Alistair Whitby

Started the hedge planting season with a bang getting over 600 mixed, native, deciduous trees into the ground with our amazing @ouseadurrt.bsky.social volunteers 😀 🙌

A great new wetland given a fab upgrade with bit of hedge habitat 🌳💦💪

China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising

The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."

Wind power has saved UK consumers over £100 billion since 2010 – new study Wind power offers a large financial benefit to UK consumers.

Wind power has saved UK consumers over £100 billion since 2010 – new study
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Firms ordered to reduce forever chemicals in drinking water for 6m people - BBC News The persistent pollutants which build up in the environment have been linked to serious illnesses.

Sources for the drinking water of 6 million people in England so contaminated with PFAS forever chemicals, the Drinking Water Inspectorate has ordered water companies to act.

Our story featured on @BBCr4today this morning + here on BBC Online:

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"We should no longer be making PFAS"

Water UK's David Henderson tells Nick Robinson removing PFAS from water sources is so hard we should talk about a ban on forever chemicals, not a clean up.

Our story on the DWI ordering water firms to act on PFAS in water sources made the Today Programme.
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Fantastic to be out on the river Uck & tributaries looking at new #naturalfloodmanagement opportunities! 💦🦆🐟🌳

If you are a landowner, or know of suitable sites for scrapes, ponds, hedges, leaky barriers, river rewiggling etc. get in touch at info@oart.org.uk

#UckAdaptation

Energy transitions don't happen everywhere all at once. They happen sector by sector, place by place. Pointing out that some sectors and places are not advancing yet does not negate that others have come a long way.

Here are the Nordics - heat pump roll-out replaced fossil fuels reducing emissions.

Regulators overlooking toxic Pfas found around Lancashire chemicals plant Exclusive: Environment Agency not testing for ‘forever chemical’ made by factory despite evidence of emissions

Classed as 'reprotoxic', EEA-NH4 is a type of PFAS that can harm sexual function, fertility + child development.

In 2023, we exposed a plant in Lancashire releasing almost 800kg into the River Wyre - so why isn't the curent EA investigation testing for it?

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Huge kudos to our River Rangers who turned up for a soggy but successful wetland management session today! 👏🦆💦🐸

💧Willow hide trimmed
💧Wetland plants translocated
💧Pampas, buddleia & gourse managed
💧Channel cleared for winter

After such a dry year, the rain was welcome when it did arrive 🙏

That's a wrap!

Fantastic to get phase 1 of the Landport Brooks project completed with initial ditch maintenance. 🚜👷💪

Next year's work aims to improve the ecological health & restore wet habitats of the floodplain grazing marsh. 🐦👌🐄

Great partnership with @LewesDistrictCouncil and @SDNP 👏

Vast areas of peatland destroyed since peat ban announced exactly 3 years ago | The Wildlife Trusts It has been three years since the UK Government announced that it would ban the sale of peat for use in the amateur gardening sector, yet there is still no sign of legislation to enact the ban.

Every day the government delays banning the sale of peat compost means more carbon lost to the atmosphere from this appalling practice

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Study backs reintroduction of Golden Eagle to England Golden Eagle could soon return to England, with a Forestry England study expected to confirm there is enough habitat to support the species' reintroduction. Once persecuted to extinction, the birds may follow the success of Scotland's reintroduction programme, which has grown the population to more than 50 pairs. DEFRA says plans will consider ecological impacts and public engagement, marking a major step for the UK's most iconic bird of prey.

Golden Eagle may soon be reintroduced in England, following the results feasibility study by Forestry England:

EU wildfires worst on record as burning season continues Data shows more than 1m hectares torched so far this year, with records also broken for CO2 and other air pollutants

EU wildfires worst on record as burning season continues

Data shows more than 1 million hectares torched so far this year, with records also broken for CO2 and other air pollutants

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Scotland has so much to be proud of. But there’s something missing – something extraordinary...

More info www.scotlandbigpicture.com/lynx-to-scotland
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Scotland - looking wonderful here. Young trees, mature trees and dead trees. Closed canopy, open areas and moor. This is a landscape where grazing pressure has been matched to the carrying capacity of the land.

A scorching but successful week of river remeandering. Four new berms completed 🙌 💦🐟

Huge thanks to our awesome volunteers, who've gone above and beyond the call of duty!💪🔥💪

So gratifying to see Kingfishers visiting the newly enhanced sections every day! 🐦

This spring has been a proper wildlife adventure

Latest – Scotland produces enough renewable electricity to meet all its needs and then power 1.4 million homes in the rest of the UK Professor John Robertson OBA From Energy Statistics for Scotland – Q4 2024, published today A record 38.4 TWh of renewable electricity was generated in Scotland in 2024 – a 13.2% increase compared …

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Latest – Scotland produces enough renewable electricity to meet all its needs and then power 1.4 million homes in the rest of the UK – Talking-up Scotland

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#ClimateAction

A fantastic end to #INNSWeek with two days of removing non-native species from one of our precious chalk streams! 🌱💦💪

Two truckloads of Himalayan Balsam, Cotoneaster, Leylandii, Cherry laurel, Crocosmia, Spanish bluebells, & Box-leaved honeysuckle removed from the Lewes Winterbourne!

Top effort 👏

Another week of lovely nature and wildlife encounters while out restoring Sussex rivers.

This was the longest slow worm I've ever seen!

#wildlife

It looks like there's snow on the rainforest floor in May, but it's actually massed willow seed, drifting on the air.

Every one of these countless magic fairy dust packets of DNA has the potential to be a magnificent old tree, supporting a highly diverse, living ecosystem. 🌏

Exactly how does a UK customs officer know whether beef has been reared using excessive amounts of antibiotics in a factory farm where it is rammed up against its neighbours and never sees a blade of grass?

It's #NationalHedgerowWeek! 🌳🌳🌳

Hedgerows play a vital role in enhancing rivers, creating corridors, slowing surface water & filtering pollutants. 🐟💦🌱

We're looking for opportunities to create new hedgerows like these ones we planted in 2020.

Get in touch to find out more: info@oart.org.uk 🌳🌳

Make something good come of the moronic felling of the Sycamore Gap tree, with the culprits now convicted.

The Woodland Trust is calling on Ministers to bring in new legislation so that important trees are listed for protection like historical buildings are:

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These are real images of exoplanets.

Four super-Jupiters, imaged 10 times over 12 years around a star 133 lightyears away.

These are real, giant worlds, out there in the dark.

And we can see them.

It's been a lovely week in the Sussex countryside doing river and wetland work and enjoying the stunning #bluebells!

I think this graph of wind and solar looks narwhal-esk

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A silent majority of the world’s people wants stronger climate action. It’s time to wake up | Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope About 89% of the public want their governments to do more to tackle the climate crisis – but don’t know they’re the majority

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‘People love being here’: London development shows harmony between nature and housing Five thousand new homes alongside a paradise for newts appears to fly in face of government’s ‘false wedge’

"The Treasury is driving this false wedge between homes + nature...but we have been working with housing developers for years + years in harmony...good companies want nature around the new-builds. It improves...mental health...reduces flooding, provides shade."

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Spring is well and truly getting underway at our restored EPIC chalk stream site. Exciting to see Snake's head fritillary and cowslips up.

Our reptile survey setup was rewarded with slow worm sightings. The brook is looking great with ramshorns, starwort, blue water speedwell & newts aplenty!