New paper from the @ipcp.bsky.social board -

Corporate ‘Capture Strategies’ Impacting Human and Ecosystem Health

We highlight that capture strategies go beyond regulatory capture to include individuals, organisations, governments and intergovernmental meetings
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

“Woody, those are the countries which make money from plastics” #plasticstreaty #globalplasticstreaty #plasticpollution #INC-5.2 #conflictsofinterest #petrochemicals

The work has funded and samples collected by citizen scientists and was a great collaboration by Portsmouth, Brunel and Imperial University.

Analysis of biota revealed seaweed had the most detected contaminants with illegal drugs like cocaine detected in all marine life examined.

Many pharmaceuticals and pesticides were above the predicted no effect concentrations

We observed 100 fold increases in many contaminants following sewage discharges and higher concentrations more generally during rainy periods of the year

Happy St David’s Day

Pet flee medications of very toxic pesticides available very cheap on Amazon in the UK.

#fibrinol #methoprene #ivermectin #imidacloprid

“When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realise that one cannot eat money”

Response from Water UK to our paper.

Southern Water’s new “rivers and seas watch” replaced “Beach Buoy”.

Interesting how this data can be displayed differently. Pie charts reflect the proportion of overflows discharging but not volume. Proportion suggests less than 1/2 but the largest WWTPs are discharging

On the “to do” list for 2025 is to get the tracking data on these crabs published. Crabs were exposed to next-gen antifoulants. Some really interesting results from our first foray into acoustic telemetry. 🦀🎤🛳️🧪

Pertinent to recent conversations on immunotoxicological effects of PFAS.

15 years ago we published a mesocosm experiment whereby Baltic Sea amphipods had higher microsporidian infections following PFOS exposure

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Surf at Llangennith on the Gower (S Wales) is up to 25ft (50ft faces). That’s huge!

Those that surf this location regularly know even if you were stupid enough to try and get out, you couldn’t 🏄‍♂️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
#StormDarragh

Flood warning map UK. A nation famed for rain but hasn’t become resilient to heavy rain or drought and protecting its water resources.

It’s a failure of long term planning by multiple governments, regulation, water companies that importing clean water from Norway was being tabled as an option.

Dear Fish Parasitologists

Just helping a colleague from Sri Lanka. Any ideas what group of parasites this might be from? Taken from the gut of a Skipjack tuna.

#parasites #parasitology #fish #tuna