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?

How can cities better support the natural world? In a new article, Saman Sobhani from our Business School discusses his research calling for animals, plants and ecosystems to be recognised as fellow inhabitants of our cities. 🌱🏙️ 🖱️ tinyurl.com/2z75pt4v #research #greencities #urbannature

What a fantastic journey! Looking forward to trying it out.

Plaid Cymru@plaidcymru.bsky.social · 5d ago

Plaid Cymru: connecting communities and making it easier to travel between north and south 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Taith Cymru, launching on 25 October, is a brand new coach service which will run between Bangor and Carmarthen. Get your tickets from 6 October 👉 tfw.wales/taithcymru

Locals will know how furious I'm feeling right now. The west paddock at Cosmeston is being cut. Too bad for any migrating birds and death for all the insects living on the plants. Eggs, larvae, nectar sources, seeds all gone. The incompetence of the Vale of Glamorgan Council knows no bounds! 🤬

With employment across the grassroots music venue network down almost 20%, investing in the people who will power its future has never been more important. Applications close 7 September. Read more and apply via: www.beacons.cymru/traineeship

A Welsh wildlife trust has sought to dispel some of the most common myths surrounding wildfires following a series of devastating blazes across south Wales

Wildlife trust dispels five common wildfire myths as blazes hit Wales

Nation.Cymru Staff A Welsh wildlife trust has sought to dispel some of the most common myths surrounding wildfires following a series of devastating blazes across south Wales. Following recent fires i...

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A giant message warning Prime Minister Andy Burnham of the consequences of climate change has been painted across a Welsh mountainside devastated by wildfires

Giant climate warning to PM painted on wildfire-scorched Welsh mountainside

Mark Mansfield A giant message warning Prime Minister Andy Burnham of the consequences of climate change has been painted across a Welsh mountainside devastated by wildfires. Greenpeace activists…

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Protest about proposed data centre - Ditch the Data Centre/Save the Park and Ride 2.00pm, Saturday 22nd August, Eastern Leisure Centre Fields, Cardiff

📣 Big news: we're teaming up with @glamorganbirdclub.bsky.social to host a bird conference in Cardiff on 24 Oct. More info + book your place here 👉 shorturl.at/Spgew Join us for talks on local birding projects, to visit exhibitors' stands and meet fellow birders. Space is limited, so sign-up soon!

"Wales has recorded its hottest spring, its highest-ever May maximum and minimum temperatures and its highest-ever June maximum and minimum temperatures. July was the driest and joint-hottest on record by average temperature, while June was the second hottest and May the equal third hottest"

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This year's extreme heat is part of a longer-term trend, with evidence showing the number of hot days experienced in Wales has doubled in recent decades wp.me/p8Mk4U-1qSs

Even by Reform's standards, this is really not a good look. Perhaps shows that Farage was really worried he'd lose and/or he was v short of helpers. Interesting that not all Reform MSs went to Clacton.

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Reform’s leader in Wales has faced a backlash after offering his ‘thoughts and prayers’ to victims of a wildfire that gutted homes in his constituency, before joining campaigners in Clacton to help Nigel Farage ‘fight the establishment’ ✍️Emily Price

🚨 ONE DAY TO GO! 🚨 Join CND and Fairford Action at RAF Fairford tomorrow to call on Andy Burnham to end Donald Trump’s use of British bases to illegally attack Iran! ⏲️ Starts 1pm

1,579 killed. 30,000 hurt on our roads last year — many more deaths than homicides. Pleased with the Victims’ Commissioner intervention. Road crime victims feel forgotten by the system. This is exactly why we need a Road Safety Victim Charter and lifetime bans. www.theguardian.com/law/2026/aug...

Victims of road crime feel ‘forgotten by system’, official review finds

Many of those affected in England and Wales think offences are not treated with the seriousness they deserve, says commissioner

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Reversing the effects of drainage and restoring peat bogs is the right policy, as is establishing broadleaf woodland in the uplands. The contrasting history of burning in Scandinavian peat and British reminds us in drought peat is vulnerable to fire risk. pureadmin.qub.ac.uk/ws/portalfil...

It may 'only' have been 93% here in Cardiff but the eclipse was still impressive. The change in the quality of the light was amazing and yet equally amazing how light it still was given how much of the sun was covered. 1 18:14 pre-contact 2 18:52 3 19:13 4 19:27 with a wisp of cloud

Weather radar data could help to reduce bird collisions with wind turbines by identifying periods of high migration activity during which turbines can be temporarily shut down, according to a new study. Read more: britishbirds.co.uk/journal/arti... 📸David Tipling

Horrific account of settler violence in the West Bank www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/w...

Settler Siege of Palestinian Homes Highlights Growing West Bank Chaos

Two families have been trapped by settlers for days, casting a spotlight on the army’s struggle to curtail settler violence and protect Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank.

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The grouse moor lobby is out in force today, blaming ‘rewilding’ for wildfires and demanding government lift restrictions on… burning moorland! They want to burn heather because it increases grouse numbers. You don’t fight fire with fire. You fight it with water! www.dailymail.com/news/article...

What a damning reflection of the pitifully low priority currently given to climate adaptation - yet building local & national resilience to increasingly damaging impacts is vital to keeping people safe & building support for more ambitious emission cuts

Just 20 of 6,600 Defra staff working on climate adaptation amid drought and wildfires

Exclusive: England ‘desperately unprepared’ for effects of crisis including water shortages and heatwaves

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As wildfires continued to burn across parts of Wales overnight, a Senedd petition has been created calling for the Welsh Government to organise a prime-time televised briefing on the climate and nature emergency, delivered by independent experts

Welsh Government urged to make televised briefing on the climate and nature emergency

Stephen Price As wildfires continued to burn across parts of Wales overnight, a Senedd petition has been created calling for the Welsh Government to organise a prime-time televised briefing on the cli...

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One of my satellite-tagged eagles, making one of the best decisions of its life....leaving the Angus Glens on the eve of the #Inglorious12th and heading west as fast as it can. Smart eagle.

No rain for weeks and hot. But the Council is glyphosating the pavement to kill off 'weeds'. I wonder what it will take for them to end their war on nature.

A wealth tax is common sense, not rocket science. Of course people - including millionaires like us - overwhelmingly support it. £24bn a year for our country could be raised with a tiny 2% tax on wealth over £10m. It's time to #TaxTheSuperRich

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Neil Kinnock has urged Andy Burnham to increase tax on assets as a new poll reveals two-thirds of voters back the introduction of a “wealth tax” Read more: trib.al/jhQxnU0

"EVERY SINGLE English water body is polluted with toxic chemicals" I knew things were bad, but this beggars belief @andyburnham.bsky.social you must take swift and immediate action to tackle this latest assault on English nature www.theguardian.com/environment/...

All bodies of water in England polluted with toxic chemicals, official data shows

Environment Agency assessments find just 14.3% of country’s surface waters in good ecological status

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There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton

Common pet flea treatment ‘should be banned’ due to environment concerns www.channel4.com/news/common-...

Common pet flea treatment ‘should be banned’ due to environment concerns

A House of Lords committee is urging the government to ban pet flea and tick treatments from general sale.

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Please help to preserve Wales' peaty bits by signing this petition! Diolch yn fawr. petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/24...

Heat waves and water shortages won’t be solved by dangerous, water-intensive nuclear power stations! Genuine renewables are the only answer to the climate crisis. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Romania blasts rock to divert water from drought-hit Danube to nuclear reactor

Hungary and Romania face energy crisis as record-low river levels force atomic power plants to reduce output

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The Southern North Sea Special Area of Conservation was created to protect harbour porpoises. However, Oceana's latest report found 30,936 hours of apparent bottom trawling took place within the site during 2025 - the equivalent of 1,289 days of trawling in a single year.

Join me on guided pollinator walks at Margam Country Park tomorrow (Wed 5th August) ⬇️

Glo i Natur CIC@gloinatur.bsky.social · 3w ago

🐝 What's buzzing through Margam? Join us Wed 5 Aug for a guided pollinator walk at Margam Country Park. Discover bees, butterflies, hoverflies & other fascinating insects, learn how to identify them, and explore why they're so important. 🕙 10–12 | 🕐 1–3 🎟️ Free 🔗 www.trybooking.com/uk/GMMH