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Quaternary sediments and landforms. Glaciers and climate change.
The choices we make today will set the future for the Antarctic Peninsula. We cannot afford to delay. We need to urgently implement the Net Zero pledges and pledges that will protect this unique and special environment.
www.antarcticglaciers.org/glaciers-and...
In incredible news, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women."
Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration.
It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women.
Our latest.
BREAKING: governmentβs decision to proscribe Palestine Action under terrorism law ruled UNLAWFUL
This matters for everyone.
For years, the right to protest has been under sustained and deliberate attack.
Thousands of people have been arrested for something that should have never been a crime.
A delegation of 65 Inuit are travelling to Greenland with Makivvik for the official opening of the Canadian consulate in the capital Nuuk.
They say theyβre going to stand in solidarity with Kalaallit, Greenlandic Inuit, amidst threats from U.S. President Donald Trump.
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This is fantastic! The words, the music, the video. Just brilliant! Spread it far and wide for Greenland!
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Happy #PolarPride 2025! Celebrate diversity and the contributions of LGBTQIA+ people to polar science!
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A shell of a bivalve mollusc that was found in 1952 in the valley Qilakitsoq on the Nuussuaq peninsula in western Greenland. The scientific name of these bivalves is Inoceramus steenstrupi. They lived between 83 and 63 million years ago. These are the largest bivalves ever to exist. It is thought that they lived in an oxygen-poor environment and that they layed unattached on the sea floor filtering plankton and detritus from the water. The shell is 178 cm (70 inch) long. The other half of the bivalve is in the Geological Museum of Copenhagen. ___ On display at the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources. Link to this new Institute filled with many hallway displays at www.natur.gl/ hey now, "moi" for scale and a line-up of 2014 Nuuk Geoscience Workshop geologists waiting for their turn with the mighty mollusk. The Nuuk display is geotagged instead of the Cretaceous fossil-bearing rock formation on the opposite side of Greenland. Photo by H. Steenkamp with permission for my photo-shop'd posting.
For #FossilFriday, meet Inoceramus : the largest bivalve to ever exist. This genus lived in the Cretaceous seas of North America and Europe.
This one is 178 cm long. And look at these rings ! It must an amazing palaeoenvironmental recorder to work with π
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Oldest Shell Ornament Workshop in Western Europe at Saint-CΓ©saire: www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1...
#Prehistory #Archaeology #Chatelperronian #Shells #Beads #Homosapiens #Neandertal #Ornament
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We don't have a problem with immigrants, just those who are criminals...
We don't have a problem with immigrants, just those who entered the country illegally...
We don't have a problem with immigrants, just those who don't speak English...
The first 50 Haredic Jews ever seem to have been drafted into the IDF (usually exempt). In British politics, Hasidic Jews (a branch of Haredim) are often avid socialists and anti-Zionism, some of our most vocal defenders of Palestine β€οΈ
20.08.2025 17:27 β π 4 π 3 π¬ 1 π 02022 was the most detrimental summer for glacier loss ever! π₯π±
It foreshadows what our summers will be like from now on, as 2025 looks almost similar... π
Here is a 9-months timelapse of Mer de Glace (Dec. 2021-Sept. 2022) ending with those terrible melt rates
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Interesting report from NISTA regarding the UKβs search for a #geological disposal facility for legacy and arising #nuclear waste β’οΈ
envirotecmagazine.com/2025/08/20/u...
@justineshaw.bsky.social featured in a Guardian post of glacial retreat on our island.
04.08.2025 16:32 β π 136 π 19 π¬ 4 π 2"This indicates potential under-projections of end-of-century extreme high temperature events in current model outputs"
I feel increasingly like the UK is headed for 50C in my lifetime and we are IN NO WAY prepared to even imagine that let alone adapt
Aerial shot of Gaza City, burned and bombed into burned and shattered, unliveable wreckage as far as can be seen.
Whole area that used to be houses, shops, public transport routes, made into rubble and blackened, unliveable ruins. Aerial shot shows vast area entirely obliterated as habitable, attacked again and again by Israeli forces.
Several wrecked Gaza schools, shown from the air, pulverised by Israel's forces: windows all gaping, bombed out and covered in ash and dust. Some people are trying to live in makeshift camps amid the destruction, in former quadrangles and bomb sites.
Aerial shots of neighbourhoods with destroyed apartment buildings, houses, offices and shops, all bombed by Israel's government. Starving people are trying to live in tents and makeshift cubbies on the former roundabouts on a main road.
This what Israel has done to Gaza. Forbidden pics by a Washington Post photographer whose Jordanian air crew didn't pass on Israel's order to only photograph aid being dropped. City, suburbs, schools, people: bombed to rubble. People being starved in makeshift camps on road roundabouts. #Genocide
03.08.2025 04:31 β π 608 π 436 π¬ 17 π 15Truly. The distinction between the treatment of elderly Gaza demonstrators and far-right protestors suggests a complete breakdown in our moral compass.
23.07.2025 08:14 β π 862 π 240 π¬ 20 π 7Among yesterday's arrestees is Deborah Hinton, an 81-year old retired magistrate with an OBE.
That's Yvette Cooper's idea of a terrorist.
Language has been turned on its head.
The law has been turned on its head.
Murdering children is righteous.
Trying to stop it is terrorism.
DWP boss just said Universal Credit gives disabled people 'perverse incentives' not to work
Liz Kendall's shocking comments came just as a new report slams the DWP for failing vulnerable claimants.
So which is it???
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
No more sucking up to Trump.
No more hand waving about so called "special relationships."
Beyond time for Keir Starmer to condemn this - and then stop our own active involvement with the genocide.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Disabled people are already THREE times more likely to need to use food banks.
MPs must vote NO to cuts to disabled peopleβs social security tomorrow.
CALL IT WHAT IT IS: ETHNIC CLEANSING Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ
Israel are planning to force Gaza's population into an 'internment camp' in Rafah.
As if any more evidence of Israel's ethnic cleansing were needed...
The Government must act now to protect Palestinian lives and prevent any further atrocities.
Screenshot of a headline reading "Israeli plan for forced transfer of Gaza's population 'a blueprint for crimes against humanity"', with subheading reading "Military ordered to turn ruins of Rafah into 'humanitarian city' but experts call the plan an internment camp for all Palestinians in Gaza"
Absolutely horrific. We are watching ethnic cleansing and genocide happening in broad daylight, in real time. Our govt has a duty to prevent genocide - and yet is still selling arms to Israel. The UK's complicity must end.
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The Tony Blair Institute participated in a project to develop a postwar Gaza plan that envisaged kick-starting the enclaveβs economy with a βTrump Rivieraβ and an βElon Musk Smart Manufacturing Zoneβ.
member, was shared within the group for consideration. This included the idea of a βGaza Rivieraβ with artificial islands off the coast akin to those in Dubai, blockchain-based trade initiatives, a deep water port to tie Gaza into the India-Middle East-Europe economic corridor, and low-tax βspecial economic zonesβ. The TBI document said the devastating war in Gaza had βcreated a once-in-a-century opportunity to rebuild Gaza from first principlesβ.β.β.βas a secure, modern prosperous societyβ.
Has anyone been more tragically correct than Naomi Klein
06.07.2025 19:19 β π 146 π 29 π¬ 6 π 4π¨ BREAKING: The government's bill to cut disabled people's social security is still proceeding, but with all cuts to PIP now set to be REMOVED. π§΅
02.07.2025 08:31 β π 36 π 23 π¬ 3 π 0Yesterday, the government removed vital support from disabled people.
Today, the government will criminalise protestors who want to stop genocide.
I opposed the government's attack on the disabled - and I will oppose the draconian proscription of Palestine Action.
On Monday of this week, Hamas' Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip published an updated list of those killed in the war, a 1,227-page chart, arranged from youngest to oldest. The Arabic-language document includes the deceased person's full name, the names of the father and grandfather, date of birth and ID number. Unlike previous lists, this compilation notes the precise age of children who were under the age of one year when they were killed. Mahmoud al-Maranakh and seven more children died on the same day they were born. Four more children were killed on the day after they entered the world, five others lived to the age of two days. Not until page 11, following 486 names, does the name appear of the first child who was more than six months old when he was killed.
The death toll of Israelβs ongoing genocide in Gaza is now estimated at 100,000
The list is 1,227 pages long.
The first 11 pages are names of babies dead before the age of 6 months.
The first 381 pages are all children.
archive.is/2025.06.28-0...
Language is important.
I'm tired of media euphemisms.
It's not climate skeptic, it's climate denier.
It's not vaccine skeptic, it's anti-vaxxer.
And it's "lies" and "racism" and "genocide" and "war." Words have meaning.
The only argument Labour defenders have left is β1,000 people go on PIP a day β the size of Leicester!β
So letβs contextualise:
π₯ 4,822 adults are referred to IAPT every single day
π₯ 13,699 to mental health services β most left waiting
Want fewer PIP claims? Give help upstream.
#TakingThePIP
