Seán Cahill

‘An epidemic of suffering’: Why are conservationists breaking down? In December 2024, Rachel Graham, executive director of the Belize-based marine nonprofit MarAlliance, posted on LinkedIn that she knew “5 wildlife & conservation scientists who have taken their lives ...

People see conservation as an exciting, romantic field to work in

But it's a tough life watching the places you love, study and fight for being destroyed

Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

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"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

Una Andrena sp., posada sobre Helleborus foetidus, a 1.475m s.n.m., a la Vall de Carlat, capçaleres del riu Ter, avui darrer dia de febrer.

21.1°C in Chamonix today! 🔥🥵

A monthly record for February since at least 1880! 🌡️

Words truly fail to describe such early heatwaves, which are so out of season and detrimental to ecosystems.

Map via @sergezaka.bsky.social

‘Like doomsday’: why have salmon deserted Norway’s rivers – and will they ever return? North Atlantic populations are at a historic low, and this year 33 of the country’s rivers were closed during the fishing season as salmon farming and the climate crisis threaten the fish’s future

"Scientists have been warning of the rapidly declining North Atlantic salmon population (...) which in Norway has shrunk from more than a million in the early 1980s to about 500,000, a drop largely linked to the climate crisis."

Noticed in the #FlyFishing scene.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Using multiple lines of evidence, we show that feral cats and red foxes are strongly implicated in most Australian mammal extinctions and in the ongoing imperilment of numerous extant species. academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

A large collaborative effort to rebut Wallach and Lundgren (2025).

We’re gonna need a bigger sign. The meadow of the Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin, after two months rain.

Flood risk: Why did regulator have to ask minister to block zoning for housing 30 times since 2019? Cases show tensions between advisers and councillors over building on land that is at risk of flooding

Flood risk: Why did regulator have to ask minister to block zoning for housing 30 times since 2019?

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/hous...

El Govern s’oposarà a prohibir la pesca de l’angula i reclama mesures estructurals - Canal TE La Generalitat de Catalunya votarà en contra de la protecció total de l'anguila al Comitè estatal per evitar la prohibició de la seua pesca al Delta de l'Ebre. El director general Antoni Espanya defen...

El govern de @salvadorilla.bsky.social fa un penós paper davant la posibilitat de protegir l'anguila.
Dona la veu i el vot a pesca (no l'hi pertoca), que tira descaradament de agrotrumpisme.
Ni 250 families ni causes estructurals
Les dades catalanes són terribles
👇👇
canalte.cat/actualitat/s...

Las autonomías frenan la declaración de la anguila como especie en peligro Los gobiernos de las comunidades han reclamado realizar más seguimientos y tener más datos científicos antes de prohibir su pesca y consumo

Lamentable: hay info suficiente lo que falta es voluntad para afrontar problemas difíciles pero importantes. Por desgracia, los intereses económicos de unos pocos siempre pasan por los problemas ambientales de tod@s 🥲
www.elperiodico.com/es/politica/...

España seguirá pescando anguilas hasta su extinción El bloqueo de la protección de la anguila europea en España por parte de las comunidades autónomas, materializado este martes, es un triste ejemplo de la influencia del negacionismo científico.

El bloqueo de la protección de la anguila europea en España por parte de las comunidades autónomas, materializado ayer, es un triste ejemplo de la influencia del negacionismo científico. ✍️ @chikichanka.bsky.social (@ebdonana.bsky.social)

@edurobayna.bsky.social está haciendo una cobertura muy bien informada de todo lo que se va moviendo en torno a la anguila (en general, para mal)
Este artículo viene muy bien para esos cargos de CCAA el martes dijeron que hace falta un grupo de trabajo para saber si la anguila merece protección

"El cambio climático antropogénico amplificó la dinámica de las tormentas en la catastrófica riada repentina de Valencia de 2024".
Traduzco el título de este importante artículo científico para ayudar a esos que ni leen ni creen en la Ciencia y en el cambio climático.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...

NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics.
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www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

📉Enero de 2026, el más lluvioso del último cuarto de siglo.

➡️ Desde 2001 no se registraba un enero con tanta lluvia: 119 mm en el conjunto de la España peninsular.

➡️ Su temperatura media fue de 6 °C, lo que le otorgó un carácter normal.

www.aemet.es/es/noticias/...

Four months on from ceasefire, Gazans still being killed Since the ceasefire in Gaza was declared last October, hundreds of people have been killed and injured, writes Yvonne Murray.

Since the ceasefire in Gaza was declared last October, hundreds of people have been killed and injured, writes Yvonne Murray

Rivers must be monitored continuously to prevent ‘repeat of Blackwater fish kill’ Valuable time lost in raising alert on the incident, notes review by European Union scientists

EU report on Munster Blackwater fish kill calls for 24-hr monitoring of rivers over 100km long, more coordinated crisis response, trained public 'water wardens' & tighter industrial pollution licences
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Navigating Sweden's transition toward a low-carbon footprint for all To lower Sweden's individual footprint to less than 1 metric ton, transition policies need to consider variations across municipalities and those most at risk.

"We find individuals’ carbon footprints ranging from a whopping 17 tons per person to 3 tons annually across postcode areas. Income appears to be a key variable, with the wealthier producing the highest emissions."

It's lazy to divide territorial GHGs by population.

www.sei.org/perspectives...

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes!

"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

Bruselas quiere eliminar controles a 49 pesticidas tóxicos para ahorrar solo 16 millones de euros Un análisis del paquete ómnibus de la Comisión alerta del riesgo para la salud de blindar los fitosanitarios

Bruselas quiere eliminar controles a 49 pesticidas tóxicos para ahorrar solo 16 millones de euros.

Es una barbaridad que tendrá graves consecuencias para el medio natural y que podrá afectar también a la salud de las personas.
www.infolibre.es/medioambient...

Fipronil Waterway Pollution Europe Warning Fipronil Waterway Pollution Europe concerns grow as pet flea treatments contaminate rivers, threatening wildlife and drinking water safety.

Nice article on how pet flea & tick treatments end up in rivers:
the-european.eu/story-57030/...

We Didn’t Start the Fire (But it’s all the ways the EU has ruined environmental protection in the last three years) with @greenpeace.eu #ad

Cuando los animales de compañía devoran la biodiversidad: un conflicto sin regular en la Unión Europea - Climática, el medio especializado en clima y biodiversidad "Es necesario que las autoridades se tomen en serio la necesidad de regular los impactos de las mascotas y que sus propietarios se impliquen en la tarea de evitarlos", señala el investigador Miguel Ángel Gómez-Serrano.

Muchos perros y gatos con dueño deambulan libremente por espacios naturales y urbanos, depredan fauna o transmiten enfermedades, incluso estando bien alimentados.

Hablan de ello especialistas en @es.theconversation.com

Què passarà al Delta si es declara l'anguila en perill d'extinció? El Ministeri proposa obrir la porta a restriccions més severes, però la Generalitat defensa mantenir la pesca d'aquesta espècie amb més control i reforç científic

La Generalitat (o part d'ella) en modo trumpisme
El DG de Pesca Sostenible es treu de la butaca això: "Si la població està malament és per moltes variables, i la que menys influeix és la pesca"
Les dades de la mateixa Generalitat refuten això
(Segueix)
www.diaridetarragona.com/ebre/251686/...

Flood Prevention Is the way we are farming partly responsible for flooding, and what changes might decrease damage in the future? Geomorphologist Prof Mary Bourke. Sligo Farmers Eddie Davitt and Joe Leonard. Farming F...

“You don’t treat a flood where it ends up, you treat it where it starts. Upstream at the top of the catchment”

How to use the land more cleverly to adapt to changing weather and future floods.
#RTECountrywide #SpeirGorm

Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

El mundo niega la protección a las anguilas La última propuesta para cesar de la explotación de las especies del género ‘Anguilla’, al borde de la extinción, ha sido rechazada.

"Los científicos tenemos información de sobra para saber que la crítica situación en la que se encuentran varias especies de anguila debe llevar a dejar de pescarlas, venderlas y comerlas".

Supreme Court upholds order overturning wind farm refusal The Supreme Court has upheld a High Court order quashing a decision to refuse planning permission for a wind farm in Co Laois.

Supreme Court upholds order overturning Co Laois wind farm refusal
www.rte.ie/news/2026/02...

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

Future restoration should enhance ecological complexity and emergent properties at multiple scales Ecological restoration has a paradigm of re-establishing ‘indigenous reference' communities. One resulting concern is that focussing on target communities may not necessarily create systems which fun...

The mainstream aim to restore “native reference ecosystems”

Reminds me of people of my age who go to see touring bands from their youth

Trying to recreate something that never quite existed

And has limited relevance in a changing world
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La contaminación metálica vuelve a estar descontrolada en la Mina Aznalcóllar tras las lluvias, como ocurrió el año pasado. En estas fotos, tomadas hoy, se observa drenaje ácido de minas fluyendo desde escombreras al contraembalse y de ahí al Guadiamar, Doñana y el Guadalquivir.