will we see that these three things are connected? www.wsj.com/business/ene...

Big Oil Is Reaping Rewards From the Chaos in Energy Markets

ExxonMobil’s earnings doubled and Chevron posted its highest quarterly earnings on record as energy prices soared during the prolonged closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

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Very well done Sainsbury's in Wareham...but the idiots will just buy them elsewhere. Single use BBQs need to be banned outright.

Vikki Slade MP@vikkislademp.bsky.social · 3d ago

A big thank you to Sainsbury's in Wareham for taking disposable BBQ's off of their shelves 🎉 In hot, dry conditions like this summer, these disposable BBQs are a major preventable ignition source. Try using a fixed or reusable BBQ in a safe, designated area, or swap to a picnic or cold meal instead

This 🐝is a miracle maker:It's collecting nectar/pollen from this female courgette flower,which it'll turn into food for its colony;It's carrying pollen from male flowers,to female flowers,that'll trigger pollination & fruit production;fruit production means food for my family.Celebrate small.🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🌍🐝🪲

Did u know?Heat & drought has signalled a new era in global heating.It's easy to feel helpless,but if we create more shade,we protect plants/wildlife/ourselves:group pots together to create moist microclimates;plant small trees;plant hedging;plant flowers at the edges of borders,to cover soil.🌱🌿🇬🇧🌱🌍

Whilst the Telegraph tells us to scrap Net Zero and "enjoy, a warmer, drier, more volatile Mediterranean climate" 👺 www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2026...

Andy Scollick@andyscollick.bsky.social · 4d ago

#wildfire Porto Germeno, Attica, #Greece 📹 Meteology Live App

The signs of collapsing harvests are coming thick and fast now, but still @andyburnham.bsky.social plans to suck up more oil and gas, pump more CO2 into the atmosphere, and add to the heat, drought, and wildfires that compromise UK food production www.theguardian.com/business/202...

‘Worst we’ve known’: UK turns to imports as drought and heat hit vegetable crops

Growers in dismay after scorching weather and lack of rain affect yields, sending wholesale prices rocketing

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Did u know?There's a beaut' badger sett in our wildlife garden with only 2 members.We sprinkle nuts & fruit scraps down every few days so they don't rely on our hand-outs & provide water-our ponds.Their fave food are worms in our compost.Notice the scent marking activities-squatting/ digging 🌍🦡🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱

' “Every new fossil fuel project approved today makes tomorrow’s heatwaves more dangerous, and our world less secure,” Guterres said' FFS @andyburnham.bsky.social Pay attention. As I have said - the climate doesn't recognise - or reward - pragmatism www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Burnham risks first revolt as PM over apparent support for North Sea drilling

Labour MPs fear No 10 team lack up-to-date energy insight and don’t fully recognise voters’ climate concerns

theguardian.com

Did u know? The only winners with pesticide use are the chemical companies who manufacture them. Pesticides are indiscriminate poisons that are impossible to control & kill many animals who come into contact with them. Instead, encourage natural predators like toads,spiders,frogs & wasps 🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🌍🐸🪲🕷️🐞

Absolutely spot on Bill!

Prof Bill McGuire@profbillmcguire.bsky.social · last wk.

"water companies were wasting five times more water through leaky pipes than even a nationwide hosepipe ban could save" Since privatisation, the money that should have paid too fix this has been siphoned into the pockets of CEOs and shareholders www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Sign this petition folks. Disposable bbq's are dangerous & should be, defunct.

Mark Avery@markavery.bsky.social · 6d ago

Dunwich Heath fire www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... On @nationaltrust.org.uk land, adjacent to @rspbminsmere.bsky.social, near RSPB/ @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social Walberswick, close to Westleton Heath NNR @naturalengland.bsky.social Disposable BBQs petition.parliament.uk/petitions/77...

Did u know?This summer has been tough - flower suggestions to help future proof against less rain & greater heat.Evening Primrose,Common Yarrow,Ragwort,Red/White Valerian, Catmint,Tansy,Wild Marjoram.These plants will provide food,shelter & ground cover in our ever hotter & ever drier summers. 🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🌍

Did u know?Wasps have had a bad year,due to crazy weather-too cold,wet,hot,dry.Wasps are vital to healthy ecosystems as effective pollinators,"pest"population controllers & as food for larger animals.Support them by growing their fave plants like figwort & let their larval food-🐛munch leaves.🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🐛🌍🪲

1. Did u know?As climatic challenges get evermore extreme it's more important to help garden wildlife.Our trail camera shows we have 2 foxes who regularly visit. We put our scraps out for them to feed on & there's always drinking water from our wildlife ponds... 🦊🌍🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱💧

Bill Oddie has died aged 85. We'll certainly be thinking of this quote today. #Humanist #Nature #Birdwatching #Humanists #HumanistsUK #BillOddie

Humanists UK@humanists.uk · last wk.

Springwatch icon, humanist, and probably the UK's best-loved birdwatcher, Bill Oddie, has died aged 85. Very sad. Thank you for a lifetime of helping us understand nature.

Like most birders, I met #BillOddie several times, even appearing on an early series of Birding with Bill Oddie, in a one-hour birdrace around Rutland Water during the original @globalbirdfair.bsky.social. My first contact was age 16 when I asked some celebs to write some encouraging... (1/3)

How do you boycott the endless #greed of large food companies causing massive #extinction 🦏🐅🐒 and human #health damage? Go #palmoilfree and boycott Colgate, #Unilever, #Pepsi, Ferrero and others. #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife 🌴🔥⛔ @palmoildetect.bsky.social wp.me/pcFhgU-EV

Did u know?With global heating,shade may be our saviour.I was worried, placing veg borders in partial shade cast by trees/hedges would hinder growth.It's done the opposite,it's helped minimise moisture loss & kept temps cool,as well as harbouring wildlife. Go shady in yr own outside spaces. 🌿🪲🇬🇧🌱🌍🥒🥦🍏

Did u know? The Hawk-moth family are impressive moths. The intense heat this summer has meant that there's been an influx of Hummingbird Hawk-moths from The Continent,which has been exciting to see. If you want to accommodate their 🐛,you'll need to plant their food plants - Lady's Bedstraw. 🌿🌱🐛🌍🪲🌱🇬🇧

The next time you have the chance to vote, make it matter. Vote for the party who prioritises nature's survival...

George McGavin@georgemcgavin.bsky.social · 2w ago

This El Niño is set to be the largest on record by a ‘mind-blowing margin’ www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We have let a small patch of our front lawn go over to Birdsfoot trefoil only about 1x2m and it has been amazing - yesterday afternoon it held 7 species of bee and a Hummingbird Hawkmoth - best of all was this Sharp-tailed bee @liamolds.bsky.social @davegoulson.bsky.social

Did u know? We shouldn't attribute human morals & ethics to nature.The natural world embodies millions of different ways of survival. Some,we might find distasteful, like the way these parasitoid wasp larvae eat their host from the inside, but it's just another ingenious way of proliferating 🌍🐛🪲🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱

Did u know?Having a wildlife garden dishes up many surprises.Even though I let stinging nettles grow in my outside space to host Peacock/Red Admiral/Comma b'fly 🐛, I've never had any 🐛on them. It was a surprise to find a Comma b'fly 🐛feeding on my gooseberry bush. So beautiful - spiky coral. 🪲🌍🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🐛

Repetition Explaining to children in nature that a tree is alive, that it communicates with other trees, that it breathes in and out, and that trees also sleep at night, creates an understanding, and what children understand they will protect throughout their lives.💚☘️🌱🌿🌲🌳

Hopefully this is just the beginning. 'EA commences criminal proceedings against Southern Water. Four former employees from Southern Water, including the former Chief Executive Officer Matthew Wright, face a charge of conspiracy to defraud.' www.reuters.com/business/env...

Former Southern Water CEO among four facing UK prosecution over wastewater monitoring allegations

Britain's Environment ‌Agency said on Wednesday it was bringing a fraud case against four former Southern Water employees, ​including former Chief Executive Matthew Wright, ​over allegations they mani...

reuters.com

Have you signed up for the 2026 #BigButterflyCount yet? I did my first count yesterday... and it was SUCH fun. Gatekeepers, Meadow Browns and Silver Y moths so abundant I could barely keep up! Here's the link so you can get started: bigbutterflycount.butterfly-conservation.org

Butterfly Conservation@savebutterflies.bsky.social · 2w ago

With the #BigButterflyCount well underway, keep your eyes open when spotting differences between species 👀 Tiny white dots on the underside of the hindwing mean you've spotted a Gatekeeper - there are none on Meadow Brown!

Did u know?Global heating & droughts have created a strong need to reuse/conserve water to help preserve outside green spaces & garden wildlife habitats. Try collecting water when running hot water through your tap; use "grey" washing up water on your non-edible plants & collect shower water. 🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🌍💧

Did u know?Our natural 🌍is under pressure because of the acts of individuals who are destroying it by increasing global temps through fossil fuel use.Crops are failing due to the heat,pushing food prices up.Growing yr own food is a fab way to take control back. Sow seeds in pots. It works 🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🌍🍓