Colourful print featuring a silhouette of a large tree in the valley between two rising slopes either side, under a streaked pink and yellow sky
One of many fascinating artists interviewed for the NEW WomensArt book 'Reframing Women Printmakers' is Northumbrian artist Rebecca Vincent #womensart
20.07.2025 09:54 β π 2374 π 302 π¬ 0 π 17
Become a citizen scientist with Trees for Bees at Wakehurst
Help with our scientific research by counting pollinators at Wakehurst.
Why not become part of the science behind saving pollinators this #InsectWeek? π
At our Wakehurst site, you can help our researchers by carrying out a free pollinator safari on the Trees for Bees trail - helping to feed into real-world conservation!
Learn more π www.kew.org/read-and-wat...
23.06.2025 08:34 β π 36 π 14 π¬ 1 π 2
Hyper-narcissism was deliberately engineered by a marketing industry which recognized very early on that selfish and narcissistic people will simply buy more products.
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15.06.2025 17:34 β π 50 π 8 π¬ 1 π 1
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10.06.2025 16:23 β π 62 π 20 π¬ 1 π 1
Israeli forces intercept Gaza activists' aid boat with Greta Thunberg on board - live updates
Israel's foreign ministry has branded it a
12 activists, including Greta Thunberg, have been detained by Israeli armed forces in international waters for trying to bring life saving food & medicine to Gazans who are being starved under the Israeli siege. Withholding food & medicine is a war crime.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cl...
09.06.2025 12:06 β π 90 π 41 π¬ 3 π 1
Scientists warn against attempts to change definition of βforever chemicalsβ
Move to narrow classification of Pfas and weaken regulation is βpolitically and/or economically motivatedβ
The chemical industry is deploying every weapon in its arsenal to fight efforts to regulate harmful forever chemicals, including calling into question the very definition of what PFAS are, writes Watershed's @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
10.06.2025 07:03 β π 121 π 79 π¬ 2 π 6
At 4C scientists predict 90% of the worldβs population could die.
Weβre on track to hit 4C within our childrensβ lifetimes.
7,000,000,000+ avoidable deaths.
Waiting for a journalist to ask a politician about this.
08.06.2025 18:49 β π 380 π 168 π¬ 25 π 8
Pesticides, antibiotics, animal medicines: the chemical cocktail seeping into our rivers
The list of everyday pollutants is a long one, and they could be as damaging to our water ecosystems as sewage spills
Ibuprofen can affect fish hatching, diclofenac impacts fish livers, flea treatments kill off the insects fish & birds eat - a cocktail of meds, pesticides, cleaning products, road runoff is poisoning our rivers - no wonder fish numbers are plummeting.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
31.05.2025 11:07 β π 120 π 78 π¬ 3 π 3
Angie Lewin, British printmaker working in linocut, wood engraving, lithography and screen printing #WomensArt
03.06.2025 08:07 β π 619 π 67 π¬ 0 π 3
Incredible stats from Bernie about the wealth gap in the US - so big we should call it the wealth Grand Canyon. Itβs not quite as stark here in the UK, where the top 10% merely own 50% of everything and the bottom 50% own 10% - but still the case is overwhelmingΒ for reform of our tax system.
03.06.2025 08:25 β π 57 π 23 π¬ 3 π 0
DWP told grieving mum to 'get a job' after 33-year-old disabled daughter's death
Tracy's cared for her disabled daughter until she died aged 33. Now, thanks to the DWP taking all her support away, she is losing her home.
DWP told grieving mum to 'get a job' after 33-year-old disabled daughter's death
Tracy cared for her disabled daughter until she died aged 33. Now, thanks to the DWP taking all her support away, she is losing her home.
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
03.06.2025 08:55 β π 77 π 63 π¬ 16 π 9
Empathy and any form of moral ambition has been removed from leadership.
03.06.2025 09:31 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
2%/y fall in insects may not have the ring of disaster. βBut if you run that forward just 4 decades, weβre talking about nearly half the tree of life disappearing in one human lifetime. That is absolutely catastrophic.β
1/3 of all our food depends on pollinators.
80%of our birds do to.
03.06.2025 09:09 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 1
Ahead of my interview with Laura Kuenssberg this morning, we spoke about my memoir The Unthinkable - about coercive control and why we still arenβt doing enough to confront this violence.
It airs this morning 9am, on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, BBC One.
π #TheUnthinkable is out THURSDAY.
01.06.2025 07:28 β π 48 π 17 π¬ 6 π 2
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31.05.2025 06:20 β π 26 π 15 π¬ 0 π 0
How safe and sustainable are period products?
Millions of people around the world use period products every month. BΓ‘rbara Pinho finds out what their environmental footprint is and whether they carry chemicals harmful to human health
#PeriodProducts - why did I put to the vote in the #HouseofLords an amendment demanding they are regulated in the UK within 12 months?
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#OneHealth #PublicHealth #PlasticPollution #PFAS #HeavyMetals #Microplastics #Pesticides
@fawcettsociety.bsky.social
www.chemistryworld.com/features/how...
30.05.2025 13:42 β π 26 π 10 π¬ 1 π 0
Sign our petition: Take abortion out of the British criminal code
We are calling on the Government to protect legal abortions in the UK for all time by taking abortion out of the Criminal Code
Nigel Farage has said that term limits for abortion need to be reduced. His party is currently leading in the polls.
Now is the time for all of us to get behind the movement to protect abortion rights in UK law.
humanists.uk/action/prote...
29.05.2025 11:55 β π 92 π 38 π¬ 8 π 1
'Cherry Blossom' painting by contemporary U.S impressionist style painter Erin Hanson #WomensArt
30.05.2025 10:59 β π 1953 π 210 π¬ 0 π 10
Climate change: World likely to breach 1.5Β°C limit in next five years
Fact: 2024 was the warmest year on record β but the heat is far from over. A new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warns that global temperatures will likely continue rising,β¦
"The UN agency urged climate action to prevent even more dangerous warming in the decades."
We can make a difference as individuals! Taking a flight free year is a great way to cut your emissions and inspire those around you. Real change happens when lots of people take action together. β
28.05.2025 09:42 β π 5 π 3 π¬ 1 π 1
2050 is too late.
& Net Zero isnβt zero.
Fossil-fuel grifters want to scrap it.
Greenwashing centrists want to keep it.
Both are distracting us & playing politics with our kidsβ futures, so their paymasters can profit right up to the collapse they know for sure is coming.
27.05.2025 14:28 β π 135 π 26 π¬ 3 π 0
π¨ Eight in ten UK adults think bottom trawling should be banned in UK marine protected areas.
The public has spoken. Now itβs time for leaders to listen. β°
Take action here to demand the government bans bottom trawling in our ocean havens: act.for-the-ocean.org/act/protect-...
27.05.2025 13:02 β π 16 π 12 π¬ 0 π 0
Gloucester air pollution measures dropped after 20 years
A city's clean air zones are removed after a fall in harmful emissions.
"The Council said it is also looking at expanding the city's Smoke Control Areas to limit HARMFUL emissions from chimney fires"
#AirPollution #WoodBurning #SolidFuel #SmokePollution #Health #Environment
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
17.05.2025 18:58 β π 4 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0
Dieselgate: the sequel β Mums for Lungs
Car manufacturers must be held to account - our new analysis shows a shocking number of the most polluting diesel cars are still on UK roads, 10 years after Dieselgate.
Want to know why we keep talking about #DirtyDiesel?
1. Manufacturers likely fitted cars with emissions defeat devices.
2. We bought the cars in good faith.
3. There are now millions of cars emitting suspiciously high levels of #AirPollution on our roads.
4. Nothing is being done about it.
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17.05.2025 16:04 β π 19 π 15 π¬ 0 π 0
The filth of forever chemicals has seeped into every part of our lives & our land - on today's @theguardian.com "It's Complicated", @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social outlines some of the places most polluted with PFAS. You can catch the full episode viaππΎ
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
15.05.2025 18:22 β π 92 π 49 π¬ 0 π 3
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