The risk now is that Trump tries to cover up his incompetence as a negotiator by bullying Zelensky to accept defeat dressed up as a compromise.
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✍️ BBC Countryfile shines spotlight on Yorkshire’s River Nidd
Local campaigners in Knaresborough are using innovative technology to monitor and reduce sewage pollution in the River Nidd
By Brian McHugh @brianmchugh.bsky.social
BBC Countryfile shines spotlight on Yorkshire’s River Nidd
Local campaigners in Knaresborough are using innovative technology to monitor and reduce sewage pollution in the River Nidd
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“Researchers should not have to endure death threats or public attacks when they engage publicly and try to combat misinformation”
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Researchers should not have to endure death threats or public attacks when they engage publicly and try to combat misinformation.
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We're just starting to understand the #biodiversity we are fast trashing.
"Cryoconite granules - frozen rainforests”. Each is a self-sustaining ecosystem, containing diverse bacteria, fungi, viruses, protists & even tiny animals like tardigrades & worms" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Arctic glaciers face ‘terminal’ decline as microbes accelerate ice melt
Scientists in Svalbard in race to study polar microbes as global heating threatens fragile glacial ecosystems
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For decades, the biomedical industry has relied on a compound in horseshoe crab blood to protect medical equipment from contamination, saving untold human lives.
But conservationists say modern medicine’s dependence on this bloodletting is upending a globe-spanning ecosystem.
These crabs probably saved your life. Can we save theirs?
The medical world relies on horseshoe crab blood in the production of vaccines and equipment. A synthetic is available, but companies have been slow to adopt it.
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It's a story most people don’t know anything about: Wales is setting up 2 deregulated Freeports (they are not green by any means) and 8 Special Economic Zones (SEZs). These aren’t just ports, they’re experiments in deregulated corporate governance paid for by public money (State aid)
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Realpolitik slips so easily into moral ambiguity. Is it really so very necessary to praise the dear leader as he tries to carve up the mineral resources of Ukraine with Putin?
Prime Minister Keir Starmers statement on Ukraine
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Collective punishment is a war crime.
TRT captures aerial footage of Israel’s massive destruction in Gaza, showing entire neighborhoods flattened to rubble.