Newcastle University Anthropocene Research Group

Transdisciplinary research network at Newcastle Uni driving new transformative approaches to knowledge co-production, and solutions for a rapidly changing world

[Newcastle University Anthropocene Research Group @AnthropoceneNCL]

We're back! Relaunched and revamped to provide Newcastle's transdisciplinary response to the #anthropocene. Centred around our core four themes below!

Anthropocene.
Approach.
Network.
Postgraduate.
(1/6) @HaSSResNCL @nuhri_ncl @StudentsNCL

[Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences @HaSSFacultyNCL]

Join @PatrickBao1 to hear about his new book 'Contemporary Chinese Queer Performance'.
📅Friday 12 May
⏲️2.00pm
🗺️ Newcastle University
Reserve your space: https://t.co/7qbjfpW7yf

[Newcastle University Anthropocene Research Group @AnthropoceneNCL]

Come along to our final lecture in our seminar series, for this academic yr: Prof Jens Söntgen (University of Augsburg) will speak on "A Farewell to Fire?"
Time: 4 May at 5pm Venue: HDB G.11
#anthropocene #research
@HaSSFacultyNCL @StudentsNCL @NCLsocsciences @NCLcreativearts

[Newcastle University Anthropocene Research Group @AnthropoceneNCL]

A great return to form with an excellent turnout for our first in person event in 2 years! A big thank you to @NclPolitics's Professor Hartmut Behr for exploring and discussing his concept of 'reversibility' and its relevance to the Anthropocene debate!

@nuhri_ncl @StudentsNCL

[Newcastle University Anthropocene Research Group @AnthropoceneNCL]

Interested? Make sure to follow us and keep your eyes on our account and check out our website for more at 👉https://t.co/S1oJ48Dvcs

[Newcastle University Anthropocene Research Group @AnthropoceneNCL]

We're back! Relaunched and revamped to provide Newcastle's transdisciplinary response to the #anthropocene. Centred around our core four themes below!

Anthropocene.
Approach.
Network.
Postgraduate.
(1/6) @HaSSResNCL @nuhri_ncl @StudentsNCL

[Newcastle University Anthropocene Research Group @AnthropoceneNCL]

Postgraduates:
Plus, we want our student community @UniofNewcastle @newcastle to be involved with us. We want you to Collaborate, Engage and Contribute!
(Don't worry Undergraduates, we have lots on offer for you @nuhri_ncl )👉 https://t.co/3mLs821WsO
(5/6)

[GCRF Living Deltas Hub @livingdeltas]

On #EarthDay2021 @livingdeltas had a street exhibition in #Hanoi engaging with citizens on sustainable delta futures in the face of #climatechange and associated threats @beisgovuk @GarethWardUK

[GCRF Living Deltas Hub @livingdeltas]

Our #EarthDay2021 Hanoi street exhibition on #ClimateAction and delta sustainability was a great success thanks to our @livingdeltas partners @Warecod 😊. @beisgovuk @GarethWardUK @UniofNewcastle

[Newcastle University Geography @NCL_Geography]

Job opportunity. We are appointing a *Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography*, with particular interests in cosmogenic nuclide analysis & quantitative geomorphology. Come join our renowned @NCLPhysGeog team. Closing date: 24th May 2021. More details: https://t.co/eJ7dIElrNU

[Newcastle University Anthropocene Research Group @AnthropoceneNCL]

https://t.co/o7Xp2Hib7H

[Professor Mark Maslin 👋 𝕏 @ProfMarkMaslin]

'Welcome to the Anthropocene'

7.7 billion humans & growing
3 trillion trees cut down
1000s of species extinct
37% of land used for farming
Nitrogen fixation doubled
Atm CO2 up 47%
Atm CH4 up 245%
Micro-plastics in all oceans
Global temp. up > 1 C

How do we change the future?

[Newcastle University Anthropocene Research Group @AnthropoceneNCL]

Deeply worrying - and projected melt of the Himalayan plateau even under the most optimistic carbon reduction strategies will compound this by driving up existential threats of change in flow regime of some of the world's major rivers @marcgoichot @DrChrisHackney @livingdeltas

[💧Marc Goichot🌎💦 @marcgoichot]

Sediment delivery to world 50 largest deltas:
most will become starved by 2100 further
compounding sea level risks
most severe reductions in Asian largest & most densely populated: Ganges (81% less) + Mekong (77%)
@WWFLeadWater @henkovink @karmanomad #RAD
https://t.co/xt6LsZfAWj

[Chris Mooney @chriscmooney]

On the @washingtonpost front page today, installment #3 of the "2°C: Beyond the Limit" series -- "In fast-thawing Siberia, radical climate change is warping the earth beneath the feet of millions" https://t.co/Tx9nQOHuO3

[Achim Steiner @ASteiner]

In our world, there are 1.8 billion young people btw the ages of 10-24! - our greatest allies in achieving #Agenda2030. By @UNDP partnering w/ #youth, we can work towards creating empowered generations & support long-term #SustainableDevelopment: https://t.co/TYeuDj54bT #SDGs

[Paul Dawson 📚 @PaulEDawson]

"We are triggering a mass extinction event, and critically we cannot separate one environmental crisis from another."

"Biodiversity loss cannot be partitioned from climate change, or from human population growth or pollution or plastics in our oceans." https://t.co/kJbpDIbPk1

[Rachael Swindon @Rachael_Swindon]

This Palestinian teacher lets her young students choose their greeting when they arrive for school in the morning. Unbelievably heartwarming. https://t.co/o6RtjXXLkf

[Newcastle University Anthropocene Research Group @AnthropoceneNCL]

As a higher rate taxpayer I do NOT want any tax relief - this MUST go to the more disadvantaged in our society. Simply MUST.

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

#BorisJohnson will claim to speak for Britain. But at every turn he will promote the interests of the immensely rich and powerful people who helped lever him into office.
This is what all demagogues do.