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Rebecca Cathrine
@rebeccacathrine.bsky.social
PhD student studying the impact of microplastics on marine organisms in Indian ecosystem
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🇰🇷 APT (aka Ambitious Plastics Treaty) APT, APT, APT 🎵 Events related to the #PlasticsTreaty hashtag#Cop29 and #INC5 🇰🇷 🧵
November 18, 2024 at 2:29 PM
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📣 Calling all #plastics scientists!

Join us in calling for an effective evidence-based global #PlasticsTreaty to end plastics pollution ⬇️

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November 15, 2024 at 7:05 AM
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"Under water for six months -- and still alright."
Bakelite
Sat. Evening Post 4/25/1925
According to a 1931 US Tarriff Commission report, Bakelite Corp. spent $217,867 that year on advertising. #PlasticsTreaty
November 18, 2024 at 6:53 PM
Be cheerful for this is a new day a new possibility to make this world a better place.
November 19, 2024 at 1:02 AM
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A couple years old, but unfortunately still relevant: the hidden dangers of deep-sea mining for the ocean. [Free link]

Because of sediments, effects will not be limited to neat, square boxes on the seafloor.

A treasured collaboration with Dr. Anela Choy. 🦑🧪🌊
www.nytimes.com/2020/08/14/o...
November 18, 2024 at 5:39 AM
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Today, @carbonbrief.org has published the latest, and most comprehensive, update to our interactive map of extreme weather attribution.

The redesigned map now includes almost 750 extreme events and trends from more than 600 studies.

interactive.carbonbrief.org/attribution-...

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Mapped: How climate change affects extreme weather around the world - Carbon Brief
Attribution studies calculate whether, and by how much, climate change affected the intensity, frequency or impact of extremes – Carbon Brief has mapped every published study on how climate change has...
interactive.carbonbrief.org
November 18, 2024 at 11:03 AM
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Heyyy!!! #MarineResearchers!!!!

Are you investigating in #OceanSustainability? hence, your journal is Frontiers in Ocean Sustainability Learn about our sections:
Sustainability in Marine Conservation Ecology, led by Melanie j Bishop from Macquarie University

www.frontiersin.org/journals/oce...
November 18, 2024 at 8:10 PM
Car tyres being a major source of microplastic pollution. There is more depth to this. More research is needed.
November 18, 2024 at 11:21 PM
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My latest: Why we need a strong plastics treaty to curb pollution and our exposure to dangerous chemicals at the final UN negotiations at the end of the month

More than 3,600 chemicals found in plastic food packaging found in human bodies

#plastics #pollution

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Strong Plastics Treaty Needed to Protect People and Planet
3,600 chemicals in plastic food packaging are now in our bodies
leahy.substack.com
November 15, 2024 at 11:03 PM
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Thanks @earthdayorg.bsky.social & all the leaders & families across the globe working to stop plastic production, use, & pollution. There are healthier alternatives. Even little things help. Choose another product, recycle, reuse. It's time to move on. www.earthday.org/campaign/end... 🌏 🌱 ♻️
November 17, 2024 at 1:59 AM
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Global plastic production must be cut to curb pollution, study says #PlasticsTreaty

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Global plastic production must be cut to curb pollution, study says
Analysis lays bare huge challenge of mismanaged waste on eve of UN plastic treaty talks in Busan
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2024 at 7:37 AM
Curated the tl to brainrot F1 and kpop. Momma i did it.
November 18, 2024 at 6:05 PM
This is jus years of me talking alone in different apps.
November 18, 2024 at 12:24 AM
Bluesky take me to F1 brainrot. Tl is too wholesome. Where is the drama.
November 18, 2024 at 12:23 AM
My tl is already full of cats and i just started here. Bluesky u know whatsup !!
November 18, 2024 at 12:22 AM
Close enough. Welcome back twitter.
November 18, 2024 at 12:18 AM