I’m very surprised an official map hasn’t been produced yet of the fire area. This courtesy of a Nethybridge resident with permission to share. The P in bottom left the lower parking area on the ski road to get a bearing. NB This is quite a rough sketch.

Hearings like this are a reminder that if you work for Donald Trump, you are a person of low character and have no integrity. There are no exceptions.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5h ago

😮 Trump's nominees are the most pathetic men in the world 😮 During a hearing, Blumenthal made Trump nominees squirm by asking them who won the 2020 election -- a question they refuse to answer -- but then Schiff upped the ante by asking them *who won the 2016 election.* Here's a supercut:

Dear BBC, please do your homework & stop contributing to #BeeWashing with honeybees. Yours Faithfully, Duncan

There’s times I second guess whether I’m qualified to be writing about autism at all (simply from my own experience), due not to being an expert in the field of research. Then a so-called expert says this and I realise it’s all okay! Thank you, Uta!

Leading expert says ‘anyone can have autism now’ as she claims spectrum is too broad

Professor Dame Uta Frith said social media could also be spreading ‘simplified or misleading ideas’ about autism

independent.co.uk

Why is Labour being so unnecessarily disappointing? They are trashing their chances at the next General Election by demonstrating their ignorance on nature and climate. It's mad.

Caroline Lucas@carolinelucas.bsky.social · 14h ago

I can’t believe we’re still having a debate about whether there’s a trade off between job creation and measures to green the economy. There isn’t. The evidence was clear years ago - a green economy creates far more jobs than the fossil fuel economy it replaces. Come on Labour, catch up …

Drone carrying explosives found at Leipzig airport, say German police ft.trib.al/PkWnLJr

Drone carrying explosives found at Leipzig airport, say German police

Incident appears to mark an escalation after two years of drone incursions at European airports

ft.trib.al

New guidance from the eBird Team - summarising - don't use AI tools to edit your bird photos! ebird.org/news/threat-... link to original paper: rdcu.be/ftx6h #Ornithology #UKBirding 🧪🌎

From Truth to Fake: The Threat of AI to Media Archives - eBird

As AI becomes commonplace, what you see in a photograph may no longer represent reality. Learn about how this impacts eBird and what you can do to help.

ebird.org

On the ecological impacts of game shooting. A controversial chapter of my new book Eat the Planet Well which did not make the final edit, but which is - I think - important. Comments welcome! youtu.be/jZMYWK16UFo

The ecological impacts of game shooting.

YouTube video by Dave Goulson

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Red-footed Falcon at Aberlady this morning, another top find by Mr Gillon. My second one in Lothian after the 1s female in May 2008 at Almondell & Calderwood CP @birdinglothian.bsky.social

A truly abysmal 10/9 overnight. #teammoth So, a bit of leaf-mining therapy was called for this afternoon. Most of it came to naught but… #407 Stigmella tityrella (Small Beech Dot)

My editor asked me to write about what happened to summer:

We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca Solnit

Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys

theguardian.com

"Gatwick airport to open second runway" Is nobody joining the dots? We have to stop polluting our atmosphere with CO2! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Gatwick airport to open second runway after legal challenge fails

£2.2bn project will allow about 100,000 more flights a year to use Britain’s second busiest airport

theguardian.com

If you're not part of the solution you're part of the problem. Out government & its Transport Minister is part of the problem. "Green fuel production" my arse. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Gatwick airport to open second runway after legal challenge fails

£2.2bn project will allow about 100,000 more flights a year to use Britain’s second busiest airport

theguardian.com

Data shows you're 11% more likely to die in a crash while *driving* an SUV, largely because the false sense of indestructibility leads you to drive more recklessly around others. Antisocial behaviour is baked into the design of these monstrosities.

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 3d ago

Climate science denial in physical form. The Land Rover Defender X (yup - they've gone full Musk). Price: £103,460, plus a few kids' lives. 🧵

Trump's Truth Social has launched a subscription-based service for access to "market-moving" posts, which critics have called an act of "brazen corruption".

"Outrageous abuse" of office: Truth Social sells access to "market-moving" posts for $100k a month

Trump's Truth Social has launched a subscription-based service for access to "market-moving" posts, which critics have called an act of "brazen corruption".

thecanary.co

This group now has a public statement and an open letter for us to sign in support. Please share widely: educatorsforpeace.co.uk/public-state...

The National@scotnational.bsky.social · 4d ago

EXCLUSIVE: A group of Scottish educators advocating for peace in Palestine have been forced to seek legal advice after a targeted campaign by pro-Israel lawyers

This is a measured and damning thread from Sunder - you just have to continue reading past the first post which is obviously too much for some people.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2d ago

66 seems a young age for Rod Liddle to die. Talented comic writer, insightful about football.obvs took much pleasure in transgressing political correctness But just lied when caught being much more indefensibly racist+ sexist online in his Millwallmonkey persona www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a...

Black Stork was very much on the wishlist, and was heavily championed by Benedict Macdonald in his books. Derek Gow has been breeding them with the intention of releasing (see link). The NE guidance seems partially intended to put a stop to that ambition. keepitwild.uk/wp-content/u...

The line about reigniting people's sense of wonder in nature is absolute bollocks too. Are storks really going to do that? I remember watching a Bald Eagle flying low over the rooftops in New Jersey. I had a sense of wonder, several hundred other people didn't even look up.

Knepp (re-)introduced Storks to Sussex where amphibians & reptiles are in decline, seemingly because big birds are more interesting than amphibians and Storks encourage tourism at Knepp. I call this ecological vandalism.

Naturally colonised Night Heron, Little Egret, Great Egret and Crane alongside resident Grey Heron are not enough, apparently, and cultural connections mean we should introduce another generalist predator into the last fragile refuges for Amphibians & reptiles. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘They’re part of folklore’: storks return to Derbyshire after 600-year absence

Conservationists are thrilled at the arrival of three juvenile birds at Willington Wetlands, hoping more will follow

theguardian.com

Let's not mourn the passing of a despicable human being.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2d ago

Liddle's ex-colleagues find it easy to defend his mainstream journalism as a lark But a conscious effort to ignore what his Millwall-Monkey stuff revealed."Even the Jews were allowed to smoke at Auschwitz" was reported. His "niggermeat, not wogmeat" comments + most virulent sexist threads were not

The CO2 Newsletter, published between 1979 and 1982, will break your heart. So much information was known back then, the shape of the problem, the likely consequences. And here we are...

All Our Yesterdays@allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 3d ago

Vol. 2, no. 5 of the CO2 Newsletter, June-August 1981 is now downloadable. Founded by American geologist William Barbat, each was 8 pages of excerpts from recent reports, editorials and deeply researched articles. All 18 issues are heart-breakers. allouryesterdays.info/co2-newslett... 1/9

The Rod Liddle biography suggests a certain post-1968 'type' who was just idiotically drawn to norm-breaching, moving via adolescent rebellion, punk, revolutionary socialism, and eventually ending up at racism, because by the 21st century that was the most efficient transgression still on offer

Most lowland woods in England are criss-crossed with drainage ditches, dug to help intensive forestry exploitation. Most woods no longer managed, but drainage still maintained for convenience of dogwalkers etc., losing ponds, bogs. Re-wetting woodland to buffer against droughts should be a priority.

Guy Shrubsole@guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 4d ago

Australia has a completely different set of ecosystems to the UK. In Britain, you don’t fight fire with fire: you fight it with water. We have allowed landowners to comprehensively drain our peat bogs, remove farmland ponds, riddle landscapes with field drains. Make Britain Wet Again!

Indeed he did - things like "the one thing stopping me from being a teacher was that I could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids"

No idea why they do it, but Argyresthia moths rest with their heads down. Here’s Argyresthia bonnetella (Hawthorn Tip Moth) which I found when out looking for leaf mines yesterday. #teammoth

You know what? I don't care if this or similar acts are part of your 'tradition'. It's obscenely wrong and has to stop, period. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Scottish islanders refused permission to stage annual guga hunt

Each year hundreds of gannet chicks are killed for their meat on the uninhabited Hebridean island of Sula Sgeir.

bbc.com

The UK only contributes 1% to greenhouse gas emissions, so why should we do anything about it? Chickens Piled On Top Of Each Other Ltd only contributes 1% of the pollution of the River Wye, so why should they do anything about it? #R4Today

which will ruin ecological connectivity over a 1000km2 catchment between the internationally rare #chalkstreams of the @chilternsnl.bsky.social and the #Thames. www.colnevalleypark.org.uk/heathrow-pos... @johnmcdonnellmp.bsky.social

Heathrow Expansion – the Colne Valley Regional Park’s position - Colne Valley Regional Park

We remain publicly and determinedly opposed to the plans to expand Heathrow Airport, which will cut the Park in two, changing it for ever. 1200 acres of Green Belt will be lost and many more hundreds ...

colnevalleypark.org.uk