UK “Drill baby drill”? Data beats slogans New study finds a fully renewable UK could save households ~£441/yr on energy bills 🛢️ Maximising North Sea oil & gas production on would save £16–£82/yr only if gov redistributed extra tax revenues to households www.smithschool.ox.ac.uk/news/drill-b...
“Drill baby drill” approach to North Sea would cost households more than a fully renewable UK, finds Oxford analysis
A UK powered fully by renewable energy could save all households up to £441 a year on their energy bills, according to a new Oxford Smith School analysis. In comparison, maximising oil & gas extractio...
smithschool.ox.ac.uk
The Gulf Coast is a biodiversity hot spot – habitat for endangered species, critical wetlands, migratory routes for animals & fisheries that communities depend on. But all of this is at risk because of #LNG build out. Check out our latest report with @mapthepower.bsky.social https://bit.ly/4fqBlSj
LNG Impacts to Biodiversity in the Gulf South - Rainforest Action Network
Currently, there are 36 liquefied natural gas terminals and expansion projects proposed, under construction or actively operating in the United States, with 28 concentrated in the Gulf Coast. Liquefied natural...
ran.org
Drought declared across whole of Wales as conditions 'deteriorate' …and is on course for its driest July on record in 190 years And the BBC manages to write the entire article without mentioning climate change once. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Drought declared for whole of Wales amid sustained high temperatures
Wales is on course for its driest July on record in almost 190 years.
bbc.co.uk
Thanks to 400 year-old Chilean mummies, we know how smallpox reached the Americas go.nature.com/4fLQZ9R
How smallpox reached the Americas: first genomic evidence points to Europeans
Viral sequences from Chilean mummies confirm the disease was introduced from Europe.
go.nature.com
Some good news from our colleagues in Bremerhaven
Nature Geoscience@natgeosci.nature.com · 5d ago⚒️ Article: Only about ten percent of organic carbon from thawing Pleistocene permafrost in the Arctic that is buried in marine sediments ends up re-entering the active carbon cycle www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.bbc.com/news/article... free-living calcified seaweed that can interlock to create a carpet
How scientists finally confirmed rare pink seaweed as new species
An ancient algae first spotted four decades ago will now join the collection of the Natural History Museum.
bbc.com
The oil and gas industry lobbies the Louisiana government to weaken air monitoring, while local communities feel the effects. In August 2023, the coast guard reported a leak from a Marathon refinery – it took HOURS for the state to monitor the air and evacuating residents. https://bit.ly/4pQ1DRC
‘A public health emergency waiting to occur': how US industry groups spent years fighting who gets to measure toxic air
Air polluters try to ensure toxic emissions happen far from monitors – but the people who live nearby still feel it
theguardian.com
Can commercial funding fill a hole of £42 million a year in the finances of some of the United Kingdom’s flagship science laboratories and facilities? go.nature.com/4bcxRjL
The existential choice facing UK physics facilities: commercialize or close
The national synchrotron source, a laser facility and a particle accelerator are under threat of closure unless cash is found.
go.nature.com
“The US is no longer a reliable global partner in ocean observation” go.nature.com/4vwJZUN
US funding uncertainties threaten to sink key global oceanography projects
The United States has led the world in observing the oceans – but cuts and threats of cuts have researchers worried it is no longer a reliable partner.
go.nature.com
On Monday, Switzerland is expected to reach Glacier Loss Day, one of the earliest ever recorded. By then, all this winter’s snow will have melted away. From that point on, every day of summer heat means the loss of ancient glacier ice, built up over centuries. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Snow and ice on Swiss glaciers melting at alarming rate amid heatwave, expert says
Accumulation on Switzerland’s glaciers from last winter expected to all be gone by Monday amid ‘enormous’ melt rates across Alps
theguardian.com
Thanks to some surprising advances, mathematicians are starting to realize that artificial intelligence could radically alter their profession go.nature.com/3PxpFDa
‘It is incredible’: How AI is transforming mathematics
Nature - Thanks to some surprising advances, mathematicians are starting to realize that artificial intelligence could radically alter their profession.
go.nature.com
Absolutely tragic. But how many people died from solar panels or wind farms? www.bbc.com/news/article...
At least 82 dead in Chinese coal mine explosion, state media reports
The explosion took place at 19:29 local time on Friday at a coal mine in northern China.
bbc.com
Completely agree with this idea. A credit system for reviewing papers and submitting your own papers. I have colleagues who tell me that they don’t review papers as they don’t have time and yet they publish far more papers than most academics. For the system to work everyone needs to do their part.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences@pnas.org · 3mo agoOpinion piece: The peer review process and peer reviewers are severely strained. We propose a transparent universal credit system to incentivize #PeerReview. In PNAS Front Matter: https://ow.ly/6Ahb50YWblR #SciencePublishing #AcademicPublishing #ResearchEnterprise
Sustainable development will only be achieved when governments base decisions on human skills and natural resources, not just GDP, says Pushpam Kumar go.nature.com/4n9in4G
To move beyond GDP, don’t ignore ecological economics
Sustainable development will only be achieved when governments base decisions on human skills and natural resources, not just gross domestic product.
go.nature.com
A first-of-its-kind AI tool detects duplicate or suspiciously similar peer-review reports go.nature.com/4wvTJ2L
First AI tool to detect suspicious peer reviews rolled out by academic publisher
AI tool spots copied peer reviews, helping to uncover fraud in academic publishing.
go.nature.com
🚨🚨 Good news alert! 🚨🚨 We've rounded up five inspiring science stories – including the discovery of a new species, and a promising medical treatment for a fatal mitochondria disease. go.nature.com/4d0b1vG
The news is not all bad: Five inspiring science stories to lift your mood
Species recovery, cancer-preventing vaccines and progress in developing renewable-energy sources are just some of the positive developments that have happened this year so far.
go.nature.com
This week, reps for more than 50 nations gathered in Colombia at what was billed as the first global summit on phasing out fossil fuels. One of the first orders of business was to launch a new panel of scientists to advise them. go.nature.com/4cXr4KP
‘Beyond COP’ climate summit puts scientists at the centre of the action
Researchers presented ways for nations to phase out fossil fuels at an international meeting of countries ready to take action.
go.nature.com
We do “recycle” lots of plastic containers and packaging at home here in Germany but look where lots of it goes. Choosing glass and paper when possible.
EUwatch 🇪🇺@euwatch.live · 3mo agoGermany was largest exporter of plastic waste in 2025, sending 810,000 tonnes overseas, analysis finds
In Geophysical Research Letters, scientists use climate simulations aimed at recreating mid-Pliocene conditions to quantify global ocean heat content (OHC), or the total heat stored in the top 700 meters of global oceans.🌊 🔗 doi.org/10.1029/2025... #AGUPubs #Pliocene #Paleoclimate
“I recall being told by the Opec figurehead, former Saudi Oil Minister Sheikh Yamani: "The Stone Age did not end because the world ran out of stones. The Oil Age will not end because the world runs out of oil." www.bbc.com/news/article...
Why the UAE's exit from Opec is a big deal
It will have little effect on the current oil blockades, but it could change everything afterwards.
bbc.com
New blog post on our website highlighting the #SPP2299 EOCENE project at Leipzig University: From Fossil Corals to Climate Data: Methods and Insights share.google/0jb2vokX5qTv...
🥳 It’s out! 📢 New PAGES Magazine: “The essence of time” Explore gaps, challenges & future directions in geological dating - from biostratigraphy to radioisotopic methods. ⭐ Read here: pastglobalchanges.org/publications... #PAGES #Paleoscience #EarthScience @marumunibremen.bsky.social
“…were you to examine a coastline in ever-smaller units – down to every grain of sand or even every atom – the length of a coastline would appear to approach infinity.” www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
Why it's impossible to measure England's coastline
A new hiking trail will soon allow travellers to walk around England's entire coast – but a strange paradox means no one knows exactly how long it is.
bbc.com