Emma, Nick & Gab are in Trail Valley Creek, Arctic Canada, measuring greenhouse gases and microbial processes beneath the ice and deploying low-cost tundra greenhouse gas emissions sensors. Thanks to funding from @northumbriauni.bsky.social and NERC. @njrutter.bsky.social @emmahocking.bsky.social

Join us May 19th for a Polar Film Festival screening at Star & Shadow Cinema. A showcase of films about polar & alpine regions by researchers, community members, and Indigenous Peoples. All welcome! Doors 6pm | Films 6:30pm | Bar open after for discussion www.starandshadow.org.uk/programme/ev...

Netflix's Lead Children shines a light on childhood lead contamination. Jane Entwistle’s latest article for The Conversation explores the gap in UK monitoring and introduces their work on ECLIPS, the UK's first citizen-led childhood lead exposure study. theconversation.com/lead-childre...

Lead Children: new Netflix series reminds us that lead poisoning is still a global health problem

Exposure to lead remains one of the leading environmental risk factors for early death and poor health globally.

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Meet ECCOR — Environmental, Climate & Cryosphere Research at Northumbria University! Our research spans caves, paleoenvironments, tundra, geochemistry, pollution, people & nature, and the future of ice on Earth. Watch this space for news, events & updates.