Climate photos of the month – October 2025

The Friends of Gores Marsh Park held a community planting day, sowing the seeds for what next year will be a blooming wildflower meadow – photo: Charlie Tallis

The group, which is working to make the park off Winterstoke Road in Long Ashton more nature-friendly, received a small pot from the Blooming Bedminster Secret Garden fund as well as advice and organic bulbs from Avon Wildlife Trust project Grow Wilder – photo: Charlie Tallis

Bristol Climate & Nature Partnership held a special showcase event to highlight a collection of new resources from their Climate & Disability Programme which is working to make climate action inclusive, representative and accommodating – photo: credit ShamPhat Photography.

Sole Brother, a new Bristol start-up, has developed a specialist resole service for climbing shoes which wear out quickly and would otherwise go into landfill – photo: Sole Brother

The company has already repaired thousands of pairs of climbing shoes, saving huge amounts of waste from landfill – photo: Sole Brother

The Community Farm, a market garden that supplies more than 500 homes with organic veg boxes, is crowdfunding to keep the gates open after a fall in grant funding has threatened the project with closure – photo: the Community Farm

As well as supplying nature-friendly fresh produce to local homes, the farm welcomes inner city schoolchildren, refugees and asylum seekers, and people living with mental health challenges on to the land to experience the benefits of being in nature – photo: the Community Farm

UWE Bristol has signed the Repair and Reuse Declaration, a call to legislators to put more support behind repair and reuse initiatives. The Declaration has over 500 signatories, from MPs, businesses and national organisations. Over the last two years the university has run 18 Repair Café events, amounting to 1,430 hours volunteered and saving 435kg from landfill. – photo: UWE Bristol

Nature lovers around Albert Place in Bedminster have been on hedgehog watch, with reports of second litter ‘autumn hoglets’ that struggle to gain the weight and fat reserves they need to survive hibernation needing a helping hand. Hedgehogs are on the UK’s Red List of mammals vulnerable to extinction – photo: Hedgehog Rescue Bristol & South Gloucestershire

A 20-year-old cycling around the globe to raise awareness of poor soil health landed in Bristol at the beginning of October. Sahil Jha met students from Bristol Grammar and Brentry Primary School, and attended environment events in the city in the hope of inspiring conversations about soil fertility – photo: Karen Johnson

Major creative hub Spike Island, home to 70 artists and regular contemporary art exhibitions, has installed solar panels on its roof that have so far saved 9,000kg of CO₂ and halved its electricity bills – photo: Resonance

Labour councillor Alsayed Al-Maghrabi, of Frome Vale, defected to the Green Party this month, meaning the Greens now hold exactly half the seats in City Hall. He said: “I will never stop standing up for equality, justice and the right to speak truth to power. These are…principles that I now find in the Green Party. I am incredibly excited to join the Greens to put hope back into the politics of Bristol” – photo: Alsayed Al-Maghrabi,

The national Environment Audit Committee released a report which cast doubt on claims that the predicted economic benefits justify the expansion of Bristol Airport; the report said: “The government has not demonstrated that the economic growth from airport expansion provides enough benefit to outweigh the negative climate and environmental impacts it will lead to” – photo: Bristol Airport