Media highlights - 21 to 27 September 2024
Top story: Ocean experts call for new sustainable fishing standards
Professor Paul Kemp has joined other scientists in calling for a change to the prevailing definition of sustainable fishing. The experts set out 11 redefining golden rules. Read our press release
Additional media coverage
- Prof Andy Tatem spoke to SkyNews and BBC World Service about WorldPop plans to use AI-generated maps to shed light on under-mapped parts of earth
- Dr Paul Meredith's study examining the link between nursing staff shortages, serious illness and death in surgical patients was covered by Nursing Times, Nursing Standard ABC Alaska, Southern Daily Echo and Heart FM
- Dr Zoë Thomas' research showing the treeless Falkland Islands were once a diverse rainforest featured on the BBC Radio 4 programme Inside Science (at 22mins) following media coverage last week. Also in the Oman Daily Observer
- Student Jasmine Cacioppo featured on a BBC Radio 4 story about boosting biodiversity
- Prof Richard Holt spoke to the Independent about weight-gain after stopping weight-loss drug Ozempic
- Prof Peter Kazansky's project putting the human genome on his 5D memory continued to receive coverage including CNN, BBC Newsround, BBC What in the World, LBC, TalkTV, Smithsonian magazine, Evening Standard podcast, WION, Indy100, THE and the Southern Daily Echo, bringing total media mentions to over 800
- Dr Kerri Dobson's study, showing that feeding corals suffering from heat stress in a specific way helps them recover, was in Earth.com
- Prof Diana Eccles was a co-signatory on a letter in the Telegraph calling for more action from the UN to tackle the dangers of plastic to public health
- Prof Christian Bokhove told the Times Education Suppliment that discussion around reforming maths learning may be overlooking some important points
- Wave 105 reported on Dr Minkwan Kim's plans to test a space rocket thruster which could travel to deep space
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