Fiona Harvey

Writing about the environment full-time since 2004. Seen a lot of environment since then. All tweeting is personal. In the Woman's Hour Power List 2020.

[Alison Fisk @AlisonFisk]

This ancient Greek figure from the 2,500 year-old Douris Cup looks uncannily like someone working on a laptop! 😲 💻

He’s actually writing with a stylus on a hinged wax writing tablet!

The technology has changed, the posture has not! 😂

Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 by me

#Archaeology

[We Don't Have Time @WeDontHaveTime]

"That's really the minority, but many people get afraid to talk about climate change." 🙊
At #ClimateWeekNYC, Dana Fisher of Talking Climate Collaborative talked about how most climate misinformation online traces back to a small but loud, fossil fuel-funded group.

[Isabella M Weber @IsabellaMWeber]

Es ist so weit: "Antifaschistische Wirtschaftspolitik" kommt in die Welt - eine Woche vor Erscheinen! Ich diskutiere mit @inesschwerdtner, @AnAudretsch, @timkluessendorf und @NataschaFreund1.
Nicht vor Ort? Hier ist der Livestream: https://t.co/ytHZIGSp8U

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

South African doctor Prof. Mashudu Tshifularo became the first surgeon on Earth to successfully perform a pioneering surgery aimed at restoring hearing,

using 3D-printed middle-ear bones.

[Richard Morris @ahistoryinart]

90 years ago, the Jarrow Crusaders marched nearly 300 miles to London in protest at unemployment and poverty. Thomas Cantrell Dugdale’s 1936 painting captures their arrival from a Piccadilly interior (possibly the Ritz).

[BONUS🌍 @TheDisproof]

Graph data ends in 1855 as its the GISP2 ice core.
Only shows one location in Greenland.
Greenland has warmed a LOT more than 0.5⁰C since 1855.
John is clueless and works with a fossil fuel lobby group.

[Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist @UrbanCourtyard]

What could Candlestick Point in southeastern San Francisco look like as a courtyard urbanist neighborhood? With 16,000 homes, including roughly 6,600 three- and four-bedroom homes with direct access to protected "go play outside!" yards?

This richly illustrated study explores a plan for family-friendly density, activated streets and piazzas, and new ways for people to build and own their neighborhood ... with images based on editable, GIS-informed geometry.

We don't have to choose between density and green space. We can have the cake and eat it too.

Link in replies.

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

The most glorious hiking trail in America is the Pacific Crest Trail, a tribute to past visionaries who protected public lands for to enjoy. Now Trump is trying to repeal the roadless rule, allowing logging in pristine forests--including along 288 miles of the PCT: https://t.co/0ewEBIOwDL

[Zeke Hausfather @hausfath]

I often see people argue that clean energy is not reducing emissions, because it just adds to rather than replaces fossil fuels. This argument is deeply misguided – clean energy built since 2005 has displaced 23 billion tons.

I dive in over at The Climate Brink (link below)

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

Example of how trousers can be shaped to fit the client's physique. Lots of men look bad in slim-fit pants today bc the style does not suit their body or the aesthetic they are trying to achieve. But also, they are buying factory-made clothing, where such shaping isn't possible

[sam @sam_d_1995]

every city should do this.

Halloween is, by far, the most dangerous day of the year for child pedestrians.

making streets car-free isn’t just a fun perk for trick-or-treating, it’s a critical life-saving transportation policy

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

In 2005, Swedish billionaire Johan Eliasch acquired roughly 400,000 acres of Amazon rainforest in Brazil by purchasing a logging company that controlled the land, and instead of continuing to cut down trees he shut down the company’s logging operations and focused on protecting the rainforest from further destruction.

The land became part of a larger conservation effort, preserving wildlife habitat and helping protect one of the planet’s most important natural carbon stores, and his actions also drew more attention to the fight against deforestation and the protection of tropical forests.

400,000 acres.
1 logging company purchased.
1 decision to stop cutting trees.

[Smoke&MirrorsGlobal🌍🌡️ @SmokeAMGlobal]

"Researchers analysed more than four million bird movements over one and a half years, using radar and AI-based cameras. They found that more than 99.8% of migratory birds reliably avoided the wind turbines."

[Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna]

Fossil energy system: super inefficient, appallingly polluting, very expensive, old technology. The opposite of solar, wind, battery storage.

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

This summer @JeremyClarkson was complaining about the terrible yields on his farm because of the record temperatures.

It’s going to get hotter.

Yet he’s supporting a party which won’t even try to fix it.

Don’t complain again Jeremy.
Don’t pretend you care about farmers when you KNOW this is happening.

[Embassy of Poland U.S. @PolishEmbassyUS]

Letter from CdA a.i. @BogdanKlich calling on @TuckerCarlson to publicly retract his outrageous statements and apologize for insulting Poles, British citizens, and, ultimately, the memory of the victims of the Shoah and all those who died in the fight against Nazism.

[Tim Birch @TimBirchWild]

Wildlife is NOT protected across all of @PembsCoast National Park. Grey Seal pups are dying on this beach due to human disturbance and dog attacks. The National Park needs to move the footpath well back to protect seals but they do nothing. Local people are doing what they can.

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

A Manta Ray weaves in and out of plastic bags and litter in search of food at Manta Point in Bali. We must do better.

Nature is amazing. Protect it. #PassOnPlastic

#Wasteless #Useless #Buyless #biodiversity #oceans

[Earth @earthcurated]

There are textures and colors in the wild that genuinely feel like they belong on another planet.

[Edward Lucas @edwardlucas]

My @euobs piece gives a peek into the exciting events @securebaltics are hosting on Kaliningrad this week.
#kg2050 #fragilefortress
https://t.co/R4BtqAuyNp