Miguel Brito
@miguelorca.bsky.social
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Anyway, Brazil is cutting down parts of the rainforest to make a road for COP30. I'm screaming at the idiocy
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Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit - BBC News
The infrastructure required to host COP30 in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say.
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March 20, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Anyway, Brazil is cutting down parts of the rainforest to make a road for COP30. I'm screaming at the idiocy
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Queremos, pois.
Livre quer ouvir ministra do Ambiente no parlamento sobre possível desmantelamento do Instituto da Conservação da Natureza e Florestas (ICNF), cujas competências seriam passadas a outras entidades.
Livre quer que ministra do Ambiente explique no parlamento possível fim do ICNF
Livre quer ouvir ministra do Ambiente no parlamento sobre possível desmantelamento do Instituto da Conservação da Natureza e Florestas (ICNF), cujas competências seriam passadas a outras entidades.
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October 15, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Queremos, pois.
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This week, we lost one of the world’s greatest advocates for people and nature. Even in her final days, Dr. Jane Goodall was urging us not to give up, and now her legacy lives on through the countless voices she inspired.
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Jane Goodall's final lesson
Honoring Jane Goodall's life, Pope Leo's first climate address, and finding hope in action
www.talkingclimate.ca
October 6, 2025 at 11:10 PM
This week, we lost one of the world’s greatest advocates for people and nature. Even in her final days, Dr. Jane Goodall was urging us not to give up, and now her legacy lives on through the countless voices she inspired.
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Decisores políticos de 19 países testaram a presença de substâncias perfluoroalquiladas (PFAS) no sangue – e todos estavam contaminados, incluindo o secretário de Estado do Ambiente de Portugal.
O sangue de vários líderes europeus está contaminado com químicos “eternos”, incluindo o do secretário de Estado português
Decisores políticos de 19 países testaram a presença de substâncias perfluoroalquiladas (PFAS) no sangue – e todos estavam contaminados, incluindo o secretário de Estado do Ambiente de Portugal.
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October 7, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Decisores políticos de 19 países testaram a presença de substâncias perfluoroalquiladas (PFAS) no sangue – e todos estavam contaminados, incluindo o secretário de Estado do Ambiente de Portugal.
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Mapa interactivo permite ver que municípios têm planos de acção climática e contactar directamente autarquias a exigir a divulgação dos documentos em falta.
O seu município tem um plano climático? Há um mapa que ajuda a descobrir — e contactar autarquias em falha
Mapa interactivo permite ver que municípios têm planos de acção climática e contactar directamente autarquias a exigir a divulgação dos documentos em falta.
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October 7, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Mapa interactivo permite ver que municípios têm planos de acção climática e contactar directamente autarquias a exigir a divulgação dos documentos em falta.
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Pegada de carbono dos portugueses é oito vezes maior do que devia para que o aquecimento global não exceda 1,5 graus. Os países ricos têm de cortar 82% a 94% das emissões de consumo até 2045.
Por @clarabarata.bsky.social
Por @clarabarata.bsky.social
A forma como os portugueses consomem afasta-nos da meta do Acordo de Paris
Pegada de carbono dos portugueses é oito vezes maior do que devia para que o aquecimento global não exceda 1,5 graus. Os países ricos têm de cortar 82% a 94% das emissões de consumo até 2045.
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October 7, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Pegada de carbono dos portugueses é oito vezes maior do que devia para que o aquecimento global não exceda 1,5 graus. Os países ricos têm de cortar 82% a 94% das emissões de consumo até 2045.
Por @clarabarata.bsky.social
Por @clarabarata.bsky.social
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READ: The EU’s ban on discards was meant to end one of the most wasteful practices in fishing: throwing unwanted catch back into the sea. Yet, years after it was introduced under the Common Fisheries Policy, countries are failing to enforce it. https://oceana.ly/470f0FJ
October 6, 2025 at 7:15 PM
READ: The EU’s ban on discards was meant to end one of the most wasteful practices in fishing: throwing unwanted catch back into the sea. Yet, years after it was introduced under the Common Fisheries Policy, countries are failing to enforce it. https://oceana.ly/470f0FJ
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Turns out I have more in common with Jane Goodall than I thought.
Jane Goodall said she would launch Trump and Musk on one-way trip into space
Primatologist said in interview released after her death she would also put Putin, Xi and Netanyahu on that spaceship
www.theguardian.com
October 6, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Turns out I have more in common with Jane Goodall than I thought.
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Wishing the climate crisis would get as much attention as a billionaire marrying a millionaire.
Anyways, congrats @taylorswift 💚
Anyways, congrats @taylorswift 💚
August 27, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Wishing the climate crisis would get as much attention as a billionaire marrying a millionaire.
Anyways, congrats @taylorswift 💚
Anyways, congrats @taylorswift 💚
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Deforestation kills more than trees.
Deforestation has killed half a million people in past 20 years, study finds
Localised rises in temperature caused by land clearance cause 28,330 heat-related deaths a year, researchers find
www.theguardian.com
August 27, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Deforestation kills more than trees.
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New study by @exetermarine.bsky.social
@heriotwattuni.bsky.social
@zslofficial.bsky.social underscores the critical importance of Very Large Marine Protected Areas for safeguarding wide-ranging marine species. #MPAs
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@heriotwattuni.bsky.social
@zslofficial.bsky.social underscores the critical importance of Very Large Marine Protected Areas for safeguarding wide-ranging marine species. #MPAs
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Chagos study highlights value of vast Marine Protected Areas
Large ocean animals can be protected throughout much of their lifecycle by huge Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), new research shows. Scientists tracked sea turtles, manta rays and seabirds – all of whic...
news.exeter.ac.uk
August 26, 2025 at 10:09 AM
New study by @exetermarine.bsky.social
@heriotwattuni.bsky.social
@zslofficial.bsky.social underscores the critical importance of Very Large Marine Protected Areas for safeguarding wide-ranging marine species. #MPAs
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...
@heriotwattuni.bsky.social
@zslofficial.bsky.social underscores the critical importance of Very Large Marine Protected Areas for safeguarding wide-ranging marine species. #MPAs
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...
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📃🩺🧪🌏Remarkable paper in @lancetgh.bsky.social on factors associated with health-care (in)efficiency.
🤓TL;DR summary➡️Most surprising result: development assistance for health is associated with inefficiency📉
#MedSky #PublicHealth #GlobalHealth
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🤓TL;DR summary➡️Most surprising result: development assistance for health is associated with inefficiency📉
#MedSky #PublicHealth #GlobalHealth
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July 23, 2025 at 10:41 AM
📃🩺🧪🌏Remarkable paper in @lancetgh.bsky.social on factors associated with health-care (in)efficiency.
🤓TL;DR summary➡️Most surprising result: development assistance for health is associated with inefficiency📉
#MedSky #PublicHealth #GlobalHealth
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🤓TL;DR summary➡️Most surprising result: development assistance for health is associated with inefficiency📉
#MedSky #PublicHealth #GlobalHealth
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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ICYMI: New online! Marine heatwaves as hot spots of climate change and impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services
Marine heatwaves as hot spots of climate change and impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services
Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Published online: 07 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s44358-025-00058-5Marine heatwaves (MHWs) have become more intense and widespread globally, affecting species, ecosystems and people. After summarizing how and why MHWs are changing, this Review explores these impacts and their underlying mechanisms, highlights knowledge gaps and considers opportunities to mitigate the effects of MHWs.
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July 14, 2025 at 9:42 AM
ICYMI: New online! Marine heatwaves as hot spots of climate change and impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services
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This report indicates 2.8% fully, 8.3% partly.
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Discussed further here Oct 2024. www.bloomberg.org/press/just-2... #oceanchat
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Discussed further here Oct 2024. www.bloomberg.org/press/just-2... #oceanchat
June 27, 2025 at 2:04 AM
This report indicates 2.8% fully, 8.3% partly.
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Discussed further here Oct 2024. www.bloomberg.org/press/just-2... #oceanchat
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Discussed further here Oct 2024. www.bloomberg.org/press/just-2... #oceanchat
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One of the best books to learn about humans' tremendously negative impacts on fisheries, especially the oceans, is The Unnatural History of the Sea by Callum Roberts. This book opened my eyes to the horror that is bottom trawling. Highly recommend and should be mandatory in schools.
#Oceanchat
#Oceanchat
June 27, 2025 at 2:08 AM
One of the best books to learn about humans' tremendously negative impacts on fisheries, especially the oceans, is The Unnatural History of the Sea by Callum Roberts. This book opened my eyes to the horror that is bottom trawling. Highly recommend and should be mandatory in schools.
#Oceanchat
#Oceanchat
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thank you for the TED talk
#oceanchat
#oceanchat
Bycatch is an issue in most gears, and new technology over the years has helped reduce bycatch (e.g., turtle excluder devices) #OceanChat www.fisheries.noaa.gov/southeast/by...
Turtle Excluder Devices
Turtle excluder devices, commonly called TEDs, promote sea turtle conservation by addressing interactions between sea turtles and trawl fishing gear. These devices are made of metal bars and mesh that...
www.fisheries.noaa.gov
June 27, 2025 at 2:54 AM
thank you for the TED talk
#oceanchat
#oceanchat
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🔬 This new microscope is revolutionizing how scientists study coral photosynthesis and health! Dive in below to learn more about this exciting innovation developed by Scripps Oceanography scientists and engineers, and funded by the National Science Foundation. 🪸 ⬇️
Diver-Operated Microscope Brings Hidden Coral Biology into Focus
The intricate, hidden processes that sustain coral life are being revealed through a new microscope developed by scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography.The diver-operated mic...
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July 3, 2025 at 4:08 PM
🔬 This new microscope is revolutionizing how scientists study coral photosynthesis and health! Dive in below to learn more about this exciting innovation developed by Scripps Oceanography scientists and engineers, and funded by the National Science Foundation. 🪸 ⬇️
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Eighty years ago today, over 7,000 prisoners of the German Nazi camp #Auschwitz, including some 700 children, were liberated by the soldiers of the Soviet Army.
1,689 days of murder, pain, suffering, and humiliation were over.
Today, we all remember. We must keep remembering.
1,689 days of murder, pain, suffering, and humiliation were over.
Today, we all remember. We must keep remembering.
January 27, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Eighty years ago today, over 7,000 prisoners of the German Nazi camp #Auschwitz, including some 700 children, were liberated by the soldiers of the Soviet Army.
1,689 days of murder, pain, suffering, and humiliation were over.
Today, we all remember. We must keep remembering.
1,689 days of murder, pain, suffering, and humiliation were over.
Today, we all remember. We must keep remembering.
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Readers are subjected to a lengthy explanation of Newspeak, the novel’s uncanny form of English. The appendix explains it has been created to curtail independent thought: the culled vocabulary; the sterilized syntax; the regime’s hope the old form will die away.
Readers are subjected to a lengthy explanation of Newspeak, the novel’s uncanny form of English. The appendix explains it has been created to curtail independent thought: the culled vocabulary; the sterilized syntax; the regime’s hope the old form will die away.
What Orwell Didn’t Anticipate
George Orwell famously argued that clear language in politics can be a bulwark against oppression. But in the Trump era, his solution no longer holds.
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December 7, 2024 at 3:53 AM
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Readers are subjected to a lengthy explanation of Newspeak, the novel’s uncanny form of English. The appendix explains it has been created to curtail independent thought: the culled vocabulary; the sterilized syntax; the regime’s hope the old form will die away.
Readers are subjected to a lengthy explanation of Newspeak, the novel’s uncanny form of English. The appendix explains it has been created to curtail independent thought: the culled vocabulary; the sterilized syntax; the regime’s hope the old form will die away.
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I have now treated 8 colleagues from my own hospital, including major emergencies like cardiac arrest. They ALL regretted how much they’d been working and resolved to reduce stress
The most recent said “I don’t want to be the hardest working doctor in the graveyard”
Been thinking about that one
The most recent said “I don’t want to be the hardest working doctor in the graveyard”
Been thinking about that one
January 16, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I have now treated 8 colleagues from my own hospital, including major emergencies like cardiac arrest. They ALL regretted how much they’d been working and resolved to reduce stress
The most recent said “I don’t want to be the hardest working doctor in the graveyard”
Been thinking about that one
The most recent said “I don’t want to be the hardest working doctor in the graveyard”
Been thinking about that one
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☂️ If you see this, post your purple art ☂️
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January 8, 2025 at 7:03 AM
☂️ If you see this, post your purple art ☂️
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Retro is in, even in the ocean. The orcas are once again wearing salmon hats
www.newscientist.com/article/2457...
www.newscientist.com/article/2457...
Orcas have begun wearing salmon hats again – and we may soon know why
About 40 years ago, researchers noticed a population of orcas had begun swimming around with dead fish on their heads, and now the craze is back
www.newscientist.com
November 26, 2024 at 6:44 PM
Retro is in, even in the ocean. The orcas are once again wearing salmon hats
www.newscientist.com/article/2457...
www.newscientist.com/article/2457...