Wildflowers

I’m not sure how I managed to live this long without visiting York before; it’s gorgeous

"Standing in my family's garden, watching blackberries ripen two months early under a cloudless sky, it is hard not to feel that something more fundamental than a dry spell is unfolding, one no amount of careful tooth-brushing is going to fix." #england #Climate #drought substack.com/home/post/p-...

Blackberries in July

How a record drought is rewriting the rhythms of the English countryside, and the politics that come with it

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Thinking of my @nationaltrust.org.uk colleagues and all who worked tirelessly to tackle the devastating Dunwich Heath wildfire. The loss off wildlife habitat is heartbreaking, but determination to restore it is underway. Please support if you are able: rebrand.ly/DunwichFireA...

River life #england

The reassurance of #home

For 22-years so many of us were able to get vivid & important insight into the fascinating #CentralEurope region from Rob Cameron via the #bbc - now they have made a regrettable decison, we should make the effort to follow Rob on any other channel: #journalism substack.com/home/post/p-...

Goodbye to all that

A 22-year relationship with BBC News ends today. Emotions are mixed.

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"Bellow’s sound was rich, dramatic, unmistakably rooted in Ewe musical tradition, but open to the funk and soul currents moving through West Africa at the time. She was on her way to becoming one of the defining African voices of her generation." #sunnysideup @fm4.orf.at fm4.orf.at/story/soul-t...

Bella Bellow – The Lost Voice of Togo

In 1973 Bella Bellow died at 28. More than sixty years on, her incantation of a song „Dasi Ko“ still carries the whole atmosphere of a vibrant culture that is overlooked outside of Africa.

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Why does the #Ukraine conflict matter to those west of Ukraine's borders? @timothysnyder.bsky.social says it is a matter of defending our way of life and our shared values from intolerant autocracy.

All 1850 MW of Hungary's Paks Nuclear Power Plant (red) could be shut down entirely for 1st time due to insufficient cooling water from Danube River. unn.ua/en/news/an-e... 1/4

The #climatecrisis and its impact on navigation on the #Danube. @nickthorpe.bsky.social reports from #Budapest: Ships stuck, energy supplies hit, nuclear cooling impaired, water supplies threatened. They said #ClimateAction was too expensive & disruptive nickthorpe.substack.com/p/the-dry-da...

The Dry Danube

reached 21cm this morning in Budapest - a new record...

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The historian @timothysnyder.bsky.social explains why he thinks Europeans should recognise that Ukraine is fighting a battle for liberty on their behalf and it is therefore only logical to offer Ukrainians support.

"The failure of democracy leads to a stupid war, but then the person who started the stupid war can use the stupid war to try to make democracy even worse.“ I've been speaking to @timothysnyder.bsky.social at the @iwm.at for @fm4.orf.at about Trump's Iran adventure. fm4.orf.at/story/snyder...

Two Wars No One Can Actually Win: Timothy Snyder on Trump and Putin

Historian Timothy Snyder has called Putin and Trump „superlosers.“ He says the cost of their losing their wars of choice is being paid by everyone else.

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I've been talking to @timothysnyder.bsky.social at the @iwm.at about #Putin & #Trumps unwinnable wars, why #Ukraine struggle for freedom is for all of Europe's benefit and why he thinks Trump is extending the #Iran war (quite a shocking and scary conclusion) fm4.orf.at/podcast/fm4-...

FM4 Interview Podcast - FM4 Interview with Timothy Snyder on Putin and Trump's unwinnable wars

<p>Historian Timothy Snyder joins Chris Cummins for a wide-ranging conversation on Ukraine's changing war, Trump's entanglement with Putin and Iran, and why he believes history is on the side of the ...

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"Shouting duels break out, and police use pepper spray – against leftists. In the end, a woman is suddenly forced to the ground and arrested. She had previously been at the antifascist demonstration; her identity is just as unclear as the reason for the arrest." www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Polizei eskortiert pöbelnde Neonazis von friedlicher Antifa-Demo in die U-Bahn; Identitäre zogen durch Döbling

Statt Rechtsextremen zogen am Samstag friedlich Antifaschistinnen und Antifaschisten durch Wien. Martin Sellner drehte derweil auf einer Brücke in Döbling einen Imagefilm.

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On @fm4.orf.at's #sunnysideup today the lost Togolese voice Bella Bellow, plus Italian cheekiness, Bahian beats, Electro disco from Egypt, #PopFestWien acts luisa schweig, RAHEL, Bon Jour and Joshua Pepe, and Billie Eilisch doing bossa nova FM4, 10:00 CET. 📻 fm4.orf.at

Turns out his knowledge of #Venezuela is as deep as his knowledge of football.

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Trump: "I owned the Miss Universe pageant. And Miss Venezuela always did very well in that pageant. So I know something about the country."

It's @fm4.orf.at #SunnySideUp in a couple of hours, but if you can't wait until 10, here is a ode to #Togo 's great lost daughter #BellaBellow: Togo is a vibrant, pulsating place and its music deserves more global love! #ALittleSoul #Africa #Fm4 fm4.orf.at/beitrag/3139...

Bella Bellow, The Lost Voice of Togo

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I must admit, I'm one of the people who doesn't watch #news at night. I'd rather read a book with my child than hear the latest on Trump & Putin. BUT, at some point of the day, it is important to engage with the humanitarian impact of global affairs. We must care: @care.at fm4.orf.at/beitrag/3138...

Care on why we should care

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I am re-watching #StarWars with my little boy and I have a question: If there was a big effort to hide Luke Skywalker, the son of Anakin Skywalker, from the Emperor, would it not have been a good precaution to change his bloody surname! 🙉

"I met this woman who says she does not have the privilege to feel the grief of losing her husband, who she lost in the airstrike, because she needs to be strong for her 12-year-old daughter." The humanitarian cost of conflict. @saraheaster.bsky.social of @care.at fm4.orf.at/podcast/fm4-...

FM4 Interview Podcast - FM4 Interview with CARE emergency response reporter Sarah Easter

<p>CARE emergency response reporter Sarah Easter talks to Chris Cummins about her latest trip to Lebanon, meeting families who live one moment from having to flee, and communities in the north battlin...

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The conflict in #Lebanon is just the most acute disaster facing a population overwhelmed from all sides. The #ClimateCrisis has caused deadly flooding in the north and the ecomomic situation is sapping resilience, explains @saraheaster.bsky.social of @care.at fm4.orf.at/beitrag/3135...

The climate crisis and economic collapse drains hope in Lebanon

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The median newspaper columnist writing about bike infrastructure is like, "I once had to park 150 feet away from the coffee shop so I talked to 2 other drivers, a failing restaurant owner, and a person who once saw a cyclist run a stop sign about how bike lanes ruined our lives."

A life on standby, with packed emergency bags, ready to leave your home at any minute. That is life for families in southern #Lebanon. CARE's @saraheaster.bsky.social spoke to @christianccummins.bsky.social @fm4.orf.at about the impact of conflict on people: sound.orf.at/radio/fm4/be... @care.at

The impact of conflict and displacement on the people of Lebanon

Zwischen zerstörten Gebäuden und der ständigen Bedrohung durch Gewalt haben viele Familien im Süden des Libanons ein Leben auf Abruf angenommen. Doch neben der Angst vor dem Verlust ihrer materiellen ...

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When the bombs fall, her three-year-old has started asking a question she doesn’t know how to answer. „Every time the bombs dropped, her three-year-old asked: is it thunder? But then he looks out of the window and says: but there’s no rain.“ @saraheaster.bsky.social fm4.orf.at/story/lebano...

Living With a Packed Bag in Lebanon

CARE’s Sarah Easter has just come back from Lebanon. What she found there was a resilient country holding its breath and needing to catch a break.

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It is an important decision. The EU has ended €2 million in funding for the Venice Biennale after the russian pavilion was allowed to reopen. russia’s return to major cultural platforms cannot be treated as something normal.

Worries about disrupting the look of historic town centres has slowed the essential spread of solar power; a project in #Salzburg shows that you can combine green energy and traditional townscapes: fm4.orf.at/beitrag/3132...

Getting solar power in Salzburg's historic old town

<p>Neue, kaum sichtbare Solarzellen in Metalldächern machen Photovoltaik nun auch in Salzburgs Altstadt möglich.<br/>Ein Projekt zeigt, wie Klimaschutz und Denkmalschutz zusammengehen können.</p>

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What do Kyiv's worst bombardments in months, and Ukraine's deep strikes on Russian oil, really tell us about this war? I asked historian Timothy Snyder in Vienna. And why should any of this matter if you're not in Ukraine at all?

"Football unites the world"

Worried about what this red card could mean for Argentina’s ability to create chances