George McGavin
@georgemcgavin.bsky.social
Zoologist, entomologist, broadcaster and President of The Dorset Wildlife Trust. Zero Hour Ambassador.
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There are 16 ideas for eco-friendly presents in our Christmas gift guide – and some of these support charities, social causes, or the environment. Lots of affordable options too. Please take a look (and share)!
littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/eco...
littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/eco...
December 2, 2025 at 6:20 PM
There are 16 ideas for eco-friendly presents in our Christmas gift guide – and some of these support charities, social causes, or the environment. Lots of affordable options too. Please take a look (and share)!
littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/eco...
littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/eco...
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While "peace" negotiations continue, remember that Russia could simply stop the war at any time.
December 2, 2025 at 2:04 PM
While "peace" negotiations continue, remember that Russia could simply stop the war at any time.
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🐝 The @biggive.bsky.social’s #ChristmasChallenge is LIVE!
🌎 This #GivingTuesday, donate once to Zero Hour and make twice the impact.
🎁 From 2-9 December, every £ you donate to help build our urgent climate and nature campaign will be DOUBLED!
💚 Donate here 👉 donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
🌎 This #GivingTuesday, donate once to Zero Hour and make twice the impact.
🎁 From 2-9 December, every £ you donate to help build our urgent climate and nature campaign will be DOUBLED!
💚 Donate here 👉 donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
December 2, 2025 at 12:03 PM
🐝 The @biggive.bsky.social’s #ChristmasChallenge is LIVE!
🌎 This #GivingTuesday, donate once to Zero Hour and make twice the impact.
🎁 From 2-9 December, every £ you donate to help build our urgent climate and nature campaign will be DOUBLED!
💚 Donate here 👉 donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
🌎 This #GivingTuesday, donate once to Zero Hour and make twice the impact.
🎁 From 2-9 December, every £ you donate to help build our urgent climate and nature campaign will be DOUBLED!
💚 Donate here 👉 donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
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I buy 99.99% of my Xmas gifts from charity shops. A win-win. You're funding a charity, you're recycling, you're buying locally & it saves huge amounts of money. 🙌
December 2, 2025 at 6:55 AM
I buy 99.99% of my Xmas gifts from charity shops. A win-win. You're funding a charity, you're recycling, you're buying locally & it saves huge amounts of money. 🙌
We are still doing this.....
December 1, 2025 at 7:44 PM
We are still doing this.....
Would you Adam and Eve it!
‘Unelected power’ of ultra-rich is reshaping British politics, report claims
‘Unelected power’ of ultra-rich is reshaping British politics, report claims
Equality Trust study shows how House of Lords appointments, big donations and media concentration affects political decision
Structural corruption and the rise of “conduits for unelected power” are reshaping British politics, according to a stark report from the Equality Trust.
Unelected influence has surged over the past two decades, the report claims, driven by the growing political clout of the ultra-rich and the institutions that enable it. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Would you Adam and Eve it!
Time once again to encourage people to buy gifts from your local charity shops...
November 30, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Time once again to encourage people to buy gifts from your local charity shops...
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#Christmas is a time for celebration 🎅🎄 This #holiday season try 10 yummy, #palmoilfree and #Vegan #recipes. Good for #forests, #animals 🦧🦏🐘🐒🐍 and your #health 🥦🍆 Use your wallet as a weapon, #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife
Vegan Palm Oil Free Christmas Recipes
Wondering how to cook #vegan and #palmoilfree this Christmas or Hannukah? Help keep the rainforests standing and resist #extinction with 10 cruelty-free and healthy recipes. These dishes feature oodles of scrumptious vegetables and the world's most versatile ingredient margarine without palm oil. This Christmas menu is not only easy to whip up, but also brims with health, good will and love for all beings. Fight back in the supermarket! #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife
palmoildetectives.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:31 AM
#Christmas is a time for celebration 🎅🎄 This #holiday season try 10 yummy, #palmoilfree and #Vegan #recipes. Good for #forests, #animals 🦧🦏🐘🐒🐍 and your #health 🥦🍆 Use your wallet as a weapon, #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife
Until we stop polluting the ocean, this sort of thing will never go away....
theconversation.com/mercury-poll...
theconversation.com/mercury-poll...
Mercury pollution in marine mammals is increasing – new study
Three decades of data from UK harbour porpoises show mercury is still increasing despite a global treaty to reduce it.
theconversation.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Until we stop polluting the ocean, this sort of thing will never go away....
theconversation.com/mercury-poll...
theconversation.com/mercury-poll...
We lost ancient protection against herbivores by breeding higher yielding crops....but can we get it back?
www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/ancient...
www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/ancient...
Ancient wheat compound offers natural protection against aphids | Rothamsted Research
Scientists at Rothamsted Research have uncovered a natural defence mechanism in ancestral einkorn wheat that could pave the way for more sustainable pest control in modern agriculture.The study, publi...
www.rothamsted.ac.uk
November 28, 2025 at 5:45 PM
We lost ancient protection against herbivores by breeding higher yielding crops....but can we get it back?
www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/ancient...
www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/ancient...
Yes, we really that stupid that we allow vested fossil fuel lobbyists, agents and other bad actors free access to COP....another dismal failure
mailchi.mp/nature/anthr...
mailchi.mp/nature/anthr...
COP30: no mention of fossil fuels in final agreement, but multilateralism clings to life
mailchi.mp
November 28, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Yes, we really that stupid that we allow vested fossil fuel lobbyists, agents and other bad actors free access to COP....another dismal failure
mailchi.mp/nature/anthr...
mailchi.mp/nature/anthr...
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This just about sums it up: The COP30 hangover by @marinegauthier.bsky.social. “You can’t finance climate action when you’re financing climate destruction six to seventy times harder.” shorturl.at/IpU5C
The COP30 Hangover
Notes from My Postpartum Bedroom
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November 27, 2025 at 7:44 AM
This just about sums it up: The COP30 hangover by @marinegauthier.bsky.social. “You can’t finance climate action when you’re financing climate destruction six to seventy times harder.” shorturl.at/IpU5C
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#News: #Mondelez keeps failing on rainforests #indigenousrights with their false promises on #palmoil. Keep up the fight and make sure you 🧐🚫 #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife! @palmoildetect
People Power Forces P&G to Act — Now Mondelez Must Follow - The Understory - Rainforest Action Network
In 2025, Rainforest Action Network and our allies secured a significant breakthrough with Procter & Gamble (P&G), one of the world’s most powerful consumer goods companies. After years of dragging...
www.ran.org
November 27, 2025 at 8:00 AM
#News: #Mondelez keeps failing on rainforests #indigenousrights with their false promises on #palmoil. Keep up the fight and make sure you 🧐🚫 #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife! @palmoildetect
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On a brighter note, I thought you'd like this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHk7...
The Curse of The Leafblower
YouTube video by Fairyland Trust
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:06 PM
On a brighter note, I thought you'd like this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHk7...
Greed and wilfull stupidity is the only explanation....
Utter insanity
Emissions up to now already lock-in a return to the Pliocene - 3C hotter and sea-levels eventually ~ 20m higher
Emissions need to fall by at least 50% in 48 months
The last thing we need is more effing oil and gas
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Emissions up to now already lock-in a return to the Pliocene - 3C hotter and sea-levels eventually ~ 20m higher
Emissions need to fall by at least 50% in 48 months
The last thing we need is more effing oil and gas
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
North Sea plan allows drilling while enabling Labour to keep ‘no new licences’ pledge
‘Tiebacks’ will permit small amount of new fossil fuel extraction, but campaigners want bolder strategy
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Greed and wilfull stupidity is the only explanation....
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Another destructive solar project approved in n CA -- “There's nothing environmentally friendly about cutting down 4,000 oak trees, the most ecologically valuable native tree in all of North America. Over 2,000 other species depend on them." 🌎 www.capradio.org/articles/202...
SMUD’s controversial Coyote Creek solar project moves forward
The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the project at a packed Tuesday meeting, where over 150 people showed up to voice concerns or support.
www.capradio.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Another destructive solar project approved in n CA -- “There's nothing environmentally friendly about cutting down 4,000 oak trees, the most ecologically valuable native tree in all of North America. Over 2,000 other species depend on them." 🌎 www.capradio.org/articles/202...
The Government makes a lot of money from this grubby and miserably cancerous industry...
Gambling - an industry out of control doing enormous damage to individuals and communities.
How much suffering (and NHS costs) could be saved, how much #PublicHealth improved, if no advertising at all?
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
How much suffering (and NHS costs) could be saved, how much #PublicHealth improved, if no advertising at all?
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
UK gambling firms spent ‘astronomic’ £2bn on advertising last year
Calls for Rachel Reeves to increase taxes in budget as estimate outstrips duties collected from online casinos
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:16 AM
The Government makes a lot of money from this grubby and miserably cancerous industry...
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We had only recently passed 350 ppm when I started my PhD in Earth System Science, already a value understood to be dangerous and a threat to society.
And now, 33 years and 30 COPs later, we are at a value that is unprecedented for the past 3 million years and maybe even the past 8 million years.
And now, 33 years and 30 COPs later, we are at a value that is unprecedented for the past 3 million years and maybe even the past 8 million years.
425.82 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 20-Nov-2025
keelingcurve.ucsd.edu
keelingcurve.ucsd.edu
The Keeling Curve
The Keeling Curve is a daily record of global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration maintained by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.
keelingcurve.ucsd.edu
November 23, 2025 at 7:54 AM
We had only recently passed 350 ppm when I started my PhD in Earth System Science, already a value understood to be dangerous and a threat to society.
And now, 33 years and 30 COPs later, we are at a value that is unprecedented for the past 3 million years and maybe even the past 8 million years.
And now, 33 years and 30 COPs later, we are at a value that is unprecedented for the past 3 million years and maybe even the past 8 million years.
I can't understand why some reviewers only gave this fantastic film 3 stars. Perhaps they also think the rise of racism is nothing to worry about. Ordinary people can and do commit atrocities....
November 22, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I can't understand why some reviewers only gave this fantastic film 3 stars. Perhaps they also think the rise of racism is nothing to worry about. Ordinary people can and do commit atrocities....
So, the Tangerine Tosspot is threatening to give up on Ukraine in return for a rare earth deal with another tinpot nut job. If we don't help the Ukrainians, who's next, I wonder?
November 22, 2025 at 1:16 PM
So, the Tangerine Tosspot is threatening to give up on Ukraine in return for a rare earth deal with another tinpot nut job. If we don't help the Ukrainians, who's next, I wonder?
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Known locally as #Kalong the Malayan #FlyingFox of #Malaysia #Indonesia has a bad reputation but plays an outsized role keeping #rainforests alive. #Endangered by #palmoil. Use your wallet as a weapon 🌴⛔️#Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social wp.me/pcFhgU-9Zm
November 22, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Known locally as #Kalong the Malayan #FlyingFox of #Malaysia #Indonesia has a bad reputation but plays an outsized role keeping #rainforests alive. #Endangered by #palmoil. Use your wallet as a weapon 🌴⛔️#Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social wp.me/pcFhgU-9Zm
For the last time...people do not pass - they die...it's pretty simple.
November 21, 2025 at 7:16 PM
For the last time...people do not pass - they die...it's pretty simple.
Everything in moderation!!!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How much protein do you really need? What the science says
Fitness influencers promote super-high-protein diets, but studies show there’s only so much the body can use.
www.nature.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Everything in moderation!!!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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BREAKING: The mitochondria have released a statement they are ending their long running symbiotic relationship with humans, citing "increasingly poor use of the energy we provide".
October 2, 2025 at 2:59 PM
BREAKING: The mitochondria have released a statement they are ending their long running symbiotic relationship with humans, citing "increasingly poor use of the energy we provide".