Anna Richards @MsHouseMD@qoto.org

Coco Gauff crowned Roland Garros champion after defeating Aryna Sobolenko
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/06/07/coco-gauff-crowned-roland-garros-champion-after-defeating-aryna-sobolenko?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Sci-Tech @sci-tech-euronews

In 2023, a record-breaking marine heatwave in the North Atlantic Ocean, driven by exceptionally weak winds and a shallow surface mixed layer, led to severe weather events across Europe and beyond. The heatwave, exacerbated by long-term climate change and reduced sulfate emissions from ships, serves as a warning for future extreme weather.

https://theconversation.com/unprecedented-heat-in-the-north-atlantic-ocean-kickstarted-europes-hellish-2023-summer-now-we-know-what-caused-it-258061

For #WorldEnvironmentDay, let's remember that the ocean is the heart of our life support system, an essential part of Earth's hydrological and global biogeochemical cycles, and a place of endless wonder.

Happy Constitution Day Denmark!

A short history of Greenland, in six maps
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2025/06/04/a-short-history-of-greenland-in-six-maps?giftId=eed38d68-7aa9-468b-9b2c-32bfca227c11&utm_campaign=gifted_article

NEW #Astrophoto: Messier 51 Whirlpool Galaxy
 
At the height of this year’s galaxy season, I finally captured my first image of the stunning Whirlpool #Galaxy (Messier 51).
 
Full story: https://astrocamp.eu/en/whirlpool-galaxy-0425/
 
▼ Vixen VC200L | Canon EOS R(a) '25
 
#astrophotography #nightsky #space #astronomy #telescope #clearsky #photography #nature

NASA has wanted to put people on #Mars for decades, but both technological and budget limitations mean that likely would not happen until the 2040s.

Now even that seems unlikeky.

The White House proposed spending some US$1 billion in 2026 on Mars plans, including research into new spacesuits and an astronaut landing system.

But a human mission to Mars would likely cost hundreds of billions of dollars spread over a number of years; the agency currently spends $25 billion a year on all of its programmes, and Trump has proposed cutting that to under $19 billion.

#space
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01737-1

Make Vinland great again..

(HT @hart for the meme)

Wishing you a Merry Christmas, wherever you may be

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“French voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third …”

https://www.npr.org/2024/07/07/nx-s1-5032011/france-elections-emmanuel-macron-marine-le-pen

Hey y’all, don’t forget that the ugly dry dirt parts of your garden are habitat for your wild bees! #gardening #bees

"Top Climate Scientist Sums Up Second Donald Trump Term With 2 Chilling Words" by @Leemoran for @HuffPost: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/climate-expert-donald-trump-second-term-warning_n_667939fae4b0bd985dc51f69

In a move so douchey even his critics didn't expect it, twisted, hollowed-out GOP freak Ron DeSantis vetoes all arts grants previously approved by state legislators. Remember, IF YOU HATE THE ARTS, VOTE REPUBLICAN. [gift link] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/arts/ron-desantis-veto-arts-funding-florida.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1k0.YsxU.ytPMGyrnWTt5&smid=url-share

When the James Webb Space Telescope was launched at the end of 2021, we expected stunning images and illuminating scientific results.

So far, the powerful space #telescope has lived up to our expectations.

The #JWST has shown us things about the early #universe we never anticipated.

Some of those results are forcing a rewrite of #astronomy textbooks.

#astrophysics #cosmology
https://phys.org/news/2024-06-jwst-rewriting-astronomy-textbooks.html

RT by @EUClimateAction: #SaharanDust events can have impacts for solar energy output. So what can be done to better manage the problem?

This latest #ClimateNow episode explores the growing issue of Saharan dust hitting solar energy production using CAMS & #C3S data.

https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/06/17/how-is-saharan-dust-impacting-solar-power

[2024-06-21 13:20 UTC]

a massive panorama, made of 225 images, freshly transmitted from Mars by the Curiosity rover

June 20, 2024 (Sol 4220)
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk

#Curiosity #Mars #Sol4229 #rover #CuriosityRover #space #science #Martian #landscape #panorama #photography #STEM #Astrodon

Plato wrote that thought “is a silent inner conversation of the soul with itself.” And yet recent studies on the brain find no evidence that we use language to think. Here’s my story on this fascinating debate. [Gift link] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/19/science/brain-language-thought.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1U0.Kfbn.cWqiYcis-fKE&smid=url-share

Tiny garden insect of the day: a cinnamon bug (Corizus hyoscyami) venturing out for a while in a gap between the on-off rain we’ve had this evening.

#iPhone15
#Photography
#MacroPhotography
#BackGardenEntomology

Not all astronomical are dripping with gorgeousity, yet they can still contain amazing and wonderful information in them.

Like, evidence for the existence of an intermediate-mass black hole, one of the biggest goals of modern astronomy.

https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/middleweight-black-hole-finally-revealed-maaaaybe

"Our "fingerprints" are all over climate change, research on warming ocean temperatures finds" by Matthew Rozsa for Salon

https://www.salon.com/2024/03/21/our-fingerprints-are-all-over-climate-change-research-on-warming-ocean-temperatures-finds/

For the past nine months, mean land and sea surface temperatures have overshot previous records each month by up to 0.2 °C — a huge margin at the planetary scale.

A general warming trend is expected because of rising greenhouse-gas emissions, but this sudden heat spike greatly exceeds predictions made by statistical #climate models.

#planet #habitability #Earth
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00816-z