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Yifan Wang 🌎
@yifangeo.bsky.social
🌏 Geographer and Educator
🗺️ Ph.D. Candidate, Adjunct Professor of Geography

🧑🏻‍🏫 Earth System Science, Climate Change, Maps, Web-based GIS, and Human Geography

📑 #GIS #Ontology #Toponymy #Maps

🎓 More about me @yifanova.bsky.social
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Optimal dietary patterns for healthy aging

"Dietary patterns rich in plant-based foods, with moderate inclusion of healthy animal-based foods, may enhance overall healthy aging"

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
March 26, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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February 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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February 15, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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NEW: Where the teens are
YouTube 90%
TikTok 63%
Instagram 61%
Snapchat 55%
Facebook 32% (down from 71%)
WhatsApp 23%
X 17% (down from 33%)
Reddit 14%
Threads 6%
report: www.pewresearch.org/internet/202...
December 12, 2024 at 6:51 PM
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Finland is teaching children how to recognize fake news as part of critical thinking and civil responsibility.
In the U.S.?? We ban books.
SMH! 🤦🏻‍♀️
How Finland is teaching its young to spot fake news
The curriculum covers various topics, from questioning where stories come from to the right to freedom of expression.
www.channelnewsasia.com
December 8, 2024 at 2:57 PM
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LIGHTHOUSES:
This map plots lighthouses and beacons using OpenSeaMap data.
Check out the zoomable version here geodienst.github.io/lighthousemap/

There are more than 23,000 lighthouses in the world. They vary in color, frequency and range.
Background: bigthink.com/strange-maps...
December 8, 2024 at 12:51 AM
Beautiful #bluesky with Cumulus clouds today at Buffalo NY!
December 3, 2024 at 9:58 PM
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Hot off the digital press: Alaska’s Changing Environment 2.0 is now online! Focused on observations and impacts to Alaskans. From warming air & ocean, ice & snow to salmon & berries. Please check it out. #akwx #Alaska #Climate #ClimateChange @climatologist49.bsky.social
uaf-accap.org/alaskas-chan...
December 3, 2024 at 6:03 PM
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Survey results identify how scientific research and teaching contribute to the graduate student mental health crisis. @naturebiotech.bsky.social

"Receiving overly harsh criticism or being scolded by a research mentor, and being held to unreasonable expectations..."

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
December 2, 2024 at 6:04 AM
Second part: 2009 - 2015 (Paris Agreement) - 2020s

Source: CICERO klima
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfAe...

#climate #parisagreement #climatechange
December 1, 2024 at 11:58 PM
A brief history of climate change negotiations 1992 ("Earth Summit") - 2009 (Copenhagen COP15)

Source: CICERO klima

www.youtube.com/watch?v=B11k...
The History of Climate Change Negotiations in 83 seconds
YouTube video by CICERO klima
www.youtube.com
December 1, 2024 at 11:39 PM
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Here is a 🧵 of Pew Research Center's striking findings (2023). www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
Striking findings from 2023
Here’s a look back at 2023 through some of our most striking research findings.
www.pewresearch.org
November 30, 2024 at 7:40 PM
The domination of ocean by plastic nurdles....

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpVp...
November 25, 2024 at 2:43 PM
With climate change, Mosquitoes would be able to reach more areas while carrying diseases such as the yellow fever to extra one billion people!

Source: Ryan et al. (2019) via Carbon Brief
November 25, 2024 at 1:32 PM
Do you know that the 2004 film The Day After Tomorrow was inspired by the potential results of a broken AMOC?

#climate #ocean

www.earth.com/news/collaps...
Collapse of Earth's main ocean water circulation system is already happening
AMOC is like a massive ocean circulation conveyor belt that moves warm and cold water around the Atlantic. It's failing, and that's very bad.
www.earth.com
November 25, 2024 at 10:05 AM
An interesting way to look into climate change:
The transitions of the five major Köppen-Geiger climate classes from 1901 to 2099 under SSP2-RCP4.5 (the "most likely" scenario at the moment...)

#climate #SSP #CMIP6

Source: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
November 23, 2024 at 8:10 PM
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I made a climate change education starter pack. More to add, so please reach out if you’d like to be on this list: go.bsky.app/Pgq6Tzu
November 12, 2024 at 11:30 AM
“Our most difficult task was to find a way for people to inhabit this magnificent and natural system in numbers without destroying the very reason for people to come here.” — Lawrence Halprin, The Sea Ranch

#quote #sea #environment
November 23, 2024 at 6:26 PM
A few weeks ago this article went nearly viral on some social networks. I then assigned this as an assignment in my Earth System Science class by asking students to discuss if the headline was misleading.

#climate #carbonsinks #news

amp.theguardian.com/environment/...
Trees and land absorbed almost no CO2 last year. Is nature’s carbon sink failing? | Oceans | The Guardian
The sudden collapse of carbon sinks was not factored into climate models – and could rapidly accelerate global heating
amp.theguardian.com
November 23, 2024 at 2:50 PM
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Loss of thicker October sea ice from 1979 to 2024 - this is an updated version of my old pinned tweet...

Note that I have intentionally masked out sea ice <1.5 meters in order to emphasize the decline of the (relative) thicker ice. Data from PIOMAS. Graphic from zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
November 19, 2024 at 12:48 PM
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Mapped: How climate change affects extreme weather around the world | @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org

🎨 Kerry Cleaver, Tom Pearson @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org

Read here: https://buff.ly/4eFnQus
November 18, 2024 at 8:00 AM
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Climate crisis to blame for dozens of ‘impossible’ heatwaves, studies reveal
Climate crisis to blame for dozens of ‘impossible’ heatwaves, studies reveal
Exclusive: Analyses are stark evidence of how global heating is already supercharging deadly weather beyond anything ever experienced by humanity * How do we know that the climate crisis is to blame for extreme weather? At least 24 previously…
dlvr.it
November 18, 2024 at 6:13 AM
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I know there's an surfeit of terrible news right now, but this deserves more attention:
www.newsweek.com/map-shows-as...
Map shows "astonishing" US drought as fire risk persists in Northeast
More than 50 percent of the U.S. was facing drought, with nearly 88 percent considered abnormally dry.
www.newsweek.com
November 15, 2024 at 4:18 PM
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can drive yourself to literal madness staring at this map
November 15, 2024 at 6:12 AM