See A Crescent Moon As Northern Lights Surge: The Night Sky This Week
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See A Crescent Moon As Northern Lights Surge: The Night Sky This Week
Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades | New Scientist
www.newscientist.com/article/2518...
Interesting to find that the subject of turbulence has been featured in the @newyorker.com
Why Your Next Flight Is Likelier to Hit Turbulence www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Spurred by the universal female suffrage movement, International Women's Day originated from labor movements in Europe and North America during the early 20th century. 3/
International Women's Day gives focus to issues such as gender equality, reproductive rights, and violence and abuse against women. 2/
International Women's Day (IWD) is celebrated on 8 March, commemorating women's fight for equality and liberation along with the women's rights movement. 1/
Three monochrome photographs featuring a woman in interiors in different scenes
Francesca Woodman (1958-1981), critically acclaimed US photographer know for her mysterious work in black and white #womensart
Painting of a face divided into angular sections and colours
US poet Sylvia Plath was also a talented artist.
Triple-Face Portrait, c.1950 is an example of her work #WomensArt
Photo of a woven rug or blanket with complex symbolic motifs in multicolours and fringe to the top and bottom
Melissa Cody, 4th generation, contemporary Navajo weaver #WomensArt
Photo of a black woman wearing a patterned blue and yellow dress which is the same pattern as the background
Kenyan artist Thandiwe Muriu’s 'Camo series', photographic portraits cloaking models in patterned fabric #womensart
Portrait of a woman, head and shoulders with a parrot on each shoulder and two parrots on her lap
Frida Kahlo, Me and my parrot, 1941 #womensart
Bharti Dayal, Indian artist specialising in Madhubani art, originating as a women led art form dating back to the 7th century in the region of Mithila, India #womensart ##WomensHistoryMonth
Poster with text in black and white
One of the iconic posters of the Guerrilla Girls, US artists devoted to fighting sexism in the art world since 1985 #Womensart #WomensHistoryMonth
Semi-abstract art painting with forms and colours
Suzanne Duchamp, French Dadaist painter and collagist, a younger sister of Marcel, who has only recently been recognised by art history #WomensHistoryMonth
Painted portrait of the upper half of a white woman with dark hair tied, dressed in grey top
“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own #WomensArt #WomensHistoryMonth
Portrait by her sister Vanessa Bell
'I didn’t have time to be anyone’s muse... I was too busy rebelling..."
- Leonora Carrington (1917-2011)
UK artist
#InternationalWomensDay
"Men liked to put me down as the best woman painter... I'm one of the best painters"
- Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986)
US artist
#InternationalWomensDay
#Amma #MataAmritanandamayi #Holi2026
In case you needed a reminder – climate change isn’t going away.
Ten years after the Paris Agreement, our world is getting a lot hotter a lot faster.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
99% of research on sea level rise impacts got current sea level wrong (!).
That doesn't mean projections of <1m of sea level rise by 2100 are incorrect.
But it does mean the consequences of this rise will happen sooner, since we're starting from a higher baseline www.newscientist.com/article/2517...
She’s hearing from people sick w/ the virus, as well as their caregivers, that “measles is so much worse than what they expected"
“A number of them clearly said if they had known, they would have vaccinated themselves & their children against measles, but they didn’t realize how bad it was”
Enormous 3D map of the universe shows brilliant 'sea of light' near the cosmic dawn www.livescience.com/space/astron...
No. 14 (Horizontals, White over Darks)
No. 14 (Horizontals, White over Darks)
https://botfrens.com/collections/25/contents/4905
"Water supply in California increasingly depends on a small number of big storms."
Nepal celebrates Holi, the Hindu spring festival of colours.
Hundreds of Nepalis and tourists dance and throw paint at each other to celebrate Holi, the Hindu festival of colours, at Kathmandu's historic Durbar Square. This year Holi coincides with the last day of campaigning for Nepal's election
Visible from Asia, Australia, and North America, this is the last total lunar eclipse until the December 31, 2028–January 1, 2029 New Year’s Blood Moon Eclipse.
Watch the eclipse LIVE!
Amid a solar boom last year, China saw its emissions drop, even as demand for energy rose.
Night skies over Norway ✨
Night skies over Norway ✨
Forests cure biodiversity loss:
Home to 80% of terrestrial biodiversity,80% amphibians, 75% birds, 68% mammals.
They shelter 60,000+ tree species.
Deforestation erases species faster than we can count. Heal forests = heal life on Earth. 🐾🌲
#BiodiversityCrisis
