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Climber, Artist, Photojournalist and Writer MORE ART less politics Http://alexekins.co.uk
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"Daylighting" is the practice in urban design of restoring buried rivers to the surface. The River Sheaf been unburied in Sheffield city centre, after 100 yrs in the dark. Fabulous. A small light in the great gloom. “It is starting to make its own meandering path…” www.bbc.com/news/article...

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UK copyright law consultation ‘fixed’ in favour of AI firms, peer says

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'The Cervin, from the East, and North-East' John Ruskin 1849 Ruskin came first in Zermatt with his parents (1844). Then every year, and took the 1st image of the Cervin (a bad quality daguerreotype) on 8th Aug 1849 w. John Hobbs 📷 Better are his many sketches of this mountain from every angle! 🎨

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New nightmare fuel: zombie cave-spider fungus

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Dan Light will be discussing this book, and the fascinating cast of mountaineering characters it contains, at next Tuesday's Charlotte Road lecture. We'll be opening the doors at 7PM and the event is open to all.

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The “Sea of Ice” is being drained by #globalwarming. Yet still there are fools and self-interested bodies out there who deny the science and the evidence before their very eyes. This is happening globally - it’s not unique to one glacier! #climatechange #climatescam #climatecrisis #climatedenial

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About as succinct as it gets

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A tale of two headlines based on the same press release. The reality, of course, is that the National Trust’s nature restoration efforts will bolster good farming, by “improving the health of enough soil to provide habitat for 1 billion earthworms.”

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The clearest image of Pluto ever, from NASA.

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Excited to say that my book THE LIE OF THE LAND has been shortlisted for the Westminster Book Awards 2025, alongside legends like @carolinelucas.bsky.social @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social! Hoping even more MPs will now read it & act on its recommendations! www.publishers.org.uk/westminster-...

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These 10 not-so-common birds might not visit every garden, but they’re worth keeping an eye out for this #BigGardenBirdwatch! 🐦👀 Have you seen any of these visitors on your patch before? Sign up for the birdiest, countiest event of the year: www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...

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“Now night passes and New Year draws near, drawing off darkness as our Deity decrees. But wild-looking weather was about in the world: clouds decanted their cold rain earthwards; the nithering north needled man’s very nature…” Sir Gawain & the Green Knight, late 14th-century, trans. Simon Armitage

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Mer de Glace from Grand Hotel du Montenvers 1910 | 2024 Jürgen Merz Classical view of Alpine glacier demise by @glacionaut/IG

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It was another stunning year for global climate and weather extremes. As data is processed and released in the first two weeks of January, you are going to be hearing all about these new historical records. Apologies for my many graphs in advance! 😬 Spiral below produced by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5190

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Trump wants to rename Denali. Such a grownup. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

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28% of England’s ancient monuments have no legal public right of access Over 5,500 sites recorded by Historic England are beyond reach of the public, according to new analysis undertaken by the campaign group Right to Roam. stoneclub.rocks/right-to-roam

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‘It can feel quite mysterious’: Alan Garner on writing, folklore and experiencing time slips in the Pennines www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d...

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The stricken Mer de Glacé from my project On the Edge of the Melting’…

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Photo from my ‘On the Edge of the Melting’ project on the shrinking of the Mer de Glacé in Chamonix #chamonix #merdeglace #glacialretreat #glaciers

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Picked up this little book of writers’ writing rituals, & I think most of em are liars — “up at dawn, 6 hours at my desk, followed by calisthenics, liquor, & reading edifying works.” But David Lynch delivers the goods.

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I’m going to be posting some photos from a project on Ruskin and glacial retreat…

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