Defending rhododendrons YouTube video by Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

RBGE in defense of #rhododendrons

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Join us for a thought-provoking PRI event!
"Competing and Contrasting Conceptions of the Anthropocene: In Search of Unity"
📅 Monday, January 26, 2026. 2:00 pm ET
💻 Attend virtually: live.lifesizecloud.com/extension/22...
For more details, please visit our website: brocku.ca/pri/2025/12/...

Glad to be starting this evening with the first class of “Environmental Ethics: Right and Wrong in the Age of Climate Crisis” with @glasgow.ac.uk #lifelonglearning

A midsummer night’s sea

#madeira #summer2025

Five gulls flying at daybreak

Dancing at the dawn of day

Here is #wolfmoon, the first #fullmoon of 2026, the final #supermoon of four in a row, and the first of three in 2026 (next one in November).

I could never tire of the #moon

A juvenile gull basking sun on a rooftop on a sunny early afternoon.

Quiet afternoon

#urbanfauna
#gull #ilovegulls
#wintering

moody morning sun from behind strain of clouds, over city park and buildings, and a couple of solitary gulls flying by.

#goodmorning

Can you help us look for hedgehogs on our trail cameras? It’s the perfect way to pass the time from the comfort of your sofa!

Sign up and tell us when you spot a hedgehog, or the odd pair of geese... www.nhmp.org.uk. 🪿

The NHMP is led by us and British Hedgehog Preservation Society.

IF we want to.

#morningread
#yuletide
#restandreset

For the past 3 years, I've worked very hard on something meaningful that did not succeed. It stings.

There. I wrote it. Now, let's move on.

Waning crescent against clear sky (and cold air 🥶). Reading intro to #ethics

#morningread
#goodmorning

Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new.
This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Amendment 40 to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill has been voted down.

Had it passed, it would have meant more precious wildlife would have retained existing protections.

Instead, MPs have bought into the false 'nature vs growth' narrative.

Milner Prize Lecture: How to spot and debunk misleading content | Royal Society Royal Society Milner Prize Lecture 2025 delivered by Professor Iryna Gurevych

Free registration via Eventbrite

Online via livestream on the Royal Society website and YouTube

In-person at the Royal Society London

We surveyed British MPs – most don’t know how urgent climate action is New study finds both MPs and the public underestimate how quickly global emissions must be cut.

...especially when so many decision-makers are still underestimating how urgent the crisis truly is...

#ClimateChange
#ClimateCrisis
#ClimateAction

Thanks for your presentation! You touched on ethics in your Newsroom article. In your view, could de-extinction ever be ethically justified if the species’ original ecosystem still exists (or can be restored) and its reintroduction would meaningfully enhance biodiversity?

More on nje.org.na/index.php/nj...

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'Their resilience is a lesson to us all': The maritime lions hunting seals on the beach In Namibia, a group of desert lions have left their traditional hunting grounds for the Atlantic coast and are now thriving as the world's only maritime lions.

#morningread on the return of lions to the Namibian coastline
🗝️points
hunting strategy & diet aren't fixed, but shaped by habitat & prey availability
knowledge of food resources, once lost, may be regained with time & right conditions
maritime lions function as energy linkers between trophic levels

Restoring habitats key to fighting extinctions BirdLife International’s 2025 Red List update reveals a record number of species in decline, but shows how habitat restoration can help even the most threatened species to recover.

Habitat protection & restoration are critical steps in tacking today's biodiversity crisis, and we must hold governments accountable for honouring their conservation commitments.

www.birdlife.org/news/2025/10...

#biodiversitycrisis
#conservation
#restoration

It was a cute smile

“You’ve got to kill them faster than they can reproduce”: New Zealand has an ambitious plan to eradicate invasive animals – and they need the public’s help | Discover Wildlife The New Zealand public are being urged to help rid country of destructive species from overseas to make the country predator-free

The duty to repair past ecological harm vs. the moral worth of invasive species — I can’t quite settle this in my mind. Curious how others deal with this moral dilemma...

#Conservation
#Restoration
#InvasiveSpecies
#EnvironmentalEthics

www.discoverwildlife.com/environment/...

#sky #clouds #goodmorning

Metabolic Potential and Microbial Diversity of Late Archean to Early Proterozoic Ocean Analog Hot Springs of Japan Circumneutral iron-rich hot springs may represent analogues of Neoarchean to Paleoproterozoic oceans of early Earth, potentially providing windows int …

www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jsme...

Japan’s hot springs hold clues to the origins of life on Earth Billions of years ago, Earth’s atmosphere was hostile, with barely any oxygen and toxic conditions for life. Researchers from the Earth-Life Science Institute studied Japan’s iron-rich hot springs, wh...

#BreakfastRead
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Early Earth wasn’t just before O₂ and after O₂. New research shows microbes were already using tiny traces of O₂ together with iron, forming transitional ecosystems that bridged the anoxic world and the rise of O₂. #OriginsOfLife #EarthHistory #GOE

Plants can “remember” past stresses at the molecular level ( via hormones, transcription, & epigenetics) helping them respond faster&stronger. Some changes are short-term, others persist through development, others can be passed to the next generation, reshaping how we think about plant adaptation.

The Plant Mind: Unraveling Abiotic Stress Priming, Memory, and Adaptation Plants exhibit a remarkable capacity to adapt to recurrent abiotic stresses, prompting a re-evaluation of traditional views on plant responses to environmental challenges. This review explores the in...

Hi there! Sharing my breakfast read on plant stress priming and memory 🌱

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#PlantScience #Epigenetics #ClimateResilience 🌿

Hi! Breakfast reading with Universität Konstanz: analysis of plant species’ changes in native range occupancy across 10 EU regions reveals that species expanding in their native habitats are also more likely to spread successfully as naturalized aliens elsewhere www.uni-konstanz.de/en/universit...