Glaciers collapse, disasters ensue. And then we’re expected to ignore all that because we can make fun AI images and google can badly summarise Wikipedia. Seriously. AI - Fuck off.

The coolest thing, I think, about eclipses, is that Earth is exactly the right distance from our Sun for the moon to just obscure it. As the universe is expanding, we're moving further away from the Sun. In this, as in so many other ways, we're really living in a sweet spot. #PaleBlueDot #Eclipse

We knew it was coming, so not as shocking, but still we are bereaved. Another of our giants taken from us. #MajorOak #SycamoreGap Bring on the Tree Council's proposals to protect our #ImportantTrees BBC News - Major Oak: Ancient 'Robin Hood' tree is dead, experts say www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Major Oak: Ancient 'Robin Hood' tree is dead, experts say

The Major Oak is thought to have stood for more than 1,000 years in the heart of Nottinghamshire's Sherwood Forest.

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We knew it was coming, so not as shocking, but still we are bereaved. Another of our giants taken from us. #MajorOak #SycamoreGap Bring on the Tree Council's proposals to protect our #ImportantTrees treecouncil.org.uk/science-and-...

Valuing and Protecting Important Trees Outside Woodlands - The Tree Council

What is an ‘important tree’? For the purposes of this research and report, we have used the term ‘important trees’ as short-hand for ‘trees of high social, cultural, and environmental value’. ‘Impor...

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Peatlands store more carbon than the world's forests yet fundamental questions remain unanswered. Today we publish 50 priority research questions, identified by 467 participants from 54 countries #PeatQuest #Peatlands www.nature.com/articles/s43...

All true. And with geographic isolation, it's keenly felt in the region's vast rural area. Yet these could be sources of huge pride and employment. We have huge carbon sinks in NE forests, soils & Peatlands, and energy aplenty. Where's investment in the training and jobs needed in our rural areas?

North East Bylines@northeastbylines.co.uk · 5mo ago

The angry young men of the North East are not a problem to be solved. They are people, people with legitimate grievances, real talent, and lives that deserve more than they have been given | Jay Robinson

#SustainabilityUK #Northumberland #EnvironmentalEducation #CPD #PermacultureUK #Newcastle #Festival #EarthEducation #EduSky #TeacherSky #Rural #EnvEdUK #Geography #Science #Humanities #BeExcellentToEachOther and #PartyOn

Vonn Conch@vonnconch.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Calling all teachers & environmental educators - fantastic #CPD near Hexham on June 19th and 20th (with camping, food and music!) Amazing line up of workshops and speakers, and a lovely chance to spend time connecting with some heartening folks in the countryside. #Regenerative Ticket link below

Calling all teachers & environmental educators - fantastic #CPD near Hexham on June 19th and 20th (with camping, food and music!) Amazing line up of workshops and speakers, and a lovely chance to spend time connecting with some heartening folks in the countryside. #Regenerative Ticket link below

The UK army's chief on the impacts of the Manosphere on women in the military, and the Eriskay ferryman's tender tale of learning as a boy the ways to be a man. My Thought for the Day on BBC Radio Scotland, text below or listen to the 2 mins audio MP3 at: tinyurl.com/36k5zkuv

@joemorrismp.bsky.social @newcastleuni.bsky.social How about a bit of this for our NE student teachers and rural SEN young people? @canorth.bsky.social @northeastbylines.co.uk

Ian Hopkinson@ianhopkinson.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Exeter University are offering free GCSEs for children in elected home education, noting that many children across Devon and Cornwall are in EHE the majority "off-rolled" or with unmet SEN. #autism #education www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is fantastic. I hope it includes retakes too? It's actually impossible to resit a gcse without also being enrolled on a full time course if you're aged 16-18. It's free if you're 19+ and you can do it online. This is both age and disability discrimination. #autism #SEN #ADHD

Ian Hopkinson@ianhopkinson.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Exeter University are offering free GCSEs for children in elected home education, noting that many children across Devon and Cornwall are in EHE the majority "off-rolled" or with unmet SEN. #autism #education www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A GENTLE REMINDER: we are trying to eliminate fossil fuels because using them kills us. If fossil fuels were cheap (they're not) or reliable (they're SO NOT), it would still be urgent to get rid of them because their intended use destroys our life support systems.

For anyone who needs it, the very excellent @radiolento.bsky.social made a radio station - 24/7 streaming sounds from British woodlands. broadcast.shoutstream.co.uk:2020/public/8002

Ich see trees of grene Redde roses too Ich see them bloome For me and you And Ich thynke to myselfe What a wondirful worlde Ich see welkin blue And cloudes of whyte The brighte blessid daye The darke sacred nighte And Ich thynke to myselfe What a wondirful worlde www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

I made a little Instagram reel about this image because it’s just so frickin’ cool

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 5mo ago

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

"If God wanted us to have unlimited free energy He’d have put a giant fusion reactor in the sky."🌞

This just in: Sun agrees to release infinity million barrels of sunshine every morning

We can only hope that the government gets behind these reforms - neither costly nor rocket science to bring about.... Three reforms to stop the criminal killing of birds of prey - new petition to UK Minister from Friends of the Dales raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/02/19/t...

Three reforms to stop the criminal killing of birds of prey – new petition to UK Minister from Friends of the Dales

A new petition has been launched calling on the UK Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Mary Creagh MP) to bring in legal reform to help stop the illegal persecution of birds of prey. The petiti…

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This is deeply concerning. These chemicals are additionally having impacts on aquatic insects due to dogs swimming in natural bodies of water. I stopped putting chemical tick control on my dogs due to this.

Bylines Network@bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 7mo ago

Half our songbirds have vanished in 50 years. New research shows birds that use wool and fur to line nests were exposed to pet and livestock flea treatment. Eggs and chicks are being contaminated – with deadly implications. Should these medicines be regulated? @eastangliabylines.co.uk

Formative works for me

Helen Day@lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Ladybird cover stories. The four seasons books. Artist: C F Tunnicliffe

NEW VIDEO: Lets finish what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr started - and put the confederacy to bed. youtu.be/WgNv-DILroI?...

How to Lift the Curse of MAGA

YouTube video by Matthew Cooke

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The Norfolk Carnyx: a Playmobil story in 4 parts. 🧵 #DiggingForBritain #DrawingDiggingForBritain #PlaymobilInfestation @profaliceroberts.bsky.social @pcaarchaeology.bsky.social 1: Life

Labour backbencher Chris Hinchliff: “It’s time our Labour government stopped pitching nature as the enemy of a better life for ordinary people in this country and realised that, for the vast majority, it is a measure of it.”

Miles King@milesking.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Labour's ceaseless yet baseless attacks on Nature and the Environment are not going unopposed. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

A quick win for the @DfE @DoH and @DWP to help NEETs with mental health issues is to fund English and Maths GCSE retakes without requiring 16-18yo to also enrol on another college course. Can be done if you're 19+, why not if you're 16? @AlanMilburn @PatMcFadden www.gov.uk/government/n...

Independent investigation to be launched to tackle rising youth inactivity

An independent investigation will be launched to tackle the persistently high numbers of young people out of work, education and training, which ministers have warned is a

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Plans to weaken protections for national parks will have ‘disastrous consequences’, say environmentalists Pleased to have signed @campaign4parks.bsky.social's letter urging Ministers to drop plans to remove the Protected Landscapes Duty on public bodies 1/ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Plans to weaken protections for national parks will have ‘disastrous consequences’ say green groups

Exclusive: Letter from 170-plus organisations calls on government to drop proposed changes to planning law

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Calling fans of #Pratchett and #RaisingSteam (and other railway enthusiasts)! This weekend marks the 200th anniversary of the passenger train railway200.co.uk #Discworld #IndustrialRevolution

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I work with lots of professional ecologists across Scotland and they all say (bar none) that the habitat they survey professionally, with the lowest levels of biodiversity is managed grouse moor. These are commercial ecologists who work as part of the planning process

Mark Avery@markavery.bsky.social · last yr.

It's the Inglorious 12th. The start of the Red Grouse shooting season. Grouse shooting: an expensive niche hobby of shooting birds for fun, based on environmentally damaging burning of our uplands and underpinned by crime against wildlife. Shame!

Tens of thousands of cornflowers in a field in Wicken. Research shows that the sight of them will help you recover from sources of stress more quickly & boost dopamine release in your brain, lifting your mood…in case you need it just now: