Two pilots dead at LaGuardia. A lone controller managing two simultaneous emergencies. The FAA is 3,000 controllers short. We will blame the human. We should fix the system.
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“Now that we’ve allowed it to happen, we’re going to have to be watching forever."
Scientists say the study, which looked at how radioactivity in fracking waste may be contaminating landfills, is just the beginning of monitoring that will be needed for years.
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"a perfect recipe...to create... antimicrobial resistance"
Watershed's @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social on BBC Northern Ireland this morning explaining how inadequate sewage treatment + management of slurry is creating ideal circumstances for antibiotic resistant genes to develop in Lough Neagh:
Built-in obsolescence
I am again calling out the vacuous nature of declaring an area a National Park without plans, resources or management measures. This time following the report showing that over a thousand seals were drowned in fishing gear around the Blasket Islands.
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What's in the UK government's PFAS action plan? What's not in it? And what are the implications?
A 🧵:
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Despite welcome reports that the NPWS has been stepping up culling sika deer and even goats in Killarney NP, the grazing pressure clearly remains far too high for the native ecosystem to regenerate.
A *zero tolerance* approach to both these devastating invasive species is urgently required.
The designation of sika deer as an invasive species is excellent news for native Irish forests and nature generally.
Logically, their legally protected status must now be removed immediately.
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. @corporateeurope.org joined forces with a team of international journalists including us at Watershed for The Forever Lobbying Project - exposing industry lobbying to prevent an EU PFAS ban, "bigger than anything the tobacco industry have been able to pull together."
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2025 saw a significant drop in environmental litigation in Ireland, read the🧵for the highlights or this handy infograhpic
The Government wants to bury over Christmas/New Year a controversial consultation on changes impacting on ur right to access our #courts #publicaccountability & #ruleoflaw
This will also delay #housing & #infrastructure
Why this matters?
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#Aarhus
Sitka spruce plantation forestry rarely has any 'natural appeal'
AI does not include an ethics module
The team from Pre Construct Archaeology was working a few miles from Thetford,Norfolk,when they came across the hoard,at its heart was the most complete battle trumpet, or carnyx,ever found in Europe and the first ever boar's head flag standard to be found in Britain www.bbc.com/news/article...
Your 'moment of doom' for Jan. 7, 2026 ~ Plastisphere.
"Microplastics disrupt marine life, weaken the 'biological carbon pump,' and even release greenhouse gases as they degrade."
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First flowering dog violet of the year in an Irish Atlantic rainforest.
Wild nature is sanctuary.
Snow covered black spruce trees in a boggy area of interior Alaska.
Happy new year from the bogland gnomes who hope you achieve your goals this year. May that include wetland protection and conservation around the world. If you care about stable food, clean water, your climate, or beautiful inspiring places, then you care about wetlands.
Calling it out for what it really is 🤐 rather than a #planning system where the decisions are legally compliant & #sustainable - we get this #HowIrelandWorks same old playlist #scalesofjustice
@attractaub.bsky.social @irishrainforest.bsky.social @savethehellfire.bsky.social
The truth?
The Irish public doesn't WANT their national rivers and lakes turned into stinking, dying, cesspools for profit by a particular commercial sector, that also happens to be very heavily subsidised by people's taxes.
Yet that's what this government continues to push for.
The only bush/tree growing up this side of the mountain in Conamara is a rhododendron ponticum.
If you don't see an invasive plant species when out in Ireland, you're not looking hard enough.
Another pile of rhodo gone!
Rhododendron ponticum is native to Iberia and Caucas region (its actually under pressure in Iberia and people working to save it)!
Ireland is thought to have a cultivar "superponticum" introduced in last century or so which is cold resistant, perfect for Irish climate.
Another day
Another invasive species
We are literally an island - every new invasive species is a policy and political failure.
#Bluetongue Virus's arrival in Ireland is a #climate change story as well as an animal welfare concern.
Endemic in sub-tropics, but unheard of in Europe until the late '90s. Changing humidity and temperature allowed the infected midges to survive in ever more northerly areas.
Graphic: WOAH
You've until 5pm today to let govt know what you think of their plan for agricultural nitrates pollution.
All you need to do is send an email. In the post linked below we've some measures we feel should be in there & if you think they should be in there let them know.
swanireland.ie/nitrates-pol...
Now you see me....
Now you don't!
A photo from a @rhodorangers.bsky.social day out from a while back
And an opportunity to reintroduce ourselves...
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We need transparency on data centre water use in Ireland. And also do big users like Amazon get preferential rates?
The Environmental Impact Assessment for this project would be a interesting read !
