Marine plastic #pollution leaches bioactive chemicals, such as the industrial lubricant oleamide, into the ocean, mimicking natural biological signals and fundamentally altering the behaviors and interactions of marine predators, like octopuses, and their prey.
#MarineBiology #Ecology #Environmental #BehavioralScience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/02/mb02242601.html

Marine plastic #pollution leaches bioactive chemicals, such as the industrial lubricant oleamide, into the ocean, mimicking natural biological signals and fundamentally altering the behaviors and interactions of marine predators, like octopuses, and their prey.
#MarineBiology #Ecology #Environmental #BehavioralScience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/02/mb02242601.html

"The #Senedd building has long been recognised for its #environmental credentials, operating with natural light and ventilation, low-carbon heating and cooling, and extensive rainwater harvesting systems

The Siambr redevelopment has sought to maintain that #sustainability focus, including:

Reusing Welsh oak from original Members’ desks

Refurbishing and reusing existing oak doors

Using slate from the same Welsh quarry as the original construction". #Cymru

https://nation.cymru/news/mss-return-to-revamped-siambr-ahead-of-2026-election/

"The #Senedd building has long been recognised for its #environmental credentials, operating with natural light and ventilation, low-carbon heating and cooling, and extensive rainwater harvesting systems

The Siambr redevelopment has sought to maintain that #sustainability focus, including:

Reusing Welsh oak from original Members’ desks

Refurbishing and reusing existing oak doors

Using slate from the same Welsh quarry as the original construction". #Cymru

https://nation.cymru/news/mss-return-to-revamped-siambr-ahead-of-2026-election/

@EUCommission
If you want to keep moving in the right direction, please do not turn the ongoing #simplification into #deregulation. This would be dismantling #environmental safeguards established over decades through democratic processes and grounded in clear scientific evidence, which underpin the #EU’s legal obligation to ensure a high level of #nature protection.

As you mention yourself, #climate action and economic #growth can go hand-in-hand.

SpaceX filed an application with the US Federal Communications Commission for a megaconstellation of up to one million #satellites to power data centres in #space.

The proposal envisions satellites operating between 500 and 2,000 kilometres in low Earth #orbit. Some of the orbits are designed for near-constant exposure to sunlight.

The approval process for these satellites focuses almost entirely on the limited technical info companies have to submit to regulators.

Cultural, spiritual, and most #environmental impacts aren’t taken into account – but they should be.

At this scale of growth, the night #sky will change permanently and globally for generations to come.

In 2021, astronomers estimated that in less than a decade, 1 in every 15 points of light in the night sky would be a moving satellite. That estimate only included the 65 000 #megaconstellation satellites proposed at the time.

Once deployed at a scale of millions, the impacts on the night sky may not be easily reversed.

#astronomy
https://theconversation.com/too-many-satellites-earths-orbit-is-on-track-for-a-catastrophe-but-we-can-stop-it-275430