As a higher rate taxpayer I do NOT want any tax relief - this MUST go to the more disadvantaged in our society. Simply MUST.

This Palestinian teacher lets her young students choose their greeting when they arrive for school in the morning. Unbelievably heartwarming. x.com/KhalidNajjar9/…

"We are triggering a mass extinction event, and critically we cannot separate one environmental crisis from another." "Biodiversity loss cannot be partitioned from climate change, or from human population growth or pollution or plastics in our oceans." theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

On the The Washington Post front page today, installment #3 of the "2°C: Beyond the Limit" series -- "In fast-thawing Siberia, radical climate change is warping the earth beneath the feet of millions" wapo.st/siberia?tid=ss…

In our world, there are 1.8 billion young people btw the ages of 10-24! - our greatest allies in achieving #Agenda2030. By UN Development partnering w/ #youth, we can work towards creating empowered generations & support long-term #SustainableDevelopment: ow.ly/6mqd50vpmY3 #SDGs

Deeply worrying - and projected melt of the Himalayan plateau even under the most optimistic carbon reduction strategies will compound this by driving up existential threats of change in flow regime of some of the world's major rivers 💧Marc Goichot🌎💦 Chris Hackney GCRF Living Deltas Hub

'Welcome to the Anthropocene' 7.7 billion humans & growing 3 trillion trees cut down 1000s of species extinct 37% of land used for farming Nitrogen fixation doubled Atm CO2 up 47% Atm CH4 up 245% Micro-plastics in all oceans Global temp. up > 1 C How do we change the future?

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Job opportunity. We are appointing a *Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography*, with particular interests in cosmogenic nuclide analysis & quantitative geomorphology. Come join our renowned NCL Physical Geog team. Closing date: 24th May 2021. More details: jobs.ncl.ac.uk/s/pTgw8z

On #EarthDay2021 GCRF Living Deltas Hub had a street exhibition in #Hanoi engaging with citizens on sustainable delta futures in the face of #climatechange and associated threats @beisgovuk Gareth Ward

Our #EarthDay2021 Hanoi street exhibition on #ClimateAction and delta sustainability was a great success thanks to our GCRF Living Deltas Hub partners WARECOD 😊. @beisgovuk Gareth Ward Newcastle University

A great return to form with an excellent turnout for our first in person event in 2 years! A big thank you to Newcastle Politics's Professor Hartmut Behr for exploring and discussing his concept of 'reversibility' and its relevance to the Anthropocene debate! NUHRI Newcastle University

Come along to our final lecture in our seminar series, for this academic yr: Prof Jens Söntgen (University of Augsburg) will speak on "A Farewell to Fire?" Time: 4 May at 5pm Venue: HDB G.11 #anthropocene #research Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Newcastle University Institute for Social Science CreativeArts@NCLUni

Join Hongwei Bao (he/him) to hear about his new book 'Contemporary Chinese Queer Performance'. 📅Friday 12 May ⏲️2.00pm 🗺️ Newcastle University Reserve your space: shorturl.at/fjD02