Adam Markham

Video: Protecting World Heritage Sites from extreme climate change From late October to November 2025, the cities of Hue and Da Nang have experienced consecutive historic floods, causing two World Cultural Heritage sites, the Complex of Hue Monuments, and Hoi An Anci...

#ClimateHeritage #Vietnam #WorldHeritage 🌏

#climateheritage

Duff et al. 2025. Plan of the H-spear site.

New research by Duff et al. on the H-Spear Site reveals how Chacoan great houses were placed within vast ritual landscapes that shaped Pueblo life for generations. doi.org/10.1080/0023...
#Archaeology #ChacoCanyon #Southwest #PuebloHistory #NewMexico

#archaeobirds

Trashing our oceans: Feds plan the biggest permitted coral destruction in U.S. history Floridians are raising questions about a U.S. Army Corps plan to blast and dredge Fort Lauderdale's port — and smother more than 200 acres of sea floor and rare corals.

The Army Corps is planning to blast and dredge Fort Lauderdale’s port – home to the most significant stands of staghorn coral and Queen conch left in the continental U.S. This would smother more than 200 acres of sea floor and rare corals.

#archaeobirds

In Burned Forests, the West’s Snowpack Is Melting Earlier - Inside Climate News As blazes expand to higher elevations, the impacts cascade downstream.

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Ten years of climate litigation - Climate Litigation Network report: laying the foundations for our shared future How ten years of climate cases built a legal architecture for climate protection President of PISFCC, Cynthia Houniuhi, speaks at the Peace Palace,...

#ClimateJustice: In just ten years, climate litigation has evolved from a handful of complaints before domestic courts to a global accountability system recognised by the highest international courts and tribunals.

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"Bronin challenges readers to think big when it comes to zoning reform. And it illuminates the beauty... possible in urban spaces... Key to the City stands as a powerful call for (thoughtful) action."

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A view, looking south, of the current vegetation of Mount Li. The mausoleum is located at the northern foot of the mountain, but the wood for its construction was not sourced here, indicating the sophisticated logistical planning and resource mobilisation of the Qin Dynasty as well as the symbolic importance of using specific wood in the emperor's tomb (photograph by Q.W. Zhang).

China's last emperor, Puyi, was crowned #OnThisDay in AD 1908, aged just 2

The first emperor, Qin Shihuang, is buried at Xi'an. His mausoleum is best-known for the terracotta warriors, but even the wood in its construction likely held symbolic importance

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🏺 #Archaeology

Beyond criterion: cognitive flexibility in wild striated caracaras: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... | #BiologyLetters #Behaviour #Cognition #Ecology

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The front face of an old marble soda fountain. There are brass taps for Vichy water and seltzer and also for 8 flavours including Coca Cola, cherry and orange. Several different types of marble are used in grey, orange and yellow shades. The flavor buttons are white enamel with black lettering.

Neat post-1895 soda fountain from R M Greene Co. Green first demonstrated the "ice cream soda" at the Franklin Institute fair in Philly in 1874. This one was abandoned in an old drugstore in Fernandina Beach, FL and is now in the museum there. Coca Cola used fresh coca leaves until 1903.

Founded in 1935 American Beach facilities included restaurants, motels & nightclubs including Evan's Rendezvous, which hosted Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway & many more. American Beach businesses were listed in the Green Book, & the resort had up to ten thousand visitors a day at its peak.

A white sand beach with dark clouds on the horizon

The largest surviving sand dune in Florida

Sunflowers on the beach

A boat tailed grackle (a big black bird) on a wooden post against a blue sky.

Took a walk today along beautiful historic American Beach on Amelia Island. Opened by A.L. Lewis during the years of segregation & Jim Crow laws, it was over 200 acres where African Americans could enjoy “recreation & relaxation without humiliation”.

The Marsh Tit and The Willow Tit 'A superb account of the ecology and behaviour of two declining bird species whose lives are intimately shaped by their woodland habitats.' – Rob Fuller'There c…

Still 30% discount on my Poyser, The Marsh Tit & the Willow Tit. Just in time for Christmas!
The flexiback/paperback is real a steal at £24.50, but the hardback is really worth getting for the even higher production quality (and £18 discount). #birds #ukbirding
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Golden-brown sea oat seeds on a stem with the shore and sea in the background, in early morning sunlight.

Foredunes with sea oats growing at the sand edge. The op half of the picture is pale blue sky. To the right at some distance is a 19thC fortification - Fort Clinch. To the left on the horizon are a tug boat and a sail boat. Tyre tracks can be seen in the sand at bottom left.

Tall stems of a sea oats plant in front of the shore and the the sea. The sky is blue.

A coastal plant that we don't see in the Northeast. Sea oats are salt-tolerant grasses that are so important for dune formation & stabilization that it's illegal to pick them in Florida. They were eaten, but I wonder how important they were for Indigenous peoples in the Southeast in the past. 🌎

Africa’s forests transformed from carbon sink to carbon source, study finds Alarming shift since 2010 means planet’s three main rainforest regions now contribute to climate breakdown

#ClimateEmergency: Africa’s forests transformed from carbon sink to carbon source, study finds

Alarming shift since 2010 means planet’s three main rainforest regions now contribute to climate breakdown

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Can culture and heritage be catalysts for climate resilience? Cultural heritage and local knowledge can be powerful levers for climate resilience and should be embedded into policies, planning and finance.

Great article in the @weforum.org on the importance of #climateheritage or #culture in responding to #climatechange, w/ fantastic signposting to work/research (including the Global Research on Culture & Climate Change Agenda!)

www.weforum.org/stories/2025...

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild:

Ivory gull
Golden lion tamarin
Gannet
Sea otter 🦦
Mountain gorilla

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‘I have watched politicians failing yet and yet again’: lessons from a life as an environment writer Paul Brown looks back at his career reporting on the climate crisis, failed summit and nuclear power – and how to do it well

Very sad to hear that Paul Brown is ill. He has been one of the most enterprising and important UK environmental reporters during my whole career, from the Thatcher days when I was at FoE working on acid rain and the ozone hole.

A derelict one story wooden house under a big shade tree. There is a yellow posted sign on the porch, and another on the tree trunk.

Old Florida.

Three small bracket fungi on a fallen branch. The bigger one looks a bit like a light colored expanded turkey tail, and indeed, the common name of the fungus is false turkey tail.

A false turkey tail fungus for Thanksgiving weekend!

The myth of Thanksgiving is as American as it is wrong Every year, we tell the mythical story of the first Thanksgiving so we can ignore the obvious truth that this land was taken not by friendship, but by violence.

Good reading from @rebeccanagle.bsky.social. A moving reflection on how we got to where we are, what it cost and still costs, to create memories that are comfortable for some. As a newly-minted citizen I’ll take this as my Thanksgiving meditation. 🦃

Sea level doesn’t rise at the same rate everywhere – we mapped where Antarctica’s ice melt would have the biggest impact Understanding what happens to Antarctica’s ice matters, because as it melts, sea levels rise, affecting lives and economies around the world.

In a piece for @us.theconversation.com, Shaina Sadai @scienceshaina.bsky.social and I wrote about the sea level projections in our new paper. The focus here is on explaining how melting Antarctic ice sheets lead to regional differences in SLR. Paper linked below. theconversation.com/sea-level-do...

Eaten, regurgitated, fossilised then recognised as the vomit fossil pterosaur. Will the indignities never cease?

A big pink bird on a tree branch in front of a palm tree.

There's something about a spoonbill...

Mockingbirds confuse my Merlin app. In two minutes it mis-identifed one just now as a wood duck, brown thrasher, kestrel and killdeer!

Great post & images.
Certainly reminds you to look up & look down. In this case, look everywhere!