Clean energy pushes fossil-fuel power into reverse for ‘first time ever’ - Carbon Brief Renewable energy has overtaken coal to become the world's largest source of electricity in 2025, according to thinktank Ember.

www.carbonbrief.org/clean-energy...
#Climate

A field of sun-dried grass forms the base of the picture with a tree at either side, casting shade. Beyond, a deep valley lined with green trees leads toward the distant hills under a Mediterranean sky.

#ourworldiswonderful; here's a lovely warm picture from the Greek island of Samos to warm your day. Enjoy!

🎶 @afforsyth.bsky.social
@ledaimmortelle.bsky.social
@trwbbr.bsky.social
@packers1.bsky.social
@shaysbullfrog.bsky.social
@beautifulworld10.bsky.social
@nancyspantsbelt.bsky.social
@jaybird54.bsky.social
@bluebird4us.bsky.social
@bluestormcomin1.bsky.social
@bluthrunthru.bsky.social

Artist: Dennis Goris

How tragic that you could publish, then re-publish, then re-publish, then re-publish, then re-publish a cartoon like this over and over again...

'When I was called into the psychiatrist’s consulting room at 18:00, I was faced with a man I immediately pictured as a toad sitting behind his large wooden desk. He confirmed my name and invited me to sit, his soft voice surprisingly reassuring. From in front of him, he extracted a colourful..'

A poem of mine published in The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls:

#NationalPoetryMonth #poetry #TheWritingCommunity

Use Subplot to Give Story More Depth One way to give your story depth is to include a subplot, which is a secondary plot line. This sometimes is referred to as the B story, a term from screenwriting.A subplot typically centers on…

#writingtip #writingtips #BraveWrite #amwriting #writingcommunity inventingrealityediting.com/2...

#Books #WomensHistoryMonth #BookSky #TrueCrime

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20DayBookChallenge
(13/20)

6 Editing Tips for Tightening Your Writing • Use active voiceVerbs give sentences and books vibrancy. When too many of them in a story are passive or weak, the writing sounds drab.• Cut begin fallacyOne way to tighten your writing is to eli…

#writesky #writerscommunity #amwriting #wip #novella inventingrealityediting.com/2...

Plans, us…

#love #romance #poetry #poem #lovepoem #beinghuman
#WritersofSky #SkyPoets
#BlueSkyRelay
#FreeVerse
#Resist #Art #BookSky

Canaletto (1697–1768), Venice: The Bacino di San Marco from San Giorgio Maggiore, 1735/44. Oil on canvas, 129,2 × 188,9 cm, Wallace Collection, London © Wallace Collection, London, UK / Bridgeman Images

www.alaintruong.com/2026/04/cana...

Camille Pissarro, "The Parc-aux-Charrettes, Pontoise," oil on canvas, 1878; Sotheby's. #art #arte #pissarro #impressionist #impressionism #landscape #enpleinair #paintings #peintures #kunst #modernart #museum #artgallery

🇬🇧 Reform said they would pay my energy bills. They haven’t

"Residents of winning street in Nigel Farage’s fuel giveaway stunt complain they have missed out on prize"

Telegraph www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

Baby seal

Baby seal. LaJolla, CA. 🌿

White pea-shaped flowers

Nine years ago today 🌿

Astragalus parryi, our Parry's Milkvetch, blooming on the Homestead Trail #nativeplants

Wildlife needs your voice. Tell Congress: keep the Endangered Species Act strong. I signed—will you?

In honor of #EarthDay this week, speak out for the Endangered Species Act.

Help oppose U.S. legislation that would weaken protections, undermine science-based decisions, and make it harder to shield at-risk species from harm.

🌎 secure.wcs.org/campaign/260...

Low-Producing Oil Wells in Texas Cause Headaches for Landowners - Inside Climate News Jackie Chesnutt, who lives outside San Angelo, is tired of pollution from wells she says should have been plugged years ago. Experts say Texas rules allow companies to defer plugging wells for far too...

Companies will often maintain a minimal amount of oil production instead of plugging a well, which can cost tens of thousands of dollars. Landowners like Chesnutt argue that this pattern can lead to pollution and burdensome equipment on their land. 🌎 insideclimatenews.org/news/1904202...

City Nature Challenge returns 24–27 April! 🐝🌍️
Spot wildlife → Take a photo → Share on iNaturalist.

www.citynaturechallenge.org

#CNC2026 #UrbanNature #iNaturalist #Wildlife #Biodiversity

A kauri tree looking towards the canopy.

PhD opportunity- fully funded with stipend, fees and project costs covered. Explore the role of phosphite in treating kauri dieback disease. Applications due 8th May. Please spread the word!
newzealandecology.org/phd-explorin...

U.S. seizes Iranian cargo ship in Strait of Hormuz The U.S. has taken custody of an Iranian-flagged cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz after firing on its engine room, President Trump said in a post on social media.

US Marines boarded an Iranian cargo ship in the Gulf of Oman yesterday. Gas is still $4.05. The Epstein files are still out there. Trump still thinks that if he drags the war out long enough, we'll forget. We won't. #StraitOfHormuz #TrumpEpsteinCoverup #IranWar #FightBack
www.npr.org/2026/04/19/n...

Afternoon at The Roaches #landscape #photography 📷

Texel Hors Netherlands
Evening Tide winter
#slikart #terschelling #netherlands #landscape #seascape #seaside #cast #texel #hors #winter #mudflat

Book: Ensign Flandry (1966)
Series: Flandry #1
Author: Poul Anderson
Cover artist: Michael Whelan

#BookSky #Books 💙📚👀 🪐📚 #bookskyES #MichaelWhelan #Flandry #PoulAnderson

Life’s too short to spend your days unhappy, overwhelmed & carrying stress!

Protect your peace. Choose what feels right for your soul!!

Life is too short to be unhappy! Live your life with intention!

#SheShed

The World Was Ending Once Before, And We Fixed It in Nine Months So why don’t we do it again?

Good thing to remember as we start Earth Week with climate policy blocked in the U.S. and emissions continuing to mount: our history solving the hole in the Ozone layer shows rapid change is possible. medium.com/southern-win...

‘Labels protect us’: Olivia Nervo wants reproductive coercion to be a standalone offence – she is not alone Grammy-winning songwriter says she was deceived into pregnancy, and that cases like hers fall between the cracks

‘Labels protect us’: Olivia Nervo wants reproductive coercion to be a standalone offence – she is not alone