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@AnnaTurns

Senior environment editor @ConversationUK. Author #GoToxicFree. Prev freelance environmental journalist @CostingTheEarth @BBC_future @Guardian & more.

 By the sea, Devon
environmentaljournalist.co.uk
Joined June 2013
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I've been searching for a toxic-free wetsuit - here's what I found for @guardian @guardianeco theguardian.com/environment/…
The search for the perfect wetsuit: is there one that doesn’t harm the planet?

The search for the perfect wetsuit: is there one that doesn’t harm the planet?

Neoprene is made from toxic chemicals, hard to recycle and, with 400,000 tonnes made a year, a growing problem. So can surfers and swimmers find green wetsuits?

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leanahosea@leanahosea16 Apr 2025
Fed up with fish caught by supertrawlers & fleets owned by corporate giants? @AnnaTurns on the companies delivering fish caught by small scale UK fishing fleets fresh from the dock to your door: theguardian.com/environment/… @HugoSAS @OceanaUK
The rise of the digital fishmonger: how Covid helped customers buy fresh from the boat

The rise of the digital fishmonger: how Covid helped customers buy fresh from the boat

Britain’s traditional retailers were in decline for years. Then the pandemic changed how we buy food and boosted the fishing industry

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TheAJEUK@TheAJEUK12 Mar 2025
REMINDER! Join @AnnaTurns from @ConversationUK for a free webinar on March 21: ‘Republish the planet’ - a journalist’s quick guide to using free environment stories by academic experts. Find out more and book a place on the link below ajeuk.org/the-conversation-u…
Booking now open for free webinar -The Conversation UK hosts ‘Republish the planet’ event

Booking now open for free webinar -The Conversation UK hosts ‘Republish the planet’ event

When: Friday, March 21Time: 14.00-15.00 GMTRegistration: Free. Please register via Eventbrite to receive a Zoom link Summary: The Conversation’s senior environment editor, Anna Turns, is running a …

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TheAJEUK@TheAJEUK19 Feb 2025
We’re looking forward to this! Join @AnnaTurns from @ConversationUK for a free webinar on March 21: ‘Republish the planet’ - a journalist’s quick guide to using free environment stories by academic experts. Find out more and book a place on the link below ajeuk.org/the-conversation-u…
Booking now open for free webinar -The Conversation UK hosts ‘Republish the planet’ event

Booking now open for free webinar -The Conversation UK hosts ‘Republish the planet’ event

When: Friday, March 21Time: 14.00-15.00 GMTRegistration: Free. Please register via Eventbrite to receive a Zoom link Summary: The Conversation’s senior environment editor, Anna Turns, is running a …

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Meet the fungi that live in the sea theconversation.com/meet-the… @PlymUni @thembauk @PlymUniMI @ConversationUK @ConversationUS @ERC_Research @AnnaTurns 🌊🍄🔬🧬
Meet the fungi that live in the sea

Meet the fungi that live in the sea

Despite being known to science for over a century thanks to a few early pioneering marine mycologists, most people have never heard of marine fungi.

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#WorldAMRawarenessWeek Special Read @AnnaTurns's Global #AMR Media Awards 1st Prize winning (global category) article published in @BBC bbc.com/future/article/20240… 👉 #GoToxicFree 👈 #ClimateJustice integral to #HealthJustice & #DevelopmentJustice #AntimicrobialResistance #WAAW
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Alex Lipp@AlexGLipp22 Nov 2024
I'm in The Conversation discussing the new release of nationwide sewage spill data in the wider context of open data, open models and environmental transparency. 1/n #opendata theconversation.com/water-co…
Water companies now have to release live sewage spill data – here’s why more transparency is the...

Water companies now have to release live sewage spill data – here’s why more transparency is the...

A new law is forcing water companies to make pollution data readily accessible to the general public - but it doesn’t go far enough.

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Super proud to share @ConversationUK 's inaugural BSL-first article by @aud2526 #Climate #BritishSignLanguage theconversation.com/how-we-d…
How we developed sign language for ten of the trickiest climate change terms

How we developed sign language for ten of the trickiest climate change terms

Rather than literally translating English words, experts have focused on visually representing the underlying concepts for these terms.

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🌟 Huge congratulations to @AnnaTurns for winning the Global AMR Media Award 2024 with her brilliant feature on the hidden threat of #AMR in our seas and rivers! 🌊🦠 So well-deserved! 👏 Read the article here: bbc.com/future/article/20240…
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🏆 Congratulations ✨ @AnnaTurns ✨ for 1st prize in global category of Global AMR Media Awards 2024! #GoToxicFree ☆ Watch the recording youtube.com/watch?v=pfdouK_H… Congrats to all 38 Global #AMR Media Awardees (read them here: bit.ly/awardees2024 #AntimicrobialResistance
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Elitsa Penkova 🦠 (@PenkovaElitsa) profile pictureElitsa Penkova 🦠@PenkovaElitsa8 Nov 2024
🌟 Huge congratulations to @AnnaTurns for winning the Global AMR Media Award 2024 with her brilliant feature on the hidden threat of #AMR in our seas and rivers! 🌊🦠 So well-deserved! 👏 Read the article here: bbc.com/future/article/20240…
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TheAJEUK@TheAJEUK6 Nov 2024
Interested in finding out how to get credible environment experts for your print and online content? @ConversationUK are hosting a free ‘Republish the Planet’ webinar tomorrow which may help - details on the link below @AnnaTurns ajeuk.org/the-conversation-u…
Booking now open for free webinar -The Conversation UK hosts ‘Republish the planet’ event

Booking now open for free webinar -The Conversation UK hosts ‘Republish the planet’ event

When: Friday, March 21Time: 14.00-15.00 GMTRegistration: Free. Please register via Eventbrite to receive a Zoom link Summary: The Conversation’s senior environment editor, Anna Turns, is running a …

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Did you know our envt stories @ConversationUK are all free to republish? Join me, @Will_deF and @J_E_Marley tomorrow to find out more. Details via @TheAJEUK ajeuk.org/the-conversation-u… #RepublishThePlanet
Booking now open for free webinar -The Conversation UK hosts ‘Republish the planet’ event

Booking now open for free webinar -The Conversation UK hosts ‘Republish the planet’ event

When: Friday, March 21Time: 14.00-15.00 GMTRegistration: Free. Please register via Eventbrite to receive a Zoom link Summary: The Conversation’s senior environment editor, Anna Turns, is running a …

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Move over Moo Deng. Welcome to the world Haggis. Here's why the African forest where pygmy hippos live in the world has disappeared: theconversation.com/moo-deng… @ConversationUK
Moo Deng: the celebrated hippo’s real home has disappeared – will the world restore it?

Moo Deng: the celebrated hippo’s real home has disappeared – will the world restore it?

Deforestation has cast Moo Deng’s wild relatives into a hostile landscape of cocoa farms and mines.

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Moo Deng? Who deng? Introducing… Haggis 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Otto and Gloria have welcomed an ADORABLE pygmy hippo calf! She is doing well, but we’ll be keeping the hippo house closed for the time being so that our expert keepers can keep a close eye on mum and baby at this sensitive time 🦛💛
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"...#AntimicrobialResistance can seem quite abstract. Strong storytelling can play a powerful role in connecting people to this often hidden issue & promoting +ve action..." (@AnnaTurns, @ConversationUK) ⭐️Join us! 7 Nov. Global #AMR Media Awards & Forum us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
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Thanks for having me on the show this morning - great to chat about #Cop16 @ConversationUK
Monocle Radio (@Monocle_Radio) profile pictureMonocle Radio@Monocle_Radio23 Oct 2024
The Globalist: @TashLindstaedt on the dimming prospects for US diplomacy in the Middle East. Plus: @AnnaTurns on #COP16, @N_Sobrevilla on the sentencing of Peru’s Toledo and Chris Smith of @NakedScientists on eradicating malaria in Egypt monocle.com/radio/shows/the-…
Can the US secure a ceasefire ahead of the election?

Can the US secure a ceasefire ahead of the election?

Antony Blinken is back in the Middle East – but prospects for a ceasefire appear slim. We also get the...

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Tomorrow is international sloth day....but they need your help. Sloths are too slow to adapt to climate change – new study theconversation.com/sloths-a… via @ConversationUK
Sloths are too slow to adapt to climate change – new study

Sloths are too slow to adapt to climate change – new study

Highland sloths are not able to slow their metabolic rate like lowland sloths when temperatures get too hot.

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‘Vast’ carbon sink of mud on seabed needs more protection, study shows dlvr.it/TDQ7Mz
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