The Aral Sea catastrophe remains one of history's most devastating environmental disasters.
Once Earth's 4th-largest lake, Soviet irrigation projects diverted its rivers for cotton farming—draining an entire sea within decades.
The cost? Collapsed ecosystems, destroyed communities, severe health crises, and a legacy of damage spanning generations.
A stark reminder that nature cannot be "controlled" without consequences.

#AralSea #EnvironmentalDisaster #ClimateHistory #WaterCrisis #Sustainability #Engineering #CentralAsia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvXoqPp0CPU

In 1990 the fossil fuel industry pushed the world straight through the climate safety limit of 350 ppm atmospheric CO2. In 2025 another limit was breached, 1.5C warming of the atmosphere, making it likely that climate change will now go out of control, feeding on itself.

And what is the fossil fuel industry asking Trump and the MAGAs and the EU gov to do now?

#climateHistory

The Black Death was not in volcanic ash.
Volcanic cooling disrupted climate and trade, allowing Yersinia pestis to spread through medieval ports.
https://historylife78.wordpress.com/2025/12/22/the-black-death-and-volcanoes-why-the-plague-was-never-in-the-ash/
#BlackDeath #PlagueHistory #MedievalHistory #ClimateHistory #YersiniaPestis

The 8.2 ka climate event did not destroy Jiahu. It reshaped it. New research shows migration, labor reorganization, and social change helped this early Chinese village adapt rather than collapse. #Archaeology #ClimateHistory #HumanResilience #Neolithic https://www.anthropology.net/p/after-the-cold-snap-how-jiahu-rewrote

1090 #ClimateSolutions #UK #ClimateHistory

"UK makes climate history” [ ± 1-3 min]
by Climate Adam [Dec 3, 2025]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dOzdFX5zo_0

#TakeCareForLife #TakeCareForEarth
#StopBurningThings #StopEcoside #StopRapingNature
#EducateYourself on #ClimateBreakDown

A 10,000-year Kurdish stalagmite reveals how climate instability shaped early communities in the eastern Fertile Crescent and influenced the rise of farming. New evidence suggests resilience, not stability, guided the path to agriculture. #Archaeology #ClimateHistory #Neolithic #FertileCrescent https://www.anthropology.net/p/stone-water-and-time-how-a-kurdish

New sediment evidence from Laguna Itzan shows the Classic Maya collapse was not driven by drought everywhere. A stable climate could not save a society woven into failing regional networks. #Archaeology #MayaStudies #Anthropology #ClimateHistory https://www.anthropology.net/p/when-the-rains-never-failed-rethinking

Scientists have found 6-million-year-old ice in Antarctica 🧊—the oldest ever directly dated! It offers rare climate snapshots, revealing 12°C cooling over time. A major leap in understanding Earth’s ancient climate. 🌍🔬 #Antarctica #ClimateHistory #COLDEX
🔗 https://phys.org/news/2025-10-million-year-ice-antarctica-unprecedented.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Autoposting

🔎 130,000 years of climate history in 2,700 meters of core samples – that's the Eifel Laminated Sediment Archive (ELSA) at #MainzUniversity. The unique geoarchive has been built and expanded by geoscientist Professor Frank Sirocko over the last 25 years. Even though he will soon be taking his well-earned retirement, drilling projects in the Eifel will continue ... Read more in our #JGUMagazine at 👉 https://www.magazine.uni-mainz.de/a-life-passion-for-core-samples-and-the-future-of-the-elsa-project/

#ClimateHistory #ClimateResearch #ClimateArchive #paleoclimate

DID YOU KNOW?

The Little Ice Age triggered more than just a chill.

Famine. Uprisings. Witch hunts.

As crops failed, women were accused of “weather magic."

Climate change has always had a human cost.

#Brewminate #ClimateHistory #WitchTrials #TodayInHistory

🔥 July 14, 2015 — Iran reached 129°F (165°F heat index).

One of the hottest days Earth has ever recorded.

The line between history and prophecy is getting blurry.

#Brewminate #ClimateHistory #TodayInHistory #HeatRecords

🌋 Nature doesn’t recognize borders.
In the 1800s, it rewrote them.

Rivers shifted course. Earthquakes cracked claims of sovereignty.

Maps trembled on unsteady ground — and so did empires.

🧭 https://brewminate.com/unsteady-ground-how-19th-century-borders-buckled-under-natures-shifting-hand/

#Brewminate #ClimateHistory #EnvironmentalPolitics

🌲💦 Would you like to see a 300-year context for evaluating droughts and hydrologic change? Check out how David Meko & co-researchers reconstructed seasonal #precipitation, temperature and monthly runoff from 1688 to 1999 to shed more light on the severity of 20th-century droughts and showed how future warming could worsen water shortages. See their dataset & article at https://doi.org/10.25422/azu.data.25541590 & https://doi.org/10.1175/EI-D-23-0018.1. Image: Meko (2024). CC0
#OpenData #OpenScience #ClimateHistory #ClimateChange

New study proves our ancestors were fire-wielding climate shapers 50,000 years ago. Makes you wonder what they'd think of our current "controlled burns" situation... 🔥

Turns out humans have been environmental game-changers since the ice age - we just scaled up!

https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/06/29/0142237/carbon-record-reveals-evidence-of-extensive-human-fire-use-50000-years-ago

#ClimateHistory #Archaeology #FireManagement

New evidence links ancient droughts to the fall of Roman Britain. Discover how climate shaped history. #ClimateHistory #RomanBritain #EnvironmentalImpact

https://geekoo.news/drought-despair-and-the-fall-of-roman-britain/

" "Today’s assessment from the World Meteorological Organization is clear:
Global heating is a cold, hard fact,"
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said in a statement.
"There's still time to avoid the worst of climate catastrophe. But leaders must act
– now."

The planet's average temperature in 2024 was 1.6 degrees Celsius higher than in the 1850-1900 pre-industrial period, C3S said.
The last 10 years have all been in the top 10 hottest years on record, according to the World Meteorological Organization. "

https://federated.press/@ClimateNewsNow/113805642801766998

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/2024-was-first-year-above-15c-global-warming-scientists-say-2025-01-10/
(And previous toot in thread I fucked up https://lgbtqia.space/@MxVerda/113805819559485826 )

#Climate #ClimateDiary #ClimateStrike #ClimateHistory #WeatherPatterns #LongTermWeather #ExtremeWeather #ExtremeWeather2025 #Meteorology #measure #measurement #science #ScienceMastodon #ScienceResearch #ScienceNews #experiment #try #learn #test #prediction #OhNo #activism

New paper using 7,000 burial records to track population changes in Iron Age Norway. Shows 75% population decline after 536/540 CE volcanic winter! Viking Age recovery linked to warmer climate, agricultural advances & trade networks. 🌋📊 #Archaeology #ClimateHistory #Viking doi.org/10.1080/0029...

The Impact Of The 6th Century ...

Explore 500 Million Years Of Climate Data Across The Changing Globe With Climatearchive.Org
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https://jeangoldinginstitute.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2021/08/09/climatearchive-org-540-million-years-of-climate-history-at-your-fingertips/ <-- shared technical article
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https://climatearchive.org/ <-- shared technical resource
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #climate #opensource #climatehistory #openscience #download #webmap #global #visualisation #climatemodel #climatechange #society #ecosystems #environmentalscience #integration #model #modeling #interdisciplinary #climatedynamics #webapplication #paleoclimate #opendata

Heatwaves in history. #Heatwaves #ExtremeWeather #ClimateHistory #HistoricHeatwaves #WeatherFacts #GlobalWarming #SummerHeat #ClimateChange #HeatwaveHistory

https://www.fodmapeveryday.com/heatwaves-to-end-all-heatwaves-8-historic-heatwaves-we-have-sweated-through-before/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into FLIPBOARD USER GROUP @flipboard-user-group-JanetteSpeyer

On the Jefferson Weather & Climate Records site, my colleague Alison Dolbier has posted an overview of the harsh winter of 1788-1789 in Europe that Jefferson, in Paris, recorded in his weather observations (and long remembered as a benchmark).

https://jefferson-weather-records.org/taxonomy/term/556

#history #climatehistory #climate #histodons