Survey finds that 60 firms are responsible for half of world’s plastic pollution theguardian.com/environment/20…

They look like microbeads….

'9 Facts About the Denisovans, Our Mysterious Human Ancestor' mentalfloss.com/posts/denisova…

It’s Trilobite Tuesday! For more than 250 million years, trilobites existed in Earth’s Paleozoic seas—evolving into more than 25,000 scientifically recognized species. But what did the first trilobite look like? We may never know for certain, but it might have resembled this

Exquisitely preserved fossils of a shark that thrived during the Cretaceous period answer a long-standing mystery around how it hunted and where it fits into the shark evolutionary tree. newscientist.com/article/242810…

For the year as a whole, the average sea-surface temperature (SST) for the ocean across Europe was the warmest on record. Parts of the Mediterranean Sea and the northeastern Atlantic Ocean saw their highest annual average SST on record.

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As Erle Ellis (艾尔青) (a member of the AWG from 2009-2023) is wrote, the Anthropocene 'was rejected for a variety of reasons, none of them related to the fact that human societies are changing this planet. In fact, the opposite is true.'
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This is important: despite the fact that it has been widely reported that geologists have rejected the idea that we are in an age of humanity, or even that humans have had a significant impact on our planet, that's not actually what happened. The SQS only rejected 1952 as a GSSP.

Samples of eerie blue glacial ice from Antarctica are a staggering 6 million years old, scientists announced last week, doubling the previous record for Earth’s oldest ice. scim.ag/6GL

Aside from the moral and practical vacuity of the Rwanda policy, one thing it illustrates - as we have been saying for years - is that the delays and shortages in the justice system could be fixed if the government cared to.

When they want to spend money on courts, they find it.

Let the rain inspire us and amuse us, dampen our hair but never our spirit ilovemanchester.com/the-astounding…

'You can't vote on truth.'

Former Conservative Party Chairman Lord Deben tells Andrew Marr that he will 'fight the Rwanda bill to the very end'.

Nearly every climate denial argument I’ve ever heard falls into one of these five categories.

1 - it’s not real
2 - it’s not us
3 - it’s not bad
4 - it’s too hard/costly to fix
5 - it’s too late

And you know which is growing the fastest these days? The last one 😳

Thankyou to @officialthameswater for hosting residents. And thanks to Andrew for his honesty. For my own transparency, the unedited chat is on my YouTube. However… anyone who uses the Thames, listen to the whole chat. The last points are well worth taking on board. Sb

UN moves to end plastic pollution with global treaty negotiations in Ottawa, despite 'Big Plastic' interference.

Join Oceana Canada and EARTHDAY.ORG in urging leaders to #EndPlasticPollution this #EarthDay .
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#PlanetvsPlastics

For this Earth Day (April 22nd), the world unites to tackle plastic pollution. Decision-makers need to hear your voice!
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#PlanetvsPlastics #EndPlastics #EarthDay #EndPlasticPollution #GlobalPlasticsTreaty

Happy EARTHDAY.ORG ! This year’s theme is Planet vs Plastics. Check out one of our Fellows Prof Jamie Woodward discussing plastics in river environments here youtu.be/yYIbTayABbo?si…

The volume of sewage pouring into the rivers of Greater Manchester is an utter disgrace. It degrades precious green spaces and threatens public health. The Irwell flows through our great city and is blighted by sewage pollution. A recent analysis The Guardian showed it to be the

The volume of sewage pouring into the rivers of Greater Manchester is an utter disgrace. It degrades precious green spaces and threatens public health. The Irwell flows through our great city and is blighted by sewage pollution. A recent analysis The Guardian showed it to be the

Good luck to everyone running the #LondonMarathon today!

According to Herodotus, the original ‘marathon runner’ was a messenger called Pheidippides, who ran from Athens to Sparta to seek help against the Persian forces, covering 260km in two days 🏃‍♂‍
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