Notices by JuneSim63 (junesim63@mstdn.social), page 6

Are you an angler, canoeist, hiker, or wild swimmer? Do you regularly visit one or more UK rivers?

Could you spend 15 minutes monitoring your river in the next week?

Data gathered during Big River Watch can support policy change; helping turn the tide on plastics or stem the flow of untreated sewage.

#BigRiverWatch #Rivers #UKRivers #RiversTrust #Canoeing #Rambling #Swimming #Wildlife #Sewage #PlasticPollution

The Big River Watch | The Rivers Trust
https://theriverstrust.org/take-action/the-big-river-watch?mc_cid=176bc3539c&mc_eid=2e9968dc16

@botvolution @statsguy They are using the same vaccines they used in Spring.
They have preprocurement contracts so I also assume they have to keep to them.
A shitshow all round.

"There will be sufficient pre-procured COVID-19 vaccine doses, available at no additional cost, to complete the autumn 2024 campaign. Other authorised vaccines which may offer similar protection and would therefore be considered suitable, but which would incur additional costs, are therefore less cost effective"

Heat waves may severely jeopardize bumble bees’ ability to smell the flowers they feed on. The finding could foretell how climate change may affect the pollinators’ populations—and human industries that rely on them.
#Bumblebees #ClimateChange #Heatwaves #GlobalHeating #Pollinators

Bumble bees lose their sense of smell after heat waves | Science | AAAS
https://www.science.org/content/article/bumble-bees-lose-their-sense-smell-after-heat-waves

Jeremy Corbyn is now in the Independent Alliance with four independent MPs who were elected on pro-Gaza platforms.
The official parliamentary group will not be a political party but said it had formed so that the five MPs were allocated more parliamentary time to ask questions and speak in debates – operating in effect as a political party without a leader.
It has called for more MPs to join. (Currently Labour has suspended 7 MPs).

#IndependentAlliance #UKPolitics

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/sep/02/jeremy-corbyn-alliance-independent-pro-gaza-mps?CMP=firstedition_email

"As a Palestinian, one of the things you inherit is the haunting, pervasive fear of losing your home without prior notice.

You are constantly trying to protect your past, present and future, perpetually on edge, always bracing for the possibility of having to flee at any moment"
Gazan journalist Maha Husseini writes about constant forced displacement and the importance of clinging to those few items that still mean home.

#Gaza #Displacement #Israel

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/9/2/unspoken-bonds-gazas-forcibly-displaced-and-the-homes-they-yearn-for?traffic_source=rss

@aral At least we CAN see it due to the reporters on the ground. The West Bank isn't Gaza. It's still open to Western journalists and media.

The IDF used a slight 10 year old girl as a human shield in their latest raid in the Nur Shams refugee camp.
The platoon pushed her up to each of the doors in her aunt’s house, while they remained braced behind her ready to fire at whoever might be inside.

"There was no mercy, even on children. Why take a 13- or 14-year-old boy from his house and beat the shit out of him and break his phone?”
A local Baker referring to his son

#Israel #WestBank #WarCrimes #NurShams #IDF
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/31/trauma-in-the-west-bank-after-israeli-raids-palestinian-territory

"Nothing demonstrates better the appalling environmental record of our polluting water companies than the fact that they are not even taking care of the highly protected areas that they actually own. It simply cannot be right that the payment of large dividends to shareholders and huge bonuses to bosses is prioritised before protecting SSSIs. This entire culture of polluting for profit must end”
Charles Watson, Chair River Action

#Rivers #SSSI #WaterPrivatisation #Water
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/31/water-companies-natural-england-sites-special-scientific-interest?CMP=GTUK_email

An estimated 19,000 children in Gaza have lost one or both parents in the genocidal war waged by Israel.

The overwhelming majority of children are hungry, with or without parents, aid workers point out, and have little or no access to healthcare as they contend with the daily threats of death, injury and the loss of loved ones.

#Gaza #Israel #Children #Orphans #Genocide

‘My siblings have become my children’: the plight of Gaza’s orphans
https://archive.is/l3iKv

"We face the greatest predicament humankind has confronted: the erosion and possible collapse of our life-support systems. Its speed and scale have taken even scientists by surprise. The potential impacts are greater than any recent pandemic, or any war we have suffered. Yet the effort to persuade people of the need for action has been left almost entirely to either the private or voluntary sectors. And it simply does not work"
George Monbiot

#ClimateEmergency
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/28/dear-ministers-i-am-a-climate-crisis-campaigner-nationalise-me-right-now

@thejapantimes Covid-19 ISN'T over. Thousands are dying every day, and in Japan at least 10% of people are suffering longcovid symptoms. The WHO still classifies SARS-CoV-2 as a pandemic.

https://www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/articles/15123674

"First we did it with manganese. Later we did it with nickel and lithium. And then we used a different strain of bacteria and we were able to extract cobalt and nickel.”

University of Edinburgh scientists are using bacteria helping to extract rare metals from old batteries to help create a circular green economy.

#RareMetals #GreenTech #Bacteria
#ClimateEmergency

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/25/bacteria-helping-to-extract-rare-metals-from-old-batteries-in-boost-for-green-tech?CMP=GTUK_email

Today's Guardian briefing on #CruiseShips

* European cruise ships alone emitted more sulphurous oxides than 1bn cars in 2022, creating huge pollution in cities where they dock.

* Cruise ship CO2 emissions in Europe rose by 17% between 2017 & 2022, reaching the equivalent of 50,000 flights between Paris & New York.

* A single ship can emit as much diesel exhaust as 34,400 idling lorries to power operations while docked.

#Pollution #Environment #ClimateEmergency

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/26/tuesday-briefing-first-edition-cruisezillas

Starmer is talking bollocks.
There is no need for a round of further Tory austerity. There are many ways of raising the necessary billions, if only he and Reeves could ditch their craven adherence to neoliberal ideology and 'fiscal rectitude'.

They could start by taxing capital gains at the same rate as income tax and restricting pension tax relief to the basic rate. This would more than cover their fictional £22bn black hole.

#LabourAusterity #UKPolitics

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/aug/24/keir-starmer-warns-of-tough-times-ahead-to-fix-tory-ruins

"[The war in Gaza] will be counted against [Biden] forever. He could have stopped it long ago. He did not, and even now, when everything is already hopeless, he lets Blinken surrender to Netanyahu's demands"

Gideon Levy in a damning column in Haaretz yesterday.

#Israel #Gaza #Biden #USPolitics #Netanyahu #Capitulation

https://archive.is/mVGEV

The BBC has produced dozens of films and articles for oil and gas companies, agricultural giants, fossil fuel states, and high-emission transport firms in recent years.

The content was produced by BBC Storyworks, which boasts on its website that it 'leverages the reputation of the BBC'

My licence fee pays for that!

#Greenwashing #BBC #BBBStoryworks #Polluters #Oil #Gas #PR

BBC Accused of Doing PR for Major Polluters - DeSmog
https://www.desmog.com/2024/08/22/bbc-storyworks-pr-greenwashing-major-polluters/

Major corporations, including Mastercard, Meta, and Coca-Cola, are quietly sponsoring a Canadian conference headlined by Christopher Rufo, a far-right activist and crusader against diversity initiatives. Many of these same companies, however, champion diversity in their public communications.

#Canada #FarRight #ChristopherRufo #Diversity #CocaCola #Mastercard #Meta #DoorDash #SunLife

https://popular.info/p/major-corporations-sponsor-anti-woke?publication_id=1664&post_id=147983589&isFreemail=true&r=96cfk&triedRedirect=true

Well done NATAS. Yet another attempt to silence a Palestinian journalist bites the dust.

#Bisan #BisanOwda #Emmys #Palestine #Journalism #Gaza #NATAS

Emmy body defends nomination of Gaza journalist Bisan Owda after 150 industry pros call for it to be revoked | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/bisan-owda-gaza-emmys-b2599502.html

"After each atrocity it perpetrates, the Israeli state has a standard modus operandi: deny, deflect, deceive, & wait for attention to move elsewhere. Most media outlets have collaborated with this strategy, which has allowed Israel to continue its genocidal onslaught, because it prevents observers from joining the dots to understand what this really is"

#Israel #Gaza #HindRajab
Hind Rajab’s death has already been forgotten. That’s exactly what Israel wants | Owen Jones
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/18/hind-rajab-israeli-state-atrocity

By accident, I just heard an item on BBC Radio 4's Today programme covering the Athens wildfires. Not a mention of global heating or the climate emergency. "Of course, Greece is used to wildfires," says the reporter, "they have them every year."

#Athens #Wildfires #BBCNews #Radio4Today