Survivor, 1983 lino print by African American artist Elizabeth Catlett #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

As ever-rising numbers of Nepalis migrate to work or study overseas it's hard to remain optimistic about the country's future. But there are strong reasons to stay positive, says @gyanu.bsky.social, co-founder of The Record, Nepal. 🎧 now at 👉 bit.ly/2Gyanu

Revealing cross section of a road in England

The doom is not going to scroll itself.

NEW Solar panels to be mandated on vast majority of new homes in England Currently about 40% of new builds have solar; new rules should push that to about 99% Story 👇 www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

A la maison' by contemporary, Hungarian born painter Eva Fialka #WomensArt

Current national plans are set to deliver only half of the renewable energy growth needed by 2030, leaving a 3.8 TW gap. As the custodian of the #3xRenewables target, IRENA warns that the #UAEConsensus goal will fall short by 34%. bit.ly/3UuUgR5

Perspective changes everything. [Ars Mathermatica]

Explore or revisit the series here: www.quantamagazine.org/the-unraveli...

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

First past the post has a LOT to answer for.

The obstacles to the reductions needed are political, not physical or technological. Arguments otherwise are a gift to carbon polluters and petrostates.

An interdisciplinary study by @istb-univienna.bsky.social and Systematic Musicology @univie.ac.at investigates the effects of sounds and syllables. To participate, please follow the link below: muwiserver.univie.ac.at/LimeSurvey/i... ___ (c): Liz Highleyman, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/...

When we all howl together we can make great things happen 🐺🐺🐺

The size of this #avalanche !! #Annapurna

Human Affairs

“We now expect a 3°C world,” Morgan Stanley analysts wrote earlier this month. They predicted this would be good for air conditioning stocks. Something it would not be good for? Life on Earth. www.eenews.net/articles/big...

🌊WEESA's March Digest dives into women & water: 💧 Water scarcity and WASH challenges 💧 Gender gaps in decision-making 💧 Why it's important to tap into all available talent 📬 Read it here: shorturl.at/4bK8r ✨ Subscribe & join the community: forms.gle/zyBgWH3AXrgb...

Thank you! Hope my latest glossary of climate, energy, and political terms used in China can be useful for you all!

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

Telling. Quantity of male versus female dialogue in best picture films of recent decades (by @puddingviz)

"Satellite plume detection is important in greenhouse gas abatement because methane accounts for about 30% of total anthropogenic global warming." Read more from Visualizing Energy at Boston University: visualizingenergy.org/satellite-de...

Today at 10:01 CET the Sun was directly above Earth’s equator, marking the #SpringEquinox! 🌸 At this moment, our planet is neither tilted towards nor away from the Sun, creating nearly equal day/night. 🌓 This stunning image was captured by our Meteosat-12 satellite. 🛰️

“Just a few weeks after the dams came down, salmon arriving from the Pacific had pushed through the reconnected river and returned to the frigid upstream tributaries that had been closed to them for decades, navigating the same rills and rapids that their ancestors did.” grist.org/project/indi...

Preliminary data suggests that the global average increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration in 2024 will be a record. Not just a little record, but 25% higher than the previous record. (This is the global average, as opposed to Moana Loa) gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/... 1/

reading it again after sending off thesis proposal

People think they’re more alone in supporting climate-positive action than they really are. That’s a problem, because we know people are likely to take action when they believe others are already doing so.

Bluesky is the place for science.

This article made me think about how almost all major economic policy changes are driven by geopolitical considerations (Cold War, China, Russia, Ukraine) rather than economics. Many think economists are influential in policy; but economists apparently rank far behind national security types.

Adding a third celestial body to a gravitational system makes things wildly chaotic and unpredictable. Hence the 'Three Body Problem'. Some beautiful examples of periodic 3-body systems: (via instagram user data__is__beautiful)

Rooftop solar could supply two-thirds of global power, study finds www.pv-magazine.com/2025/03/13/r...

All remedies are on the table.

Boreal Owls are undoubtedly one of the cutest owls out there! #wildlife #birds #owls

📢ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 3.6% in 2024 to lowest since 1872 🏭Coal lowest since 1666, when Great Fire ravaged London 🚗EVs pushed oil down despite more traffic, saving £1.7bn 🌇Gas down on "cleanest ever" power 📈📉Since 1990, CO2 -54% / GDP +84% www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/9

For the first time ever, recorded atmospheric CO₂ has exceeded 430ppm! The last time CO₂ consistently reached today’s human-driven levels was ∼14 Million years ago, with shorter periods of similar levels around 3-5 Million years ago. 1/3

Federal government agencies have flagged hundreds of words to limit or avoid, including clean energy, climate crisis, climate science, environmental quality, and pollution. These words literally refer to the quality of our life support system on Earth.

"Despite multiple attacks by the eagle, the goose remained unbowed. The raptor, defeated, flew off."

A PhD implies someone is capable of advancing knowledge, of learning and sharing things about the world that humans have not previously known. A generative AI model, by definition, cannot do this.

Step outside 🍃

Great news - the Art Institute of Chicago today announced it will return this gorgeous 11/12th century sculpture of the Buddha in meditation, sheltered by the serpent king Muchalinda, to Nepal! Bad news - well... everything else? Let me take you on a lil' journey.

In "A Just Transition for All," @jmijin.bsky.social lays out how to urgently move from theory to practice in combatting climate change, charting the path forward to an equitable, sustainable future that no longer depends on fossil fuels:

Ooh, lucky you! An Avocet just stepped into your scroll! 😍

Just in one year, just the clean air act, prevented hundreds of thousands of early deaths. The lowest possible estimate of the benefits found that benefits outweigh the costs by 3 to 1. The most likely estimate is 30 to 1. The high estimate is 90 to 1. Ninety. Nine Zero. www.epa.gov/clean-air-ac...

HOT RESEARCH NEWS! Motonormativity ("car brain") is a bias that stops people making rational judgements about driving en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motonor... Our new study shows where this bias comes from AND how it makes people think they're odd for supporting changes to the transport system 🧵

Incoming Asteroid xkcd.com/3049

Take a break from doomscrolling with #ThangkaTuesday, featuring green Tara (སྒྲོལ་ལྗང་།), who saves Buddhist faithful from the eight great fears, one of which is snakes. #TibetanBuddhism #BuddhistArt #Himalaya #Buddhist #Buddhism #TibetanArt

New low

It’s their day. #SuperbOwlSunday