Water firms made £340m+ from it. Works can’t remove most chemicals in contaminated Heathrow wastewater. PFAS anyone? It ends up in rivers, seas, farmland. With River Action I built a database of 26,000 consents to show the scale. And mapped it: watershedinvestigations.com

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Just a few weeks after launch, and Sentinel-3C is sending back beautiful views of our planet! Still lots to do before the satellite is ready for operations but it's a big step along to path that we have such excellent data already. Congrats to the whole team. 🛰️

Josef Aschbacher@josefaschbacher.esa.int · 7d ago

Envisioned, built, and launched by Europe. @esa.int keeps delivering the reliable satellites that enable the European Commission's world-leading Copernicus programme. And now, Sentinel-3C is showing us what it can do. www.esa.int/Applications...

Folks, bogs are NOT supposed to look like this (once deliciously squishy Sphagnum). Around the world, they are drained, burned, or are drying out. Boglands need our help and we need them. Please join me. Bogs = clean water, biodiversity, food, history, secure climate wwnorton.com/books/bogland

Next month is November, which means the #30DayMapChallenge 2026 themes are here! More information on the official website: 30daymapchallenge.com

Colder nights are coming #airquality in #Brighton&Hove is noticeably poor during winter. I've used council sensor data to model nitrogen dioxide levels for: - 1st Jan 2026 - min temp 1.6°C - 4th & 5th Jan 2026 -min temp 2.9°C & -4.8°C The lowest levels were only at max WHO AQG recommendations

On National Poetry Day, here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.

Channel evolution of the Danube River in Vienna between 1529 and 2010 CE (animated GIF by S. Hohensinner & B. Lager 2025, BOKU University Vienna) #Vienna #Danube #floodplain #historicalchange #fluvialmorphology #riverchannel #channelshift #riverregulation #Donauregulierung #Wien

1/2 This autumnal-looking #sphagnum was found at Bleaklow by a member of our team. Some sphagnum species change colour through the seasons, with more reds, browns, and oranges in autumn and winter and more greens in spring and summer, but some species stay the same colour all year round.

Le Cervin en septembre 2003 et en 2026 📸 Niko Froitzheim et Nate Bear

I am a mom and scientist begging everyone to look closer at the muck. We’ve been conditioned to see wetlands as wastelands. But three decades of research, I see a fiercely defiant wilderness. The boreal mire is a dynamic carbon-trapping vault that in some places has outlasted ice ages. 1/

The nurdles on our Tyneside coast are back with a vengeance today, both depressing in and of itself but also a clear indication of what will happen periodically over the coming months and years and tides and winds bring some of the many millions of plastic pellets still swirling around in our seas.

Sad to see #SaintEtienne play their penultimate gig at the #Brightondome last night. Great sign off though. I saw Sarah Cracknell's first appearance with them when they supported #WorldofTwist at the Astoria in March 91

A seriously productive day with our incredible volunteers, bulding 15 leaky barriers on surface water pathways for the Uck Adaptation Project 🙋‍♂️🏆 🙋‍♀️ 💪 Leaky barriers slow the flow, reduce downstream flood peaks, create incredible habitats for amphibians and wildlife and trap silt and sediment. 💦🐟🐸🙌

Hundreds of whales strand on a remote beach – and no one notices for months. Strandings can be an early warning system for ocean health, flagging pollution, disease, and environmental change. But in remote areas, they often go unseen. 🐳 🧵1/2

Feeling smug after our early morning run

BOG WALKERS UNITE! The same precarious, waterlogged conditions make peatlands powerful: they store a HUGE FRACTION of global soil carbon (>30%) in a tiny landbase (3%). To learn more, please check out Bogland: wwnorton.com/books/bogland profilebooks.com/work/boglands

Lovely start to the day with a sea dip @jarrettinho.bsky.social

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Up #Pendlehill today. Sphagnum moss on the moor. Beautiful streams but saw some dubious foam. Planted trees which I'm guessing are helping slow run off #naturalfloodmanagement

We're in the beautiful #ribblevalley #lancashire for a few days. Nice #river walk today although wish people would pick up their rubbish. A lot of #himalayanbalsam as well. @osteohovebrighton.bsky.social

An incredibly well-timed Landsat 9 pass captured the effects of yesterday’s catastrophic glacier collapse near the Nepal–Tibet border. The event was so massive that it was detected by seismometers around the world.

When the rains come, when it pours, our scorched earth will need help to slow the flow and soak up the flood. From mountains, to forests, to coast, use Natural Flood Management, Nature-based Solutions and broadleaf trees, combined, to soak up the overland water flows. Do you know why?

The fact that nobody alive today has seen an event of this magnitude should really make us stop and think. And yes, I know El Niño is a natural cycle. But that doesn’t make records like this any less remarkable…or any less concerning.

Met4Cast@met4cast.net · 2mo ago

Sub-surface ocean temperatures in the Pacific have now reached 9.96°C above average, significantly warmer than the previous record event in 1997. This El Niño continues to set new records. Nobody alive today has witnessed an event of this magnitude.

What brazen liars. By restoring water-retaining natural ecosystems, rewilding REDUCES wildfires.

📢 #crowdfunding to bring essential #hydrology tools directly into #QGIS. If you use QGIS for #groundwater or surface #watermanagement, this will make your workflows faster and more reliable. 👉 More info […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Depopulation is happening in the UK. This #map uses population estimates at local level to illustrate how recent population changes differ nationally. Does it really matter or do we need more interventionist policies to protect employment & housing stock in these areas? #gis #economicdevelopment

Happy #InternationalBogDay! 🌿 Ireland's peatlands are environmental powerhouses — storing vast amounts of carbon, filtering water, and sustaining rare wildlife. Green Restoration Ireland works with farmers on peatland water table management to protect these ecosystems. #GreenRestorationIreland

‼️Breaking: Almost three-quarters of English riverbanks have no right of access. Our new investigation has found that 71% of riverbanks in England have no right of access on either bank. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#RIPKevinKeegan Great tribute on @bbc5live.bsky.social tonight. Love the story that Maradona went to get Keegan's shirt after this game at Wembley youtu.be/e6PchZvly8k?...

England 3-1 Argentina (1980)

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