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Andy Collins

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
BREAKING📢 Crack team of climate scientists show "it is no longer defensible for companies proposing new or extended fossil fuel projects to claim the climate harms will be negligible. Our research shows the harms are, in fact, tangible and quantifiable – and no project is too small to matter"
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For the first time, we linked a new fossil fuel project to hundreds of deaths. Here’s the impact of Woodside’s Scarborough gas project
The results challenge claims that the climate risks posed by an individual fossil fuel project are negligible or cannot be quantified.
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Tegwyn @arachnoteg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Badumna longinqua for today's A-Z. New to the UK and probably spreading through plant trade. Check out your local garden centre, B+Q and especially B+M stores outdoor plant areas. You will likely find the distinctive web before any spider. Visit the BAS on YouTube for more info. #Aractober
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 30/09/2026
Some people say UK should stop building clean energy and should extend its reliance on gas power instead Choosing my words carefully, I would say that it's an interesting time to be making that argument www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-win...
carbonbrief.org
Analysis: Wind and solar save UK from gas imports worth £5.9bn during Hormuz crisis - Carbon Brief
The UK has avoided gas imports worth £5.9bn since the start of the Hormuz crisis as a result of record electricity generation from wind and solar.
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 29/09/2026
Access to culture is a right, not a privilege. Keeping museums free means millions can continue to explore, learn and be inspired, regardless of their background or income. That's good for London, and good for ensuring cost is never a barrier to discovery.
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Culture secretary confirms free admission for all at England’s national museums will remain
The announcement by Lisa Nandy, the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, came after recent discussions of introducing admission fees for overseas visitors
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 28/09/2026
👏 Sadiq Khan: “We talk about productivity, we talk about growth, we talk about jobs, we talk about wealth. The single best way to get that is by joining the European Union.”
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RareBirdAlert @rarebirder.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Slender-billed Nutcrackers stage Finland's biggest influx in three decades www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/S...
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Slender-billed Nutcrackers stage Finland’s biggest influx in three decades
An exceptional movement from the east has kept Finnish birders watching as autumn advances.
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Sunderland Lollipops @sunderlandlolly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Did you know that a Farage Reform govt intends to scrap the NHS? The private health care system he wants to introduce would cost you £10,000s, like the US, where getting ill can bankrupt you. #ReformUK #Labour #GreenParty #Newcastle #SAFC� #NUFC
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Mark Avery @markavery.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Where's Kazakhstan? The tale of a rare bird, donations from delighted twitchers and where the money went markavery.info/2026/09/28/w... @birdguides.bsky.social #cotswolds #shrike #twitch 📷 Dave Collins/BirdGuides
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Noel Healy @drnoelhealy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The assault on US universities didn't start in 2025. Our new paper traces the decades of corporate capture that made it possible, and why climate research is a primary target. Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Denmark is trolling Trump.
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Ross McNally @rossmcnally.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Perhaps even more annoying than the pig-ignorant climate denying blowhard is the anonymous airhead Labour minister who says we should split the difference between a sustainable future and planetary collapse, as if that makes her sound like the adult in the room. youtu.be/ziguhISBD8o?...
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George Monbiot reacts to Lord Jackson’s support for more North Sea drilling | BBC Politics Live
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Patrick Barkham @patrickbarkham.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Gorgeous visit to the sunny Lincolnshire coast yesterday to see the latest golf course given back to nature. Credit to @nationaltrust.org.uk for being brave. This is nature as human regen too – fantastic new green infrastructure for Mablethorpe and Sutton-on-Sea. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Skylarks and sandwich terns among new birdies on reserve created from ‘boring old golf course’
National Trust has transformed Sandilands in Lincolnshire into a nature reserve with wetlands and wading pools
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John Marchant @johnmarchant.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Recorders’ notebooks from the pre-digital era are a treasure trove, often lost in house moves or destroyed in clearances. We probably don’t appreciate that our own notes can contribute to future understanding of changes in an area’s wildlife. How much is already lost?”
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Happy Kicked In The Head By A Horse Day, to all who celebrate. It's the 7th anniversary of this absolute banger.
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Birds of Poole Harbour @harbourbirds.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The next phase of autumn migration is underway with the first nocturnal migrating Song Thrush of the season last night over the harbour @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social
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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Nonsense! Gas prices have risen across Europe, Africa & the Middle East. It’s not peculiar to Britain. What Monaco-based tax avoider Ratcliffe is trying to do is blackmail the UK govt to bung him some taxpayers’ money by threatening to close some his Hull plants www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Sir Jim Ratcliffe suspends production at key UK plants blaming high gas prices
Ineos said natural gas in the UK is twelve times more expensive than in the US.
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martinswarren.bsky.social @martinswarren.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Painted Ladies are gathering along the Dorset coast today, having vanished from my garden a few weeks ago. They will head south to France at altitude, probably waiting for favourable winds that are due tomorrow @dorsetbutterflies.bsky.social
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Andrew Clarke @mrandrewclarke.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Truly bizarre experience twitching a Great Bittern (Botaurus stellaris) feeding on the edge of the woodland whilst visiting Sheffield General Cemetery today. Has anyone seen them hunting in similar habitat? Left it ‘showing well’ at 1130 hrs. SK34248600 @shefbirdstudy.bsky.social #UKBirding
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Dr Rebecca Warren @drrjwarren.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Done.
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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It’s official, the 2026 El Niño has broken a record for the highest ocean anomaly in 170+ years… Incredibly reaching that threshold a full 2 months ahead of 2015’s record of +3.02C set on Nov 18th. See that red line? That’s 2026. Every other bold line are the strongest El Niño’s on record. 1/
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 20/09/2026
Normal? Not at all. Birdsong fades. Summer temperatures soar. The danger is we simply adjust – but we shouldn’t. We cannot allow the climate crisis to rewrite our idea of what's normal.
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Rachel Millward @rachelmillward.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Reform is a party funded by billionaires that chooses to attack people fleeing environmental breakdown, famine and war. We’re calling for safe routes so asylum seekers can apply before they leave their country, and never have to face a dangerous crossing in a small boat. join.greenparty.org.uk
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Emathion 📯 @emathion.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The French made a short film about what could happen after all immigrants would follow the ‘white, angry old man’s’ advice to go back where they came from.
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St Kilda World Heritage Site NTS @stkildawhs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Near-annual on #StKilda in recent years, but still rare nationally, we had 2 American Buff-bellied Pipits this morning. @hebridesbirds.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This should be the moment people finally realise that Farage has turned them into fascists. If you’re choosing this dangerous inhumanity over the rescue work of the RNLI, you’ve lost your minds to racism and hatred.
Reform UK
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Charities' actions in aiding and abetting the invasion of our country will be illegal under
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 17/09/2026
“A real test of this government will be torule out new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea. The reason they have decided not to announce that before the by-election in Holborn and St Pancras is incredibly telling.” Caroline Lucas on the government’s refusal to rule out new oil and gas on #BBCQT.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/09/2026
I love this slide. I really don't think the geopolitical implications of the clean energy transition have sunk in for most people.
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gpcbirding.bsky.social @gpcbirding.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
On September 16th 1982 I estimated a total of 250,000 Swallows roosted at Barton on Humber with 70,000 still on 29th: tonight 44 years on there was not one! With Spurn Migfest lacking Mig it is obvious we are heading for the precipice like the proverbial lemmings but 99% of Britains don’t care:
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Evan Walker @ecologicalev.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“Strategically placed greenbelts in the suburbs could cool some of the world’s biggest cities by almost half a degree across at least half their area” 🌎 www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2026/08/urba...
anthropocenemagazine.org
Urban heat's overlooked fix: Greening the land upwind of cities
A study published in Nature Cities suggests that forests placed strategically outside urban cores can lower temperatures across much of a city.
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Andy Collins @collinsarc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
@portlandbirdobs.bsky.social wryneck in king barrow quarry in bushes towards west side just down from heights hotel
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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Bravery.
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 15/09/2026
Unless governments act now, we’ll face much worse. My piece in the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
This burning summer is the proof: the voices of climate denial aren’t just delusional, they’re deadly | Sadiq Khan
Look at our blazing forests and parched cities. Green policies aren’t a ‘luxury’, and we can’t burn more oil and gas. People need the truth, says London mayor Sadiq Khan
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Mike Morse @bexbirder.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Dark morph juv Long-tailed Skua off West Bex this morning. Very close in and not attempting to fly suggesting poor energy reserves or illness... it continued to drift east when we left it around 9.30am.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
My contribution to ‘Paste, Present, Future’ project, celebrating 35 years of @bigissueuk. Signed, numbered versions of available at Big Issue shop. Lots of other pieces from amazing artists, 25% of sales going to Big Issue. Massive thank you to @grow_up_art_ 👇👇 www.bigissueshop.com/collection/p...
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Alexander Lees @alexanderlees.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I waded into this nonsense a few years ago on Twitter and even had one of the loathsome Tate brothers respond... if that tells you anything about the nature of this.
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Richard Lewington @rlewington2.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Celebrating receiving an advance copy of my new Magnum Opus (with 4,000 images), by catching a Clifden Nonpareil on the same day.
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christhebarker @christhebarker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Alexander Lees @alexanderlees.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Potential first record for the Northern Hemisphere. Suddenly on the radar for seawatchers in the NE Atlantic too... #UKBirding #IrishBirding #Ornithology
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Dougie Preston @dougiepreston.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
American Black Tern at Loch of Tingwall this evening. Was happy just twitching this as a regular 'Black' for my Shetland list, but always happy to be upgraded..... Great find by Paul Sclater 😎👍 #YellBirding #RareBirdsUk #Shetland
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I’ve reached the point - well actually, I reached it a while ago - where I’m militantly anti-AI. Fine - use it in bioscience labs and radiology where it might help analyse data more effectively. Use it sparingly for systems engineering. Everywhere else, it can fuck off.
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Gary Woodburn @gary-woodburn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Info back from the Stavanger Ringing Scheme regarding the recent Red-backed Shrike at Low Newton. Ringed 10 days earlier on Norway's south coast, it covered 657km/408 miles to reach Low Newton. It's the first ever recovery of a Norwegian ringed Red-backed Shrike in the UK ! #NEbirding #BirdRinging
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“Why? Why should we be so arrogant as to assume that our behaviour and our natural history is the lens through which to understand Earth?” Excellent question: but those who demand we #Unlearn human exceptionalism & arrogance can expect angry resistance www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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‘This is dangerous’: slime moulds and the bitter debate over the nature of intelligence
The long read: Scientists are battling over whether supposedly simple organisms should be considered ‘intelligent’. The outcome could reshape our understanding of the natural world – and our own place...
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@cmerfy Lifelong Democrat @cmerfy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
📢🌊‼️ I'm VERY pleased w/ Ed Milliband on this & I'm a Yank! I'm certain that many of my fellow citizens will be as well 🥰 Do NOT listen to Mike Huckabee, please!!! He is WAY outside the mainstream & has his position because he's Christian Zionist enough to get along with Bibi & current 🇮🇱s #OV1
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I want the Prime Minister to look into a TV camera and say the RNLI are heroes, that we do not change policy by street violence in this country, and that he expects any criminal action to face the full force of the law. That's it. That's all he has to do.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 07/09/2026
Not BREAKING NEWS because the Trump admin has been deleting and altering federal datasets for over a year. You can argue about policy. But when the government starts eliminating the data we use to determine whether those policies are actually working, that deserves a hell of a lot more attention.
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Ms AB @justagalandadog.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
listen
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David/Trout 2.0 @trout61.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Farage posted then deleted this. Threatening to prosecute RNLI volunteers. He is absolutely disgusting. 🤬🤬🤬
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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The RNLI have some of the best people in Britain volunteering for them. They put their lives on the line when they are called on and they will rescue anyone who needs them. Because every life matters, and offering help is the right thing to do. You can donate here: rnli.org
rnli.org
RNLI - Royal National Lifeboat Institution - Saving Lives at Sea
The RNLI is the charity that saves lives at sea. We do this through lifeboat search and rescue, lifeguards, water safety education and international interventions.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Both Trump and Russia supported the victory of the neo-Nazi AfD in Saxony-Anhalt, so we know where everyone stands.
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Kriszta Satori @fulelo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
#BBCNews - Raise the Colours founder Ryan Bridge charged with 14 offences www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Raise the Colours founder Ryan Bridge charged with 14 offences
Ryan Bridge faces a string of charges including racially aggravated harassment, threats and assault.
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