"deep-sea miners claim zero-waste mining is possible" well it is only possible if you have very specific definitions of what waste from mining is (& also make assumptions what you are comparing) - basically it is not true in reality triplepundit.com/2025/deep-se...

🇵🇸 Building bridges with Palestine: #DSA2025 reflections on what higher education can and must do. Reflections by @nofyanza.bsky.social from @gdi-students-4-pal.bsky.social

"It was the final session on the last day of the 2025 DSA Conference in Bath. Yet, it stood apart from any other session I’ve experienced in my entire career." Read Sandy Nofyanza's reflections on a 'Gaza Action Planning Workshop' and the takeaways for the higher education sector. bit.ly/3TYpbEr

New from Tyndall Centre + international researchers: GlobalRx, the first global dataset of prescribed burns spans over 200K records across 16 countries and 12 biomes🔥 With #ClimateChange reshaping burn windows, GlobalRX is vital for safe, adaptive land management. 📖 Read more: buff.ly/gQtZiNU

I agree. And this is why interventions like REDD+ were only resulted in modest impact at best since it's not directly (and unable to) addressing wealth-related d&d drivers. The money from REDD+ is tiny compared to nickel mining money.....

Trump admin destroying their national security from within -- from pulling development aid to dismantling research www.science.org/content/arti...

🌳Two new papers from Johan Oldekop and the Sustainable Forest Transitions team have been published this week. The first is written by GDI's Johan Oldekop, Lucas Alencar, Katie Devenish, Thuy Duong Khuu, Mariana C. Hernández-Montilla, Sandy Nofyanza and colleagues: bit.ly/4i4Tino

We are pleased to share with you a new blog post written by the GDI Students for Palestine group. The group questions what conflicts like Gaza mean for the study and practice of global development, as well as the role of universities like Manchester. Read the piece in full here: bit.ly/3QJFNyn

Dressing up as a pterodactyl for #WorldBookDay 📚

First post alert 🚨 Join @micgylo.bsky.social and me for panel P19 at the 2025 DSA Conference! Submit your abstracts by 28 Jan here: devstud.org.uk/conference/conference-2025/. We're eager to engage with your experience, imagination, and ideas on rural dev across the tropics! @devcomms.bsky.social