Becca Warner

✨ New online: @beccawarner meets the mushroom mappers unearthing a hidden kingdom, feat. @Giulifungi @spununderground @IUCNfungi newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6446

Thanks as always to @izzygerretsen for excellent editing, and giving me the opportunity to tell such unusually positive stories about humans' relationship with the natural world 🦢

In just 12 years, this patch of land went from housing three bird species, to over 200. Extraordinary. For @BBC I wrote about how local knowledge helps restore important ecosystems – and the incredible speed that nature heals itself, if only we let it. bbc.com/future/article…

What happens when a forest has the same rights as a person? For @BBC_Future, I wrote about the legal case that saved an Ecuadorian forest from destruction, and was a landmark success in a bigger movement that's changing how we relate to the natural world. bbc.com/future/article…

Watch, read, listen: An article in @AtmosMag argued that the way humans talk about nature shapes their relationship to it – and asked whether “we [should] be paying more attention to the words we use?”. ✍️ @beccawarner atmos.earth/why-we-need-ne…

@emmaggarland @HUCKmagazine V glad I got the chance to be edited by you! Hope emo book writing is as fun as it sounds

@lucycjstone @EquityUK @danusiasamal Hi! This sounds brilliant - are you referring to the #greenrider campaign?

The power of culture to shape social norms is huge. This includes our cultural influencers. Pleased to be supporting this important initiative by the brilliant people at @EquityUK . well done to @danusiasamal and WillAttenborough. Brilliant work. the future is green! #Climate

@DonalMullane @BBC_Future Thanks Don, this refers to common practice in the US. The article is edited now to make clear it’s not universal.

@beccawarner @BBC_Future Where did “the grave is lined with concrete” come from? Certainly not in any cemeteries I am aware of (in the UK or Ireland).

✍️I pondered my own death for @BBC_Future, to work out how to avoid poisoning the planet once I’m gone. The answer takes some digging (literally) and a new way of thinking about what ‘special’ might look like. bbc.com/future/article…

There's no single right answer – but what's clear is that we need more research, more options and more everyday conversations about the things we don't like talking about

Big thank you to @ndccharity, @watercremation, @recomposelife, @theplanetmark, @loopbiotech and the v brilliant Dr Julie Rugg @UniOfYork for helping me navigate a scientifically and emotionally complex question.

Beautifully put in @benmauk's newsletter today: "I believe that the experiences of daily boredom and idleness, and the obverse states of focus and mindfulness, are critically endangered psychic species." We are overly stimulated, stressed, entertained – and suffering for it

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Freelance food writers, dabblers, and folks with fun writing ideas: my subscription food and beverage newsletter, Magic at the Margins, is accepting pitches! Pay is $1/per word, capped at $1,000 per piece, for stories that fit our community themes. feedthemalik.com/post/how-to-wr…

It’s easy to forget there was a time before hustle culture and rampant individualism. My latest for @HUCKmagazine is about a 1980s zine that put a middle finger up to the emergence of neoliberalism - writing it was somehow cathartic, hope reading it is too huckmag.com/article/chris-…

@tomhashemi @FreefromTorture Love this

“She has made mushroom music and drawn the structures underpinning life itself. But her relationship to the non-human world is perhaps no more powerfully represented than in her latest creation: a book written in the language of trees.” @beccawarner imagine5.com/articles/the-l…

@CarabineSophie hi, I'm a journalist writing about alternative burial practices for the BBC. There's some research from The Corpse Project that I'd like to reference but is no longer online. Hoping you might be able to help – would you mind DMing me your email address?

TNT’s members are geographically dispersed across the US, Europe and Australia. Their goal is to publicly challenge climate disinformation so that others don’t take it at face value. ✍️ @beccawarner huckmag.com/article/team-n…