RT @SikotiHamiltonR: 1/4 Jimmy Corry is a Belfast Protestant man whose house was burned down by a Loyalist gang hunting for non-whites. Aft…

Whales, dolphins and seabirds are being killed in large numbers as “collateral damage” by fishing vessels every year, according to first-ever analysis of bycatch data Gillnets a type of static net that hangs like a curtain in the water,cause 400,000 seabird deaths globally theguardian.com/environment/…

Why super-sized and politicised World Cup comes at a cost bbc.in/4xiQago

5 million fish are killed every minute by fishing industry Super trawlers are devouring the ocean of marine life These ships can catch, process and store hundreds of thousands of tonnes of fish This is not sustainable Make it stop Ban super trawlers now

Solar panels have a dual purpose in this orchard. They produce clean electricity while shading apple trees from hail, frost and heavy rain. We have the solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate #ClimateEmergency #climate #energy #renewables

This school in Denmark is covered in #solar panels. It's the longest solar panel facade in the world. RT if you think all schools should get a solar upgrade. #ActOnClimate #climate #renewables #sustainability #solar #energy #innovation #tech #design #GreenNewDeal

Breaking: More than 700 dolphins killed in one day of Faroe Islands hunts amid equipment failures, chaotic scenes & arrest of conservation observers! Wicked beyond belief and utterly heartbreaking Complete blood thirsty devastation of a gentle species all in the name of tradition #NoWords oceanographicmagazine.com/ne…

In 2008, a group of friends in a small Yorkshire town decided to start planting food in unused public spaces. The town is Todmorden, population about 15,000, tucked into a valley between Burnley and Halifax. The group is Incredible Edible Todmorden. Their motto is "if you eat, you're in." Today the railway station beds grow herbs. The fire station is surrounded by fruit trees. The canal towpath is lined with edible plantings. The forecourt of the local police station has been transformed into what's now called "possibly the finest and greenest looking police station in the UK," with a small library of crime novels installed for good measure. Everything is free to harvest. They have no paid staff, no buildings, and no public funding. They've operated this way for almost two decades. Their guiding principles: "believe in the power of small actions," "kindness underpins everything we do," and "it's sometimes better to ask for forgiveness, not permission." Over the years they've added a Tool Library, a Makery, and little free libraries scattered around town. They host visitors from around the world (they call it "vegetable tourism"). Their gardening Sundays have grown from four or five people to forty or fifty. The model has been replicated in over 700 projects worldwide and continued to spread.

This is what entitlement looks like! 🤬 There are nesting waterbirds on this pond on Hampstead Heath... there are also big 'No Swimming' signs, all being totally ignored! 🤬 Pure selfishness... 😒🤬🤬 (Shared from Instagr*m with permission from 'swansofhampsteadheath')

The largest animal ever to have lived, the majestic blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus). Nature is amazing. Protect it. #ActOnClimate #climate #nature #rewilding #oceans #biodiversity via dolphindronedom/IG

Today contractors from National Grid turned up at this farm ready to clear all of this vegetation, including the four oaks, without the required dawn bird survey. It is only because the land owner was on his toes and challenged them that they left. Plus National Grid has not explained why it is ‘not practicable’ to uphold their DCO obligation to avoid nesting season. They were not even able to explain why the oaks need to be felled for a bell mouth when they do not cause visibility issues. This is a horrific disregard for nature. (This is Bramford to Twinstead, ‘only’ 30km long. Imagine the destruction if Norwich to Tilbury at 180km goes ahead as proposed. We seek underground HVDC laid by cable ploughs for N2T)

UK police sending just three officers to the US to accompany 10,000 England fans at each match at World Cup after American authorities refuse to provide funding bbc.co.uk/sport/football/art…

These irreplaceable old growth forests continue to be logged across British Columbia. Over 1,200 people have been arrested trying to keep them standing. There is no time to waste. Protect the Irreplaceable. #ActOnClimate #climate #nature @bcndp #bcpoli #bcgov Pic @TJWattPhoto

I’ve just been in Scotland. The writer Aldo Leopold once said that even the smallest ecological education leaves you walking through ‘a world of wounds’ which nobody else seems to see. Scotland’s beautiful hills and glens have for the most part been stripped and scarred and left utterly desolate by generations of landowners, land managers and dreadful politicians. You can drive in any direction for hours and see nothing but sheep and more sheep on denuded hillsides, pockmarked with vast, artless blocks of monocultural conifer plantation deadzones. Even where there are few sheep, red deer numbers are artificially inflated for the canned shooting industry and the deer do just the same as the sheep, leaving nothing but cropped grass from the top of the hills to the bottom of the valleys, a gigantic bowling green with contours. Developing countries which have suffered a loss of trees and nature on anything like the same scale have the rest of the world rushing to offer assistance in restoring it. Think Madagascar, or Nepal, where things are fast now being turned around. Many of the pockets of natural woodland that remain in Scotland are totally infested with head-height invasive rhododendron. Some landowners are turning things around, to the fury of their neighbours, but they remain a small minority. Those places are fast becoming truly magical islands of what once was and what could be again. It’s even worse under the sea, out of sight, out of mind. Scotland says that marine protected areas represent 38% of its seas. It’s bollocks. Even the most destructive fishing practices such as bottom trawling are permitted with impunity in nearly all of it. Just 1% of Scotland’s seas are actually protected. This is what happens when you have a population that has lost touch with what nature is, and can’t see the ravages which surround it; governed by politicians who are in hock to a small minority of established vested interests who simply won’t have it any other way.

The @GaywoodRiver a RARE #ChalkStream suffers the similar fate☹️enriched with Phosphate leading to Brown Algae scum which coats everything @AnglianWater @EnvAgencyAnglia claims this river has “Good ecological status” 🤷‍♂️

A developer has illegally cleared what was an open mosaic field in @NNorthantsC. Destroying active nests of Red-Listed woodcock & skylark. @NorthantsPolice said it’s not for them to investigate. Help. @ChrisGPackham @RSPBEngland @LeeBarronMP @NTelegraph @BBCLookEast @NorthantsLL

It’s deeply concerning that the plight of millions of critically endangered baby eels, currently trapped and dying in the River Severn, isn’t receiving the time or attention it urgently deserves.

Hundreds of dolphins washed ashore in Somalia, after Chinese fishing vessels used powerful SONAR to chase Tunas. Chinese fishing vessels loitering illegally inside Somalia's waters, are causing huge environmental damage!

Disappointing news from Sutton Park 💔 Stonechat pairs dropped from 6 to just 1 in 5 years largely due to increased dog disturbance. These birds nest on the ground & are easily disturbed. 🐾 Please keep dogs on leads 🚶 Stick to paths Small actions = big impact for wildlife😞

Two things bother me about the narrative building around Arsenal. First, we're told constantly that the Premier League is the most competitive league in the world. Fine. So what does it mean to be consistently fighting for the title in that environment? You can't celebrate the league's brutal competitiveness and then dismiss sustained title challenges as not good enough. Pick one. Second, and IMO this matters more, failure in elite sport is not losing. Luis Enrique said it. Many others have said versions of it. Failure is not trying again. It's accepting the ceiling. It's going through the motions. Arteta has never done that. Every setback has been fuel for the next attempt. The problem is social media runs on binary outcomes. Win or fail. Hero or fraud. No room for nuance. No room for the manager who rebuilt a club into genuine title contenders and is still hungry for more. Simeone has been at Atlético for over a decade. Two league titles, two Champions League finals. Still no European Cup. Nobody serious calls that failure. They call it one of the great managerial tenures in modern football. And I'm convinced that given 14 years like Simeone, Mikel will win more leagues than him. Arteta may or may not win the league this year. He may not lift the Champions League this year or next. But as long as he keeps pushing, keeps trying, keeps competing at this level, failure isn't what this is. Find another name for it By the way, if City wins the league, the achievement would of course be enormous.