Clouded Yellow form helice, nr Redwick this afternoon. A stiff easterly meant far fewer butterflies as compared to yesterday, but still plenty of Clouded Yellow including c.5 helice.
A pootle round the levels (Marshfield, Newport, Uskmouth, Redwick, Mead Lane, Magor Pill, etc.) produced 300+ Clouded Yellow including 8 ‘helice’. Loads along the sea wall near Redwick. Map of biggest counts below but definitely a gross underestimate. #butterfliesbybike #lowcarbonlepidoptera
Quick look at Ynysyfro produced little. Tree Pipit probably the highlight. #gwentbirding
anyone I know who lives in London needs to email their MP and the London Mayor the stats on this thing are genuinely appalling, and goes directly against the Mayor's commitment "for London to be net zero carbon by 2030" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Proposed London datacentre will have annual carbon footprint of 27,000 flights to New York
Exclusive: Planning documents show datacentre in North Ockendon would be incompatible with UK net zero targets
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If you are an academic still on X, you are facilitating a guy who aims to destroy you
Toby Buckle@polphilpod.bsky.social · 4d ago'mere' authoritarians seek to capture the state & a few key sectors for fascists, every institution must brought low & made complicit in the new social order
Reform says we need to choose between climate and economy. It’s wrong Reform's deputy leader Richard Tice says we should stop worrying about extreme heat and enjoy it. This dangerous nonsense will wreck our finances and the planet. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Reform says we need to choose between climate and economy. It's wrong | Larry Elliott
The party’s deputy leader Richard Tice says we should stop worrying about extreme heat and enjoy it. This dangerous nonsense will wreck our finances and the planet, says Guardian columnist Larry Ellio...
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“Just perfect. From the moment I walked through the door I fell in love with the place, so cosy and comfortable. The kitchen is very well equipped and there are so many thoughtful extras. Quality of furnishings really good and I love the use of local textiles throughout.”
This climate change malarkey is an expensive business huh!? Probably best not to make it worse by opening new oil and gas fields. #Rosebank #Jackdaw www.theguardian.com/business/202...
UK heatwaves may have cost economy £4.4bn in lost output so far this year, analysis finds
Verdant thinktank says cost could top £25bn a year by 2030 and calls for maximum temperature for working and urban redesign to cool down cities
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Black Darter, an early prototype for what became the Bell AH-1 SuperCobra twin-engined attack helicopter. #biomimicry #biomimetics #odonata
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Stop Funding Hate@stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 3w agoFor months, GB News has been running inflammatory stories about refugees living in "houses of multiple occupancy" (HMOs). On Wednesday night, violent racists attacked several HMOs in Thetford, Norfolk, because they believed that refugees were housed there: news.sky.com/story/female...
A *very* late WeBS at Ynysyfro produced little in the way of birds but some invert interest with Lesser Emperor scoffing a Meadow Brown, 2 Clouded Yellow and a female Chrysotoxum festivum. #gwentbirding #gwentdragonflies #gwentflutterbies #gwentsyrphing
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.
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Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and #climatecrisis That’s $700,000 a minute Iran conflict windfall over 3 months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage Story by Jillian Ambrose and me www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...
Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis
Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage
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Behind the bewildering transformation of British universities, are management consultants being paid millions Really proud to have this vital piece on our unis are being gutted from the inside by @jheathershaw.bsky.social on Democracy for Sale. Do read democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-bri...
Inside Britain's university crisis
As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter
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Zero mentions of ‘climate’ and/or ‘change’ at any point in this article. Great swathes of the British media are failing on the single biggest issue of our times. #Wales #drought #heatwave #climate www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Drought declared for whole of Wales amid sustained high temperatures
Wales is on course for its driest July on record in almost 190 years.
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I feel that every time Badenoch’s Conservatives or Reform spout their anti-Net Zero policies they should be asked to explain them in light of the deaths of thousands of UK citizens in climate change amplified heatwaves. #NetZero #climatecrisis #heatwave
Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment@granthamicl.bsky.social · 4w ago2026 could break records for heat-associated deaths, warns the @ukhsa.bsky.social in its estimates for heat-related mortality in May and June. This follows estimates published by the Grantham Institute, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the UK Met Office 🧵 buff.ly/MGR5KYI
++BREAKING++ The UK and Spanish governments have issued a joint statement overnight: "[We] agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life." www.gov.uk/government/n...
Image of a Knot taken with a 60mm macro lens. It had just narrowly evaded the sweep of Death’s whetted scythe (in the form of a Peregrine) and had concluded sitting alongside humans might provide refuge from the falcon which made repeated passes at an altitude of 10-20m before heading off.
Yesterday’s catch of the day, an ickle Long-spined sea scorpion (Taurulus bubalis),… aaaaand away. #rockpooling #fish
‘There are a lot of corporate interests’ in pushing back against climate policies – former diplomat
‘There are a lot of corporate interests’ in pushing back against climate policies – former diplomat
We spoke to Nick Bridge, a former diplomat who was the UK's special representative to the UN on Climate Change from 2017 to 2023.
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The Prime Minister of Spain: “This climate emergency is exceeding every threshold and scale that scientists have long warned all of Spain and Europe about.” This is the realistic climate discourse the world needs. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/w...
A moment of syrphing excitement this afternoon before it slowly dawned on me what it was,… Scaeva pyrastri, female, variation unicolor. #syrphingUK
Awww. A good a time as any to reread the Little Black Bird Book and Gone Birding. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Bill Oddie, naturalist and broadcaster, dies aged 85
Coming to fame in The Goodies, Oddie was later known for his wildlife expertise and presented BBC Springwatch
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