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Mr and Mrs Trellis @thenorfolkcoast.bsky.social · 8h

Agrivoltaics, which mixes farming and solar energy installations, is on the rise...

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‘It’s Such a Blessing’: The Farmers Embracing Solar Arrays | Atmos

From summer squash to sheep’s wool, a variety of agricultural products may grow better beneath an awning of solar panels.

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Mr and Mrs Trellis @thenorfolkcoast.bsky.social · 11h

Earth Was a Fungal World Before Plants Existed....

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Earth Was a Fungal World Before Plants Existed

Fungi arose long before plants, shaping Earth with early soils and nutrient cycles. Their hidden legacy shows they may have prepared the world for life to flourish on land.

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Norwich FoE @norwichfoe.bsky.social · 15h

Please sign
a @stopburningtrees.bsky.social petition: Say No to New AI Data Centre Powered By Drax. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/sa...

Say No to New AI Data Centre Powered By Drax

Drax, the University of York and the North Yorkshire Combined Authority have just submitted a bid to host an AI data centre at Drax, powered by burning millions of trees. The Government recently de...

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Mr and Mrs Trellis @thenorfolkcoast.bsky.social · 13h

Survival of Snow Leopard populations could be "precarious" in the future due to the way the elusive mountain cats have evolved. Snow Leopards have low genetic diversity, increasingly their risk of extinction in a changing environment...

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Survival of snow leopard populations 'precarious,' researchers say. Here's why

Survival of snow leopard populations could be "precarious" in the future due to the way the elusive mountain cats have evolved, scientists recently discovered.

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Mr and Mrs Trellis @thenorfolkcoast.bsky.social · 13h

From attics to gardens, Pine Martens on move in Northern Ireland...

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Pine martens on the move in Northern Ireland

One of Northern Ireland's rarest native mammals have been turning up in some unusual places.

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Mr and Mrs Trellis @thenorfolkcoast.bsky.social · 13h

European Red List of Butterflies 2025 published...

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Red List of European Butterflies 2025

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Anthony Speca | Aspen Ecology @aspenecology.com · 14h

Announcing another chance to learn #lichens online! My next 'Lichens for Beginners' course starts in January. Perfect for anyone just discovering these unique and beautiful life-forms. All you need to know to understand lichens and identify common species. Join me! aspenecology.com/lichens-for-...

Variospora (Caloplaca) flavescens : England : VC25 East Suffolk : TM3389 : September 2022 : On limestone gravestone

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Mr and Mrs Trellis @thenorfolkcoast.bsky.social · 15h

We also spotted what we think are Hygrocybe miniata, commonly known as the Vermilion Waxcap or Miniature Waxy cap in the same 'lawn' ..

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Mr and Mrs Trellis @thenorfolkcoast.bsky.social · 15h

We believe the 52 fingers popping up in a patch of the front 'lawn' are Clavulinopsis fusiformis, a fungus in the family Clavariaceae, sometimes called Golden Spindles...

We believe the 52 fingers we counted popping up in a patch of the front 'lawn' are Clavulinopsis fusiformis, a fungus in the family Clavariaceae, sometimes called Golden Spindles. These tiny, bright yellow fruit bodies of the fungus grow in dense clusters on the ground in unimproved grassland, apparently. They are appearing in our front garden among the green grasses and wildflowers.

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 21h

No surprise from the man who sold his country down the river just to become PM - a corrupt, useless, self serving lying one at that

Johnson secretly lobbied the UAE for a billion-dollar private venture, amid plans to use an influential contact & senior contacts in the Saudi gov he met as PM

Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office, watchdog finds

Johnson found to have breached rules after refusing to answer specific questions about allegations published by the Guardian

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Ian Denton @iand777.bsky.social · 17h

"SNP caves to shooting lobby" - reactions to Scottish Government's decision to delay muirburn licensing (again) raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/10/11/s...

“SNP caves to shooting lobby” – reactions to Scottish Government’s decision to delay muirburn licensing (again)

As expected, the Scottish Government’s announcement on Thursday that it has delayed the implementation of muirburn licensing (for the second time) has been met with anger. Scottish Greens MSP…

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Lizzie Harper Illustrator @lizzie-harper.bsky.social · 17h

A question for #botany peeps.

Which #wildflowers have widest global distribution?

Looking for spc which grow in Asia, Europe, Americas (&Africa & Australasia too?) for a #botanicalillustration project

Suggestions please!

@bsbibotany.bsky.social @botsocamerica.bsky.social #ecology #plantscience

Cut to white autumn leaf watercolour #sciart #illustration with red brown edges but the leaf blade centre, by the midrib is still bright yellow. It's a spc of Acer maple from a botanical gardens in Sussex, uk

Daisy Bella perennis and Violets grwoing together, cut to white botanical illustration in watercolour. There are 5 flowering heads on the daisy plant and four on the violet, showing the flower at different angles. There's also some roots and substrate include, along with leaves of both species

#botanicalart illustration of #poa annua, Annual meadow #grass showing the plant, stolons, flowering head, and leaves. Cut to white watercolour

Common #polypody #fern #Polypodium vulgare cut to white #botanicalillustration by #sciart #naturalscienceillustrator Lizzie, showing 4 leaves of the fern, the rootstock, and details of the sori on the leaf tip. Three leaves are showing their top side, the smallest one, third across, is showing the spores on the underside

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Mr and Mrs Trellis @thenorfolkcoast.bsky.social · 17h

Scots demand real land reform as research reveals overwhelming public support for change....

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Scots demand real land reform as research reveals overwhelming public support for change

Press release from REVIVE, the coalition for grouse moor reform (11 Oct 2025) SCOTS DEMAND REAL LAND REFORM AS RESEARCH REVEALS OVERWHELMING PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR CHANGE Largest ever public consultati…

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Raptor Persecution UK @raptorpersuk.bsky.social · 17h

Research by the Diffley Partnership, commissioned by
@revivecoalition.bsky.social featured on front page of The Herald this morning.

Revive is at SNP conf this w/e where conversation expected to be lively after SNP decision to delay muirburn licensing.

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Scots demand real land reform as research reveals overwhelming public support for change

Press release from REVIVE, the coalition for grouse moor reform (11 Oct 2025) SCOTS DEMAND REAL LAND REFORM AS RESEARCH REVEALS OVERWHELMING PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR CHANGE Largest ever public consultati…

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Jeremy Bartlett @jeremybartlett.bsky.social · 19h

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Ten UK data centres could cancel EV emissions gain

Research has underlined the lack of transparent and reliable figures for expected emissions driven by data centre growth

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 22h

Limited liability is one of our weird silences. It's a massive free gift society makes to plutocrats, seldom remarked upon, let alone contested.
Shareholders should have to buy limited liability, like any other insurance. The insurers would then be liable. 🧵
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Will UK taxpayers get their £122m back from PPE Medpro?

The high court told the company linked to Michelle Mone to pay up over the supply of defective gowns, but there appears no clear route to reclaim the funds

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Norfolk & Norwich Naturalists' Society @norfolknats.bsky.social · 22h

A reminder that Norfolk county gall recorder Anne Hickley is leading an NNNS walk looking at plant galls at Thompson Common tomorrow (Sunday 25th October 2025). Free, all welcome. For meeting details see norfolknaturalists.org.uk/wp/events-pa...

Two oak galls, made up of pale green twisted rods emendation from a central base. Darker green Oak leaves are behind them.

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Mr and Mrs Trellis @thenorfolkcoast.bsky.social · 23h

The Nature of Planetary Habitability: A Conceptual History of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services...

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The Nature of Planetary Habitability: A Conceptual History of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services | Environmental History: Vol 30, No 2

Abstract This essay traces the conceptual history of biodiversity and ecosystem services from the late 1970s to the early 2000s. In contrast to recent historical studies that have interpreted biodiver...

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Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 1d

And then there were none: Australia’s only shrew declared extinct

The tally of Australian mammals extinct since 1788 is now 39 species – far more than for any other country

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Mr and Mrs Trellis @thenorfolkcoast.bsky.social · 1d

....we just love to see Toads (Frogs and Newts) in the garden... 💚

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Mr and Mrs Trellis @thenorfolkcoast.bsky.social · 1d

A Common Toad in the garden today.... @froglife.bsky.social

A distinctive rough, brown blotchy, and olive-brown, warty skinned amphibian was crawling around the border today. Toads tend to crawl rather than hop and have oval, horizontal pupils if you look closely. It is crawling around among the vegetation and dark brown soil of the border.

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Mr and Mrs Trellis @thenorfolkcoast.bsky.social · 1d

A Juniper Shieldbug (Cyphostethus tristriatus) in the garden....

We spotted this Juniper Shieldbug (Cyphostethus tristriatus wandering up a wooden planter in the garden. The insect is a large green shieldbug with curved and distinctive pinkish-red markings on the corium and long antennae. It is walking across a brown, wooden planter in our garden.

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Mr and Mrs Trellis @thenorfolkcoast.bsky.social · 1d

Thames Water want 15 more years of pollution - Ofwat must say no...

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Thames Water want to pollute illegally until 2040. Ofwat must say NO.

Thames water want to make at deal with Ofwat, to pollute illegally for 15 years

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Mr and Mrs Trellis @thenorfolkcoast.bsky.social · 1d

Villagers frustrated by a week of daily power cuts.... #normalfornorfolk

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Norfolk village frustrated by week of daily power cuts

UK Power Networks says it is investigating the fault, which has affected about 30 properties.

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Fiona Harvey @fionaharvey.bsky.social · 1d

Must read on how deaths from extreme heat/climate crisis are being hidden from public view in the US. It’s killing you, but you’re not allowed to know about it. Excellent work by my colleague @ninalakhani.bsky.social
Read it here: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Americans are dying from extreme heat. Autopsy reports don’t show the full story

Official reports are likely to overlook heat’s role in a death. As US temperatures rise, experts say the true toll needs to be counted

www.theguardian.com

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