Nature always has a remedy
Scientists discover tiny ocean fungus that kills toxic algae
A newly discovered marine fungus can kill toxic algae blooms, hinting at a hidden natural regulator in the ocean.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Invasive alien species are a top driver of global nature loss. Yet whenever it's an animal, a segment of people fanatically resists their control.
They believe it's okay to sacrifice whole native ecosystems, with 1,000s of interconnected species, rather than tackle the problem.
They're very wrong.
"We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere."
- Elie Wiesel
The vast majority of the Irish public feel distress, sadness, anger, grief, fear, despair, guilt, frustration, and worry at nature loss and environmental decline.
Why is this never reflected in actual government policy???
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An ancient Irish rainforest, overwhelmed by invasive sika deer and rhododendron. As these trees die of old age, only the rhodo remains.
Most of Ireland's only 1% or so of surviving native woodland is dying, almost all due to invasives like sika, goats, sheep, and rhodo.
We could do SO much better.
How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.
This is what ecocide looks like.
I can't wait to celebrate World Rewilding Day 2026 with the wonderful Kerri ní Dochartaigh at the Slieve Aughty Centre, Co. Galway, on Friday the 20th.
We'll be talking the Great Forest of Aughty, and rewilding's potential to return some of the nature we've lost.
www.celtnet.org/events/world...
Reading and acting on this post could well save your life.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
What at first glance looks like the caps of reddish fungi on a tree trunk, turns out to be the large fruiting bodies of an epiphytic peltigera lichen.
But of course, lichens are part fungi. So in that sense, the initial judgement wasn't wrong!
The magic of an Irish rainforest.
Exact same spot.
Exact same time of year.
Four years apart.
Not a thing planted.
The power of rewilding.
Solar farms could increase global crop yields by hundreds of billions of pounds, thanks to the protective microclimate created beneath their panels.
www.positive.news/environment/...
The Economist was wrong about the Iraq war. Wrong about austerity.
The Economist keeps being brilliant at being bad at economics.
Maybe change the name to The Propagandist?
Much of central Australia was bone dry (0mm) in January, but had over a years worth of rain in the last 4 weeks.
Green = more than annual rainfall, Blue = at least double annual rainfall.
www.bom.gov.au/climate/maps...
Here's what is likely a red pinwheel mushroom.
#photography #nature #macrophotography #mushroom #pnw #resist
A chorus line of fuzzy turkey tail mushrooms grow on the same branch as cup and crust lichens over a bed of crystalline snow. A bonanza of texture! All photos by me
Here are some nice mushrooms and lichens
Thank you for resharing, Eoghan.
Your comments about recognising how large herbivore absence has left ecological gaps in ecosystems and hopefully deciding to do something about it are spot on.
I was very kindly asked by the @museumofchildhood.bsky.social to contribute a personal story related to my childhood and nature, which I did.
You can read it here:
museumofchildhood.ie/that-wilder-...
Good morning from the equatorial rainforest everyone. No to ecocide
Staying human in these fast changing times, transitioning to what’s coming.
Worth watching:
I usually avoid but sometimes look at what construction influencers in the US find exciting/are being paid for. The first thing I saw was a non-deconstructable wall sandwich made of magnesium panels, EPS, and polyurethane foam glued to a steel frame.
US 'culture' is so ignorant.
For me, nothing announces the arrival of spring in the rainforest like the first flowering wood anemone.
Their unrestrained bright and cheeriness seems to herald the longer, warmer days to come.
Great!!
Sheep are a *top* cause of nature loss.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
A family of snow-bleached violet toothed polypore mushrooms look exactly like a family of mollusks grown on the side of a log. All photos by me
Here are some nice mushrooms
Here's a pretty little mushroom called THE SICKENER.
#photography #nature #macrophotography #mushroom #pnw #resist
Donald Trump claimed there are no wind farms in China. Here are 20 of them – in pictures.
Sadly the Harmful Algal Bloom off South Australia may have had a little boost with the recent rain and heat. Satellite images from 5 March. The red areas indicate Chlorophyll A which is what the algae produce, and the second image is the real colour you can see from space
go.nasa.gov/3PjpGKc
Here's a glistening witch's hat mushroom.
#photography #nature #macrophotography #mushroom #pnw #resist
New fungal pathogens spreading in amphibian species world wide
The fungal microbiome of Earth turns hostile...
#Earth
Costa Rica has shown it *IS* possible to bring back nature on a mass scale, as @thinkorswim.bsky.social outlines in this great piece.
Meanwhile in Ireland all we get is, at best, incremental change and fudging.
Why is Irish nature always just an afterthought?
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
