It's anecdotes like this that help me maintain my faith in humanity... lrb.co.uk/blog/2022/apri…

Waiting for the lightbulb moment when governments realise clean air is cheaper than airborne illness and all its consequences on health and economy.

Sometimes, banning cars is a lot like banning indoor smoking. Much controversy and then, with hindsight, it's hard to believe how we could ever accept it.

Brutal. From: theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…

But wait... there's more:

Instead of: no one wants to work anymore. Try: no one wants to be exploited anymore.

A considerable proportion of European zoo-housed chimpanzees have vitamin D deficiency, which could be a risk factor for some diseases, as revealed by @sophiemoittie Rachel Jarvis and colleagues nature.com/articles/s4159…

All we want for Christmas is... a fossil-free future. 🌍 greenpeace.org/international/…

A year ago, energy analysts predicted that 160-180 GW of solar would be built in 2022. So how'd those predictions turn out? They underestimated solar's growth by 50-70%. ~270 GW of solar was built in 2022.

A friend just had a breakthrough about climate change because of the US storms. He's suddenly realised how serious it is and he's rightly panicking. It's weird because there's an inherent 'Did you just think before that I was mentally unwell because I go on about this so much?'

My animal of the year (including humans): Insects, which we are in the process of wiping out If you drive, have you noticed that many fewer insects crash into your windshield compared to a few years ago? Sadly, this has a name: the ‘windshield phenomenon’ 🧵

Nice work and great to see ZoosVic and ZoosSA on the champs list

Zoo research tweeps: Anyone has access to the proceedings of the 9th Annual Symposium on Zoo Research (2009)? #research #zoo Jess Rendle

"In essence, Exxon didn’t just know, they knew precisely" how much the Earth would warm in the 20th and 21st centuries, decades ago. Interesting new study out today: axios.com/2023/01/12/exx…

The biggest oil producing countries in the world pledging to net-zero emissions for their own countries while scaling UP their oil production for the rest of the world is like Pablo Escobar pledging to not personally snort cocaine.

Could be funny 🤦‍♂️

Increasingly, you will have young people in your life who are grappling with mental health issues caused by climate change, so here’s a great way that you can help them Take meaningful action on climate change

This is how the system in Australia works. And frankly, it’s not any better than the UK, actually it seems more cumbersome. So yes, maybe more discussion is needed about this.

Bonobos are endangered great apes & our close relatives! Here is how we anaesthetised them to move them to a new enclosure and undertake health checks tinyurl.com/52bnnxvr #TeamWork #ApeHealth #Conservation #TwycrossZoo University of Nottingham Vet School Matyas Liptovszky Rachel Jarvis Dr Sharon Redrobe OBE 🏳️‍🌈

If we switched to #renewableenergy, the number of ships crossing the ocean would fall by 40% because they're just carrying coal & oil & gas!! buff.ly/3JSuKOE We have the solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate #ClimateAction #climate #energy #GreenNewDeal