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Great video, but while "management burns" are hugely important, drivers like grouse management was not, IMO, highlighted strongly enough as source of many of those burns.
Also air pollution such an nitrogen is also probematic for sphagna, both requiring stronger top-down policy scale changes
What can the 3D structure of a forest tell us about ecosystem resilience? 🌳
@mokros.bsky.social secured ARIA funding for 3DTreePrint, using low-cost LiDAR to create detailed 3D forest measurements for conservation and environmental management.
#UCLGeography #RemoteSensing #Biodiversity @ucl.ac.uk
This is brilliant news - a new GCSE in Natural History will bring #nature and its benefits to new generations of young adults in the UK 🍎
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Anson Mackay 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Anson Mackay 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Like a ritual, before I start counting #diatoms from a new core, I always draw my own library of images of key taxa from that site. It makes research really slow going at first, but I find it quite cathartic. These are diatoms from a Lesotho wetland 🧪 🦠
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Phenomenal results being reported for a clinical trial for injections of the drug Amivantamab for people with advanced / metastatic head and neck cancers resistant to chemotherapy and immunotherapy. From a personal perspective this brings me great hope #cansky
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
Not part of #lawnflowers challenge, but not the less interesting for it - Orobanche hederae, or ivy broomrape, growing amongst, well ivy, on an unmown verge in east London! #wildflowerhour
🚨DR UK's Statement on the EHRC's New Code of Practice
"We are appalled at implications that an adequate workaround is trans people using Disabled toilets instead. We will not be used as a loophole in the wider erosion of trans rights."
Full statement👇
www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/disabil...
Long-awaited course to examine human effects on natural world and explore everyday ways to aid biodiversity
It is devastating to keep reading news like the below, and we've been working to rethink water weaponisation to capture events like this and the myriad other ways conflict is violently exploiting water. Our new paper is out today: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Jab brought ‘unprecedentedly strong responses’ in patients whose disease had become resistant to chemotherapy and immunotherapy
Nice blog post from Tom Aspinall at @rspb.bsky.social for the @iucn-uk-peat.bsky.social on how we can build landscapes that are resilient to fire www.iucn-uk-peatland programme.org/blog/tom-aspinall/building-fire-resilience-natures-way
Washington says its jets targeted air defence and radar sites after Iranian forces downed American helicopter
A project led by Dr Martin Mokroš has been awarded seed funding through the Advanced Research and Invention Agency's (ARIA) Engineering Ecosystem Resilience opportunity space.
