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#India: PEN International condemns ongoing efforts to prosecute writers Arundhati Roy and Sheikh Showkat Hussain for comments they made in 2010. Counter-terrorism legislation should never be used to silence peaceful dissent. Our statement⬇️ pen-international.org/news/india-eff…

Mid-June is still snow-time on Switzerland's largest #glacier. The immense junction of ice streams at Konkordia on Great Aletsch is white. Also in June 2024, an exceptionally good year for Alpine glaciers so far. But look at the situation in the extreme melt year 2022! UNESCOJungfrauAletsch

Aletsch glacier, Konkordiaplatz 🤩 Mid-June snowcover 2016 | 2024 Interannual variability at the deepest ice in the Alps! 🧊 In the anthropogenic climate of the 21st century, ice melt now occurs sometimes as early as June: see the 2022 record melt year! 😱 via Matthias Huss

Blackbirds––our beautiful back-garden troubadours––are in trouble. I've noticed their absence/depletion this year; have you? Citizen science can help. The BTO wd value contributions to a garden-watch survey running until October. Details in article 👇 theguardian.com/environment/ar…

I'm part of the MOTH (More-Than-Human) Rights collective, based out of NYU Law. We've just released this book of essays, conversations & collaborations on the subject of MOTH rights & much beyond. It's free to all as a PDF/Kindle download. Pls share on. 👉mothrights.org/more-than-huma…

Meeresschutz ist kein Verbrechen #freePaulWatson chng.it/sRZKQGmC via Change.org Deutschland

Fifteen years minus one day between these photos. Taken at the Rhone glacier in Switzerland today. Not gonna lie, it made me cry.

Today's visit at Gries #glacier was disillusioning. After record winter accumulation, we could not imagine seeing all this snow disappearing so soon! But we're there now, another year of mass loss is ahead. Not yet dramatic, but it might become if summer heat persists. GLAMOS

Remember Rhône glacier viral post? 👇 Comments below this tweet (viewed 4.6 M times!) reflect the abysmal level of ecological awareness on Twitter This is how Mer de Glace behaved during almost the same 15yr interval (2007-2022): ~80 m thinning at 1800 m asl! EarthBreath

Happy Sunday 📚 ARUNDHATI ROY at home in Delhi, photographed by ⁦mayank austen soofi—InshaJoyce⁩

Ever evocative and elusive, THE LIFE OF TU FU by Eliot Weinberger New Directions is an elemental tour de force. Who says a poem cannot be as simple as the sea and as large as the universe? After reading this poem again and again, who doesn’t want to cry and cry and write?

Now re-reading: I think this is one of the great books of the 21st century

#Glaciers as seen from beneath are just fascinating! So blue! 🤩 This beautiful but fleeting place visited today is only here though because of rapid glacier retreat, leaving the water-carved channels dry.

⁦DongLi 李栋⁩ im Portrait spricht über sein Buch The Orange Tree - ein großes Poem über Geschichte, Vertreibung und Gewalt in bewundernswert offenen, schwebenden Versen - Wie Sprachen die Welt erschließen: Dong Li - SZ.de sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/villa…

#WSMerwin was a September Child, maybe that’s why he was in love with the departure of summer?

So thrilled about this! 💥💫💫💫💥🎉🎊🦋☄️💗🙏🏽

Walking underneath a #glacier in a proglacial lake. Extraordinary experience today! And hey, it's not a good sign: only in dying ice, such channels are accessible - and will soon be gone completely

Schneeferner (Zugspitze, DE) 2006 | 2024 Four glaciers remain today in Germany, and this is the largest! 🔥 S Schnee (L) has been declared dead in 2022. N Schnee (R) will be gone before 2030! Höllental (NE Zugspitze) few years later... No more glaciers in Germany soon! 😭 1/