IPCC Chair @jimskeaclimate.bsky.social addressed the opening of Earth Information Day 2025 at COP30 today, stating that “during testing times, and facing complex challenges, IPCC will continue to reach for consensus on a shared and trusted evidence base.” ➡️ Full remarks www.ipcc.ch/2025/11/10/c...

Fantastic to see our colleagues Professor Bethan Davies @iceybethan.bsky.social and Dr Owen King contributing to UNESCO & WMO’s new volume Glaciers and Ice Sheets in a Warming World: Impacts and Outcomes! www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articl...

NCL press release: www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articl...

It was a delight to contribute a couple of chapters to this important UK National Commission to UNESCO book on glaciers and ice sheets in a warming world: unesco.org.uk/resources/gl...

Do you think your MP should be briefed on the threats from ongoing damage to #climate & #nature?

Please check if they’re coming on 27 Nov👉 www.nebriefing.org They’ll hear the evidence that genuine emergency action will make ordinary people much better off. #TimeToStepUp #NEB

Mark your diaries - It's Polar Pride on November 18th! Celebrate the achievements of LGQBTIA+ people in STEM and in polar science, and work to make work places more inclusive and supportive, and to challenge barriers and discrimination #polarpride #LGBTQinSTEM

1. This is a thread on freedom, and how easy it is to lose. Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵

Dismantling federal agencies like NASA will be disastrous for science www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!

New national climate plans have barely moved the needle on limiting global warming. Yet there is hope. According to UNEP's latest #EmissionsGap Report, accelerated adoption of renewable energy and falling costs mean we have the tools to cut emissions now: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

Come and study for a PhD with me @ncl-geography.bsky.social!

Is this same Labour Government expanding airports, refuses to rule out extracting more fossil fuels from the Rosebank Oil Field Intent on destroying bats, newts and doesn't care about nature? Not sure going to Brazil alone is going to do much good. Join.greenparty.org.uk

My morning @carbonbrief.org daily briefing is full of information on how NetZero continues to be attacked in the UK's right wing media, as we approach COP30. Climate action remains under attack and I feel depressed about this. How do we turn this tide?

I am very happy to advertise this PhD focusing on groundwater flooding, with partners at @bgs.ac.uk and plenty of applied and industry partnerships! www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate...

And here, for our first day on Bluesky, is a Geography at Newcastle starter pack, which will develop as our presence on Bluesky does. Please do follow us! go.bsky.app/GEt9bGr

Hello! We're the new Bluesky account for Geography at Newcastle University (UK). We'll be sharing new, updates, reflections, projects and more from Geography staff, postgraduates, and students.

Just as an aside: tell EVERYONE you know about this. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Delighted to be advertising an exciting PhD opportunity on South Georgia's glaciers through @iapetusdtp.bsky.social. Please get in touch if you want to discuss and forward to any interested parties! iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

Ice-free conditions continue in the Barents Sea region of the #Arctic Ocean. This is one area that has observed some of the largest losses of ice over the last few decades... compare the older years (dark/purple lines) to today! Map of this region: zacklabe.files.wordpress.com/2022/08/b203...

Each year, we support over 70 fieldwork projects through a range of grants, both in the UK and abroad 🌎 Learn more about opportunities for independent travellers, researchers, undergraduate students and schools and how to apply here 👉https://www.rgs.org/exploration/grants

I'm on an @rgsibg.bsky.social @rgs-ibghe.bsky.social Postgraduate Insights panel on 28th October, called "making the most of your supervisor". It's online, free and open to all. www.rgs.org/events/upcom...

I've got lots of things to say about Jeremy Clarkson. Really not worth it. He knows his game is over and so is resorting to personal attacks. Piss him off instead and Join.greenparty.org.uk

Name a protest movement, anywhere or at any time, that has achieved its goals without being annoying and obstructive. People like this enjoy the freedoms our political ancestors gained for them, while attacking the means by which they were achieved.

📢 OUT NOW: Global Tipping Points Report 2025 In this new report, we provide a check on the status of critical Earth system #TippingPoints and opportunities in #PositiveTippingPoints across sectors. ➡️ Full report: global-tipping-points.org #GTPR2025 #COP30 @exeter.ac.uk @pik-potsdam.bsky.social

The #JuneauIcefield is a deeply meaningful place for me and many others, part of the reason we put so much care into our case study on tipping of Áakʼw Tʼáak Sítʼ (Mendenhall Glacier), one of the icefield's major outlet glaciers. The study is out today as part of the Global Tipping Points Report.

Read the full report: global-tipping-points.org @pik-potsdam.bsky.social @gsiexeter.bsky.social @iceybethan.bsky.social @jeremyely.bsky.social @wwf.org.uk

... from the glacier's "tongue" below! Widespread disconnection is an thus another tipping feedback! @iceybethan.bsky.social, @jeremyely.bsky.social and co.'s paper here is a fabulous overview of the susceptibility of the icefield to disconnection. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

In it, we've gone into quite a bit of detail on how smaller glacial systems tip, building off the major body of work by @iceybethan.bsky.social, @jeremyely.bsky.social and colleagues. These studies showed that the Icefield's source areas predominantly sit on a flat, high plateau. As the glaciers..

Please join USAA-IPCC and @agu.org next week for a webinar on how to engage with @ipcc.bsky.social reports as an Expert Reviewer! The Special Report on Cities and Climate Change opens for first review on Oct 17 - we'll discuss in our webinar how to register and what makes for good review comments.

The 2025 Global Tipping Points Report is released today, written by 160 authors from 23 countries. The report assesses the risks and impacts of Earth system tipping points and the opportunities presented by acting on positive tipping points for climate action. global-tipping-points.org #COP30

Kemi Badenoch blames those crossing borders for our problems. It’s a lie aimed to distract. The real issue is a system protecting the super-rich while nurses & carers can’t make ends meet. Tax wealth fairly, fund public services properly. This is how we give Britain hope again.

Dr Liz Thomas joins The Climate Question on the BBC World Service to talk about ice cores. These frozen time capsules are unlocking Earth's climate history and helping predict its future. Listen now on BBC Sounds: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct702g #ClimateScience #IceCores

Updated a classic.

The tongue of Zinal Glacier today, heavily debris covered and now almost cut in two at the bedrock knob! 🧊🔥 Pointe de Zinal (3790 m) at background 🏔❄️

📣 Attention: Early-career researchers from developing countries & countries in transition! Are you interested in becoming a Chapter Scientist and supporting author teams for #IPCC’s Seventh Assessment Report? Apply by 18 Oct 2025 🔗 www.ipcc.ch/2025/10/07/c...

Registration for experts interested in serving as Expert Reviewers and providing scientific comments on the First Order Draft of the Special Report on Climate Change and Cities is now open! Read more 🔗 www.ipcc.ch/2025/09/17/p...

Well, this is very timely for this Tuesday’s @newcastleuni.bsky.social lecture on global mountain glacier change www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Dept of Geography & Environment at @ulethbridge.ca is hiring an Instructor: a broadly trained Geographer with strong spatial analytical skills and experience in the geosciences, incl. GIS, Remote Sensing, mapping & spatial modelling. Appl. deadline: 1 Jan 2026. uleth.peopleadmin.ca/postings/8717

Antarctic sea ice hits its third-lowest winter peak on record phys.org/news/2025-10...

In other news, Kemi Badenoch's party has taken at least £7 million in donations from funders and directors of climate change denial lobby groups bylinetimes.com/2025/03/18/k...

Tory party’s long journey away from science, reason, responsibility, common sense and truth is complete

You can still apply! If you know someone who might be interested, tell her or him about this! 🌊

Why does Antarctica matter? Learn about its global importance. Opening of the Royal Society workshop "Global impacts of climate extremes in the polar regions: is Antarctica reaching a tipping point?" Prof Jane Francis @bas.ac.uk @krhendry.bsky.social @oceanandice.bsky.social

The #IPCC is now hireing ‘chapter scientists’ to support the author teams for the upcoming IPCC Report. If you are an early career scientist with strong synthesis and organisational skills, and from a developing country or a country in transition, do check this out! www.ictp.it/opportunity/...

Are you a highly motivated early-career researcher from a developing country or a country in transition, and want to be a Chapter Scientist in the next IPCC report? Then here is your chance. Deadline 18 October 2025. www.ictp.it/opportunity/...

Abrupt and alarming changes in the icy Antarctic region call for urgent measures. We have the means to cut emissions and limit further warming. Geoengineering projects only raise false hopes and divert resources.

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