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Enfield: Plan for London's largest nature haven - Feddit UK
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As many as 1,000 hectares (2,471 acres) of farmland could become a nature haven in the largest scheme of its kind in London. The Enfield Chase Landscape Restoration Project is expanding on woodland restoration at Enfield Chase in north London. That has seen 140,000 trees planted in the past four...
21h ago
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What butterflies will you be spotting during Big Butterfly Count? - Feddit UK
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Wondering which butterflies you might spot in your garden this summer during Big Butterfly Count, the annual UK-wide survey aimed at helping us assess the health of our environment my counting the amount and type of butterflies we see? It depends on the planting within your outdoor space – but...
18h ago
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More ‘bug hotels’ deployed at North Yorkshire stations - Feddit UK
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Bug hotels are increasing in number of stations across North Yorkshire thanks to a workshop that started back in April. Undergraduates originally started the project as part of their ‘Year in Industry’ working for Northern. The project is now run by the Bentham Community Rail Partnership. The...
21h ago
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Londoners asked to count city's pollinating insects for survey - Feddit UK
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Londoners are being asked to count all the bees, butterflies and moths they see during Monday as part of what is thought to be first annual city-wide pollinator count. The project aims to gather more data on the health of all pollinators in the capital. Pollinating London Together (PLT), a...
22h ago
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Looking for FOSS Games - Feddit UK
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Hey there, I enjoy Linux gaming via WINE/Proton, but I often wonder about Linux-native FOSS games. You often see brilliant titles like 0AD and Mindustry mentioned, but there are also some unspoken gems in the “genre” like Minetest and it makes me wonder what other FOSS games are out there, that...
19h ago
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> A Reform UK candidate has disowned the party and is backing the Conservatives amid a row over racism. > >Liam Booth-Isherwood, who was standing in the seat of Erewash, announced he was dropping out of the race and would instead be endorsing the Tory contender Maggie Throup to “stop Labour”. >...
19h ago
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Starmer’s Bangladesh comments won’t be forgotten and could come back to haunt him - Feddit UK
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> […] As a British Bangladeshi, I saw my phone light up the moment Starmer publicly singled out the country as a source of illegal migrants, saying in an event hosted by The Sun that they were not being “removed” from the UK in sufficient numbers. > […] > Starmer’s choice to single out...
17h ago
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Problematic computer - Feddit UK
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I have been using a company computer running Ubuntu 22.04. There are frequent and unexplained problems, like segmentation faults, stack errors, files disappearing, computer freezing or not booting, or turning off immediately after I turn it on. I don’t know what to do. The IT staff came to my...
16h ago
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> Something is wrong in Appalachia in the first trailer for ‘Hellboy: The Crooked Man.’ Jack Kesy stars as the big red hero trying to figure it out. I would’ve shared the video via YouTube, but unfortunately, it’s embedded into Entertainment Weekly’s web page. As a big Hellboy fan, I’m not sure...
14h ago
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Nature recovery works to begin in Dearne Valley - Feddit UK
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Four nature recovery projects will begin over the summer in Dearne Valley in South Yorkshire, to complement a wider programme of investment at Yorkshire Water’s wastewater treatment sites to improve water quality in the river Dearne. In partnership with the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, Yorkshire...
14h ago
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Scientists lure endangered newts to ancient wetlands - Feddit UK
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Habitat loss is regarded as the main reason for the dramatic decline in numbers of great crested newts across Scotland, and the wider UK, from the mid 20th Century onwards. The iconic amphibians are now heavily protected with it being a criminal offence to harm them, their eggs, or their...
14h ago
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Fish like 'giant swimming head' spotted off Sussex coast near Shoreham - Feddit UK
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A three foot fish “like a giant swimming head” has been spotted off the coast. Ian Rudge was anchored and fishing about one mile south west of Shoreham Harbour on Saturday when he saw a fin above the water. Sussex Wildlife Trust experts have confirmed Ian’s pictures are of a sunfish.
15h ago
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Although the term ‘rewilding’ is contentious, most agree that our countryside could be better managed for wildlife. Yet what should we actually be doing to improve it? ‘The idea that we can carry on what we’ve been doing for the past couple of centuries, which is the war against Nature, is...
15h ago
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England's largest onshore wind farm in Yorkshire 'would be catastrophic for nature' - Feddit UK
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cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/14078952 [https://feddit.uk/post/14078952] > > Campaigners have warned that building England’s largest onshore wind farm on protected peatland would be “catastrophic for carbon storage, wildlife and flood risk”. > Saudi-backed developer World Wide...
14h ago
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> “ A Quiet Place: Day One ” is making noise at the box office. The prequel earned an estimated $53 million in its first weekend in North American theaters, according to studio estimates Sunday. > > It’s both a franchise best and significantly more than expected. Going into the weekend,...
8h ago
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British female politicians targeted by fake pornography - Feddit UK
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> British female politicians have become the victims of fake pornography, with some of their faces used in nude images created using artificial intelligence. > >Political candidates targeted on one prominent fake pornography website include: the Labour deputy leader, Angela Rayner; the education...
4h ago
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Lemmy.ml tankie censorship problem - Feddit UK
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I feel like we need to talk about Lemmy’s massive tankie censorship problem. A lot of popular lemmy communities are hosted on lemmy.ml [http://lemmy.ml]. It’s been well known for a while that the admins/mods of that instance have, let’s say, rather extremist and onesided political views. In...
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