Fantastic woodpecker and bluebells show today in the #southdowns

The March 2026 #C3S Climate Bulletin reports the 4th-warmest March globally, 1.48°C above the pre-industrial level. Europe saw its 2nd-warmest March on record, while global-average SST reached 20.97°C, the second-highest for March. #CopernicusClimate

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Not all Easter eggs are made of chocolate.

Some are hidden in QField. 👀🦄

The Day My Dog Spontaneously Combusted there he was – chasing sticks, doing tricks, and all that stuff next minute, woof Brian Bilston

Today’s poem is called ‘The Day My Dog Spontaneously Combusted’.

2025 was EU’s most destructive wildfire season on record Fires started early in the year and intensified during summer heatwaves.

2025 was the EU’s worst wildfire season on record

1M+ hectares burned (≈ half size of Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿)
~2× more than 2024
7,200+ fires recorded

Driven by extreme heat + drought fire seasons are getting longer

This isn’t a one-off - it’s the new normal

joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/jrc-news-and...

Photo from space that shows Africa, a sliver of Europe, and lots of ocean and clouds (which hide the tip of South America and the Amazon Rainforest) at night. The Western Sahara, cloud-free, stands out against the dark blue Atlantic Ocean. City lights cluster along the coastlines of Morocco, Algeria, and Spain. Clouds hover above Africa’s Sahel and the Congo Basin, while a large storm system twists over the South Atlantic.

Earth at night from Artemis II. City lights in South America and (possibly) flashes of lightning above Equatorial Africa are visible that were washed out in the brighter exposure.

2nd exposure of the Artemis pic of the dark side of the Earth just dropped. Via @astrojaz.bsky.social

My captions for the images: creators.yahoo.com/lifestyle/st...

NASA’s Journey to the Moon photo gallery: www.nasa.gov/gallery/jour...

This is the complete opposite to the direction we should be going in.

Allowing intensive farming to expand will increase animal suffering, undermine food security, increase pollution, fuel the climate crisis and put all of us at risk.

Read more: https://bit.ly/4c0tF6e

Has anyone had an issue in #qgis with the align rasters tool. When I try and configure a layer there's a message stating to select a single layer (which I've done!)

#gischat

Caution! - Stoat at work.
Live from a North Dorset lane....
The Stoat escaped into the hedgerow - rabbit repositioned at the side of the road.
Shame the van came - it's a very quiet lane...
#Stoats

Huge crowds take part in London march against the far right – live Organisers claim half a million people are marching through central London, protesting against the rise of the far right

Good-humoured, peaceful marchers, calling for love & tolerance - must be the woke lefties
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...

Half a million strong. Together.

The biggest march against the far-right in British history.

Great turnout and enjoyed the folk tunes as well

North Atlantic Right Whale Calving Season 2026 There are approximately 380 right whales remaining, including about 70 reproductively active females. With so few of these whales left, researchers closely monitor the Southeast for new offspring duri...

The number of North Atlantic right whale calves born this season is the highest in 17 years.
www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/end...

The England Land Use Framework published a couple of days ago is pretty good thinking but the test will be in change on the ground.

A blog: markavery.info/2026/03/21/l...

... and a 🧵 below and a hat tip to @guyshrubsole.bsky.social

Well well well, what do we have here? Is that... real 3D data in my 3D ggplot? 🤫

#RStats #rayshader #rayverse

I was able to get out today for some #vgi collection on the Natural England #chalkstream dataset using the CrowdWater app.
I recommend using it when you're walking near watercourses.
Also used #qfield to record in #qgis.
Great to be on the #southdowns - although the streams were a bit murky

Beavers can turn streams into carbon stores – we measured how much As beavers reshape rivers, wetlands become a natural storage system for carbon.

A new study has found beaver damming to provide 10x more carbon storage for water courses than those without beavers. Methane emissions were also found to be minimal.
Further evidence of the benefits of #naturalfloodmanagement
#naturebasedsolutions

theconversation.com/beavers-can-...

Pac Man comes to clean up the mess around the Broad St pump. (Author forgotten)

3D-ish version of Snow's Map by Hemed Lungo. Deaths from cholera shown by red dots.

Interactive app showing deaths from cholera, by Ken Fields

Star-bursts overlaid on the Snow map connecting deaths to the nearest pump. By Rebecca Pedrick Case

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD
🎂Mar 16, 1813 John Snow born in Yorkshire, England 🇬🇧

1854: His dot map of deaths in Soho leads (eventually) to discovery of the water-borne source of a cholera epidemic.

I celebrate his birthday with a couple of my favorite Snow Map re-creations

England’s chalk streams are among the rarest habitats on Earth & a crucial part of our natural heritage. In Basingstoke we are lucky to have beautiful rivers like the River Loddon.

I believe securing UNESCO World Heritage status for chalk streams would build on the protections Government has made.

Day 75 of #365DaysOfMaps. March 16th is Artichoke Day. This map has layers!

Artichoke Growth Regions 75/365

mapdesign.icaci.org/2026/03/happ...

#cafc at Oxford yesterday

Great to see and hear so many birds on Devil's Dyke today.
What wasn't great was the amount of dogs not on leads where skylarks are nesting
#nature #southdowns

Misty walk along the river Adur this morning. Saw an egret, oystercatchers, snipe, blackheaded gulls, skylarks on some beautiful #saltmarsh
#nature #sussex

Coherent and incoherent change detection for improved flood mapping: A Sentinel-1 SAR time-series approach Flood mapping and monitoring are common emergency response applications using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data, particularly Sentinel-1, which prov…

Very good article on how good #Sentinel1 #changedetection is in #mapping floodwaters. For a flood in Afghanistan, this methodology was able to detect 5 times the area shown by some products in the Global Flood Monitoring System.
#remotesensing #GIS #geospatial

This spring sees the release of a documentary about the fight to defend and extend access to nature in England and Wales. OUR LAND, directed by Orban Wallace and shot by Gallivant Film, follows the Right to Roam campaign as we trespass estates and challenge removal of rights on Dartmoor and beyond.

Excellent video tutorial on creating animated traces in #QGIS over on #reddit:

www.reddit.com/r/QGIS/comments/1rde0fm/...

#GISChat #MovementDataAnalysis #MovementData #Mobility

Haven't been to a #cafc away game since the days of Bowyer. Disciplined performance yesterday at Southampton spurred on by great support #coya

FACT OF THE DAY. 21 February 1946. Aneurin Bevan announced the Labour Government’s proposals for a National Health Service. The service began on 5 July 1948. Its introduction represented one of the greatest social reforms in British History which helped every citizen.

Bouncy low tide dip this morning