Grazalema, Spain, received over 2,000 mm (78 inches) of rain in just the last 20 days. Over a year’s worth of rain — and it’s only early February. This is hydrologically absurd.

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...

RIP www.cia.gov/stories/stor...

Top 10 bird family names: 10. Irenidae Means "peaceful". Has three members, the Fairy-bluebirds, which are just A++ birds and I would squee if I saw any of them.

I'd like to report a y-axis crime…

This #map title could be "Retirement with a sea view in Belgium". See online version on Eurostat website: tinyurl.com/2ps59n6a

India's electrification shortcut! ⚡️🇮🇳 Solar, wind, batteries, electric vehicles...India's economy has different tools available than the US and China did at the same stage in their economic development. The result? An early turn away from fossil molecules towards electrons.

Or, according to their position in the Economist Democracy Index: Trump's "Board of Peace": 152, 91, 133, 118, 55, 82, 129, -, 125, 75, 66, 146, 138, 117, 59.

Trump’s Board of Peace logo is basically the UN logo, except dipped in gold and edited so the world only includes America.

One of the better decisions in my past couple of weeks was to start following Good Trailcams

This is gold (but also old, and not attributed mixedidioms.co.uk/belgian-whis...)

For the first time, #Copernicus Sentinel-2A has captured night‑time images of Earth, spotting gas flares in the Middle East, wildfires in India and even fishing boats in South Korea. The results from these tests are being used to prepare for Sentinel‑2 Next Generation.

Daily reminder. #Greenland #Mercator

A broken part of iceberg #A23a with a lot of melting water. Looks amazing 🤩 #Antarctica About 11km long and about 2km wide 📸🛰#Sentinel2 2026.01.09 Click to enlarge ↔️↕️

Coincidently, I just created my Proton mail account, proton.me This AI nonsense was not the reason, but it adds up to the list. I plan to move away from US based services and platforms as much as I can

This is insane. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Please share - @pewresearch.org wants to hire a data archivist who will be an advocate for data users, helping to ensure that our datasets are easy to discover and reuse by researchers, journalists, and the public. pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CenterExtern...

A high resolution zoomable version of the 2025 keogram was made by @tammo80.bsky.social, which also shows the motion of clouds, stars and planets from day to day. astron.nl/~dijkema/keo...

Happy new year! My all sky camera imaged the sky every 15 seconds and this picture shows what happened in the sky in 2025. It shows the length of the night and day with the hourglass shape, the monthly lunar cycle with the diagonal bands, the elevation of the Sun at local noon, and lots of clouds.

BREAKING: Multiple oil tankers hit by U.S. sanctions appear to be making a coordinated attempt to break the U.S. naval blockade on Venezuela’s energy exports by departing all at once. w/ Anatoly Kurmanaev www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/w...

The 🟦 in the middle is not an Atoll in the Pacific, it is the iceberg #A23a on which meltwater can be seen. A very surreal sight I think. 🙏Sentinel3 BTW to the right of it, approximately at 16:00h, we see South Georgia. 📸🛰#Sentinel3 2026.01.04 #Antarctica Footage: @sentinelonline.bsky.social

Days after his third dementia screening in six months the president of the United States, who is an open pedophile, abducts a foreign head of state

"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"

A 15 km long steep triangle of sunlight slices through the persistent winter shadows across the distorted surface of Logan Glacier, #Alaska, seen by #Sentinel-2 on Christmas Day 2025.

Never let the north-up convention get in the way of a good election map!

Stealworkers

strange that people in love with the "metaverse" conveniently forgot the word "gargoyle" coined in the very same book

The number of global deaths of children under-5 is projected to increase this year (from 4.6m to 4.8m) for the first time this century. (FT) The price of aid cuts.

Hi! I made a wordle-like game where you guess the country based on stats! joewdavies.github.io/statle/ Let me know what you think!

It's hard to grasp the immense scale of the Indonesia floods until you see it from space. And this is just a fraction of the full extent.

OK, so I just got really obsessed with a very arcane question. There are 'land' and 'water' hemispheres that maximize the amount of each (below). But can you divide the earth into two hemispheres that are each 29% land, 71% water, just like the earth as a whole? The LLMs said no… but I persisted.

A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance. @MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury

Satellite Imagery xkcd.com/3173/

🔴⚠️🌀🇮🇩Catastrophic aftermath of Cyclone Senyar in #Sumatra: 442 died,404 still missing, more than 1 M people affected by the first cyclone formed in the Malacca strait. ⬇️Northern Aceh with devastating floods covering 500km2 in #Sentinel2 view of Nov.29 #ClimateEmergency #indonesia

#30daymapchallenge · Jour 30 · Relooking 🌍 Europe · Europa · Ευρώπη · Європа 🔍 Zoomez pour découvrir les villes d'Europe dans leur langue. 🔽 L'ancienne carte, en commentaire, utilisait un texte de substitution, réalisée pour le #30daymapchallenge 2024. #cartographie #map #europe #europa

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

The creator *is* known: the South African division of travel agency Flight Centre. It used pie charts to promote 5 of its destinations in a brilliant way digitalsynopsis.com/advertising/...

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

i’m not crying you’re crying xkcd: Fifteen Years

Earlier this week, I had the honour to speak at @geomob.bsky.social Belgium. Geomobs are informal meetups, organised in many cities thegeomob.com I took the opportunity to talk about some fresh open geodata published by some of my colleagues at the World Bank 1/4

It's a huge Geomob week coming up with not one, not two, but three events coming up. On Tuesday (18th) in Antwerp 🇧🇪 is Geomob Belgium: https://thegeomob.com/post/nov-18-2025-geomobbe-details Followed on Wednesday (19th) by events in Berlin 🇩🇪 and Lisbon 🇵🇹:

THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS

Details of the Garzweiler surface mine - Germany 🌍 : maps.app.goo.gl/JJbyiLQvkJ8R... 4K link : imgur.com/a/h5r35F5

It's been a while, but I'm doing a little public talk again soon

This is Monty Python and I refuse to believe otherwise

New video: A glacier on Antarctica’s Eastern Peninsula experienced the fastest retreat recorded in modern history—in just two months, nearly 50 percent of the glacier disintegrated. Watch this video to understand what happened. Study by @ciresnews #Antarctica #glaciermelt