🦴 Microplastics and bone health A new review finds microplastics can accumulate in bone tissue, altering cells, weakening structure, and potentially linking to diseases like osteoporosis. 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #SciComm #Health #Plastics 🧪

A tiny, obscure animal often sold as aquarium food has been quietly protecting our planet from global warming by undertaking an epic migration. My write-up of new research here www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Don’t forget to preorder from your local bookstore! 😊 yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

It was an honour to present our work on #microplastics in rivers to the APPG on microplastics in Westminster last week chaired by Alberto Costa MP with reps from @womensinstitute.bsky.social & various organisations. Excellent discussion on how to limit microplastics entering the environment.

🚨 NEW: Graduate Aidan joins Prof. @jamie-woodward.bsky.social to reveal how England’s water firms mislead the public on #sewage #pollution. youtu.be/5MJ_lC3Tcvw

Prof Jamie Woodward recently contributed to the APPG on microplastics' roundtable 'Microplastic Pollution in Sewage and Sludge: Scale, Impact, and Solutions' The event explored current and emerging solutions, and how government, regulators, and industry can work together to address the issue.

It was an honour to present our work on #microplastics in rivers to the APPG on microplastics in Westminster last week chaired by Alberto Costa MP with reps from @womensinstitute.bsky.social & various organisations. Excellent discussion on how to limit microplastics entering the environment.

Here's the Open Statement on sludge spreading launched by us at Fighting Dirty, and signed by many leading figures. The water companies are using farmland as a dump for hazardous chemicals. They mislead farmers, poison the land and threaten our health. It must stop. fightingdirty.org/open-stateme...

World must move from ‘plunder to protection’ to save oceans, UN chief warns - At #UNOC summit in France, António Guterres calls for bold pledges to stop deep sea becoming ‘wild west’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Government said it’d cost £99bn to publicly own our water. But this figure is based on a report paid for by… the water companies. The true cost is closer to zero. @ewanmg.bsky.social explains why on @lbc.co.uk with Andrew Marr 👇

Fantastic work! @jamie-woodward.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social 💧 youtu.be/JP9o6K2HnME

New ‘River Rescue Kit’ empowers campaigners to tackle sewage pollution. 🚱 Expert from @uniofmanchester.bsky.social, has contributed to the online resource designed to empower communities to take action against the growing crisis of river pollution. ⤵️ www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/n...

1 May 1831: Oxford geologist William Buckland writes to Henry De la Beche that #MaryAnning 'has found a small & very perfect Ichthyosaurus...the best she says she has ever seen' and was asking £40. Her waiting list for ichthyosaur specimens included collectors Beriah Botfield and William D. Saull.

Great! Can’t wait to read this, Jamie!

Flood Zone 3 - highest risk areas for flooding - the EA says homes should only be built there in exceptional cases but, BBC File on Four reveals, between 2013 & 2022, 205,000 homes were built in FZ3. "A ticking time bomb of misery" says @jamie-woodward.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Pre-order now! @yalebooks.bsky.social

Delighted to share my upcoming book in the @yalebooks.bsky.social Little Histories Series: “A lively account of the history of our planet, from its earliest origins to the present day, told through the major geological changes and scientific breakthroughs” yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300... 23-09-25

Excellent analysis. The UK government is planning to allow the building of yet more new homes in areas at risk from #flooding HT @Jamie_Woodward_ #GeographyTeacher #ClimateEmergency www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Born #OTD William 'Strata' Smith was an English geologist, who created the first detailed nationwide geological map of any country

23 March 1769: birth of geologist, surveyor and land drainer William Smith at Churchill, Oxfordshire, a pioneer of the use of fossils in stratigraphy and of geological mapping. His 1815 map, 'A Delineation of the Strata of England and Wales', with its novel colour shading, was groundbreaking.

Our bestselling Little Histories series is getting a new look! The colourful paperbacks and elegant new hardbacks are coming to all good booksellers very soon... 🇬🇧 8 April 🇺🇸 13 May @nigelwarburton.bsky.social @snezanalawrence.bsky.social Discover the series: yalebooks.co.uk/little-histo...

Delighted to share my upcoming book in the @yalebooks.bsky.social Little Histories Series: “A lively account of the history of our planet, from its earliest origins to the present day, told through the major geological changes and scientific breakthroughs” yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300... 23-09-25

NEW: @jamie-woodward.bsky.social has contributed to the ‘River Rescue Kit’, an innovative online tool to help communities combat river pollution 💧 ⬇️ Watch the video to see Jamie reveal devastating sewage contamination in local rivers. www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/n... youtu.be/JP9o6K2HnME?...

~14.7 million cubic meters of frozen moraine material collapsed and created a ~20 m high tsunami-like wave that eroded the frontal moraine dam. The water released from the lake during the GLOF event was ~50 million m3, (~20,000 Olympic sized swimming pools) 2/

New paper in Science led by @glacier-hazards.bsky.social has reconstructed the multihazard cascade of the 3rd Oct. 2023 South Lhonak GLOF event in Sikkim triggered by a lateral moraine failure into proglacial lake! 🌊🏔️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 1/

#Microplastics in placentas linked to premature births, study suggests - Tiny plastic pollution more than 50% higher in placentas from preterm births than in those from full-term births Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Jamie's new research reveals that England's major water and sewage companies are misleading the public by using deception tactics, to deflect blame for sewage pollution. Read more 👇

Meet the expert 💡 Jamie Woodward, Professor of Physical Geography here at Manchester, was one of the earliest academics to raise awareness about the issue of widespread discharges of untreated sewage into UK rivers and waterways. Follow him @jamie-woodward.bsky.social

Report by @dralexford.bsky.social @jamie-woodward.bsky.social @oxonandrew.bsky.social @windrushwasp.bsky.social

Water industry strategies to manufacture doubt and deflect blame for sewage pollution in England www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Shocking scientific paper #Water industry strategies to manufacture doubt & deflect blame for sewage pollution in England They adopted Fossil Fuel tactics to downplay environmental harm, misrepresent information, undermine scientific research shift blame & delay action www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Water companies are spreading disinformation to 'manufacture doubt' about sewage spilling Water and sewage monopolies are using a corporate propaganda playbook to confuse the public about their environmental harm - and to avoid scrutiny www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

“The financial exploitation of water resources in England, alongside long-term degradation of infrastructure and ineffective regulation, raises globally important issues around water security, ethics and environmental stewardship. “

Water industry strategies to manufacture doubt and deflect blame for sewage pollution in England www.nature.com/articles/s44...

In the past five years, a huge amount of untreated wastewater has been released into English waterways. An analysis in Nature Water of the communication used by the water utilities shows that they have employed strategies used by large polluting industries. https://go.nature.com/4gifV6O 🧪

Water companies in England ‘use greenwashing playbook to hide environmental harm' www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Are UK Water Companies “Merchants of Doubt”? west-devon.info/2025/01/are-... "The water and sewerage companies (WaSCs) in England are majority-owned by a range of global investors. The industry is under intense scrutiny for widespread failure in its environmental performance" 🧵👇 #SewagePollution

Excellent - and alarming - work by @jamie-woodward.bsky.social and colleagues on water companies attempts to deflect blame over river pollution www.nature.com/articles/s44...

See also this: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Oh no! UK water companies are in the headlines for greenwashing again. Which reminds me of this excellent infomercial I came across a while back. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kwf...

Important new research out today concludes that English “water companies are adopting disinformation tactics similar to those used by the fossil fuel and tobacco industries with the widespread use of greenwashing to downplay the environmental harm they cause”. 👇 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

England water companies use disinformation tactics similar to fossil fuel & tobacco industries with the widespread use of greenwashing to downplay the environmental harm they cause. They describe sewage overflows as “heavily diluted rainwater”. Can't trust them. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Water companies in England ‘use greenwashing playbook to hide environmental harm’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Severn Trent Water dividends to rise, water bills go up. A serial offender, dumps sewage in rivers, has 62 criminal convictions. BBC Panorama claimed Severn Trent inflated its investment by £1.68bn Water bills to be hiked by 47% to 2030. Who protects the people? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Corporations are destroying our communities. They're destroying our democracy. And they're destroying our environment too. One of the clearest examples is our water companies where the privatisation experiment has utterly failed: www.bbc.com/news/article...

New report reveals the strategies of distortion water firms use to hide the extent of sewage pollution. Highlights include watered down poo, no evidence of harm (because no-one ran tests), we're not the only ones polluting & we wouldn't want to put your bills up... www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Anglian Water passed thousands of pollution tests at sewage plants that weren’t carried out. That's what happens when companies self certify. Sewage dumping under stated. Will get worse, regulators required to promote growth i.e. keep quiet, fewer fines. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

UK govt contacts potential administrators for Thames Water. Water companies fleece customers, dump sewage in rivers, neglect investment, paid excessive dividends. Govt wants to use administration to restructure companies, return them to private sector. NOT OK www.theguardian.com/business/202...

A report based on a an impactful and very insightful paper by @jamie-woodward.bsky.social and colleagues

Water companies in England ‘use greenwashing playbook to hide environmental harm’