Forests Forever
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Forests across the planet are under threat. We need to act urgently to not only protect our existing forests, but to allow forests to return where they once were.
This is huge! The UN Secretary-General António Guterres has just used his final General Assembly speech to world leaders to pay tribute to our #MakePollutersPay movement. “You are on the right side of history – keep going.” This movement is powerful. We are changing politics. Get involved!
Removing some rubbish – and perhaps a few invasive garden escapes – is often all that's required from us to allow nature thrive.
It was the greatest privilege going around Ireland for my latest book, Setting the Land Free, meeting all these absolutely wonderful people like @donnarainey4.bsky.social doing so much for nature. Only now had the chance to listen back to my interview with Oliver Callan. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
Eoghan Daltun on his mission and vision for a rewilded Ireland
Eoghan Daltun let nature take back his farm in West Cork — now he's making the case for setting Ireland's wild places free. He joins Oliver in studio to to talk about his mission and his new book 'Set...
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Awful. Capital overrides communities once again. Frome's bid for a community-led housing & regeneration project at Saxonvale lies in tatters: the council's agreed a deal with a London-based real estate company instead. Similar story in Totnes with Atmos project www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
‘Devastating’: council rejects Frome residents’ bid for regeneration project
Locals raised £1m for Mayday Saxonvale scheme involving homes and park but Somerset officials agreed deal with London-based real estate company
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A magnificent and visionary path forward if we, humanity, will take it. “It’s time to rethink….everything.”
Climate News@climatenews.bsky.social · 5d agoBenedict Cumberbatch presents How to Live on Earth. “Living on Mars would be horrible. Let’s try to live on Earth.”
“The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.” ~Claude Monet Nature is my peace & inspiration✨✨✨ #eastcoastkin #forestfriday
On day in 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed Devils Tower in Wyoming as the first National Monument in the United States!
In the rainforest, even a fallen dead twig brings life.
I'll be in Manorhamilton, Leitrim, on Tuesday the 13th of October to discuss An Irish Atlantic Rainforest following a special film screening. If you're up in that direction, do come along! climateactionweek.ie/events/speci...
Special Screening: An Irish Atlantic Rainforest, part of Leitrim Climate Week - Climate Action Week
Join Special Screening: An Irish Atlantic Rainforest, part of Leitrim Climate Week during Climate Action Week. Discover inspiring talks, workshops, and activities to support climate action.
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Correction: windthrow is only the biggest threat to deadzone tree plantations. Windthrow is massively ecologically enhancing to actual Irish forest ecosystems. www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
How windthrow is the biggest threat to Irish forests
Windthrow can reduce the climate benefit of forestry by removing trees that would have kept growing and disturbing the carbon-rich soils beneath them
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"When I think of global climate change, my heart sinks at the enormity of such a challenge, and the tendency is to lose hope. Yet, if Magan and Daltun have shown us anything, it is that we can all improve the world right here, on our doorstep, acre by acre." www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
I’ve lived in city centres for 20 years, and my dream of planting a native Irish forest is getting urgent
Manchán Magan and Eoghan Daltun have shown us we can improve the world right here on our doorstep, acre by acre
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Cammy, the proprietor of Bantry Bookshop, preparing for our local launch of Setting the Land Free this Friday the 25th at 6pm. If you're around West Cork or Kerry, and would like to pick up a signed copy while enjoying a glass of wine and hearing me speak about rewilding in Ireland, do drop in!!
An excellent new video with Benedict Cumberbatch explaining how we can sustainably live on Earth. Already in the first 6 minutes we see the devastating effects on farming from pesticide use since the 1980s: we now have to hand pollinate crops because the bees are gone.
Climate News@climatenews.bsky.social · 5d agoBenedict Cumberbatch presents How to Live on Earth. “Living on Mars would be horrible. Let’s try to live on Earth.”
Mangroves sequester up to 4 times more carbon per hectare than terrestrial tropical rainforests Yet India is ripping up its precious Mangroves Trees and this is a country that is suffering some of the most devastating heat imaginable in Spring and Summer timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/...
Authorities begin ‘priority’ mangrove cutting at Charkop for Mumbai Coastal Road north project | Mumbai News - The Times of India
Mumbai: Barely a week after residents took to the streets to protest the proposed felling of nearly 45,000 mangroves for the Mumbai Coastal Road (Nort.
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Benedict Cumberbatch presents How to Live on Earth. “Living on Mars would be horrible. Let’s try to live on Earth.”
How to Live on Earth | Feature Documentary | Presented by Benedict Cumberbatch
YouTube video by Open Planet
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Winter storms knocked an old birch and adjacent trees some years back, opening up a glade flooded by sunlight. Ever since, it's been erupting with diverse life: dragonflies, myriad butterflies and other insects, native flowers and young trees. So much dynamism in an Irish Atlantic rainforest.
As part of an @irishwildlifetrust.bsky.social weekend in Derrynane, the wonderful Vincent @wildderrynane.bsky.social took a group of us snorkeling. You'd have to see with your own eyes the insane concentration of diverse, colourful life in there to believe it.
Αφήνω για λίγο την Κβαντομηχανική, για να επιστρέψω στην Κλιματολογία και να σας πω ότι ξεφύγαμε από τον στόχο των 1,5°C και δε μιλάει κανείς γι' αυτό. Αλλά θεωρώ οτι συνιστά λόγο για τον οποίο μυρίζει μπαρούτι παγκόσμια.
Climate News@climatenews.bsky.social · 3w ago0.0C above 1850 temperatures: nice 1.5C above 1850 temperatures: current chaos 3.0C above 1850 temperatures: 4 billion dead 4.5C above 1850 temperatures: 8 billion dead
A 63 year old human went swimming in the ocean and made body moevemrnts very similar to shark food. A shark minding its own business noticed the object resembling food and as the shark’s parents and predecessors have done for millions of years, the shark decided to have a bite. Australians 🤦♂️
ABC News Bot (unofficial)@abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 6d agoA behavioural biologist and shark drone expert has criticised the WA government's response to the state's most recent fatal shark attack, saying the chances of finding the shark responsible for the 63-year-old's death are slim to none.
Number 9 on the Climate News Weekend Watchlist is from Patrick Boyle. This excellent new video discusses the death cult inside Open AI. Really worth watching! His dry Irish humour is particularly good!
The Doomsday Cult Inside OpenAI
YouTube video by Patrick Boyle
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Number 4 on the Climate News Weekend Watchlist is a new video by @drgilbz.bsky.social discussing how neo-liberalism misunderstands the costs of climate change, and asks if capitalism can “fix” climate change. Worth watching:
Can capitalism "fix" climate change?
YouTube video by Dr Gilbz
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I spoke to the @independent.ie about my new book, Setting the Land Free, and the desperate need for rewilding on both land and at sea in Ireland. Both nature and people are crying out for what has the potential to be utterly transformative. www.independent.ie/videos/autho...
Author Eoghan Daltun with Hilary White at his Irish Rainforest
‘An Irish Atlantic Rainforest’ author and ecological activist sets out his radical vision.Early blackberries have appeared on the Beara Peninsula. Between these and a friendly border collie, our eight...
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So cut fossil fuel emissions rapidly so that Canadians and Europeans can actually survive. What’s the point of having deep alliances of dead people?
Mark Carney@mark-carney.bsky.social · last wk.Canada is building a deeper alliance with the EU so that we may write our own futures — with our values, and our ambitions.
Something I've always struggled to understand about our native (Scots) pine: at what point does it transition from its younger boring 'Christmas tree' shape into the lovely sculpted form it adopts as it ages? The one in the left foreground is likely old, but remains stunted due to the rocky ground.
