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The BBC has announced a season of television, radio and online programmes to mark the 60th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster, remembering the 144 people who died and the lasting impact on the village and communities across Wales

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BBC announces special programmes to mark 60th anniversary of Aberfan disaster

Nation.Cymru staff The BBC has announced a season of television, radio and online programmes to mark the 60th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster, remembering the 144 people who died and the lasting i...

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Catherine Duigan @cduigan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Not for long After the dark The dawning. After the first light The sun. Becoming @rsthomaspoet.bsky.social St. Nidan's Church #YnysMôn #Anglesey #WalesCoastPath #WelshPoetry #Poetry #SundayMorning #autumn #Wales #Cymru

Autumn leaves on path leading to church door; sunshine cutting through tree branches

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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 08/10/2026

An analysis of lake sediments in south-eastern Australia has revealed that the expulsion of Indigenous communities in the 19th century resulted in an explosion of tree cover and more devastating wildfires. Read more: www.newscientist.com/articl...

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Catherine Duigan @cduigan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A shared heritage - This project brought together a range of women from across the region - all ages & backgrounds - to reflect on their Irish identity, through folklore, art, personal objects and family history. #migration #Ireland #Liverpool @liverpooluni.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Irish heritage and culture, as told by the women of the North West

A new exhibition is celebrating the role of women in the rich Irish communities across northern England.

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Catherine Duigan @cduigan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

In 1969, just before Apollo 11 was about to land on the moon, an emergency alarm rang. “Our astronauts didn’t have much time, but thankfully they had Margaret Hamilton,” said Barack Obama as gave her the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016. #womeninscience www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

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Margaret Hamilton, trailblazer whose software powered Apollo 11 moon landing, dies at 90

MIT computer scientist led development of software for moon mission and earned Presidential Medal of Freedom

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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Heatwaves are warming our rivers too. Since the 1980s: 👉 Compound air–river heatwaves have tripled 👉 River heatwaves are 114% more frequent, 148% longer, and 95% more intense 👉 By 2100, under high emissions, 98.5% of river and atmospherric heatwaves could coincide. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Threefold increase in atmospheric–riverine compound heatwaves under climate change - Nature Geoscience

Co-occurring atmospheric and river heatwaves have tripled since the 1980s across the USA and Europe, and are projected to become the norm by 2100, according to model simulations.

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Catherine Duigan @cduigan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Water refilling the seasonal waterbody near Castell-gwylan on the shores of the Menai Strait #Anglesey #limnology #lakes #YnysMôn #LakesOfWales

Vegetation zonation visible around margins of seasonal pond; surface depression with water; wind sculpted tree in foreground.

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Other work by the Ladybird artists Llangollen Valley Artist: SR Badmin

A view over a green, lightly- wooded valley at Sunset or dawn

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Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In 1671, Friedrich Martens travelled to Svalbard and around Greenland as ship's surgeon on the 'Jonas im Walfisch' or 'Jonah in the Whale'. These engravings of a whale & fin whale are from the diary he kept, first published in 1675, where he recorded the area's flora, fauna & whaling industry.

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Julian Hughes @penrhynbirder.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Cloddiau (sing. clawdd) are one of my favourite features of the countryside in Cymru. An earth bank, dressed with stone on each side - a field boundary in which plants can grow. We walked alongside this one, near Bontnewydd today, that has some impressive oaks growing from its core.

An Oak tree, probably coppiced at some stage, growing from a clawdd, the earth bank dressed with rectangular stones, below which plants grow from the roadside verge.

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🧊🔥 6 meters !🔥🧊 This is what the largest glacier in the Alps has lost at Konkordiaplatz at 2900 m asl during the insane 2026 summer ! 'No words' as @matthias-huss.bsky.social (pictured here) said! 😲😱 📷 A. Linsbauer

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JNCC @jncc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Every day, decisions are made that shape nature's future. But those decisions need evidence. Today we're launching our Science Impact Strategy 2026-2030, setting out how we'll maximise the impact of our science & turn evidence into action. 📽️ youtu.be/Vr5hQRS0Tzc?... 🔗 jncc.gov.uk/science-impa...

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JNCC Science Impact Strategy 2026-2030

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NHM Library and Archives @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Thomas Pennant's (1726-1798) body of work spanned natural history, antiquities and travel. To celebrate his tercentenary, we've added his correspondence and catalogues to our Digital Special Collections: buff.ly/ZFULOe0. #Manuscripts #18thCentury #HistoryOfScience #HistoryOfNaturalHistory

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Catherine Duigan @cduigan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"When Francis preached love to the birds They listened, fluttered, throttled up Into the blue like a flock of words Released for fun from his holy lips." Seamus #Heaney #IrishPoetry #feastday #StFrancis #writing #nature #naturewriting #Orto #Sunday

Metal statue of St. Francis casting birds into the air.

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Catherine Duigan @cduigan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

From #Talwrn #Anglesey: "The diary chronicles daily life through anecdotes about her children, neighbours, gardening and love of poetry and flowers, alongside reflections on the progress of the war." #heritage #nature #family #community #YnysMôn #Wales

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JNCC @jncc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🌊 A newly discovered pink sea fan coral colony off the South West coast of England shows the power of collaborative seabed mapping in action 🔗 bit.ly/4AT1lhU #CHAS2026 #SeabedMapping #CSM2026

A shot from above a grey brown seabed. Dotted along are peachy-coral coloured corals shaped like fans

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Catherine Duigan @cduigan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A shared heritage - The Ladies of #Llangollen from #Kilkenny, a very special part of our #Ireland #Wales story - will be great to see this exhibition at Tŷ Pawb, #Wrexham @norenashopland.bsky.social

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Catherine Duigan @cduigan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Educated in a school on the #RiverTrent in #Gainsborough #Lincolnshire, pioneering freshwater ecologist Kathleen Carpenter would have also been a witness to its #pollution from industry. #worldriversday @trentriverstrust.bsky.social @lincswildlife.bsky.social biography.wales/article/s12-...

Collage of images including background map of the River Trent flowing through Gainsborough, buildings on the riverbank, a salmon and photograph of Kathleen Carpenter in Edwardian clothing.

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An Taisce @antaisce.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

World Rivers Day offers a perfect opportunity to reflect on how we can reverse these trends for good By taking action and following the best available evidence, we can create lasting solutions to pollution. Healthy rivers are essential for nature, communities & future generations. #WorldRiversDay

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 26/09/2026

Cader Idris: let the mountain speak is a capacious bag of a book. It will be essential reading for mountain lovers for years to come ✍️Andrew Green wp.me/p8Mk4U-1tVm

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 26/09/2026

In Wales, climate change is discussed as if it sits apart from the cost-of-living crisis. Yet extreme weather affects harvests, supply chains and prices. Flooding threatens homes and businesses. The effects may begin elsewhere, but they do not remain elsewhere ✍️ Nicola Pulman

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Why climate change isn’t top of Wales’s agenda and how we change that

Nicola Pulman, Director of Size of Wales I had recently returned from visiting Size of Wales’s partners, the Sumatran Orangutan Society (SOS) and TaHuKah, in a 118,000-hectare landscape that is one of...

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Catherine Duigan @cduigan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A shared heritage - a way of talking in #Ireland and #Wales which is not a straightforward case of yes or no. #IrelandWales #Welsh #Irish #language #Cymraeg #gaeilge #verbs

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Julian Hughes @penrhynbirder.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Do you have nature records in notebooks that you never look at and wonder what to do with? I've transcribed 10,000 records from the 1960-70s from a Welsh ornithological legend into @birdtrack.bsky.social and @cofnod.org.uk. And it was fascinating... #BirdingWales www.cofnod.org.uk/news/natural...

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Naturalists' Notebooks: a treasure trove - Cofnod

Naturalists' Notebooks: a treasure trove

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Lighthouses Of Wales @lighthousewales.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A day of music from lighthouses around Britain and Ireland is just starting now on BBC Radio 3! "Where the Light Sings" www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Radio 3 - Listen Live - BBC Sounds

Listen live to Radio 3 on BBC Sounds

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Oxfam Ireland @oxfamireland.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“Nobody will be able to say that we did not know. Let it not be said that we did not act," Taoiseach Micheál Martin said of the Gaza genocide in today's address at the UN.

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When true horrors of Gaza are fully revealed ‘it will shame the world’, Martin tells UN

Taoiseach says the prospect of a two-state solution is being deliberately undermined and calls for stronger international cooperation

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Catherine Duigan @cduigan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A shared heritage - The Edge, David Howell Evans, had Welsh parents #U2 #Ireland #Wales #IrelandWales #rockstars "During his childhood in #Dublin, Evans talked in two different accents, using a Welsh accent at home and an Irish accent whenever he was outside." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Edge

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The Edge - Wikipedia

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Paul Montgomery @stonefishweirs.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Wood #fishweirs on the #RiveSuir below the Viking founded city of #Waterford,IR. Weirs have been used from prehistory for #salmon, #lamprey #eels #trout. Use of weirs caused debate and social conflict over access the rivers fisheries between indigenous communities and landlords. 1/4 #coastalhistory

Weir at Knockboy 1900-1910
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Map of “three sisters rivers” the #Barrow, #Nor and #Suir flow down joining together in Wexford harbour Ireland.

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Catherine Duigan @cduigan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In praise of #snails- Just gorgeous writing and reading to brighten you day. #nature #art #naturewriting #wellbeing #highlyrecommended #gardening

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Catherine Duigan @cduigan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A special new purple plaque is set to be unveiled in Betws-yn-Rhos to celebrate a truly remarkable woman. Victorian expert Mary Lloyd Wynne made history as the very first female #fungi specialist in #Wales. #womeninscience #envhist #mycology #naturalhistory www.inyourarea.co.uk/news/why-a-t...

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Why a tiny village near Conwy is celebrating one of Wales' most forgotten heroines | InYourArea

Victorian fungi expert Mary Lloyd Wynne honoured with Purple Plaque

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 22/09/2026

More than £1.8 million is being invested in a new research scheme that will see PhD students work with some of Wales’ biggest cultural and heritage organisations to explore the country’s history, culture and identity

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£1.8m research scheme to explore Wales’ history, culture and identity

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 23/09/2026

Over 20,000 people have backed a petition calling on the Welsh Government to reject Reform UK's motion to consider a targeted badger cull to 'manage' bovine TB wp.me/p8Mk4U-1tD9

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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Coming in February! An edited collection on rivers past and present and how they move. The code E27RIVER gets you 30% off a preorder from Duke. #envhist #rivers #envhum

Cover of the book Rivers on the Move, edited by Bathsheba Demuth, by Mark Healey, anyone Giacomo Pareinello & Laurence Smith. Cover shows white swirls of a river channel on a blue background

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"Before 'Lake America,' There Was 'Lake Frontenac'" by Scott Berthelette is part of our Tracking the Effects: Environmental History and the Current United States Federal Administration series, published in collaboration with @activehist.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2026/09/14/b... #envhist

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Before “Lake America,” There Was “Lake Frontenac”

Lake Ontario's history shows political renaming attempts often fail, as Indigenous-derived names endure despite official decrees or vanity.

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Cofnod Local Environmental Records Centre @cofnod.org.uk · 28/08/2026

Cofnod #RecordOfTheWeek is Convolvulus Hawk-moth (Agrius convolvuli) one of two Anglesey records seen by CatherineD recently. @sewbrec.org.uk @bispowys.bsky.social @wwbic1.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social

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Armando Rosario-Lebrón @rosariolebronentomology.com · 06/09/2026

New Thinozercon trip in Wales. This time a very successful trip with LOTS of amazing little critters. Everything from Crustaceans, Hemiptera and velvet mites in one location. Wales has such amazing #ukwildlife 🌿🧪 #inverts #bugsky #entomology Blog here: rosariolebronentomology.com/thinozercon/...

A pale, translucent Corophium amphipod in side view, walking across wet grey estuarine mud on its long banded antennae and front legs, with glistening sediment in the background.

A bright red velvet mite, plush and densely furred, walking over coarse damp sand mixed with tiny shell fragments and strands of green algae.

A small orange-brown predatory mesostigmatid mite with a smooth, glossy oval body, standing on rippled wet mud, its pale forelegs extended ahead like feelers.

A slate-blue sea springtail, Anurida maritima, its plump segmented body covered in fine white hairs, crawling across shiny waterlogged mud, with a much smaller pale springtail visible below.

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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 09/09/2026

What does it mean to live on an island, and why does it matter now? In his new book, Ireland: Why it matters to be an island, Michael Cronin asks us to rethink Ireland's relationship with the sea and consider what our island status means in an age of climate emergency Pre-order now: bit.ly/4cBfZ2H

Book cover of "Ireland: Why It Matters to Be an Island" by Michael Cronin, featuring stylized waves and a sun on a beige background.

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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 08/09/2026

A look back at some key moments in Ireland’s aviation history, from the first flight to the pioneering Irish women who took to the skies. ✈️ Read the latest @dib.ie blog to discover more: www.dib.ie/blog/balloon...

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Lee Raye @leafyhistory.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Happy release day from me and my new book! CREATURES OF STORY AND SONG is out today with @reaktionbooks.bsky.social . What do you think of my book cake?! (thanks Laurie!)

Photo of the author with curly hairs and glasses holding out a plate with a slice of cake with 'happy book release day'written over the top

Cake with my book's cover on the top! The title is 'Creatures of Story and Song: Tracing Britain's Lost Species' by Lee Raye. The cover is turquoise blue with wolves walking with people

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 06/09/2026

The Norman invasion created an English consciousness and established England’s domination of the British islands. In time that had implications for Wales, as well as Scotland and Ireland. We still live with the consequences ✍️Desmond Clifford wp.me/p8Mk4U-1sqF

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 07/09/2026

Scientists have called for an overhaul of the way badgers are vaccinated against bovine tuberculosis in Wales, warning that major gaps in evidence make it difficult to establish whether the programme is helping to reduce the disease in cattle

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Scientists question impact of badger vaccination on bovine TB in Wales

Mark Mansfield Scientists have called for an overhaul of the way badgers are vaccinated against bovine tuberculosis in Wales, warning that major gaps in evidence make it difficult to establish whether...

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