Rage Against the Miocene

Arctic sea ice volume was at a record daily low on March 6, 2026. arctic-news.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-...

Anyway, here is a handy guide to getting started with ALT text. It's an important way we can make people with visual impairments or neurological processing issues feel welcome on bluesky. bsky.app/profile/cats...

You've got to be kidding me...

Gulley with several tree trunks on the left and part of a pine on the right. Several moss-covered fallen trees span the view. The forest floor is bright green with freshly sprputed leaves of wild garlic.

A bit of the "circle of life" in the Wye Valley today. Dead and fallen trees lie in a gulley, serving as a surface for dense patches of moss. And all around them, wild garlic is bursting from the soil to welcome Spring.

It certainly is!

#Moonstar 1
#XSpoilers

I want Ashley Allen to write all of my comics.

Gulley with several tree trunks on the left and part of a pine on the right. Several moss-covered fallen trees span the view. The forest floor is bright green with freshly sprputed leaves of wild garlic.

A bit of the "circle of life" in the Wye Valley today. Dead and fallen trees lie in a gulley, serving as a surface for dense patches of moss. And all around them, wild garlic is bursting from the soil to welcome Spring.

We’re hiring! — Friends of the River Wye Would you like to work with Friends of the River Wye? We're recruiting for THREE different part-time roles and looking for people passionate about cleaning up our rivers and restoring them to ecologi...

Friends of the River Wye are recruiting for THREE different part-time roles and looking for people passionate about cleaning up our rivers and restoring them to ecological health.

friendsoftheriverwye.org.uk/news/were-hi...

There are no 'rule of war' in the illegal
Might is Right Israeli/US AI attacks on Iran
- head of state assassinated
(remember outcry when Trump was shot!)
- sailors left to drown
- schoolchildren killed by precision missile
While 2 megalomaniacs distract from
their paedophile #EpsteinFiles links

This is disgusting. Many of the brightest, most engaged students Ive taught - and the ones who graduate with the highest grades - have had no A levels. This white man on a 6-figure salary wants to slash access to higher education for people who aren’t clones of him and he is just plain wrong:

Labour just announced energy price cap dropped.
Oil just spiked, completely undoing that.
Given 50% of UK energy is from renewables, now is the time to renationalise and drop the dumbass marginal price system that makes green energy needlessly as expensive as gas.

We’re hiring! — Friends of the River Wye Would you like to work with Friends of the River Wye? We're recruiting for THREE different part-time roles and looking for people passionate about cleaning up our rivers and restoring them to ecologi...

Friends of the River Wye are recruiting for THREE different part-time roles and looking for people passionate about cleaning up our rivers and restoring them to ecological health.

friendsoftheriverwye.org.uk/news/were-hi...

Part of me wants to go “boy am I glad I own an electric car” and then the far smarter part of me smacks it in the face and points to shipping/transporting costs that are going to impact EVERYONE across the global supply chain

This thread is a thing of beauty in these dark times.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Oberlin accused of cultural appropriation for serving banh mi. I watched members of Congress take the knee in kente cloths. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain

I too remember the earlier, woke wars. tons of spent microaggression munitions strewn about everywhere, friends crying out for God as they were slowly cancelled...look, if you weren't there, you'll never understand

Asgard #archaea: have we found our microbial ancestors?
New review (also for newcomers to the field!) by Christa Schleper and Thiago Rodrigues-Oliveira
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The Most Chilling Detail in the U.S. Attack on an Iranian Naval Ship The Iranian warship was taking part in an international exercise with many other countries—including the United States.

This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
newrepublic.com/post/207429/...

EU agrees to chop meaty names from vegetarian and vegan food products Lawmakers will ban use of 31 meat-related names as part of efforts to help livestock farmers in food supply markets

So "lawmakers will outlaw use of 31 meat-related names as part of efforts to help livestock farmers in food supply markets"... just when health, climate & environment scientists are stressing the urgency of helping more livestock farmers OUT of food supply markets?
And what a silly, pointless move!

This is a life and death story for the UK – so why is it being brushed under the carpet? | Aditya Chakrabortty The news that healthy life expectancy is in decline in Britain exposes a serious truth about the state we’re in, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

"British governments have made choices that mean poorer children get old sooner and die earlier than richer children."

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Natural Resources Wales consult the public on new forest resource plans Natural Resources Wales (NRW) is inviting the public to share their views on the draft Forest Resource Plan (FRP) for Gwydyr South Forest. The draft documents prepared are available to view on NRW’s C...

Natural Resources Wales (NRW) is inviting the public to share their views on the draft Forest Resource Plan (FRP) for Gwydyr South Forest

Stars are disappearing before our eyes — and something in us is shifting For most of human history, the night sky has been a shared inheritance, a source of wonder. Now, more than a billion children see barely any stars in the night sky above their homes. So what does that...

'We are losing the stars. Not all at once, but quietly, one streetlight, one neon sign, one expanding suburb at a time.'

🧪 🔭

Question Time - 2026: 05/03/2026 Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from Kettering. On the panel are Stephen Doughty, James Cleverly, Shashank Joshi, George Monbiot and Annabel Denham.

I don't know how to clip a segment (sorry), but the bit I really want you to watch starts at 29'10". It's about the deep roots of the attack on Iran and why it's just as well Starmer is "no Winston Churchill". I'm surprised this aspect isn't more widely discussed. 🧵
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Anyone who wants Britain to join the war in Iran needs their head examined They don't know what they want to achieve, why they're doing it or what the consequences might be. They are lost in the void.

Anyone who wants Britain to join the war in Iran needs their head examined open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

Very strong statement from the First Lady of Iraq:

Forest study demonstrates that nature is reacting to the warming climate in surprising ways New research reveals that drying forest soils can boost methane uptake, offering a small but important climate benefit as warming continues.

www.earth.com/news/forests...

Congo’s largest humic lakes emit ancient peat carbon Nature Geoscience - We revealed that carbon dioxide emissions from the Congo Basin’s largest humic lakes partially originate from millennia-old peat. This discovery identifies a pathway...

In case our short communications paper was too long 😆, you can now read Research Briefing about our recent study showing aged carbon outgassing from Congo lakes!
rdcu.be/e6W6l

@jordonhemingway.bsky.social @johansix.bsky.social @usyseth.bsky.social @eth-eaps.bsky.social @natgeosci.nature.com

Although our finding represents a small negative feedback on global warming, the larger message is that there are still profound unknowns with respect to the (non-linear) responses of the carbon cycle to climate change.

(And other systems, i.e. peatlands, will respond very differently.)

New paper with our long-term collaborators from CUG Wuhan (led by Xinyue Dang), showing a threshold response in soil moisture that induces an abrupt shift in soil microbial community and methane emissions. @ogu-bristol.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social @cabot-institute.bsky.social

Trump has launched an unprecedented assault on the environment. Where’s the pushback? Climate deniers expected more resistance to the fossil fuel blitz. But Democrats, billionaires and activists have gone silent

As Trump makes sweeping cuts to the climate and environmental agenda, Democrats are noticeably ‘hushed’.

All of this adds to a ‘spiral of silence’ in which people want climate action, but assume their peers do not… 🧪

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...