The singing ice (aka acoustic disperion) of Lago del Predil, a lake on the Slovenian-Italian border in the Julian Alps. (Volume on!) With a surface area of about 1sq km, it's the second largest natural lake in Italy's Friuli-Venezia Giulia region. 21 Dec 2025 #JulianAlps #NaturePhotography

NCAR is quite literally our global mothership. Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources. Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet. Unbelievable.

For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme 'Groups', dozens of European Starlings near the mouth of the Var River, or Embouchure du Var, in Nice, late last month.

This is the fossil fuel industry spraypainting the lens on the security cameras while they carry off the heist www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

"The Arctic endured a year of record heat and shrunken sea ice as the world’s northern latitudes continue a rapid shift to becoming rainier and less ice-bound due to the climate crisis, scientists have reported." via @theguardian.com

The red on the lake hit me all at once at dawn. 🪶 たまには趣を変えて😉 #nature #photography #animals #wildlife #LittleGrebe #カイツブリ #birds #野鳥

My first (!) Gray Heron in Monaco. This afternoon in St. Martin’s Garden on ‘The Rock’, or la Rocher, in the shadow of the Prince’s Palace. #BirdOfTheDay #Heron #Monaco

"Climate litigation is proving to be one of the most powerful tools we have to shift the dial in the favor of stronger climate action," says Climate Litigation Network's Sarah Mead New report from CLN looks back on 10 yrs of global #climatelitigation www.climateinthecourts.com/turn-to-the-...

The claimants argue that Shell has known for decades that burning fossil fuels contributes to climate change and has campaigned to undermine the scientific consensus on the issue. Philippines Typhoon Survivors Sue Shell Over Its Role in Climate Change. www.wsj.com/articles/phi...

📉 EU moving to weaken decades of environmental protection. Stop the rollback → www.birdlife.org/news/2025/12...

For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #Herons, here's a quartet of Gray Herons I crossed paths with in recent months here in France: one after breakfast (his), one very close, and a duo in a face-off. Wishing you all a great week! #Heron #Birds

Counterpoint: physical scientists are wildly unqualified to provide insight on the social, political and technological shifts required. @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social is absolutely correct: coal, oil and gas are not mandatory. Rampant capitalism is not inevitable. ExxonMobil isn't all-powerful.

For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #sideviews, here is an Emerald Toucanet I spotted having having breakfast while I was enjoying my first splash of morning coffee. That doesn't happen every day and likely won't happen again for a while. Snapped near Copey de Dota, Costa Rica.

The heat isn't going away. 2025 on track to tie second warmest year ever Climate change is generating food-price inflation in Europe, catastrophic flooding in south-east Asia Likely this warmth will continue into next year with further impacts. It may be permanent www.ft.com/content/9e0e...

Gizmodo has 2.5 MILLION followed on X, and this has been up for 14 hours. All of you still using it for The Engagement: what am I missing here???

I swear maybe once a decade in public, and this is the moment. This fucking racist and all the gibbering racists nodding along behind him are the ruination of our country. Our fucking job for the next fucking year is to fucking destroy them in the next election. Fuck them.

For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #BirdsOnTwigs, a Common Chiffchaff I captured yesterday at the Embouchure du Var in Nice. I'd like to think that those yellowish tones could mean this is actually a Willow Warbler, but not likely, I know... Many thanks @robcrank68.bsky.social for organising!

A must-read from @naomiaklein.bsky.social who brilliantly weaves surrealism and the surrealists with Gaza, genocide and fascism before signing off with the up note that was Mamdani's victory. www.equator.org/articles/sur...

Surely more people will now care about the climate crisis since penguins are being starved towards extinction, right?

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For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #Songbirds or #Seabirds I went with the latter and these two magnificent Magnificent Frigatebirds captured near Puerto Pizarro, Peru. #NaturePhotography #Birds

How did we end up with a media ecosystem that constantly echoes misleading & scientifically unfounded political 'false-choice' framing between climate action and economic security, from industry talking points? Any ecological economists out there who can talk to me about this on Thursday morning?

"Packaging pollution could be almost eliminated with concerted action such as deposit return schemes and reuse.. Combined with bans on certain polymers and substituting plastic for other materials, plastic pollution could be cut by 97% in the next 15 years, the research found."

A ray of hope for Europe's rarest songbird: this year, a record number of Aquatic Warblers were recorded in Lithuania. However, there is still cause for concern. Read more ⬇️ www.euronatur.org/en/what-we-d... #birds #conservation

For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme stripes, this European Goldfinch snapped near Krajnska Gora, Slovenia, in August. It's my favorite bird on the continent: it flaunts vibrant colors, wears a cool & confident stare, is playful yet shy, making them an entertaining challenge to snap and observe.

Great little thread. 👇👇 'You've got mail.' ✊

Coincidence? (via #ScienceUnderSiege by @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & yours truly)

A Little Egret at the Parc Ornithologique Pont de Gau in the Camargue for today's #BirdOfTheDay theme, #Reflections. The Camargue, which is part of the vast Rhone River delta, is the largest wetland in France and one of the most important havens for wild birds in Europe. 15-Oct-2025 #Birds

A wonderful and extremely personal review of the state of climate science 30 years on by one of the world's leading #climate scientists. thebulletin.org/2025/11/a-cl...

Mark Twain would have been 190 today. Some are taken from us much too soon.

For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #BerriesandBeaks, here's a Eurasian Blackcap captured a few weeks ago while he was enjoying his brunch in the Jardin Albert 1er near the Promenades des Anglais. A great week to all!

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For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #Headshots, another Blue-footed Booby on Ecuador's Isla de la Plata. What. A. Beak. #NaturePhotography

For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #OnTheEdge, a few dozen Imperial Cormorants and a variety of gulls on the edge of the seno Última Esperanza, or Last Hope Sound, near Puerto Natales, Chile.

Looking for a good #COP30 wrap report? Begin here. 👇👇👇

“Mayors across the globe are good examples of leaders, politicians, actually taking action.” @london.gov.uk’s fellow city leaders aren’t just tinkering at the edges, but seeking to turn the tide…” Cities are TAKING ACTION but MUST be enabled by nations. #ActionStartsHere @mayors4climate.bsky.social

For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #Mr&Mrs, here are a couple of Mister Mallards chasing a Mrs last night at the Embouchure du Var near Nice. Hope you all had a great weekend. #NaturePhotography

After two weeks of #COP30 negotiations, countries agreed to BEGIN DISCUSSIONS on fossil fuel phase out. And as the article says, "they achieved this incremental progress only in the teeth of implacable opposition from oil-producing countries." THIS is the problem with requiring unanimous decisions.

Photos from tonight's #Palestine vigil in #Nice.

Counting down the final hours at COP30. Follow along here:

A Black-Faced Ibis near Villa Cerro Castillo, in Chile’s Aysén Region. Happy #FlyDay everyone. :)

Good piece about the gap of reliable data about impacts of climate change on deaths related heat. @frediotto.bsky.social addresses some of these gaps and underreporting in her recent book Climate Injustice. 👇👇👇

I might have failed at my assignment from @fisherdanar.bsky.social to say what makes me hopeful about climate, but I think @frediotto.bsky.social and her team's work that would enable us to hold polluters responsible should be a source of hope. Tune in to Episode 4 of the #COPOut Podcast tomorrow!

Half a decade ago Indonesia made the decision to move its capital because Jakarta is sinking. Tehran, a city of 10 million, is moving becaust it is running out of water. (And sinking, too.)

For today's #BirdoftheDay theme #GroundedGulls, a Kelp Gull grounded on a boat on Lago Nahuel Huapi in Patagonia and a Laughing Gull in Emerald Isle, North Carolina that's not cracking a smile.

And marginally related to yesterday's bird is today's #BirdOfTheDay, on the theme #mottled, a Blue-footed Booby. Isla de la Plata, Ecuador, May 2013. Many thanks again to @alan678.bsky.social and @robcrank68.bsky.social for organising. #NaturePhotography

For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #StareDown, a juvenile Nazca Booby who was clearly confused by the person who was staring at him. And who can blame him, really. On Ecaudor's Isla de la Plata, May 2013. I hope he's doing well. #BirdPhotography

If you aren’t a subscriber to @carbonbrief.org’s DeBriefed newsletter, you really should be. 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

A #BirdOfTheDay option for today is birds perching on a pole. Here's a female Red-Backed Shrike doing just that. Image from August this year near Kranjska Gora, Slovenia. Many thanks @alan678.bsky.social and @robcrank68.bsky.social for organising. #Birds #NaturePhotography

WHO and Brazilian Ministry of Health: Climate change is already driving a global health emergency, with over 540 000 people dying from extreme heat each year and 1 in 12 hospitals worldwide at risk of climate-related shutdowns www.france24.com/en/video/202...