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Mike Shanahan @mikeshanahan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just published: The new edition of my newsletter for journalists (and anyone else) interested in biodiversity, the ecological crisis and nature-based solutions to climate change. 🌏🧪 thenaturebeat.substack.com/p/nature-bea...

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Kate Nicholls @katenicholls1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I could not love this more. The detailed observations and the time and care taken to uncover this relationship between plant and insects profoundly moved me.

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Mike Shanahan @mikeshanahan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

To discover a new species is one of the great thrills of biology. But to find a new species that does something both unique and utterly unexpected is something few biologists get to experience. It was a great pleasure to learn and write about this research: planetficus.substack.com/p/the-flower... 🧪

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Mike Shanahan @mikeshanahan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Researchers have reported an extraordinary example of deceptive mimicry. planetficus.substack.com/p/the-flower...

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Mike Shanahan @mikeshanahan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Researchers have reported an extraordinary example of deceptive mimicry. planetficus.substack.com/p/the-flower...

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Mike Shanahan @mikeshanahan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

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Mike Shanahan @mikeshanahan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

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Mike Shanahan @mikeshanahan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A 700-year-old banyan, a vanished trunk and a history that may not be what people thought. For my latest dispatch from Planet Ficus, I spoke to scientist Trina Bose about her new way of dating ancient fig trees — and the remarkable stories they may reveal planetficus.substack.com/p/the-banyan... 🧪🌏

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Mike Shanahan @mikeshanahan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

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Mike Shanahan @mikeshanahan.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

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Mike Shanahan @mikeshanahan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

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Mike Shanahan @mikeshanahan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Can anyone on the 🧪 and 🌏 lists help Colin with his search?

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Mike Shanahan @mikeshanahan.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I interviewed Carly Cook, an expert on the alternatives to protected areas known as OECMs*, which are increasingly important but poorly known outside of specialist circles thenaturebeat.substack.com/p/protected-... *other effective area-based conservation measures 🧪🌏

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Protected Areas Aren't Enough. What Comes Next?

Q&A with an expert who demystifies the alternatives known as OECMs

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Mike Shanahan @mikeshanahan.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

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Protected Areas Aren't Enough. What Comes Next?

Q&A with an expert who demystifies the alternatives known as OECMs

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Mike Shanahan @mikeshanahan.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I saw Christopher Nolan's movie The Odyssey last night and was surprised to see that he did not include this key moment from the story -- the point where all is lost and death looks certain for the hero Odysseus.

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Mike Shanahan @mikeshanahan.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Have you ever noticed the fig tree in The Odyssey? Without it, Odysseus would never have made it home. In my latest dispatch from Planet Ficus, I explore why Homer chose a wild fig to save his hero and why that choice still has something to teach us today.🧪🌏 open.substack.com/pub/planetfi...

Odysseus and the fig tree, with Scylla in the background. Engraved by William Bromley, 1806.

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Mike Shanahan @mikeshanahan.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I wrote this guide to OECMs (other effective area-based conservation measures) for the Earth Journalism Network but non-journalists may find it useful too. earthjournalism.net/resources/ti... 🧪🌏

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Mike Shanahan @mikeshanahan.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I wish I could *force-feed* this information to half our media and most of our politicians. Everything to gain from Net Zero; everything to lose from abandoning it.

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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Scientific American is 180 years old. The most eminent science magazine for the general public. And today, sold off as scrap to stop the staff from unionizing. Many top editors I've worked with for a decade on several articles have been fired. What a disgrace @sciam.bsky.social

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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 24/06/2026

Letter in today's Times by climate scientist Sir Brian Hoskins: "The discourse around net-zero is increasingly decoupled from…science and our changing weather. "Net-zero is not an arbitrary slogan, rather it is dictated by the laws of physics."

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Mike Shanahan @mikeshanahan.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

In the highlands of Kenya, when a sacred mugumo fig tree crashes to the ground, its death echoes through both ecology and society. planetficus.substack.com/p/what-happe...

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Mike Shanahan @mikeshanahan.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Reposting as this went up at the weekend... 🧪🌏

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Mike Shanahan @mikeshanahan.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

In the highlands of Kenya, when a sacred mugumo fig tree crashes to the ground, its death echoes through both ecology and society. planetficus.substack.com/p/what-happe...

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Mike Shanahan @mikeshanahan.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

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Mike Shanahan @mikeshanahan.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

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Mike Shanahan @mikeshanahan.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

"While intensive poultry and pig farms are regulated, large dairy units in the UK are not required to hold an environmental permit. This means the government does not know how many there are, or where." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Huge rise in factory-style dairy farming of ‘battery cows’ in UK as costs rise

Investigation finds number of dairy farms where cows cannot go outside has more than doubled since 2015

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Mike Shanahan @mikeshanahan.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

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George Harris @historylecturer.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Record temperatures for May! Do please sign and share

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Mike Shanahan @mikeshanahan.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

On the International Day for Biodiversity, here are five ways fig trees are titans of biodiversity, and a plug for my newsletter devoted to these extraordinary plants. planetficus.substack.com 🧪🌏

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