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Relentless sun and ruthless populists: how the climate crisis will change the next 20 years Former diplomat Arthur Snell says a heating planet is accelerating conflict and migration – and fostering a new age of empire. Democracies are dangerously unprepared, he warns

In the ahem now longlost days before the war, I interviewed @snellarthur.bsky.social about his new book on how the climate crisis is upending geopolitics (yes we did talk about the future of Gulf petrostates, which was looking fairly unstable even before this) www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

At least 13 hospitals and health facilities hit during attacks on Iran, WHO says Global health body investigating reports that four medics are among the 1,230 people killed in Iran since start of war

The US and Israel have bombed at least 13 hospitals and health facilities in Iran and one in Lebanon.

The effect of different grazing managements on butterfly abundance, diversity and composition at a calcareous upland site Research from an upland calcareous site in the Yorkshire Dales finds light cattle grazing supports 4.9× as many butterflies and 1.7× as many butterfly species as light sheep grazing, while ungrazed a...

Here is the full paper
#conservationevidence
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Grassland plant diversity and ecosystem condition assessment in the hen harrier programme, Ireland, a results-based agri-environment scheme High Nature Value farmland (HNVf) supports biodiverse, semi-natural habitats through extensive farming but is increasingly threatened in Ireland by land intensification and abandonment. Results-bas...

This looks interesting:

Grassland plant diversity and ecosystem condition assessment in the hen harrier programme, Ireland, a results-based agri-environment scheme | McMorrow et al.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

it is a beautiful genus, but having to look up details for species after species of Sorbus, all of which appear to occur in just a handful of GB hectads, is getting a bit tiresome on a Friday afternoon.

Bloody Whitebeam, Sorbus vexans

Perhaps this should be the genus common name and not just the common name for this particular species.

I'm excited to announce that I've officially launched Electric Flora 🌿✨, a scientific consultancy specializing in Manuscript Rescue. I help PIs turn stalled datasets into high-impact publications through focused service purchase blocks. Read on for my consultancy vision... (1/5)

I assume you may already have seen this article?

I fully agree!

I fear that plants I knew may be dead, maybe no management and competition, maybe inappropriate generic management not recognising the unique survival which a distribution map based on misidentification is not helping to highlight, taxonomy matters!

Thanks for confirming this.

I have just found the following in Atlas 2020 so I suppose I may need to check out Perring & Sell (1968)

Many thanks Philip. This would make sense (in the specific case in question in Styce, Stace essentially then stating that Malus domestica is often mistakenly recorded as M. sylvestris. I just had problems wrapping my head around the wording used.

I am struggling a bit with the following wording I just came across in Stace:

"species A has been much overrecorded for species B"

Does this mean specimens actually being species B were often accidentally recorded as species A, or was it the other way around?

(By emielscartoons on IG)

Oh squeak! It’s official publication day!

Plants and Habitats: An Introduction to Common Plants and Their Habitats in Britain and Ireland Buy Plants and Habitats (9780957608115): An Introduction to Common Plants and Their Habitats in Britain and Ireland: NHBS - Ben Averis, Ben and Alison Averis

A 2nd edition of my Plants and Habitats book is now out and available from the Natural History Book Store: www.nhbs.com/plants-and-h.... Main differences from 1st edition: many species added and nomenclature & further information (e.g. habitat classifications) updated. I hope people find it useful!

On the Limits of Alpine Plants: A Systematic Review of the Factors Behind Species' Elevational Range Limits This systematic review of 107 studies on the factors behind the elevational range limits of alpine vascular plants shows a persistent emphasis on upper limits and abiotic factors, especially temperat...

Our new review is finally out! 🌿 I’m especially excited because this is the first chapter of my PhD!
Have a read to see what shapes the range limits of alpine plants besides freezing temperatures ❄️

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I gave a talk on microbe-mediated carbon accrual in agri soils in the @bes-soilecogroup.bsky.social seminar series. A recording is available in the link below. @britishecologicalsociety.org

It does, thanks.

Thankfully gardeners tend to be usually very well-balanced individuals so I would not anticipate any either.

The same technological pinpoint accuracy that was used to slaughter children in Gaza now being used to slaughter children in Iran.

Reform fury as someone else wins by Our By-election Editor Tim Shipsink The losing candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, Matt Goodwhinge, has demanded an immediate re-run of the election on the grounds that he lost comprehensively to someone else. "It's totally unfair and rigged," said Goodwhinge. "I shouldn't be required to sit there and suck it up, just because I lost." Mr Goodwhine continued, *I can't believe that all those voters I demonised failed to back me. Especially after I was endorsed by Tommy Robinson and ten million Russian bots on X. "We have clear evidence of family voting, where people voted in order for me to stop deporting their families." Mr Badloser concluded. "I'm the victim of colour prejudice. They didn't vote for me simply because I'm not green." Reform leader Mr Farage, speaking from a sun lounger on a rock near the Chagos Islands said, "It's a tragedy that the people of Manchester won't see Matt in Westminster, but my constituents don't see me in Clacton either." PLUMBER DEFEATS MATT GOODWIN Photo of Hannah Spencer with speech bubble saying… I've stopped the cock

Beautiful from Private Eye on the massive toddler-tantrum that Matt Goodwin and Reform are having, because they got whooped in Gorton and Denton.

This is essentially the plot of "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire", with added gardening but without the violence.

The d.o.i. link in your post does not seem to work?

Exclusive: Iranian girls killed by ‘double-tap’ strikes on Minab school Eyewitnesses describe second blast which killed survivors as they sheltered in prayer hall

The girls’ school in Iran, where 165 people were killed by an apparent US-Israeli attack, was hit with two strikes, with the second missile killing sheltering survivors, two first responders and the parent of a slain child have told Middle East Eye.

Dense, dark forests in Europe are a modern phenomenon A new, comprehensive study shows that Europe’s landscapes over the past more than 20 million years have predominantly been a mosaic of grasslands, scrub and woodlands of varying density. A light...

Dense, dark forests in Europe are a modern phenomenon - Europe’s landscapes for 23 Myr were mostly tree- & flower-rich mosaics shaped by large herbivores, not dense #forests, see our new synthesis www.eurekalert.org/news-release... #forests #woodlands #paleoecology #nature #trees #refiorestation

Excited to share that @newphyt.bsky.social is sponsoring two Young Researcher Awards at #SeedCon2026! 🏆

Best Poster
Best Talk

Highlighting talent in seed microbiome research.

Potsdam | May 5-7, 2026
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#SeedCon2026 #PlantMicrobiome #MicrobialInheritance @leibnizatb.bsky.social

This looks like a great opportunity to work for the National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk to develop/deliver their vision for ecological restoration at landscape scale in a beautiful part of Britain:

Restore Nature Delivery Manager
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#GenerationRestoration

Feuerwehr befreit Merz aus Trumps Hintern Washington, D.C. (dpo) - Zu einem unangenehmen Zwischenfall kam es beim gestrigen Staatsbesuch von Friedrich Merz (CDU) bei Donald Trump: Die örtliche

Feuerwehr befreit Merz aus Trumps Hintern www.der-postillon.com/2026/03/merz...