Rick Thomas

Environmental scientist. Technophile. Usually inventing something in my shed or head.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

18 hours on the North Esk river webcam at Gannochy Bridge in Edzell, during storm Babet that battered northeastern Scotland in the past days

[📹 farsondigital: https://t.co/mO2VFm0fuM]

[Rick Thomas @DrRickThomas]

We are hiring! https://t.co/mNr2mQrvV2

[Byte @ByteEcosystem]

In Israel, drones have started picking apples. The machine determines the ripeness, sweetness and integrity of the fruit, and then gently plucks it from the branch.

[UN Climate Change @UNFCCC]

These are the average temperatures of planets in our solar system:

🥵 Mercury 167°C
🥵 Venus 464°C
🌎 Earth 15°C
🥶 Mars -65°C
🥶 Jupiter -110°C
🥶 Saturn -140°C
🥶 Uranus -195°C
🥶 Neptune -200°C

Our planet is like no other.
Time to protect our only home.
#EarthDay

[Rick Thomas @DrRickThomas]

Perhaps a nationwide science exploration programme is the excuse you need to refresh your pant drawer (and investigate your local soil health along the way!)?🩲🌿🙃

[Country Trust @CountryTrust]

Our feed is full of pants!! 👇🏽🩲😃🪱🌿

Great to see so many children (& adults!) exploring, feeling, smelling and connecting with soil.

Recently planted your pants? Don't forget to make your mark on the map!

https://t.co/yAiOtzY6FN

#PlantYourPants #MoreThanMud
#BSW23

[Chris Daw KC @crimlawuk]

My @SkyNews interview exposing Braverman’s lies is approaching 2 million views.

This is democracy in action.

#BritainIsBetterThanTheTories

https://t.co/pog4qOorIB

[Rick Thomas @DrRickThomas]

I love it when an idea comes to life and works. At Surveyar we've been pioneering new, versatile measurment techniques for #GHG inventories. Thanks to all involved to make this happen! #innovateuk

[Rick Thomas @DrRickThomas]

Just a little star video I took the other night. Amazing what goes on above our heads.

[Keith Strong @drkstrong]

SPITTING FIRE: The new region on the northeast limb (now numbered AR3186) is extremely active, shooting out jets almost continuously and there is a filament eruption in the background too! Note how small out Earth is in comparison.

[Rick Thomas @DrRickThomas]

@Fairphone @RealJoseph123 Essentially my ideal phone will be like Trigger's broom in the UK sitcom Only Fools and Horses - "I've had this broom for 20 years. It has had 17 new heads and 14 new handles."

[Rick Thomas @DrRickThomas]

@Fairphone @RealJoseph123 Definitely great that you are considering the environment with your products. Questions like: How long would an e.g. Fairphone 3 be supported? Are you working towards perpetual upgrades? e.g. Fairphone 3 cannot be upgraded to Fairphone 4, so ends up as e-waste too.

[Rick Thomas @DrRickThomas]

Such casual strolling back to the car!

[Primal Space @thePrimalSpace]

Orion has now reached the Moon, here's how it will get back to Earth on the 11th of December.

[Rick Thomas @DrRickThomas]

We do the footyball - this is brilliant!

[UN Environment Programme @UNEP]

3.6 billion people are still living with poor-quality toilets that ruin their health & pollute environments.

Everyone must have access to a toilet connected to a sanitation system that effectively removes & treats human waste.

#WorldToiletDay info: https://t.co/8hp9eiBfT5

[Dianna Kopansky @DiannaKopansky]

We did it! #PeatlandsMatter @UNEP thanks to the expertise of more than 225 contributors 💚 so grateful @andersen_inger @iki_germany @BMUV @BMZ_Bund @MinamPeru @SitiNurbayaLHK @a_dohong @SimonLLewis @greifswaldmoor @samerelshehawi @RamsarConv @unepwcmc @FAO +++🤩🥳💚

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Elephant tusks are starting to get smaller and in the future more elephants will be without them, because member of the species with a rare “tuskless” genetic trait had a better chance of surviving poachers

[read more: https://t.co/rwNAORz37i]

[bonpote_EN @Bonpote_EN]

40 years of promises. Will COP27 be different?

[Rick Thomas @DrRickThomas]

Since I saw this a few days ago, I can’t stop thinking about it. (Illustration by Claes Tingvall).