Wales’ temperate rainforests facing ‘extinction crisis’ with rare lichens under threat
Just look at those photos of lush deep drifts of green mosses and tell me you don’t want to see these habitats restored to their former glory
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After a mass bird collision in Oct 2023, Chicago’s McCormick Place Lakeside took action, installing bird-friendly dots on nearly 2 football fields of glass. Collisions have dropped dramatically. Real change is possible. Learn more: bit.ly/stopbirdcoll...
#StopBirdCollisions #BirdSafeStructures
What are your thoughts @jillbelch.bsky.social ?
- huge spending from commercial interests to distract, deny, delay
- other stories get more clicks, more money
- the facts don't resonate with most humans, we need to have:
- trusted messengers
- from relatable backgrounds
- telling human stories
- with hope
- and use the expertise of the arts
Often pondering this and looking for answers, so far some of what I've found:
- many people are too busy trying to survive too think about this
- others are preoccupied with social status
- many find it overwhelming
- few seek out this information
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Before and after of a street showing a transpformation from lines of parked cars to a green bike path
Paris is transforming itself into a greener city.
Recently, Paris residents voted in favour of making 500 more streets pedestrian. Thanks to major investments in walking and cycling infrastructure, the city has become one of the friendliest for active mobility.
📸 @emmanuelspv.bsky.social
news.sky.com/story/the-fo...
taking a look at how the food industry saves itself cash - often at the expense of our health.
A letter to government reacting to the news that wood burning stoves will be allowed as secondary heating in new build homes. We explain that wood burning is not carbon neutral and has no place in the Future Homes and Buildings Standards.
A letter to government reacting to the news that wood burning stoves will be allowed as secondary heating in new build homes. We explain that wood burning is not carbon neutral and has no place in the Future Homes and Buildings Standards.
Our letter to @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social @emmahardymp.bsky.social & others, asking them to rethink allowing #WoodBurning stoves in new builds.
Thanks to the many others who co-signed, and to @ellarobertafdn.bsky.social, Prof Jill Belch & Prof Sir Stephen Holgate for adding their voices.
We cannot ask British farmers to maintain high environmental and animal welfare standards while opening the door to imports produced under significantly weaker regulations👇
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Holocaust Survivor tells his sheriff and Trump’s Deportation czar disappearing people that history “is not on your side.”
Very well spoken!
You were great!
📢ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 3.6% in 2024 to lowest since 1872
🏭Coal lowest since 1666, when Great Fire ravaged London
🚗EVs pushed oil down despite more traffic, saving £1.7bn
🌇Gas down on "cleanest ever" power
📈📉Since 1990, CO2 -54% / GDP +84%
www.carbonbrief.org/...
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The news has been more than a bit grim of late, so hooray for @carbonbrief.org providing some genuine and really meaningful **good** news: the UK's carbon emissions in 2024 were the lowest since 1872, because demand for fossil fuels just keeps decreasing.
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...
NEW: Official advisers CCC say UK shld cut emissions 87% by 2040
⚖️Net cost of net-zero 73% less than thought
💷Total cost to 2050 = £108bn (~£4bn/yr, 0.2% GDP)
🏡🚗H’hold energy/fuel bills to fall £1,400
🔌Electrification is key
THREAD + charts
www.carbonbrief.org/...
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Underground power cables sound nicer than pylons
No mention of fossil fuel subsidies, benefits of clean air, nor fossil fuel funding of Reform...
2024 marked 70 years since the tobacco industry, faced with mounting evidence of the harm caused by its products, issued their “Frank Statement” to smokers reassuring them that the link between smoking and lung cancer was yet to be proven.🧵
Calorie labelling has “modest” effect on food choice, Cochrane review
.http://www.bmj.com/content/388/bmj.r106.short?rss=1
Take great care
Calorie labels are not a substitute for regulation of advertising, product
But will be sold as such
Labels have great limits
Yup, @jamellebouie.net has this exactly right. What these guys are celebrating/pursuing/yearning for is not masculine energy, it's *adolescent* energy. Drinking Red Bull, crushing Call of Duty, refusing to clean your room. It is indescribably pathetic. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/o...
I don't think wake-up calls will be enough
Most people are too preoccupied with short-term survival/self/status
Hopefully the bill can be a step in a good direction
