A complex Stereum lobatum rosette grows from the top of a fallen log like a polished agate slice. Alternative bands of orange, green, yellow and white radiated from its three growth centers. All photos by me
Here is a nice mushroom
A single beautiful young morel (my first this year!) grows in front a the moss covered base of a mature oak tree. All photos by me
Here is a nice mushroom
What does a blackmailing operation of a cabal of child rapists have to do with Climate News?
Well, these blackmailers are heavily and extensively involved and invested in the fossil fuel industry, all across the world.
A more accurate headline might read: 'Broccoli farmer has his facts wrong on solar energy & land use'.
For Ireland to hit its target of 8GW of solar power would require 0.25% of farmland.
Somehow the remaining 99.75% isn't adequate to maintain food supply...?
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
"Just as we make ourselves more energy-secure by switching from fossil fuels to renewables, we make ourselves more food-secure by switching from animals to plants." - @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
How do war, climate change, and AI impact Indigenous survival?
The 2026 U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues examines how armed conflict and unsustainable extraction compound health inequities. Delegates are calling for urgent reforms.
@ahofschneider.bsky.social reports for #Mongabay.
Planning to transplant these beautifull young egg plants this week.
These will help fight against hunger problems in times ahead.
@sustainablefarming.bsky.social
@fengshuihealing.bsky.social
@thegardenerslodge.bsky.social
@crowdfoods.bsky.social
The magic of an Irish rainforest
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Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
A super El Niño - or "Godzilla" El Niño - could make 2027 the hottest year on record
open.spotify.com/episode/5kY7...
A hiking path up a mountain
I have been wanting to hike for YEARS but unable because of my spine injury.
It’s taken one year and four months of determination and working hard on my mobility, but today I DID IT.
I could cry. You people have no idea. I never, ever thought I’d be able to do anything like that ever again. ❤️
Dawn chorus this morning from an Irish Atlantic rainforest.
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Every spring/summer on our mountain commonage, wild native tree seedlings like this rowan pop up, the seed carried by birds or wind. The baby trees always soon disappear, eaten by sheep.
Trees mostly don't need to be planted, just given a chance to grow.
Did Nazi Germany have a right to defend itself when it invaded most of its neighbours and kept people from a specific religion in concentration camps?
Related: If pepitas/pumpkin seeds are expensive where you live, it’s pretty easy to grow your own by choosing a hulless variety of pumpkin.
Like this one: fedcoseeds.com/seeds/naked-...
Are we hearing this message, Ireland???
We could well be in *very* deep trouble if we don't.
An exquisite recipe for everyone to try out! Make a move to plant based diets and enjoy it!
Highly important to understand
Searched for a citation of this principle which is now emerging in Earth system science
"The mutual reinforcing of climate change and biodiversity loss means that satisfactorily resolving either issue requires consideration of the other"
They interact synergistic...
Another sun sets on an Irish Atlantic rainforest.
Productive mushroom foraging morning
Perfectly camouflaged among dead bracken, a frog, one of Ireland's three amphibians (along with natterjack toad and smooth newt).
A vital part of food webs, frogs eat a wide range of invertebrates, and are themselves prey for otters, foxes, badgers, stoats, herons, etc.
They're also *gorgeous*.
Unwelcome intrusion from the anthropocene into an Irish Atlantic rainforest.
Now in the recycling bin.
From seahorses to sharks, more than 3,000 fish species have been caught in bottom trawls, including many at risk of extinction -new research
They are depleting the ocean of life and if they are not stopped we will soon have a dead lifeless ocean
science.ubc.ca/news/2026-04...
Labour is no longer a party on the left of British politics.
Under Labour the children of Holocaust survivors are being rounded up and arrested for daring to peacefully protest against Israel.
Far right fascism in plain sight.
How to stop fascism and the far right.
In a nutshell: offer voters a non-establishment eco-left alternative that *genuinely* stands for people and planet.
It's not complicated.
Little can rival an old Scots pine for sheer force of personality and presence.
One of the earlier tree species to colonise Ireland after the last Ice Age, pine was thought to have completely died out due to deforestation, until a small residual population was confirmed in the Burren, Co. Clare.
This particular tree is in Co. Wicklow, which has a very severe problem with invasive sika deer. So here, a high seat is fixed to the base for shooting out across the adjacent open field.
We need *far* more of this if our natural forest ecosystems are to have any chance of recovering.
#Rewilding
It’s worth watching this video when critiquing the climate movement.
Any climate movement that doesn’t move sharp to the left will fail against fascism.
Thought-provoking thread on the agri protests.
For me, they were a weird mix of genuine grievances at the cost of living on the part of ordinary working people, a total refusal to consider the huge damage certain industries are doing to our future, and other very nasty stuff.
So, FAR from simple.
