Steven Delvaux

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

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• Al Overview The idiom "you can't lick a badger twice" means you can't trick or deceive someone a second time after they've been tricked once. It's a warning that if someone has already been deceived, they are unlikely to fall for the same trick again. Here's a more detailed explanation: • Licking: "Licking" in this context means to trick or deceive someone. • Badger: The badger is a wild animal, and the phrase likely originates from the historical sport of badger baiting where dogs were used to harass

Someone on Threads noticed you can type any random sentence into Google, then add “meaning” afterwards, and you’ll get an AI explanation of a famous idiom or phrase you just made up. Here is mine

23.04.2025 10:15 — 👍 5083    🔁 1652    💬 646    📌 1084

Of je kunt aftellen naar Chinees Nieuwjaar van volgende woensdag. Tegen dan zitten we al aan -2 februari

23.01.2025 21:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ze zat daarnet in De Zevende Dag om over factchecking bij Meta te discussieren, maar ze wist duidelijk niet waarover het ging.

12.01.2025 12:28 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Thwaites Glacier calves kilometre-scale icebergs every few weeks. Here's an animation of the process from Sentinel-1. For a longer and higher-resolution version, have a look here: aluckman4.wixsite.com/ade-s-world-...

09.01.2025 15:35 — 👍 17    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 1

Ozone hope? The 2024 ozone hole closer to the historical average in size and duration than the previous years. Does this signal progress towards recovery?
Read the article atmosphere.copernicus.eu/ozone-hope-2...

#CAMS

13.12.2024 13:54 — 👍 76    🔁 28    💬 4    📌 6

thinking of calling this "The Illusion Illusion"

(more examples below)

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Car tyres shed a quarter of all microplastics in the environment – urgent action is needed Tiny flakes of plastic, generated by the wear and tear of normal driving, eventually accumulate in the soil, in rivers and lakes, and even in our food.

"Every year, billions of vehicles worldwide shed an estimated 6 million tonnes of tire fragments. These tiny flakes of plastic, generated by the wear and tear of normal driving, [account] for 28% of microplastics entering the environment globally."

theconversation.com/car-tyres-sh...

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And yet for some reason many people have an irrational fear of spiders

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Invasive snake is surviving in Britain by living in attics and walls Britain should be too cold for the invasive Aesculapian snake to survive, but it is thriving by exploiting the warmth of attics, wall cavities and compost heaps

The invasive Aesculapian snake, which needs heat, is thriving in the cold, rainy UK. How? 🧪 By finding warmer living environments in compost heaps, attics and walls

17.10.2024 17:09 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Red-leaved sumac trees in front of orange-leaved oak in the evening sun. Copyright Tom Kimmerer

Fall colors are not just pretty. They are an evolved series of metabolic actions to conserve nitrogen and other nutrients. Breaking down chlorophyll to export N exposes the living leaf cells to sun damage. Red and yellow pigments serve to protect the leaf cells from bleaching by the sun.

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This is my first try posting a video here, made from AMSR2 data using ezgif and ffmpeg. The animation covers the period from August 1, 2024 to present.

It shows that although the sea ice has moved away, the giant iceberg A23a continues to spin, trapped in a Taylor column above a seamount.
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13.09.2024 09:26 — 👍 12    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1

The world's 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric ... Electric vehicles get all the press – but it’s the smaller unsung two wheelers cutting oil demand the most.

"Two wheelers like e-bikes and electric mopeds] are actually displacing four times as much demand for oil as all the world’s electric cars at present, due to their staggering uptake in China and other nations where mopeds are a common form of transport" theconversation.com/the-worlds-2...

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Great chart showing the meteoric recent rise of Chinese car exports – set to overtake falling imports in 2023 – in a Nikkei Asia big read on BYD

asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Th...

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Map of sea ice thickness in the Arctic Ocean on 31 October 2023

Sea ice thickness according to the PIOMAS model

sites.google.com/view/arctic-...

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Definition of Fram Strait (yellow) and an extension between Fram Strait and Franz Josef Land (red) in the Arctic Ocean

Map of average sea ice drift since 10 September, calculated and plotted using OSISAF data.

Lime graph of Arctic sea ice extent export across the Fram Strait - Franz Josef Land extension (red line in first image of this post)

Arctic sea ice has been drifting toward Fram Strait again in the last two months. It's a concern that the thickest ice may drift out of the Arctic Ocean toward lower latitudes where it will easily melt.

29.10.2023 09:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Maybe it will be surpassed by 2016 in the next few days. But the refreeze in the Arctic should slow down soon since both the Laptev Sea and East Siberian Sea are almost entirely frozen over by now.

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And here is the corresponding sea ice thickness anomaly map (green=thicker ice than normal, blue=thinner ice than normal)

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Arctic sea ice thickness according to the CryoSat-SMOS merged sea ice thickness product:
sites.google.com/view/arctic-...

28.10.2023 07:38 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0