The SNP are running an executive from Norway's state fossil fuel company for Shetland's seat in Holyrood.
A look at her candidacy, policies (so far) and lobbying in my latest, for @desmog.com:
In the Guardian today with some environmental sleuthing from Britain’s most remote inhabited island:
Full paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
2) With so many potential sources (2 wastewater plants, near 200 CSOs, 500+ landfills) it probably easier to restrict at source than treat later.
“[Water companies] don’t have the capacity to treat these compounds," says author @dralexford.bsky.social. "That’s why they should be banned at source.”
Back in @mongabay.com breaking down a new way of looking at invasives. Current frameworks look at socio-economic/biodiversity impacts (cash & kills). Now researchers are asking about suffering:
@[email protected] @meekl.bsky.social
news.mongabay.com/2026/05/how-...
1) Not all Pfas are equal. Individually, many chemicals were below safe limits. But if you weight each one by its specific toxicity and add that up *combined* risk was in the red for far more samples.
Ran this weighted test on remote lochs in @theferret.scot: www.theferret.scot/orkney-highl...
