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An outrageously flamboyant #plant: Chorizema cordatum (flame pea) at #KewGardens! Named by a French botanist, La Billardiere, in 1799 from choros, a drink, and zena, a drink.
#PlantsAreCool #Botany #Fabaceae 1/2
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John-Paul Flavell
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John-Paul Flavell
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Plant Diversity MSc @UniofReading | Biological Sciences BA @UniofOxford | #PlantsAreCool #Botany | All views my own | Biology Teacher | He/Him
Kingston upon Thames, London Katılım Eylül 2014
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Mistakes made by HS2 Ltd could cost us even more wildlife than has been claimed! 🚨
A new Wildlife Trust report has found many, very serious mistakes by @HS2ltd in their #HS2 nature loss data. UK Government must make them re-evaluate.
Read more 👉 wildlifetrusts.org/news/new-repor…
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*TAKE ACTION: DEMAND A RIGHT TO ROAM ACT*
Following the biggest land justice protest in a generation, there's huge momentum for a new Right to Roam Act. But the next week is *crucial*.
PLEASE HELP US by sending this letter to your MP: righttoroam.org.uk/mpletter
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This is such fantastic news!!
Extraction of peat for horticulture is unnecessary and hugely damaging for the planet. This ban will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and protect a unique biodiverse habitat!
#Biodiversity #ClimateCrisis #ClimateActionNow
gov.uk/government/new…
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@WildbeeMartin @BuzzingWales @olds_liam @nikkigammans @PaulWilliamsNHM You’re correct that red clover isn’t scarce compared to other species, but it is scarcer than it was in the past - whilst it is still common it is less common. My feeling is there is a threshold needed to sustain certain bumble sp. And we’re below that
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@BuzzingWales @olds_liam @nikkigammans I wonder why these species decreased so drastically since the war! They seem very unspecialized in their foraging behaviour. Red-clover isn't exactly a scarce plant. 😅 I suggest it might be more due to their nesting requirements. @PaulWilliamsNHM do you have an idea?
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B. confusus (Confusing bumblebee) is scarce & in decline. It is highly distinctive, with red hairs extending up the underside of the abdomen & a hunched back. Males have HUGE eyes.
🧵on the habitats enabling rare bumblebees to thrive in the Czech republic 🇨🇿.
@nikkigammans
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Lower intensity agriculture is key to a sustainable future!! Simply creating nature reserves is not enough to avert the #biodiversity crisis, we need widespread landscape management change.
BBCT Wales@BuzzingWales
We can learn from this in the UK. We must lower intensity, restore vast areas of traditional meadow - and create wildflower corridors that extend for miles across arable fields. Perhaps then, species like the Great yellow, Shrill carder & Short-haired bumblebees will thrive again
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@sahdiyaeducates @chatbiology @mrsjmasters I’m planning on doing a natural history scavenger hunt over biology week. Finding & identifying leaves, seeds/fruits, lichen, shells, feathers, galls, etc
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Any #biologyteachers got any ideas for some fun #biologycompetitions pleeeease I’m struggling with ideas @chatbiology @mrsjmasters 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
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An issue when comparing the average carbon footprint of food is that it hides the variation *within* a given food.
But the key message doesn't change: the 'best' (lowest impact) meats still tend to emit more than the 'worst' plant-based foods.
ourworldindata.org/less-meat-or-s…
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FUN FACT: Renewables are NINE times cheaper than gas.
It's almost like we should switch to energy sources that cost less and don't burn the planet.
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If a renewable energy system had been built out fully over the last 30 years instead of cutting the green crap we'd still have plenty of problems but wondering how to keep the lights and heating on wouldn't be one of them.
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This is climate change. The worst heatwave in China in 60 years is ongoing.
The most populated region of the most populated nation on the planet is one of the hottest places on the planet.
Industries shut down. Power cut to millions. Drinking water shortage. Drought.
GIF
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How hot will it have to get - how low will the rivers need to be - how poor will crop yields need to be…before civilization takes actual meaningful action on adaptation and mitigation?
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@issybryonyh I’m so jealous your sweet peas are surviving the drought! Mine are long shrivelled
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Didn’t actually do much allotment work today, just made pancakes on the stove and ate them 😋
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This is the Loire, the longest river in France. It's gone now. It evaporated. That hasn't happened in at least 2000 years, and likely not at any time in recorded human history.
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Parents would do anything for their kids. Except - it seems - stopping flying, eating meat & dairy, driving massive fucking cars everywhere & consuming rubbish 24/7.
Rapid, drastic system change is the only chance our kids have. We should start acting like we want it.
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I used to hate English and couldn’t understand the point of poetry nor felt it achieved anything. I have changed my mind. It tells a story and can give us the emotional energy to enact change and action. (4/5)
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