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Andy Brown

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North Yorkshire Councillor for Aire Valley. Green Party. Columnist for Yorkshire Post. Write for Yorkshire bylines. Former Head of Young People's Learning for Yorkshire and the Humber

  1. We're just starting to understand the #biodiversity we are fast trashing.

    "Cryoconite granules - frozen rainforests”. Each is a self-sustaining ecosystem, containing diverse bacteria, fungi, viruses, protists & even tiny animals like tardigrades & worms" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

    Scientists in Svalbard in race to study polar microbes as global heating threatens fragile glacial ecosystems

    Arctic glaciers face ‘terminal’ decline as microbes accelerate ice melt

    Scientists in Svalbard in race to study polar microbes as global heating threatens fragile glacial ecosystems

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  2. For decades, the biomedical industry has relied on a compound in horseshoe crab blood to protect medical equipment from contamination, saving untold human lives.

    But conservationists say modern medicine’s dependence on this bloodletting is upending a globe-spanning ecosystem.

    The medical world relies on horseshoe crab blood in the production of vaccines and equipment. A synthetic is available, but companies have been slow to adopt it.

    These crabs probably saved your life. Can we save theirs?

    The medical world relies on horseshoe crab blood in the production of vaccines and equipment. A synthetic is available, but companies have been slow to adopt it.

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  3. It's a story most people don’t know anything about: Wales is setting up 2 deregulated Freeports (they are not green by any means) and 8 Special Economic Zones (SEZs). These aren’t just ports, they’re experiments in deregulated corporate governance paid for by public money (State aid)

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