'30,000 people are killed or seriously injured on our roads every year, less than 3 involving a cyclist'
Former Olympic cycling champion Chris Boardman spoke to #BBCBreakfast about Government plans to make causing death or serious injury by dangerous or careless cycling an offence
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NEW RESEARCH: A 1°C temperature rise can cause a tenfold increase in displaced people.
Reseachers studied the effects of conflict, weather, and drought on forced displacement in Somalia.
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@TrevorABranch This is a really good debate topic... for those who like audio/visual learning, I remember this webinar a couple of years ago to be a nice discussion piece: https://t.co/Ff0i9W0AP9. Also, always good to see people from the fishery, hear their accents and see where they fish too.
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1/. As the death toll rises to 41 today, four women you should know who were deliberately and unlawfully killed in Iran when protesting gender apartheid and the killing of #Masha_Amini:
Hadis Najafi, aged 20, shot six times when security forces opened fire on her.
OH MY F***ING GOD!
@SophyRidgeSky: But these tax cuts will mainly benefit millionaires.
Mark Littlewood: "You're not going to like this package if you care more about the poor."
@MarkJLittlewood = director of the pro-Brexit IEA think-tank. (funding?)
Hard to comprehend the scale of the flood disaster in Pakistan, the 5th most populated nation in the world.
Nearly 1400 dead, 1 million houses damaged or destroyed, and 50,000,000 people displaced.
1/3 of the country is underwater.
🛑EXPOSED: The #DirtyDozen fuelling the plastic pollution crisis and choking the Ocean with their single-use packaging 🛑⠀
Our 2022 Brand Audit has revealed these 12 companies are responsible for a staggering 70% of packaging pollution.
#DirtyDozen#EndPlasticPollution
I accidentally made a map comparing rainfall and sunshine hours across the UK in 2021.
Conclusive proof that Yorkshire>Lancashire (among other things).
High-res version here: https://t.co/KxqaZMiRJI
Drivers kill 600 cyclists and pedestrians every year.
Cyclists generally cause the death of zero pedestrians.
Yet, @grantshapps is wasting Civil Servants' time on a measure that will increase fatalities by encouraging cyclists to drive.
Embarrassing.
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In this experiment Dr Rob Thompson of @UniRdg_Met shows just how long it takes water to soak into parched ground, illustrating why heavy rainfall after a #drought can be dangerous and might lead to flashfloods.
@R0b1et@UniRdg_water
NEW: An Oxford study estimating the environmental impact of 57,000 food products in the UK and Ireland has been published.
Researchers found that plant-based foods have the lowest environmental impacts and more nutritious foods are often more sustainable.
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In a world-first, an all female deck crew +First Officer, Engineer + Bosun on a tuna longliner set off today on their maiden voyage. An FFA and SeaQuest collab.