We are at sea and can smell the smoke. Saw a fire next to the motorway yesterday as we left Porto. Absolutely tragic 😞

1. You might not have heard of it, but the system supposed to protect us in England and Wales from #floods is an absolute disgrace: a network of old boys' clubs completely unaccountable to the public. No wonder it fails so badly. My column + thread. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

‘Butterfly emergency’ declared as UK summer count hits record low theguardian.com/environment/20…

Seeing dolphins never gets old 🐬 🥰

As anticipation grows for the new Paddington Movie, SSRP researchers have been getting acquainted with some real life Andean bears 🐻 The project, led by Fiona Mathews, inspects biodiversity in the Ecuadorian Andes via camera traps ⛰ Read our blog: sussex.ac.uk/research/centr…

Exclusive : our mudflats store more carbon than our forests . Pioneering British research revealed tonight of global significance ⁦Channel 4 News⁩

Sea spleenwort, a very tough fern, growing in the walls of the old coastguard building at Hurlstone Point

Rather breezy at the Point this morning!

Strange, smudgy, ill-defined clouds just now.....

The BBC political editor (260K pa) thinks it's a story that the Downing Street chief of staff (170K pa) earns more than the PM (167Kpa). Welcome to political journalism! PS Laura Kuenssberg is on 325K, Nick Robinson 340K and Fiona Bruce even more. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

What is a wildcat's role in a Devon landscape? Interactions between species are complex, and predator-prey relationships have often developed over millions of years. When one predator is removed, it can have a knock on impact through food chains. 📷stock.adobe.com [1/2]

IRA letter bomb. Evil. Israeli pager bomb Terribly clever. Maybe it's not the actual device that determines the moral position of the British establishment?

This 👇👇

Which is why sea-bed trawling should be stopped.

Skye and the Cuillin hills on the horizon, just before sunrise this morning. It’s looking like another cracking day here on Harris! Bliss.

Check out Toxic Influence, the new film exposing the dark side of Dove act.gp/dove-video-tw

Revealed: Far higher pesticide residues allowed on food since Brexit theguardian.com/environment/20…

‘It’s a warning’: UK nature chief sounds alarm over ecosystem collapse as butterfly numbers halve theguardian.com/environment/20…

I just found this very elegant Wasp beetle, Clytus arietis, on the sitting room window!