Alice Bell
Co-run a climate charity. Also a writer, specialising in history and politics of science. Former academic and museum worker. Knitter. Baker. Very slow runner.
Last synced from Twitter 7m ago
Remember the rainforests? We still haven’t saved them.
A Pennsylvania-sized chunk of forest fell in 2018.
Alice Bell
Every half hour in 2018, the world lost a football-field chunk of tropical forest.
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Climate Action and Extinction Rebellion: 23 Apr 2019: House of Commons debates
TheyWorkForYou is a website which makes it easy to keep track of your local MP's activities.
BBC World Service - Witness History, Britain's first vegans
The Vegan Society was established in 1944 by British 'non-dairy vegetarians'
Alice Bell
Really interesting podcast on the origins of the word vegan and plant-based eating campaigns in the 1940s
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Mueller report exposes ‘Miners for Trump’ as a Russian troll effort
Photo of a coal miner on one poster was actually a lifelong Democrat who died of black lung disease.
These Scientists Are Radically Changing How They Live To Cope With Climate Change
When the US government is doing nothing to stop climate change, do your personal choices even matter? Here’s how climate scientists are — and aren’t — changing their lives.
Britain breaks coal-free power record
UK sees longest continuous period without generating electricity from coal as temperatures soar.
gal-dem internship program
gal-dem is an award-winning media company in which all of the content is produced by women of colour and non-binary people of colour and we are currently recruiting for interns between the ages of 16-22. This application is for our first two interns...
A letter from founder Liv Little on the future of gal-dem
gal-dem is entering a new era as a fully-fledged media outlet. Founder Liv Little looks back at where we've come from and gives an insight into what's next.
Taking solar railways off the drawing board onto the tracks
For the last few years we’ve been working to make solar powered trains a reality in the UK - and this summer will see the first set of solar panels plugged in!
Alice Bell
Super sunny train ride on the Wessex route out of Waterloo this afternoon. This time next year, we could be running these trains on solar.
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Museum becomes Musk after stolen sheep snap
The Museum of English Rural Life now appears as Elon Musk on Twitter after he used their sheep picture.
Do 15% of people take 70% of flights?
Crunching the best available data suggests that, yes, they do.
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Alice Bell
Today is a good day to remind everyone that, in the UK, 15% of people take 70% of flights
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The Restless Sphere, BBC, June 30, 1957
"The Restless Sphere" aired on the BBC on June 30, 1957. Hosted by Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, it opened the International Geophysical Year, an int...
Alice Bell
This is for @RouaneDavid but you can all enjoy. 1957 BBC doc The Restless Sphere, fronted by Prince Phillip, refers to global warming and worries of sea level rise
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Iconic objects
Explore iconic objects and original apparatus of the amazing individuals who have researched, lectured and lived at the Ri - from Humphry Davy, Michael Faraday and John Tyndall to James Dewar, the Braggs and George Porter.
Alice Bell
@Ri_Science Some pics of the collection here, but you should try to go if you can (free)
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Are Extinction Rebellion whitewashing climate justice?
Concerns have been raised that Extinction Rebellion's tactics fail to acknowledge the long history of police brutality against communities of colour.
Why protesters should be wary of '12 years to climate breakdown' rhetoric
I helped write the IPCC 1.5°C report the number apparently comes from. But the truth is better – and worse – than that.
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Alice Bell
"please stop saying something globally bad is going to happen in 2030. Bad stuff is already happening and every half a degree of warming matters"
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