I've enhanced this autochrome of a young Senegalese Infantryman named Dia Bagou. During the Great War he served in the French Colonial Forces & was photographed here in colour by Paul Castelnau, on Sunday 10th June 1917, during his time at Haut-Rhin on the French/German border.

Kids on the streets of England, 123 years ago in the year 1901.

Merci Monsieur Auster

Read this.
This is why he loves Putin.
He is just another dictator on this planet.

The 1st #GlobalAssessment (2019) got front pages around the world about 1 million species at risk of extinction & was taken up by so many like Pope Francis Leonardo DiCaprio Hillary Clinton Emmanuel Macron Al Gore Trevor Noah Edward Norton 🌻🇺🇦. Imagine what #GlobalAssessment 2 can achieve!

Came to a wild realisation. When mud larking or digging through 19th century tip, you'll find army of discarded single use tobacco clay pipes. Currently accumulating rubbish are, disposable plastic vapes.

Over a hundred years. And the people didn't change, just the delivery did.

📢 BREAKING NEWS 📢

Now live: Our new interactive tool to explore the ipbes #InvasiveAlienSpecies Report.

A fresh new way to engage with the data and dive deeper into the findings here.⬇️

ipbes.net/ias/learning

L'importance des mares et étangs!

The #PONDERFUL animation video on the importance of ponds is now available in French. 🎞️📽️💦

Discover how these ponds support biodiversity and people as we adapt to climate change.

Watch the full video: bit.ly/FrenchPonds

Europe is no exception when it comes to the consequences of climate change. It is the fastest warming continent, with temperatures rising at around twice the global average rate.

Full ESOTC 2023 report: ow.ly/AN2L50RkSrp

Very proud of this report from our team 👇
Let's do more to nurture our precious shared commodity: 🌎

Special thanks to all involved and above all to #ERCgrantees for their inspiring research endeavours

EUScience&Innovation🇪🇺 EU_ScienceHub Scientific Advice Mechanism EU Climate Action EU Environment

New discovery: a section of a #Roman road unearthed in the Parco archeologico delle catacombe di Sant’Ilario, Valmontone.
#romanroadsfriday

👉controluce.it/valmontone-rin…

'The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.'

Daniel Dennett (March 28, 1942 - April 19, 2024)

💡On 1⃣6⃣ April the BioAgora Info Event 'Connecting Biodiversity Knowledge & Decision-making' gathered experts from both EU science & policy!

🚀 With 150+ participants joining, it's evident: EU scientists & decision-makers are strongly committed to collaboration #ForNature ! 💪🌿

#ImageOfTheDay

🪸 The Great Barrier Reef 🇦🇺 is experiencing an extreme bleaching event induced by #ClimateChange

⬇️ #Copernicus #Sentinel2 🇪🇺🛰️ image from 3 April showing the coral atolls of Queensland, one of the worst affected areas

Source👇
theguardian.com/environment/20…

Happy #InternationalBatAppreciationDay !

Plant flowers that release their scent in the evening to attract moths and, ultimately, bats looking for an insect meal into your garden 🦇 wildlifetrusts.org/actions/how-at…

📢 Calling all nature lovers

Any plans for #Natura2000 Day ?

How about organising a #Natura2000 Bioblitz?

During a BioBlitz, we look for as many species as possible in a certain area within a set period of time

Learn more about it & fill in the survey 👉 europa.eu/!pcj4CJ

We are very fortunate at the US National Archives to hold the original master plans of National Park Service parks and monuments from 1931-1941. The art on the covers is magnificent, as can be seen on this master plan for Dinosaur Nat'l Mon't! catalog.archives.gov/id/70991709

🚨BREAKING

NOAA Coral Program and ICRI Secretariat have confirmed the Fourth Global Coral Bleaching Event.

Mass bleaching of coral reefs, since early 2023, has been confirmed in at least 53 countries, territories, and local economies.

Read the press release: icriforum.org/4gbe/

Born #OTD , James Clark Ross, Fellow of the Linnean Society and polar explorer. The Ross seal below), one of the four Antarctic phocids, first described during the Ross expedition (1839-1843).
Read Glenn Benson's blog about our adventurous fellows here: bit.ly/3ZbS9ku

'Girl Reading in a Hammock,' (1910) is a minor masterpiece in Robert Graafland's body of work. The picture was painted in his Italianate garden in Limburg, a place where he left the influences of the Hague School and adopted the colourful influences of the French impressionists,…