Pam Dugdale
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Physical Scientist. HE/FE college #STEM #Engineering teacher in northern England. PhD. She/her. Interested in #Sustainability #GreenSkills #Energy #MaterialsScience #IndustrialEcology #IndustrialArcheology #EnvironmentalScience & #Shelties 🐶 No DMs
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This High School Student Invented a Filter That Eliminates 96 Percent of Microplastics From Drinking Water
Virginia teenager Mia Heller’s filtration system harnesses the power of ferrofluid, a magnetic oil that binds to microplastics in flowing water
smithsonianmag.com
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: 18-Year-Old Mia Heller From Virginia, USA, Invents a Water Filter That Eliminates 96% of Microplastics From Drinking Water
Margaret Hamilton, a pioneer of software engineering who led NASA's in-flight software team for the Apollo mission, was born #OTD in 1936. 🧪 🔭 👩🔬 Image: NASA
The alert system is for when immediate action is needed in response to a very specific threat. It’s not a watch, it’s a warning. It is for when the wildfire is two miles from your house and not controlled and you need to RUN. It is not for the message the govt should have been running all summer.
I gotta be honest, I don’t feel like this is what emergency alerts are for. It’s important and severe but if I hear that noise from my phone I expect tornado idk
Well this is a first. National alert sent out for wildfires 🤔
Still gobsmacking that Andy Burnhams response to the deaths from the climate crisis has been to pledge to try & stop the sale of single use barbeques. A monumental mistake. Time to do the right thing. Fund our firefighters & say no to new oil & gas. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Green groups urge Andy Burnham to break silence on climate crisis
More than 50 organisations say PM urgently needs to show leadership and prepare British people for scale of change needed as UK struggles through another heatwave
theguardian.com
🌊🔥 The oceans just experienced their hottest July on record. Rising temperatures mean more #MarineHeatwaves, shifting species and mounting pressure on marine #biodiversity. The ocean is sending a clear warning. 🔗 e360.yale.edu/digest/hotte... 🧪🌍🌐 #ClimateChange #MarineEcology
'Common Poppies',c.1852 by Anna Atkins, UK pioneer in botany and photography whose photographs created by cyanotype process were among the first ever to be published #womensart
Exactly 24 hours until the start of the start of the Solar Eclipse. 🔭 🧪
URGENT: the river Tyne is facing a plastic pollution disaster. On 19 July, a cargo ship collision caused over a billion plastic pellets to spill to the port of river Tyne - polluting the river system, coastal sites and the sea. To find out how you can help, visit buff.ly/XpB89LA
#Sheltie morning walk before it gets too hot 🥵 We’ll be spending the afternoon hiding indoors with the curtains closed 🙄 It was nice to find a shady patch and feel the sea breeze 😊
#NationalAllotmentsWeek2026 is all about growing to learn - and it's a chance to remember that our green spaces are not only spaces for human enjoyment, but also crucial habitats for an array of wild creatures too! 🦔 🦋 🦉 Click for tips on gardening with #wildlife in mind👇 buff.ly/0Ol4Css
We had ‘some’ rain yesterday and overnight so our water butts are no longer empty and the garden has had a soaking. But we’re in one of the wettest parts of the country and we waited months for proper rain. No more in the forecast 🙄 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Drought expected to be declared in more parts of England
Officials will meet on Monday to assess water shortages across the country as a new heatwave builds.
bbc.co.uk
