An ancient Irish rainforest, overwhelmed by invasive sika deer and rhododendron. As these trees die of old age, only the rhodo remains.
Most of Ireland's only 1% or so of surviving native woodland is dying, almost all due to invasives like sika, goats, sheep, and rhodo.
We could do SO much better.
All the raptor and predator killers claim that they have to do it to protect ground nesting birds. Funny how the only film I have seen of that predation was of sheep eating Curlew eggs.
“Winston Churchill did intervene in Iran and we are living with the consequences of that today”
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I visited Carrifran Wildwood myself last summer, and the scale of what has been achieved there truly has to be seen to be believed.
At least 400,000 acres is now being rewilded in Scotland: an incredible 2.1% of the whole country, and rapidly increasing all the time.
Come ON, Ireland!!
So the White House, Israel and the Iranian regime are well matched anyway.
No good guys here. For once I agree with the UK government in refusing to take a side.
The oldest pollen cores taken in Ireland as far as I know ~
As you can see, 16,000 years ago there was already juniper, pine, birch and willow.
Thomastown is in southeast Ireland. In a milder climate further west oak, alder, ash, hazel et al were probably there before Ireland became an island.
What a waffle of an answer. You asked about a connection with Palantir made under the last government.
On brand. Pathetic.
Please stay on it
Kamares crater banquet vessel with decorative lillies
Phaistos. , South Central #Crete.
Old-Palace period (1800-1700 BC)
#ancient #pottery #artwork
#Archaeology #art #History
No reason given. He’s not illegal, has no criminal record, runs a business in Boston.
“It’s just a horrible, horrible, horrible place,” he said of his detention camp.
“I’m not in fear of the other inmates. I’m afraid of the staff. They’re capable of anything.”
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
It’s very loud in Kyiv.
russia is attacking us with ballistic missiles.
Let the world know.
🌡️CARIBBEAN RECORD COLD
[1 Feb] Max 10.8C/51.4F Freeport
LOWEST MAX. TEMPERATURE EVER RECORDED IN THE BAHAMAS
Min. 5.4C Gallon Jug
Lowest Temperature in BELIZE since 1968
Lowest in February since 1895
57F/13.9C Guantanamo Bay Military Base
All time low tied
“ Our power went out at 4:40 Sunday morning. By then the ice was already thick on the trees. My husband and I lay in bed and listened in the sudden silence as tree branch after tree branch cracked, gave way, and hit the ground.”
No it’s not.
Imbolc is older than our calendar.
Imbolc is the Celtic name of an older celebration of the midpoint between winter solstice and spring equinox.
All eight cardinal points of the year were subtly displaced by Christendom to break the pagan connection.
This
The other side being after water has rapidly drained of bare hills they become vulnerable to drought and fire.
Join this talk: A tiny flightless midge, accidentally introduced to Antarctica (1960s) has spread & dominates the soil ecosystem. Its larvae feed on dead plant material, enrich the soil with NO2 & change conditions in ways that could help other species invade..
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Kyiv.
Left bank.
I came home.
Water is back,
minimal heat is back.
Unbelievable.
I’ll live in this city, in this country, until my last breath.
Oh my.
That’s a man appreciating the wonder of it
Greetings from Kyiv
I begin with gratitude.
After I wrote that some cancelled support during the night attack,
people from different countries joined or upgraded. Thank you!
Some told me to get a job or go to hell.
But my job is to tell the truth and educate about Ukraine.
I often do it from hell
The nature of massive structures is to look virtually unchanged & unchangeable, just perhaps a few tiny surface cracks, while inside rot spreads until massive inertia flips into massive abrupt collapse.
Such is US global economic hegemony in this moment.
Careful where you stand.
From the other end of Europe ~
Kyiv.
One more video of the frozen Dnipro River for you.
This one made me smile.
People here don’t lose their sense of humour even in such hard times (or maybe it was a long-held dream to lie on the Dnipro 😉).
I know this would just have most likely have been a curiosity at the end of a long trade route and may have taken up a new meaning for its Norse owner but I still can't help but imagine what a Norse saga about Buddha would have looked like ...
Yes it does. X is where Labour or anyone else can find people who don’t already agree with them.
70% of the UK electorate in a recent poll think immigration numbers are too high. No one can get elected without at least reaching some of them. How many of them do you reckon are on BlueSky ?
Nonsense. BlueSky is a placid suburb for like minded people where dissent is unseemly.
The only sector of the UK electorate where Labour still leads is the privately educated. I wonder how that tracks with BlueSky ? Anyway it’s not enough.
Yes you are. Like your country.
Like Europe I really hope.
