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Ruth Mottram

ruth_mottram

Some selected screenshots from @WMO 5 year climate reporthttp://webtv.un.org/live-now/watch/-world-meteorological-organization-wmo-press-conference/6146526367001 Population exposed to heat waves is growing Outlook for next 5 years It's not just t

Ray

ray_cun

One of the key features of modern capitalist society is the way it diffuses responsibility, and makes it hard to match cause and effect. If I sell doctored drugs to

Vaibhav Kaul

Himalayologist

Born MountaineersSheep and goats cross the frozen PharaLaRtse (‘Crossroads Pass Peak’, aka Baralacha La), a pass that connects Lahaul and Spiti to Ladakh and Zangskar (4,830 m). The two headstreams

DRI International

DRI_Intl

Starting the @columbia_ncdp Q&A:@ChloeDemrovsky: What makes a mega-disaster different from a regular #disaster? @jeffschlegel: Disasters so large they disrupt the systems designed to respond to them Where human development/activity also

Prof Susan Oosthuizen

DrSueOosthuizen

THREAD. The East Anglian #fen basin was one of the richest and most populous areas of #medieval England... this thread explores how local communities managed the #landscape that produced the

StefanieFriedhoff

Stefanie2000

So, the triple whopper of 1) the Peter Navarro op-ed, 2) the CDC being stripped of it's role as the COVID data collector, and 3) director Redfield saying spikes in

:Billy-Don :I-AM

ValiantThor12

1) A person with "Marduk" in his moniker tells me the date the Great Pyramid and Sphinx was built: 16 June 10451BC.Not bashing the person who sent me this. I'm

Marke Boo

supermarke

HEY SF! Lots of shady + outlandish things going on in the district races, and @48hills has been on top of it—here's a thread of our stories, please sign up

Dr Ben Britton

BMatB

If you see someone drowning - do you immediately ask everyone in the room to define drowning? Follow up question:If you spot someone drowning someone, on purpose - do you

Nitin A. Gokhale

nitingokhale

Since DBO/Galwan/Depsang areasre in the news, it is important to put the area in context. (see map) Darbuk-Shyok-Daulat Beg Oldi (DBO) Road in Ladakh which provides access to Depsang plain

Blazer Legacy

BlazerLegacy

Thought Experiment: What would you do if you were Putin and worried that Twitter would become a hive of citizen investigators probing Trump’s corruption? Answer: You would employ agents to

Nick Chong

_Nick_Chong

After falling 27% following the halving, Bitcoin's hash rate has just set a *new all-time high* at over 124 exahashes per second.Once again, no "death spiral" was had. And that's

Nick McKim

NickMcKim

So as Treasurer Josh Frydenberg delivers his budget speech, and outlines the Liberals’ plans to make Australia less fair and the climate crisis worse, here’s a helpful translation of his

❌Harvey Staub 💪🇺🇸🖤⭐️⭐️⭐️

HarveyStaub1

1)SEAL Team 6. August 11, 2011. “A Taliban fighter shot down a Chinook helicopter carrying 22 Navy SEAL Team 6 members in Afghanistan.”In all,there were 38 people on board, including

M.R. Sharan

sharanidli

The upcoming Bihar MLA elections will see my dear friend and inspirational electrician-turned-activist Sanjay Sahni contest as an Independent candidate. His is the type of grassroots campaign our democracy urgently

Athena Nalina | CREATE & ELEVATE

nnalinas

ADDICTIONS - THREAD #2GAMBLING! SHOPPING! SOCIAL MEDIA! GAMING!Addictions to these things are called "behavioral addictions" in contrast to substance-use addictions.Addictions thread 1:https://twitter.com/nnalinas/status/131543483