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Partnership with Kenya's Turkana community helps scientists discover genes involved in adaptation to desert living 🏜️🧬 phys.org/news/2025-09...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Most corals in the Atlantic Ocean will soon stop growing. Many are already dying, leaving shorelines and marine ecosystems vulnerable. 🪸🌎 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/c...
DNA from our ancient Denisovan ancestors may protect us from some tropical diseases 💀🧬🦠 phys.org/news/2025-09...
12,000-year-old smoked mummies reveal world’s earliest evidence of human mummification ☠️🌏 theconversation.com/12-000-year-...
Insights into the mitochondrial DNA genetic diversity and affinities of village chickens from the Sulu Archipelago, Philippines 🐓🧬🌏 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
“Nunzia Capasso, a secondary school teacher in Frattamaggiore near Naples, told AFP the heat was even more challenging for teenagers ‘who are also battling raging hormones’.” 🌡️🇮🇹 www.france24.com/en/live-news...
Ancient DNA reveals deeply complex Mastodon family and repeated migrations driven by climate change 🦣🧬 phys.org/news/2025-09...
Child obesity level surpasses underweight cases worldwide for the first time, UNICEF warns 🧁🍟 news.un.org/en/story/202...
“With an average water temperature of 26.9° C, July 2025 was the warmest since records began for the Mediterranean Sea…” 🌡️🌍 phys.org/news/2025-09...
An unusual quartz-tipped tool killed a man 12,000 years ago. Scientists are puzzling over who wielded it ⛏️🏹🇻🇳 www.cnn.com/2025/08/29/s...
8,000 years of human activities have caused wild animals to shrink and domestic animals to grow 🐄🐏 phys.org/news/2025-09...
Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds 🌊🌎 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Discovery of wild cereal foraging far from Fertile Crescent challenges assumptions about agriculture's origins ⛏️🌾 phys.org/news/2025-08...
Heatwave that fuelled deadly wildfires was Spain’s ‘most intense on record’ 🔥🇪🇸 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Dingoes are not domestic dogs – new evidence shows these native canines are on their own evolutionary path 🐕🇦🇺 theconversation.com/dingoes-are-...
“Its level has fallen by 0.93 meters (3 ft) in the past five years, by 1.5 meters in the last 10, and 2.5 meters in the past 30, he said in an interview, estimating the current rate of decline at 20-30 cm per year.” 💧🌏 www.arabnews.com/node/2612556...
‘A climate of unparalleled malevolence’: are we on our way to the sixth major mass extinction? 🔥🌎 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"The planet's warming since around 1980 is making heatwaves, droughts and floods more frequent and severe… All three of these are most common during summer, when travel peaks." ☀️🌊🌎 www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
“The stalemate was a resounding failure for the environment and for international diplomacy at a time when its frailties are in the spotlight.” 🥤🌎 www.straitstimes.com/world/world-...
“Norway, Sweden and Finland have historically cool climates but were hit by soaring temperatures, including a record run of 22 days above 30C (86F) in Finland. Sweden endured 10 straight days of ‘tropical nights’, when temperatures did not fall below 20C (68F).” 🌡️ www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Indonésie : l'Île de Sulawesi livre ses secrets riches en histoire ⛏️🇮🇩 youtu.be/DCiZGQDY6q8?...
“‘Unfortunately, it’s to be expected’…adding that more than half of the 51 heatwaves in France since 1947 had occurred in the last 15 years. ‘Clearly, it’s a sign that the climate is warming.’” 🌡️🇪🇺 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
“…increased exposure to extreme heat has reduced bird populations in tropical regions by 25–38% since 1950.” 🦜🌡️ theconversation.com/70-years-of-...
The 10 hottest countries in the world and why they're getting hotter faster 🌡️🌍 www.cntravellerme.com/story/the-10...
This stone tool is over 1 million years old. How did its maker get to Sulawesi without a boat? ⛏️🇮🇩 theconversation.com/this-stone-t...
World’s biggest coral survey confirms sharp decline in Great Barrier Reef after heatwave 🪸🌡️ theconversation.com/worlds-bigge...
World in $1.5tn ‘plastics crisis’ hitting health from infancy to old age 🥤🌎 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Yep - and thanks for the reference!
Japan sweltered through its hottest July since records began in 1898, warning of further "severe heat" in the month ahead 🌡️🇯🇵 www.france24.com/en/live-news...
Cheers - and yes! 👍
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Hopefully - they’re saying it could be up to 10ft in Hawaii…
“That places this earthquake firmly within the top 10 largest earthquakes ever recorded.” 🌏🌊 open.substack.com/pub/earthqua...
Archaeologists uncover lavish Bronze Age burial of young woman in Greater Khorasan ⛏️🇮🇷 phys.org/news/2025-07...
Ancient DNA solves mystery of Hungarian, Finnish language family's origins 🧬🌏 phys.org/news/2025-07...
Seoul scorches at 37.8 deg C, highest early-July temperature ever recorded 🌡️🇰🇷 www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-as...
Genome of ancient Egyptian entombed 5,000 years ago sequenced for the first time 🧬⛏️ www.abc.net.au/news/science...
Over a third of people on sinking Tuvalu seek Australia's climate visas 🌊🇹🇻 www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Very.
Ocean acidification has already crossed a crucial threshold for planetary health 🌊🪸 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
“The researchers [also] speculated that Austroasiatic populations probably expanded from central Yunnan along the Red River basin into Southeast Asia and beyond.” 🧬🌏 www.scmp.com/news/china/s...
Climate change is pushing disease-carrying tiger mosquitoes deeper into Europe, raising the risk that once-tropical viruses like dengue and chikungunya could become endemic across the continent 🦟🦠 www.france24.com/en/health/20...
Indonesia is the world’s ‘most-flourishing’ country. What does that mean? 🇮🇩 www.scmp.com/week-asia/pe...
Well done!
In a climate unaffected by human activity, a summer this hot would occur only once every 1,400 years, but current atmospheric conditions mean similar events may now happen every 16 years 🌡️🇫🇮 www.downtoearth.org.in/climate-chan...
A newly discovered karst cave dating back 480 million years in remote southwest China has revealed a pristine sediment “gene pool” that experts say has not been seen before. 🇨🇳 www.scmp.com/news/china/s...
More than 80% of the world’s reefs hit by bleaching after worst global event on record 🌡️🪸 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The complex origin story of domestic cats: Research points to Tunisia 🧬🐈 phys.org/news/2025-04...
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A male Denisovan mandible from Pleistocene Taiwan 💀 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Not bad - finally easing into early dry season mode. We’re close enough to Oz that it’s probably a bigger influence on our weather than the Asian monsoons - though this La Niña wet season has been 🌧️🌧️
BREAKING: USGS upgrades magnitude of Myanmar earthquake to 7.7
“Last year was South Korea's hottest year on record, with the Korea Meteorological Administration saying that the average annual temperature was 14.5 degrees Celsius - two degrees higher than the preceding 30-year average of 12.5 degrees.” 🔥🇰🇷 www.channelnewsasia.com/east-asia/so...
China's glacier area shrinks by 26% over six decades 🏔️🇨🇳 www.reuters.com/business/env...
Nice!
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“South-South migration has created infrastructures, industries and cosmopolitan societies that are being seen by skilled migrants as an alternative.” 🌍🇦🇪 www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/o...
Everything you need to know about Strade Bianche 🚴♂️🇮🇹 Looking forward to this… www.cyclingweekly.com/racing/pogac...
Standardized production of bone tools by our ancestors pushed back 1 million years ⛏️🦴 phys.org/news/2025-03...
“We tell ourselves we’ve moved on and hardly talk about the disease or all the people who died or the way the trauma and tumult have transformed us. But Covid changed everything around us. This is how.” 🦠🇺🇸 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Parts of a carved and decorated traditional ocean-going canoe (waka) found in the Chatham Islands, around 800km east of New Zealand, could be the most significant discovery of its kind in Polynesia ⛏️🇳🇿 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Yep…
Cyclone Alfred is expected to hit southeast Queensland – the first in 50 years to strike so far south 🌀🇦🇺 theconversation.com/cyclone-alfr...
What Scientists Just Discovered About COVID-19’s Hidden Death Toll 🦠 scitechdaily.com/what-scienti...
Absolutely - and worse…
Wine vessel could spill secrets of Europe’s oldest language 🏺 www.thetimes.com/article/72ff...
Thread of the Day 🦠
Nice…😎
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I watched part of season one when it first aired, but lost interest and haven’t watched since. 🤷♂️
Koh Mak: The tiny island that's redefining travel to Thailand 🏝️🇹🇭 www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
Ancient seafarers in Southeast Asia may have built advanced boats 40,000 years ago ⛏️⛵️ phys.org/news/2025-02...
Baku, 2008. Waiting for the ferry to Turkmenbashi…🇦🇿🇹🇲
Just 17% of Japan citizens hold passport 🛂🇯🇵 Wow… www.france24.com/en/live-news...
Chinese team finds new bat coronavirus that could infect humans via same route as Covid-19 🦠🦇 www.scmp.com/news/china/s...
Evaluating animal consciousness 🧠 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Indeed.
Hunting Egypt’s lost pharaoh: Briton makes ‘find of the century’ ⛏️🇪🇬 www.thetimes.com/article/c302...
Giant carnivorous plant newly described to science 🌱🇲🇾 Beautiful. cosmosmagazine.com/nature/plant...
Silk Road merchants may have introduced cats to China 1400 years ago 🐈 www.science.org/content/arti...
500-year-old Transylvanian diaries show how the Little Ice Age completely changed life and death in the region 📜❄️ phys.org/news/2025-02...
Astounding.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Tibetan tree rings highlight link between climate change and fall of major Chinese dynasties 🌲🇨🇳 www.scmp.com/news/china/s...
Record January heat suggests La Niña may be losing its ability to keep global warming in check 🔥🌎 theconversation.com/record-janua...
Casinos, high-rises and fraud: The BBC visits a bizarre city built on scams 🇲🇲 www.bbc.com/news/article...
“The whole block of ice is sliding on water and mud.” 🧊🇬🇱 Yikes… www.science.org/content/arti...
Lost cities of the Amazon: how science is revealing ancient garden towns hidden in the rainforest 🚁⛏️🌎 www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Landmark studies track source of Indo-European languages spoken by 40% of world 🧬 news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
Yep - I remember when everyone was arguing about whether 1.5C was still possible just a few years ago…
Indeed.
Climate change target of 2C is ‘dead’, says renowned climate scientist 🔥🌎 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
“This incident documents a cultural loss associated with human-induced population decline, a phenomenon rarely documented in animals.” 🐵 phys.org/news/2025-02...
Levels of microplastics in human brains may be rapidly rising 🧠 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Complete chaos.
