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Phoebe Weston

@phoebeweston.bsky.social
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Guardian biodiversity writer. Send stories - phoebe.weston@guardian.co.uk

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Alistair Boxall @alistairboxall.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
An excellent piece out today by @phoebeweston.bsky.social at the Guardian on our NERC ECOMIX project which is exploring chemical pollution in Yorkshire's rivers. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Pesticides, antibiotics, animal medicines: the chemical cocktail seeping into our rivers
The list of everyday pollutants is a long one, and they could be as damaging to our water ecosystems as sewage spills
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Phoebe Weston @phoebeweston.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Hello! What are the best wildlife cams out there? Looking for ones like this bear sanctuary www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3aT... or these storks www.tvsyd.dk/storkereden?... Please post links below 👇 If you are a wildlife cam obsessive or know one, please get in touch - phoebe.weston@guardian.co.uk
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Sanctuarul de ursi Libearty Zarnesti
YouTube video by Millions of Friends
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Megan Gimber (Hedge Geek) @favcolourgreen.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Thank you @phoebeweston.bsky.social for such a wonderful and optimistic article on Hedgerows! It's great to celebrate the wonders we have, appreciate the legacy, and use that to inform our combined future www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Like the Ritz for wildlife: the joy of recreating England’s ancient hedges
Up and down the country, volunteers are coming together to plant more of these nature-rich reserves
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Phoebe Weston @phoebeweston.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Switzerland is leading the world in purifying its water of micropollutants. Hear how they are doing it in ep 2 of our Science Weekly series www.theguardian.com/science/audi...
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Streams of medicines: how Switzerland cleaned up its act – podcast
In the second of a two part series, Phoebe Weston travels to Switzerland to find out how the country has transformed its rivers, from sewage-filled health hazards to pristine swimming spots. She tells...
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Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
It's been a hell of a spring for Blackthorn. Anyone doing aerial remote sensing (drone or plane) of woodland, hedgerow or rewilding habitats in past 10 days would have a bonus of easily mapping this pollen/nectar resource. Hawthorn might do the same favour when it flowers later this/next month.
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Phoebe Weston @phoebeweston.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
The UK is known for its national parks: areas of outstanding natural beauty with crystal-clear streams. But our most protected rivers are full of pharmaceuticals. I speak to @alistairboxall.bsky.social for part 1 of our Science Weekly series on rivers www.theguardian.com/science/audi...
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Streams of medicines: what’s hiding in the UK’s waterways? – podcast
In episode one of a two-part series, biodiversity reporter Phoebe Weston tells Madeleine Finlay about the problem of chemical pollution in our waterways, and how it could be contributing to what the W...
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Phoebe Weston @phoebeweston.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
‘We made everything bear-proof’: the Italian village that learned to love its bears. My feature on the town that went wild - www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘We made everything bear-proof’: the Italian village that learned to love its bears
By learning to live with its ursine neighbours, mountainous Pettorano sul Gizio has drawn tourists and new residents, bucking a trend of rural decline
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Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
29 years of natural colonisation, woodland expansion. Oaks, hawthorns, blackthorns. This 2 ha of new woodland, all self-sown creates new habitat and future ancient woodland, but also buffers the existing woodland next door from drying winds and agri-spray drift. Win, win, win.
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Patrick Barkham @patrickbarkham.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Gorgeous story by my colleague Phoebe Weston – look at those haystacks! www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Big, biodiverse and beautiful: can Romania’s centuries-old giant haystacks survive modern farming?
Traditional methods benefit hundreds of species but as new agricultural techniques take over, the distinctive haystacks mark a vanishing way of life
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Patrick Barkham @patrickbarkham.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Feel powerless and despairing about global affairs? Take back control by voting for Invertebrate of the Year 2025, here: www.theguardian.com/environment/... These wonderful animals live tariff-free.
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Invertebrate of the year 2025: vote for your favourite
Since February we’ve gone in search of the invertebrate of the year. Now it’s your chance to choose
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