💙💛 Bonne chance to the thirty UCD sporting students and alumni athletes who will participate as part of Team Ireland in Paris. 👏 This is the largest-ever cohort of UCD sports stars to compete at the #Olympics. 🔗 ucd.ie/newsandopinion…

In many countries, economic growth has long been accompanied by increased greenhouse gas emissions. Uruguay, however, has managed to decouple emissions from growth through a mix of renewable energy sources. Read all the details: unep.org/news-and-stori…

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Substantial terrestrial carbon emissions from global expansion of impervious surface area. nature.com/articles/s4146…

🚨New paper 🚨 Unprecedented Harmful Algal Bloom in the UK & Ireland’s largest lake associated with gastrointestinal bacteria, microcystins and anabaenopeptins presenting an environmental and public health risk. Queen's University Belfast 🎓 School of Biological Sciences IGFS Abhainn Cruises A 🧵 1/n

How sustainable are biofuels really? anthropocenemagazine.org/2024/08/how-su…

📢 In our latest #AtoZofSustainability research, Virginia Morera-Pujol Sch. Biol. & Env. Sc explores complicated history of mammals in Ireland including past extinctions of large mammals, present management problems + future reintroduction of some long-gone large mammals 🔗 ucd.ie/earth/blog/a-z…

Climate change may lead to the inability of millions of people to afford a healthy diet researchsquare.com/article/rs-478…

Climate watchdog calls for Malaysian Palm oil plantation on peat swamp to be rejected carbon-pulse.com/312641/?utm_so…

South Korea recycles 98% of its food waste. What can it teach the world? washingtonpost.com/world/2024/08/…

How does the loss of vultures lead to 500,000+ people dying? anthropocenemagazine.org/2024/08/how-do…

Great to see the Guardian putting the modern global heating in a paleoclimate perspective! “There’s nothing in Earth’s history that shows a change happening this quickly, it’s just so, so fast. Right now the pace of change is one of the biggest concerns.” theguardian.com/environment/ar…

How do we know humans are responsible for #climatechange? #IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report shows that the dominant role of humans in driving recent climate change is clear. This is based on a synthesis of information from multiple lines of evidence. ➡️ bit.ly/AR6WGI3

Academics launch independent standard for high-integrity biodiversity, carbon credits carbon-pulse.com/312697/?utm_so…

Melting Arctic permafrost could release a ‘mercury bomb’ as temperatures rise euronews.com/green/2024/08/…

Rarely seen deep-sea fish washes up in California – video theguardian.com/science/video/…

'Bad Omen': Ancient Pyramid in Mexico Collapses Into Pile of Rubble sciencealert.com/bad-omen-ancie…

The Guiana Shield and East‐ central Amazon will transition from carbon sink to source from 2050s agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.102…

Warm welcome to the Global Changers 2024/25 who started yesterday University College Dublin. An international group of enthusiasts ready to learn the nature of their own gifts and how to use them for good in the world. Universität Gießen UCD Science Sch. Biol. & Env. Sc

"Justice is essential for planet & people", states PIKs Johan Rockström on new The Earth Commission paper. It underscores risks of Earth system decline & the need for fair resource distribution. The poorest are most at risk, but everyone is increasingly affected. pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest…