Ana C. Afonso Silva
@acafonsosilva.bsky.social
Currently a data analyst for @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social. Used to be an evolutionary biologist who worked in skinks phylogeography, micro-macro in mammals and ants speciation genomics
Europe's worst heatwave so far, in terms of heat stress measures and temperatures - brought to you by fossil fuels. New @wwattribution.bsky.social study showing how such deadly heat became possible in only a few decades. www.worldweatherattribution.org/fossil-fuel-...
Mapping Europe’s rooftop photovoltaic potential with a building-level database www.nature.com/articles/s41... "The results show that already for 2030 over 50% of the PV capacity foreseen in the individual plans of the EU countries could be met just from PV on non-residential rooftops in most cases."
Mapping Europe’s rooftop photovoltaic potential with a building-level database - Nature Energy
This resource presents an open per-building dataset of rooftop solar photovoltaics potential for the European Union. The results show that potential capacity could cover approximately 40% of electrici...
nature.com
NEW | 2025 was another RECORD-breaking year for the EU’s electricity transition, as wind and solar overtook fossil fuel generation for the first time. Here’s what happened in the 🇪🇺 power sector last year, all in one thread 👇 🧵 1/9
Portugal dispõe de 1514km² de áreas de baixo conflito com a natureza para produzir energia solar, cinco vezes mais do que o necessário para cumprir a meta do plano de energia até 2030. www.publico.pt/2026/01/22/a...
Não faltam áreas de “baixo conflito” para Portugal cumprir metas de energia solar até 2030
Portugal dispõe de 1514km² de áreas de baixo conflito com a natureza para produzir energia solar, cinco vezes mais do que o necessário para cumprir a meta do plano de energia até 2030.
publico.pt
Study covered here scienmag.com/megastudy-te... Integrated strategies that combine messaging with structural incentives, community engagement, and policy reforms may yield more potent outcomes than messaging alone, with brief and generalised messages
Hugo Mercier@hugoreasoning.bsky.social · 8mo agoInteresting megastudy on the (in)effectiveness of climate messaging: tiny effects on attitudes, no effects on donation www.nature.com/articles/s41... "Persuasiveness varied little across party lines", another win for Persuasion in Parallel @aecoppock.bsky.social
It's a good day to say that embracing renewable energy can provide countries with energy independence 👍
"Entre ambiente e economia, oito em cada 10 portugueses dão prioridade ao ambiente Portugal lidera esta tendência europeia, com cerca de 79,9% dos inquiridos a declarar que a protecção ambiental deve ser prioritária em relação a indicadores económicos."
Público@publico.pt · 10mo agoEstudo em 11 países europeus mostra que existe um apoio público sólido - mas condicional - à acção climática na Europa. Cidadãos exigem mais justiça e esperam mais liderança de empresas e governos.
Excited to share our new paper where we find that the rise, decline and fall of clades is not explained by the usual suspects (diversity-dependence, ecological opportunities) but rather by species' insidious loss of macroevolutionary fitness: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/3
Loss of macroevolutionary species fitness explains the rise and fall of clades - Nature Ecology & Evolution
The interplay between speciation and extinction rates shapes clade diversity dynamics. Using a novel phylogenetic model that includes living and fossil lineages, the authors estimate speciation and ex...
nature.com
Spatial planning & Renewable Acceleration areas can be the game changer for the EU’s energy transition ⚡ So how are Member States doing in implementing these measures? 🤔 Take a look at our progress tracker below and find the facts behind the stats in our new report 👇 caneurope.org/spatial-plan...
This year we've been really swinging for the fences. Our latest video is our biggest one yet, nearly an hour long and involving half a dozen experts. Asking "Should lying about climate change be illegal?" and, if so, how do we make it so? youtu.be/FKtCuwfUCJg
Should lying about climate change be illegal?
YouTube video by Simon Clark
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Hybridization and introgression are major evolutionary processes. Since the 1940s, the prevailing view has been that they shape plants far more than animals. In our new study (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... ), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants
Yes, at German discount supermarkets, you can purchase a do-it-yourself 'Balkonsolar' system and battery. Simply plug it in and you're ready to go. However, Aldi Australia offers complete systems: 6 kW solar, a 5.5 kW inverter and a 10 kWh LFP battery, fully installed for AU$7,000 (€4,000)!
Supermarket giant expands rooftop solar and battery offer
Budget supermarket chain Aldi is expanding its residential solar business, opening up sales of its rooftop PV and battery energy storage packages to customers in Australia’s eastern states after a tri...
pv-magazine-australia.com
The list of each carbon majors for each analysed heatwave can be found in the supplementary table www.nature.com/articles/s41... Very nice overview of the article from Carbon Brief www.carbonbrief.org/study-links-... And a 10 min podcast overview from Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Study links world's top oil and gas firms to 200 'more intense' heatwaves - Carbon Brief
Global warming linked to the world’s biggest oil and gas companies made all “major” 21st...
carbonbrief.org
Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · last yr.no time to post properly about this but yeah - the companies, governments and state-owned orgs that extract the stuff are the first in a chain of events that lead to Earth's atmosphere becoming deadlier, and bear a necessary but insufficient amount of responsibility for who gets hurt
Great to see this published! Thanks @selfishmeme.bsky.social for leading the team and for including me in this project 😁
Nature@nature.com · last yr.A common type of ant in Europe breaks a fundamental rule in biology: its queens can produce male offspring that are a whole different species go.nature.com/4mOb5T9
www.reuters.com/business/med...
Two rights groups are first Israeli voices to accuse Israel of genocide
Two Israeli human rights organisations said on Monday Israel was committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, the first major voices in Israeli society to level the strongest possible accusation against the state, which vehemently denies it.
reuters.com
🚨📢 New IRENA data shows that in 2024, 91% of newly commissioned renewable power capacity delivered electricity at a lower cost than the cheapest fossil fuel-fired option. Renewables remain cost competitive while supporting energy security and economic stability. Read: bit.ly/3TSg6gE
91% of New Renewable Projects Now Cheaper Than Fossil Fuels Alternatives
Renewables maintain their cost leadership in global power markets, IRENA’s new report on Renewable Power Generation Costs in 2024 confirms.
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49 days after the blackout in the Iberian Peninsula, the Spanish government issued a report yesterday blaming both conventional power plant generators and the transmission operator (TSO), Red Eléctrica, for the power outage. Our statement below. elpais.com/economia/202...
In 2023, a record marine heatwave in the North Atlantic, caused by weak winds and a shallow mixed layer, led to severe weather across Europe and beyond. Exacerbated by climate change and reduced ship emissions, this heatwave is a warning for future extreme weather. 🌊🧪
Unprecedented heat in the North Atlantic Ocean kickstarted Europe’s hellish 2023 summer. Now we know what caused it
Parts of the Atlantic Ocean are again much warmer than normal, priming Europe for more extreme heat this summer.
theconversation.com
"No more crumbs for the corporate table" - a fantastic thread in support of community energy here --->>>
Platform @platform1983.bsky.social · last yr.🧵 REVEALED: Community energy projects in Scotland are generating 100x more local wealth than privately-owned wind farms. But just 0.5% of the renewable power is community-owned. Why this staggering imbalance?
🚨 working paper (w. @morganlcj.bsky.social @markuswagner.bsky.social): Protesters are not judged equally - even if tactics of groups are similar. We ran an experiment in 🇩🇪 testing how people react to farmers vs. climate activists blocking roads. What we find is disturbing: osf.io/preprints/os...
“Seldom have I heard the leader of a state so clearly outline a plan that fits legal definition of genocide” - Josep Borrell on Israel’s Holocaust. 1 in 2 bombs dropped on #Gaza is sourced in Europe. Von der Leyen & many others have blood on their hands. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Israel committing genocide in Gaza, says EU’s former top diplomat
Josep Borrell also criticises EU response to what he calls largest ethnic cleansing operation since second world war
theguardian.com
BREAKING: An EU climate fund has been subsidising fossil gas to the tune of billions, according to our new report. Since 2021, the Modernisation Fund has directed at least EUR 4.2 billion – more than a quarter of its total funding – to everything from waste incinerators to gas-fired power plants. 🧵
🧵 1/4 Europe’s announcement that it will stop importing Russian fossil gas, oil and nuclear power by the end 2027 must not open the back door to imports from other countries, such as the US, leaving it susceptible to future shocks and locking it into fossil fuel dependency.
The @iea.org finds that abandoned coal mines emitted nearly 5 Mt of #methane in 2024, more than abandoned oil and gas wells (3 Mt) Coal mines can continue to emit methane for DECADES after closure unless they are sealed or flooded www.theguardian.com/...
Abandoned infrastructure one of the biggest polluters in the world – report
Emissions from abandoned coalmines, oil and gas wells globally are larger than any single country except China, the US and Russia
theguardian.com
