One of the hallmarks of light here at certain times of of the year is the entire horizon is rimed with pink. Three days until the Sun returns. #Nunavut#Arctic
@NunavutBirder@sjuvonen Feeling kinda dumb here 🤭 , but I have not the in depth knowledge to explain the physics behind that. Guessing atmospheric reflection due to the angle of the sun to earth enables some spectral filter, but that is just a wild guess in deed.
So, this was released today. My third stamp with Canada Post. Qarlinngua (The pants). And technically my second stamp with a family member in it, as the tiny figure in it is my son Travis. Now for one with Hilary in it.
I’ve very proud of all of these, beyond the cache. They are about my home, and family. And also my family has a long history with the Post Office, 101 years. My grandfather, father, and brother were all postmasters in Roblin. #Nunavut#Arctic#Stamps#philately#CanadaPost
I often say that Antarctica is really big - and one of the reasons that it's quite hard to work out what is going on is the sheer size as well as lack of observations.
We would not expect the same weather and climate across the US, and #Antarctica is almost 1.5 times bigger than the USA...
Amnesty International Indonesia is calling for an evaluation of the placement of TNI (Indonesian military) in Papua after a video of a Papuan man being tortured by several soldiers at the Gome Post in Puncak regency, Central Papua, went viral on social media. “This incident was a [case of] cruel and inhuman torture that really...
Last one. For now. A dog team heads out Adams Sound into the teeth of a storm. The landscape fades into the drifting snow. #Nunavut#Arctic#cold#landscapePhotography photography
@sciencewrighter Yes. The Sun skims along below the horizon and we have twilight. That gradually decreases over six weeks until we barely have twilight, but even on Dec 21st you can’t see stars at noon.
"For too long, too few have worried about Earth’s remotest continent and its largest refrigerator, while attention focused on the fires that burned, literally and figuratively, on more populated shores. Antarctica was variously portrayed as an explorer’s playground, a utopian land of scientific co-operation or a poster child for environmental protectionism. The exceptionalism is misguided"
I've been planning a blog post on Antarctica for literally ten years. And now @TheEconomist has gone and done it. Typical. Ah well. Maybe later on today ..
Tomorrow is the last day of Sun in town. (Technically another week but because of the topography we last see it Nov 5). Sun down all during this cabin trip. #Nunavut#Arctic#CabinLife
@bjb@Flux More than we used to, although it’s been cloudy a lot this year.
If you think about Aurora activity as being a big doughnut we were mostly in the hole when I got here. But as the north magnetic pole has migrated towards Russia it’s pulled the doughnut’s edge over us.
In an ATV trip to Innaaluup Nuvua last summer we stopped at the top of this magnificent valley above Innaarulaalikuluk and Admiralty Inlet. #Nunavut#Arctic#LandscapePhotography
@CStamp@thomasfuchs No. not at all. I grew up on the prairies and lived in the heart of the boreal. Most common southern feeling is one of bewilderment at the amount of choice in grocery stores
I so much prefer the Nunavut language to English, even though I don't speak or understand it. I spend ages looking at the words, trying to say them. Beautiful language.
Mali is among the countries currently suffering extreme heat with some areas hit by a temperature of 48,5°C, has recorded more than 100 deaths, victims of the heat wave. Malian meteorologists say the city Southwestern di Kayes recorded the hottest day in African history on April 4, 2024....
On European social media we often discuss American issues and talk to Americans on social media - but doesn't it make sense for us to talk more to Nigerians, South Africans and Kenyans, and about their news, because that's who's awake at the same time as us?
Let me know if you are from these time zones, in #Africa, and I will follow you.
In order to increase the diversity of Mastodon, it is essential to connect with accounts from the Global South and boost their content. Imagine a person from an African country joining Mastodon and not finding other people from their continent. This list is not very curated. Contains also some North African accs.
Over the past decade or so, researchers have found genetic evidence for contact between people in eastern Polynesia and those in coastal Peru and Colombia. Now archeologists studying the oldest settlement on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) have found physical evidence that islanders traveled to South America at least once and returned with food crops not known in Polynesia.
@sarahc I love thinking of someone on Rapa Nui chopping ginger with their obsidian knife. Happy, back from their adventure at sea, cooking some good food with kin. 🥰
Nunavut became a territory 25 years ago today. I’m grateful to Inuit who had the vision and the will to see this happen, to those who continue to work for this land, and especially those who make my home a special place to live. #Nunavut#Arctic
Say goodnight: Tuesday saw the last sunset of the year at Ulġuniq (Wainright, Inupiat country), at 70.64ºN the second-most northerly community in Alaska. This FAA webcam image is from almost exactly solar noon, with the sun at its highest point in the sky for the day. Next sunrise will be on January 20, 2024. NWS automated wx station has not reported online for a month. #akwx#Arctic#Autumn2023 @Climatologist49@cinderbdt
By way of comparison our Sun set Nov 5 and will rise Feb 6. In reality about a week more on both sides but because of the topography that’s when the dates are in town.
"#Rain used to be rare in the #Arctic, but as the region warms, so-called rain-on-snow events are becoming more common. The rains accelerate ice loss, trigger flooding, landslides, and avalanches, and create problems for wildlife and the Indigenous people who depend on them."
