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UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences @uclbrainscience.bsky.social · 1h

🧵1/ The world’s largest-ever clinical trial to slow or stop Parkinson’s disease has officially launched — led by researchers at @uclqsion.bsky.social and @newcastleuni.bsky.social. A major milestone in the fight against neurodegeneration.
www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/oc...

Largest-ever Parkinson’s disease trial opens across UK

The world’s largest-ever clinical trial of treatments to slow or stop the progression of Parkinson’s disease has launched, led by researchers at UCL and Newcastle University.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Paul Behrens @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social · 1h

This open invitation to the @nebriefing.bsky.social was published in the @financialtimes.com today. Please check whether your MP can make it here: www.nebriefing.org and if not ask them to!

We will be briefing on national security, tipping points, food security, nature and more.

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Paul Andrews @junagarh.bsky.social · 2h

Humanity appears to be the dumbest animal ever to have evolved. At least we will be aware of our own extinction, or at least some will be. www.euronews.com/green/2025/1...

Amazon rainforest released as much CO₂ as Germany from 2024 fires

Fires in the Amazon Rainforest have surged to record-breaking levels, highlighting the region’s ‘growing ecological fragility'.

www.euronews.com

Paul Andrews @junagarh.bsky.social · 2h

The first solar farms should be on people's roofs so that they don't have to pay the thieving, grasping power companies money. Local managed grids for all backed up by a state national grid. www.euronews.com/green/2025/1...

Could the UK’s solar farms provide a refuge for bumblebees?

Solar farms could provide a habitat for bumblebees, study shows.

www.euronews.com

Paul Andrews @junagarh.bsky.social · 3h

It'll be even hotter when El Nino returns possibly in a year or two. Meaning crop failures, extreme weather, heat waves and more deaths. Still the profits are good aren't they? www.euronews.com/green/2025/1...

How hot was September 2025? Copernicus report breaks it down

September 2025 was the third warmest on record, new data shows.

www.euronews.com

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Paul Andrews @junagarh.bsky.social · 14h

Even in terms of our made up money and economics we can no longer afford our own stupidity. Time to change the way we live, work, travel and consume. www.euronews.com/green/2025/1...

Cost of Europe's extreme weather has doubled this decade

Europe is being forced to foot an ever-growing bill as damage from weather and climate-related extremes exceeded €44.5 billion in recent years.

www.euronews.com

Paul Andrews @junagarh.bsky.social · 21h

The fossil fuel industry is evil. Exxon's own scientists knew that burning fossil fuels would heat the planet up back in the late 70s. And as for the IPCC playing it "pretty straight" a lot of scientists consider it too conservative. www.eenews.net/articles/cli...

Climate critics try to discredit IPCC author for linking disasters to global warming

Roger Pielke Jr. and oil industry supporters are attacking climate scientist Friederike Otto, whose work has been used in lawsuits against polluters.

www.eenews.net

Paul Andrews @junagarh.bsky.social · 1d

The true cost of transitioning to a sustainable future while continuing business as usual in first world countries. It's necessary to change the way we live, work, travel and consume and change completely economics. Marketing and advertising are polishing away this reality. grist.org/labor/indone...

Inside the Indonesian boomtowns powering the world’s electric vehicles

Thousands of miles from home, Chinese migrant workers run the nickel-processing plants that do the dirty work of the clean energy transition.

grist.org

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Paul Andrews @junagarh.bsky.social · 1d

Carl Sagan once said, "Extinction is the rule, survival is the exception". It applies just as equally to the dumb Homo sapiens monkey, as it does to all the species that we are driving to extinction, because of our numbers and lifestyle. edition.cnn.com/2025/10/10/s...

Arctic seals face extinction and birds in decline globally, according to new Red List | CNN

More than a quarter of all animals, plants and fungi assessed are at risk of extinction, according to the latest IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

edition.cnn.com

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Paul Andrews @junagarh.bsky.social · 1d

Food has such a huge impact on Earth's configuration from climate change to species loss. This needs to change both at a corporate and individual level. Buying cheap burgers must come to an end but look around you and see the waste that some people leave on their plates. phys.org/news/2025-10...

Sustainable practices could cut food-related emissions in half

Food systems make up roughly 30% of total greenhouse gas emissions globally. But transforming them could cut these emissions by more than half, according to a report released Oct. 3 from a commission ...

phys.org

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Paul Andrews @junagarh.bsky.social · 1d

But what's it got to me? If you are the sort of non commercial ravage the seas and oceans fishing society it has got everything to do with you. Hundreds of millions of people rely on the hatcheries of coral reefs for a living and the food they eat. phys.org/news/2025-10...

Earth enters 'new reality' as coral reefs reach first climate tipping point

The world faces a "new reality" as we have reached the first of many Earth system tipping points that will cause catastrophic harm unless humanity takes urgent action, according to a report released b...

phys.org

Paul Andrews @junagarh.bsky.social · 1d

We really don't know how things will change and by how much, even if we stop burning fossil fuels today. But one thing we can be sure of is that for at least a number of generations in human terms, the world is not going to look and act like it has in the past, www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

Scientists 'reawaken' ancient microbes from permafrost — and discover they start churning out CO2 soon after

Researchers incubated permafrost samples from Alaska at different temperatures and found that microbes from the last ice age can reactivate and resume breaking down carbon.

www.livescience.com

Paul Andrews @junagarh.bsky.social · 2d

Many people, those that do & don't buy honey, perhaps have very little idea about where their honey comes from or the bees themselves. I certainly learnt a lot when writing my two bee books for children. This research points out that wild bees are now in danger. theconversation.com/wild-honeybe...

Wild honeybees now officially listed as endangered in the EU

The wild cousins of beehive honeybees are disappearing – here’s why that matters.

theconversation.com

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Paul Andrews @junagarh.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting research. Unfortunately it could be used by the climate deniers and fossil fuel industry, which at the very least could slow down our move away from fossil fuels. What's important is that Earth has rarely if ever had so much CO2 added so quickly. www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

Hidden, supercharged 'thermostat' may cause Earth to overcorrect for climate change

Rising levels of CO2 in the atmosphere may trigger a series of geological and biological processes that could ensure the next ice age arrives on time instead of being delayed, researchers say.

www.livescience.com

Paul Andrews @junagarh.bsky.social · 2d

What of the human costs in terms of PTSD & the loss of personal belongings? In 1st world countries the wealthier may have insurance for property loss, the less wealthy less so. In the 3rd world more lives are likely to be lost to extreme weather than in the 1st. www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

Extreme weather caused more than $100 billion in damage by June — smashing US records

After damaging wildfires in LA, tornadoes and series of floods, the first six months of this year smashed multiple extreme weather records in the U.S., data show — and experts say this trend is likely...

www.livescience.com

Paul Andrews @junagarh.bsky.social · 2d

Potsdam Institute's latest on the status of some tipping points. We should all be worried even if they are "over there" because one day "over there" will become "over here". www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

Bleaching, Melting, Slowing: New report tracks growing risks of Earth system tipping points

13.10.2025 - Widespread coral reef die-off marks the world’s first climate tipping point, according to a new report by 160 scientists. The Global Tipping Points Report 2025 highlights mounting risks a...

www.pik-potsdam.de

Paul Andrews @junagarh.bsky.social · 4d

If you are around Lausanne in Switzerland at all this is a great exhibition of where science meets art, figure1a.org/exhibitions

Next exhibitions — [Figure 1A]

figure1a.org

Paul Andrews @junagarh.bsky.social · 4d

But CO2's plant food said absolutely nobody who has read the science or listened to the scientists. The UK only produces 60% of the food consumed so we are really in the brown and smelly stuff if countries stop exporting to us. www.farminguk.com/news/defra-f...

Defra figures reveal England's second worst harvest in history

England has endured its second worst harvest on record, with new Defra figures revealing yields far below expectations after one of the warmest springs.

www.farminguk.com

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Climate change - off the record @cc-offtherecord.bsky.social · 4d

It's live.🎙️

Climate Change: Off the Record - a more human conversation about climate change

Trailer out now!👇

1st episode coming very soon!

@drclarenoone.bsky.social @roisinmoriarty.com

@ucc.ie @uniofgalway.bsky.social

Climate Change Off The Record- Trailer

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Paul Andrews @junagarh.bsky.social · 4d

Anybody worried about this? Probably not, in fact most won't even bother to read about it. 1st worlders will go on with their climate change causing lives while 3rd worlders will continue trying to survive. Meanwhile the habitability of Earth collapses around us. abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

abcnews.go.com

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Paul Andrews @junagarh.bsky.social · 5d

Four years ago Eliot Jacobson wrote a blog listing the top 40 impacts of climate change. Since then it appears that climate change is accelerating and we are nowhere near stopping the burning of fossil fuels. climatecasino.net/2021/10/top-...

Top 40 Impacts of Climate Change

In this post, I list 78 current and future impacts of climate change, along with references for some of the more unexpected items. That list was compiled scouring the web along with suggestions and c...

climatecasino.net

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Paul Andrews @junagarh.bsky.social · 5d

The man that made the world a far more dangerous place when he withdrew from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty should never have gotten a sniff at the peace prize in the first place. www.euronews.com/2025/10/10/w...

White House slams Nobel committee for not giving Peace Prize to Trump

Trump has long coveted the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize and aggressively lobbied for the award, citing his role in brokering a number of international ceasefire deals.

www.euronews.com

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Scientists for XR @scientistsforxr.earth · 6d

Talk online:
“This challenge needs a new approach!”
from Prof Jeff Waage

Mon 13th Oct 7pm GMT

After 40 years of work in agriculture and advising gov, Jeff joined @extinctionrebellion.uk in 2019.

Jeff will talk about his experiences and future direction.

Q&A

us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

London, UK. 4 September, 2023. Professor Jeff Waage OBE joins scientists concerned by global heating in a protest outside Parliament demanding government 'listens to the science' and issues no new licences for fossil fuel extraction as MPs return from the summer recess. Credit: Ron Fassbender/Alamy Live News

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Dr Pete Knapp @peteknapp.bsky.social · 8d

Coming soon to:

Totnes
Brixton Picturehouse (Ritzy)
Hackney Picturehouse
Chesham
Oxford
Cambridge Science Fair
Stoke
Cardiff
UCL
Portsmouth
Uckfield
Bristol University
Findhorn, Scotland
Stirling University

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@campaigncc.bsky.social
@drsimevans.carbonbrief.org
@climatereality-uk.bsky.social

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Dr Pete Knapp @peteknapp.bsky.social · 8d

Upcoming Nov/Dec screening dates of my film 'Fires and Fascism'

2 Nov - London, Acton
3 Nov - London, South Ken
6 Nov - London, Hackney (TBC)
9 Nov - Derby
11 Nov - Southampton
19 Nov - Norwich
21 Nov - Didcot
9 Dec - Brighton

Get tickets here (some yet not available) fires-and-fascism.co.uk

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