The Rhine is at an exceptional low – a 1-in-63-year event. Worryingly, this is a pattern: 2018, 2022 and today all rank in the top-10 lowest discharges measured at Lobith since 1901. Only November 1947 saw less water. However, modern water demand is vastly higher than it was in the winter of 1947.

HydrologyNL@hydrology.nl · 18h ago

Was just informed that the water level of the river Rhine has dropped too low for the official measuring point at Lobith to record it. Lobith is the critical border location where the river enters the Netherlands from Germany, serving as the primary gateway for monitoring national water inflow.

Once upon a time the widespread demise of forests catalyzed an environmental movement and helped push an energy transition.

En nog een vacature voor een promotieplaats bij collega @maartjegelder.bsky.social aan @uvahumanities.bsky.social maar deze gaat over gender en protest in de 16de eeuwse Noordelijke #Nederlanden werkenbij.uva.nl/vacatures/pr... #medievalsky #twitterstorians #earlymodernsky

Vacature — Promovendus Protest en gender in de Noordelijke Nederlanden

<p>Binnen het project <em>Women and Popular Protest in the Low Countries</em> zoeken we twee promovendi die de opstandige traditie en politieke acties van vrouwen in de laatmiddeleeuwse en vroegmodern...

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Heroic nautilus of the centre of the title page of this edition of Johann Jakob Scheuchzer's Herbarium Diluvianum. One of the all-time great book titles, that. In fact there's nothing about this I don't like.

This is really grim. Imagine a different world. @tninstitute.bsky.social

Same. HUGE gap between experts & everyone else. This was already expert consensus 2 years ago. Now? Trump's horrible & evil war have wrecked the perception of oil & gas as stable and cheap in the decade when solar, wind, batteries, EVs are SURGING worldwide www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/daw...

Madison Condon@madisoncondon.bsky.social · 3mo ago

honestly haven't felt this hopeful about climate in a *while*

Two possibly interesting PhD positions on "submerged" and "extractive dependencies" in the context of project titled "Power, Knowledge, and Servitude at Sea" in Bonn: www.idos-research.de/en/stellen-p... and www.idos-research.de/en/about-us/...

Job advertisment: Doctoral Researcher (f/m/diverse) POESIS Submerged Dependencies

The BCDSS–IDOS research group, Power, Knowledge, and Servitude at Sea (POESIS), invites applications for a Doctoral Researcher (f/m/diverse)

idos-research.de

You can get to a high-warming world without high emissions . That's the part of this week's "RCP 8.5 is implausible" discussion that's getting missed. A short thread on why the relief is premature 🧵

Meanwhile the California grid now boasts the equivalent of 12 nuclear power plants worth of batteries -- the total cost of which was, I suspect, less than a single nuclear plant.

California’s Battery Array Is as Powerful as 12 Nuclear Power Plants. Here’s What’s on the Horizon. - Inside Climate News

An expert in the state’s energy grid explains how the state is faring amid federal cuts.

insideclimatenews.org

Fascinating. One day, I’ll be a historian of peat and peatlands.

Alice Milner@alicemmilner.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Peatlands store more carbon than the world's forests yet fundamental questions remain unanswered. Today we publish 50 priority research questions, identified by 467 participants from 54 countries #PeatQuest #Peatlands www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Peatlands store more carbon than the world's forests yet fundamental questions remain unanswered. Today we publish 50 priority research questions, identified by 467 participants from 54 countries #PeatQuest #Peatlands www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Global peatland experts share their top 50 research needs. Many of these are obvious (better mapping) and many should be obvious (centre local and indigenous communities), but some might surprise you (there is a lot that we do not know about what the microbes in peat are up to).

Alice Milner@alicemmilner.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Peatlands store more carbon than the world's forests yet fundamental questions remain unanswered. Today we publish 50 priority research questions, identified by 467 participants from 54 countries #PeatQuest #Peatlands www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Genuine, history-making stuff. A watershed.

Carbon Brief@carbonbrief.org · 3mo ago

Santa Marta: Key outcomes from first summit on ‘transitioning away’ from fossil fuels ✍️ @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org Read here ⬇️

This is a critical point: *today*, even in countries that don’t introduce policies & measures to support it, consumers can unilaterally enact electrification and demand destruction

Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This is the first oil crisis in which alternatives to oil and gas — solar panels, EVs, batteries, induction stoves heatpumps — are cheap and easy to get. These flying off the shelves already... This has reporting from 10 countries www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Written about a year ago

Alexander Etkind@sashaetkind.bsky.social · last yr.

The Old Oil Order is collapsing. Strait of Ormus, Baltic Sea, Red Sea are its geographical knots, and they are bursting. Hyper-concentration, petro-aggression, and transit-obsession are the structural festures. Climate and wars will make survival of this oil-based order plainly unsustainable

Currently 431-432 ppm

Oliver Morton, Eater of Sun@eaterofsun.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Your anthropocentenary is when the atmospheric carbon dioxide level today is 100ppm larger than the level in teh year of your both. as a 320ppm'er, mine was a little while back.

A reminder of where we stand. Source: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...

In March 1651, a dike breach wreaked havoc just outside the walls of Amsterdam, inundating a whole polder. The damage was so spectacular that artists flocked to the site, documenting the disaster and its aftermath in sketches, oil paintings, and engravings. These by J. Asselijn and W. Schellinks 1/

This looks like an interesting project! www.uni.lu/en/jobs/doct...

Doctoral Researcher in Global Connectivity of Antinuclear Resistance

uni.lu

The #AMOC by 2100 will thus be so weak (~8 Sv) that it is very likely on the way to full shutdown, as our study last year showed: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... In my view, this now makes a full #AMOC shutdown more likely than not. Definitely not a low likelihood risk, as we used to think.

Shutdown of northern Atlantic overturning after 2100 following deep mixing collapse in CMIP6 projections

Shutdown of northern Atlantic overturning after 2100 following deep mixing collapse in CMIP6 projections, Drijfhout, Sybren, Angevaare, Joran R, Mecking, Jennifer, van Westen, René M, Rahmstorf, Stefan

iopscience.iop.org

Worth following!

Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Anyone teaching energy/IR/finance/ecology/political science etc, please do share with students & colleagues I concluded my talk with @picharbonnier.bsky.social wise words. Slides here: tinyurl.com/PolycrisisWe... @katemac.bsky.social & my podcast ELECTRIC WORLD ORDER tinyurl.com/PolycrisisPo...

Vol. 1, no. 6 of the CO2 Newsletter, Aug-Sep 1980, is now downloadable. Founded by American geologist William Barbat, each issue was 8 pages of excerpts from recent reports, editorials and deeply researched articles. Pls comment on/share this thread! 1/9

Vacancy for a three-year post-doc position at the Universiteit van Amsterdam! This postdoc position, part of the European Research Council (ERC)-sponsored 𝐁𝐋𝐎𝐂𝐊𝐀𝐃𝐄 project, seeks to understand the long legacies of blockades on the post-war order.

Sounds like the stuff of an 18th-century luna-theological argument for the existence of a divine architect.

The Author, Séamas O'Reilly@seamas.bsky.social · 4mo ago

something that wrinkles my brain every time I remember it is the fact that total eclipses are only possible on earth because the moon and sun appear to be the same size in our sky, due to the insanely, astronomically unlikely fluke that the moon is 400x smaller than the sun but 400x closer to us.

We're hiring! 🌿 The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities at the University of Stavanger invites applications for a 3-year postdoc in Environmental History. See thread for more details. #envhist #envhum

Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental History (297163) | University of Stavanger

Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental History (297163), Employer: University of Stavanger, Deadline: Monday, April 20, 2026

jobbnorge.no

Six days left to apply for this very cool #envhist postdoc with us here @greenhouseuis.net - it's a great opportunity to join a vibrant and active research environment with much support for career development and a good community.

Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities@greenhouseuis.net · 5mo ago

We're hiring! 🌿 The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities at the University of Stavanger invites applications for a 3-year postdoc in Environmental History. See thread for more details. #envhist #envhum

The Wayback Machine archive is, like Wikipedia, one of the last corners of the internet that hasn't been killed by greed & slop. That ... may not last long.

The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril

As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.

wired.com

The stupidest tool from the box. Keeps demand and prices artificially high, costs billions, and largely ends up with households that don't need support. 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♂️🤦

Reuters@reuters.com · 4mo ago

German coalition announces fuel price relief worth $1.9 bln reut.rs/4c7F1Xx

“The “methodological blind spot” that she and Minderhoud have uncovered went undetected for so long in part because geoid estimates are most accurate in Europe and the eastern seaboard of North America, where the majority of published researchers are based.” e360.yale.edu/features/sea...

A More Troubling Picture of Sea Level Rise Is Coming into View

Scientists have uncovered a "blind spot" in the research on rising seas, revealing that tens of millions of people thought safe from coastal flooding are at risk of inundation. Across much of the worl...

e360.yale.edu

Hoi Nederland. Jetten en de rechtse horde kunnen wel met vlaggetjes wapperen maar zonder radicaal klimaatbeleid is het enkel demagogie

Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Sea level rise much worse than expected Data from tidal gauges shows that actual sea levels worldwide are on average 9.4 to 10.6 inches higher than predicted by models Tens of millions of people thought safe from coastal flooding are at risk of inundation e360.yale.edu/features/sea...