An infographic from Our World in Data titled "Global land use for food production" uses a series of stacked horizontal bar charts to visualize the distribution of Earth's surface and the disproportionate land requirements of livestock. The first bar shows Earth's surface is 71% ocean and 29% land (141 million km²); the land surface is then broken down into 76% habitable land, 10% glaciers, and 14% barren land. Of the habitable land, 45% (48 million km²) is used for agriculture, while 38% is forests and 13% is shrubland. The agricultural land bar reveals a major disparity: 80% (38 million km²) is dedicated to livestock (meat, dairy, and textiles) including grazing land and cropland for feed, while only 16% is used for crops for direct human consumption and 4% for non-food crops. Finally, two smaller bars at the bottom contrast this land use with nutritional output, showing that while livestock uses 80% of agricultural land, it only provides 17% of global calories and 38% of global protein, whereas plant-based foods provide 83% of calories and 62% of protein.

80% of agricultural land is used for livestock (and textiles), yet this huge land use provides only 17% of our calories and 38% of our protein.

16% of the land used for crops provides 83% of our calories and 62% of our protein. It's past time we rethink what we eat.

We’ve been out prepping and servicing various Osprey nests around the harbour (more on that later) but massive thanks to the RSPB Arne team who allowed us to install a camera on a favoured perch for migrant Ospreys so we can read ring numbers. Raven said hello today! @rspbengland.bsky.social

Which option do we choose - act or delay?

These are the 'warning' stripes highlighting global choices. Do we act rapidly and keep global temperatures below 2°C, or delay and end up in a 3°C world (or worse)?

Spiralling global temperatures (1850-2025)

The last 3 years really jump out, rather like 2015-6 did when we first produced this graphic back then. Now, 2015-6 looks rather cool...

More on the spiral: doi.org/10.1175/BAMS...

As the climate data for 2025 continues to be released, it's time to update various data visualisations.

First - the global climate stripes for 1850-2025. A third darkest red stripe is added.

The last 11 years have been the warmest 11 years on record. A sequence that is unlikely to be broken soon.

Tell me we should trust AI to give us the facts. Tell me it's a future we can put our faith in. Come at me. I'm right here, waiting.

Three frogs to be reintroduced to West Acre 'pingos' The money will be spent on breeding thousands of frogs and managing their release in 2026.

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

"The plan is about much more than the estate. The hope is that it will be the 'beating heart' of a 40-mile nature corridor...

The goal is nature recovery and the solution is 'ecological connectivity on a big scale'".

Why Britain has a deer problem Deer numbers have rocketed over the last 40 years and particularly since the Covid-19 pandemic.

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

Fourth White-tailed Eagle ‘disappears’ & RSPB offers £10,000 reward for information leading to a conviction Following the appalling news over the last couple of days about the highly suspicious, and almost certainly criminal, disappearance of three satellite-tagged White-tailed Eagles here, here and here…

FOURTH White-tailed Eagle disappears - RSPB offers reward for information leading to a conviction for this one or any of the other three.

New blog ⬇️⬇️

#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime

raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/12/19/f...

All you really need to understand about water usage in the western United States is that every single use - even the ones that sound egregiously wasteful like AI data centers - rounds down to 0 compared to what irrigated agriculture uses

Like you could open a factory that does nothing except fill swimming pools with water and vaporize them with a high powered laser and it would still somehow be a net water savings if the land you built it on replaced an almond farm.

Police investigate after white-tailed eagles go missing across UK Conservationists appeal to public for help after rare birds disappear in suspicious circumstances

Police investigate after white-tailed eagles go missing across UK
www.theguardian.com/environment/... satellite tags found to have been cut off one fledgling and two adult White-tailed Eagles.

Who could possibly have killed these birds and cut off their satellite tags? The usual suspects.

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Old photo original. Class photo

AI versions

Sample of the same child, showing how different AI apps have interpreted the data completely differently

Somebody posted an old photo in a Facebook local group and asked if anyone could clean it up. Well-meaning people turned to #AI. Lots of responders seemed happy with the results, but this is how you destroy historical records.

New record for wind-powered electricity in Britain The National Energy System Operator (Neso) has predicted Britain could hit another milestone in the months ahead by running the grid for a period entirely with zero carbon power, renewables and nuclea...

Wind was delivering 22.7GW during the evening peak on Nov 11, nearly 44% of power, equivalent to 22 million homes supplied

The System Operator said "our national grid can run safely and securely on large quantities of renewables generated right here in Britain"

news.sky.com/story/new-re...

Help save nature by rewilding the Church’s massive landholdings! We need to rewild 30% of the planet to restore nature & protect our wildlife, but Britain is falling behind. So I've signed this new petition calling on one of our biggest landowners - the Church ...

We need to rewild 30% of the planet to restore nature & protect our wildlife, but Britain is falling behind. So I've signed this new petition calling on one of our biggest landowners - the Church of England - to rewild its land. Join me? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...

Climate change is messing with global wind speeds, impacting planetary health Climate change is disturbing wind patterns across the globe in dramatic ways. And when combined with land-use change and desertification, these changes are spawning immense sand and dust storms that p...

Climate change is messing with global wind speeds, impacting planetary health news.mongabay.com/2025/10/clim...

UK Gov experts have shown that ending fossil fuels will save the UK nearly £40 billion a year and rising.
Electrification saves all the heat wasted from burning gas & oil.

The £319 billion investment needed is only 8x what the Gov spent shielding users from high gas prices in 2022/3. Bargain! 🧵1/2

English Roundabouts   They’re making the roundabouts great again by painting the flag of St George to keep our circular road systems safe from the dark, satanic hordes. What do they want? Patriotic junctions! When do they want them? Before it’s too late. Good old-fashioned English roundabouts, as decreed by Alfred the Great. Behold the sacred intersection, this blessed plot, this septic isle. English roundabouts for English people, draped in red and white and bile. St George is cross, as well he may be – whipped-up hate, he’s seen before. Give way to the right, the road signs rage, and the far right most of all. Brian Bilston

Here’s a poem called ‘English Roundabouts’.

Infographic: it's not just CO2: impact on wildlife from airports. Bird migration routes interrupted, light pollution disrupting insect populations, toxic runoff from de-icer, bird strike, loss of greenbelt and biodiversity

It's not just the increased noise, air pollution and emissions: airport expansion has a terrible impact on wildlife.

Help us tell the government not to expand airports: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

Academics say flying to meetings harms the climate — but they carry on A survey at one of the biggest UK research universities finds that staff often end up flying to meetings despite a preference to avoid air travel.

Reminded of this as an academic told me the other day that they were off to a country in South America, then one in Africa & then one in Asia, in rapid succession

I really didn’t know what to say…
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We've reached 8,000 on the petition to stop airport expansion – thanks everyone!

Just 2,000 signatures remaining (by 24/09) in order for this to be sent government.

Please help by signing and sharing. Thank you!

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

Middlebere - Osprey gracefully gliding onto its perch with an already nibbled fish. @harbourbirds.bsky.social

A series of maps of emissions across Europe for different livestock

New data paper out: Ammonia doesn't often make the headlines – but it’s one of the major drivers of biodiversity loss and air pollution in Europe, harming ecosystems and our health. > 90% of it in Europe comes from one source: agricultural fertiliser and manure 🧵

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Doing moth trapping in the UK this weekend?
Can you help us gather lots of images of moths on egg cartons from your trap?
Help us develop a tool making moth recording easier for more people
Tks! #mothsmateer #teammoth
@richardfoxbc.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social
@upperthames.bsky.social

YouTube video by Roots So Deep (you can see the devil down there) James Rebanks meets Dr. Allen Williams for the first time!

youtube.com/watch?v=hsx7...

World Mosquito Day 2025: Europe sets new records for mosquito-borne diseases - ECDC supporting Member States in adapting to ‘new normal’ ECDC has warned that record breaking outbreaks of West Nile virus (WNV) infection and chikungunya virus disease point to a ‘new normal’ in Europe.

"Europe is entering a new phase — where longer, more widespread and more intense transmission of mosquito borne disease is becoming the new normal."

www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/news-even...

Save Arena Essex- Tell Google to search elsewhere!   Wedged between the Mar Dyke Valley and Lakeside Retail Park, the former Arena Essex Raceway is not your usual wildlife haven. Where once stock cars and speedway bikes lined up to cross the fini...

Google plans to bulldoze a wildlife haven in Essex – home to rare species – for a data centre. Pleaa sign the petition now to help save it before it’s gone forever 🐝🦋 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

It's the Inglorious 12th. The start of the Red Grouse shooting season.

Grouse shooting: an expensive niche hobby of shooting birds for fun, based on environmentally damaging burning of our uplands and underpinned by crime against wildlife.

Shame!