What if we paid countries to NOT cut down their forests? Brazil and international partners are launching a $125 billion fund to do exactly that. Protecting nature is sound economic policy. 🌳 #TropicalForests #ClimateFinance
It is a form of denial to claim certain drivers of ecosystem degradation are not important
eg many claimed sand dredging impacts on Lough Neagh are far less important than nutrient inflows
But this paper shows just how damaging these dredging operations are
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
pense of the timely, but rather "to present to the American public works of lasting value, produced with the greatest care and stress on quality.Our editorial concept is to help spread knowledge and understanding of the essential questions of human life and culture."
The mission of Kurt and Helen Wolff’s publishing house Pantheon Books in the 1940s. More of this please.
Disturbing Experiment Bolsters The Case Lobsters Feel Pain After All
Electric shocks – trigger a strong escape response in the animals
Then stop boiling them alive or putting live lobsters sealed in plastic packaging
www.sciencealert.com/disturbing-e...
Phones to be banned in schools by law in England under govt plans.
Who will do body and bag searches, confiscations, fines, appeals?
How many more school staff will be needed? Cost?
Why not put Faraday's cage on classrooms to block signals?
This is why I haven't been on social media much!
I've been horrified by what we found about Natural England pausing designation to SSSIs - and the consequent loss of nationally important sites for nature to development:
wildjustice.org.uk/unprotected-...
Palantir is a menace to society. Its "Manifesto" reads like a very bad Hollywood science fiction dystopia movie.
x.com/PalantirTech...
Amazon, which saved $4B in taxes under Trump's Big Ugly Bill, has cut 30,000 jobs since last October.
Verizon, which saved $2B, plans to cut 15,000 jobs this year.
Meta, which saved $3B, plans to lay off 20% or more of its workforce.
Trickle-down economics is a cruel joke.
A black-and-white studio portrait photograph of Emma Lucy Braun, the pioneering American botanist and plant ecologist widely regarded as one of the most influential scientists in the study of eastern North American forests. Shown from the shoulders up against a soft, neutral gradient background, Braun appears in her later years with a calm, intelligent gaze directed straight at the viewer. Her white hair is neatly styled and swept back from her face, and she wears delicate round wire-rimmed glasses. A gentle, knowing half-smile softens her expression, conveying quiet authority, warmth, and scholarly poise. She is dressed in a light-colored, pleated blouse with a gathered neckline and a prominent dark floral brooch pinned at the center of her chest; the visible sleeve features subtle decorative patterning. The tight, centered composition focuses entirely on her face and upper torso, creating an intimate and dignified mood that emphasizes intellect and dignity over ornamentation.
Botanist/plant ecologist E. Lucy Braun is one of the most influential ecologists in North American history.
+ First woman President, Ecological Society of America, 1950
+ Helped establish plant ecology as a rigorous academic discipline
She was born #OTD in 1889. #WomenInSTEM #conservation #ecosky
Images show Israel building permanent military bases in Gaza as US-backed reconstruction plans stall.
Known as milkmaids in West Devon.
Corporate capture of the state kills.
Inquiry into the Grenfell fire found dishonesty, false claims about safety of building materials, regulatory collusion.
72 people died. No one prosecuted. Companies still get public contracts.
Govts push deregulation.
Working class lives don't matter do they
"They're trying to change our habits, because all of the projections rely on people becoming truly dependent on the technology. Whether or not it's actually a good thing for society isn't considered to be a factor."
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
MP introduces Bill to prevent England water companies from "delaying" payment of fines.
Companies negotiate fines, which are later deferred/waived. It is a licence to abuse.
Execs rewarded for boosting profits through illegal practices, face no fines.
Bill won't become law. Govt/Tories oppose it.
I love Mat's process videos; I love this folkloric hare image; and I love the song he uses here: Hare Spell by Fay Hield, from her magical album Wrackline. I was lucky enough to witness the process of the song's creation as part of Fay's Modern Fairies Project: modernfairies.sites.sheffield.ac.uk
EU’s energy crisis response is broader than expected: remote work mandates, heat pump subsidies, EV leasing schemes — plus electrification targets and new laws to tax electricity below fossil fuels.
"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."
Why are capitalism and democracy now in conflict? youtu.be/WYY7cQz2aZQ?... John Christensen and I discuss the deliberate assault on democracy by neoliberal economics.
Orange tabby cat with a sign over his head. If cats could text you back, they would not.
Truth. #Caturday
This is amazing and it does make the hair stand up on the back of your neck. We've all heard plenty of dead men's voices but this is *Robert* *Johnson*.
My cousin is still mortified that on seeing his first beltie shouted out 'look at the size of that giant pig!'
Ash dieback is having some odd disturbance effects in ancient woodland. The extra light under dying ash canopy is allowing these wild roses to go crazy, scrambling up the tree trunks to heights of 7 m, forming these funky columns.
My fellow 1974 Road Atlases of Great Britain
Today I learned that Kurb Stanner did not vet properly Pedro Mandelbrott as British Ferero Rocher to the Court of King Don.
This is a disgrace.
He should have ensured Mandelwurzel had all his vaccines and was properly chipped.
Long live shake n vac
For 56 of the 94 fungal species assessed in this study, there's still insufficient data to reliably evaluate extinction risk.
A reminder of how much fungal diversity remains understudied, and how urgently better knowledge is needed for conservation.
🔗 conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=gmnN...
Nowwwww … if the guardians of the constitution are appointed by politicians this sort of thing will happen all the time. In effect the Supreme Court is treated as, an acts as, a very small, unelected, third political chamber with no recall of members except death or resignation.
🔥Public ownership is an opportunity to deal with the cost of living and climate crises
🎯Spot on Michelle from the @tssa.bsky.social
❗Silencing criticism of Israeli genocide doesn't stop antisemitism. It drives it.
If you want to stop growing antisemitism, stop Israel's genocide❗
Trail hunting is a smokescreen.
It has been used time and again to mask the continued chasing and killing of wild animals. The law was meant to protect them, but loopholes are still being exploited.
The government is consulting on the future of hunting laws. Respond: https://leagueacs.co.uk/IKMI9
