My blog reflecting on the recent Resilient Landscapes and Seas partnership symposium. Large scale conservation needs to factor in climate change. We need science grounded in practical experience and good partnership working. naturalengland.blog.gov.uk/2026/03/02/c...
Haha. This is GOLD!
7 of the most common arguments against climate action demolished with simple facts in just one minute. 🔥
Give it a watch. Then share it!
#ClimateSky #auspol
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As I say here, there is no scientific justification to revoke the engagement finding. In fact, over the last 15+ yrs, the evidence of how climate change affects our health has only grown. Higher risk of allergies, dementia, fertility, heart disease, and death: that’s what’s on the line. @nature.org
British Ecological Society event: "Nature-based Solutions: Who benefits, who decides, who pays?" on 29-30 June 2026, York.
We’re inviting researchers, practitioners and policymakers from diverse disciplines and backgrounds to submit a presentation aligned to one of three themes: who benefits, who decides, and who pays – a symposium exploring the evidence, equity and real-world impact of NbS.
Where is your #LandscapeScale project?
Delegates are encouraged to pin their project on the map & tell us about their project back in the conference room, & then afterwards, why not share more in the comments below on your project?
#RLASSymposium 🌍
Tuesday 10 Feb. Photo top right of a valley. Session 1: Setting the Scene. Jessica Findlay (NatureScot) Land and seascape scale nature restoration and climate adaptation in Scotland. Mike Morecroft (Natural England) Science for nature recovery: learning by doing in a changing climate.
"Setting the scene” with @naturescot.bsky.social & @naturalengland.bsky.social.
Which project in Jessica’s talk caught your eye?
& given the challenges that Mike presents, how can we ensure that #LTEs continue?
@mikemorecroft.bsky.social
#RLASSymposium #LandscapeScale 🌍
This is huge: For the first time since the early 1970s, coal power generation has fallen in both China & India.
It undercuts claims that decarbonisation is pointless while they expand coal. Renewables are no longer just adding capacity — they’re displacing coal.
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The Tufton St lobbyists and their media enablers have been using the 'scary number' playbook again this week.
So we've just updated our factcheck to capture this...
President Donald Trump walks off the stage after speaking at a campaign event on 18 June 2024. Credit: Jeffrey Phelps / Alamy Stock Photo
NEW – Q&A: What Trump’s US exit from UNFCCC and IPCC could mean for climate action | @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org
Read here: buff.ly/Mkjsh61
It's late & it's been a horrific day, but the Trump admin has pulled the US out of all the international environmental institutions I have been deeply involved in: IPCC, IPBES, IUCN and many others (UN Water, UN Oceans, UNREDD, ITTO, etc). And of course UNFCCC too www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Resilient Landscapes and Seas Symposium- Collaborating at scale for nature and people. Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh. 10-11 February 2026. Registration deadline 12 January 2026. Photo on the right shows a lake sandwiched by land.
There is 1 week left to register for the #ResilientLandscapesAndSeasSymposium 2026 #RLASSymposium.
This symposium provides a unique opportunity for #researchers & #NGOs to contribute expertise to help deliver benefits for nature, people & climate https://bit.ly/RLASReg 🌍
Webinar: Treading Softly: 7.30pm Tues 13th Jan with Major Heather Poxon of the Salvation Army. Heather's experience of work in Rwanda and the DRC has given her insight into the causes, and devastating effects of climate change and biodiversity loss. jri.org.uk/.../treading...
Fossil-fuel extraction massively outweighs critical mineral mining needs (quite literally)
– We dig up tens of billions of tonnes of stuff every year to produce coal, oil & gas
– Raw-material extraction for critical minerals would be a fraction of that, even under net-zero
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Natural England science conference today. Lots of great discussion on science for nature recovery; good to see the the need for joined solutions to the climate and nature crises recognised by many speakers (not just me!) My post over on LinkedIn. www.linkedin.com/posts/mike-m...
Resilient Landscapes and Seas Symposium- Collaborating at scale for nature and people. Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh. 10-11 February 2026. Registration deadline 5 Jan 2026. Photo on the right- A lake surrounded by grassland. There are few clouds in the sky.
Connect with researchers, Government agencies, landowners & the farming community at the #ResilientLandscapesAndSeasSymposium next year to tell them how your #NGO can contribute towards delivering benefits for nature, people & climate.
Register now: https://bit.ly/RLASReg
#RLASPartnership 🌍
First frost today. Feels like the natural world is steadily moving towards winter.
Climate change DEFINITELY affects hurricane:
STRENGTH: Warmer water is hurricane food
RAINFALL: Warm air holds more water vapor
SURGE: Warmer water expands, warmer ice melts, sea levels rise
PREDICTION: hotter seas mean faster intensification
Great to join #AF2025 virtually. My talk: upscaling the deployment of Nature-based Solutions needs
- Good evidence on benefits, synergies and tradeoffs
- Landscape scale planning
- Local leadership and knowledge
- trusted advisors
- partnership working
- Flexibility to adapt
- Long-term funding
We are now on #Facebook so it will now be easier to share with friends & family what you do if you have a #LongTermExperiment registered with us!
Follow us on there and share a post bit.ly/EcolConTFB
New blog out today naturalengland.blog.gov.uk/2025/10/07/n... The Nature Returns Programme has been running since 2021, bringing together science and practice in one pilot programme testing nature-based solutions in a real world context. Find out more and link to our summary report.
Renewables have overtaken coal in the global electricity mix for the first time, @ember-energy.org has found
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It is "established fact" that humans have warmed the Earth by burning fossils fuels and that our emissions have made climate extremes more frequent and intense (IPCC AR6)
Thank you for your attention to this matter!
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Global investment in renewable energy up 10% on 2024 despite Trump rollback
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In a UN speech today, President Trump said that "all of these [climate] predictions were wrong".
Back in 2019 I led a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on!
Visited Muckle Moss in Northumberland yesterday with Natural England colleagues. Great restoration work has restored hydrology, rewetted the bog, reinvigorated the plant community and restarted growth. Note the disappearing fence line as the peat builds up.
The time has come to value tropical fieldworkers as equal partners.
With billions spent on watching forests from space, the skills of foresters and botanists have never been more vital. In our #Nature correspondence we show why - and what needs to change.
#GEO-TREES
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we’re getting evicted, it’s stupid, and I’m mad
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Absolutely- fantastic project!
Great that you were asked to speak. Maybe one day I’ll go to the lunch but can’t say I envy the tutti men! More seriously the commoners rights have really helped to maintain nature and given great benefit to the whole community. Lessons to learn there!
The EU has released its latest GHG emission inventory, with data up to 2023.
The good news, GHG emissions continue a downward trend, currently 37% below 1990 levels.
The bad news, a significant downward revision of land-use removals (LULUCF).
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