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Could solar panels help strengthen global food security? - Positive News A Canadian study suggests solar farms could increase global crop yields by hundreds of billions of pounds, thanks to the protective microclimate created beneath their panels

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/...

Good morning from the equatorial rainforest everyone. No to ecocide

Desperately Seeking Agency | Frankly 129 YouTube video by Nate Hagens

Staying human in these fast changing times, transitioning to what’s coming.

Worth watching:

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-...

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.

Sheep are disappearing from our hills and our dinner plates Have we have passed "peak sheep" in the UK?

Great!!

Sheep are a *top* cause of nature loss.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

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.

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

We discovered lethal new fungal diseases in wild Australian reptiles. It’s time to act fast Australia’s huge diversity of reptiles could be at risk from new fungal diseases.

New fungal pathogens spreading in amphibian species world wide

The fungal microbiome of Earth turns hostile...

#Earth

Costa Rica gets back to nature after decades of deforestation Paying farmers to swap cattle for conservation has helped sway the balance in biodiversity’s favour

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/...

Wind energy will provide windfalls.

Nobody wants to buy expensive LNG because it causes our babies to drown, and the babies that don’t drown to burn to death, and the babies that didn’t burn to death to starve to death.

LNG is a mass murder fuel.

@justinmikulka.bsky.social

Climate change pushes tropical insects to their heat limit Up to half of the insects in the Amazon region could be exposed to life-threatening heat levels due to progressive, anthropogenic global warming. This is shown by a recent study by the universities of...

Your 'moment of doom' for Mar. 5, 2026 ~ RIP tropical insects.

"Since insects fulfill central functions in ecosystems as pollinators, decomposers, and predators, there is a threat of far-reaching consequences for entire ecosystems."

phys.org/news/2026-03...

2) Overshoot will not be temporary or even reversible. Some of the proposed plans to reverse temperatures are, upon inspection, extremely threadbare, serving as little more than mood music intended to maintain optimism. The reality is that large-scale carbon dioxide removal, does not exist. 5/11

A pair of snow and sun bleached bracket polypores are bone white and richly textured, vaguely reminiscent of the Sydney opera house. All photos by me

Here are some nice mushrooms

I have only just recently started digging into data centres and water, and the way companies are hiding vital information is beyond belief. It is so, so dodgy.

The entire project to widely popularise the idea these concerns are "fake" makes so much sense in this context

EU spokesperson says EU wants to prioritise destruction of the climate over helping Ukraine because Orban should always be the voice of Europe.

What is the EU even doing?

Here are a couple different types of mushroom growing together.

#photography #nature #macrophotography #mushroom #pnw #resist

This is important. There are some folks investigating heating, energy etc, what about material resources, to lower demand? This is going under the radar.

EDP CEO: Energy Shock From War Fueling Clean Power Demand Dailymotion video by Bloomberg

War in the Middle East boosting demand for #renewables, as countries and businesses seek to diversify their sources of energy and shield themselves from external shocks.
www.dailymotion.com/video/xa17qk6

Study: Nature risks threaten to drive up borrowing costs New LSE study warns nature degradation is leading to 'significant impacts' on borrowing costs for governments

Study shows how countries with high levels of nature degradation are facing higher borrowing costs. www.businessgreen.com/news/4526573...