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"The change shows how ambitious policymaking can directly improve health in large cities."

I visited Paris this month briefly and it was striking how clean the air was - and how much quieter it was - compared to visits a decade or more ago.

Huge congrats to Chris Ponting and the whole Decode ME team on their preprint on #genetics of people with #MECFS!

Pre-print plus li'l video before we get into a deeper dive.

Vid: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S5u...

Preprint: www.pure.ed.ac.uk/ws/portalfil... 🧪 🧵

Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.

The anti-science Trumpers may be planning to destroy two working satellites that provide vital measurements about carbon dioxide & climate (and data that forecasts crop yield, drought conditions, & more). They cost $750 million to make but only $15 million/yr to operate.
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This graphic shows four line graph time series and each are monthly from January 1984 through June 2025. The first graph is a 12-month running mean of global mean surface temperature anomalies. Anomalies are computed relative to a 1991-2020 baseline using ERA5 data. The second graph is monthly carbon dioxide abundance. The CO2 graph is the Keeling Curve. Current levels are 430 ppm. The third graph is monthly global methane abundance. Current levels are 1934 ppb. The fourth graph is monthly global nitrous oxide abundance. Current levels are 339 ppb. The three greenhouse gases show seasonal cycles and long-term increasing trends using data from NOAA ESRL. The global mean surface temperature anomaly record also exhibits decadal variability and a long-term increasing trend. All graphs are rising and shown in four different colors, including white, yellow, orange, and pink.

It's time for your monthly climate change update: 🫣

+ Global temperature: 📈
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+ Nitrous oxide (N₂O): 📈

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Hearing a lot lately that since the UK emits only 1% of greenhouse gases that we shouldn’t bother cutting emissions. Truth is that over 90% of nations in the Paris Agreement can make that same claim. We are not special. All countries must play an ambitious role, & no time to lose

an empty train coach with red seats and a train guard walking through

another empty train coach, this one's Coach B, so that's at least two mostly empty coaches and I'll bet the rest look the same

Walk on fare for two from London to York at 4pm on a Monday: £345*.

"Demand pricing helps smooth overcrowding and gives us all a better railway!"

Peak trains:

EU’s ‘chocolate crisis’ worsened by climate breakdown, researchers warn Cocoa one of six commodities vulnerable to environmental threats in ‘extremely worrying picture’ for food resilience

EU’s ‘chocolate crisis’ worsened by climate breakdown, researchers warn0

- Cocoa one of six commodities vulnerable to environmental threats in ‘extremely worrying picture’ for food resilience

#climatecrisis
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We could and should be cleaning the air in our schools and hospitals.
That we aren't is one of the biggest lost opportunities of our covid response.

Tornado warnings delayed because of DOGE cuts At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts.

At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts.

www.mesoscalenews.com/p/tornado-wa...

Graphic showing rainfall intensity increasing in the UK from 1891 to 2024

When it rains, it now rains more

Proximity to Golf Courses and Risk of Parkinson Disease This case-control of older US adults examines risk of Parkinson Disease by proximity of residence to a golf course.

⛳🧠 Proximity to golf courses linked to Parkinson’s disease

A new study found living within 1–3 miles of a golf course was associated with higher Parkinson’s disease risk, likely linked to pesticide use and groundwater contamination.

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#SciComm #NeuroScience 🧪

NHS maternal mental health services slash funding despite soaring demand NHS officials proposed to cut £3.6 million from specialist maternal mental health budgets

NHS maternal mental health services slash funding.

Unaddressed perinatal mental illness affects the whole family, costs UK economy £8.1bn a year

Suicide is the major cause of death for women from six weeks to 12 months after birth.

Put people B4 fiscal rules.

Top 25 most threatened primates highlighted in new report urging action Nearly two-thirds of all primates are in danger of disappearing, including 100 that have only been described by science in the last 25 years. To spotlight their plight, leading conservation…

The latest list of the 25 most endangered primates includes nine from Asia, six from the Americas, six from the African mainland, and four from Madagascar.

The report is also designed to spur conservation efforts for the listed species.

Disability benefit cuts to hit 700,000 families already in poverty, DWP forecasts show Exclusive: Internal government forecasts obtained by the Guardian reveal ‘truly shocking’ effects of planned cuts

Disability benefit cuts to hit 700,000 families already in poverty, DWP estimates.

The less well-off are always hit by govts.

Govts won't hike taxes on the rich funding political parties. So they pick on the disabled, sick, poor, old.

Class warfare is deeply embedded in the UK political system.

Trump picks conspiracy theorist with no medical license to be Surgeon General Previous nominee was withdrawn amid claims she had misrepresented her medical education

Don’t drink raw milk despite what the new US surgeon general would advise.

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Water boss tells public to 'ration water' after selling off reservoirs for millions In just five years, water companies like Southern Water sold off 35 reservoirs for £26 million. Now they are blaming the public.

After asset stripping England water companies warn of rationing.

35 reservoirs sold for £26m profit.

Southern Water plan to decommission 43 of 93 reservoirs, build one.

1 trillion litres lost through leaky pipes.

Companies have 1,135 criminal convictions.

End the privatisation scam.

Solar panels on all new homes as part of Labour’s net-zero push Sir Keir Starmer rejects Sir Tony Blair’s calls to reset ‘irrational’ climate policies because they were ‘doomed to fail’

NEW

Solar panels to be mandated on vast majority of new homes in England

Currently about 40% of new builds have solar; new rules should push that to about 99%

Story 👇
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Exactly what #mecfs feels like, too. Recline with your feet elevated, or accept the incoming crash.

Just a mathematician popping up to say that 1969 was 56 years ago not 76.

Perhaps poor math(s) is why humans haven't made it to Mars?

Yesterday I physically put out a campers fire in front of them. Today the glen is burning. Devasted.

Rainfall map of the UK

Much of England & Wales had the driest March for over 60 years, with less than 1mm being recorded for the entire month. April is now predicted to have little significant rainfall. It's the main planting season for crops... we need to start talking seriously about #FoodSecurity & reducing #FoodWaste.

Government to extend ban on moorland burning - closing loopholes in existing rules

Great news for nature, carbon, & people who’ll be spared from acrid smoke & flooding

Bad news for dukes & billionaires who own grouse moors 🎻

Here's my quote running on PA newswire: 1/

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British Steel closure threat puts up to 2,700 jobs at risk The company announces a consultation that could see the closure of two blast furnaces at Scunthorpe.

British Steel could close blast furnaces at Scunthorpe, 2,700 jobs at risk.

Wants £1bn subsidy.

Better to nationalise. Can't have defence industry without steel.

Can't have steel industry without ending profiteering by energy companies.

Orexin system disruption may be driving Long COVID symptoms and chronic health issues - Thailand Medical News

Orexin system disruption may be driving Long COVID symptoms and chronic health issues

www.thailandmedical.news/news/orexin-...

Call for pets’ toxic flea treatments to be tightly restricted in UK Lib Dems to urge government to control sale of products containing chemicals that kill wildlife such as fish and birds

Cats &dogs are widely treated with flea-killing insecticides that enter rivers, killing wildlife

Birds using tainted pet fur in nests have a higher unhatched eggs/dead chicks

A flea treatment for a large dog contains enough imidacloprid to kill 25 million bees

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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After losing over 240,000 km² in the last 3 days, I'm calling the Arctic sea-ice extent maximum for this year.

This year's maximum extent set a new record low of 13,783,000 km², beating the previous record low maximum set in 2017 by over 95,000 km².

Interesting times.

Bird flu detected in sheep for the first time in England UKHSA says risk to general public remains very low, but warned people should not touch any dead or sick wild birds they find

Concerning #H5N1 development - serious concerns for #biosecurity

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

‘Tax exile’s half-baked scheme’: Jim Ratcliffe challenged over Man Utd plan to use public funds for £2bn stadium project Club co-owner’s request for hundreds of millions of pounds to help regenerate local area labelled ‘outrageous’ by critics

Ratcliffe, who has an estimated fortune of about £12bn, quit the UK for tax-free Monaco in 2020. He is now urging ministers to help support the club’s vision of the stadium with public funds to regenerate the surrounding area.

First evidence of microplastic buildup in bird lungs found in new study Researchers describe widespread contamination of plastics in the bodies of more than 50 different bird species

#PlasticWaste and #PlasticPollution

We are just starting to glimpse the danger it presents
#PublicHealth #OneHealth
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