Fraser Milne
@fdmilne.bsky.social
Geography teacher from Angus, Scotland 🌎🏴
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Stunning paraglacial landsliding on Brouillard Glacier today! 😱
(Italian side of Mont Blanc)
🎥 David Picchedda / IG
(Italian side of Mont Blanc)
🎥 David Picchedda / IG
July 12, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Stunning paraglacial landsliding on Brouillard Glacier today! 😱
(Italian side of Mont Blanc)
🎥 David Picchedda / IG
(Italian side of Mont Blanc)
🎥 David Picchedda / IG
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Sand layer from a possible tsunami 1500 years ago. A penny road built as a famine relief project in the 1840-50s. Eroding prehistoric settlement and a giant noost! Just a few highlights from the June survey in Yell. Huge thanks to everyone. Yell is a very special place. We had a wonderful time.
June 12, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Sand layer from a possible tsunami 1500 years ago. A penny road built as a famine relief project in the 1840-50s. Eroding prehistoric settlement and a giant noost! Just a few highlights from the June survey in Yell. Huge thanks to everyone. Yell is a very special place. We had a wonderful time.
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There's notion that if students do not study geography they've become ‘lost’ from the subject. But, recognising how they take geog with them, regardless of where or what they do, is critical in demonstrating our subject’s value
Kate Otto @geographicalassoc.bsky.social
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Kate Otto @geographicalassoc.bsky.social
ga-blog.org/2025/06/06/t...
Taking your geography with you
‘Recognising and celebrating how they take their geography with them, regardless of where or what they are doing, is critical in demonstrating our subject’s value among society.’ - Kate Otto. In this ...
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June 8, 2025 at 9:22 AM
There's notion that if students do not study geography they've become ‘lost’ from the subject. But, recognising how they take geog with them, regardless of where or what they do, is critical in demonstrating our subject’s value
Kate Otto @geographicalassoc.bsky.social
ga-blog.org/2025/06/06/t...
Kate Otto @geographicalassoc.bsky.social
ga-blog.org/2025/06/06/t...
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I’ll be on @bbc5live.bsky.social at about 10:45pm UK time tonight discussing the Birch Glacier collapse and the impacts on Blatten, Swiss Alps.
Looks to be a dangerous secondary hazard developing with the blockage of the Lonza River.
#blatten #birchglacier #glacier
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Looks to be a dangerous secondary hazard developing with the blockage of the Lonza River.
#blatten #birchglacier #glacier
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Swiss glacier collapse buries most of village of Blatten - BBC News
Many homes in Blatten have been flattened after a large chunk of the Birch glacier fell on to the village.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 28, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I’ll be on @bbc5live.bsky.social at about 10:45pm UK time tonight discussing the Birch Glacier collapse and the impacts on Blatten, Swiss Alps.
Looks to be a dangerous secondary hazard developing with the blockage of the Lonza River.
#blatten #birchglacier #glacier
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Looks to be a dangerous secondary hazard developing with the blockage of the Lonza River.
#blatten #birchglacier #glacier
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Prof Andrew Shepherd, Northumbria #Geography “Glaciers are the most iconic example of the impacts of climate change, and they are in all corners of our planet. This study shows that glacier melting will continue for centuries, even if climate warming stops today"
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Almost 40% of world’s glaciers already doomed due to climate crisis – study
Glacier loss has profound effects worldwide and will soar to 75% on Earth’s heating trajectory, say scientists
www.theguardian.com
May 30, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Prof Andrew Shepherd, Northumbria #Geography “Glaciers are the most iconic example of the impacts of climate change, and they are in all corners of our planet. This study shows that glacier melting will continue for centuries, even if climate warming stops today"
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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When it rains, it now rains more
May 13, 2025 at 9:03 AM
When it rains, it now rains more
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How many people died in large famines over the past 150 years?
📊 We've updated the data in many of our charts on famine, including a big update from the World Peace Foundation (@worldpeacefdtn.bsky.social).
This update was led on our team by @bastianherre.bsky.social and Veronika Samborska.
📊 We've updated the data in many of our charts on famine, including a big update from the World Peace Foundation (@worldpeacefdtn.bsky.social).
This update was led on our team by @bastianherre.bsky.social and Veronika Samborska.
April 17, 2025 at 11:12 AM
How many people died in large famines over the past 150 years?
📊 We've updated the data in many of our charts on famine, including a big update from the World Peace Foundation (@worldpeacefdtn.bsky.social).
This update was led on our team by @bastianherre.bsky.social and Veronika Samborska.
📊 We've updated the data in many of our charts on famine, including a big update from the World Peace Foundation (@worldpeacefdtn.bsky.social).
This update was led on our team by @bastianherre.bsky.social and Veronika Samborska.
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Sudan is suffering from the largest humanitarian crisis globally and its civilians are continuing to pay the price for inaction by the international community, as the war enters its third year.
“The sheer numbers are just mind-boggling.”
“The sheer numbers are just mind-boggling.”
Sudan in ‘world’s largest humanitarian crisis’ after two years of civil war
NGOs and UN say country is ‘worse off than ever before’ with wide-scale displacement, hunger, famine and attacks on refugee camps
www.theguardian.com
April 15, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Sudan is suffering from the largest humanitarian crisis globally and its civilians are continuing to pay the price for inaction by the international community, as the war enters its third year.
“The sheer numbers are just mind-boggling.”
“The sheer numbers are just mind-boggling.”
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Mer de Glace
1969 | 2024
We are a world away from the 20th century climate, already in uncharted territories, and that's just the beginning! 😱
Losing glaciers through sole human emission should make us take action 🛑
But we are apathetic...
📷 @glacionaut / IG
1969 | 2024
We are a world away from the 20th century climate, already in uncharted territories, and that's just the beginning! 😱
Losing glaciers through sole human emission should make us take action 🛑
But we are apathetic...
📷 @glacionaut / IG
April 11, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Mer de Glace
1969 | 2024
We are a world away from the 20th century climate, already in uncharted territories, and that's just the beginning! 😱
Losing glaciers through sole human emission should make us take action 🛑
But we are apathetic...
📷 @glacionaut / IG
1969 | 2024
We are a world away from the 20th century climate, already in uncharted territories, and that's just the beginning! 😱
Losing glaciers through sole human emission should make us take action 🛑
But we are apathetic...
📷 @glacionaut / IG
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A lovely Neolithic knife - with its wooden handle - from a site with houses built on stilts on marshy land in Germany. Usually, the wooden part rots away and we just have the blade. This makes so much more sense!
OP - David Connolly on FB:
www.facebook.com/share/p/1EaR...
OP - David Connolly on FB:
www.facebook.com/share/p/1EaR...
March 22, 2025 at 9:24 AM
A lovely Neolithic knife - with its wooden handle - from a site with houses built on stilts on marshy land in Germany. Usually, the wooden part rots away and we just have the blade. This makes so much more sense!
OP - David Connolly on FB:
www.facebook.com/share/p/1EaR...
OP - David Connolly on FB:
www.facebook.com/share/p/1EaR...
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The U.S. has two tsunami warning centers, both operated by NOAA. Employees were terminated from these centers today. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center covers Hawaiʻi, and now it is less safe to be near the beach.
www.tsunami.gov
www.tsunami.gov
February 28, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The U.S. has two tsunami warning centers, both operated by NOAA. Employees were terminated from these centers today. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center covers Hawaiʻi, and now it is less safe to be near the beach.
www.tsunami.gov
www.tsunami.gov
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In some countries, more than one in three mothers have lost a child younger than five
February 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM
In some countries, more than one in three mothers have lost a child younger than five
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Prof of #geography Heiko Balzter, “There is a risk we might lose the peatland carbon sink. The heatwaves & droughts being worsened by global heating itself also threatened the viability of peatlands: “That is one more reason to protect them”
#geographerinthenews
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#geographerinthenews
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
World’s largely unprotected peatlands are ticking ‘carbon bomb’, warns study
Bogs and swamps are a colossal carbon store but their continued destruction would blow climate change targets
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Prof of #geography Heiko Balzter, “There is a risk we might lose the peatland carbon sink. The heatwaves & droughts being worsened by global heating itself also threatened the viability of peatlands: “That is one more reason to protect them”
#geographerinthenews
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#geographerinthenews
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A very interesting article which could be used in Geography Advanced Higher issue essays! 🌞🌾🐦
Correct link for: "Solar farm management influences breeding bird responses in an arable-dominated landscape"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
"Our findings suggest that solar farms can benefit biodiversity in arable-dominated landscapes, especially when managed with biodiversity in mind."
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
"Our findings suggest that solar farms can benefit biodiversity in arable-dominated landscapes, especially when managed with biodiversity in mind."
Solar farm management influences breeding bird responses in an arable-dominated landscape
Solar farms are increasing in Britain, but their biodiversity impact is under-studied. We explored bird populations on six solar farms in the East Anglian Fens, using an adapted Breeding Bird Surve...
www.tandfonline.com
February 14, 2025 at 8:01 AM
A very interesting article which could be used in Geography Advanced Higher issue essays! 🌞🌾🐦
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Of all the ecosystems I encountered in Costa Rica, the most impressive were the cloud forests.
Due to high elevation (500-4,000m asl), they're often swirled in thick cloud, creating off-the-scale epiphytic abundances.
The richest expression of life on Earth I have ever seen. 🌎
Due to high elevation (500-4,000m asl), they're often swirled in thick cloud, creating off-the-scale epiphytic abundances.
The richest expression of life on Earth I have ever seen. 🌎
February 14, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Of all the ecosystems I encountered in Costa Rica, the most impressive were the cloud forests.
Due to high elevation (500-4,000m asl), they're often swirled in thick cloud, creating off-the-scale epiphytic abundances.
The richest expression of life on Earth I have ever seen. 🌎
Due to high elevation (500-4,000m asl), they're often swirled in thick cloud, creating off-the-scale epiphytic abundances.
The richest expression of life on Earth I have ever seen. 🌎
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"The ecosystem in Killarney National Park 'is dying' due to the presence of invasive species [sika deer, goats, + rhodo], according to Eoghan Daltun, a farmer, rewilder and author of two books on Irish rainforest."
www.thejournal.ie/investigates...
www.thejournal.ie/investigates...
Invasive species are ‘destroying ecosystems’ in Killarney National Park
But the NPWS, who manages the park, says there has been ‘huge progress’ in their control and eradication.
www.thejournal.ie
January 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
"The ecosystem in Killarney National Park 'is dying' due to the presence of invasive species [sika deer, goats, + rhodo], according to Eoghan Daltun, a farmer, rewilder and author of two books on Irish rainforest."
www.thejournal.ie/investigates...
www.thejournal.ie/investigates...
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An inconvenient truth in Scottish education: ACEL data means virtually nothing. More often than not, it isn’t based on a clear curriculum, nor on robust assessment approaches. Largely, it’s just made-up, though the phrase ‘professional judgement’ is often used to mask this fact.
December 10, 2024 at 7:49 AM
An inconvenient truth in Scottish education: ACEL data means virtually nothing. More often than not, it isn’t based on a clear curriculum, nor on robust assessment approaches. Largely, it’s just made-up, though the phrase ‘professional judgement’ is often used to mask this fact.
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An area of land a third larger than India has turned from humid conditions to dryland, where agriculture is difficult, in the past three decades - report
#COP16Riyadh
Story by @fionaharvey
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#COP16Riyadh
Story by @fionaharvey
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Drylands now make up 40% of land on Earth, excluding Antarctica, study says
An area nearly a third larger than India turned permanently arid in past three decades, research shows
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2024 at 9:46 AM
An area of land a third larger than India has turned from humid conditions to dryland, where agriculture is difficult, in the past three decades - report
#COP16Riyadh
Story by @fionaharvey
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#COP16Riyadh
Story by @fionaharvey
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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“What will I tell my children when I get back home? You left us for two weeks, for what? For nothing! Not even peanuts!" Tetet Lauron at #COP29 on the text for the #NCQG on #ClimateFinance failing to deliver US$ 1.3 trillion a year whilst the #ClimateCrisis claims lives and livelihoods.
November 23, 2024 at 12:15 PM
“What will I tell my children when I get back home? You left us for two weeks, for what? For nothing! Not even peanuts!" Tetet Lauron at #COP29 on the text for the #NCQG on #ClimateFinance failing to deliver US$ 1.3 trillion a year whilst the #ClimateCrisis claims lives and livelihoods.
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Well, finding parking at the Blue Lagoon just became a lot harder.
November 21, 2024 at 2:31 PM
Well, finding parking at the Blue Lagoon just became a lot harder.
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1/ The 8th eruption near Grindavík, Iceland, started just before midnight 20 Nov 2024.
A thread 🧵
A thread 🧵
November 21, 2024 at 7:19 AM
1/ The 8th eruption near Grindavík, Iceland, started just before midnight 20 Nov 2024.
A thread 🧵
A thread 🧵
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Explore more data on the rollout of clean energy across the world: https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/energy
Energy Data Explorer
Explore data on energy production and sources.
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November 20, 2024 at 5:57 PM
Explore more data on the rollout of clean energy across the world: https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/energy
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BBC news highlighting the damaging effects of glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) today.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
How Pakistan's melting glaciers destroy mountain villages
Climate change is altering the landscape of Pakistan's mountain regions, and changing lives forever.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 17, 2024 at 12:51 PM
BBC news highlighting the damaging effects of glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) today.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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I wrote this piece on being from a working class background in professional climate/energy spaces a while back, and the need to get more people from underrepresented communities around the table. Reading back, it feels as pertinent as ever. fraserjfstewart-17.medium.com/new-tools-29...
New tools
I grew up in assorted rough and wonderful housing schemes in Forfar, just outside of Dundee. My Mum, a nurse who trained during my early…
fraserjfstewart-17.medium.com
November 9, 2024 at 6:43 PM
I wrote this piece on being from a working class background in professional climate/energy spaces a while back, and the need to get more people from underrepresented communities around the table. Reading back, it feels as pertinent as ever. fraserjfstewart-17.medium.com/new-tools-29...
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I read a lot of academic papers about plate tectonics. Many of them assume a prior base knowledge which can make them less accessible for the non-specialist.
This one starts with as good a summary of the various models for plate & mantle dynamics as I've read.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
This one starts with as good a summary of the various models for plate & mantle dynamics as I've read.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
November 13, 2024 at 9:51 PM
I read a lot of academic papers about plate tectonics. Many of them assume a prior base knowledge which can make them less accessible for the non-specialist.
This one starts with as good a summary of the various models for plate & mantle dynamics as I've read.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
This one starts with as good a summary of the various models for plate & mantle dynamics as I've read.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...