This guy Bembridge is deputy editor of Country Squire Magazine, which had to pay Chris Packham £90k plus costs for libel/defamation for untrue attacks/harassment. Worth joining the dots to see how the hard right is active in all spheres: urban, rural, health, countryside, wildlife.
Sociopaths.
That's right....and so dreadfully wrong
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2026...
Sometimes on trail cameras in Monks Wood NNR we detect these black feral cats, living totally wild in the wood for decades, maybe centuries, without any human interaction. Always black, very stocky, rarely seen. I found a dead kitten once. They live as Wild Cats, just as elusive, undocumented.
Seems a bit early for Clancy's #TeamMoth
REJOIN "is the rational and the patriotic approach," Neil Kinnock says at the launch of @bestforbritain.org's new report. "In an era of Trump's tariffs and tantrums, colossal Chinese advance, Russia's war on the West, and turmoil in the Middle East, our 'special relationship' has to be with Europe."
"The masters of war pretend not to know that it takes only a moment to destroy, yet a lifetime is often not enough to rebuild. They turn a blind eye to the fact that billions of dollars are spent on killing and devastation, yet the resources needed for healing, education and restoration are nowhere to be found." -Pope Leo XIV
Bad news - we'll soon blow through the carbon budget for stabilizing global temperature at 1.5C
Good news - progress on clean energy suggests it is possible to stabilize by 2C www.nature.com/articles/s41...
What does the science say? Neither is a magic threshold. Every bit of warming matters.
One of Aotearoa New Zealand's greatest gifts to the world has been pioneering rodent eradication technology on islands.
The brodifacoum used for this project was manufactured in Whanganui.
Conservation can be an export industry! Fund it!
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oceanographicmagazine.com/news/rat-era...
Utterly fantastic news. With the invaluable help of supporters and members, the Dorset Wildlife Trust have secured Upton Heath! Priceless habitat saved by wonderful people....
www.dorsetwildlifetrust.org.uk/news/upton-h...
Having full parliamentary debates on each Single Market rule would be far too slow.
However, the UK government should declare that it will seek to rejoin the EU a.s.a.p, so that the UK can once again play a key role in shaping Single Market rules.
#RejoinEU
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
A beautiful illustration for Australians, and the rest of us. A simple bar graph that depicts how far you can go on a $Aus with petrol, and how far with electricity.
(BTW, the refining of oil into petrol uses a metric sh!t ton of electricity)
More info: elitre.com.au/dollar
Latest details on the largest wind farm in the world – to power 3.3 million homes – as it prepares to connect to the grid.
As renewables saved the UK £1bn in gas imports in March, Reform UK is still saying it wants to scrap Net Zero.
Trump's plan for defeating a person strangling him: placing his hands round his own throat and squeezing.
Your regular reminder that the US had a pain-stakingly negotiated and workable deal with Iran when Trump came to power, but he tore it up. He's now desperately trying to secure a deal much worse than the one he set aside.
France 🇫🇷 doubles electrification support to €10bn/year through 2030 — EVs, heat pumps, industry.
The reason?
The Strait of Hormuz crisis making fossil fuel dependence impossible to ignore.
Geopolitical shocks don’t just raise prices. They change what’s politically possible.
An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death
2, yes, 2 Bonaparte's Gulls. 2nd-cal yr, joined by a 3rd-cal yr+ at Lynch Cove this afternoon. Pic is not a true reflection, as the 2 birds spent hardly anytime together. 2nd bird found by Charlie Richards, during increase of Black-headed Gulls since the morning.First multiple occurrence in Dorset.
How much would it cost to bring water into public ownership?
The government wants you to believe it's too expensive to do. But that's what happens when you swallow the water industry's 💩.
If you want parliament to debate water properly, sign this petition.
vist.ly/4xtt8
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Ahead of elections in both countries, DeSmog has catalogued the connections between Hungary’s autocratic government and Farage’s operation.
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This is verified: a wild Raccoon was seen leaving a cargo ship docked in Southampton over Easter. Raccoon is on the Species Alert list of animals considered to pose greatest risk to British ecology & economy. Records trigger a rapid response for removal, and it happens more often than you'd think.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
I’ve some ‘great’ memories of Scillonian trips to Scilly, being rolled about and trying to keep my breakfast down. Oh the relief of reaching the calm of the Scilly shallows
Graph showing how much voters of each party care about climate change. Reform supporters are unique in a huge majority not giving a fuck.
From.the latest @willhaycardiff.bsky.social newsletter. No surprise on the Reform section, but horrific if they win even half the parliamentary seats they are currently projected to...
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You have to feel sorry for James Dyson. Imagine buying up 33,000 acres of farmland to avoid tax, only for Labour to then close the loophole. We need more patriots like him, who drive up farmland prices and vote for Brexit then fuck off to Singapore.
Feudalism - not a good idea.
"They pay no capital gains or corporation tax and do not have to comply with property laws such as compulsory purchase orders."
www.thetimes.com/uk/royal-fam...
This is such a beautiful film - a must for butterfly lovers but everyone else as well. Screenings from April 19 - go and see it in a cinema! www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...
Imagine how much money we’ve wasted. Imagine how much could have gone into the NHS, public services, tackling poverty…
Will anyone be held responsible though? For the lies that were told, the false promises made?
Perhaps a brexit tax on all the corporations that cashed in?
I’M SO CROSS!
This is figure 2, which shows estimated damage from a marginal unit of past or future emissions.
Future economic costs associated with historical CO2 emissions may be at least 10 times higher than costs already incurred from the same emissions, a study in Nature suggests. go.nature.com/3NDsly7 #econsky 🧪
US has caused $10tn worth of climate damage since 1990, research finds
US, top carbon emitter in history, has "a lot of responsibility" for causing ‘substantial’ harm globally, scientist says
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The White House sending out proof that Trump was indeed talking to Iranian officials these past few days, despite Iran's denials of such talks.
