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Alistair Whitby

@alistairwhitby.bsky.social
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River & wetland habitat restoration, chalk streams, & community engagement with the Ouse & Adur Rivers Trust. Into regenerative growing, rewilding, good books & generally being outdoors!

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Extreme weather during summer 2026 is estimated to have cost the EU 180 billion Euros But still governments refuse to acknowledge the scale of the threat and turn away from any serious, effective, action Hard to comprehend really www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Burning forests, emptying rivers, €180bn in damage: Europe’s politicians face reckoning after ‘summer of truth’
Amid record-shattering heatwaves and popular demand for climate action, why are politicians often timid or in denial?
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Just fascinating to see Blair, a man whose reputation was ruined by the Iraq war, advocate joining a war that is exponentially stupider and more chaotic. How is it possible to learn nothing from the worst mistake of your life?
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Alistair Whitby @alistairwhitby.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Started the hedge planting season with a bang getting over 600 mixed, native, deciduous trees into the ground with our amazing @ouseadurrt.bsky.social volunteers 😀 🙌 A great new wetland given a fab upgrade with bit of hedge habitat 🌳💦💪
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."
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China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics
The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Wind power has saved UK consumers over £100 billion since 2010 – new study theconversation.com/wind-power-h...
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Wind power has saved UK consumers over £100 billion since 2010 – new study
Wind power offers a large financial benefit to UK consumers.
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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Sources for the drinking water of 6 million people in England so contaminated with PFAS forever chemicals, the Drinking Water Inspectorate has ordered water companies to act. Our story featured on @BBCr4today this morning + here on BBC Online: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Firms ordered to reduce forever chemicals in drinking water for 6m people - BBC News
The persistent pollutants which build up in the environment have been linked to serious illnesses.
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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
"We should no longer be making PFAS" Water UK's David Henderson tells Nick Robinson removing PFAS from water sources is so hard we should talk about a ban on forever chemicals, not a clean up. Our story on the DWI ordering water firms to act on PFAS in water sources made the Today Programme. 🧵
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Ouse & Adur Rivers Trust @ouseadurrt.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Fantastic to be out on the river Uck & tributaries looking at new #naturalfloodmanagement opportunities! 💦🦆🐟🌳 If you are a landowner, or know of suitable sites for scrapes, ponds, hedges, leaky barriers, river rewiggling etc. get in touch at info@oart.org.uk #UckAdaptation
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Energy transitions don't happen everywhere all at once. They happen sector by sector, place by place. Pointing out that some sectors and places are not advancing yet does not negate that others have come a long way. Here are the Nordics - heat pump roll-out replaced fossil fuels reducing emissions.
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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Classed as 'reprotoxic', EEA-NH4 is a type of PFAS that can harm sexual function, fertility + child development. In 2023, we exposed a plant in Lancashire releasing almost 800kg into the River Wyre - so why isn't the curent EA investigation testing for it? 🧵 1 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Regulators overlooking toxic Pfas found around Lancashire chemicals plant
Exclusive: Environment Agency not testing for ‘forever chemical’ made by factory despite evidence of emissions
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Ouse & Adur Rivers Trust @ouseadurrt.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Huge kudos to our River Rangers who turned up for a soggy but successful wetland management session today! 👏🦆💦🐸 💧Willow hide trimmed 💧Wetland plants translocated 💧Pampas, buddleia & gourse managed 💧Channel cleared for winter After such a dry year, the rain was welcome when it did arrive 🙏
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Ouse & Adur Rivers Trust @ouseadurrt.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
That's a wrap! Fantastic to get phase 1 of the Landport Brooks project completed with initial ditch maintenance. 🚜👷💪 Next year's work aims to improve the ecological health & restore wet habitats of the floodplain grazing marsh. 🐦👌🐄 Great partnership with @LewesDistrictCouncil and @SDNP 👏
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Every day the government delays banning the sale of peat compost means more carbon lost to the atmosphere from this appalling practice www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/vast-ar...
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Vast areas of peatland destroyed since peat ban announced exactly 3 years ago | The Wildlife Trusts
It has been three years since the UK Government announced that it would ban the sale of peat for use in the amateur gardening sector, yet there is still no sign of legislation to enact the ban.
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BirdGuides @birdguides.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Golden Eagle may soon be reintroduced in England, following the results feasibility study by Forestry England:
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Study backs reintroduction of Golden Eagle to England
Golden Eagle could soon return to England, with a Forestry England study expected to confirm there is enough habitat to support the species' reintroduction. Once persecuted to extinction, the birds may follow the success of Scotland's reintroduction programme, which has grown the population to more than 50 pairs. DEFRA says plans will consider ecological impacts and public engagement, marking a major step for the UK's most iconic bird of prey.
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
EU wildfires worst on record as burning season continues Data shows more than 1 million hectares torched so far this year, with records also broken for CO2 and other air pollutants www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
theguardian.com
EU wildfires worst on record as burning season continues
Data shows more than 1m hectares torched so far this year, with records also broken for CO2 and other air pollutants
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Rewild Scotland @rewildscotland.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Scotland has so much to be proud of. But there’s something missing – something extraordinary... More info www.scotlandbigpicture.com/lynx-to-scotland 🎶 by Beluga Lagoon, 🎬 SCOTLAND:The Big Picture
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Rewild Scotland @rewildscotland.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Scotland - looking wonderful here. Young trees, mature trees and dead trees. Closed canopy, open areas and moor. This is a landscape where grazing pressure has been matched to the carrying capacity of the land.
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Alistair Whitby @alistairwhitby.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
A scorching but successful week of river remeandering. Four new berms completed 🙌 💦🐟 Huge thanks to our awesome volunteers, who've gone above and beyond the call of duty!💪🔥💪 So gratifying to see Kingfishers visiting the newly enhanced sections every day! 🐦
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Alistair Whitby @alistairwhitby.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
This spring has been a proper wildlife adventure
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My Zero Carbon #ClimateAction @myzerocarbon.org · 27/05/2025
. Latest – Scotland produces enough renewable electricity to meet all its needs and then power 1.4 million homes in the rest of the UK – Talking-up Scotland talkingupscotlandtwo.com/20... #ClimateAction
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Latest – Scotland produces enough renewable electricity to meet all its needs and then power 1.4 million homes in the rest of the UK
Professor John Robertson OBA From Energy Statistics for Scotland – Q4 2024, published today A record 38.4 TWh of renewable electricity was generated in Scotland in 2024 – a 13.2% increase compared …
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Ouse & Adur Rivers Trust @ouseadurrt.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
A fantastic end to #INNSWeek with two days of removing non-native species from one of our precious chalk streams! 🌱💦💪 Two truckloads of Himalayan Balsam, Cotoneaster, Leylandii, Cherry laurel, Crocosmia, Spanish bluebells, & Box-leaved honeysuckle removed from the Lewes Winterbourne! Top effort 👏
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Alistair Whitby @alistairwhitby.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Another week of lovely nature and wildlife encounters while out restoring Sussex rivers. This was the longest slow worm I've ever seen! #wildlife
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
It looks like there's snow on the rainforest floor in May, but it's actually massed willow seed, drifting on the air. Every one of these countless magic fairy dust packets of DNA has the potential to be a magnificent old tree, supporting a highly diverse, living ecosystem. 🌏
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Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Exactly how does a UK customs officer know whether beef has been reared using excessive amounts of antibiotics in a factory farm where it is rammed up against its neighbours and never sees a blade of grass?
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Ouse & Adur Rivers Trust @ouseadurrt.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
It's #NationalHedgerowWeek! 🌳🌳🌳 Hedgerows play a vital role in enhancing rivers, creating corridors, slowing surface water & filtering pollutants. 🐟💦🌱 We're looking for opportunities to create new hedgerows like these ones we planted in 2020. Get in touch to find out more: info@oart.org.uk 🌳🌳
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Make something good come of the moronic felling of the Sycamore Gap tree, with the culprits now convicted. The Woodland Trust is calling on Ministers to bring in new legislation so that important trees are listed for protection like historical buildings are: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 07/05/2025
These are real images of exoplanets. Four super-Jupiters, imaged 10 times over 12 years around a star 133 lightyears away. These are real, giant worlds, out there in the dark. And we can see them.
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Alistair Whitby @alistairwhitby.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
It's been a lovely week in the Sussex countryside doing river and wetland work and enjoying the stunning #bluebells!
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Jamie DeMarco @jamiedemarco.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
I think this graph of wind and solar looks narwhal-esk @leahstokes.bsky.social
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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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A silent majority of the world’s people wants stronger climate action. It’s time to wake up | Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope
About 89% of the public want their governments to do more to tackle the climate crisis – but don’t know they’re the majority
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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
"The Treasury is driving this false wedge between homes + nature...but we have been working with housing developers for years + years in harmony...good companies want nature around the new-builds. It improves...mental health...reduces flooding, provides shade." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘People love being here’: London development shows harmony between nature and housing
Five thousand new homes alongside a paradise for newts appears to fly in face of government’s ‘false wedge’
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Alistair Whitby @alistairwhitby.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Spring is well and truly getting underway at our restored EPIC chalk stream site. Exciting to see Snake's head fritillary and cowslips up. Our reptile survey setup was rewarded with slow worm sightings. The brook is looking great with ramshorns, starwort, blue water speedwell & newts aplenty!
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Rewild Scotland @rewildscotland.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Watch our stunning film and tell me what you think. youtube.com/watch?v=FFyp...
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Why Not Scotland? | The Rewilding Nation documentary
YouTube video by The Scottish Rewilding Alliance
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Alistair Whitby @alistairwhitby.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Baffles, berms & backwaters! Fantastic day spent with @seriverstrust.bsky.social sharing experience on their Chamber Mead wetlands and Hogsmill river projects!💧💪 Some great learning on dead hedges, rock ramp fish passes, and stream restoration 🐟💦👌
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Don Boesch 🇺🇦🇬🇱 @donboesch.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
BFD! Louisiana jury orders Chevron to pay $747 million for environmental damages, funds sorely needed for coastal wetland restoration. With no irony, Industry leader says this will have a "chilling effect" on economic (i.e., oil and gas) activity. Guest link. www.nola.com/news/environ...
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Jury orders Chevron to pay $745 million for Louisiana coastal damage in landmark trial
The jury delivered its verdict in the landmark case, which sought to make Chevron pay to restore an area of coastal wetlands near Bayou Gentilly.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
I kind of want to go
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
There is simply NO rational justification for this other than the wholesale destruction of all national environmental and health protections and the protection of polluting industries. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Trump officials quietly move to reverse bans on toxic ‘forever chemicals’
EPA bids to change chemical risk evaluations, which could expose public to higher levels of PFAS and other pollutants
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Alistair Whitby @alistairwhitby.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Very exciting to revisit berms we installed in the autumn on the Teville stream & find 12 inches of accumulated sediment. Some have even started sprouting native marginal plants! 💧🌱💪 Moorhen, kingfisher, stickleback & early damselfly all using the rewiggled habitat! #MakeRiversBendAgain
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Alistair Whitby @alistairwhitby.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Really fun making a community wildlife pond with legendary wetland creator 'Pete the pond' last weekend. 🐸 💧🌱 So many good tips 👌
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/04/2025
"nothing could have prepared us for the breadth or intensity of the assault on climate action that Trump has unleashed during his first months back in office." I know it's hard to keep Trump's horrors straight, but in the fullness of history, this is likely to be seen as the worst.
bloomberg.com
Years of Climate Action Demolished in Days: A Timeline
Trump’s environmental directives are gutting basic protections for Americans and the agencies designed to deliver them.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 03/04/2025
The problem is: they've mistaken correlation for causation. They think their parents and grandparents had a good life *because* of manufacturing jobs. When, in reality, their parents and grandparents had a good life *despite* manufacturing jobs, because of unions, high taxes, and social policies.
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Alistair Whitby @alistairwhitby.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Great to see our urban wetlands in Ringmer looking great in the spring sunshine. Heron and ducks feeding and lots of native wetland plants on show.
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Alistair Whitby @alistairwhitby.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Heading into the weekend like this gorgeous grass snake! 🐍 Seen at our Cockshut wetland as we were setting up... this year's reptile survey!
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Alistair Whitby @alistairwhitby.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Out in force today for a very productive session with OART & Environment Agency volunteers making swales and leaky barriers in woodland above Newhaven. All helping to #slowtheflow and reduce flood risk. #StoringTheStorm
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Alistair Whitby @alistairwhitby.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Beautiful day for a River Ranger session. Worked on clearing bullrush, sedge, and common reeds in the channel, managing bramble next to a wildlife pond and removing spent rabbit guards! 🌞🐟🌱 Very excited to find lots of tadpoles and frogspawn in the scrapes, ponds, and stream 🐸
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The Rivers Trust @theriverstrust.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
A new partnership between Mayor Steve Rotheram, Mersey Rivers Trust & United Utilities will make Merseyside rivers cleaner over the next 5 years! The plan will: ✅ Cut sewage discharges ✅ Boost biodiversity ✅ Reduce flood risks ✅ Use nature-based solutions Learn more 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Liverpool to accelerate River Mersey clean-up with new partnership
The agreement is aimed at improving the health of the waterways in Merseyside.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Nothing will ever trickle down.
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John Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Good morning with good news: After quadrupling since 2015, European solar capacity will triple from 2024 to 2035. The "sunny" capacity numbers: 2035: 1236 GW 2033: 1112 GW 2030: 911 GW 2027: 662 GW 2024: 405 GW 2021: 210 GW 2018: 130 GW 2015: 101 GW #energysky www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 07/03/2025
Friday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the *lowest* on record (JAXA data) • about 580,000 km² below the 2010s mean • about 1,150,000 km² below the 2000s mean • about 1,500,000 km² below the 1990s mean • about 2,010,000 km² below the 1980s mean Plots: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i... 🌊
Line graph time series of 2025's daily Arctic sea ice extent compared to decadal averages from the 1980s to the 2010s. The decadal averages are shown with different colored lines with purple for the 1980s, blue for the 1990s, green for the 2000s, and white for the 2010s. Thin white lines are also shown for each year from 2000 to 2024. 2025 is shown with a thick gold line. There is a long-term decreasing trend in ice extent for every day of the year shown on this graph between January and April by looking at the decadal average line positions.
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