Alice Allan
@alicemeallan.bsky.social
Public health communications (WHO/Europe)
Podcasts: Not if but When (Health in Europe, WHO/Europe)
Books: Open my Eyes/ Sugar Sugar/ The Whispering Trees
Nature and conservation
T1D mum. West Country. Views my own.
Podcasts: Not if but When (Health in Europe, WHO/Europe)
Books: Open my Eyes/ Sugar Sugar/ The Whispering Trees
Nature and conservation
T1D mum. West Country. Views my own.
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No-one, NO-ONE,should be granted a “request for near-blanket immunity for serious environmental crimes”
If the potential buyers of Thames Water can’t clean up, they shouldn’t be allowed to buy
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
If the potential buyers of Thames Water can’t clean up, they shouldn’t be allowed to buy
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Bidders demand Thames Water granted immunity over environmental crimes
Exclusive: ‘Ransom note’ requests would leave Environment Agency unable to prosecute company or management
www.theguardian.com
June 8, 2025 at 9:50 AM
No-one, NO-ONE,should be granted a “request for near-blanket immunity for serious environmental crimes”
If the potential buyers of Thames Water can’t clean up, they shouldn’t be allowed to buy
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
If the potential buyers of Thames Water can’t clean up, they shouldn’t be allowed to buy
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Reposted by Alice Allan
We're calling up all governments at the United Nations Oceans Conference #UNOC next week to end bottom trawling in Marine Protected Areas 🌊 As Sir David Attenborough put it in his latest movie Ocean: 𝑰𝒕'𝒔 𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒂 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝒇𝒊𝒔𝒉 Read more at www.doggerland.earth
June 5, 2025 at 11:07 AM
We're calling up all governments at the United Nations Oceans Conference #UNOC next week to end bottom trawling in Marine Protected Areas 🌊 As Sir David Attenborough put it in his latest movie Ocean: 𝑰𝒕'𝒔 𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒂 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝒇𝒊𝒔𝒉 Read more at www.doggerland.earth
Flowers for a friend from my garden.
May 31, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Flowers for a friend from my garden.
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WHO faces a 21% reduction from the original proposed budget for the 2026-27 biennium.
“If we think US$ 2.1 billion a year is ambitious—or $ 4.2 billion for the biennium—then either we must lower our ambitions for what WHO is and does, or we must raise the money.” - @drtedros.who.int
bit.ly/3ZrwCXZ
“If we think US$ 2.1 billion a year is ambitious—or $ 4.2 billion for the biennium—then either we must lower our ambitions for what WHO is and does, or we must raise the money.” - @drtedros.who.int
bit.ly/3ZrwCXZ
May 19, 2025 at 12:43 PM
WHO faces a 21% reduction from the original proposed budget for the 2026-27 biennium.
“If we think US$ 2.1 billion a year is ambitious—or $ 4.2 billion for the biennium—then either we must lower our ambitions for what WHO is and does, or we must raise the money.” - @drtedros.who.int
bit.ly/3ZrwCXZ
“If we think US$ 2.1 billion a year is ambitious—or $ 4.2 billion for the biennium—then either we must lower our ambitions for what WHO is and does, or we must raise the money.” - @drtedros.who.int
bit.ly/3ZrwCXZ
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WHO Member States, meeting today in Committee A of the #WHA78, approved a resolution that calls for the adoption of a historic global compact to make the world safer from future pandemics.
Read: bit.ly/4kjM6p4
Read: bit.ly/4kjM6p4
Member States approve WHO Pandemic Agreement in World Health Assembly Committee, paving way for its formal adoption
World Health Organization Member States, meeting today in Committee A of the World Health Assembly, approved a resolution that calls for the adoption of an historic global compact to make the world sa...
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May 19, 2025 at 9:08 PM
WHO Member States, meeting today in Committee A of the #WHA78, approved a resolution that calls for the adoption of a historic global compact to make the world safer from future pandemics.
Read: bit.ly/4kjM6p4
Read: bit.ly/4kjM6p4
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Vaccines are rigorously tested, effective, and save lives. More than 150 million lives have been saved in the past 50 years thanks to vaccines!
But you may be worried about what's in them.
So, let’s break it down. ⬇
Check out the latest episode of Plot Twist.
youtube.com/shorts/TH1kz...
But you may be worried about what's in them.
So, let’s break it down. ⬇
Check out the latest episode of Plot Twist.
youtube.com/shorts/TH1kz...
What’s in a vaccine?
YouTube video by World Health Organization (WHO)
youtube.com
April 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Vaccines are rigorously tested, effective, and save lives. More than 150 million lives have been saved in the past 50 years thanks to vaccines!
But you may be worried about what's in them.
So, let’s break it down. ⬇
Check out the latest episode of Plot Twist.
youtube.com/shorts/TH1kz...
But you may be worried about what's in them.
So, let’s break it down. ⬇
Check out the latest episode of Plot Twist.
youtube.com/shorts/TH1kz...
Tender new, translucent leaves on an old copper beech tree in my village.
April 26, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Tender new, translucent leaves on an old copper beech tree in my village.
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What follows if we imagine rivers as having lives, deaths––& even rights?
I wrote this essay about water & hope; imagining rivers “otherwise”; nature’s rights; grammars of animacy; & how our fate flows with that of rivers—& always has.
It’s from Is A River Alive?
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
I wrote this essay about water & hope; imagining rivers “otherwise”; nature’s rights; grammars of animacy; & how our fate flows with that of rivers—& always has.
It’s from Is A River Alive?
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
Is this river alive? Robert Macfarlane on the lives, deaths and rights of our rivers
As pollution levels hit record highs and fresh water becomes ‘the new oil’, is it time to radically reimagine our relationship to the natural world?
www.theguardian.com
April 26, 2025 at 1:38 PM
What follows if we imagine rivers as having lives, deaths––& even rights?
I wrote this essay about water & hope; imagining rivers “otherwise”; nature’s rights; grammars of animacy; & how our fate flows with that of rivers—& always has.
It’s from Is A River Alive?
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
I wrote this essay about water & hope; imagining rivers “otherwise”; nature’s rights; grammars of animacy; & how our fate flows with that of rivers—& always has.
It’s from Is A River Alive?
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
Disinformation makes the difficult job of climate scientists even harder #climatecrisis www.who.int/europe/news-...
Communicating the climate crisis: the scientists contending with disinformation and climate anxiety
Mark McCarthy has been a climate scientist for 25 years. At the Met Office, the national weather and climate service of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, he and his team look a...
www.who.int
April 26, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Disinformation makes the difficult job of climate scientists even harder #climatecrisis www.who.int/europe/news-...
April 21, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Hugely important warning: allowing cheaper US food imports that don’t meet the same environmental & animal protection standards as British farmers would sound a death knell for UK farms & rural communities. It must not be part of any future trade deal
Rural communities could be destroyed if UK signs US trade deal, says former food tsar
Exclusive: Henry Dimbleby joins farmers in voicing fears of lower standards and a poor deal for British food producers
www.theguardian.com
April 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Hugely important warning: allowing cheaper US food imports that don’t meet the same environmental & animal protection standards as British farmers would sound a death knell for UK farms & rural communities. It must not be part of any future trade deal
Despite the misplaced fears of COVID deniers and conspiracists, this is REALLY GOOD NEWS. Cooperation and collaboration can save lives across the world and we must work together to prevent and fight pandemics. #pandemicaccord
After over 3 years of negotiations, WHO Member States have finalized a draft #PandemicAccord to make the world safer from future pandemics.
The draft agreement will now be submitted to WHO’s Member States meeting at the #WHA78 for consideration and adoption.
bit.ly/3EaZQmL
The draft agreement will now be submitted to WHO’s Member States meeting at the #WHA78 for consideration and adoption.
bit.ly/3EaZQmL
April 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Despite the misplaced fears of COVID deniers and conspiracists, this is REALLY GOOD NEWS. Cooperation and collaboration can save lives across the world and we must work together to prevent and fight pandemics. #pandemicaccord
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This is what’s happening with 1.3C of global heating above preindustrial levels. We’re on track for 3C by 2100. Failure to leave fossil fuels in the ground is a devastating crime against humanity & against all other life on this, our one fragile earth
Deadly floods and storms affected more than 400,000 people in Europe in 2024
European State of the Climate report ‘lays bare’ impact of fossil fuels on continent during its hottest 12 months on record
www.theguardian.com
April 15, 2025 at 11:50 AM
This is what’s happening with 1.3C of global heating above preindustrial levels. We’re on track for 3C by 2100. Failure to leave fossil fuels in the ground is a devastating crime against humanity & against all other life on this, our one fragile earth
2 years ago I went for an Autumn walk with my brother and found a tree laden with delicious golden apples in a field. We stuffed our pockets, and I planted the seeds. I now have 8 little apple trees, and they make me very happy, even if they never bear fruit. #nature
April 3, 2025 at 1:41 PM
2 years ago I went for an Autumn walk with my brother and found a tree laden with delicious golden apples in a field. We stuffed our pockets, and I planted the seeds. I now have 8 little apple trees, and they make me very happy, even if they never bear fruit. #nature
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The suffering that will be unleashed on Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos is horrific. And that's not because they have "raped" America. It's because they're poor, they can't afford many US goods but they can become wealthier by exporting to rich countries.
April 3, 2025 at 11:27 AM
The suffering that will be unleashed on Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos is horrific. And that's not because they have "raped" America. It's because they're poor, they can't afford many US goods but they can become wealthier by exporting to rich countries.
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The Whispering Trees by Alice Allan - an informative story set around a magical hill in Devon. The Whispering Trees is a very well written and (up to a
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April 3, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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NEW: Govt data CONFIRMS our estimate that UK greenhouse gas emissions fell by 4% to 371MtCO2e in 2024
As we said earlier this month, this took UK emissions to lowest level since 1872 – with coal use at its lowest since 1666 (!)
Our analysis: www.carbonbrief.org/...
As we said earlier this month, this took UK emissions to lowest level since 1872 – with coal use at its lowest since 1666 (!)
Our analysis: www.carbonbrief.org/...
March 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
NEW: Govt data CONFIRMS our estimate that UK greenhouse gas emissions fell by 4% to 371MtCO2e in 2024
As we said earlier this month, this took UK emissions to lowest level since 1872 – with coal use at its lowest since 1666 (!)
Our analysis: www.carbonbrief.org/...
As we said earlier this month, this took UK emissions to lowest level since 1872 – with coal use at its lowest since 1666 (!)
Our analysis: www.carbonbrief.org/...
First cows, now sheep. #H5N1 has not previously been detected in these mammals. Not good.
Bird flu detected in sheep in England for the first time
Bird flu detected in sheep in England for the first time
Bird flu has been detected in a sheep in England for the first time, the government has said.
news.sky.com
March 24, 2025 at 10:28 AM
First cows, now sheep. #H5N1 has not previously been detected in these mammals. Not good.
What a wonderful world 🌎
20 minutes ago here in Venetie, Alaska, the skies erupted in a beautiful auroral substorm. Here is just one of many real-time videos I recorded during the show to give you a sense of how fast and dynamic the aurora can move.
March 23, 2025 at 9:40 PM
What a wonderful world 🌎
What?!
A gobsmacking story. Water companies let toxic waste disposers, for cash, dump their loads into sewage farms. The sewage sludge is then spread, untested, on farmland, potentially poisoning vast areas, entire ecosystems and the people (you and me) eating the food.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What’s in the millions of tonnes of sludge sprayed on to farmland? The answer won’t make you happy | George Monbiot
Thanks to breathtaking negligence, the liquid fertiliser used to help grow our food bubbles with a lethal cocktail of toxins, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
March 21, 2025 at 10:28 AM
What?!
Desperately sad. Long COVID is still blighting so many lives.
March 21, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Desperately sad. Long COVID is still blighting so many lives.
This one is close to my heart. I hosted a new #podcast on #Medevac for #WHO Regional Office for Europe, talking to medics and patients, hearing stories from #Ukraine, #Gaza and #Armenia. Amazing humans, in challenging times. Please have a listen: health-in-europe.podbean.com/e/medevac/
March 17, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Met this entertainingly angry cat today- loved his furious eyebrow whiskers. He wasn't too keen on my old dog (who was too deaf/ shortsighted to notice it).
March 14, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Met this entertainingly angry cat today- loved his furious eyebrow whiskers. He wasn't too keen on my old dog (who was too deaf/ shortsighted to notice it).