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Marine heatwave leaves critical Florida corals "functionally extinct" - Oceanographic Following a record-breaking marine heatwave in 2023 Florida's critical staghorn and elkhorn corals have been left 'functionally extinct.'

🌊 Marine heatwave leaves critical Florida corals "functionally extinct"

Following the record-breaking 2023 marine heatwave and the ninth mass coral bleaching, staghorn and elkhorn corals have dwindled to populations too small to reproduce

oceanographicmagazine.com/news/marine-...

Well worth supporting BBOWT if you don't already... "Chimney Meadows" is the largest of their nature reserves. Warburg in the Chilterns a great place too - have walked there a few times, & earlier in the year cycled a bridleway from Cookley Green through Warburg, to Bix & beyond. Good stuff.

Still a few days left to have your say on the East St Helen Street Active Travel scheme in Abingdon...

#Cycling #Walking #Cyclists #Pedestrians #ActiveTravel #Infrastructure #Abingdon #Oxfordshire

London is proud to host Japan's Grand Sumo Tournament this week - it's fantastic to see the the teams using our cycling infrastructure to get around.

Lonely hose, hung out to dry, unable to be used. (John Nzoka, unsplash)

Thames Water has announced that the hosepipe ban for OX postcodes is to continue after receiving 50% of the average rainfall over the last six months. They also warn of increased likelihood of localised flooding during periods of heavy rain on exceptionally dry ground, due to increased run off.

I hear you & do have a rack 'n bungees on my local journey 'leave in unattended' bike, which I use panniers on.
Though everyone should of course carry at least two reusable cable ties on any bike journey, at all times... 😁

Easiest way to use the hopeless GWR vertical bike spaces, for one stop & when train is quiet, with some handy reusable cable ties...

These ones tell the knee scuff tale, of when I had an off on a slimey mini roundabout...

Still going after all these years. No longer made though...

#Bikester

Man completed 'Everesting' challenge raising £5,000 for charity A MAN who took on a challenge to cycle up and down Rosedale Chimney in the North York Moors the equivalent of the height of Everest has raised more…

👍 I remember having to try keep the front wheel from lifting completely off the road... First time there, I was around when MM was everesting the climb - 51 ascents/descents!
www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/1466947...

Nice. Love the NYMs - stayed there a few times (with bike), not far from Rosedale Chimney bank. 😮🙂

Yes, more of an modern 'VespaCar' style submicrovan...

SHOCK POLL: NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW IN an amazing poll conducted by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like. However, 99 percent of journalists agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

River Wye pollution prompts UK's largest environmental lawsuit Livestock and water companies are accused of “extensive” pollution in the Wye, Lugg and Usk rivers.

"The biggest legal claim ever brought in the UK over environmental pollution in the country has been filed at the High Court."

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Trip to Abingdon Ock Street, October fair last night. One of my tasks was to bring home some candy floss - cable tied to the saddle pack... Also tested out the new Lumintop B01 bike light - pretty good. Takes 21700 or 18650 cells...

Another miracle performed by your friends at the #WorldBollardAssociation

Handlebars of this e-bike are too wide to fit through the entrance meant for bikes

Also… this kind of thing is just frustrating. On several greenways (which are signposted traffic-free cycleways) near me the A frame barriers are far too narrow for this e-bike. I imagine anyone with an adapted cycle would find this impossible to get past.

That's a corker of a poor misjudged overtake. I've lost count of the number of times I've seen an oncoming driver have to slow up as someone overtakes.

Thames Water creditors ask for up to 15 years’ leniency from river pollution rules Lenders say a ‘full return to legal, regulatory and environmental compliance’ under new rescue plan would not be completed until at least 2035-2040

Public contol now. #ThamesWater

"creditors also said that “a full return to legal, regulatory and environmental compliance” under their plan would not be completed until at least the 2035-2040 period"

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Request: contraflow cycle lanes

Can anyone point me towards any guidance or examples which basically confirm "this is ok"?

Usual social media backlash from a few people, and I'd like to be armed with the facts (FWIW I love this)

10x 200kms in October? 😮 Epic.

Exclusive: Strava just sued Garmin, demanding the company stop selling all their fitness devices (watches and bike computers), due to infringing on a patent. I dive into what's being said, a whole lot of history, what it means, and much more: www.dcrainmaker.com/2025/10/stra...

Unfortunately, CCTV just does not deter determined bike thieves, & train stations are basically 'deli-bars' for these criminals = use a folding bike/ use a 'low risk', non stand out bike, &, still use two locks - at least one good quality D-lock. Leaving an e-bike = using a LiteLok, or two?

The New Road descent in the direction of Wantage, just W of the Letcombes, is a goody though. Fairly long, good visibility, surface not bad, & nicely steep but not too much... 🙂

That looks close! Seems like a case of 'Must get in front - mustn't go over the double solid lines - nevermind closepassing the cyclist'. You do have to wonder what became of the 'hang back a second until safe to pass'.

Photo of a woman wearing jeans riding a bicycle.

“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
— Jane Goodall

#RIPJaneGoodall

East St Helen Street Active Travel scheme Have your say We’d like to hear what you think about the East St Helen Street active travel scheme in Abingdon. The scheme will encourage walking, wheeling and cycling in the town centre, by providing...

Excellent; looks great. I notice there are
Drop-in events on 11 & 14 October coming up... 👍

letstalk.oxfordshire.gov.uk/east-st-hele...

🚲 Big win for Abingdon! £1.5m secured to fix the missing NCN5 link + boost walking & cycling

Plans include a new two-way contraflow on East St Helen St, Dutch entrance kerbs, continuous footways + better crossings

Have your say by 28 Oct – letstalk.oxfordshire.gov.uk/east-st-hele...

...the Ridgeway looking over to the Devil's Punchbowl & Oxfordshire's Hackpen Hill, slightly west of Letcombe Bassett...

#Oxfordshire #TheRidgeway #Cycling

The Ridgeway really is stunning at the moment by bike, autumnal colours developing, great vistas, still very dry. Quiet too - tyres on chalk, wind & birds. These days often tending to do approx 20-30% tracks on a ride, adjusting tyre psi as & when.

#Oxfordshire #TheRidgeway #Gravel #Cycling