Dr Domonique Davies | D³

Indigenous Peoples and local communities are the cornerstone of biodiversity protection.
To preserve biodiversity, governments need to establish public policies that ensure their rights and territories are respected

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Dom's book arrived yesterday and after three years, I could hear his voice again. Amazônia sua linda!

Vital topic, now more than ever...

❗️until tomorrow❗️

Dom Phillips's HOW TO SAVE THE AMAZON 25% off in @waterstones.bsky.social

Ed Yong in a dark shirt, shielding his face from a light. A headline says: "The Interview: Ed Yong Wants to Show You the Hidden Reality of the World" Photo by Devin Oktar Yalkin for The New York Times

Ed Yong, the Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer, was one of the most trusted journalists covering Covid-19. His immersion in the pandemic left him depleted, and the natural world helped act as a salve to that despair. Read or listen to The Interview. nyti.ms/3CZsyX5

absolutely!

Here's another look at the coming Arctic heat. Over the next 4 days, Arctic polar temperatures could be more than 28°C (50°F) above average.

Start the Week - Climate Crisis: truth, lies and compromise - BBC Sounds Adam Rutherford with Mike Berners-Lee, Joe Murphy and Marianne Brown

Recommended listen: Three climate change storytellers featured in this week’s BBC Sounds' Start the Week podcast, discussing writing the new climate talks-themed play Kyoto, Shetland’s windfarms and the art of agreeing.

Very valuable resource:

Elon Musk and the history of the ‘Roman salute’ When Elon Musk performed a gesture that many saw as a fascist gesture, his supporters claimed it was a Roman salute. So what’s the difference?

When Elon Musk performed a gesture that many saw as a fascist gesture, his supporters claimed it was a Roman salute. So what’s the difference?

University printers just print something out normally challenge (level impossible)

Permanent mood.

On this most inauspicious of days remember that #TrumpIsACunt - Janey in memoriam ..

On this quite frankly depressing as hell day, this second hand wisdom from a colleague managed to make me laugh: a reminder that Trumps will come and go

A colony of robust splitgill mushrooms with gills which flow like the tributaries of a river grow on the bottom of an upturned branch above the forest floor All photos by me

Here are some nice mushrooms

Today’s Featured Poem:

“ana versus the social totality” by Valeria Román Marroquín, tr. by Noah Mazer, from ana c. buena, published by Cardboard House.

Read here:
poems.com/poem/ana-ver...

I need someone to explain to me why it’s always “if you can’t pay rent, buy fewer lattes and avocado toasts” and not “if you can’t pay your employees a living wage, buy fewer yachts and real estate”.

Explain it to me like I’m in kindergarten.

Mrs Dalloway said she would eat all the Ferrero rochers herself

excited to see if 2025 is the year I make like Tom Bombadil and prance away into the remotest of remote rural NEVER to return 😌🌾

christmas, aka the time to do all that writing you didn't do for the entire year
let the games begin

Written statements - Written questions, answers and statements - UK Parliament Information from UK Parliament on written questions & answers, written statements and daily reports.

With Labour set to bring in a Community Right to Buy in England, due to publish a Land Use Framework consultation in January, & now unveiling proposed changes to land value capture... land is back on the political agenda: questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-stat...

Coffee isn’t enough for this day.

But cocaine is a bit too much.

So we have a problem.

I love when the subtitles tell you what kind of mood the music is evoking.

A dalmatian looking very unimpressed

literally how any email finds me this week, let alone any Teams calls

It’s all fun and games buying books, but be warned that when it comes to moving a box of books has the approximate mass of a neutron star

a crisp, blue-sky day in Oxford with plenty of coffee and some gargoyles is a day well spent

Kemi Badenoch finally finds a sandwich she can relate to:

Can’t stop thinking about the copy on this advert, a real “yeah just put it down and we’ll come up with something better later” but it’s been published

oh well if it isn't me

AI-fuelled cloud storage boom threatens Irish climate targets, report warns Friends of the Earth calls on government to rein in growth of datacentres for fear they could increase fossil fuel use Ireland has allowed itself to become a “data dumping ground” for big technology companies such as Amazon and Meta which are…

AI-fuelled cloud storage boom threatens Irish climate targets, report warns