@davidahanna.bsky.social
Lecturer in Business at Ulster Uni. Circular Economy and Sustainability. Liverpool fan and (bad) chess player. Videos games, films, comedy. https://www.ulster.ac.uk/staff/da-hanna
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Scientists are naturally conservative with predictions. It's unfortunately the case that climate change is generally happening much faster than those conservative predictions. All the more reason for urgency from governments.
"But temperatures have been even higher than most climate models.. had predicted.
Analysis of these models.. suggests that sea temps observed across the n Pacific in August had less than a 1% chance of occurring in any single year."
The future is coming. Fast.
Analysis of these models.. suggests that sea temps observed across the n Pacific in August had less than a 1% chance of occurring in any single year."
The future is coming. Fast.
Mysterious 'warm blob' breaks records in the North Pacific Ocean
Temperatures have surged across a large area of the north Pacific - and scientists don't know exactly why.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 18, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Scientists are naturally conservative with predictions. It's unfortunately the case that climate change is generally happening much faster than those conservative predictions. All the more reason for urgency from governments.
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Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time
Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time
Record solar expansion and steady wind growth driving world’s shift away from fossil fuels in 2025, report finds
The world’s wind and solar farms have generated more electricity than coal plants for the first time this year, marking a turning point for the global power system, according to research.
A report by the climate thinktank Ember found that in the first six months of 2025, renewable energy outpaced the world’s growing appetite for electricity, leading to a small decline in coal and gas use. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 6, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time
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Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time
Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time
Record solar expansion and steady wind growth driving world’s shift away from fossil fuels in 2025, report finds
www.theguardian.com
October 6, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time
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Interested in sustainable, data-driven agri-food? The TRACE project, funded by PEACEPLUS has a fully funded PhD opportunity on digital traceability in agri-food SMEs. Apply by 10 Nov 2025, 4pm (UK). You can find the full details here: www.ulster.ac.uk/doctoralcoll...
www.ulster.ac.uk
October 2, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Interested in sustainable, data-driven agri-food? The TRACE project, funded by PEACEPLUS has a fully funded PhD opportunity on digital traceability in agri-food SMEs. Apply by 10 Nov 2025, 4pm (UK). You can find the full details here: www.ulster.ac.uk/doctoralcoll...
Interested in sustainable, data-driven agri-food? The TRACE project, funded by PEACEPLUS has a fully funded PhD opportunity on digital traceability in agri-food SMEs. Apply by 10 Nov 2025, 4pm (UK). You can find the full details here: www.ulster.ac.uk/doctoralcoll...
www.ulster.ac.uk
October 2, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Interested in sustainable, data-driven agri-food? The TRACE project, funded by PEACEPLUS has a fully funded PhD opportunity on digital traceability in agri-food SMEs. Apply by 10 Nov 2025, 4pm (UK). You can find the full details here: www.ulster.ac.uk/doctoralcoll...
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New Dutch advert:
September 28, 2025 at 10:26 AM
New Dutch advert:
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Not only is the hunger for new data centres already impacting Australia's energy demands, it's even driving down our ambitions for reducing our emissions, Ketan Joshi reports in Crikey.
www.crikey.com.au/20...
www.crikey.com.au/20...
September 22, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Not only is the hunger for new data centres already impacting Australia's energy demands, it's even driving down our ambitions for reducing our emissions, Ketan Joshi reports in Crikey.
www.crikey.com.au/20...
www.crikey.com.au/20...
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Conventional municipal wastewater treatment plants are unable to effectively remove many pharmaceuticals, resulting in the release of active drug compounds into rivers and streams. doi.org/g94rq5
Wastewater treatment plants are a major source of pharmaceutical pollution, study finds
Municipal wastewater treatment plants are ineffective at removing Prozac (fluoxetine) and other common pharmaceuticals in wastewater, causing the drugs to be discharged into lakes, rivers and streams where they pose a risk to aquatic organisms.
phys.org
September 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Conventional municipal wastewater treatment plants are unable to effectively remove many pharmaceuticals, resulting in the release of active drug compounds into rivers and streams. doi.org/g94rq5
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🦴 Microplastics and bone health
A new review finds microplastics can accumulate in bone tissue, altering cells, weakening structure, and potentially linking to diseases like osteoporosis.
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#SciComm #Health #Plastics 🧪
A new review finds microplastics can accumulate in bone tissue, altering cells, weakening structure, and potentially linking to diseases like osteoporosis.
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#SciComm #Health #Plastics 🧪
Effects of microplastics on the bones: a comprehensive review - Osteoporosis International
A growing role for the skeleton in human health and longevity emerged recently. However, knowledge regarding the effects of new risk factors, linked to modern life, for bone diseases is not documented...
link.springer.com
September 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
🦴 Microplastics and bone health
A new review finds microplastics can accumulate in bone tissue, altering cells, weakening structure, and potentially linking to diseases like osteoporosis.
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#SciComm #Health #Plastics 🧪
A new review finds microplastics can accumulate in bone tissue, altering cells, weakening structure, and potentially linking to diseases like osteoporosis.
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#SciComm #Health #Plastics 🧪
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Do you see what is happening before our very eyes?
September 18, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Do you see what is happening before our very eyes?
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This is the playbook, folks.
If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.
Do not be quiet in this moment.
If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.
Do not be quiet in this moment.
September 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
This is the playbook, folks.
If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.
Do not be quiet in this moment.
If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.
Do not be quiet in this moment.
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How to reduce your carbon footprint
1 fly less
2 less meat
3 reduce home heating
5 drive less
9 consume less
11 #renewables energy
www.bit.ly/3cVmAGc
#ClimateAction 🌎🌍🌏
How to reduce your carbon footprint
1 fly less
2 less meat
3 reduce home heating
5 drive less
9 consume less
11 #renewables energy
www.bit.ly/3cVmAGc
#ClimateAction 🌎🌍🌏
How to reduce your carbon footprint #GlobalWarning
From cutting down on meat to contacting your local representatives and investing in clean energy, here are 15 ways to help reduce global carbon emissions
www.bit.ly
September 14, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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How to reduce your carbon footprint
1 fly less
2 less meat
3 reduce home heating
5 drive less
9 consume less
11 #renewables energy
www.bit.ly/3cVmAGc
#ClimateAction 🌎🌍🌏
How to reduce your carbon footprint
1 fly less
2 less meat
3 reduce home heating
5 drive less
9 consume less
11 #renewables energy
www.bit.ly/3cVmAGc
#ClimateAction 🌎🌍🌏
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Zack Polanski has swept to power in the Green Party.
What does he represent?
By Prof Tim Bale
What does he represent?
By Prof Tim Bale
Zack Polanski has the mandate to take his party in a more radical direction
Zack Polanski has swept to power in the Green Party. What does he represent?
eastangliabylines.co.uk
September 8, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Zack Polanski has swept to power in the Green Party.
What does he represent?
By Prof Tim Bale
What does he represent?
By Prof Tim Bale
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Percent change in GHG emissions (CO2eq) per year since 1990, G7/EU.
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September 7, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Percent change in GHG emissions (CO2eq) per year since 1990, G7/EU.
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Ulster University is hiring a Research Assistant for the €5.89m TRACE project (PEACEPLUS-funded). Based in Derry~Londonderry until June 2029, the role supports research into digital tech for sustainable agri-food supply chains. Apply by 8 Sept: lnkd.in/dWhC2JM9
August 26, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Ulster University is hiring a Research Assistant for the €5.89m TRACE project (PEACEPLUS-funded). Based in Derry~Londonderry until June 2029, the role supports research into digital tech for sustainable agri-food supply chains. Apply by 8 Sept: lnkd.in/dWhC2JM9
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NEW RECORD: The UK just recorded its hottest summer on record, per the @metoffice.gov.uk
Four heatwaves, persistently warm nights, and widespread water shortfalls pushed the season into unprecedented territory.
Human-driven climate change made this summer about 70x more likely.
Four heatwaves, persistently warm nights, and widespread water shortfalls pushed the season into unprecedented territory.
Human-driven climate change made this summer about 70x more likely.
September 2, 2025 at 9:18 AM
NEW RECORD: The UK just recorded its hottest summer on record, per the @metoffice.gov.uk
Four heatwaves, persistently warm nights, and widespread water shortfalls pushed the season into unprecedented territory.
Human-driven climate change made this summer about 70x more likely.
Four heatwaves, persistently warm nights, and widespread water shortfalls pushed the season into unprecedented territory.
Human-driven climate change made this summer about 70x more likely.
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🧵 Farage is whipping up anger against the ECHR with false claims (see thread).
As The Bear brilliantly writes: “The ECHR [is] the foundation that protects you from your own government.”
That's why leaving the ECHR would be a Really Bad Idea.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @bearlypolitics.co.uk
As The Bear brilliantly writes: “The ECHR [is] the foundation that protects you from your own government.”
That's why leaving the ECHR would be a Really Bad Idea.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @bearlypolitics.co.uk
Leaving the ECHR won’t “Take Back Control” – it will hand your rights to politicians
The myths are seductive, the reality is very different – without the ECHR your freedoms rest on whichever Home Secretary wakes up grumpy
eastangliabylines.co.uk
August 31, 2025 at 1:14 PM
🧵 Farage is whipping up anger against the ECHR with false claims (see thread).
As The Bear brilliantly writes: “The ECHR [is] the foundation that protects you from your own government.”
That's why leaving the ECHR would be a Really Bad Idea.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @bearlypolitics.co.uk
As The Bear brilliantly writes: “The ECHR [is] the foundation that protects you from your own government.”
That's why leaving the ECHR would be a Really Bad Idea.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @bearlypolitics.co.uk
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There’s a persistent myth that new solar farms don’t really help tackle climate change because panels are “made with coal” and “never pay back” their carbon debt.
This is simply false.
- UN: solar ~8x cleaner than gas, ~19x than coal per kWh
- panels repay CO2 in 4 months; save 57x over life
This is simply false.
- UN: solar ~8x cleaner than gas, ~19x than coal per kWh
- panels repay CO2 in 4 months; save 57x over life
August 30, 2025 at 8:46 AM
There’s a persistent myth that new solar farms don’t really help tackle climate change because panels are “made with coal” and “never pay back” their carbon debt.
This is simply false.
- UN: solar ~8x cleaner than gas, ~19x than coal per kWh
- panels repay CO2 in 4 months; save 57x over life
This is simply false.
- UN: solar ~8x cleaner than gas, ~19x than coal per kWh
- panels repay CO2 in 4 months; save 57x over life
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Deforestation has killed half a million people in past 20 years, study finds.
Our fate is inseparable from that of the natural world.
share.google/vXMy5t7jvhOY...
Our fate is inseparable from that of the natural world.
share.google/vXMy5t7jvhOY...
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
share.google
August 28, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Deforestation has killed half a million people in past 20 years, study finds.
Our fate is inseparable from that of the natural world.
share.google/vXMy5t7jvhOY...
Our fate is inseparable from that of the natural world.
share.google/vXMy5t7jvhOY...
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Global renewables investment sets fresh record for first half of the year
www.businessgreen.com/news/4518092...
www.businessgreen.com/news/4518092...
Global renewables investment sets fresh record for first half of the year
Latest figures from BloombergNEF show renewable energy investment rose 10 per cent during the first six months of the year, despite slump in US funding and slowdown in asset finance
www.businessgreen.com
August 27, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Global renewables investment sets fresh record for first half of the year
www.businessgreen.com/news/4518092...
www.businessgreen.com/news/4518092...
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Trump’s Project 2025 is tearing at America’s democracy. Could Britain be next in line? Reform’s ascendency isn’t a good omen. Find out more here ⤵️
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @lizcrosbie.bsky.social
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @lizcrosbie.bsky.social
Trump and the lessons for the UK democracy movement
The UK has over 800 organisations focused on promoting democracy. What impact will the US’s rapid decline into authoritarian politics have on the sector?
eastangliabylines.co.uk
August 27, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Trump’s Project 2025 is tearing at America’s democracy. Could Britain be next in line? Reform’s ascendency isn’t a good omen. Find out more here ⤵️
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @lizcrosbie.bsky.social
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @lizcrosbie.bsky.social
Ulster University is hiring a Research Assistant for the €5.89m TRACE project (PEACEPLUS-funded). Based in Derry~Londonderry until June 2029, the role supports research into digital tech for sustainable agri-food supply chains. Apply by 8 Sept: lnkd.in/dWhC2JM9
August 26, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Ulster University is hiring a Research Assistant for the €5.89m TRACE project (PEACEPLUS-funded). Based in Derry~Londonderry until June 2029, the role supports research into digital tech for sustainable agri-food supply chains. Apply by 8 Sept: lnkd.in/dWhC2JM9
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Today marks 75th anniversary of #Limavady losing its railway. A century of connectivity erased in an instance. Limavady would be the easiest, quickest & cheapest rail reopening on the island - & we're campaigning to see it happen👍 Hear us speak at #Stendhal this Sunday ('Stage the Change' @ 3:45pm)
July 3, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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The energy transition is in full swing. Renewables have now surpassed fossil fuels as #1 for energy investment.
2025: Renewables investment to hit $780B
Last decade: Renewables up 109%
Grids & storage up 44%
Energy efficiency up 42%
Electrification up 131%
Oil down 34%, gas down 19%
Coal up 13%
2025: Renewables investment to hit $780B
Last decade: Renewables up 109%
Grids & storage up 44%
Energy efficiency up 42%
Electrification up 131%
Oil down 34%, gas down 19%
Coal up 13%
August 24, 2025 at 9:16 AM
The energy transition is in full swing. Renewables have now surpassed fossil fuels as #1 for energy investment.
2025: Renewables investment to hit $780B
Last decade: Renewables up 109%
Grids & storage up 44%
Energy efficiency up 42%
Electrification up 131%
Oil down 34%, gas down 19%
Coal up 13%
2025: Renewables investment to hit $780B
Last decade: Renewables up 109%
Grids & storage up 44%
Energy efficiency up 42%
Electrification up 131%
Oil down 34%, gas down 19%
Coal up 13%