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Okay, I genuinely can't decide, so I'm collectivising the decision. Help me out, poll in the comments.

I've said before that ship captains during the age of discovery were some of the most impressive human beings to ever live. We have trouble appreciating just how unimaginably great these men were. They had to play the role of navigator, cartographer, astronomer, logistics manager, military commander, judge, police captain, diplomat, CEO, recruiter, accountant and governor, all at the same time, and all under extreme duress, out in the middle of the ocean, cut off from the rest of the world where the penalty for one wrong decision was the death of everyone on board. These are some of the most brilliant and gifted human beings the world has ever known. Nobody on Earth today can come close to matching them. They had a level of both skill and physical courage that just doesn't exist on the planet today.

@LivingTricks_ It could be Rebecca.

Read it again carefully. The answer is literally right in front of you 😏

I was been building a Bee Garden, a garden that is inviting & bee friendly as our bees need help, so over the weekend we had several bags of garden waste to get rid of. We took these up to the tip, where we have not been for sometime.. Only to find you now need an phone APP & an APPOINTMENT to dispose of your rubbish! What fresh hell is this!??? An APP & an APPOINTMENT to put your rubbish on a public tip?? What the hell are we paying our TAX for? Is THIS part of Agenda 2030 which will track EVERY OUNCE of our waste to calculate our "Carbon Footprint" on our "Social Credit Score" ?? Mr Lowe will you PLEASE put an end to this utter MADNESS!? I have travelled a lot in far east & the African continent, & Asians (poor ones) & almost ALL Africans do not dispose of rubbish properly, so they certainly wont do it here! & if they TRY to use a tip, surely this "make an appointment to tip your rubbish" CRAP would put them off & will CONTRIBUTE to illegal FLY TIPPING! Perhaps it is all about making us "LESS WHITE" & personally I am sick to my back teeth of gov't mandated "LESS WHITE" whe it leads to our towns & cities looking like THIS! 👇👇👇👇👇

A local NGO stepped up and cleaned the Rajendra Nagar foot overbridge in Patna and what they uncovered is beyond shocking. A mountain of garbage. Years of neglect. It honestly looks like this bridge hasn’t been cleaned since the day it was built. 😡 So the real question is ,why are we even paying taxes if basic cleanliness isn’t ensured? Citizens are doing the job that authorities are paid for. This isn’t just negligence, it’s a complete failure of accountability. Until responsibility is fixed and action is taken, scenes like this will keep repeating. Enough is enough.

There's nothing sustainable about krill fishing. Krill are the foundation of the Antarctic marine ecosystem, relied on by whales, seals, penguins and countless other species. The exploitation of krill for profit has to end.

A Danish scientist counted bugs on the same windshield, same road, same conditions, every year for 20 years. By year 20, 80% of the insects were gone. In Germany, a group of volunteer bug scientists did something even bigger. They set traps in 63 nature reserves, not farms, protected land, and weighed everything they caught. Same traps, same method, 27 years straight. The total weight of flying bugs dropped 76%. In midsummer, when insects should be peaking, it was 82% gone. A follow-up in 2020 and 2021 checked again. No recovery. In the UK, they literally ask drivers to count splats on their license plates after a trip. The 2024 count came back 63% lower than just 2021. Three years. A 2020 study pulled together 166 surveys from 1,676 locations around the world. Land insects are disappearing at roughly 9% every ten years. Here’s where it hits your plate. About 75% of the food crops we grow depend on insects to pollinate them, everything from apples to almonds to coffee. One 2025 study modeled what a full pollinator collapse would look like: food prices jump 30%, the global economy takes a $729 billion hit, and the world loses 8% of its Vitamin A supply. Birds are already feeling it. North America has lost 2.9 billion birds since 1970. A study from just weeks ago found half of 261 bird species on the continent are now in serious decline, and the losses are speeding up in farming regions. The birds that eat insects lost 2.9 billion. The birds that don’t eat insects? They gained 26 million. That ratio tells the whole story. One of the German researchers behind the 27-year study drives a Land Rover. He says it has the aerodynamics of a refrigerator. It stays clean now.

In the 14th century, the Maldives had long been an Islamic sultanate, following the conversion of its last Buddhist king two centuries earlier. But belief systems change faster than customs. That tension became clear with the rise of the Maldivian “sultanas,” beginning with Khadijah of the Maldives, who shared the name of Muhammad’s first wife. Khadijah became the first woman to hold the title “Sultan of Land and Sea.” Her accession appears to have drawn little controversy—likely reflecting the islands’ Buddhist past and their distance from centers of Islamic authority. She ruled, on and off, for nearly three decades, exercising power with the same legitimacy as any male sultan. Like many rulers of her era, Khadijah navigated politics ruthlessly. She lost and regained the throne more than once, and both her first and second husbands were assassinated after attempting to depose her. Despite this, her reign opened the door for other women—such as Raadhafathi (Myriam) and Dhaain—to rule the Maldives. When the North African traveler Ibn Battuta arrived, he found a society that diverged from Islamic expectations. The very existence of a female ruler contradicted a narration attributed to Muhammad: “Never will succeed such a nation as makes a woman its ruler.” The standards of modesty expected of Muslim women had scarcely taken root. Khadijah wore no head or face covering—and, in keeping with local custom, nothing above the waist. Ibn Battuta tried to persuade the women to cover themselves, but largely failed. Khadijah was not seen as an apostate. Her name was proclaimed in Friday prayers, and her rule was considered Islamically legitimate. She simply rejected the burdens of modesty placed on women. Ibn Battuta otherwise spoke positively of Maldivian women. “A woman in these islands,” he wrote, “would never entrust to anybody else the serving of her husband…” It suggests modesty rules could be ignored—so long as women remained obedient at home. What does that say about what these rules are really for? Powerful women were always part of the story. #WomensHistoryMonth #IslamicHistory

Indonesia plan to rezone elephant reserve for carbon trading and tourism The move could fragment core habitat and be devastating for critically endangered species like Sumatran elephants, tigers and rhinos but Indonesia simply does not care news.mongabay.com/2026/03/indone…

The Sumatran rhino isn’t just rare—it's a living relic from another era. This shaggy survivor outlasted ice ages and ancient predators, but now hides in tiny rainforest pockets, some never seen by humans. Only 34–47 left in the wild.

Uganda's long running effort to restore its wildlife after civil war-driven poaching devastated it in the 1980s is an under-celebrated African conservation success story.

A week until parliament shuts for Easter and still no return of the Chagos giveaway bill. Complacent? Not at all. Vigilant? Yes, always - and more ready than ever to do lethal damage to any attempt to reactivate this betrayal. But this pause seemed impossible - it was not!

@simonmontefiore Just over 2 miles. London Bridge is about the length of the Titanic.

Amazing walk. Lets do it

Encouraging news from the Amazon #Rainforest 🌿 #Deforestation in #Brazil is on track for its lowest level in over a decade, showing that strong policy, enforcement, and transparency can make a real difference. Send Climate Love 💚 on #ForestDay 👇 app.wedonthavetime.org/posts/3bd935d2…

India lost 668,400 hectares of forest in just 5 years, ranking 2nd highest globally. We are burning our future for a few extra miles of concrete. This isn't development; it’s an ecological foreclosure on the next generation. @PMOIndia @moefcc #InternationalDayofForests #SaveForests #NoAnimalsNoVote downtoearth.org.in/wildlife-biodi…

I thought we had advanced as a nation and stopped taking more and more away from our native people.

The bottom trawling ban off Sussex is working! 🌊 5 years on, kelp is recovering, mussel beds stretch over 1km, and black sea bream are returning 🐟🌿🦪 Proof that when we remove destructive fishing, the ocean can bounce back 💙 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

One of the rarest and most critically endangered primates in the world. With fewer than 70 remaining in the wild, the Cat Ba langur are born bright orange and then turn black. Found in Vietnam’s Ha Long Bay, they have the remarkable ability to drink salt water☺️

The Snowy Owl has been declared Regionally Extinct in Sweden, marking the first time in 20 years that the country has officially lost a bird species. Read more: britishbirds.co.uk/journal/articl… 📸David Tipling 🥇Subscriber Content

Iran attempted to fire missiles at Chagos 🚨 Proving what we said for two years: British Indian Ocean Territory is our vital strategic fortress Starmer must immediately drop his sick Chagos deal now - he is doing Iran’s work Reinforce Chagos now 🇮🇴 wsj.com/livecoverage/i…