I used to live near this pub back before Taylor Swift was ever really a thing... I remember if being a great place but definitely didn't look that posh back before the whole Vauxhall transformation... bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

Really exciting to see this announcement finally break cover today... especially given it was conservation projects of this kind of mind-boggling scale that made me want to work for The Nature Conservancy in the first place... reuters.com/world/asia-pac… (c/o marc jones)

Bittersweet story... the end of Britain's coal age is indeed overdue from a climate and pollution perspective, but in a funny way I too will miss the monolithic presence of these iconic cooling towers... theguardian.com/business/2024/…

Imagine not believing this is what actually happened 😂

Asking for a friend: aren't 'ugly parts of the Green Belt' often also precious surviving fragments of the type of scrubby, 'untidy' habitat that many wildlife species naturally prefer?

My favourite scandalous Penny deepfake so far: independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

Visit Britain seriously needs to hire this guy as its next CEO...

Not to take anything away from the seriousness of the situation in the Middle East, but it does increasingly feel like Ukraine has been hung out to die...
politico.eu/article/why-uk…

I wonder what (((Dan Hodges)))' mother did to make him go after another prominent female Labour MP with such venom?

Talk about everyone wants a revolution but no one wants to do the dishes. Feminist men, a word: learn to do all those things and DO them. Take the notes. Organize the group gift. Keep track of birthdays. Take the lunch order and call it in. DO a feminism, don’t just say it.

Goosey I like Claire’s take.

'Skepticism about the true cause highlights a frustrating duality: public readiness to blame weather tampering directly aligns with reluctance to accept other human activities are actively contributing to the climate crisis...' (@gabriellecanon) theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

Gosh I can't believe my annual 'agree with one of James Melville 🚜's tweets' day has come around so soon... (Cc Robert Ian McDonald, Ph.D.)

We can’t recycle our way out of the problem. We need to stop using plastic.

Just Googled 'Rokeby Venus' to remind myself what that famous painting looks like, and Google Images blurred most of the search results...

'It is on us to decide: structural change towards a renewable energy system is needed for our security and will save us money. Staying on the path we are currently on will lead to catastrophic consequences.'
(Prof Anders Levermann, PhD - via @jonathan_watts)
theguardian.com/environment/20…

Doing ecological studies during a biodiversity crisis is difficult. In 2002 I began studying Marsh Tits in an ancient woodland to see how a functioning population worked. After 10 yrs I realised I was now documenting their slide towards local extinction:

theguardian.com/environment/20…

Fantastic to see The Nature Conservancy closely involved in this one...

This sounds too good to be true... I wonder what chemicals it uses and whether they're derived from fossil fuels? businessgreen.com/news/4198087/w…

'Britons are throwing away an estimated 1.7 billion pieces of plastic a week...' 🤬news.sky.com/story/plastic-… (via Reemul Balla)