Water is being pumped out of Iran's aquifers so aggressively to sustain it's growing agriculture in semi-arid terrain that they can see the land subside from outer space - at rates up to 30-40 cm per year I hear. Iran depends on this unsustainable groundwater abstraction for ~50% of it's supplies.

New video: A glacier on Antarctica’s Eastern Peninsula experienced the fastest retreat recorded in modern history—in just two months, nearly 50 percent of the glacier disintegrated. Watch this video to understand what happened. Study by @ciresnews #Antarctica #glaciermelt

Someone on Threads noticed you can type any random sentence into Google, then add “meaning” afterwards, and you’ll get an AI explanation of a famous idiom or phrase you just made up. Here is mine

Thwaites Glacier calves kilometre-scale icebergs every few weeks. Here's an animation of the process from Sentinel-1. For a longer and higher-resolution version, have a look here: aluckman4.wixsite.com/ade-s-world-...

Ozone hope? The 2024 ozone hole closer to the historical average in size and duration than the previous years. Does this signal progress towards recovery?
Read the article atmosphere.copernicus.eu/ozone-hope-2...

#CAMS

thinking of calling this "The Illusion Illusion"

(more examples below)

"Every year, billions of vehicles worldwide shed an estimated 6 million tonnes of tire fragments. These tiny flakes of plastic, generated by the wear and tear of normal driving, [account] for 28% of microplastics entering the environment globally."

theconversation.com/car-tyres-sh...

The invasive Aesculapian snake, which needs heat, is thriving in the cold, rainy UK. How? 🧪 By finding warmer living environments in compost heaps, attics and walls

Fall colors are not just pretty. They are an evolved series of metabolic actions to conserve nitrogen and other nutrients. Breaking down chlorophyll to export N exposes the living leaf cells to sun damage. Red and yellow pigments serve to protect the leaf cells from bleaching by the sun.

This is my first try posting a video here, made from AMSR2 data using ezgif and ffmpeg. The animation covers the period from August 1, 2024 to present.

It shows that although the sea ice has moved away, the giant iceberg A23a continues to spin, trapped in a Taylor column above a seamount.
🌊🧪⚒️

"Two wheelers like e-bikes and electric mopeds] are actually displacing four times as much demand for oil as all the world’s electric cars at present, due to their staggering uptake in China and other nations where mopeds are a common form of transport" theconversation.com/the-worlds-2...

Great chart showing the meteoric recent rise of Chinese car exports – set to overtake falling imports in 2023 – in a Nikkei Asia big read on BYD

asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Th...

Sea ice thickness according to the PIOMAS model

sites.google.com/view/arctic-...

Arctic sea ice has been drifting toward Fram Strait again in the last two months. It's a concern that the thickest ice may drift out of the Arctic Ocean toward lower latitudes where it will easily melt.

Arctic sea ice thickness according to the CryoSat-SMOS merged sea ice thickness product:
sites.google.com/view/arctic-...