Her Excellency Arlette Soudan-Nonault MoET RofCongo shares that the #CongoPeatlands are the "second lung of the Earth" while holding "more than 30 Gt of Carbon #PeatlandsMatter UN Environment Programme working together for #Biodiveristy #ClimateAction vital #NatureBasedSolutions that need attention now!

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Amazing photo from Warsaw last night as 100,000 marched for women’s rights. Last time such crowds gathered in Poland’s capital was the centenary of its independence from imperial powers, in 2018. 🇵🇱

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Disaster unfolding in Central America as extreme flooding issues continue to unravel. We worry about the election but this is catastrophic for Honduras right now. 🎥 Villanueva (Cortés), Honduras 🇭🇳 Nicaragua 🇳🇮 and Guatemala 🇬🇹 have also been hit hard.

CNN contributor Van Jones got emotional shortly after the news network called the election for Joe Biden.

Natural England 'cut to the bone' and unable to protect wildlife, say staff theguardian.com/environment/20…

The UK's rivers are dying before our eyes, poisoned by sewage and farm slurry. All 4 governments are letting the polluters get away with it. We want to change this, by putting the issue front and centre. But we need your help. Please support us. Thank you kickstarter.com/projects/frann…

Bagpuss to 'Come On Eileen' cheered me up no end x.com/CuriousUkTelly…

We’ve had political promises to save #nature before. And they’ve been missed time and time again. Now we’re calling on Boris Johnson to put promises for nature’s recovery in law. Sign our petition for a #StateofNature target in the #EnvironmentBill. 👉 e-activist.com/page/76784/pet…

Cuckmere Haven in East Sussex photographed this afternoon. It was a beautiful day. Local Tory MPs voted yesterday to allow raw sewage to be dumped into this water with no penalties to the water companies. I think this is immoral. An RT would be nice if you agree.

We asked for our new fence between front and back garden to have a hedgehog highway installed...result.....Edwina Rowling

Rebecca Elmhirst brightoncca Alice Oh mai jebing Wellbeing, Ecology, Gender and cOmmunity

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The govt is planning the removal from the statute books of 570 laws derived from EU directives that make up the bedrock of environmental regulations in the UK, covering sewage pollution, water quality and clean air. theguardian.com/environment/20…

Congrats to marine biology lecturer Dr Corina Ciocan & human geography lecturer Dr Mary Gearey on their new #citizenscience project! Based in Chichester harbour they'll be working w members of the public on water quality sampling & documenting what happens to old/abandoned boats.

Today University of Brighton has announced its intention to make more than 100 redundancies saving £17.9m. But our SMT have just SPENT a similar amount buying Virgin Active out of a lease. We will fight this failure of management. RT to support our fight! #ucuRISING #BrightonUniStrike

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