The story of the Earth - geoconservation, museums, the poetry of things old & wild - based in East Anglia, UK.
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Tim Holt-Wilson
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The Lonely Race to Save Ukraine’s Past
In a country ravaged by war, Ukraine’s conservators are torn between protecting the country’s past and fighting for its future.
by Gina Errico
www.biographic.com/the-lonely-r...
The govt is negligent over glyphosate, says leading professor. Michael Antoniou, Professor Emeritus at King's College London, is on a mission to educate people about #glyphosate and the corruptness of the regulating system, and why a ban is long overdue. wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/features/the...
A paper in Nature Communications reports on squirrel droppings preserved in Canadian permafrost containing 700,000-year-old ancient DNA. The findings enable the reconstruction of ancient ecosystems and shed new light on the evolutionary history of certain species. go.nature.com/4vFchfz #evosky 🧬🧪
Thinking of future gnarled beauty as well as conserving biodiversity, Ian Sanders has been introducing Black Poplar clones from Suffolk to West Oxon. Here a clone from Thelnetham in Suffolk is thriving on the floodplain at Shipton-Under-Wychwood in the Evenlode valley.
Heroic work @severntrentwater.bsky.social in Stroud trenching at four metres depth beneath the street level, clearing a stinky blockage "all the way up the street" caused by WET WIPES.
Imagine how much this has cost, think of the disruption...
Nb the original sewer would have been dug by hand.
Four-barred Knapweed Gall-fly
(Urophora quadrifasciata) on Devil's Bit Scabious. A sort of exquisite, pied dragonette zooming around an Evenlode floodplain meadow at Shipton-under-Wychwood. My camera struggled to capture its imago image.
'Reinterpretation of a presumed artefaction from The Great Crisis Stratum as a predator-modified organic petrifaction’
blog.geolsoc.org.uk/2016/04/27/b...
#FossilFriday #Paleosky
#FuturePalaeontology
Icymi: Very positive findings about solar on peatland. Co-benefits of renewables just keep piling up.
www.goodnewsnetwork.org/boy-finds-2-...
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Tim Holt-Wilson
Tim Holt-Wilson
Tim Holt-Wilson
Researchers in Germany have found that solar panels on rewetted peatland provide a unique habitat for bird species along with generating green energy and potentially locking up carbon. Installing sola...
Michael Antoniou, Professor Emeritus at King’s College London, is on a mission to educate people about glyphosate and the corruptness of the regulating system…
‘What would a palaeontologist of the far future do if he, she (or indeed, it) came upon technofossils, the petrified artefacts of a long-extinct civilization?’
