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DipteristsForum @dipteristsforum.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Dipterist Forum are running a new series of online training courses with those nice people @biologicalrecording.co.uk We're kicking off with 'Surveying for Flies' ideal for beginners or if you want to tighten up your field craft skills. More information in the link: dipterists.org.uk/events/surve...

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

NEWS: CBS News gutted its climate team as part of the big Paramount layoffs this week. These journalists had been doing incredible reporting on extreme heat, flooding, clean energy investments and more. I've got details for Climate-Colored Goggles: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/cbs-news-g...

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CBS News just gutted its climate team

Paramount and Bari Weiss aren't off to a great start. Here's why David Ellison should change course.

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Rob @robertferry.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

To anyone who still doubts what climate scientists tell you, predicting so exactly how such a complex variable such as ocean volume would react to our unprecedented addition of CO2 to the atmosphere is nothing short of miraculous, and you should shut up and listen.

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Sea-level projections from the 1990s were spot on, study says

Global sea-level change has now been measured by satellites for more than 30 years, and a comparison with climate projections from the mid-1990s shows that they were remarkably accurate, according to ...

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Justin Gerdes @justingerdes.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

"Australia’s biggest battery – and the first to feature more than two gigawatt-hours (GWh) of energy storage – has raced through its commissioning process and is now fully operational." reneweconomy.com.au/australias-f... via @gilesparkinson.bsky.social 🔌💡

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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Trump regime cancels funding for the U.S. Global Change Research Program, the entity that produces the National Climate Assessment, the federal government’s signature climate change study. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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Trump moves to hobble major US climate change study

The cuts are a potentially fatal blow to the National Climate Assessment that Congress mandated to ensure the government understands the threats posed by rising temperatures.

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 26/03/2025

🌍💙 It's Manatee Appreciation Day - the perfect time to remember how they remain on the brink of extinction. These gentle giants are the Amazon’s gardeners, shaping ecosystems as they feed. But habitat loss, from humany activity and climate change, threatens their future. Read:

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Researcher discovers new role played by manatees, ‘the gardeners of the Amazon’

MANAUS, Amazonas, Brazil — Located near the confluence of the Solimões and Japurá rivers, Lake Amanã, which means “the path of the rain,” is known as the home of the Amazonian manatee (Trichechus inun...

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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

The soon-to-be-tragic story of deep-sea mining in the Pacific feels a lot like the tragic story of coal mining in Appalachia--the false promise of prosperity for locals, the extraction of billions by corporations, the certainty of vast environmental destruction. www.civilbeat.org/2025/03/digg...

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Digging For Minerals In The Pacific’s Graveyard: The $20 Trillion Fight Over Who Controls The Seabed

“The soul of our ancestors, when they leave this world, they go into the deep.”

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Craig Birder @craigbirder.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Primroses. Alfred’s Cakes, Turkey Tail and Queen Bufftailed Bumblebee

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 12/03/2025

While UK newspapers were falling over themselves to cover the "stalling" EV market, the actual number of EVs on the UK's roads surged by 39% in *just 1 year* The 1.4m EVs, 0.8m PHEVs & 76,000 EV vans on the road in 2024 saved ~£1.7bn in lower fuel costs www.carbonbrief.org/...

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Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) @cms.int · 28/02/2025

Did you know that seagrass isn’t the same as seaweed (algae) and that it supports 10 SDGs? 🌿🌊 As World Seagrass Day approaches tomorrow, 1 March, here are interesting facts about seagrass and the benefits it provides us all. 🐟 Click on the thread below to expand or download these visual resources!

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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

The truth: Putin's Russia invaded #Ukraine. Russia's invasion started in 2014 & accelerated in 2022. Russian forces in Ukraine have been committing war crimes & other mass atrocities from the beginning, both in areas outside their control & in areas they occupy. www.hrw.org/the-day-in-h...

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One Thousand Days of Terror: Daily Brief

“What happens next in #Ukraine has been the subject of much speculation in recent weeks, but one thing remains certain regardless. The victims of Russian terror and atrocities in Ukraine deserve justi...

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Craig Birder @craigbirder.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

The willow blister fungus, also known as Cryptomyces maximus at Rutland Water found by Tim Sexton. In the top 100 most endangered species on earth

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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

once again for all of #greensky @heatmap.news was first to report this week that key government offices have paralyzed all permitting activity for renewables, with crucial staff in some parts of the govt refusing to talk to solar or wind developers heatmap.news/plus/the-fig...

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Trump Has Paralyzed Renewables Permitting, Leaked Memo Reveals

The American Clean Power Association wrote to its members about federal guidance that has been “widely variable and changing quickly.”

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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

This is great. The book is excellent btw!

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 02/02/2025

RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.

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Nat Bullard @nathanielbullard.com · 30/01/2025

My annual decarbonization presentation is here. 200 slides, covering everything from water levels in Lake Gatún to sulfur dioxide emissions to ESG fund flows to Chinese auto exports to artificial intelligence. www.nathanielbullard.com/presentations

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

NEW PAPER: - 51% of Big Oil’s profits go to the highest 1% of net worth individuals - 1% goes to the bottom 50% This is wage theft, unprecedented in scale, and I wonder at what point people will revoke these climate arsonists’ licence to operate scholarworks.umass.edu/server/api/c...

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Melissa Cristina Márquez (she/her/ella) @melissacmarquez.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

therevelator.org/donald-trump... "The waters around the USA are home to many threatened species who need science-based conservation policies to save them from extinction. They won’t get that for the next four years." Fantastic write-up by Dr. David Shiffman (@whysharksmatter.bsky.social)!

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Donald Trump’s Second Term Will Be Bad News for Endangered Ocean and Coastal Animals • The Revelator

The waters around the U.S. are home to threatened species who need conservation policies to save them from extinction. They won’t get that for the next four years.

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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Some European gas power plant owners are raking it in... Often you see gas power plants squeezing the markets pushing electricity prices sky-high. AND on top of those wholesale revenues, they CAPACITY MARKET revenues. €45 billion for gas power plants and €6 billion for coal since 2015🙂

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Sean Sublette @subletteweather.com · 27/01/2025

"As more and more renewable power is built, the expensive generators run for fewer and fewer hours until they’re no longer profitable and then they shut down." Remember, solar and wind require no expensive fuel sources once they go live. Great explainer from Andrew below.

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Fiona Mathews @fionamathews.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Serotine. One of my favourite #bats! I have a PhD available, using new methods to find serotine roosts and understand movement patterns. Will help to develop a rabies vaccination strategy: a priority for people and bats! Pls share! www.surrey.ac.uk/bbsrc-wessex... @batconservation.bsky.social 🦤🌍🦇

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Craig Birder @craigbirder.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

The English Devolution Bill is promoted as a "bottom-up" change; evidence suggests that central government initiatives with limited grassroots involvement primarily drive it. The standardised nature of the proposed reforms raises questions about how they reflect local aspirations.

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Craig Birder @craigbirder.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

The process appears to be driven by central government directives rather than emerging organically from local demands. The White Paper proposes the establishment of more directly elected mayors and reorganising local government structures, which are top-down impositions.

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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

A new series of #diggingforbritain next week (7th Jan) - so why not join us in some watch along art? Painting, textile, sculpture, digital art, doodles whatever! Simply watch the show, post your creative output & tag it #drawingdiggingforbritain should be lots of fun #archaeology #art #wellbeing 🏺

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BBC Two - Digging for Britain, Series 12, Saxon Gold and Buried Coins

An incredible Anglo-Saxon sword, a Roman sarcophagus and an exquisite coin hoard.

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Tim Smedley @timsmedley.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Help bring a Library of Things to your area. This is what we need to kick-start a circular, zero waste economy. Let's get this done in 2025: www.libraryofthings.co.uk/add-new-peti...

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Bring Library of Things to your neighbourhood | Library of Things

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Graham Appleton @wadertales.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Who migrates and where to? Some underlying principles. 1️⃣ It is very rare for individuals to 'do different' - once locked into a migration pattern a bird will stick with it. wadertales.wordpress.com/2024/09/12/j... #ornithology

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Amar @amarhss.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Dec 2024 issue of Malaysian Bird Report available. Please download & share the link to the report: malaysianbird.report/report/vol-4... #Malaysia #birds #nature #wildlife @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social @ebrrh.bsky.social

The image shows the cover page of the December 2024 Malaysian Bird Report with an image of a Siberian Sand-Plover from Borneo, and the content pages with list of articles.

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Craig Birder @craigbirder.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

A drone Honey Bee on the car today the winter solstice. In Oakham UK

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Graham Appleton @wadertales.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Aapa mires Favoured by breeding Broad-billed Sandpiper ⬇️, Taiga Bean Goose, Jack Snipe & Pintail. Threatened by drainage & climate change. Blog (last section): wadertales.wordpress.com/2024/12/08/b... Paper (pdf can be downloaded for free): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/ftr/10.1... #ornithology

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Electrification is the key lever to decarbonise industry. But why is take-up so low (3-4%) when it comes to process heat? It’s because of the many barriers standing in the way. Here’s how we can break through them. Read our new @regassistproj.bsky.social report👇 www.raponline.org/knowledge-ce...

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Ben Porter @bardseyben.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Still a few of my 2025 wildlife calendars for sale if anyone needs to get in there for the last postage period before Christmas! 50% of the profit from the sale of these will go to Action for Conservation to support their amazing work. Link below! www.benporterwildlife.co.uk/store/p/cale...

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Jay in Kyiv @jayinkyiv.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Another environmental catastrophe caused by Russians east of Crimea, after one of their decaying oil tankers broke apart on high seas 2 days ago, 35km of pristine coastline has been contaminated in true Russian style. And these tankers are now all over the world.

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

More than 90% of fossil fuel emissions occurred since my parents were born. Over 80% since I was born. Over 30% since my children were born. And well over 50% since the world agreed at the Rio Earth Summit to prevent dangerous climate change. And I thought: „At last!“

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Michael Thomas @michael-thomas.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

One of my favorite facts: In 1975 solar panels cost $115 per watt, which means it would have cost $1 million to put solar panels on your roof. Today, you can buy solar panels for less than $0.25 per watt. www.distilled.earth/p/the-remarkabl…

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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

New research looks at deaths in custody in #Syria 2011-2023. It estimates 34,000 people were killed in custody (of all actors) and estimates 80% of these were in Syrian state custody. hrdag.org/report/20241...

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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

#Afghan women artists are playing a vital role in the women’s movement resisting Taliban abuses. New web gallery: www.hrw.org/feature/2024...

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A human being is more delicate than a flower and tougher than a rock

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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

#Iran: "Execution, long jail terms and big fines for 'promoting' nudity, unveiling or improper dressing come into force" Seriously? Any penalty for completely invented "crimes" involving "bad dressing" are abusively absurd, but the death penalty?? www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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Iranian women could face death penalty for defying new morality laws

Execution, long jail terms and big fines for ‘promoting’ nudity, unveiling or improper dressing come into force

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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

"Famine and ethnic cleansing stalk #Sudan. Yet the gold trade is booming, enriching generals and propelling the fight."

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HRW Brussels @hrw-brussels.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

New @hrw.org report documents war crimes by #RSF forces against civilians in #Sudan’s #SouthKordofan, incl. killings, sexual violence & looting. @kajakallas.bsky.social should push for civil protection, accountability & sanction those responsible for abuses. www.hrw.org/news/2024/12...

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Sudan: War Crimes in South Kordofan

The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) killed scores of civilians, and injured, raped, and abducted many others in waves of attacks in Habila and Fayu, two towns in Sudan’s South Kordofan state, between Decem...

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 05/12/2024

STRIKING NEW DATA: More than a quarter of new cars sold in the UK in November were battery EVs (so much for "stalling sales") 📈BEV sales up 51% year-on-year 📉Petrol sales down 35% year-on-year (!) Data from New Automotive

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