"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

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Blog of yesterday evening's lovely #WildEssex walk around Barrier Marsh and the Wivenhoe Waterfront: www.chrisgibsonwildlife.co.uk/wildessexwal... #NatureWriting

Delightful to hear multiple trilling, thrilling House Crickets along a couple of hundred metres of the Wivenhoe Waterfront in the gloaming yesterday, accompanied by a fine cooling pint from the Rose & Crown!

Colchester's Meanwhile Garden today bucking the trend of most other gardens in town. It was green, flowery and buzzing... #RightPlantRightPlace #enhancedbrownfield

On this day in 2013, apocalyptic Wivenhoe skyscape!

Reform scores hat trick of losses in Manchester despite the hype, the polling and the noise around Farage. Over to you now, Clacton. Deal the killer blow and vote Count Binface in August. The country could do with the laugh. And without that grifting loser. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... There are some stupid, radicalised idiots in Dover, just as there are in Clacton, whose bigotry and prejudice overrides the truth multiple times over. When education is vilified, this is the underclass that is created.

On the ground in the English seaside town rightwing influencers say is being ‘invaded’

Some in Dover say their town is being exploited by content creators and politicians, but others claim there is a genuine problem

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I’m helping save Coul Links. Will you? Coul Links is a beautiful and unique wildlife habitat in the Scottish Highlands. But it is threatened once again with development. Join me in urging Scottish Ministers to say no to this damaging application. action.rspb.org.uk/page/166270/...

Save Coul Links!

Your voice could help save this precious habitat from a new threat of development.

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Blog of our second (and final) Minories Moth Club in Colchester of the summer last weekend. As - or more - notable for the bugs as the moths! www.chrisgibsonwildlife.co.uk/saturday-mor...

www.suffolk.gov.uk/council-and-... The idiots of Reform. Blind and deaf to facts, evidence and truth.

So never mind war, climate change, wildfires, poverty, etc. - all is well with the profits of oil companies. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Shell profits double as oil prices rise due to Iran war

Disruption to global supplies of oil and liquid natural gas through the Strait of Hormuz has pushed up prices.

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Whilst the cost of living crisis continues to spiral, with food and fuel prices soaring, so do global oil and gas companies profits. Shell has today announced it's profits have more than doubled. This is obscene. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Shell profit more than doubles to $9.8 billion, second-highest on record, as Iran war lifts prices

Shell's ​net profit more than doubled from last year to $9.84 billion in the second quarter, beating expectations, helped by ‌higher energy prices and increased market volatility during the Middle Eas...

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Blog about my non-mothy ramblings around the Wild Side of Beth Chatto Gardens this month: www.chrisgibsonwildlife.co.uk/the-wild-sid... #NatureWriting

Interesting day with Alison Findlay, RHS outreach, in the new Colchester General Hospital drought-tolerant garden, looking at the wildlife. Plenty to see on this relatively newly planted site including Syritta pipiens, Cinnamon Bug, Carnation Tortrix (adult and pupal skin)and Sage Leafhopper.

Blog of our latest couple of moth events in the Beth Chatto Gardens www.chrisgibsonwildlife.co.uk/july-moth-mo... #NatureWriting

Unless this “honesty” involves the recognition that immigrants are *not* the root cause of the UK’s problems *but* actually a part of the solution to them, this will be completely pointless. I cannot stress this enough. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Burnham to say UK must be honest about its challenges as he prepares to become PM

Labour leader will visit king to accept role on Monday and will start making cabinet appointments that afternoon

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The weekend break of the heatwave (if not the drought) seems to have signalled the sad departure of most of Wivenhoe's Swifts. Just a token flypast last night where 48 hours previously there were battalions of them...

A small selection of moths from the Moth Morning at Beth Chatto Gardens today. Lots more than this: all will be revealed in a blog after my next event (aimed at kids) on Wednesday morning. #NatureWriting

Some super spotting there Chris

New Blog of the #WildEssex exploration of Lower Lodge nature reserve, Wivenhoe. www.chrisgibsonwildlife.co.uk/wildessexwal... #NatureWriting

New blog (this time with link!) The Wild Side of Essex: High Summer by the Stour Estuary for @naturetrek.bsky.social A hard slog in the hot sun, with slim pickings, but lots of fun nonetheless with the minutiae of life. www.chrisgibsonwildlife.co.uk/the-wild-sid... #NatureWriting

Hats off to you Chris - making a difference!

The ugly face of treason bankrolled by the father of white supremacist evil. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Elon Musk’s family foundation took Tommy Robinson to Russia, says Musk’s father

Errol Musk says far-right activist is ‘a fine young man’ and held meetings with Russian business figures

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Completely indicative of many people's contempt for the natural world, and their willingness to destroy it These people should be locked up and the key thrown away www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Swift nest reportedly thrown in skip during house renovations in South Tyneside

Conservationists fear more nests may have been destroyed during work on Jarrow houses by council-appointed contractor

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New blog of our latest monthly short break, this time three nights in Stafford, at the Swan Hotel. A revelation to us! Maybe not as much wildlife as usual, but some wonderful architecture. www.chrisgibsonwildlife.co.uk/into-our-unk... #NatureWriting

This is so outrageous. The Government wants to reclassify Coastguard Rescue Officers as "volunteers" so they can get out of paying them an hourly wage when they go out to save lives. Join me and sign the petition to demand the Government scrap plans to strip rescue heroes of their pay: 38d.gs/sh54

Save Our Coastguards: Scrap plans to strip rescue heroes of their pay!

This is so outrageous. The Government wants to reclassify Coastguard Rescue Officers as "volunteers" so they can get out of paying them an hourly wage when they go out to save lives. Join me and sign...

38d.gs

Seriously impressive roundabout with underpass in the middle of Newcastle-under-Lyme. Attractive subtropical planting in its sheltered sunken centre, full of insects, and the noise of the surrounding roads minimised for users of the underpasses. Other authorities could learn a lot from this.

New Blog: Read my account of a mixed up month weatherwise in the Beth Chatto Gardens #NatureWriting www.chrisgibsonwildlife.co.uk/the-wild-sid...

Blog of our 'Moth Club' event in the Minories Garden, Colchester, at the weekend. Night Life in the Heart of the City. www.chrisgibsonwildlife.co.uk/saturday-mor... #NatureWriting

My latest blog: BOOK REVIEW Rough Edges by Natasha Carthew, for British Naturalists' Association www.chrisgibsonwildlife.co.uk/book-review-...