🟢 Overuse, pollution & the #climate crisis are fuelling a global #water crisis 🥵 💧 The new #WaterAtlas 2025 by @boell.de reveals the scale, urgency & politics of global water challenges – and how fairer, sustainable governance is possible 👉 eu.boell.org/en/WaterAtlas #COP30 @cop30brazil.bsky.social

This week's full moon, known as the Beaver Moon, will be a #supermoon. It will reach full phase a few hours before perigee (its closest approach to Earth). As the closest super moon of 2025 it will be the brightest as well. (via @rtphokie.bsky.social)

Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.

New study in Nature by Lin et al shows how the sea-level rise from the melting Ice Age ice (a total of 120 meters rise) ended thousands of years ago. Until our fossil fuel use started a new phase of rising seas. Graph shows the global mean rate of sea level rise. 🌊 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

After the earth dies, some 5 billion years from now, after it's burned to a crisp, or even swallowed by the Sun, there will be other worlds and stars and galaxies coming into being -- and they will know nothing of a place once called Earth. ― Carl Sagan

Damaging effects of Trump becoming president?

African maize is facing a drought crisis, but new ideas are taking root ->CNN | More from Lil' Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai

Excited to share that our latest study on "global crop water footprints" is featured on the front cover of Nature Food, October edition! OS Full Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s43... @iwmi.bsky.social #IWMI #CropWaterUse #cropproduction #Wateravailability

"Data centers draining resources in water-stressed communities"

Agriculture is the world’s biggest water user, and understanding how that water is consumed is key to shaping food systems. A new study maps blue and green water use for 46 crops at 10 km resolution, revealing where and how water powers our plates. 👉 on.cgiar.org/3IUbK6L @davyvanham.bsky.social

Open access model and data on blue and green water consumption of crops to help close water data gap www.iwmi.org/news/open-ac...

Proud to have contributed to this impactful IWMI-led global study on crop water consumption.

Today's Cartoon- Jane Goodall

AI tools are starting to help scientists fill gaps in our knowledge of how weather and climate has varied in the past, with a focus on instrumental weather observations stored in paper archives worldwide www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Climate models need more frequent releases of input data — here’s how to do it

To keep Earth habitable, humanity must recognize the value of Antarctica and seek to save it from irreversible damage. go.nature.com/41PkgKn

The Royal Astronomical Society is pleased to congratulate Professor Michele Dougherty on her appointment as the first female Astronomer Royal. 🔭💫🪐 Read more at: ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre... ⤵️

You don’t need a senior title or a travel budget to make an international impact as an early-career #academic. Here’s how to start forming global partnerships using the tools you already have – beginning with your inbox: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/makin... #highered #academicsky #edusky

Changes in July temperatures in the #Arctic by decade... Data from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social ERA5 reanalysis.

Carl Sagan on why books are human’s greatest invention:

If you put googly eyes on the Pillars of Creation you get muppets 😄😄

Nature research paper: Impacts of climate change on global agriculture accounting for adaptation https://go.nature.com/44jB3Hb

The cost-of-living crisis and sky-high rents mean students feel there “is much less room for enjoyment” and are organising their university life around “saving and earning” #highered #EduSky

The shock victory of Geert Wilders’ far-right party in the Netherlands’ 2023 election has led to reduced funding for higher education and research, curbs on international student numbers and concerns for academic freedom and the country’s reputation as a research powerhouse #AcademicSky

A study in Nature Communications quantifies how rising temperatures linked to climate change would increase the severity of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and reports projected losses of healthy life years and workplace productivity due to OSA. go.nature.com/3HMqsMg #medsky 🧪

"A global open-source dataset of monthly irrigated and rainfed cropped areas (MIRCA-OS) for the 21st century" #OpenAccess www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.

Out now! Available in the #C3S data store: ERA5 hourly time-series data on single levels from 1940 to present. As a regridded subset of the full #ERA5 dataset on native resolution, it is designed for retrieving long time-series for a single point. 👉 cds.climate.copernicus.eu/datasets/rea...

Adrien Brody wins Best Actor in a Leading Role for The Brutalist at the #Oscars This is his second win after 2002’s The Pianist. He has won from 2 out of 2 nominations.