🚀🌊 Big congrats to the PACE team & our NASA colleagues on the successful launch! 🛰️ Special kudos to Paula Bontempi, the Mother of PACE, whose dedication made this mission possible. Thank you for your incredible leadership! 🌟 #PACEmission #NASA #EarthScience

Today we put the PACE in space! The newest NASA Earth observing satellite launched on Feb. 8 at 1:33am ET (0633 UTC).

It will study ocean health, air quality and climate change: go.nasa.gov/42yV8Xv

🛰️The largest portion of the European Space Agency budget for 2024 will be allocated to Earth Observation, with €2372.4 M representing 30.5% of the total. This is a significant increase of over 10% compared to the previous year. 📈

How to identify ugly mass tourism places before you visit them?

In Europe, they usually have certain retail stores (e.g. Spar) or bars (Irish pubs).

But one thing defines them very precisely - quantity of Euronet ATMs.

These yellow/blue🟨🟦 ATMs are designed to scam

EMIT measures what we emit. New paper by Thorpe et al: Attribution of individual methane and carbon dioxide emission sources using EMIT observations from space science.org/doi/full/10.11…

While satellites and data acquired by them take much of the attention in Earth observation for greenhouse gas emission monitoring, the value is not realised until it is used to drive action.

The value chain of EO for GHG emission monitoring can be classified into four segments

Copernicus Emergency Management Services (Copernicus EMS) dio a conocer este mapa de afectaciones de la zona de #Acapulco partir de imágenes de alta resolución WorldView-3 (resolución de = 1 m) y Pleaides-Neo (resolución 30 cm). #Otis

🟥Zonas destruidas - afectaciones

Our nighttime lights analysis made in partnership with #CBAS Wuhan University using also #NASAVIIRS data is featured in Washington Post.

➡️Full article: wapo.st/3Q5VAqs
➡️See our last reports: unosat.org/products/

Our team is mobilized to continue monitoring the situation

This is far worse than I thought. Propofol is one of the main anesthetics used for surgery.

nbcnews.com/health/health-…

The state of Utah uses 68% of its annual water consumption to grow a crop that provides 0.3% of its GDP (about as much as amusement parks contribute), and changing this state of affairs is hugely controversial and probably politically untenable

This beautiful Woodstock, #VTwx home was built in 1890 and is for sale on Zillow for $1,495,000. #VTflood23

Excited to share our new paper published in Remote Sensing of Environment.🎉Link: doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.…. We generated hourly heat exposure maps at 1m, and explored the impact of heat wave, urbanization and morphology on heat exposure. Big thanks to my advisors and co-authors.

Media continuing the old trend of keeping it pale, male, stale in interivews for coverage on climate change, heat waves, storms, etc instead of a diverse array of experts & those from the Global South experiencing climate breakdown first-hand: for you⤵️
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/global-south-c…

Amazon Prime Video anuncia el desarrollo de una serie secuela de la novela original de Yo Soy Betty La Fea de 1999.

La serie se ambientará 20 años después del final de la telenovela y traerá de regreso al cast original.

To understand the most important graph in the world, it's crucial to know what drives it:

⛅️➡️🌤 Cloud cover decreases
☀️➡️🌍 Absorbed sunlight increases
🌎🌡📈 Earth heats up & radiates more infrared, which greenhouse gases absorb much of.
📈Earth's Energy Imbalance increases.

One year ago today I found out I had cancer.

I was chairing a conference in Bilbao, Spain and was set to fly home early the next morning.

Traveling back to Bilbao on a dark highway, the driver of our car hit a boar going 70mph.

That boar may have saved my life.

I don’t care that it’s the hottest day in 100,000+ years. I care about what we’re doing to stop it from getting hotter and to help those least responsible for causing climate change to adapt.

The Øresund Bridge is a remarkable engineering marvel that connects Sweden and Denmark, specifically linking the Danish capital, Copenhagen, with the Swedish city of Malmö. This architectural masterpiece comprises a combination of a bridge and an underwater tunnel, serving as a

As #Pride2023 comes to a close, while states pass a wave of anti-trans bills and the US Supreme Court guts #AffirmativeAction , this poster art by @micahbazant is holding my heart. Three years ago, Micah was kind enough to let me use this image in my book Design Justice. (A🧵... )

Happy to share the history.

Here’s Frederick Douglass advocating for Chinese immigration in 1867 —> blackpast.org/african-americ…

Japanese Civil rights activist Yuri Kochiyama formed a wonderful alliance with Malcolm X —> nytimes.com/2014/06/05/us/….

Asian activists have long credited