🛰️ How satellite altimetry is improving projections of Antarctic ice loss
New research shows satellite altimetry data confirms high mass loss from Thwaites glacier over next 50 years 👇
🔗 eo4society.esa.int/2026/03/19/s...
New review of surging glaciers in Svalbard!
I am pleased to share our new paper in which we review the current distribution of surging glaciers in Svalbard! Published in Earth Science Reviews, you can find the full paper here: The surging Borebreen in 2024. In this review, we analyse the methods…
For the morning team: We're looking for scientists excited to work at the cutting edge of Polar science with the latest high resolution climate models and Earth Observation data.
Funding support available for travel, accomodation + food costs covered
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An infographic from Our World in Data titled "Global land use for food production" uses a series of stacked horizontal bar charts to visualize the distribution of Earth's surface and the disproportionate land requirements of livestock. The first bar shows Earth's surface is 71% ocean and 29% land (141 million km²); the land surface is then broken down into 76% habitable land, 10% glaciers, and 14% barren land. Of the habitable land, 45% (48 million km²) is used for agriculture, while 38% is forests and 13% is shrubland. The agricultural land bar reveals a major disparity: 80% (38 million km²) is dedicated to livestock (meat, dairy, and textiles) including grazing land and cropland for feed, while only 16% is used for crops for direct human consumption and 4% for non-food crops. Finally, two smaller bars at the bottom contrast this land use with nutritional output, showing that while livestock uses 80% of agricultural land, it only provides 17% of global calories and 38% of global protein, whereas plant-based foods provide 83% of calories and 62% of protein.
80% of agricultural land is used for livestock (and textiles), yet this huge land use provides only 17% of our calories and 38% of our protein.
16% of the land used for crops provides 83% of our calories and 62% of our protein. It's past time we rethink what we eat.
Photo showing a tall, jagged ice front of the Ronne Ice Shelf in West Antarctica rising above the calm surface of the Weddell Sea. Credit: Torsten Albrecht / PIK.
🔔🚨 New Publication Alert!
Research has shown that the Antarctic Ice Sheet is a climate tipping element.
We found: it’s not one — it’s many.
📄 Paper (open access): www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📢 Press release: www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
Tread below 🧵👇
We are seeking a 3+ year postdoc in ocean modelling, to work on an exciting project investigating underwater tsunamis in Antarctica.
More about the project here: www.polomints.ac.uk
Read more about the post here: lnkd.in/eBjndZPv
Please share and help connect us with the best candidates!
🚨job opportunity🚨
Durham is advertising 3-year fellowships (any field). We are very keen to hear from Antarctic/Cryo people who might be interested in joining a great group. The positions come with some travel & research funds. See here for details or get in touch www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
NEW – IPBES: Four key takeaways on how nature loss threatens the global economy | @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org
Read here: buff.ly/sYndpga
I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
Antarctic ice sheet folk, I'm looking for a Postdoctoral Fellow in Antarctic Ice Sheet Reconstruction [readvertised] for a 3.5yr appointment in Tasmania. Very flexible start date!
Join our new team, figuring out what is happening and what may happen in East Antarctica. 1/4
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Analysis: UK newspaper editorial opposition to climate action overtakes support for first time
"All 98 editorials opposing climate action were in right-leaning titles, incl the Sun, Mail, Telegraph, Times & Express"
By Josh Gabbatiss & Sylvia Hayes
www.carbonbrief.org/...
The utterly shameless & widely covered "report" out today, claiming net zero will "cost" £9tn is based on:
* Assuming free fossil-fuel energy, free petrol cars, free gas boilers, free gas power plants etc
AND
* Including climate damages in the "cost" of net zero
I kid you not, it is that stupid
🧪❄️🛰️🧵Spectacular image of the current state of the front of Thwaites Glacier, West #Antarctica collected by Sentinel-1 two days ago. The upper (eastern) part of the image shows the fast decaying Eastern Ice Shelf with several recently formed rifts near its grounding zone.
The team behind Climate.us aims to provide the same kind of reliable, fresh content that used to be available via Climate.gov. We hope you’ll support us. #ClimateForUs
🚀Here is the current list of @northumbriauni.bsky.social, Lancaster University, @universityofleeds.bsky.social, Reading University and @bas.ac.uk Net Zero Polar Science DTP projects 👇
📅Deadline: 7 Jan 2026
nzps-dtp.ac.uk/nzps-project...
Huge fractures opening at the Thwaites Glacier Eastern Ice Shelf grounding line
Why shouldn't you trust someone you see drawing on graph paper?
They're definitely plotting something.
Last chance to turn it off.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
Sir David Attenborough has championed a bid by Wildlife Trusts and Northumberland Wildlife Trust to raise £30m to buy the entirety of a 15-sq-mile upland Rothbury Estate 🌲🌿 You can help by donating here 💷: www.wildlifetrusts.org/appeals/roth....
BBC article: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Do you think your MP is aware of the full implications of the climate crisis, across health, national security, food security and our economy?
Ask them to attend the first National Emergency Briefing on 27 Nov: www.nebriefing.org
A request for weather interested volunteers!
Met Eireann would like to rescue millions of weather observations taken in Ireland over many decades that are still stuck on paper. #WeatherRescue
Anyone can help: www.zooniverse.org/projects/met...
Just arriving here. Let the adventure begin.
Expect: ice, climate science, quirky notes and insights.
Today seems like a good day to remember that climate action is far cheaper than inaction, according to those lentil weavers at the OBR
still looking for an iceberg researcher! is that you or someone you know? 🧪
Great to see CPOM PhD Researcher @icewicks.bsky.social at the @igsoc.bsky.social British Branch meeting this week, displaying her poster on modelling the impact of surface melt on Amery Ice Shelf 👇
Image credit: @treacherousbuzz.bsky.social
Cool new library for physics-informed neural networks for glaciology problems, led by Gong Cheng @dartmouthears.bsky.social gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...
British NIMBYism is truly a sight to behold.
“We are rejecting this solar farm, because one time I saw an electric vehicle on fire, which reminded me that decades ago a coal mining disaster killed lots of children”.
🪩 Stratospheric aerosol injections
🌊 Sea curtains
🧊 Ice management
💦 Water removal
🦠 Ocean fertilisation
None of these geoengineering fixes will mitigate effects of global warming in polar regions - instead they'll likely have serious unintended consequences
theconversation.com/high-tech-pl...
Claim: "Water vapor is a greenhouse gas!"
Reality: Yes, and there's more of it in a warmer atmosphere
-"CO2 is plant food!"
-pretty hard to eat when you're on fire
-"Climate has changed before!"
-We know, we told you that
-"Scientists don't know everything!"
- doesn't mean we know *nothing*
