🧪⚒️ <1 wk left to sign up for the EQUATOR 2.0 Mentoring Network, which is ringfenced for Black, Asian and minority ethnic students in Geography, Earth, & Environmental Sciences in the UK. Professionals and/or academic mentors especially needed! equatorresearchgroup.wordpress.com/mentoring-ne...

Mentoring Network 2.0

We are delighted to announce the EQUATOR 2.0 Mentoring Network, which will take place from January 2024 to May 2024. This mentoring programme is ringfenced for Black, Asian and minority ethnic student...

..."in the end, the climate crisis is not about pledges, statistics, reports or activists. It’s about human suffering and ruined lives. It’s about death." #GreenSky#Climatecrisiswww.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

At Cop28 it feels as if humanity’s shared lifeboat is sinking. There are only hours left to act | ...

Leaders and activists must fight to the end in Dubai to stop vested interests sabotaging progress on fossil fuel phase-out and adaptation, says climate activist Vanessa Nakate

I'm not good at being off sick. Luckily, I have a companion who makes lounging look good.

"Rather than listening to reason or scientific fact, the UK government continues to hand out contracts for oil exploration in the name of false ‘energy security’ while steering the UK towards authoritarianism" 🧪⚒️ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Actors and academics criticise UK over climate ‘madness’ and limits on protest

Letter says government pushing ahead with new fossil fuel projects while criminalising activists who raise alarm

"We have to put class and the studies of inequality between social classes right at the centre of our analyses of environmental challenges in general" 🧪⚒️ amp.theguardian.com/environment/...

Your regular reminder that "Scaling CCS does not mean business-as-usual for the fossil fuel industry" ETC will be releasing a pre-COP28 report on Fossil Fuels in Transition this week, but for now they published a blog post: www.energy-transitions.org/bitesize/car...

"..the Anishinaabe people have been monitoring anthropogenic climate change long before it was a regular topic of public discussion" Native Science is real Science. www.bbc.com/future/artic...#GreenSky

Climate scientists are working with indigenous tribes

Native peoples have long collected environmental data. Now scientists are cataloguing these observations and learning how they're affecting indigenous communities globally.

Feel so privileged to work with students from a range of backgrounds, all with different ideas, different experiences, different hope and dreams. Every day, no matter what is happening in academia, it is the teaching that challenges, that satisfies, that lifts me up. #AcademicSky ⚒️🧪

Nowhere near as badly as it was meant to! Got lucky!

Taking Geographers to a classic geology field location and having great conversations about rocks and what they tell us about paleoenvironments and landscape evolution makes me very happy 😍 🧪⚒️ Very positive way to end the week! #LoveGeoscience