Water Security Atlas, adjusted to show parts of the world growing drier or wetter. Showing part of Greenland, the Arctic, Antarctic, Africa Europe, the Middle East, part of Asia.

Meanwhile, as climate change alters groundwater & rainfall, some parts of the world are growing drier, others wetter. You can explore changes in your part of the work, using our Water Security Atlas:

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Viewpoint: Is bloodied Syrian boy Omran Daqneesh just another image? The image of a bloodied Syrian boy in an ambulance should not be just a hashtag or viral moment: it must become a movement to end the war, argues Lina Sergie Attar.

You know how sometimes a memory arrives perfectly formed in your mind? Every few months I remember this photograph in almost exact detail, usually if my own children pull a similar expression. And I wonder if he is alive.

"Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Roumania."

-Dorothy Parker

UK must stockpile food in readiness for climate shocks or war, expert warns Prof Tim Lang says country produces far less food than it needs to feed population and is particularly vulnerable

I can sort of understand people treating climate breakdown as a distant, peripheral issue when they thought it was just a future threat to polar bears and Pacific Islands

But we're seeing these sorts of warnings all the time now, and little seems to have changed

How England’s outdated water tracking system leaves regulators in the dark Experts warn accurately monitoring consumption by bulk users such as farmers, datacentres and businesses can be all but impossible

At the same time water supplies are stretched in England, farmers are finding they need to use more water, agricultural use in England more than doubling in the past 5 years, as Watershed's Rachel Salvidge revealed last year:

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Strands #734
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there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

Interested in cohousing?
Here’s one coming soon!
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I came to opera later in life because of the attitude of people like Timothee. It’s exciting, very varied and I wish I’d realised, earlier.

A muddy berm being planted with a new hedge to hold it all together.

An old gappy hedgerow with large old hazel and lots of new saplings planted and guarded.

Despite 20+ people not bothering to show up or even cancel, we got a lot hedging planted today. One of them was a kid, who smashed it. A family of three rocked up at 3pm to pitch in after seeing our cries for help on local Facebook groups. 1,000 more to plant another time, now off to the next job.

Love - My Little Red Book [1966]. YouTube video by HarryLimePresents

Remembering Arthur Lee on the 81st anniversary of his birth. (He died in 2006). Here's Love performing (or lip-syncing) "My Little Red Book," originally recorded by Manfred Mann for the "What's New Pussycat" soundtrack.
#1001CoverSongs
Song # 222:
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Days left to act: Ban cruel cages for hens Right now we have a unique opportunity to stop this industrial-scale torture: The UK government has proposed ending the use of cages for hens, and they have launched an official consultation to ask th...

Can you do me a quick favour today? ✍️

The government is finally asking if they should ban cages for hens in the UK. 🐔🐔 Lobbyists are trying to block it, so we need huge numbers to show them that the public wants this ban NOW: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...

Arizona is building the first solar canal in the U.S. . Solar-covered canals will generate renewable energy and save water in this notoriously dry area: buff.ly/3wEcF5h

We have so many solutions to this crisis. Implement them. #ActOnClimate

#climate #energy #renewables

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"Release the wieners!"

Three of the actresses in the Hammer horror film “The Vampire Lovers"
Madeline Smith, Janet Key and Pippa Steel, Elstree Studios. 12th March 1970.

In The Guardian Saturday magazine, a feature from me to kickstart your spring with my 10 easiest crops for the highest yields. I can’t pretend the world is in a good place at the moment, but growing your own food is always worthwhile.

Happy birthday to Ernie Isley who wrote this evergreen gem
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And when I rolled with the punches
I got knocked on the ground
By all this bullshit going down
#WeekendSingles

Cartoon with four images in black and white comparing a cat's and a dog's behaviour

Sarah C. Andersen (born June 15, 1992) US cartoonist and illustrator #Womensart

Ophrys aphrodite

#orchid

He had had a nasty feeling that that might be an idiotic thing to do, but he did it anyway, and sure enough it had turned out to be an idiotic thing to do. You live and learn. At any rate, you live. You also panic.

Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown Exclusive: UCL scientists find large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications

As we've previously reported, climate change is driving shifts in groundwater levels even in rainy England, with many parts of the South & East likely to become increasingly dry, & some areas already water-stressed:

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Huge congratulations James! So few urban Floras have been published this will be momentous. Can’t wait to get a copy and devour every page #UrbanFlora #UrbanPlants

Black Winged Stilt coming into land

Black Winged Stilt coming into land at a special scientific nature reserve at Palud in Croatia #birds #thegardenjungle #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #shropshire #UKwildlife #birdphotography #canon #photography

The law concerning the legality of a given war and the laws governing the practice of war are separate. There is a good reason for this. Even if the war itself is illegal, the combatants still have to obey the laws of war.

Shame!

Illustration of the Toast Rack building in Manchester

New in - The Toast Rack.

The Hollings Building is a Manchester brutalist icon and now you can have it on your wall.
Available as a print and a greeting card.

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While I’m waiting for this dough to prove, allow me to hold forth on the subject of fertilisers.

They’re not a byproduct. Those things specifically manufactured to a purpose and the environmental cost of manufacture is quite staggering.

And somehow invisible. Let’s look at alternatives

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Episode 34: Biology in Medicine on Puberty Blockers and the Levy Report Two GPs, Alice and Grace, discuss the UK governments Puberty Blocker Trial, the Levy Report, Hillary Cass, and where we go from here.

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