First round of @cleanilkley.bsky.social 's water testing in association with @alistairboxall.bsky.social and York University.

Obsessing over water supplies & worried that there's no captain on this ship. Nobody knows the true picture over who's using the critical resource, and the global picture is pretty dire. I've pulled my latest articles together to try to make sense of it watershedinvestigations.com/dry-taps-flo...

Todays sewage report. 1,600 Combined Sewage Outlets discharging raw, untreated sewage into Englands rivers, lakes and seas right now. 3,600 in the last24 hours.

They ll just increase salaries to compensate. Waste of time - it's a governmental effort to look like it s doing something when it s not.

Bjorn Lomborg telling a private luncheon CCS is 'not going to happen.'

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Still not seen many Small Tortoiseshells. Plenty of Whites, we had more butterflies recorded in May at Denton Hall Rewilding Estate than the whole of last year alone. Fingers crossed the trend continues.

If we are the majority why are we allowing the minority to win and destroy civilisation as we know it?

I will forever be haunted by this footage.

Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity.

What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives.
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Which would you rather sponsor for environmental action.

1. Plant one tree

2. 1 meter square of ancient woodland restoration

3. 1 meter square of peat bog restoration

4. 1 meter square of wildflower meadow creation

Land Fund — Protect Earth

One day after getting a 70 acre land purchase to finally lurch forwards I decided life was too easy and went for another 11 acres adjoining it because I’m never allowed to be happy or have an easy life.

Never a better time to invest in our future. www.protect.earth/act-now/land...

Who’s coming to Climates Film Festival 2025 in Frome on May 22nd? I’ll be nattering about ancient woodlands after a short film about ancient woodland restoration, with the filmmaker Charly Le Marchant, and Mick Bracken of the Woodland Trust. www.tickettailor.com/events/frome...

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Bottom trawling is horribly destructive to coastal ocean ecosystems, and deep-sea mining will do the same to the open ocean. #OceanFilm 🌊

Landowners — Protect Earth

Any landowners near Coventry need ~3,000 trees / 6 acres of woodland creation this winter?

Get in touch. Or wherever you are also, but had a specific request for Coventry I’m trying to handle.

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16 reasons for swimming access in reservoirs – Outdoor Swimming Society More swimming inland, too few places. Reservoirs are suitable; Owen explains why, and how he and others are campaigning for responsible access to them

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‘I needed heart surgery after swimming in polluted water’ As a result of sewage pollution, 331 people have seen a doctor with chest infections and gastroenteritis and some were hospitalised

‘I needed heart surgery after swimming in polluted water’: Health warning as sewage spills reach decade-high

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England's serious water pollution incidents at 10-year high Campaigners release official data showing the most serious pollution incidents in England are double the target.

England water pollution at 10-year high, campaigners say

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Southern Water customers 'disgusted' by bill hike It comes after the water supplier increased its charges by an average of 47% from April.

Southern Water customers 'disgusted' by bill hike

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Boat race no longer safe because of sewage-ridden Thames The Oxford-Cambridge tradition of throwing winning coxes into the water was given the go-ahead despite concerns of contamination

Boat race no longer safe because of sewage-ridden Thames

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These Activists Are Right: The World Doesn’t Need Any More Private Jets Local activists in Massachusetts have taken on the private jet lobby—and they might just win.

Activists in Massachusetts have taken on the private jet lobby & they might just win, @chuck77.bsky.social writes in @thenation.com

An epic struggle against airport expansion for private jets that has national—and even global—implications:

WA conservationists criticize Trump's national forest logging plan Around 59% of all national forests in the U.S. would be open for logging, including some in eastern Washington.

"Trump's national forest logging plan feels like a smash and grab. It feels like a way to gain access to public resources and take them out of public hands." 🌏 www.fox13seattle.com/news/conserv...

World's largest deforestation project fells forests for bioethanol fuel, sugar and rice in Indonesia Indonesia plans to clear forests about the size of Belgium to produce sugarcane-derived bioethanol, rice and other food crops, potentially displacing Indigenous groups who rely on the land to survive.

World’s largest deforestation project fells forests for bioethanol fuel, sugar and rice in Indonesia

HT @mightyearth.org
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💡 Spotlight | Carbon Brief reports on the ongoing logging of giant native trees in the alpine rainforests of Tasmania, Australia 🇦🇺

Chicken farm plans called a 'danger' to River Kennet in Newbury The Newbury farm is home to 12,000 chickens, but the new plans would see an increase to 32,000.

BBC News - Chicken farm plans called a 'danger' to River Kennet in Newbury - BBC News
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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...

Anti-depressants reducing fear of predators in perch, contraceptive pills altering fish gender - @phoebeweston.bsky.social
investigates the medicines polluting even the seemingly pure waters of our National Parks, with @alistairboxall.bsky.social

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More than 100 chemicals polluting South harbours - study The studies looked at samples from Langstone and Chichester Harbours in spring and autumn 2022.

More than 100 chemicals polluting harbours - study

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The barbarians are at the gates of the sewage works | Nils Pratley Choosing KKR as the preferred bidder for the UK’s biggest water company may not fill Thames Water’s workers with joy

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Yorkshire’s rivers and waterways polluted for over 430,000 hours in 2024 Yorkshire Water revealed to be in the top five offending companies for sewage discharges

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