Gyanu Adhikari

Survivor, 1983 lino print by African American artist Elizabeth Catlett #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

As ever-rising numbers of Nepalis migrate to work or study overseas it's hard to remain optimistic about the country's future. But there are strong reasons to stay positive, says @gyanu.bsky.social, co-founder of The Record, Nepal.
🎧 now at 👉 bit.ly/2Gyanu

Cross-section of road layers titled "A SLICE OF THE A303". Shows historical road types from modern to ancient: Modern 'A' Road, Turnpike Road, Medieval Cart Track, Roman Road, Bronze Age Trackway, Buried Turfline, and Natural Chalk. Each layer is illustrated with corresponding transportation icons, from cars to prehistoric animals.

Revealing cross section of a road in England

The doom is not going to scroll itself.

Solar panels on all new homes as part of Labour’s net-zero push Sir Keir Starmer rejects Sir Tony Blair’s calls to reset ‘irrational’ climate policies because they were ‘doomed to fail’

NEW

Solar panels to be mandated on vast majority of new homes in England

Currently about 40% of new builds have solar; new rules should push that to about 99%

Story 👇
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Painting featuring an interior with white walls and pink sofa on which a black cat sits while another lies beside on the floor, to the right the head and shoulders of another black cat looks outwards

A la maison' by contemporary, Hungarian born painter Eva Fialka #WomensArt

Current national plans are set to deliver only half of the renewable energy growth needed by 2030, leaving a 3.8 TW gap. As the custodian of the #3xRenewables target, IRENA warns that the #UAEConsensus goal will fall short by 34%. bit.ly/3UuUgR5

Perspective changes everything.
[Ars Mathermatica]

The Unraveling of Space-Time | Quanta Magazine This special issue of Quanta Magazine explores the ultimate scientific quest: the search for the fundamental nature of reality.

Explore or revisit the series here: www.quantamagazine.org/the-unraveli...

New Yorker cover with traders paicking

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

First past the post has a LOT to answer for.

The obstacles to the reductions needed are political, not physical or technological. Arguments otherwise are a gift to carbon polluters and petrostates.

An interdisciplinary study by @istb-univienna.bsky.social and Systematic Musicology @univie.ac.at investigates the effects of sounds and syllables.

To participate, please follow the link below:

muwiserver.univie.ac.at/LimeSurvey/i...
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(c): Liz Highleyman, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/...

When we all howl together we can make great things happen 🐺🐺🐺

The size of this #avalanche !! #Annapurna

Human Affairs

Big banks predict catastrophic warming, with profit potential Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan and an international banking group have quietly concluded that climate change will likely exceed the Paris Agreement's 2 degree

“We now expect a 3°C world,” Morgan Stanley analysts wrote earlier this month. They predicted this would be good for air conditioning stocks. Something it would not be good for? Life on Earth. www.eenews.net/articles/big...

Women bear the brunt of water scarcity and inadequate water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) facilities and services. They also tend to be more adversely affected by water-related disasters. Despite this, women remain underrepresented in decision-making on water resources management and WASH. On average, women comprise only 20% of staff in water utilities globally. To more effectively respond to growing demands for water and sanitation and diverse water needs, water institutions must attract all available talent – including women.

🌊WEESA's March Digest dives into women & water:

💧 Water scarcity and WASH challenges
💧 Gender gaps in decision-making
💧 Why it's important to tap into all available talent

📬 Read it here: shorturl.at/4bK8r
✨ Subscribe & join the community: forms.gle/zyBgWH3AXrgb...

Thank you! Hope my latest glossary of climate, energy, and political terms used in China can be useful for you all!

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

A horizontal bar graph titled "Men speak most in best picture winning films," showing the proportion of words spoken by male and female characters in Best Picture Oscar winners from 1991 to 2016. The graph displays the year and film title, followed by two horizontal bars for each film, representing the percentage of words spoken by women (purple) and men (dark blue). The graph visually demonstrates that male characters consistently have a higher proportion of spoken words compared to female characters across most of the films listed.

Telling. Quantity of male versus female dialogue in best picture films of recent decades

(by @puddingviz)

"Satellite plume detection is important in greenhouse gas abatement because methane accounts for about 30% of total anthropogenic global warming." Read more from Visualizing Energy at Boston University: visualizingenergy.org/satellite-de...

Today at 10:01 CET the Sun was directly above Earth’s equator, marking the #SpringEquinox! 🌸
At this moment, our planet is neither tilted towards nor away from the Sun, creating nearly equal day/night. 🌓
This stunning image was captured by our Meteosat-12 satellite. 🛰️

How the Klamath Dams Came Down Last year, tribes in Oregon and California pulled off the largest dam removal in U.S. history. This is their story.

“Just a few weeks after the dams came down, salmon arriving from the Pacific had pushed through the reconnected river and returned to the frigid upstream tributaries that had been closed to them for decades, navigating the same rills and rapids that their ancestors did.”

grist.org/project/indi...

Preliminary data suggests that the global average increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration in 2024 will be a record.

Not just a little record, but 25% higher than the previous record.

(This is the global average, as opposed to Moana Loa)

gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/...

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Yeah, for sure. Voice of god. Zero citations.

Book cover Goethe sketchy writing

reading it again after sending off thesis proposal

We Still Underestimate Others’ Support for Climate Action - by Kevin Green & Rakhim Rakhimov - Behavioral Scientist People think they’re more alone in supporting climate-positive action than they really are. That’s a problem, because we know people are likely to take action when they believe others are already…

People think they’re more alone in supporting climate-positive action than they really are. That’s a problem, because we know people are likely to take action when they believe others are already doing so.

Bluesky is the place for science.