Victoria BC, Mountain Legacy Project at the University of Victoria. Hiking, native flora, mountaineering, environment, biking. My photos:https://xitter.gq/t.co/bHHx25Puwo
Victoria, BC
Joined October 2008
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Riot of Alaska Saxifrage. “In nature nothing exists alone.”
#RachelCarson, #SilentSpring flic.kr/p/nBEpuC
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Benchmark glaciers are dying drop by drop! 🧊💧🔥
One of the three canadian glaciers with a mass balance record > 40 yrs is projected to vanish within less than a decade! ✝️
researchgate.net/publication…
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Mer de Glace from Signal Forbes
1890 | 2013 | 2021 | 2024
Strong acceleration of the demise of the largest French glacier over last few years! 🧊🔥
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Astazou east Glacier (Spanish Pyrenees)
1890 | 2025
📷 Eugène Trutat
Mathieu Lavigne
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it’s a 2 minute radio program, never repeated, broadcast 18 times a week.
Bigger audience than Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, and Jimmy Fallon … combined.
Millions listen, with no need for the information it gives. Just to listen.
The BBC Shipping Forecast is 100 years old.
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Our paper is out. And it is distressing.
Rapid butterfly declines across the United States during the 21st century | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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Thank you Jeff Douglas! This is brilliant.
We Are Canadian youtu.be/_OzbmriDgQc?feature… via @YouTube
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'Le Mont Servin'
Alexandre Calame
Late 1830s
One of the few views of THE mountain produced and published (1841 here) before the tourism flourished in the area, i.e. from 1848, and especially after the first ascent (1865) 🏔️🎨⛏️
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On 17th dec., a 120,000 m3 silt/clay landslide occurred on a Takhini River cut bank (Yukon, CAN) 😲
It triggered a tsunami that killed trees up to 20 cm diam., only four survived! 🌊🌲💪 eos.org/thelandslideblog/tak…
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The @Telegraph does a terrific job of putting the #lafires in global context. Brava!
Fire Weather: How extreme wildfires became the rule – not the exception:
telegraph.co.uk/global-healt… #wildfires
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La Cueva de Jimbo (800 m asl, Ushuaïa), a famous ice cave that created a noticeable tunnel, collapsed on sunday
The cave formed at the front of a small glacieret encased in large Holocene moraines
Before: 27th Dec 2024 (@BallesterFacu)
After @ushnoticias
thesun.co.uk/news/32793522/d…
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Fascinating Holocene glacial history of southern Jan Mayen where 4 glaciers collapsed due to volcanic eruptions at different times of the Mid to Late Holocene and did not reform afterwards! ❄️🔥
This research was prompted by the discovery of a glacier buried by tephra in 2016 🌋
Not the best bike parking area I have ever used - it is sloped downhill away from the rack. #ThriftyFoodsMall on MacKenzie. But - in fairness, it is not the worst I’ve ever used either!😁
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And now for some inferred ice-crystal impressions... from perhaps a crisp winter morning roughly 295 million years ago (Usclas Formation, Massif Central, France). Published in doi.org/10.1130/G49011.1 #paleoweather #lagerstätte #scicomm #ice
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Raindrop impressions-- a light sprinkling from perhaps a Tuesday afternoon, some 300 million years ago, give or take. From the Maroon loessite, Colorado. #loess #dust #raindrop #paleoweather
The Campbell Glacier in the Canadian Rockies from Diamond Peak: 1917 and 2024. Not my first rodeo, but am still struck by the massive ice loss here - this glacier won't see out the century. Is that a huge moulin forming! Full high res shots here: flic.kr/s/aHBqjBKy35
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Flooding disaster unfolding right now in Central Europe.
Why is it so bad?
This thread takes a quick look at some of the key ingredients of this record-breaking storm.
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Want more permafrost walls crumbling ? 🔥
Enjoy a mythical one, Matterhorn east face today ! 😱
With a nice timelapse ⏲️
The Matterhorn East Face in tears today.
A rockfall detached at approx. 4100 m shortly after 03:00h today leaving a widely visible trace in the seismic monitoring data networks.seismo.ethz.ch/en/n…
Not a bother to alpinists (the classic route follows the ridge) this is a warning sign.
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New paper in Nature Communications - Drivers and Impacts of the Record-Breaking 2023 Wildfire Season in Canada. The 2023 wildfire season in Canada was unprecedented in its scale and intensity.
rdcu.be/dRs0B
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A flyover of the Chilcotin River earlier today. The slide is significant as too is the water being held back. More updates to follow when we better assess the situation. Please follow all of the alerts and emergency orders being issued here: emergencyinfobc.gov.bc.ca/ev… #bcpoli
Maybe “old lady” of me, but I found myself unsettled by today’s (July 27, 2024) @nytimes #Connections. No spoilers, but sometimes language, especially jokey descriptors as in 1 of today’s blue category, can be demeaning & ugly. 😢it is so “normalized” even #NYT uses it for fun.