Phoebe Weston

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

An excellent piece out today by @phoebeweston.bsky.social at the Guardian on our NERC ECOMIX project which is exploring chemical pollution in Yorkshire's rivers.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

29.05.2025 10:11 — 👍 11    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Hello! What are the best wildlife cams out there? Looking for ones like this bear sanctuary www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3aT... or these storks www.tvsyd.dk/storkereden?...

Please post links below 👇
If you are a wildlife cam obsessive or know one, please get in touch - phoebe.weston@guardian.co.uk

29.04.2025 11:37 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Like the Ritz for wildlife: the joy of recreating England’s ancient hedges Up and down the country, volunteers are coming together to plant more of these nature-rich reserves

Thank you @phoebeweston.bsky.social for such a wonderful and optimistic article on Hedgerows!

It's great to celebrate the wonders we have, appreciate the legacy, and use that to inform our combined future
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

17.04.2025 08:42 — 👍 23    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0

Streams of medicines: how Switzerland cleaned up its act – podcast In the second of a two part series, Phoebe Weston travels to Switzerland to find out how the country has transformed its rivers, from sewage-filled health hazards to pristine swimming spots. She tells...

Switzerland is leading the world in purifying its water of micropollutants.

Hear how they are doing it in ep 2 of our Science Weekly series www.theguardian.com/science/audi...

11.04.2025 08:48 — 👍 28    🔁 16    💬 0    📌 0

It's been a hell of a spring for Blackthorn. Anyone doing aerial remote sensing (drone or plane) of woodland, hedgerow or rewilding habitats in past 10 days would have a bonus of easily mapping this pollen/nectar resource. Hawthorn might do the same favour when it flowers later this/next month.

09.04.2025 12:07 — 👍 118    🔁 14    💬 6    📌 0

Streams of medicines: what’s hiding in the UK’s waterways? – podcast In episode one of a two-part series, biodiversity reporter Phoebe Weston tells Madeleine Finlay about the problem of chemical pollution in our waterways, and how it could be contributing to what the W...

The UK is known for its national parks: areas of outstanding natural beauty with crystal-clear streams.

But our most protected rivers are full of pharmaceuticals.

I speak to @alistairboxall.bsky.social for part 1 of our Science Weekly series on rivers www.theguardian.com/science/audi...

08.04.2025 09:04 — 👍 4    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1

‘We made everything bear-proof’: the Italian village that learned to love its bears By learning to live with its ursine neighbours, mountainous Pettorano sul Gizio has drawn tourists and new residents, bucking a trend of rural decline

‘We made everything bear-proof’: the Italian village that learned to love its bears.

My feature on the town that went wild - www.theguardian.com/environment/...

07.04.2025 10:21 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

29 years of natural colonisation, woodland expansion. Oaks, hawthorns, blackthorns. This 2 ha of new woodland, all self-sown creates new habitat and future ancient woodland, but also buffers the existing woodland next door from drying winds and agri-spray drift. Win, win, win.

02.04.2025 11:09 — 👍 91    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 3

Big, biodiverse and beautiful: can Romania’s centuries-old giant haystacks survive modern farming? Traditional methods benefit hundreds of species but as new agricultural techniques take over, the distinctive haystacks mark a vanishing way of life

Gorgeous story by my colleague Phoebe Weston – look at those haystacks!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

03.04.2025 08:46 — 👍 25    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 3

Invertebrate of the year 2025: vote for your favourite Since February we’ve gone in search of the invertebrate of the year. Now it’s your chance to choose

Feel powerless and despairing about global affairs? Take back control by voting for Invertebrate of the Year 2025, here: www.theguardian.com/environment/... These wonderful animals live tariff-free.

03.04.2025 08:38 — 👍 6    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1