Thedah
@thedah.bsky.social
Just starting my mid life career shift!!
Moving from veterinary medicine 👩🏼⚕️🐕❤️🩹
to environmental humanities. 🧪🌍🌇🌳⚡️
Moving from veterinary medicine 👩🏼⚕️🐕❤️🩹
to environmental humanities. 🧪🌍🌇🌳⚡️
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And what does the science say? It is clear. We must phase out fossil fuels not for the sake of the planet, but to ensure a livable future for us all. And "all" includes the inhabitants of those countries who prevented this phrase from being included in the final agreement.
November 22, 2025 at 7:03 PM
And what does the science say? It is clear. We must phase out fossil fuels not for the sake of the planet, but to ensure a livable future for us all. And "all" includes the inhabitants of those countries who prevented this phrase from being included in the final agreement.
Does anyone know of a good #documentary about toxic waste from the clothing industry? Extra good if it is in Bangladesh setting. About to write a group assignment about this topic and would like to start with an overview. Thanks! #toxicwaste #fashionindustry #sustainability
February 27, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Does anyone know of a good #documentary about toxic waste from the clothing industry? Extra good if it is in Bangladesh setting. About to write a group assignment about this topic and would like to start with an overview. Thanks! #toxicwaste #fashionindustry #sustainability
Synergies. We’re gonna need lots and lots of beautiful synergies.
"The sheep like the shade, plus the solar panels increase grass yield and protect sheep from predators," said Pearce. Meanwhile, Pearce revealed farmers and shepherds reap their own set of benefits, as "sheep eliminate the need for herbicides or costly grass cutting on the solar farms."
Researchers make unexpected discovery about sheep raised in nontraditional environment: 'There is an enormous opportunity'
Researchers were blown away by the findings of a study that examined the potential of agrivoltaics' growth in Canada.
www.thecooldown.com
February 18, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Synergies. We’re gonna need lots and lots of beautiful synergies.
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Helpful new summary of the role of transport in improving access to opportunities produced to prompt discussion in Parliament.
In sum: “Adaptable, reliable, accessible, sustainable, resilient to disruption and affordable transport is essential for accessing economic and social opportunities”
In sum: “Adaptable, reliable, accessible, sustainable, resilient to disruption and affordable transport is essential for accessing economic and social opportunities”
The role of transport in improving access to opportunities
There are significant regional and demographic differences in accessing opportunities, including jobs and education. How can transport improve connectivity?
post.parliament.uk
January 29, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Helpful new summary of the role of transport in improving access to opportunities produced to prompt discussion in Parliament.
In sum: “Adaptable, reliable, accessible, sustainable, resilient to disruption and affordable transport is essential for accessing economic and social opportunities”
In sum: “Adaptable, reliable, accessible, sustainable, resilient to disruption and affordable transport is essential for accessing economic and social opportunities”
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🌳🦋 Climate Change & Invasive Pests
Rising temperatures are reducing the effectiveness of a natural fungus that controls spongy moth outbreaks.
This could lead to severe forest damage across North America.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#ClimateChange #Forests #SciComm 🧪
Rising temperatures are reducing the effectiveness of a natural fungus that controls spongy moth outbreaks.
This could lead to severe forest damage across North America.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#ClimateChange #Forests #SciComm 🧪
Climate change drives reduced biocontrol of the invasive spongy moth - Nature Climate Change
The authors constructed an eco-climate model to project climate change impacts on populations of the spongy moth (Lymantria dispar) and its pathogen Entomophaga maimaiga. They show that climate change...
www.nature.com
January 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
🌳🦋 Climate Change & Invasive Pests
Rising temperatures are reducing the effectiveness of a natural fungus that controls spongy moth outbreaks.
This could lead to severe forest damage across North America.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#ClimateChange #Forests #SciComm 🧪
Rising temperatures are reducing the effectiveness of a natural fungus that controls spongy moth outbreaks.
This could lead to severe forest damage across North America.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#ClimateChange #Forests #SciComm 🧪
One of Sweden’s biggest public transport companies to stop with fossil fuel adverts on their vehicles and stops.
www.vasttrafik.se/om-vasttrafi...
www.vasttrafik.se/om-vasttrafi...
Slut med fossil reklam i kollektivtrafiken
Västtrafik ansvarar för kollektivtrafiken i Västra Götaland. Här kan du söka resor, se biljettpriser och mycket mer. Tack för att du reser tillsammans!
www.vasttrafik.se
January 16, 2025 at 7:13 AM
One of Sweden’s biggest public transport companies to stop with fossil fuel adverts on their vehicles and stops.
www.vasttrafik.se/om-vasttrafi...
www.vasttrafik.se/om-vasttrafi...
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LA is burning & our implicit political baseline is still that climate policies are acceptable if and only if they require zero sacrifice or even mild lifestyle change on anyone's part.
Public will not have to change lives ‘radically’ for climate goal, MPs promised
Lifestyle change, such as diet and travel, are not in the scope of the 2035 goal
www.independent.co.uk
January 10, 2025 at 11:55 PM
LA is burning & our implicit political baseline is still that climate policies are acceptable if and only if they require zero sacrifice or even mild lifestyle change on anyone's part.
The hard truth that even successful and affluent people can become climate refugees. www.svt.se/nyheter/utri...
Här återvänder Sigge Eklund till huset – efter förödande branden
Kändisparet Malin och Sigge Eklund blev några av de hundratusentals Los Angelesbor som tvingades evakueras på grund av de stora bränderna i området. SVT följde med när de återvände till huset – där ba...
www.svt.se
January 11, 2025 at 10:07 AM
The hard truth that even successful and affluent people can become climate refugees. www.svt.se/nyheter/utri...
We have to understand dynamics like these! It is essential if we want to start making the drastic changes societies need to undergo to mitigate the climate crisis. Maybe there is a tipping point, but if it’s not actual climate events what triggers it?! 🧐
Do severe climatic events move public opinion?
Apparently, not!
blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
Is this a given or can this be affected by how climate advocates organise? Are there places where it has had a lasting impact?
@rupertread.bsky.social
@katharinehayhoe.com
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Apparently, not!
blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
Is this a given or can this be affected by how climate advocates organise? Are there places where it has had a lasting impact?
@rupertread.bsky.social
@katharinehayhoe.com
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
There is little evidence extreme weather events spur political action on climate change
Extreme weather events like flooding and wildfires are often cited as evidence of the need to tackle climate change. But do these events lead to real political change? Drawing on a new study coveri…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
January 11, 2025 at 8:36 AM
We have to understand dynamics like these! It is essential if we want to start making the drastic changes societies need to undergo to mitigate the climate crisis. Maybe there is a tipping point, but if it’s not actual climate events what triggers it?! 🧐
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👀A week before the LA fires, a massive fire at Kantamanto Market in Ghana “reduced huge swaths of the world's largest second-hand clothing market to ashes, destroying millions of items of used clothing and jeopardizing the livelihoods of more than 30,000 people” (CBC News)
January 11, 2025 at 1:20 AM
👀A week before the LA fires, a massive fire at Kantamanto Market in Ghana “reduced huge swaths of the world's largest second-hand clothing market to ashes, destroying millions of items of used clothing and jeopardizing the livelihoods of more than 30,000 people” (CBC News)
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A very real concern once these fires are extinguished in Southern California will be mudslide / debris flow risk in the months (years) to come. When the inevitable 'weather whiplash' occurs and the pattern shifts from dry to wet, there will be a lot of vulnerable communities near burn scar areas.
January 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
A very real concern once these fires are extinguished in Southern California will be mudslide / debris flow risk in the months (years) to come. When the inevitable 'weather whiplash' occurs and the pattern shifts from dry to wet, there will be a lot of vulnerable communities near burn scar areas.
Finally a serious attempt to explain the massive problem that decarbonising aviation stands for. It is long over due but finally PPP starts to affect even this heavily subsidised industry.
www.dn.se/ekonomi/pris...
www.dn.se/ekonomi/pris...
Prischock på flyg väntar – om branschen följer klimatkraven
Vid årsskiftet trädde EU:s nya tvingande klimatkrav i kraft – med stigande biljettpriser som följd. Nu varnar experter för att det bara är början.
www.dn.se
January 5, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Finally a serious attempt to explain the massive problem that decarbonising aviation stands for. It is long over due but finally PPP starts to affect even this heavily subsidised industry.
www.dn.se/ekonomi/pris...
www.dn.se/ekonomi/pris...
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Postcards From a World on Fire www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Postcards From a World on Fire (Gift Article)
These 193 stories show the reality of climate change. In every country in the world.
www.nytimes.com
January 4, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Postcards From a World on Fire www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Interesting 🧵 about the challenges and opportunities around electrification of private vehicles.
Is the UK’s electric vehicle target about to fall to pieces? And why might it all hinge on parking in East London?
I shouldn’t tell you – yet – because our report only goes online the new year. But, since it’s running in the papers, here’s a thread.
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I shouldn’t tell you – yet – because our report only goes online the new year. But, since it’s running in the papers, here’s a thread.
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January 4, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Interesting 🧵 about the challenges and opportunities around electrification of private vehicles.
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There’s a very credible fiscal policy case to be made for “paying” (which can happen through many kinds of mechanisms) people to bike to work. Investing in safe bike infrastructure and providing financial incentives to ride rather than drive saves and makes public money. HT @momentummag.bsky.social
Here is Why Governments Paying People to Bike to Work Makes Sense
All that is required to make a massive modal shift is safe cycling infrastructure and an incentive, why not paying people to bike to work?
momentummag.com
December 29, 2024 at 10:57 PM
There’s a very credible fiscal policy case to be made for “paying” (which can happen through many kinds of mechanisms) people to bike to work. Investing in safe bike infrastructure and providing financial incentives to ride rather than drive saves and makes public money. HT @momentummag.bsky.social
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An excellent article (gift link) by Mark Miodownik on the climate harms of plane travel. The organization Political Scientists for Sustainability is trying to address this issue within our own discipline. Please consider signing our petition which calls on the ... www.nytimes.com/2024/12/28/o...
Opinion | I Won’t Feel Good About Flying Until the Airlines Solve This (Gift Article)
The aviation industry should get serious about direct air capture so that its emissions never reach the atmosphere.
www.nytimes.com
December 29, 2024 at 3:33 PM
An excellent article (gift link) by Mark Miodownik on the climate harms of plane travel. The organization Political Scientists for Sustainability is trying to address this issue within our own discipline. Please consider signing our petition which calls on the ... www.nytimes.com/2024/12/28/o...
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How extreme was the weather this year? Is a question we, @wwattribution.bsky.social , get asked every year. Looking back at the events we studied in detail & some new stats, we try to give an answer www.worldweatherattribution.org/when-risks-b... - in short: it was pretty bad, but things can change!
December 27, 2024 at 12:41 PM
How extreme was the weather this year? Is a question we, @wwattribution.bsky.social , get asked every year. Looking back at the events we studied in detail & some new stats, we try to give an answer www.worldweatherattribution.org/when-risks-b... - in short: it was pretty bad, but things can change!
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The #climate/water paradox: As temperatures rise, more #water evaporates into the atmosphere & more precipitation occurs. But land areas are getting drier not wetter. Why? Because more water evaporates from soils. The rain that falls is in intense events in fewer regions, leading to worse #floods 👉
December 27, 2024 at 9:50 PM
The #climate/water paradox: As temperatures rise, more #water evaporates into the atmosphere & more precipitation occurs. But land areas are getting drier not wetter. Why? Because more water evaporates from soils. The rain that falls is in intense events in fewer regions, leading to worse #floods 👉
Washing everyone a merry Christmas, may it be peaceful and joyous. 🎄
December 24, 2024 at 10:13 PM
Washing everyone a merry Christmas, may it be peaceful and joyous. 🎄
It is almost as … if the people doing research have a deep understanding … of the things they research? 🧐
People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random.
Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea
Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea
Breaking News: The FDA approved use of the weight loss drug Zepbound for a common form of sleep apnea. It is the first drug authorized to treat the disorder.
December 21, 2024 at 7:16 AM
It is almost as … if the people doing research have a deep understanding … of the things they research? 🧐
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A reminder that #ClimateRisks are increasing faster than our action to adapt to #ClimateChange. Communities and businesses are becoming more #vulnerable and less #resilient to significant #ClimateImpacts - we need to rapidly invest in #ClimateAdaptation.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Environment Agency publishes major update to national flood and coastal erosion risk assessment
Data shows 6.3 million properties in England in areas at risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water
www.gov.uk
December 17, 2024 at 11:16 AM
A reminder that #ClimateRisks are increasing faster than our action to adapt to #ClimateChange. Communities and businesses are becoming more #vulnerable and less #resilient to significant #ClimateImpacts - we need to rapidly invest in #ClimateAdaptation.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
www.gov.uk/government/n...
I don’t know why but anytime I read about the arctic degradation it tugs on the strings of fear in the heart.
alaskabeacon.com/2024/12/13/a...
alaskabeacon.com/2024/12/13/a...
Arctic has changed dramatically in just a couple of decades • Alaska Beacon
Commentary authors write of the Arctic Report Card that gases released by wildfires and thawing tundra add to human-produced emissions.
alaskabeacon.com
December 14, 2024 at 4:59 PM
I don’t know why but anytime I read about the arctic degradation it tugs on the strings of fear in the heart.
alaskabeacon.com/2024/12/13/a...
alaskabeacon.com/2024/12/13/a...
Traveling for pleasure is not sustainable with current technology.
Interesting-looking new research finding that global tourism emissions grew double that of the worldwide economy in 2009-2019, with huge inequalities: the twenty highest-emitting countries contribute three-quarters of the global footprint. doi.org/10.1038/s414...
December 14, 2024 at 4:46 PM
Traveling for pleasure is not sustainable with current technology.
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Before choosing bottled water over tap water, remember it takes more than 10X the water that a bottle of water holds to make the plastic bottle and transport the water. And that’s before considering the fuel and GHGs, the 1000 year bottle life, and the RIDICULOUS amount of $ we’re paying for water.
December 14, 2024 at 1:17 AM
Before choosing bottled water over tap water, remember it takes more than 10X the water that a bottle of water holds to make the plastic bottle and transport the water. And that’s before considering the fuel and GHGs, the 1000 year bottle life, and the RIDICULOUS amount of $ we’re paying for water.