Freelance Reporter | danshailer@btinternet.com | bits in Guardian, SciAm, Private Eye, Mongabay, Ferret, ICN | prev AP, Shetland Times, Tucson Sentinel
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23 Oct 2025
Thrilled to share that I’ve been picked as a winner of the National Academies Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications (@SciCommAwards) by @theNASEM/ @schmidtsciences.
Excited to put this back into telling climate stories!
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In the @guardian with some environmental sleuthing from Britain's most remote inhabited island:
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May 28
Back in @MongabayOrg breaking down a new way of looking at invasives. Current frameworks look at socio-economic/biodiversity impacts (cash & kills). Now researchers are asking about suffering:
@BristolUni @forwildanimals
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May 19
In the @guardian today with new research from
@portsmouthuni & @mcsuk finding toxic Pfas everywhere you look in the Solent.
Beneath that headline finding — two important takeaways about how we measure Pfas, and what to do about it.
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May 19
1) Not all Pfas are equal. Individually many chemicals were below safe limits. But if you weight each one by its specific toxicity and add that up *combined* risk was in the red far more.
Ran this weighted test on remote lochs in @FerretScot: theferret.scot/orkney-highla…
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May 19
2) With so many potential sources (2 wastewater plants, 200 CSOs, 500 landfills) it probably easier to restrict Pfas use, rather than treat later.
Water companies "don’t have the capacity to treat these compounds," says author @DrAlexFord. "They should be banned at source.”
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May 15
Do "green" tourist taxes work? The Balearic Islands have been doing it for a decade and the reviews are mixed. Latest for @AFARmedia :
afar.com/magazine/a-case-stu…
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For decades Brazilian policy-makers have "sacrificed" the country's Cerrado region to agriculture. Now scientists have found that, hectare-for-hectare, its wetlands beat the lowland Amazon for carbon storage SIX times over.
For @MongabayOrg: news.mongabay.com/2026/05/ce…
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🔴 NEW - The SNP’s Oil Executive Holyrood Candidate
The party has put forward a senior Equinor figure to stand in Shetland.
desmog.com/2026/03/12/snp-ho…
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I'm in the latest @PrivateEyeNews answering the question on no one's lips: what does Cuomo's NYC housing plan have in common with "cutting edge" Scottish fish farmers? AI!
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Feb 17
"It’s a fine shame to all involved."
Britain's biggest salmon farm has the greenlight off Shetland, and it's making unlikely bedfellows of fishers and environmentalists.
w/ @karenmcveigh1 for Guardian Seascapes:
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Feb 11
Thrilled to have won a clutch of gongs at the Highlands and Islands media awards last week, including 2025 journalist of the year. Shetland is a bustling patch and I'm lucky to cover it. @HIPBMA @shetlandtimes @HighNewsMedia
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Daniel Shailer retweeted
14 Dec 2025
🔴NEW: A body which sets environmental and welfare standards for fish farms took wholesale buyers to a Scottish salmon farm which broke its rules for 11 consecutive weeks.
Our latest investigation: bit.ly/44lsnjh
ALT Aerial view of circular salmon fish farm pens in dark water. Overlaid text reads: “REVEALED: A fish farm breached animal welfare rules. The regulator still took firms there on a PR tour.” Smaller text explains that the Aquaculture Stewardship Council showcased a Scottish farm that had breached sea lice rules 11 times.
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Daniel Shailer retweeted
13 Nov 2025
Marine mammal researchers spotted up to 10 of the critically endangered vaquita porpoises during a recent survey in the Upper Gulf of California. The sighting provides hope for the future, but scientists warn the species remains at risk of extinction.
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6 Nov 2025
While other Scottish councils spent their share of nature/coastal adaptation funds on... nature/the coast, Shetland slushed the money into its general coffers for stuff like IT and vehicle maintenance.
"Completely unacceptable" said @ScotWildlife's @ruchirlives.
Deets below.
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23 Oct 2025
Thrilled to share that I’ve been picked as a winner of the National Academies Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications (@SciCommAwards) by @theNASEM/ @schmidtsciences.
Excited to put this back into telling climate stories!
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23 Oct 2025
I'm particularly grateful to the editors who trusted me with the stories this award recognised, and helped whip them into shape: @LoebVernon w @insideclimate, @SarahExplains w @sciam and @ShannaDBaker w @hakaimagazine (now @bioGraphic).
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16 Oct 2025
HUGE (if mixed) news week for Shetland's crabs 🦀
First beachcombers find a rare Columbus crab the size of a 50p coin. Then a scientific fracas about whether subsea cables "mesmerise" crustaceans.
And we found some less good news:
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