The campaign to #savewindermere hitting the news, yet again. MattStaniek you are a hero. Go, go go! 🙌🙌🙌

South Africa, the aftermath of heavy rains yesterday. Remind me what is the cost of not acting on climate change?

A recent study showed that pesticides, paints, cleaners, and other personal care products are another major—and under-recognized—source of PM2.5 and can raise the risk for numerous health problems, including brain-damaging strokes.

scientificamerican.com/article/what-i…

🌴🌳🌲When we plant the right trees in the right places, we support a cooler, greener and healthier future.

🌆 As populations grow in cities, urban trees provide many environmental and social benefits, including mitigating #ClimateChange and increasing #biodiversity .

Via @fao

“This is a death potion for the river…”.

Steve Backshall has commissioned private analysis of water from the Thames, results are in & they are horrifying.
“Treat the water as though it is a biohazard.”
Further analysis & rage from Steve below & on Instagram (@ backshall.steve)

Jail for holding a placard? Protest over the climate crisis is being brutally suppressed.
Read on Natasha Walter
A doctor of 30 years imprisoned for holding a piece of cardboard, ‘Stop New Oil.’
Her hearing to be struck off begins tomorrow.
#GMC
#BMA
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Why are these extreme April temperatures in Europe hardly being reported at all?

If - as is very likely - temperatures stay at similarly extremely high levels above what used to be normal, we'll be looking at a lot of people dying in Europe this summer.
#ClimateEmergency

'Southwark is the worst London borough for vacant homes, with a grand total of 5,143 houses filled with nothing but air'
Southwark Council

timeout.com/london/news/th…

Come and see Pete talk on Wednesday - assuming he's left the Science Museum by then.

Average front lawns or communal spaces are such a f@ck1ng waste. Why not be the envy of your neighbours & have two feet high wildflower lawns teeming with butterflies? People, you’ve got to be pioneers to smash the tidy mentality. Yours doesn’t need to replicate sheep pasture!

Bees are responsible for 1 in 3 bites of food we eat
In 2023, U.S. beekeepers lost over 48% of their colonies, the second highest loss in history
Neonics toxic pesticide threatend existence of over 200 species. That’s 11% of entire endangered species list!
foe.org/impact-stories…

Can't be emphasised enough! 😊🌿

🚨Drought & extreme heat in Western Australia in 2010/11 led to what's called the world's 1st 'forest collapse'. Now, after a record-breaking hot summer & driest 6 months on record in WA, trees & other flora are dying & ecologists fear an even bigger collapse event
#ClimateCrisis

Evidence is emerging of a potential collapse of forest systems in south-western Australia due to heat and drought, which are driven by global warming.

abc.net.au/news/2024-04-1…

This is yet another blow driven by global warming to this extremely biodiverse and beautiful region on both land and sea. This must read piece in the Conversation from a few years ago gives a snapshot of the problems that are progressively getting worse.

theconversation.com/drying-land-an…

We all know we have lost too many ponds within the agricultural landscape, and we really need to manage those remaining better. These are slowly dying….Freshwater Habitats Trust Freshwater Biological Association (FBA) Worcs Wildlife Trust

Atlantic salmon are endangered.

Working for an environmental charity can feel very bleak, but I’m lucky to be part of team who will fight like hell for this truly amazing fish.

First step we can do today- stop eating open-net farmed salmon. WildFish

A fine of nearly £20,000 has been handed out to a landowner and contractor who illegally felled more than 100 trees.

“There is no excuse,' is how one enforcement officer put it.

forestryjournal.co.uk/news/24239008.…

They have a legal duty to do it, you've paid them to do it, but they've done a runner with your cash. Now they want you to pay again.

United Utilities, the biggest sewage dumper in England claim their environment permit is 'fully compliant'

What a joke!

express.co.uk/news/uk/188781…

Water companies are demanding bill payers fund mistakes caused by nothing more than their greed and the regulators incompetence.

No we say, no and a thousand times no!