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Very likely that people living in SCAs next to "modern" stoves are exposed to worse Benzene concentrations than properties in the vicinity of this factory. 1040tonnes from "modern" stoves (Eco+Adv) Vs 1070tonnes from industry. Why do we accept this just because Defra fails to measure it at source?

Every book needs a champion. When a distributor backs a book, they’re saying good books still matter. Thank you, Central Books, for choosing to back Nature’s Acre. In publishing, human judgement still matters. www.centralbooks.com/nature-s-acr...

Nature's Acre: An Irish Garden Memoir of Making a Placewww.centralbooks.com

The 2026 #WainwrightPrize Shortlists are here! 📚🌿 Across six categories, 43 outstanding books celebrate the power of stories to connect people and planet, from nature writing and conservation to breathtaking illustration and inspiring children's books. wainwrightprize.com

BBC News - Fires started 'deliberately' on mountain as crews tackle blaze www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Fires started 'deliberately' on Llanwonno mountain as crews tackle blazeFirefighters have been tackling the blaze on the mountain in the Rhondda Valley since Saturday.www.bbc.co.uk

Research in Nature Communications confirms a flowering plant as a new carnivorous lineage. The findings show that Saxifraga candelabrum can attract, trap, and digest insects, and absorb nitrogen from them, supporting a prediction made by Charles Darwin. go.nature.com/4xpJCMt 🌎🧪

UPDATE It has stopped raining in Raunds, Northants. 10min proper rain and 10min drizzle. People dancing in the streets, small children asking what it was, floods expected soon.

My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George MonbiotAs climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiotwww.theguardian.com

For many years, this hawthorn grew alone in an open landscape. Now a young species-rich rainforest ecosystem is building all around. Nature loss isn't inevitable: it *can* be reversed, through rewilding.

Oh, and by supporting residents to do it, especially in neighbourhoods where the obstacles might be greater. Play streets can be a simple, accessible thing, but in some places, for some communities more support is needed. See Playing Out’s toolkit: playingout.net/play-streets...

Planet Wild M41 plants 9,000 willows on a 20-ha abandoned fish farm in Poland’s Oder Delta to restart a beaver colony. Those willows are prime early-spring Bombus queen pollen—beaver restoration is pollinator restoration. https://youtu.be/4-qYZiBSK7g -A Bee

We Let Beavers Transform an Old Farm | Planet Wild M41Mission 41: 9,000 willows planted on a 20-ha fish farm in Poland’s Oder Delta to restart a beaver colony in the Oder River rewilding arc.youtu.be

walking through heatdaze Green Man keeps to the shadows under weary oaks

Course you would, “love”… And Brexit will suddenly be amazing. And climate change will go away. And Trump will give us the bestest trade deal ever. And voters will love you for scrapping their rights, to please your moneyed mates… Now, pipe down and focus on your upcoming fight with a bin.

Really good article about how peat restoration is helping farmers - a good counter to all the nonsense from the usual nonsense about "fuel load" and "rewilding" from the minority. www.walesfarmer.co.uk/news/2614875...?

Elan Valley farmer speaks out after devastation of terrifying wildfireA farmer has spoken out after watching the land she calls home ‘burn’ and the restored peatland that helped save it.www.walesfarmer.co.uk

Please sign and share this petition to stop supermarkets throwing away perfectly good food and make them donate it instead (which is what they used to do!) petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

Petition: Ban all supermarkets from throwing away edible food & require their donationEveryday, UK supermarkets throw away tonnes of edible food while millions of people rely on food banks to survive. We believe this is wrong, and that food that is safe to eat should not end up in bins...petition.parliament.uk

British band Massive Attack have called being banned from Singapore a “surreal experience” after displaying a Palestinian flag during their show.

Massive Attack speak about ‘surreal experience’ of being banned from Singapore over Palestinian flagBritish band say they are ‘proud to have made this impromptu expression with our fans in Singapore’, where open display of all foreign flags is bannedwww.theguardian.com

Some fantastic news for red squirrel conservation in Scotland!

It’s always a special treat when the Ravens come and see me again later on my walk. Just a short visit and then they had business to attend to! No youngsters with them today.

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FACT OF THE DAY. 3 August 1936. American sprinter Jesse Owens won the 100 metres at the Berlin Olympics. It was the first of 4 Gold Medals Owens won at the Berlin Games. He was credited with “single-handedly crushing Hitler’s myth of Aryan supremacy”.

The Second World War. At university tutors sometimes commented on my ability to say a lot in a few words. This explanation of why the Allies won ranges widely and covers all aspects of the conflict. But it is less than 5,000 words. www.amazon.co.uk/Allies-Secon...

Why did the Allies win the Second World War? (A-Grade History Lectures Book 11)Why did the Allies win the Second World War? (A-Grade History Lectures Book 11) eBook : Harris, George: Amazon.co.uk: Bookswww.amazon.co.uk

A #Big sky full of a big flock of Snow Geese for the #BlueSkyArtShow theme. Snow Geese on autumn migration at the Last Mountain Lake National Wildlife Area, #Saskatchewan. #ECK #photography #birds #nature #wildlife #Velvia #1990s #ManualFocus