Living on Earth: Life, Consciousness and the Making of the Natural World by Peter Godfrey-Smith, 2024
The eagerly anticipated conclusion to Peter Godfrey-Smith’s three-part exploration of the origins of intelligence on Earth, which began with the bestselling Other Minds in 2018 and continued with Metazoa in 2020.
🔴 Scientists solve mystery of some of Earth’s most dramatic landscapes
“Experts have found that powerful waves deep within the Earth triggered when tectonic plates broke apart have caused continents to force the land up, creating giant plateaus.”
“The first known calculation of the Earth’s circumference was made 2300 years ago by a man called Eratosthenes. I remember in school, how impressed I was by how accurately the Earth’s circumference was measured such long time ago. Today we’re going to take a closer look on how his calculation was made.”
Hello, Myth Lovers! #EarthDay2024 is tomorrow, so join us for the theme: All things #Earth. Which myths feature the land, things that grow, earth gods & goddesses, or nature? Use the tag #MythologyMonday for reposts. See you Monday!
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Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet by Thich Nhat Hanh, 2021
We face a potent intersection of crises: ecological destruction, rising inequality, racial injustice, and the lasting impacts of a devastating pandemic. The situation is beyond urgent. To face these challenges, we need to find ways to strengthen our clarity, compassion, and courage to act.
Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles by Jay Owens
This is a book on humanity and Earth and what we’ve done to it. Dust moves from the suburbs of a thirsty Los Angeles to Oklahoma and its Dust Bowl migrants, and the desert Southwest where nuclear testing created radioactive fallout that spread across America.
Another exciting #GameStudies book around the corner!
"#Ecogames" brings together chapters by a diverse group of authors to explore the shape, impact, and cultural context of ecocritical engagement in and through #VideoGames. 🌱🌎🎮
"Our results show that forcing by warm ocean water can cause the rapid onset of dynamic imbalance and increased ice discharge from glaciers on the Antarctic Peninsula, highlighting the region’s sensitivity to future climate variability."
Watching Earth from Space: How Surveillance Helps Us -- and Harms Us
Our planet is constantly monitored by hundreds of space-borne instruments. This book describes the technology of those instruments and the sciences that provide useful information from them. It also discusses the political implications of space-borne monitoring.
🧵 1/ Perhaps you know this feeling: unpleasant current events come thick and fast, #doom & #gloom & #ecogrief can almost paralyse us. What's really good then: immersing yourself in #deepTime, shifting perspectives. What was it like on this #planet between the ice ages and the greenhouses? Why was the #earth never empty even when it looked desolate? And how does #evolution work?
One of Ten Billion Earths
How We Learn About Our Planet's Past and Future From Distant Exoplanets
Illustrated with breathtaking images of the Solar System and of the Universe around it, this book explores how the discoveries within the Solar System and of exoplanets far beyond it come together to help us understand the habitability of Earth, and how these findings guide the search for exoplanets that could support life.
#Today, I am celebrating my 4 years without flying ✈️.
The #Earth’s #climate is perturbed by #human activites. One of the easiest things to do towards #sustainability is to cut air travels. Thus, 4 years ago, I cut my frequent flyer cards and decided to #StayGrounded, using only low-#carbon travel means such as #train.
Green Inferno
The World Celebrates Your Demise
Earth is singing our requiem. You just haven't been listening. Corruption, injustice, rage and contagion have carved the remaining shreds of mankind's naïveté into cruel focus. Lurking on the periphery of our collective vision is a stark realization: our planet's tolerance for the human pest has reached a burning point. Earth is at the end of its rope. The world celebrates your demise. Turbulent times call for new voices. #books#Earth@bookstodon
Little is known about biotropic effects of the Earth's fluid degassing, geomagnetic activity, natural background radiation, fluid migration and gas emission within fault zones, mild seismicity, cyclicity of tectonic and climatic processes, etc. This book is the first attempt to synthesise the interdisciplinary knowledge on all geogenic factors influencing humans, society, and civilisation.
"New research that will be presented Monday, 16 Oct., at the Geological Society of America’s GSA Connects 2023 meeting describes how a series of serendipitous environmental factors allowed an ancient Saharan civilization, the Garamantian Empire, to extract groundwater hidden in the subsurface, sustaining the society for nearly a millennia until the water was depleted."
The #oil megaproject #EACOP, emblematic of #climate-harming projects, is being criticized by #scientists. It's the tree that hides the forest. We must adopt a global #FossilFuel Non-Proliferation Treaty
Such projet will transform the #Earth in an uninhabitable #planet.
Joy takes Root is a mesmerizing picture book sharing the love of family, gardening and the respect of Nature, Earth and Ancestors. In her grandmother's garden, a young Black girl learns about mindfulness and herbal medicine in this soothing intergenerational story about our connection to nature.