What intentional communities can teach us about resilience amid global instability As global crises drive up costs and uncertainty, intentional communities offer ideas for how to share resources, cut bills and build resilience together.

As global crises drive up costs and uncertainty, intentional communities offer ideas for how to share resources, cut bills and build resilience together.

“Are you ruling out new drilling in the North Sea?” - sky’s Sophy Ridge

“No. I’ve never ruled it out” - Energy Secretary Ed Miliband

Left: wall painting depicting a woman wearing elaborately decorated robes and a tall crown. Right: a person wearing a reconstruction of the outfit.

Reconstruction of an outfit of Nubian Royal Mother Martha, as depicted in a wall painting at the cathedral of Faras in the Kingdom of Makuria #MedievalMonday

The rich outfit highlights the elevated status of the royal mother in Nubian society.

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🏺 #Archaeology

NEW REPORT from Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis: gas is the worst

“The push to build new US gas-fired generation capacity is unmistakable, with utilities rushing to approve projects without fully considering the
risks. These risks are significant, particularly for consumers.”

Promotional graphic for the UKHSA Conference 2026. The top section shows the UK Health Security Agency logo and a banner with the website “conference.ukhsa.gov.uk”. Below, large text reads “UKHSA Conference 2026 – Call for abstracts.” The background features an image of a person looking into a microscope. Additional text explains that the conference welcomes high‑quality scientific and public health research submissions from UKHSA colleagues and external partners. Dates shown include: submission deadline Tuesday 28 April at 23:59 GMT; review period Wednesday 29 April to Tuesday 9 June; and author notifications in mid‑ to late‑June.

You have just over one week left to submit your abstract for UKHSA Conference 2026.
🔍📄 Find full details, including abstract guidance and submission instructions, on our conference website.
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Good looking PhD in Leeds. Please share.
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Wolfstone - Hector the hero (Aberdeen Music Hall 1.992) YouTube video by 75vicente75

#Wolfstone
Gods
I remember this so clearly.
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Wolfstone - The £10 Float (Aberdeen Music Hall 1.992) YouTube video by 75vicente75

#wolfstone
I was there
The best ever
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Many Medical Schools to Increase Nutrition Training Under New Initiative This Medical News article discusses an initiative from the US Department of Health and Human Services to increase nutrition training for physicians.

Med News: In March, more than 50 US medical schools committed to boosting nutrition training under a new HHS initiative.

Experts welcome the push but say competencies should be evidence-based and realistic.

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Join our demonstration outside the Anglo American AGM - London Mining Network Join our demo outside the Anglo American AGM to stand with communities across the world resisting the company’s devastating legacy.

Join us outside Anglo American's AGM to stand with communities across the world uniting to resist the company’s devastating legacy.

📣 No exit without justice, no mine expansions without community consent 📣

📆 29 April, 10am
📍 2 Savoy Place, London WC2R 0BL

londonminingnetwork.org/2026/04/join...

#fossilfuel #syntheticfertiliser #nonorganiccarbs

The People's Kitchen makes appeal for sleeping bags to support rough sleepers The People's Kitchen makes appeal for sleeping bags to support rough sleepers

The Newcastle city centre charity is asking for help from the public for people who are out in the cold night-time temperatures without shelter

U.S. plastics response falls short as Americans face widespread chemical exposure - Greenpeace - Greenpeace While we need microplastics out of our water, the Trump administration's announcement of more research is not leadership, it's more of the same—another gift to the very industries that are making Amer...

Read our full response to The White House Microplastics “Announcement”

www.greenpeace.org/usa/u-s-plas...

NOAA halts crucial dataset that helps measure Arctic sea ice The agency says its new dataset is better, but ice measurements will take time. "Bad news for climate monitoring," one scientist lamented.

"The program's interruption is the latest in a series of setbacks for Arctic researchers." www.eenews.net/articles/noa...

ENDLESS RECORD HEAT IN AUSTRALIA

Tonight Minimum of 23.1C at St George, Queensland was the highest ever recorded in April.
Let's expect days of heat records for the rest of the week.

Three scenarios for the Strait of Hormuz Two military scenarios and one diplomatic one emerge, with Pakistan playing a crucial mediatory role.

"Three scenarios for the strait of Hormuz"

www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

Two arrested after crowds of young people swarm London high street in social media 'flash mob' The Met Police said two teenagers were in custody following reports groups of young people were causing disruption in Clapham.

#Flashmob

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Sussex coastal resilience scheme underway | New Civil Engineer Work will include the delivery of timber for repairs to wave screens at Pevensey and a shingle‑bypassing operation that will move thousands of cubic

Major coastal defence operations have begun along the Sussex coast as the Environment Agency has started its annual spring programme to protect thousands of homes and businesses from flooding.
Full story:

A Climate Central graphic showing Western U.S. water stored in snow pack (snow water equivalent (% of normal)) from 1981 to 2026.

"The amount of water stored in western U.S. snowpack is currently the lowest on record for April 1, when it's usually near the annual peak."

See @climatecentral.org's latest Climate Matters on the historic snow drought: www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt...

People just haven't tuned into how bad this could go for the EU and UK. Reality hasn't quite hit them yet.

Crynant mum who gave up job to care for disabled daughter 'can't afford breakfast' Michelle Rees, who cares for her daughter and other relatives for more than 90 hours a week, says she receives little support.

#Carers

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‘I had heard rumours about MOD waste. What I saw was jarring’ The failed Watchkeeper drone programme isn’t an abnormality, but typical of the incompetence I saw for years as a defence contractor

👉 NEW — ‘I had heard rumours about MOD waste. What I saw was jarring’

By former defence contractor

The failed Watchkeeper drone programme isn’t an abnormality, but typical of the incompetence I saw for years as a defence contractor

www.declassifieduk.org/i-had-heard-...

Oil companies rake in €81.4 million extra daily in the EU as fuel prices soar - Greenpeace European Unit EU governments must urgently tax fossil fuel profits to alleviate energy bills and to speed up investments in cheap, safe and home-grown renewables

An energy crisis is not a crisis for *everyone*

Since the war in Iran started, oil companies in the EU have been getting an EXTRA €81.4 million in profit EVERY DAY as the prices of petrol and diesel go through the roof

Governments and the EU must tax these profits to help ordinary people

Federal Judge Approves Trump Effort to Obtain List of Jews From Penn

I wonder whether he also wanted a list of their firstborn sons www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/u...

Energy crisis: why ‘keep calm but cut down’ may be a better message for Labour Government keen to avoid panic as oil price surges, but perhaps households need advice on reducing consumption

Energy crisis: why ‘keep calm but cut down’ may be a better message for Labour

Biochemical remodelling of phytoplankton cell composition under climate change - Nature Climate Change The authors simulate phytoplankton macromolecular composition—proteins, carbohydrates and lipids—under present and future scenarios. They show increased protein allocation in subtropical phytoplankton...

🌊Warming oceans are quietly changing what phytoplankton are made of...

Their “nutritional makeup” shifts with the environment. Protein-rich in cold waters, but more carbs and lipids in warm, nutrient-poor seas.

..and the very base of the marine food web is evolving

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Credits: Ville Maali / SOS MEDITERRANEE

For the second time in just over a year, UpRights and
StraLi, this time together with @msf.org and Pro Iura, have obtained urgent interim measures from the UN Human Rights Committee against #Malta for its failure to rescue people in distress in the #Mediterranean.

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#Climatecrisis
#Seawarming

#Climatecrisis
#Seawarming

It's the time of year when atmospheric CO₂ levels approach their annual peak so I just had a look at how they're rising.
Three days ago the Mauna Loa Observatory recorded a daily average of 431.95 ppm, which I think is a new daily record.
Onwards and upwards 😱
Graphic from gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends