The source of the flood in Nepal is a collapsed glacier 🧪⚒️

Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦@watershedlab.bsky.social · 2w ago

There has been a truly horrific flood in Nepal this morning (you can go search for videos). Let's be careful not to jump to conclusions about the trigger until we have visual confirmation. This is unlikely to have been a glacial lake outburst flood. 🧪⚒️

I got this comment on Youtube. I had to click on his username, only to find out that his last upload is a 'documentary' about an alien city in Antarctica. 🤦

Our recent paper in @ScienceAdvances. We may have a better picture of how the Mediterranean level evolved during the Lago-Mare: "Kilometric sea level changes during the Messinian salinity crisis caused by river erosion and climate" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmUn...

Mediterranean Sea Messinian Salinity Crisis: Landscape evolution model for Lago-Mare - M0 Reference

YouTube video by Daniel García-Castellanos

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Fresh article in PNAS, by Udara Amarathunga & co. Using geochemical data and numerical models, we identify oxygenation of the Mediterranean and a 33kyr salinity stratification in the earliest Pliocene, both consistent with the Zanclean Megaflood hypothesis doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Small populations of Stone Age people drove dwarf hippos and elephants to extinction on Cyprus So so resonant with the Holocene megafauna extinctions in the Americas theconversation.com/small-popula...

Small populations of Stone Age people drove dwarf hippos and elephants to extinction on Cyprus

Pig-sized hippos and elephants the size of horses once roamed the lush forests of Cyprus – until humans arrived.

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Seismic waves from the 3 Kamchatka mag 8.8 earthquake recorded by the @geo3bcn-csic.bsky.social SEP seismometer in Barcelona, after travelling more than 9300 km

An outburst flood "has just devastated Nepal. It should be a wake-up call" www.the-independent.com/climate-chan...

La llamada 'tercera España' no fue un partido, fue una idea: diálogo frente al fanatismo. Un día como hoy de 1936 comenzaba la guerra civil española. 

¿Qué fue la ‘tercera España’?

En el conocido como ‘Contubernio de Múnich’ se sentaron las bases para una posterior reconciliación española en base a una idea que se alejaba de las ‘dos Españas’.

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Ok, the title might be a bit inflated, but ok😅 España descifra la 'paradoja del Mediterráneo': ¿cómo pudo estar lleno y vacío al mismo tiempo? www.elconfidencial.com/tecnologia/c...

Hace 5 millones de años, el Mediterráneo fue un desierto salado. ¿Te lo imaginas? Nos lo cuenta @danigeos.bsky.social‬ de @geo3bcn-csic.bsky.social‬:  

La paradoja mediterránea: un nuevo estudio explica cómo el mar parece haber estado lleno y vacío a la vez

Hace unos cinco millones de años, hubo un tiempo en que el Mediterráneo se secó. Ya no podía retener el agua de los ríos en sus desembocadoras y estos pasaron a formar lagos someros en su centro, trayendo nuevas especies acuáticas desde Europa del este.

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Sobre nuestra reciente publicación en @science.org Advances La paradoja mediterránea: un nuevo estudio explica cómo el mar parece haber estado lleno y vacío a la vez. theconversation.com/la-paradoja-... @sciencenews.bsky.social

La paradoja mediterránea: un nuevo estudio explica cómo el mar parece haber estado lleno y vacío a la vez

Hace unos cinco millones de años, hubo un tiempo en que el Mediterráneo se secó. Ya no podía retener el agua de los ríos en sus desembocadoras y estos pasaron a formar lagos someros en su centro, tray...

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By the way, parts of this video were created by Manuel Mantero, who short after won the Oscar for FX - special effects

CSIC@csic.es · last yr.

🌊La paradoja del Mediterráneo, un mar vacío y lleno a la vez hace más de 5 millones de años 🌏Un estudio del #CSIC señala que los cambios climáticos y el aporte de agua desde ríos y lagos explicarían esta contradicción aparente de finales del Mioceno 👉 tiny.cc/epbp001

🌊La paradoja del Mediterráneo, un mar vacío y lleno a la vez hace más de 5 millones de años 🌏Un estudio del #CSIC señala que los cambios climáticos y el aporte de agua desde ríos y lagos explicarían esta contradicción aparente de finales del Mioceno 👉 tiny.cc/epbp001

☀️💧"Durante el aislamiento del Mediterráneo su nivel habría caído hasta dos kilómetros por debajo del actual, y entonces habría comenzado a oscilar a causa de los cambios orbitales en la insolación de la Tierra”, explica @danigeos.bsky.social, investigador de @geo3bcn-csic.bsky.social 👇

5.3 magnitude strike-slip EQ in the Alborán Sea www.ign.es/web/ign/port...

We may have a detailed picture of how the Mediterranean sea level evolved. "Kilometric sea level changes during the Messinian salinity crisis caused by river erosion and climate" Finally published in @ScienceAdvances! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Happy that the paper linked to this model is now 'in press' in Science Advances. First time we run this was 2009. It took us 13 years to understand what's the question it could answer: The mystery of the extreme sea levels of the Mediterranean Sea during the Lago-Mare period. youtu.be/AmUn-RYUfZc

How many citations would you grant these two scientists whose names form today the words ‘Medicine’ and ‘Algorithm’? Both grew in this madrassa in the 8 and 9th c. in the underrated millenary civilisation of Khorezm, a persian-arab region in today’s Uzbekistan.

15th-century astronomical center in Samarkand, built by the Timurid astronomer Ulugh Beg

Cervantes at the exact level of the Miocene / Pliocene boundary in Cuevas de Almanzora. Featuring a paleosoil including roots and worm burrows. Below: Lago Mare with very shallow brackish water fauna; above: 200-300m-deep marine Zanclean foraminifera.

#MessiBético2025 Atlantic-Mediterranean seaway at Guadalhorce. Variously dated as Messinian to Tortonian.

#MessiBético2025 Atlantic-Mediterranean seaway cross-bedding near Zagra (Granada). Tortonian

Google DeepMind has used chatbot models to come up with solutions to major problems in mathematics and computer science. The system combines a large language model with algorithms that can scrutinize the model’s suggestions to filter and improve solutions. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

DeepMind unveils ‘spectacular’ general-purpose science AI

System improves chip designs and tackles unsolved maths problems, but has not been rolled out to researchers outside the company.

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Cyberattack has been officially discarded as a cause for the blackout in Spain and Portugal that left about 50 million people unplugged for ~12 hours.

I just learned from an American colleague that the US administration is massively cancelling active scientific projects dealing with global climate change. They are not even waiting for the next call. I'm searching the web and it is appalling. Not in my worst nightmares only a year ago.

How the biggest flood in the history of the Earth created the Mediterranean

How the biggest flood in the history of the Earth created the Mediterranean

Scientists reveal new details about the 5.3-million-year-old flood, which triggered earthquakes, generated tropical-storm force winds, and created a waterfall 30 times taller than Niagara.

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Excelente entrevista sobre la sobreexplotación maderera en Valeria (Hispania) durante el imperio romano. youtu.be/1pJ-swOSftE?...

LA MADERA EN ROMA

YouTube video by Isaac Moreno Gallo

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How can zombie microbes interact with the Earth system? 🦠🧟🌎 Microbes, even when dormant, play a massive role in shaping Earth's ecosystems & biogeochemistry 🌎 In @natcomms.nature.com I explore dormancy in the context of Earth’s geosphere-biosphere co-evolution 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Microbial dormancy as an ecological and biogeochemical regulator on Earth - Nature Communications

Dormancy enables microbes to withstand periods of environmental harshness. It occurs throughout diverse ecosystems and spans vast timescales, and could play an important role in shaping the co-ev...

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National Geographic on our article: "How the biggest flood in the history of the Earth created the Mediterranean" www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti... via @natgeoclassics.bsky.social

How the biggest flood in the history of the Earth created the Mediterranean

Scientists reveal new details about the 5.3-million-year-old flood, which triggered earthquakes, generated tropical-storm force winds, and created a waterfall 30 times taller than Niagara.

nationalgeographic.com

A major power outage hit Spain and Portugal on Monday, leaving millions without electricity. Reports indicate issues with the European electric grid. Updates to follow. www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...