“Dirty Business illustrates how corporate greed and the fundamental lack of governance and regulatory oversight across the nation’s water industry allowed this sewage crisis to happen – at the cost of environmental and human health, and our future water security”
theconversation.com/englands-sew...
For details on how political or politician capture impacts human and ecosystem health check out our recent paper
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Morning thought!
Why haven’t we used misconduct in a public office laws more often?
‘Political capture’ seems rife in Westminster across all political parties
Happy to share our latest paper out now in ES&T, 'Are Behavioral Ecotoxicity Endpoints Relevant at the Population Level? Evidence-Based Insights for Environmental Protection' 🧪🐟
👉 Read the full Open Access paper here: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
PFAS in pregnant women’s drinking water puts their babies at higher risk, study finds
theconversation.com/pfas-in-preg...
Bayer Weighs Roundup Exit as Cancer Legal Bill Nears $18 Billion
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Media capture
Political capture
Regulatory capture
University capture
NGO capture
Arms length body capture….
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text: "What does 'uncontacted' really mean?" image: aerial view of a group of uncontacted people pointing arrows up at the camera, but their houses.
It doesn’t mean they’ve “never met anyone.” They remember what contact brought: violence, epidemics, death. Rejecting contact is not isolation — it’s autonomy and self-defence."
Find out what 'uncontacted' really means: uncontactedpeoples.org
🌎 From the Amazon to remote islands in the Indian Ocean, uncontacted peoples live in some of the most biodiverse — and threatened — places on Earth.
Their lands are not just their homes — they’re their identity, survival and resistance.
Learn more: uncontactedpeoples.org
For them, distance is protection — not isolation.
Uncontacted Indigenous peoples are defending their lands.
Discover their stories, their resilience – and the threats to their survival: uncontactedpeoples.org
#AtTheEdge #uncontacted #uncontactedpeoples #northsentinel #amazon #indigenouspeoples
Flea and tick medication, antibiotics & illicit drugs found in UK freshwater study by Imperial & @earthwatcheurope.bsky.social.
The research also found antibiotics at concentrations high enough that antimicrobial resistance should be studied further in UK freshwaters 🧵
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Environmental defenders are being killed for protecting our future – the law needs to catch up
theconversation.com/environmenta...
A comprehensive analysis of combined stormwater overflow (CSO) discharges to coastal waters and data communications by a UK water company between 2021 and 2023 @envsci.rsc.org
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Road runoff will pass through vortex separators, a series of filters, wetlands + bioswales - the aim: to stop lead, chromium + PAHs from the highway permeating a chalk aquifer.
Imagine the boost to wildlife if work like this were rolled out across the country.
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Most sewage discharges happen during breakfast when people get up for work/school. Those early morning swimmers are more likely to encounter 'fresh' sewage discharges.
There are strong correlations between start times of real sewage discharges and false alarms.
Regulatory authorities and water companies should provide data on false positive ad false negative activation of EDMs
Some event duration monitors have had false readings 100% of the time.
Some sewage discharges classed at 'non-impacting' have lasted for over 70 years. Many last several tidal cycles
*error*
This should be 70 days not years
Most sewage discharges happen during breakfast when people get up for work/school. Those early morning swimmers are more likely to encounter 'fresh' sewage discharges.
There are strong correlations between start times of real sewage discharges and false alarms.
Regulatory authorities and water companies should provide data on false positive ad false negative activation of EDMs
Some event duration monitors have had false readings 100% of the time.
Some sewage discharges classed at 'non-impacting' have lasted for over 70 years. Many last several tidal cycles
A comprehensive analysis of combined stormwater overflow (CSO) discharges to coastal waters and data communications by a UK water company between 2021 and 2023 @envsci.rsc.org
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Happy to share our new paper on the impacts of corporate capture strategies on human and ecosystem health 🌍
Available Open Access at 👉 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
@dralexford.bsky.social @ipcp.bsky.social @acs.org
New paper from the @ipcp.bsky.social board -
Corporate ‘Capture Strategies’ Impacting Human and Ecosystem Health
We highlight that capture strategies go beyond regulatory capture to include individuals, organisations, governments and intergovernmental meetings
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
We have a new publication. Thanks @dralexford.bsky.social for leading this work!
New paper from the @ipcp.bsky.social board -
Corporate ‘Capture Strategies’ Impacting Human and Ecosystem Health
We highlight that capture strategies go beyond regulatory capture to include individuals, organisations, governments and intergovernmental meetings
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
#CefasScience #OneHealth
Over 400 signatories united in support of the OECD PFAS definition! 🎉The list of signatories is still growing. If you're working in the field—and especially if you're based in Latin America, Africa, South Asia, or Southeast Asia—sign here: lnkd.in/d9X-sBd2
Read our statement: lnkd.in/dbQvpVHY
“Woody, those are the countries which make money from plastics” #plasticstreaty #globalplasticstreaty #plasticpollution #INC-5.2 #conflictsofinterest #petrochemicals
