Dr Paul K Hatchwell

Trump’s Critical Minerals Obsession Reignites Deep-Sea Mining Extracting EV-battery metals from the ocean floor with support from the White House could hit tough technological and legal obstacles

Why Trump's deep sea 'gold rush' won't materialise for years
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Progress on the recycling/renewables front! One bacterium at a time . . .

🌎 #recyclereusereduse #bacteria #Pseudomonasputida #nylonmetabolize

Why clearing the brush around Los Angeles won't reduce the wildfire danger After thousands of homes were destroyed, many are looking for ways to make Los Angeles safer from wildfires. But clearing dense shrubs on the hillsides could actually make the fire danger worse.

Maybe leave this stuff to the scientists. 🌎 🔥 🌳

“During the Los Angeles fires, President Trump criticized California for not clearing enough brush.“
www.npr.org/2025/02/11/n...

Exclusive: Colombia deforestation in 2024 among lowest levels in 23 years, minister says Deforestation in Colombia in 2024 is expected to have reached a higher level than during the previous year but is still forecast to be among the lowest levels in more than two decades, Environment Minister Susana Muhamad said on Monday.

🌍
www.reuters.com/business/env...

Also #Bioacoustics and #Conservation 🌎

Screenshot of petition to join EU, with over 90,000 signatures.

Really not far to go now.

Link —> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

#RefugeesWelcome please share.

Colin Sheridan: We need a national tree strategy European countries boast an average 35% forest cover yet Ireland stands at a disgraceful 11%; much of our country is as barren as the Sierra Nevada

We need a national tree strategy (involving planting a shed load of native trees).
@freetrees.ie
🌱🌎🦋
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

After a great help from the nice people of Bluesky, German Climate Change Sciences feed is now generating cca. 50% more posts a day. From now on it will be much easier for the feed to evolve and generate more posts.
I am extremely happy and can't wait to do more localisations in other languages.

‘Backsliding’: most countries to miss vital climate deadline as Cop30 nears Developing countries urge biggest polluters to act as Trump’s return to the White House heightens geopolitical turmoil

‘Backsliding’: most countries to miss vital climate deadline as Cop30 nears #Climate

‘Airborne’ seems to be the hardest word Why do UK Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) guidelines still not acknowledge airborne transmission of Covid-19?

Why do UK Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) guidelines still not acknowledge airborne transmission of Covid-19?

How huge parts of the U.S. could become uninhabitable within decades It’s not just Florida and California — from poisoned water supplies to infrastructure issues to polar vortices, Holly Baxter speaks to experts about why the entire U.S. is being threatened by climate…

Donald Trump is deleting references to climate change from US government websites.

Meanwhile...

Weatherwatch: melting permafrost threatens landscapes and lives in Arctic regions Towns and dams built on the assumption the surrounding ice would never melt are facing disaster

Weatherwatch: melting permafrost threatens landscapes and lives in Arctic regions #Climate

Are there more brilliant people here who oppose NHS privatisation? If so hello and hooray! please repost this, give me a follow and I’ll follow you back! 🌟

Something missing from most of the coverage is that (a) it's inference (queries) that takes up the bulk of energy costs, not training and that (b) Deepseek was trained on the outputs of another LLM, whose energy costs are somehow universally shrugged off as irrelevant by these people

The case for the reintroduction of lynx to Britain Slapdash covert releases aside, Britain must get serious about lynx reintroduction

"There’s a strong case for reintroducing lynx to Britain. Without large predators, deer populations have exploded, compounded by the breeding of red deer for shooting, as well as the introduction of non-native fallow, sika, muntjac and Chinese water deer."

What would Heathrow third runway mean for pollution, emissions and noise? As UK chancellor backs expansion at London’s biggest airport, we assess the possible environmental impacts

What would Heathrow third runway mean for pollution, emissions and noise?

Yet another unforced error.

Who on earth is advising Labour ?

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The EV and clean energy transition focus is on China, USA and Europe. But there's a lot of good news happening in the "Rest of the World."

EVs are doing well in the Rest of World.

For example, "Brazil's EV sales grew 133%" in 2024.
cleantechnica.com/2025/01/27/b... #energysky #greensky

Trump’s Freeze on Grant Funding Temporarily Halted by US Judge A federal judge in Washington has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a new directive to halt payments of federal grants, loans and other assistance to an array of programs across the country.

Stopped for now. There's been all kinds of pushback all day, and this judge's halt to their power grab just happened. Do not dismiss either the seriousness of what happened or the impact of the strong reaction by.... www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Today’s show was my last at CNN. My closing message: It’s never a good time to bow down to a tyrant… don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to fear. Hold on to the truth… and hope.

Hold on to the truth… A recording from Jim Acosta's Substack live video

My first Substack: Hold on to the truth. open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...

💥Hit it!💥

European Movement now has 25,168 members. It's grown by 1,200 so far this month.

See: www.europeanmovement.co.uk/membership

Bylines Podcast now over 9,000.

Let’s get it to 10,000 please! 🙏🏻

Our council has been coming together to share voices from across the country since 1936 🤝

Today we’re collaborating to bring about wilder & more diverse National Parks 🏞️

Thanks to @guyshrubsole.bsky.social & @maryannochota.bsky.social for speaking

Scepticism in Whitehall that Heathrow plan can be reconciled with climate targets Emission targets could derail project as campaigners say net zero commitment cannot be met if expansion happens

Heathrow: the fightback begins.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Grid flexibility specialist Voltalis unveils £1bn UK investment plan France-headquartered demand response firm says investment will aim to develop 5GW of capacity for UK residential and commercial buildings over next five years

Just the £1bn of clean energy tech inward investment announced today. www.businessgreen.com/news/4403400...

As a European observer from the outside, it just looks to me as if the US is imploding into paralysis and chaos on a vast range of essential functions for people, business, science. Perhaps I've missed something?

Number of Britons who think Brexit was right decision hits new low - YouGov poll On the five-year anniversary of Britain’s EU exit, new YouGov polling lays bare damning public sentiment on the decision

Just three in 10 Britons (30 per cent) say that it was right for the UK to vote to leave the EU, compared to 55 per cent who say it was wrong, a new YouGov poll has shown

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Keir Starmer commands a massive majority and Parliament is stuffed full of Pro-EU MPs

Rapid moves to #RejoinTheSingleMarket would go through and be paying dividends well before the next General Election

People would be better off

What’s he waiting for?

Starmer warned over ‘anaemic’ post-Brexit reset efforts in damning report In a damning report to mark the fifth anniversary of Britain’s departure from the European Union, UK in a Changing Europe said it appears that EU policy is ‘peripheral to Starmer’s government’

"“Rachel Reeves’ autumn budget sets out a roadmap on how to drive growth without mentioning the impacts of Brexit once. Her Mansion House speech acknowledges the ‘structural challenges’ caused by Brexit and vows, in the same breath, not to reverse its foundations.”"