Lisa Severn
@lisa-severn.bsky.social
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Greenland ice sheet cracking more rapidly than ever, study shows #Climate
Greenland ice sheet cracking more rapidly than ever, study shows
Crevasses increasing in size and depth in response to climate breakdown, Durham University researchers find
www.theguardian.com
February 3, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Greenland ice sheet cracking more rapidly than ever, study shows #Climate
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‘Catastrophic’: Great Barrier Reef hit by its most widespread coral bleaching, study finds #Climate
‘Catastrophic’: Great Barrier Reef hit by its most widespread coral bleaching, study finds
More than 40% of individual corals monitored around One Tree Island reef bleached by heat stress and damaged by flesh-eating disease
www.theguardian.com
January 21, 2025 at 2:33 PM
‘Catastrophic’: Great Barrier Reef hit by its most widespread coral bleaching, study finds #Climate
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One of the MOST IMPORTANT THINGS your city could do to become more healthy, sustainable, livable, affordable, equitable, successful — stop pretending to “balance” transportation modes, and commit to PRIORITIZING walking/rolling, biking, public transit. HT @dublincycling.bsky.social’s graphic
December 14, 2024 at 4:27 AM
One of the MOST IMPORTANT THINGS your city could do to become more healthy, sustainable, livable, affordable, equitable, successful — stop pretending to “balance” transportation modes, and commit to PRIORITIZING walking/rolling, biking, public transit. HT @dublincycling.bsky.social’s graphic
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I wrote about Arctic permafrost loss for @cangeo.bsky.social back in 2019; at that point, I was told by several scienitsts I chatted with, the horizon for this particular geo-bio-clima-chemical advent was ~50 years.
And yet, here we be, only 5 years later...
And yet, here we be, only 5 years later...
Arctic tundra is now emitting more carbon than it absorbs, US agency says #Climate
Arctic tundra is now emitting more carbon than it absorbs, US agency says
Noaa details drastic shift driven by frequent wildfires, pushing surface air temperatures to second-warmest on record since 1900
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2024 at 6:33 PM
I wrote about Arctic permafrost loss for @cangeo.bsky.social back in 2019; at that point, I was told by several scienitsts I chatted with, the horizon for this particular geo-bio-clima-chemical advent was ~50 years.
And yet, here we be, only 5 years later...
And yet, here we be, only 5 years later...
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"Adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity." - Lewis Mumford in 1955.
We’ve known this for a LONG time, but we’ve put massive energy, money, space, and time into pretending we don’t know it. #TheTRUTHaboutTraffic
#InducedDemand #lawofcongestion
We’ve known this for a LONG time, but we’ve put massive energy, money, space, and time into pretending we don’t know it. #TheTRUTHaboutTraffic
#InducedDemand #lawofcongestion
December 6, 2024 at 5:55 PM
"Adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity." - Lewis Mumford in 1955.
We’ve known this for a LONG time, but we’ve put massive energy, money, space, and time into pretending we don’t know it. #TheTRUTHaboutTraffic
#InducedDemand #lawofcongestion
We’ve known this for a LONG time, but we’ve put massive energy, money, space, and time into pretending we don’t know it. #TheTRUTHaboutTraffic
#InducedDemand #lawofcongestion
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“After 70 years of car domination, Paris had suddenly begun privileging the bicycle. The Mayor, @annehidalgo.bsky.social, had used the 1st lockdown to unroll temporary cycle paths all over the place. More was done for the bicycle in 10 days than in the previous 10 years.” — @simonkuper.bsky.social
December 4, 2024 at 6:53 AM
“After 70 years of car domination, Paris had suddenly begun privileging the bicycle. The Mayor, @annehidalgo.bsky.social, had used the 1st lockdown to unroll temporary cycle paths all over the place. More was done for the bicycle in 10 days than in the previous 10 years.” — @simonkuper.bsky.social