The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.

Nobel Peace Price goes to María Corina Machado

Environmental injustice at its finest www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-eng...

quality research you can also show off at the dinner table in scorched-earth mediterranean summer 🔥 killer work by my mates @giacfalk.bsky.social and @fpavanello.bsky.social!!! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Cooling shelters are finally becoming mainstream #heatwave #publicadaptation #climatechange #cities www.ilpost.it/2025/07/02/r...

'It's a Killing Field': IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Del genocidio en Gaza al bombardeo de Irán: Netanyahu arrastra al mundo hacia una escalada bélica. Llamamos a una desescalada urgente, al respeto del derecho internacional, sanciones inmediatas al régimen israelí y una vía multilateral hacia una paz justa y duradera para todos los pueblos.

*NOW with open output yearly coordinate point-level data (2016-2023) for 358 world cities* at doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

🌳 New study: we analyze 190 cities (2016–2023) using satellite data & machine learning to estimate the Green View Index (GVI) – Global street greenery down 0.3–0.5%/yr – Inequalities within cities are stark – Open-source model for real-time tracking iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... @iiasa.ac.at

🇫🇷 Power has been restored in southwest France after blackout, - AFP 🇪🇸 Spanish electricity grid estimates that service restoration will take between 6 and 10 hours.

Attending @egu.eu in Vienna this week? Interested in urban heat and sustainable adaptation strategy with urban greening? 🌡️ 🌳 Eager to discuss ongoing research trying to go beyond local case studies? 🌍 Then make sure to check the following presentations by Steffen Lohrey and myself! @iiasa.ac.at

locationallocation: solving Maximal Coverage Location-Allocation geospatial infrastructure assessment and planning problems https://doi.org/10.31223/X5XQ69

FYI, www.jpost.com/breaking-new...

Per anni un uomo ha truffato centinaia di editori e agenti letterari, mettendo le mani su migliaia di manoscritti inediti senza nessuna ragione apparente. E senza pubblicarne uno. Una domanda sorge spontanea: ma perché lo ha fatto? Il reportage di Vincenzo Latronico: intern.az/1LvY

Please consider submitting an abstract to the @eurogeosciences.bsky.social EGU25 General Assembly 2025 session ERE2.3: Bridging the gap: climate science models and renewable energy research. | Vienna | Austria | 27 April - 2 May 2025 meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

I just created a custom Google Earth Engine #GEE feed on Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/did:...

🔆🌾💧🌍 What is the role of agriculture for achieving renewable energy-centered sustainable development objectives in rural Africa? In LEAP-RE RE4AFAGRI we tried to answer this complex question with science, policy, and business analysis. Here are our answers: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The market for good social media didn't disappear. The market for good, useful internet didn't disappear. Enshittification isn't some natural ebb and flow of user interface. It is the manipulation or a buoyant market to extract as much as possible, as quickly as possible, leaving only bones behind.

please @bsky.app, do all you can to avoid future "enshittification" (cfr. Doctorow) of this nice new space! 🙏

So refreshing to be here! The turquoise butterfly brings so much peace, as opposed to that gloomy black X

The role of agriculture for achieving renewable energy- centered sustainable development objectives in rural Africa @leapRE_EU @IIASAVienna @UNZA_ZM @PoliTOnews @TFEdigital

📢 We are promoting a collection on "Big and Granular Data to Assess Infrastructure-related Impacts and Adaptation" in @IOPenvironment ERIS journal. Free open-access publishing for all articles submitted to the journal before 1 January 2025! . Details below

They died with the AC off: Why the government pays for heating but not cooling via @politico

🥵⚡️What's the future of air conditioning for heat adaptation around the world and why it raises important equity and equality concerns. Our new research published in @NatureComms : @CmccClimate @EIEEorg @bostonunivers

Our Mediterranean is the global hotspot of climate change-driven drying

I nostri recenti lavori Su @repubblica: una nuova forma di ingiustizia climatica: ecco che cos’è la cooling poverty - la Repubblica @CmccClimate

📢I am looking for a research assistant / PhD student willing to spend 1-2 months at IIASA (Vienna) and collaborate with me on a project on climate adaptation in cities. Funding available. GIS and statistical skills highly valued. Write me a DM if interested or spread the word!

Una popolazione che invecchia nell'afa on air on @RadioBeckwith

Heat waves can be deadly for older adults: An aging global population and rising temperatures mean millions are at risk via @ConversationUS

📖 I have just joined the Editorial Board of @IOPscience "Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability", a multidisciplinary, open access journal that addresses important challenges relevant to infrastructure, sustainability and resilience.

Thanks also to @AfricanBizMag for the interview on our recent solar irrigation research ()! Tackling Africa’s most neglected infrastructure problem

From Tue 16th to Fri 19th I'll be attending the @EuroGeosciences 2024 in Vienna. Please reach out if you're around! I will be co-convening the session "Bridging the gap: climate science models and renewable energy research" (Thu, 18 Apr, 14:00) and presenting two posters.

I guess most of us are familiar with this type of situation, expecially those of us living in a city in a climate with hot summers, not to mention Mediterranean, Tropical, and Equatorial climates. Greener areas are cooler 😎 🌳🌴#urbanheat

Summit Italia-Africa, un cambio di paradigma? Scrive Martini (Ecco)

As for the sources of funding, mitigation funds primarily originate from the private sector, whereas adaptation finance is still funded mainly by the public sector (98%) #adaptationgap

📢Call for data: looking for city-level / urban-scale electricity consumption data across several cities of the world. Any hint? #opendata #energydata

About 1.15% of the Ukranian population died since the beginning of the invasion. The same figure holds for the Yemenese population. Also, 0.23% of the Russian population died in the Ukranian campaign, and 0.5% of the poplation of Gaza (in less than two months). #stopwar

🌍 European Geosciences Union (@EuroGeosciences) 2024 call for abstracts is open until 10th January! Consider submitting an abstract to the session ⚡🌐 ☀ "Bridging the gap: climate science models and renewable energy research".

Ho firmato la la lettera aperta al Presidente della Repubblica sulla carne coltivata. Firma subito anche tu l'iniziativa @ass_coscioni *** NB: merita anche una rapida occhiata il lavoro fatto con @nigolred sul tema (figura) ***

Ok, let's carry on with the fruitful debate on individual responsibility (not to mention the #guilt) for mitigating climate change. #taxaviation #subsidiserail. NB: yes, the rail trip (same date) is only one leg!

☀️🏘️Understanding the needs of the most disadvantaged is imperative to develop fair and adequate strategies to adapt to extreme heat and keep cool and healthy. *Systemic cooling poverty"* shows why air conditioning is only a part of a broader story.

🌊🌍I've written a piece for @TC_Africa on the relevance of #climatechange for #hydropower in sub-Saharan Africa. Hydro dependency + increasing extremes = risks. Diversified REs portfolios + transmission infrastructure + sound management: key! @Samooner

1/ Solar irrigation: using PV solar panels to operate water pumps and irrigation systems. A new study showing that standalone PV irrigation systems could meet >30% of unmet requirements in smallholder cropland of sub-Saharan Africa. @iiasavienna @politoit @leapRE_EU #RE4AFAGRI

👵🌡️🌎 How are population aging and rising temperatures interacting? In the US, rising temperatures are increasing exposure in historically colder regions; aging is driving exposure in historically warm southern regions. Read our comment @ConversationUS

Here's why I will still visit a human music teacher #aihallucination

Recurrent violence waves in #France are a clear symptom of societal suffering as a consequence of social and economic #inequality