Notices by kim_harding ✅ (kim_harding@mastodon.scot)

Led By Donkeys - We just dropped in on Liz Truss’s pro-Trump speaking tour with a remote-controlled lettuce banner. She didn’t find it funny. 🥬

Sentence for driving while banned after killing six people: 150 hours unpaid work, 12 months supervision and a restriction of liberty order for four months between the hours of 7pm – 7am. https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/glasgow-bin-lorry-crash-driver-12828178

Sentence for planning to stop traffic in a peaceful protest trying to save the world: four years in prison.
https://theconversation.com/why-courts-favour-cars-not-the-climate-234535

These sentences are the wrong way around, there is something very wrong with the UK.

#FuckCars #ClimateEmergency #NoJustice

⚡️Incredible footage of a lightning bolt hitting and decimating a large tree in Augé, western France earlier today. Credit：Benjamin Estrade

#Lightening #LighteningStrike #Thunderbolt

My friend Shannon is trying to
evacuate 3 Afghan Athletes to France https://fundly.com/evacuate-3-afghan-athletes-to-france https://fundly.com/evacuate-3-afghan-athletes-to-france
Please help if you can

Using vague language about scientific facts misleads readers
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/using-vague-language-about-scientific-facts-misleads-readers/
Using subjective phrasing like "scientists believe" makes facts seem like opinions.

Original research paper here

@ariadne Meanwhile in Edinburgh https://theferret.scot/edinburgh-university-denies-surveillance-claims/

UNESCO report reveals 70% of environmental journalists have been attacked for their work
https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/unesco-report-reveals-70-environmental-journalists-have-been-attacked-their-work
A new report published by UNESCO on World Press Freedom Day, 3 May, warns of increasing violence against, and intimidation of journalists reporting on the environment and climate disruption.

Researchers make a plastic that includes bacteria that can digest it
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/04/researchers-make-a-plastic-that-includes-bacteria-that-can-digest-it/
Bacterial spores strengthen the plastic, then revive to digest it in landfills

Nature has become an official Spotify artist to raise money for conservation https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/04/19/nature-has-become-an-official-spotify-artist-to-raise-money-for-conservation

Citizenship privilege harms science
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01080-x
Researchers from the global south face often-distressing immigration bureaucracy that most from the global north do not. Six steps can begin to counteract this inequity.

Sian Berry: ‘I wish Greens had been able to deal with transphobia sooner’
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/sian-berry-green-party-mp-caroline-lucas-transphobia/
The candidate to replace Brighton MP Caroline Lucas is planning for a Green future – but is her party united?

Like-minded EU countries should move together to recognise State of Palestine - Charles Michel https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/04/12/like-minded-eu-countries-should-move-together-to-recognise-state-of-palestine-charles-mich

NASA Warns Against Taking Eclipse Photos With Your Smartphone
https://www.pcmag.com/news/nasa-warns-against-taking-eclipse-photos-with-your-smartphone
You can do it, but you'll need to take a few precautions

Population tipping point could arrive by 2030 https://www.science.org/content/article/population-tipping-point-could-arrive-2030
Study estimates global fertility will drop below replacement level years earlier than others predict

Europe is not prepared for rapidly growing climate risks https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/newsroom/news/europe-is-not-prepared-for Europe is the fastest warming continent in the world, and climate risks are threatening its energy and food security, ecosystems, infrastructure, water resources, financial stability, and people’s health. According to the European Environment Agency’s (EEA) assessment, published today, many of these risks have already reached critical levels and could become catastrophic without urgent and decisive action.

UNRWA: Sweden and Canada resume funding for UN agency for Palestinian refugees https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68518468

Unleashing People Power: How Citizen Science Can Revolutionize Environmental Research https://relationalthinkingblog.com/2024/02/29/plain-language-summary-unleashing-people-power-how-citizen-science-can-revolutionize-environmental-research/

Original research paper here https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pan3.10614

UN warns of climate change impact on farms and rural households run by women in poor countries https://www.independent.co.uk/news/united-nations-ap-rome-b2507163.html?utm_source=press.coop
The United Nations says that women who run farms and rural households in poor countries suffer more from climate change and are discriminated against as they try to adapt to other sources of income in times of crises

South Africa launches ‘urgent request’ to UN court over Israel’s military operations in Rafah
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/south-africa-israel-gaza-rafah-un-court-b2495397.html?utm_source=press.coop
South Africa government “gravely concerned” Israel’s planned attack on Rafah will lead to large-scale killing and destruction

Órla Baxendale: British ballet dancer dies in US after eating mislabelled cookie
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/orla-baxendale-ballet-dancer-mislabelled-cookie-b2485219.html?utm_source=press.coop
Baxendale suffered a severe allergic reaction and died of anaphylactic shock after eating cookie from Stew Leonard’s

This is why Europe introduced strict food labelling rules...