Fraser Milne

Stunning paraglacial landsliding on Brouillard Glacier today! 😱
(Italian side of Mont Blanc)

🎥 David Picchedda / IG

Sand layer from a possible tsunami 1500 years ago. A penny road built as a famine relief project in the 1840-50s. Eroding prehistoric settlement and a giant noost! Just a few highlights from the June survey in Yell. Huge thanks to everyone. Yell is a very special place. We had a wonderful time.

Taking your geography with you ‘Recognising and celebrating how they take their geography with them, regardless of where or what they are doing, is critical in demonstrating our subject’s value among society.’ - Kate Otto. In this ...

There's notion that if students do not study geography they've become ‘lost’ from the subject. But, recognising how they take geog with them, regardless of where or what they do, is critical in demonstrating our subject’s value
Kate Otto @geographicalassoc.bsky.social

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Swiss glacier collapse buries most of village of Blatten - BBC News Many homes in Blatten have been flattened after a large chunk of the Birch glacier fell on to the village.

I’ll be on @bbc5live.bsky.social at about 10:45pm UK time tonight discussing the Birch Glacier collapse and the impacts on Blatten, Swiss Alps.

Looks to be a dangerous secondary hazard developing with the blockage of the Lonza River.

#blatten #birchglacier #glacier

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Almost 40% of world’s glaciers already doomed due to climate crisis – study Glacier loss has profound effects worldwide and will soar to 75% on Earth’s heating trajectory, say scientists

Prof Andrew Shepherd, Northumbria #Geography “Glaciers are the most iconic example of the impacts of climate change, and they are in all corners of our planet. This study shows that glacier melting will continue for centuries, even if climate warming stops today"
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Graphic showing rainfall intensity increasing in the UK from 1891 to 2024

When it rains, it now rains more

A bar chart titled "Global deaths from famines, 1870-2023" that displays total deaths per decade from famines estimated to have killed 100,000 people or more. Notable points include the "Great Leap Forward" in China, marked to show an estimated 36 million deaths from 1958 to 1962, and famines during World War II claiming approximately 25 million lives across the USSR, Europe, and Asia. The late 19th and early 20th centuries show significant famines occurring in Russia, India, China, and other regions. The text notes that the largest famines from the 1970s and 80s took place in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Ethiopia. The chart indicates that since 1990, major famines have occurred in the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, North Korea, Nigeria, Somalia, and Sudan. The chart is from Our World in Data. The data source is the World Peace Foundation's Historic Famines Dataset.

How many people died in large famines over the past 150 years?

📊 We've updated the data in many of our charts on famine, including a big update from the World Peace Foundation (@worldpeacefdtn.bsky.social).

This update was led on our team by @bastianherre.bsky.social and Veronika Samborska.

Sudan in ‘world’s largest humanitarian crisis’ after two years of civil war NGOs and UN say country is ‘worse off than ever before’ with wide-scale displacement, hunger, famine and attacks on refugee camps

Sudan is suffering from the largest humanitarian crisis globally and its civilians are continuing to pay the price for inaction by the international community, as the war enters its third year.

“The sheer numbers are just mind-boggling.”

Mer de Glace
1969 | 2024

We are a world away from the 20th century climate, already in uncharted territories, and that's just the beginning! 😱

Losing glaciers through sole human emission should make us take action 🛑

But we are apathetic...

📷 @glacionaut / IG

A lovely Neolithic knife - with its wooden handle - from a site with houses built on stilts on marshy land in Germany. Usually, the wooden part rots away and we just have the blade. This makes so much more sense!
OP - David Connolly on FB:
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The U.S. has two tsunami warning centers, both operated by NOAA. Employees were terminated from these centers today. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center covers Hawaiʻi, and now it is less safe to be near the beach.

www.tsunami.gov

A global map shows the share of mothers aged 20–44 who have lost a child under five years old. The data is categorized into four ranges: less than 1% (light yellow), 1% to 5% (yellow), 5% to 10% (orange), 10% to 30% (dark orange), and more than 30% (red). Higher rates are concentrated in Sub-Saharan Africa and parts of South Asia, while lower rates are seen in North America, Europe, and parts of East Asia. Data is sourced from Smith-Greenaway et al. (2021) and reflects single-year estimates between 2010 and 2018.

In some countries, more than one in three mothers have lost a child younger than five

World’s largely unprotected peatlands are ticking ‘carbon bomb’, warns study Bogs and swamps are a colossal carbon store but their continued destruction would blow climate change targets

Prof of #geography Heiko Balzter, “There is a risk we might lose the peatland carbon sink. The heatwaves & droughts being worsened by global heating itself also threatened the viability of peatlands: “That is one more reason to protect them”
#geographerinthenews

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A very interesting article which could be used in Geography Advanced Higher issue essays! 🌞🌾🐦

Of all the ecosystems I encountered in Costa Rica, the most impressive were the cloud forests.

Due to high elevation (500-4,000m asl), they're often swirled in thick cloud, creating off-the-scale epiphytic abundances.

The richest expression of life on Earth I have ever seen. 🌎

That would be amazing! I would really love to know that too. Problem is they would answer in Pictish! 😩

Invasive species are ‘destroying ecosystems’ in Killarney National Park But the NPWS, who manages the park, says there has been ‘huge progress’ in their control and eradication.

"The ecosystem in Killarney National Park 'is dying' due to the presence of invasive species [sika deer, goats, + rhodo], according to Eoghan Daltun, a farmer, rewilder and author of two books on Irish rainforest."
www.thejournal.ie/investigates...

An inconvenient truth in Scottish education: ACEL data means virtually nothing. More often than not, it isn’t based on a clear curriculum, nor on robust assessment approaches. Largely, it’s just made-up, though the phrase ‘professional judgement’ is often used to mask this fact.

Drylands now make up 40% of land on Earth, excluding Antarctica, study says An area nearly a third larger than India turned permanently arid in past three decades, research shows

An area of land a third larger than India has turned from humid conditions to dryland, where agriculture is difficult, in the past three decades - report

#COP16Riyadh
Story by @fionaharvey
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Thanks very much, Bruce! Today really was an excellent and highly useful CPD event!

“What will I tell my children when I get back home? You left us for two weeks, for what? For nothing! Not even peanuts!" Tetet Lauron at #COP29 on the text for the #NCQG on #ClimateFinance failing to deliver US$ 1.3 trillion a year whilst the #ClimateCrisis claims lives and livelihoods.

Lava flowing over the parking lot at The Blue Lagoon

Well, finding parking at the Blue Lagoon just became a lot harder.

1/ The 8th eruption near Grindavík, Iceland, started just before midnight 20 Nov 2024.

A thread 🧵

Energy Data Explorer Explore data on energy production and sources.

Explore more data on the rollout of clean energy across the world: https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/energy

How Pakistan's melting glaciers destroy mountain villages Climate change is altering the landscape of Pakistan's mountain regions, and changing lives forever.

BBC news highlighting the damaging effects of glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) today.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I wrote this piece on being from a working class background in professional climate/energy spaces a while back, and the need to get more people from underrepresented communities around the table. Reading back, it feels as pertinent as ever. fraserjfstewart-17.medium.com/new-tools-29...

I read a lot of academic papers about plate tectonics. Many of them assume a prior base knowledge which can make them less accessible for the non-specialist.

This one starts with as good a summary of the various models for plate & mantle dynamics as I've read.

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Cop summits ‘no longer fit for purpose’, say leading climate policy experts Future UN conferences should only be held in countries that show support for climate action, urge influential group

Cop summits ‘no longer fit for purpose’, say leading climate policy experts

- Future UN conferences should only be held in countries that show support for climate action, urge influential group inc Christiana Figueres, Al Gore

#COP29
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Aerial view of Tantallon Castle at sunset, with its distinctive red sandstone curtain wall. © Historic Environment Scotland.

For centuries, Scotland’s identity has been closely linked to its stone-built heritage.

BGS research, commissioned by Historic Environment Scotland, reveals an opportunity to re-establish the Scottish building stone market to maintain the country’s historic buildings.

www.bgs.ac.uk/news/how-can...

Line chart showing that the global number of people aged 65 years and older is projected to double within the next 30 years (by 2054).

The global number of people aged 65 years and older is set to double within the next thirty years