A cloud of blackbirds

By Melissa DennisonBradford, Yorkshire, England I am standing with my pen poised to record but it's so quiet and still. It's often like this, a waiting game. The wait is becoming longer and longer. I am taking part in a citizen science project to document blackbird sightings. Climate change can seem like an abstraction or something that effects people a long way off, on the other side of the world, but it's not, it's right here on our doorstep.  in the treesonly the soundof the wind Much-loved songbird threatened by mosquito-borne virus | BTOMosquito-borne killer disease threatens blackbirds - BBC…

Gas lit

By Melissa DennisonBradford, Yorkshire, England From boreal forests in the Arctic Circle to Hawaii and Malibu, every year more and more of our planet is burning. fanning the flames deniers of climate change