Penrhos Nature Reserve is under threat . @save-achubpenrhos.bsky.social But Harri (12) and Zach (11) are raising money to protect it from development . They’re walking 20 miles and selling cakes ! You can donate here www.gofundme.com/f/please-hel...
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Founder member of Ilkley Clean River Goup and Friends of Weston Woods Community Buyout. Conservation mainly
First round of @cleanilkley.bsky.social 's water testing in association with @alistairboxall.bsky.social and York University.
Obsessing over water supplies & worried that there's no captain on this ship. Nobody knows the true picture over who's using the critical resource, and the global picture is pretty dire. I've pulled my latest articles together to try to make sense of it watershedinvestigations.com/dry-taps-flo...
Todays sewage report. 1,600 Combined Sewage Outlets discharging raw, untreated sewage into Englands rivers, lakes and seas right now. 3,600 in the last24 hours.
Bjorn Lomborg telling a private luncheon CCS is 'not going to happen.'
Geoff Dembicki@geoffdembicki.bsky.social · last yr.Behind closed doors, fossil fuel advocates are trashing carbon capture and storage. @desmog.com obtained audio of Bjorn Lomborg telling a private luncheon CCS is 'not going to happen.' Oil companies only support CCS to get 'a lot of subsidies,' he claimed. www.desmog.com/2025/06/05/c...
I will forever be haunted by this footage. Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity. What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives. 🌎🦑🧪
Which would you rather sponsor for environmental action. 1. Plant one tree 2. 1 meter square of ancient woodland restoration 3. 1 meter square of peat bog restoration 4. 1 meter square of wildflower meadow creation
One day after getting a 70 acre land purchase to finally lurch forwards I decided life was too easy and went for another 11 acres adjoining it because I’m never allowed to be happy or have an easy life. Never a better time to invest in our future. www.protect.earth/act-now/land...
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Who’s coming to Climates Film Festival 2025 in Frome on May 22nd? I’ll be nattering about ancient woodlands after a short film about ancient woodland restoration, with the filmmaker Charly Le Marchant, and Mick Bracken of the Woodland Trust. www.tickettailor.com/events/frome...
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Bottom trawling is horribly destructive to coastal ocean ecosystems, and deep-sea mining will do the same to the open ocean. #OceanFilm 🌊
Any landowners near Coventry need ~3,000 trees / 6 acres of woodland creation this winter? Get in touch. Or wherever you are also, but had a specific request for Coventry I’m trying to handle. www.protect.earth/get-involved...
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‘I needed heart surgery after swimming in polluted water’: Health warning as sewage spills reach decade-high Source: The Independent search.app/hHw4C Shared via the Google App
‘I needed heart surgery after swimming in polluted water’
As a result of sewage pollution, 331 people have seen a doctor with chest infections and gastroenteritis and some were hospitalised
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England water pollution at 10-year high, campaigners say Source: BBC search.app/1PWpg Shared via the Google App
England's serious water pollution incidents at 10-year high
Campaigners release official data showing the most serious pollution incidents in England are double the target.
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Southern Water customers 'disgusted' by bill hike Source: BBC search.app/GRuvT Shared via the Google App
Southern Water customers 'disgusted' by bill hike
It comes after the water supplier increased its charges by an average of 47% from April.
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Boat race no longer safe because of sewage-ridden Thames Source: The Telegraph search.app/wtYgv Shared via the Google App
Boat race no longer safe because of sewage-ridden Thames
The Oxford-Cambridge tradition of throwing winning coxes into the water was given the go-ahead despite concerns of contamination
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Activists in Massachusetts have taken on the private jet lobby & they might just win, @chuck77.bsky.social writes in @thenation.com An epic struggle against airport expansion for private jets that has national—and even global—implications:
These Activists Are Right: The World Doesn’t Need Any More Private Jets
Local activists in Massachusetts have taken on the private jet lobby—and they might just win.
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"Trump's national forest logging plan feels like a smash and grab. It feels like a way to gain access to public resources and take them out of public hands." 🌏 www.fox13seattle.com/news/conserv...
WA conservationists criticize Trump's national forest logging plan
Around 59% of all national forests in the U.S. would be open for logging, including some in eastern Washington.
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World’s largest deforestation project fells forests for bioethanol fuel, sugar and rice in Indonesia HT @mightyearth.org apnews.com/article/bioe...
World's largest deforestation project fells forests for bioethanol fuel, sugar and rice in Indonesia
Indonesia plans to clear forests about the size of Belgium to produce sugarcane-derived bioethanol, rice and other food crops, potentially displacing Indigenous groups who rely on the land to survive.
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💡 Spotlight | Carbon Brief reports on the ongoing logging of giant native trees in the alpine rainforests of Tasmania, Australia 🇦🇺
BBC News - Chicken farm plans called a 'danger' to River Kennet in Newbury - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Chicken farm plans called a 'danger' to River Kennet in Newbury
The Newbury farm is home to 12,000 chickens, but the new plans would see an increase to 32,000.
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Anti-depressants reducing fear of predators in perch, contraceptive pills altering fish gender - @phoebeweston.bsky.social investigates the medicines polluting even the seemingly pure waters of our National Parks, with @alistairboxall.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/science/audi...
Streams of medicines: what’s hiding in the UK’s waterways? – podcast
In episode one of a two-part series, biodiversity reporter Phoebe Weston tells Madeleine Finlay about the problem of chemical pollution in our waterways, and how it could be contributing to what the W...
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More than 100 chemicals polluting harbours - study Source: BBC search.app/aFzwp Shared via the Google App
More than 100 chemicals polluting South harbours - study
The studies looked at samples from Langstone and Chichester Harbours in spring and autumn 2022.
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Water companies fail to improve more than half of worst sewage overflow pipes Source: Financial Times search.app/7TDR2 Shared via the Google App
Water companies fail to improve more than half of worst sewage overflow pipes
Effluent spills in England and Wales rise to record 3.6mn hours last year
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River pollution: Phosphates blocking new homes but why? Source: BBC search.app/1J7ST Shared via the Google App
River pollution: Phosphates blocking new homes but why?
Daniel Mumby, from the Local Democracy Reporting Service, finds out why a chemical is blocking the building of new homes.
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Sewage spilled into England’s rivers and seas for record of 3.6m hours last year Source: The Independent search.app/7XyGf Shared via the Google App
Sewage spilled into England’s rivers and seas for 3.6 million hours last year
Labour has called the figure ‘disgraceful’
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