Back in the field to continue our monitoring of the Rio Cachón (Zahara de los Atunes, S Spain).
This winter's huge floods have radically changed the estuary, forming a new mouth and adding some 200m of new estuary channel.
Many animals (and things!) were washed to the sea
@ebdonana.bsky.social
President Catherine Connolly has described the situation in the Middle East as a "deliberate assault on international law".
It’s already happening. Iran attacked a desalination plant in Bahrain.
This war has to end immediately. If it turns into a water war we will be dealing with a whole different level of a humanitarian catastrophe across the region.
aje.news/64yl8m?updat...
A huge #biodiversity "discovery" (scare quotes because indigenous people always knew it was there).
You know what comes next: "lowland forests are under pressure from logging and agricultural expansion"
theconversation.com/meet-tous-an...
People see conservation as an exciting, romantic field to work in
But it's a tough life watching the places you love, study and fight for being destroyed
Reuters Exclusive
"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."
"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East."
Una Andrena sp., posada sobre Helleborus foetidus, a 1.475m s.n.m., a la Vall de Carlat, capçaleres del riu Ter, avui darrer dia de febrer.
21.1°C in Chamonix today! 🔥🥵
A monthly record for February since at least 1880! 🌡️
Words truly fail to describe such early heatwaves, which are so out of season and detrimental to ecosystems.
Map via @sergezaka.bsky.social
"Scientists have been warning of the rapidly declining North Atlantic salmon population (...) which in Norway has shrunk from more than a million in the early 1980s to about 500,000, a drop largely linked to the climate crisis."
Noticed in the #FlyFishing scene.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Using multiple lines of evidence, we show that feral cats and red foxes are strongly implicated in most Australian mammal extinctions and in the ongoing imperilment of numerous extant species. academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
A large collaborative effort to rebut Wallach and Lundgren (2025).
We’re gonna need a bigger sign. The meadow of the Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin, after two months rain.
Flood risk: Why did regulator have to ask minister to block zoning for housing 30 times since 2019?
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/hous...
El govern de @salvadorilla.bsky.social fa un penós paper davant la posibilitat de protegir l'anguila.
Dona la veu i el vot a pesca (no l'hi pertoca), que tira descaradament de agrotrumpisme.
Ni 250 families ni causes estructurals
Les dades catalanes són terribles
👇👇
canalte.cat/actualitat/s...
Lamentable: hay info suficiente lo que falta es voluntad para afrontar problemas difíciles pero importantes. Por desgracia, los intereses económicos de unos pocos siempre pasan por los problemas ambientales de tod@s 🥲
www.elperiodico.com/es/politica/...
El bloqueo de la protección de la anguila europea en España por parte de las comunidades autónomas, materializado ayer, es un triste ejemplo de la influencia del negacionismo científico. ✍️ @chikichanka.bsky.social (@ebdonana.bsky.social)
@edurobayna.bsky.social está haciendo una cobertura muy bien informada de todo lo que se va moviendo en torno a la anguila (en general, para mal)
Este artículo viene muy bien para esos cargos de CCAA el martes dijeron que hace falta un grupo de trabajo para saber si la anguila merece protección
"El cambio climático antropogénico amplificó la dinámica de las tormentas en la catastrófica riada repentina de Valencia de 2024".
Traduzco el título de este importante artículo científico para ayudar a esos que ni leen ni creen en la Ciencia y en el cambio climático.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics.
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www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
📉Enero de 2026, el más lluvioso del último cuarto de siglo.
➡️ Desde 2001 no se registraba un enero con tanta lluvia: 119 mm en el conjunto de la España peninsular.
➡️ Su temperatura media fue de 6 °C, lo que le otorgó un carácter normal.
www.aemet.es/es/noticias/...
Since the ceasefire in Gaza was declared last October, hundreds of people have been killed and injured, writes Yvonne Murray
EU report on Munster Blackwater fish kill calls for 24-hr monitoring of rivers over 100km long, more coordinated crisis response, trained public 'water wardens' & tighter industrial pollution licences
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
"We find individuals’ carbon footprints ranging from a whopping 17 tons per person to 3 tons annually across postcode areas. Income appears to be a key variable, with the wealthier producing the highest emissions."
It's lazy to divide territorial GHGs by population.
www.sei.org/perspectives...
Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes!
"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."
Bruselas quiere eliminar controles a 49 pesticidas tóxicos para ahorrar solo 16 millones de euros.
Es una barbaridad que tendrá graves consecuencias para el medio natural y que podrá afectar también a la salud de las personas.
www.infolibre.es/medioambient...
Nice article on how pet flea & tick treatments end up in rivers:
the-european.eu/story-57030/...
We Didn’t Start the Fire (But it’s all the ways the EU has ruined environmental protection in the last three years) with @greenpeace.eu #ad
Muchos perros y gatos con dueño deambulan libremente por espacios naturales y urbanos, depredan fauna o transmiten enfermedades, incluso estando bien alimentados.
Hablan de ello especialistas en @es.theconversation.com
La Generalitat (o part d'ella) en modo trumpisme
El DG de Pesca Sostenible es treu de la butaca això: "Si la població està malament és per moltes variables, i la que menys influeix és la pesca"
Les dades de la mateixa Generalitat refuten això
(Segueix)
www.diaridetarragona.com/ebre/251686/...
“You don’t treat a flood where it ends up, you treat it where it starts. Upstream at the top of the catchment”
How to use the land more cleverly to adapt to changing weather and future floods.
#RTECountrywide #SpeirGorm
Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
