Catherine Duigan

Dappled sunlight through very clear water on stony streambed.

Words, walking, water - Great to see the strong environmental focus in upcoming celebrations of #Aberystwyth Ceredigion’s recognition as Wales’s first Dinas Llên / City of #Literature - come join us!
#rivers #environment #landscape #ecology #art #poetry #UNESCO
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#wildflowerhour

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus! Happy St David’s Day!

In celebration of the feast day of the patron saint of Wales, please enjoy these photos of daffodils outside and inside some of our churches in Wales.

📷 St Mary's, Penllech, Gwynedd

British ambassador Kara Owen: ‘There is one particular part of Ireland I’d always go to. It is beautiful’ Kara Owen: The British ambassador to Ireland on her strongest childhood memory, her favourite Irish restaurant, and the actor she would like to play her in a biopic of her life

More Irish than the Irish themselves?

Kara Owen, the British Ambassador to #Ireland, sounds right at home. 🍵
#diplomacy #UK #Britain

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Painting featuring a green field full of purple crocus flowers and yellow daffodils

'Crocus & Daffodils' by UK contemporary painter Susan Entwistle #WomensArt
#spring #March

Old Irish Goat carries 3,000 years of Irish history

🐐🧬 New research has revealed that the Old Irish Goat shares a 3,000-year genetic link with goats living in Ireland during the Late Bronze Age.

The findings suggest the rare indigenous breed represents a continuous Irish lineage stretching back millennia.

@gingerhowley.bsky.social

Thousands of dead puffins are washing up on Europe’s beaches – why it’s been such a dangerous winter for seabirds Seabirds are washing up on Europe’s beaches in large numbers after weeks of bad weather.

Seabirds are washing up on Europe’s beaches in large numbers after weeks of bad weather.

Screenshot of a Facebook message about the book Lighthouses of Wales

Have you got your copy yet? Order a signed copy of my book Lighthouses of Wales direct from me at: lighthouses.wales/lighthouses-...

“Plan of the river at Conway in the county of Caernarvon"

Map yn dangos Conwy cyn i pont crog Thomas Telford chael ei hadeiladu. Ar y map gallwch weld ynys 'Claimed by Sir Roger Mostyn Bart.' lle adeiladwyd tŵr gogleddol y bont

Dyddiad: cyn 1796 Most/7289

Painting of two birds interacting while perched on a tree branch, one above the other, one colourful, the other white

Sarah Stone (c. 1759–1844), pioneering English natural history painter, best known for her detailed 18th-century watercolours of exotic birds - the first British female painter of birds and animals to gain professional recognition #womensart

A heavy and complex #heritage - Amazing example of close connection between #environment, natural resources, #pollution and colonial history in #Wales.
#envhist #pb #lead #metal #mining #Romans #geology #AmgueddfaCymru #archaeology #history #Ceredigion #ingot 🐖

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View from land across Cromarty Firth, Scotland on overcast day; several oil rigs visible offshore with rig under construction in foreground

#Fieldwork encapsulates #time and #place - encountering #oil #industry infrastructure in #Cromarty Firth #Scotland - April 1988

#envhist #Scotland #NorthSea #hydrocarbons #engineering #gas #oilrig #seascape #energy #offshore #climatechange #drillingrig #FossilFuels #SPA #nature #conservation

Two peacocks next to each other in a grassy field

'Peacocks in a Field ' by Irish painter Mildred Anne Butler 1858- 1941) known for animal and bird subjects #Womensart

February 24,1907, birthday of Marjorie Courtaney-Latimer.
In 1938, working as a museum curator in the town of East London (South Africa), she made an incredible discovery in a large catch of fresh fish -a living coelacanth 🐟

"Estonian flies the flag" headline in the Shetland Times, 23 August 1991, with black and white image of fish factory captain; superimposed by colour image of factory ship with fishing boat alongside in Lerwick Harbour, Shetland; overcast day; rolling green hills; grey harbour water.

#Fieldwork encapsulates #time and #place - collecting #zooplankton while failed coup attempt on President #Gorbachev caused changing of flags on #Soviet fish factory ships in #Lerwick Harbour #Shetland - August 1991.

#naturalhistory #politics #SovietUnion #Fishing #Scotland #ecology #freshwater

Watercolour sketch of single yellow flower surrounded by green leaves on brown background

"I must enter into a World of Form and Colour. My World."
Gwen John 1928
#AmgueddfaCymru

Primula vulgaris, Briallu #primrose
#Springtime #Wales #wildflowerhour #Sunday
#nature #wellbeing #Welshart #drawing #flowers #botany

Black Waters: The Sea Empress Disaster In 1996, an oil tanker called the Sea Empress ran aground on the Pembrokeshire coast, spilling its contents and causing an environmental disaster that shocked the UK and the world.

Really powerful BBC documentary just out about the 1996 Sea Empress disaster in Pembrokeshire. Highly recommended. What a disaster to be reminded of...

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February 21, 1993, died on this day aged 105 years, Danish seismologist Inge Lehman.
She discovered that the Earth has a inner core announcing it in 1936 with the shortest title for a paper ever: P' - after the seismic discontinuity between core and mantle shown by the P-waves

A dead Puffin lies on wet sand, its black and white feathers darkened and slick against the beach. The bird rests on its side, wings folded, with its distinctive orange bill clearly visible against the pale sand.

Heartbreaking: Right now, thousands of Puffins are washing up along our coasts and further afield.

It is devastating to see.

These birds are Red-listed in the UK and already under serious pressure.

Mass deaths like this, known as a “seabird wreck”, can take years for colonies to recover from...

Based on his observations made along the England–Wales border, he proposed to add a new geologic period distinguished by fossils of gastropods, crinoids (sea-lilies) and trilobites, naming it Silurian after an ancient Welsh tribe...
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February 19, 1792, birthday of Scottish naturalist Roderick Impey Murchison (1792-1871). He geologized in old Scotland, Wales, Germany and Russia
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‘A taste of home’: The Irish women who have launched a community network in Wales to celebrate Irish culture Irish Women's Network Wales had already signed up 94 members ahead of the launch event at the Irish consulate in Cardiff Bay

Irish Women's Network Wales - looking forward to more shared intergenerational stories of #migration and to making more connections between #Ireland and #Wales.
#culture #heritage #community

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Pints, prayers and horse racing on the beach: Martin Parr in rural Ireland – in pictures The iconic photographer believed his two years shooting horse fairs, pubs and dance halls in the 1980s had been overlooked. A new exhibition aims to put that right

Pints, prayers and horse racing on the beach: Martin Parr in rural Ireland – in pictures

Some of Britain's earliest #bird #photographs by Harry Morrey Salmon on display #Cardiff - great example of #envhist images #Wales - congratulations to @cardiffnats.bsky.social & #AmgueddfaCymru

#ornithology #WelshBirds #birdphotography #wildlife #AdarCymru #naturalhistory #heritage #environment

Our #Shoresearch volunteers have been learning to identify bristleworms and bivalves with our friends at Amgueddfa Cymru. They'll help us gather data to better understand our seas. 💙 Learn more about Shoresearch👉northwaleswildlifetrust.org.uk/livingseas/shoresearch-intertidal-citizen-science-surveys

This Microscope Monday 🔬 we invite you to marvel at a beautiful ventral view of a Daphnia (aka water flea). Here at FBA we absolutely love these amazing freshwater micro-crustaceans! Did you know that the Dutch naturalist and pioneering microscopist Jan Swammerdam (1637–1680) is credited as the first scientist to identify and describe water fleas? He also produced the earliest known detailed illustrations of the Daphnia water flea, which were published in his 1669 work Historia Insectorum Generalis (General History of Insects)... referring to the organism as Pulex aquaticus arborescens – "the water flea with the branching arms" – or according to Google translate... "water flea tree". How fabulous is that!? If you are intrigued by wee freshwater organisms, then you may like to check out our courses for 2026 and find out more about the wonderful world of freshwater biology.

This Microscope Monday 🔬 we present an adorable Daphnia.
Did you know that pioneering Dutch microscopist Jan Swammerdam (1637–1680) is credited as the first scientist to identify & describe #waterfleas? Referring to them as Pulex aquaticus arborescens: "the water flea with the branching arms". Fab!

Floating cities of logs: can the ‘lungs of Africa’ survive its exploitation? The Congo River basin is one of the planet’s most biodiverse ecosystems. But it is also home to a growing population and relentless trade in timber and charcoal

Floating cities of logs: can the ‘lungs of Africa’ survive its exploitation?

Monochrome photograph featuring a line of six white girls in dresses sitting on the outside step of a wooden building while reading books

Girls reading, 1939 by US photographer Dorothea Lange #WomensArt

The Sea Empress Disaster - part of the environmental history of #Wales - memories are still acute for those involved in the clean up - via Natural Resources Wales
#envhist #hydrocarbons #oil #pollution #marine #wildlife #IrishSea #nature

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Three decades on from Wales’ biggest oil spill, how the Sea Empress disaster changed shipping With better ships, clearer command and smarter plans, the risk of major oil spills can be minimised.

With better ships, clearer command and smarter plans, the risk of major oil spills can be minimised.