Fascinating. Africa's plan for an 8,000-kilometer wall of trees against the Sahara kept dying in the ground for years, and the approach that finally worked came from farmers in Niger who regrew 200 million trees without planting a single one, because they protected what was already trying to grow

Absolutely loved @skinnylister.bsky.social at #BunkFest What a blast

PHOTOGRAPHY PLANNING TOOL Moon Planner: Calculate moonrise, moonset, azimuth, illumination, and moon phase for a location. photosignal.app/tools/moon-p...

Moon Planner | PhotoSignal

Calculate moonrise, moonset, azimuth, illumination and phase for photography planning.

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Global heating will reach at least 1.8C under even the most optimistic future, according to a UN report that warns every fraction of temperature rise intensifies destructive extreme weather, glacier melt, ecosystem loss, and island and coastal city submersion. www.theguardian.com/environ...

The Earth will cross the 1.5 degrees warming limit that everyone agreed to in the Paris Accord. Thank all those politicians that delayed and weakened the vital climate policies, and still do. It’s not them who’ll pay the price, but you and your children. apnews.com/article/clim...

Global warming will exceed limit, UN says in a report that maps path to get back below danger zone

In a strategic retreat, the United Nations concedes that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst impacts of global warming.

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@cyclinguk.bsky.social to challenge Merseyrail e-bike ban 👏 www.cyclinguk.org/news/cycling...

Cycling UK to challenge Merseyrail e-bike ban

Merseyrail recently announced that it would ban electric bikes from its entire network – a move that will have a devastating impact on e-bike users. Supported by the Cyclists’ Defence Fund, we are set...

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Leonard Cohen's writing and Sir Tom Jones singing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTWy...

Sir Tom Jones brings Coaches to TEARS with this INCREDIBLE performance | The Voice UK

YouTube video by The Voice UK

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September is your last chance to see many of the UK’s common bumblebees ⌛🐝 This month, many bumblebee nests will naturally come to an end and new queens will settle down to hibernate over the winter 👑💤 🔎 Brush up on your bumblebee identification skills: https://ow.ly/o6B950ZClyE

The full story of my eclipse shot including the plan and video is now on my website: https://www.albertdros.com/post/the-lighthouse-eclipse

Summer slips into autumn, and the rose undergoes a magical transformation: as the petals fall away, ripening hips take their place, glowing like fairy lanterns. An old weather saying foretells what might follow: “Many hips and haws, many frosts and snaws.” #FolkloreSunday

Loved seeing Hummingbird Hawk Moths around the place this year. Such a challenge to photograph and much learning to do!

A stunning image ❤️

JBGarrity Photography@joegarrity.bsky.social · 2w ago

Bees have eye hairs that shield them from pollen. I took this image with my Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM macro lens and a Raynox DCR-250 (2.5x). #naturephotography #nature #wildlifephotography #wildlife #macrophotography #macro #eastcoastkin #bees #photography

Bees have eye hairs that shield them from pollen. I took this image with my Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM macro lens and a Raynox DCR-250 (2.5x). #naturephotography #nature #wildlifephotography #wildlife #macrophotography #macro #eastcoastkin #bees #photography

The beauty of broken landscapes Old slate mines. Wales. March 2024.

Have a fabulous weekend. The butterflies have all but gone … till next summer …

We talk to Richard Ackroyd (from my book) about Frome's 20-year campaign to connect just three miles of route that will link to a traffic-free path going all the way to Bath. After a new mile last year, on the pictured stretch, there's just one mile to go lauralaker.substack.com/p/fromes-mis...

Frome's Missing Links

Part of the audio accompaniment to my Rural Path Campaigner Toolkit

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One year today at this time I was just waking up from prostate cancer surgery. I’m cancer free & life is fab. Fellas, if you’re in the at risk group or have symptoms please consider a simple PSA blood test - it could save your life as it did mine. prostatecanceruk.org/prostate-inf... Be well

Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺@privacymatters.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Hard to believe that one year ago on the 18 June, my GP referred me to specialists for suspected prostate cancer - by the 28 August, I’d had an MRI, biopsy, bone scan & surgery. So far, I remain cancer free. 🎉 A simple blood test saved my life🙏 prostatecanceruk.org/prostate-inf...

I want my music made with heart and soul. AI has neither.

2/ If you did NOT confirm, your only choice was to select 'confirm later' or ignore it entirely. 1. If you ignored it are you still getting the red dot notification nag? 2. If you selected 'confirm later' are you still getting the red dot notification nag?

1/ In the UK? A iPhone user or iPad user? In June 2026, did you receive a red dot notification on your settings icon, that if selected took you to a process to 'Confirm You are 18+' and in which Apple stated that 'UK law requires you to confirm you an adult to change content restrictions'. 2/

Fresh details revealed of the vast 850-acre AI data centre proposed for Great Torrington in north Devon - great use of FOIs by local campaigners & CPRE Devon www.midweekherald.co.uk/news/2649177...

New documents reveal scale of 40m-high halls in giant Devon data centre plan

Plans for a vast AI data campus have come under fresh scrutiny after campaigners obtained documents they say reveal detailed site designs were…

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No two days are the same up on a local Iron Age hill fort. Sometimes you literally have to slow down and go with flow

Walks that gladden the heart and feed the soul.

A shithole nation isn’t a poor country that can’t feed its children. It’s a rich country that refuses to do so.

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What is El Niño and how is it influenced by climate change?

El Niño and La Niña are two phases of the naturally occurring climate phenomenon called the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO), which leads to the most dramatic year-to-year variation of Earth’s clim...

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Campaign against Climate Change@campaigncc.bsky.social · 2w ago

Essential reading on the consequences of El Niño. Its impacts on staple crops, rice in particular, will land on top of fertiliser shortages and low US harvests due to drought. “A sufficiently large El Niño is not a weather anomaly at all. It is going to be a global food shock on a 12 month fuse.”

Weekend Blessing ✨️ May a stillness find you, comfort you with solace, and provide a launchpad to many happy moments where the mind is unburdened, allowing all that you are overcoming to dissolve into nothingness. Evening in Eggedal 🎨 Christian Skredsvig

This Hnefatafl gaming board is around 1,000 years old and carved from yew. It is decorated with a fusion of Irish and Scandinavian art styles. It was found during Hencken's excavations at Ballinderry Crannog, Westmeath, and you can see it on display in the National Museum of Ireland. #Ireland

A vast AI data centre proposed for North Ockendon in Havering "does not align with... net zero" according to its own planning docs. I've just checked who owns the land. The firm, Digital Reef, has signed an option agreement with the landowner, restricting sale: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Rewilded land remains green amid drought-stricken English countryside, images show. Excellent work by the National Trust at Holnicote. #MakeBritainWetAgain www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rewilded land remains green amid drought-stricken English countryside, images show

National Trust’s Holnicote estate says restored wetlands and rivers offer proof of resilience to drought, wildfires and flooding

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