Untitled [Catonsville, Maryland]: photo by Joshua Sinn, 7 March 2018

#Syria Regime sends more forces to Ghouta as UN decries 'apocalypse' in Syria Photo @abdbfree2: image via Aurelia BAILLY @Aurelia BAILLY, 7 March 2018

We are annihilated in every sense of the word, pray for us #EasternGhouta: tweet via Amer almohibany @amer_almohibany 9:07 AM 7 March 2018

Death everywhere and wounded everywhere .. raids Russian don't stop .. hundreds of the victims and buried under the rubble #EasternGhouta #SaveGhouta: tweet via Amer almohibany @amer_almohibany 9:12 AM 7 March 2018

BREAKING: Syrian and allied forces have retaken half of #EasternGhouta since start of assault on Feb 18, according to @syriahr #Syria: image via Jean-Marc Mojon @mojobeirut, 9:20 AM 7 March 2018

SYRIA: At least 45 killed in air strikes, mostly Russian, today on #EasternGhouta, according to @syriahr #Syria - total of 850 civilians killed since assault launched on Feb 18 @AFP: tweet via Jean-Marc Mojon @mojobeirut, 9:27 AM 7 March 2018

Children and civilians are victims of air strikes in Hamouria, Saqba and Kafr Batna are taken to an Eastern Ghouta hospital on March 7, 2018. Photo @amer_almohibany #EasternGhouta #SaveGhouta #GhoutaGenocide: image via Amer almohibany @amer_almohibany 3:23 PM 7 March 2018

Children and civilians are victims of air strikes in Hamouria, Saqba and Kafr Batna are taken to an Eastern Ghouta hospital on March 7, 2018. Photo @amer_almohibany #EasternGhouta #SaveGhouta #GhoutaGenocide: tweet via Amer almohibany @amer_almohibany 3:23 PM 7 March 2018

The number of people infected with chlorine was more than 200 #ChlorineAttack on hamouriya in #EasternGhouta: image via Amer almohibany @amer_almohibany 4:17 PM 7 March 2018

Huxley Asunder, 1961 | by MichaelRyerson

Huxley Asunder, 1961 | May 13, 1961: Aldous Huxley’s Hollywood Hills home lays in ruins after a 1,200-acre brush fire. Neighbors Lou Zamperini, former Olympic track star, and his wife Cynthia survey the ruins. The wind-driven blaze destroyed eight homes and damaged 16 others. Destroyed with Huxley’s Deronda Drive home were many of his original manuscripts. The Los Angeles Times reported the next day that “Huxley, his wife and a passerby saved some manuscripts, notes and research material. Huxley said one of the rescued manuscripts was a first draft of his latest book, ‘Island.’" One of the other homes destroyed was the Castle, a Hollywood Hills landmark owned by Malcolm Small. Los Angeles Times staff photographer Don Cormier took the image above, which ran on Page 1 the next morning. From the Los Angeles Times Archive blog.: photo by Michael Ryerson, 6 March 2018

Syrian/Russian regime forces killed civilians as it shelled several areas in #Jisreen town in #EasternGhouta in Damascus suburbs, Mar 6: image via Syrian Network @snhr, 6 March 2018

Angry millennial women are now coming to terms with the fact that they invented and own the universe and all demographics now tip toward them and their interests and concerns the way effluent tips toward a catch basin thanks to gravity which by the way they also invented and are much smarter than.: image via Any Old Lie For The Right Money, 7 March 2018

A man salutes and yells "white power" after being stopped from entering the Richard Spencer speaking event by a group of protesters on Monday, March 5, 2018, outside the Michigan State University Pavilion for Agriculture and Livestock Education in East Lansing Mich.: photo by Nick King/Lansing State Journal via AP, 5 March 2018

Mayor Emanuel, I wasn’t wearing it at Pussy Riot last night but I was at Monday’s near-riot at MSU. Body armor is not a weapon. It is protective gear and should not be outlawed. @govrauner @RahmEmanuel @ChicagosMayor, Eddie Johnson @Chicago_Police: image via scott olson @olsongetty, 7 March 2018

The world's last three northern white rhinos live in a conservancy in Kenya after decades of rampant poaching have pushed them to brink of extinction.: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 7 March 2018

Scores of villages and towns along the shoreline in Indonesia are inundated by the sea because of a grim combination of man-made environmental destruction and climate change. Photo @beawiharta: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 7 March 2018

A column of volcanic smoke rises from the crater on the Shinmoedake volcano after its eruption in Kirishima, southern Japan, Tuesday, March 6, 2018. The volcano erupted violently several times Tuesday, shooting up ash and smoke up to 2,300 meters (7,500 feet) in its biggest explosion since 2011, the Meteorological Agency said.: photo by Kyodo News via AP, 7 March 2018

Chinese security personnel in usher uniforms sit on duty during provincial group discussion sessions held on the sidelines of the annual meeting of China's National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Tuesday, March 6, 2018.: photo by Aijaz Rahi/AP, 6 March 2018

Chinese boy dressed for the She Huo festival, to celebrate the Lunar New Year in Longxiang, Shaanxi province, on February 27, 2018. She Huo is dedicated to the gods of earth and fire. "She" literally means "God of Earth" and huo means "God of Fire." @visitshaanxi @AFPphoto: image via Fred Dufour @freddufour_afp, 27 February 2018

Chinese man dressed with a traditional costume, poses as part of the She Huo festival, to celebrate the Lunar New Year, in Hancheng, Shaanxi province. She Huo festival, celebrated in the northwestern China, is a festival dedicated to the gods of earth and fire.@visitshaanxi : image via Fred Dufour @freddufour_afp, 20 February 2018

A Chinese woman dressed with a traditional bride costume, poses during a wedding performance as part of the She Huo festival, to celebrate the Lunar New Year, marking the Year of the Dog, in Hancheng, Shaanxi province, on February 16, 2018. @visitshaanxi @AFPphoto: image via Fred Dufour @freddufour_afp, 16 February 2018

#China Chinese fishermen seek divine blessings in troubled waters Photo @johaynz: image via Aurelia BAILLY @Aurelia BAILLY, 7 March 2018

A model waits backstage before Shimada ready-to-wear fall/winter 2018/2019 fashion collection presented in Paris, Tuesday March 6, 2018.: photo by Thibault Camus/AP, 6 March 2018

#DRCongo An internally displaced Congolese woman takes refuge on the Shore line of lake Albert in Tchomia. Photo @wesselsjohn1 #AFP: image via Aurelia BAILLY @Aurelia BAILLY, 7 March 2018

#DRCongo On the shores of Lake Albert in search of safety and boats to make the crossing to the safety of the refugee camps in Uganda. Photo @wesselsjohn1 #AFP: image via Aurelia BAILLY @Aurelia BAILLY, 7 March 2018

Nepalese women dressed in wedding attire emerge from a utensils store in Bhaktapur, Nepal, Tuesday, March 6, 2018. Bhaktapur was one of the worst hit in the April 25, 2015 earthquake, with many lives lost and hundreds of houses and cultural heritage sites destroyed.: photo by Niranjan Shrestha/AP, 6 March 2018

4 Valentins ⩽ 4 Valentines | by py.krywicki

#Goodnight The "super moon" is rising over Piazza del Popolo, in Rome. Photo @AbertoPizzoli: image via Aurelia BAILLY @Aurelia BAILLY, 7 March 2018

A tonne of dung hung on the air (disenchanted forest)

Chanel's mid-winter woods set for its #PFW show. Tonnes of dead leaves and a faint whiff of horse dung in the air... I'm sure a fragrance will follow: image via Fiachra Gibons @FiachraGibbons, 6 March 2018

Chanel's enchanted forest show angers environmentalists: Several oaks and poplars cut down to dress Karl Lagerfeld’s catwalk at Grand Palais in Paris: Kim Willsher in Paris for The Guardian, 7 March 2018

The fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld has been criticised by environmentalists after reportedly chopping down several old oak and poplar trees for his Chanel catwalk show.

Campaigners said the grand couturier’s attempt to present Chanel’s green credentials had badly backfired and revealed the fashion house was “completely divorced from the reality of protecting nature”.

Lagerfeld turned the vast glass nave of Paris’s Grand Palais into an autumn forest for the event, strewing dead leaves, moss and logs on a mirrored runway and installed nine tall trees inside.

Chanel’s forest scene runway.: photo by Ian Langsdon/EPA, 7 March 2018

Guests, including the British actor Keira Knightley, the singer Lily Allen, and the former French first lady Carla Bruni Sarkozy, were installed on rows of wooden benches to watch the models walking down what appeared to be woodland paths.

“Chanel has missed the point once again. The celebrated fashion house chose to present a ‘natural’ decor with real trees for its haute couture event. The result: trees, some of them a hundred years old, were chopped down for a few hours of show,” FNE said in a statement.

“Promoting the diversity of French forests? An invitation to return to nature? A willingness to show itself to be an eco-responsible label? Whatever Chanel’s motivations, they failed. Nature isn’t about trees cut down in a forest, transported by lorry for scenery they sent to the rubbish skip.

“It would have been better, indeed innovatory, to set up the catwalk in the forest itself, rather than cut down trees to bring [them] to Paris.”

Chanel said none of the trees cut from a forest in western France and brought to the capital for its autumn-winter prêt-à-porter 2018-2019 show had been more than a century old. They had been authorised for cutting, it said, adding: “In acquiring the trees, Chanel agreed to replant an area of 100 new oaks in the heart of the forest.”

Karl Lagerfeld’s autumn-winter 2018-2019 women’s prêt-à-porter collection show for Chanel.: photo by Pascal Rossignol/Reuters, 7 March 2018

Fashion critics hailed the set a success; Harper’s Bazaar magazine said “the runway may be the best yet” from Lagerfeld, 85, praising the “life-like forest … that seemed to extend infinitely”.

FNE published pictures of tree stumps in what it described as the “disenchanted forest” on Twitter. The group concluded that it may not have any style lessons to offer Chanel, but added: “We do have much to teach it on what ethical, durable and responsible fashion means and even on how the forest and living trees should inspire us.”