Harold Lovell

QRA ADM 2026 early bird registration closes 30th November!! Book your place now!! sites.google.com/view/qraadmb... @quaternaryra.bsky.social

Elevation-dependent climate change in mountain environments - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment Environmental changes in mountains often depend on elevation. This Review outlines how past and future temperature, precipitation and snowfall trends vary between mountains and lowlands across various...

The latest global synthesis of climate change in mountain regions, led by Nick Pepin at the University of Portsmouth, is now out in Nature Reviews Earth and Environment:

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Zombie fires: how Arctic wildfires that come back to life are ravaging forests Blazes that smoulder in the permafrost, only to reignite, are extending fire season though winter, leaving vegetation struggling to recover

Zombie fires: how Arctic wildfires that come back to life are ravaging forests by @phoebeweston.bsky.social & @pgreenfielduk.bsky.social with input from @loridanielsubc.bsky.social in @environment.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/... #ArcticFire #ArcticFires #wildfires

The past, present and future resilience of UK saltmarshes in a changing climate at University of York on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - The past, present and future resilience of UK saltmarshes in a changing climate at University of York, listed on FindAPhD.com

Looking for a funded PhD for September 2026? We have two saltmarsh projects available at the University of York...

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With @rolandgehrels.bsky.social, @naturalengland.bsky.social, @naturescot.bsky.social and many other great people!

Melting Glaciers in the Himalayas Feed Lakes That Threaten Towns Below (Gift Article) Melting ice from the Himalayas is creating thousands of unstable lakes, a growing menace to towns and cities below.

As #COP30 heats up, superb visual storytelling in @nytimes.com about climate change & the threat of glacial lake outburst floods in the Himalaya, featuring the work of @cscottwatson.bsky.social and quotes from @kristencook.bsky.social @sonamshp.bsky.social and me. 🧪⚒️ www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The southernmost glacier in Norway is about to extinct soon! 😰

Breifonn was not exactly a small glacier at the end of the LIA (6 km²).
But only scattered patches totalising 0.15 km² remain today, meaning disappearance in the next few years... 😱

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QRA ADM Brighton 2026 Welcome to Brighton! The Quaternary: Past Human and Environment Dynamics 5th-8th January 2026

Hey! My first post!
Dpnt forget to sign up for the QRA ADM hosted by the Universoty of Brighton. Abstract deadline 17th November

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Come and join us in Brighton for Quaternary science and plenty of Geoarchaeology and the Palaeolithic archaeology too. Including an ECR workshop and a field trip to Birling Gap and Black Rock, all in my home city!
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19th-century maps reveal dramatic collapse of meadows in South Downs | Countryfile.com New study reveals that between 75.6 and 99.9% of traditional meadowland has been lost across the lower Rother catchment in West Sussex since 1840.

Great to see Cat Hudson's work on historical landscape change in the South Downs featured on the Countryfile site:

www.countryfile.com/environment/...

Here's a map of UK fire activity in 2025.
2025 was a record year for both number of fires and burnt area in the UK, according to the satellite record.
Data from EFFIS, based on MODIS and Sentinel observations.
🔥#ukwildfires #wildfires

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TREES DLA! Join a vibrant research community tackling key challenges in environmental science, from climate change to biodiversity and geospatial analysis
🔗 Apply now: trees-dla.ac.uk/apply
#PhD #EnvironmentalScience #Climate

QRA ADM in Brighton, abstract submission deadline 10th November!!! Submit your abstracts for a talk or a poster @quaternaryra.bsky.social sites.google.com/view/qraadmb...

Exciting 24-month Postdoc opportunity for a peatland palaeoecologist, working with Dr Jenna Sutherland at Leeds Beckett U. on the NERC-funded InSPIRE project. Investigating initiation of new peatlands in deglaciating parts of Alaska, including fieldwork vacancies.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/ce0984li_web...

All Idlewild's albums

A great day listening in chronological order.

Underwater curtains and reflective beads are ‘unrealistic and dangerous polar geoengineering ideas’ Climate research group says such ideas are diverting attention from cutting fossil fuel use Proposals to fight the impact of the climate crisis at the poles, from giant underwater curtains to scattering glass beads across the ice, have been dismissed by a group of scientists as an “unimaginably expensive” and “dangerous” distraction. Geoengineering, which includes blocking sunlight with airborne particles and thickening ice with pumped seawater, has become highly divisive among scientists. Its proponents argue that, with cuts in carbon emissions going far too slowly, exploring options for “emergency brakes” would be valuable. Continue reading...

Underwater curtains and reflective beads are ‘unrealistic and dangerous polar geoengineering ideas’

QRA ADM Brighton 2026 Welcome to Brighton! The Quaternary: Past Human and Environment Dynamics 5th-8th January 2026

Roll up!! REGISTRATION & ABSTRACT SUBMISSION NOW OPEN for the @quaternaryra.bsky.social ADM at Uni of Brighton. An exciting agenda of talks, posters, keynotes, EDI, workshops, JQS 40th Anniversary, AGM, icebreaker, conference dinner, field trip. 5-8 Jan 2026 sites.google.com/view/qraadmb...

I'm calling this one Lioness Glacier. Somewhere in the Pamirs.

Well, finding this in the Karakoram made my day. And yes, apparently it is actually a surging glacier!

Ólafur Arnalds: "It felt like this music already existed and it was our job to channel it." When Eoin French – better known as Talos – passed, his friend Ólafur Arnalds was left with demos, grief, and a single question – how do you complete a record when its co-creator is gone?

Very moving article with one of my favourite artists, Ólafur Arnalds, on his collaboration with Talos - another exceptional musician and song writer:

www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/int...

Mount Rainier’s glaciers are disappearing. What happens when they’re gone? Several of Mount Rainier’s glaciers are already gone, experts say, and others aren’t far behind. The News Tribune asked what that means for visitors.

The diminishing and vanishing glaciers of Mount Rainier, including some my observations from four decades of work on Cascade Mountain glaciers. amp.thenewstribune.com/news/local/a...

SAVE THE DATE!! 5-8 Jan 2026 QRA Annual Discussion Meeting: “The Quaternary - Past Human and Environment Dynamics” at University of Brighton. Website and registration coming soon!! @quaternaryra.bsky.social

CONGRATULATIONS to our very own @mikebentley.bsky.social who has been awarded an OBE for his services to Antarctic Science! Mike has not only made an outstanding contribution to polar science, he is also a fantastic colleague and we are all delighted for him! ❄️🥳

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Frozen, thawed: how Arendelle’s glacier would fare under modern climate change A glaciologist investigates a Disney classic.

A glaciologist investigates a Disney classic.

Frozen, thawed: how Arendelle’s glacier would fare under modern climate change A glaciologist investigates a Disney classic.

Inspired by many, many viewings with my kids, I wrote something for @uk.theconversation.com that imagines how the Arendelle glacier in Disney's Frozen might look after 200 years of climate change:

theconversation.com/frozen-thawe...

UZH: PostDoc in Glaciology – Glacier mass-change estimates at glacier, regional, and global scales The World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) at the Department of Geography (GIUZ) of the University of Zurich (UZH) invites applications for a Postdoctoral research (PostDoc) position. The appointment...

Exciting post doc position available at UZH with the WGMS jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

Nested glacier surges! This is Liestolbreen in Svalbard, surging into Nathorstbreen (which itself surged from 2008), and then being surged into by Doktorbreen. All brought to you by the magic of Sentinel-1 SAR

Image of an Antarctic iceberg with white text on a green background reading: We've published a report on the uk and the Antarctic environment

"It is impossible to overstate how critical this region is to our shared future." - @tobyperkinsmp.bsky.social, Chair

Read our report on the UK and the Antarctic environment: publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5901/cm...

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Triggers for multiple glacier detachments from a low-angle valley glacier in the Amney Machen Range, eastern Tibetan Plateau Large-scale ice avalanches initiated from low-angle glaciers (also known as glacier detachment) remain a scarcely studied and poorly understood phenom…

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