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NASA has released one of the most detailed visualizations ever created of Earth’s ocean currents.
Using data from satellites and advanced ocean models, the map reveals massive rivers of moving water, swirling eddies hundreds of miles wide, and the powerful Gulf Stream carrying warm water from the Gulf of Mexico across the Atlantic.
Check out this episode of Britain's Ticking Time Bomb: Food Security Crisis hosted by @CarolineLucas share-lbc.globalplayer.com/p…
After 5 series of @ClarksonsFarm1 showing obvious impacts of excessive rains and drought on @JeremyClarkson's crop yields, #foodsecurity now centre stage.
Another call for tree planting from the @WoodlandTrust in urban tree deserts aired on @BBCr4today. Getting school children out into woodlands should be prioritised. Our low forest cover compared to continental Europe well known as #ashdieback disease killing millions of trees.
Recognising Keith Emerson’s Musical Legacy on the BBC, The BBC Proms, and Around the World - Sign the Petition! c.org/m6gPn8t5WC via @UKChange
Reminded of my plant-microbe-soil research & teaching re. shifting dogma on soil carbon/nitrogen turnover. Recalcitrant C RIP?
Three decades of continuous warming in temperate forests destabilizes persistent forms of soil organic matter - ScienceDirect share.google/kHEIC1uJtOCJObl…
Best wishes to all this year's runners about to set off in the @LondonMarathon. I was waiting way back at the start 43 years ago at the 3rd Gillette #Londonmarathon. Amazing to have been part of the #BBC coverage
running down the Mall. Happy memories.🏃♂️
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I never thought I'd be driven to break my X posting embargo but, for this seminal broadcasting moment in such turbulent times, needs must. Thank you @IanMcKellen, @StephenAtHome and, last but never least, William Shakespeare.
@CBS @ParamountPics
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Mark Tully was a giant among journalists and the greatest Indophile of his generation. He was also a uniquely warm, generous, gentle, kind and helpful man, at whose feet I was honoured to sit for many years as he patiently explained the subtleties & nuances of India. As the voice of BBC India he was irreplaceable, a man prepared to stand up to power and to tell the truth, however uncomfortable. Both privately and professionally, he will be much, much missed.
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Delighted to announce the publication of our new study on N assimilation pathways in Laccaria bicolor & poplar ECM in @PlantPhys. Special thanks to Feng and Xinyin for their key contributions to this work, which builds upon research I initiated in 1985!
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If you're even half interested in energy, I bet you've seen this chart. I call it The Most Hopeful Chart in the World.
The point? We're embracing renewable power MUCH faster than expected.
Hurrah!
Only problem is, this chart has an evil twin. A chart we really need to discuss
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Poignant reworking of Pink Floyd classic, #ComfortablyNumb, set to cutting 21st century lyrics penned & fronted by Ice-T with Body Count & David Gilmour reprising his iconic guitar solo. Appreciation to David and Roger Waters for agreeing to the release.
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We’re going to hear lots of stories about which people, policies and rhetoric are to blame for the Democrats’ defeat.
Some of those stories may even be true!
But an underrated factor is that 2024 was an absolutely horrendous year for incumbents around the world 👇
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Thank you to the many thousands of people across the whole of the NHS & social care who helped deliver the care during the pandemic. Has been a strange and difficult day. But felt it was important to give witness to some small part of the enormity of the challenge we all faced.
Prof @Kevin_Fong (Former National Clinical Adviser in Emergency Preparedness Resilience and Response) is giving evidence to the Inquiry today.
📺 You can view it on the live stream (and via playback) through our YouTube channel now 👇👇
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The Amazon is one of the most important carbon sinks in the atmosphere, said Lucas Ferrante, a biologist and researcher.
“Today it has started to emit carbon,” he said. “We are at a turning point, a point of no return.” bloomberglinea.com.br/brasil…
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Should have gone to Specsavers
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Cornell researchers have created robots controlled by king oyster mushrooms! Using mycelium’s electrical signals, these biohybrid robots can sense light and adapt their movement. This breakthrough in robotics blends biology with technology, opening doors for future applications in agriculture and beyond. cnn.com/2024/09/04/science/f…
See pg 8 Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World for several reports by early researchers who contemplated this innovation, especially Chad A. Mirkin’s work at Department of Chemistry Institute for Nanotechnology
Northwestern University: “In the May 23 Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Mirkin’s team at Northwestern University describes how it cultured spores of the fungus Aspergillus niger in the presence of 13-nm-wide gold particles that aggregated on the fibrous hyphae. Once there, the gold particles, each of which was linked to multiple short strands of DNA, could bind an additional nanoscale component bearing complementary DNA strands. This provides a means for readily mixing and matching a variety of nanoscale building blocks into ever more sophisticated structures, Mirkin says.” sciencenews.org/article/micr…
After an 11 hour Jönköping to Münster drive (no potholes!) we returned to Parkhotel 🏰 Hohenfeld. Spent today exploring the Dom and then the fab #Picasso lithograph gallery that also hosted a unexpected but poignant #RobertCapa 20th century war photography retrospective.
