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Given what we read about this year's Greenland summer melt, maybe there is a dark and dismal message in the demand...

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1727, and includes (I suspect) an early attempt at localisation of the epicentre from arrival time of tremors...

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@timblor @PaleoStahl @ch_gruetze @Stef_EQ_Geology If it's useful, there's some second-hand description of opening of a fissure here:
https://t.co/2jyc4EQtmJ

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They might annoy you, when your favourite woollens are full of holes, but Isabel Novick @LetsTalkTineids explains beautifully why we should appreciate the noble clothes moth, an evolutionary wonder :
https://t.co/fmw17Joela

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... un effet d'ombre pluviométrique ?

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... always depending on who is providing the meal.

[Lucy Lapwing @Lucy_Lapwing]

These trails are left by TINY caterpillars living *inside* leaves. Inside the caterpillar lives a bacteria. The bacteria causes the caterpillar to emit a hormone in its spit, which keeps the leaf green. It stops autumn in its tracks until it emerges. Nature is MINT😍 #Autumnwatch

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Correct me if I'm wrong!

[Parc national des Écrins @PnEcrins]

[L'espèce de la semaine] Le mélampyre des bois 🌼
Quiconque fréquente les sous-bois des Écrins et d’ailleurs a certainement déjà croisé ce beau spécimen coloré. Des fleurs jaune vif en tube et des feuilles supérieures violettes : le mélampyre des bois sort le grand jeu !

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Enfin, je crois qu'ils se régalaient sur le colza...

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@Bertonemyia Beautiful! But where there's one, there's a dozen, from my experience. Easy to find when those expensive plants fall over from having all their roots eaten...

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Trust my pesky and precocious child to say "Cuckoo"!

[Kaeli Swift, Ph.D. @corvidresearch]

Answer: false! Like some crocodiles, the megapodes are mound nesters, meaning they bury their eggs and let environmental heat incubate them. They carefully attend to the nest and adjust the amount of covering as necessary to achieve the right temp.

Pic: CC, Micronesian megapode

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@RemiTailleux @an_amores @UniRdg_Met Antiphase? Do you mean the inverse of adiabatic compression and decompression? That would be really interesting to this non-atmospheric scientist. Could it be vertical displacement of a temperature inversion?

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Quand même, si on prend en compte que nous sommes large de 12000km... l'or faisait 1/100000 d'une cible de 4 million km de diamètre.
C'est bien qu'ils ne sont pas plus fréquents à cette distance!

[Astropierre @astropierre]

Alors...
Certes cet astéroïde, (7482) 1994 PC1, fait 1km de large.

Mais demain il passera, au plus près, à une distance de la Terre correspondant à plus de 5 fois la distance Terre-Lune.

Un "à côté" astronomique qui avoisine tout de même les 2 millions de km !
#OnEstTrèsLarge

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@amandy_lynn I guess sometimes the end has to justify the means.

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I trust that no live acarians were harmed in the making of this video... Tell us they just got a little dizzy, the poor little things!

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@amandy_lynn I've just re-parsed your reply, and now I'm having horrible visions of what might have come before...

The poor babies!

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@CrawliesWithCri @wizentrop @Ibycter @Bertonemyia Pretty sure (?) this is a more mature stage nymph - Reduve Masqué here in France. Complete with embarrassing household mess.
Explains why we've had no flour mites in the kitchen this year.

[Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy]

Glacier subfossil wood magnified by sunset light... Heavily distorted rings around the pith due to burial under the ice 🤩

#JustSanded #Pinuscembra #Labwork #MerDeGlace

[History_of_Geology @Geology_History]

January 2, 1860, French astronomer Urbain Le Verrier announced the discovery of Vulcan, a hypothetical planet inside Mercury orbit. Despite the lack of reliable observation, Le Verrier was convinced until his death that he had discovered a new planet 🌋
https://t.co/gopbriPAMI