Enviro Matters

@enviromatters.bsky.social

Emigrant / Immigrant. Fan of strigidae & raptors Sipping a cup of tea whilst perusing the ongoing global whiplash Slovakia

Signs of drought are everywhere in the Canadian Maritimes. This is McMaster Mill Falls, just outside of Greenwood, Nova Scotia. The first pic was taken this week, the second in Oct 2024. It's going to take a long time for rivers and lakes to recover once the rains do finally return. 📸: Julie Mann

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The partner of a friend tells me the reason I don’t blame immigration for the housing crisis is because I use the wrong ‘social media’. I replied “No, I have a brain capable of critical thinking.” They got up and left accusing me of saying they are stupid. So they are the victim and I am the bad guy

Where an online search for a particular painting leaps into a league of its own is by making you look at, and appreciate, the 'lesser,' lights of British art, such as Stanley Reed. This is 'The Seamstress,' from 1941.

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This remains the best article the Onion has ever published. America's enemies don't have to do a thing, they can just sit back and enjoy the collapse of the United States

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Indeed. So, you should be reminding everyone that the “Deal Maker” can’t make a deal, and the man who would be King and says he can do anything he wants as President, paints himself as a “Victim” whenever he doesn’t get his way.

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Highlands Rewilding has lodged a formal objection to the proposed Glen Earrach pumped-storage hydro scheme at Loch Ness. The filing warns the project could render the loch effectively “quasi-tidal”, with regular water-level swings and associated risks to biodiversity and protected habitats.

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NEW ANALYSIS | Spain is successfully decoupling electricity prices from gas power costs 🇪🇸⚡️ Spain reduced the number of hours where electricity prices exceed gas costs by 75% since 2019. As a result, Spain's electricity prices were 32% lower than the EU average in H1-2025.

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Literally had this conversation with @zoejardiniere.bsky.social last week. Podcast out later today! An immigrant is a doctor, a care worker, an academic, often a member of our armed forces. But sure, post pictures of young men on rubber boats.

Ben Ansell@benansell.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Is there a reason I ask that the Times are using a picture of asylum seekers in a boat to describe rules for migrants who came on legal routes such as skilled worker visas for doctors?

1/ Sanctions and GPS jamming have had a hugely disruptive effect on Russian civil aviation, according to airline pilots. They have had to fly with suitcases full of old paper charts, turn off critical safety systems, and fly defective aircraft with dubious Chinese components.⬇️

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💣 Suspected Russian GRU plot to stage diversionary operations was uncovered by a Lithuanian–Polish counterintelligence: a Telegram-recruited courier dug up food-tin canisters from a cemetery and moved them to Poland. Services found ≈2.8 kg of high explosive in identical cans; two are still missing.