Philip Amies

Impressive paper with a huge range of techniques applied to answer questions about fossil lichen anatomy.

The Terrifying Reason Why Mustard Gas Canisters Keep Being Found Royal Navy and Army bomb disposal teams have cleared a total of 150 canisters from Linconshire so far...

I have worked with an excavator in places rumoured to have dumped munitions, some people cut unlucky

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World War II bomb found on Dunwich beach A bomb said to be from World War II is found on Dunwich beach in Suffolk.

White phosphorus from incendiaries is scary, munitions are found annually on the beach by my home I don't touch them.

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NEW: We cannot continue to pump CO2 into the Atmosphere without re-arranging the Biosphere. Ellen Welti and I analyze datasets from the US Long Term Ecological Research site at Konza Prairie and reveal wholesale reorganization of plant biomass and biogeochemistry, with implications for its food web.

Alongside Webster the text for my degree mycology module.

An idiot drove past my home on a bumpy track taking a bomb (he found on the beach) to Hunstanton police station which was then evacuated, the bomb squad then had to transport the bomb, a beach or a field is a safer place to deal with a bomb than around buildings.

There are a lot of sources online that say Shetland is home to the endemic species Edmondston's Chickweed.

This is not the case - instead the island of Unst is the only global site for Cerastium nigrescens var. nigrescens, an endemic *variety* of the Artic Mouse-ear.

Third and final Uist trip finished! That's 481 individual Rock Doves ringed/recaptured/resighted during 2025, providing great data to help us understand this population. It's been nice to also get the opportunity to update the community on our project progress. @jezierskimt.bsky.social

It is utterly bizarre, so many inadequate men who are so angry about what, churning out the old nonsense that only medics are called Doctor, outraged women have achieved distinction through application, effort and capability, I pity these angry men who are oblivious to their stupidity.

I was told 7 were at Titchwell which is more like south coast numbers than I'm used to on the Norfolk coast, inland the breeding population is well established. This was my first attempt to see Pallas's this year I tend to stay very local to home.

Ai the gift which keeps on giving (and presumably all the hackers, scammers), so much thieving everybody protects themselves with Cloudfare, when Cloudfare goes down half the web is down.

Yes always a risk of missing a bird when seawatching, so many tales of woe, birds missed, birds flying behind people....

Having been at Titchwell today not Twitching Pallas's Warbler well but enjoying Firecrests after Hume's Warbler at Holme first thing I find people who were on the beach when the albatross was reported know nothing about it, a mystery currently but maybe details will be submitted to the bird report.

No way of twitching a fly by bird either you are there seawatching or you miss it, some years ago many of us gathered at Hunstanton hoping to pick up an albatross which had been flying along the coast, it did not come past us, sometimes that works.

The Bee-eaters were a minor detour when visiting family.

I saw those Bee-eaters, Titchwell is within sight of my home so not particularly a twitch had just planned a visit there.

I was planning to go to Titchwell today, but my wife needed the car, trying to work out if it was better to miss todays Black-browed Albatross while warm at home, or maybe miss it at Titchwell if I had not been seawatching when it flew past.

the drivers which saw hedges as a cost and a waste of cultivable land still exist.

Doing so we may reduce costs on marginal land (recognising that marginal is dictated by market price) zone land and increase area which supports ecosystem function and biodiversity. Some examples of considerable gains have been made this way, but some see land not in maximum production as wasted

A reduction by integrated farming precision techniques and alternate crop protection measures could reduce usage, while buffers may not bioremediate all sources of pollution we could by intelligent land use capture more of the pollutants and limit inputs into critical ecosystems such as rivers.

Neonicotinoids in Groundwater: Persistent Contaminants and Unresolved Risks Click on the article title to read more.

Their persistence in soil and water and ability to be transferred from crop to river is a major concern.

Intensive production given the current human population level seems inevitable, we should buffer as much of that as we can with low/no input land.

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Debate on the environmental impact of neonicotinoids and other pesticides A Westminster Hall debate has been scheduled for 2.30pm on 5 March on the environmental impact of neonicotinoids and other pesticides. The debate will be opened by Samantha Dixon MP.

Neonicotinoid use concerns me

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seem to be increasingly failing at. Building development and agriculture arguably contribute more to this now than the once highly polluting industries, a mix of regulation and offshoring.

landscape values and measurables such as ecosystem services and environmental processes. I think that is a good thing, regulation which limits peoples ability to avoid waste disposal costs associated with a business by polluting the environment is a basic requirement in a functioning society, one we

Most people seek profit, aim to have a good return on an investment even if that is suitably hidden from them such as a pension fund investment. We have a planning system which does limit some gains people may make to maintain a national resource of biodiversity, heritage, intangibles such as

Many people due to rising land prices are now rich in land investment but cash poor, some sell, people seek development permission capital gain. I find the moral arguments people try to push for nature which produces much rage and anger, accusations of greed rather unrealistic.

In the UK land has been an asset for centuries, a landowner with many sources of income outside of land may have a degree of flexibility a small landowner or tenant does not have. All will at some level see land as an investment and expect a return.

at higher prices the reality is farmers trading in commodities are all exposed to a global market, and all exposed to energy price increases, materials cost such as steel, machinery, fertiliser prices, how they adapt to these fluctuations is individual.

I was thinking about average farm sizes and economic viability, averages hide so much variance, no such thing in truth as an average farmer, but as this report illustrates reasons exist beyond simple economics why somebody would wish to remain a farmer, but apart from a few who can direct sell

gains identified and monitored with a flexibility to achieve them working with advisors who have authority to tailor systems which work on a particular holding in a partnership which rewards honesty and a positive approach and penalises dishonesty.