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Tess McClure @tessairini.bsky.social · 1d

a bleak fable www.theguardian.com/environment/...

As forests are cut down, butterflies are losing their colours

The insects’ brilliant hues evolved in lush ecosystems to help them survive. Now they are becoming more muted to adapt to degraded landscapes – and they are not the only things dulling down

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Fade to grey: as forests are cut down, butterflies are losing their colours

The insects’ brilliant hues evolved in lush ecosystems to help them survive. Now they are becoming more muted to adapt to degraded landscapes – and they are not the only things dulling down

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · Aug 12

"Across observed tropical bird populations, impacts of climate change have typically been larger than direct human pressure"

Large reductions in tropical bird abundance attributable to heat extreme intensification - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Climate change poses a growing threat to biodiversity, but disentangling its overall impact from other anthropogenic stressors is challenging. Here the authors use a data-driven climate attribution fr...

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · Aug 10

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza

Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.

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Tess McClure @tessairini.bsky.social · Jul 24

beautiful photographs by Zed Nelson, on nature as spectacle: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I travelled the globe to document how humans became addicted to faking the natural world. Here’s what I found

In his new book, The Anthropocene Illusion, photographer Zed Nelson reflects on the surreal environments created as people destroy nature, yet crave connection to it

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Tess McClure @tessairini.bsky.social · Jul 24

The Guardian editorial board: "on starvation in Gaza: it will take more than words to halt Israel’s genocide" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Guardian view on starvation in Gaza: it will take more than words to halt Israel’s genocide | Editorial

Editorial: Condemnation is rightly growing. But until concrete action is taken, western allies will remain complicit with these horrifying crimes

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · Jul 10

This is very, very, scary news 😞

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In some UK woodlands, every young tree has died. What’s going wrong?

With forests under pressure from drought, heat, disease and deer, a study has found fewer trees across a range of species surviving to maturity. But scientists say there is still hope

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Tess McClure @tessairini.bsky.social · Jul 22

‘The place is bleached, a dead zone’: @phoebeweston.bsky.social on how the UK’s most beloved, iconic landscapes became biodiversity deserts www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘The place is bleached, a dead zone’: how the UK’s most beloved landscapes became biodiversity deserts

National parks, famous for their rich natural heritage, should be at the heart of efforts to protect habitats and wildlife. Instead, experts say they are declining – fast

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Tess McClure @tessairini.bsky.social · Jul 22

in Ukraine’s bombed out reservoir, a huge forest has grown – is it a return to life or a toxic timebomb? the first of a new series we're launching, 'the aftermath', which looks at the complexity of how nature responds to transformation and catastrophe www.theguardian.com/environment/...

In Ukraine’s bombed out reservoir a huge forest has grown – is it a return to life or a toxic timebomb?

Two years after the Nova Kakhovka dam was destroyed in Ukraine, nature has returned in abundance to the drained land in a ‘big natural experiment’ – but it could be lost as quickly as it appeared

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · Jul 18

The web of life, evolved over countless aeons, being torn apart in our time.
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‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects

A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides

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davidedgarwolf.bsky.social @davidedgarwolf.bsky.social · Jul 15

🚨🚨🚨 Emmanuel Carrère on Emmanuel Macron 🚨🚨🚨

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...

The shining: my trip to the G7 horror show with Emmanuel Macron | Emmanuel Carrère

The long read: Deeply unpopular in France, President Macron relishes the international stage, where he projects himself as the leader best placed to handle Trump. Seven years after our last encounter,...

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Tess McClure @tessairini.bsky.social · Jul 15

!!!!! the return

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Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage.bsky.social · Jun 30

Women and girls in Tigray were gang raped by Ethiopian and Eritrean soldiers. Nail clippers, rusted screws and other objects were shoved up their vaginas with the intention of making them infertile.

A horrific but must-read story by
@ximenaborrazas.bsky.social and @tessairini.bsky.social

Rusted screws, metal spikes and plastic rubbish: the horrific sexual violence used against Tigray’s women

Tens of thousands of Tigrayan women report brutal wartime abuse by Ethiopian and Eritrean soldiers, such as gang-rape and the insertion of objects into their uteruses. But justice seems a distant pros...

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Tess McClure @tessairini.bsky.social · Jun 30

total horror is being inflicted on the women of tigray. here we document the attempts by soldiers to destroy their fertility, and their hopes for justice as most of the world looks away www.theguardian.com/global-devel... @ximenaborrazas.bsky.social

Rusted screws, metal spikes and plastic rubbish: the horrific sexual violence used against Tigray’s women

Tens of thousands of Tigrayan women report brutal wartime abuse by Ethiopian and Eritrean soldiers, such as gang-rape and the insertion of objects into their uteruses. But justice seems a distant pros...

www.theguardian.com

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Hypoautonomic, BS @hypoautonomic.bsky.social · Jun 17

The Alt National Park Service account calls itself the official "resistance" team of the US National Park Service. With 887k followers, is one of the biggest accounts on Bluesky. It is the 11 most followed account according to some trackers.

This thread will dive into its activity.
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The Alt National Park Service account. 887 thousand followers.
"The officla 'Resistance' team of the U.S. National Park Service. Our Website: www.ourparks.org

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Tess McClure @tessairini.bsky.social · Jun 17

lots of great reporting and editing jobs going at the guardian in the US at the moment - a whole team of enterprise & investigative political reporters/editor, plus newsletters, arts editors, podcasting workforus.theguardian.com/search-jobs-... #journalismjobs #journojobs

The Guardian :: Search jobs and apply

Step up to your new career

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Tom Phillips @tomphillips.bsky.social · Jun 5

“To mark the anniversary of the killings of Dom & Bruno, the Guardian – which is today launching a major investigative podcast series about the men called Missing in the Amazon – joined a gruelling week-long expedition in the rainforest”
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‘This is my mission, my destiny’: a treacherous Amazon journey in the footsteps of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira

Three years after the deaths of the British journalist and Brazilian activist, the Guardian joined the Indigenous peoples continuing their dangerous and often gruelling work to protect the rainforest

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Jun 3

When warnings of Insectageddon were issued a few years ago, there was widespread denial. Less so now. It's devastating. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects

A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides

www.theguardian.com

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Tess McClure @tessairini.bsky.social · Jun 3

i wrote about the incredible die-offs that we are now seeing around the world in 'protected' places far from human touch - and about the people who are bearing witness to them www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects

A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides

www.theguardian.com

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Tess McClure @tessairini.bsky.social · Jun 2

last week i drove into the swiss alps to find what was left of Blatten, the village buried beneath a collapsing glacier - report here: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘This is ground zero for Blatten’: the tiny Swiss village engulfed by a mountain

‘The memories preserved in countless books, photo albums, documentation – everything is gone,’ says village’s mayor

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Jay Owens @jayowens.bsky.social · Jun 1

'For now, the only version of Blatten village that exists is invisible, the village’s mayor, Matthias Bellwald, says, held in the minds of the people that have left. “We carry that with us very carefully, as a memory.”'

@tessairini.bsky.social reports:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘This is ground zero for Blatten’: the tiny Swiss village engulfed by a mountain

‘The memories preserved in countless books, photo albums, documentation – everything is gone,’ says village’s mayor

www.theguardian.com

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Tess McClure @tessairini.bsky.social · May 29

Hi Melaine - I am a journalist for the Guardian. could you possibly follow back so I can send you a DM?

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Tess McClure @tessairini.bsky.social · May 29

Hi Melaine - I am a journalist for the guardian - could you possibly follow back so I can send you a message?

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Harriet Barber @harrietbarber.bsky.social · May 7

The Gran Chaco forest is South America’s second largest after the Amazon.

But vast green expanses – home to jaguars, giant armadillos and howler monkeys – have been turned to fields of dust as loggers plunder its trees.

Dispatch 👇
www.theguardian.com/environment/... @tessairini.bsky.social

‘A cemetery of trees’: vast green expanses turned to dust as loggers plunder South America’s Gran Chaco

Jaguars, giant armadillos and ocelots among species threatened by shrinking habitat in one of the richest areas of biodiversity in the world

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Henry Grabar @henrygrabar.bsky.social · Apr 14

this is wild: vehicle capacity of freeway lanes dropped 10 percent as SUVs took over the road -- not just bc they are bigger. they also take more time and space to slow down and obscure other drivers' sightlines.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

How SUVs Are Making Traffic Worse

As larger, taller sport utility vehicles took over US roads, they also aggravated highway congestion, according to a new study. It’s yet another ill effect of “car bloat.”

www.bloomberg.com

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