On this day in 1909: The first expedition reached the geographic North Pole.
Matthew Henson, an African-American explorer who traveled the world from age 11, was likely the first person to stand at the top of the world, though his contributions went largely unrecognized for decades due to the racial climate of the time.
Learn his story: https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/matthew-henson-north-pole
Saturday 6 April 1963
Leo Horn, the Dutch referee in control of the England v Scotland Home International, is an Amsterdam textile king, top-ranking judo expert, and a personal friend of Crown Prince Bernhard.
Earth's Storage Of Water In Soil, Lakes And Rivers Is Dwindling - And It's Especially Bad For Farming
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https://phys.org/news/2025-03-earth-storage-soil-lakes-rivers.html <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adq6529 <-- shared paper
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#water #hydrology #waterresources #global #management #watersecurity #soil #lake #river #snow #groundwater #agriculture #sealevelerise #SLR #climatechange #farming #overuse #waste #moisture #soilmoisture #ecology #ecosystems #storage #model #modeling #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #rainfall #drought #consistency #wateruse #crop #plant #vegetation #irrigation #foodsecurity #evapotranspiration #ET #surfacewater #flux #GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #waterstorage #depletion
Stork 1: We navigated through the Sahara desert, dodged missiles over Gaza and drones over Ukraine for this?
Stork 2: Climate change my cloaca, it used to be warmer*
* It was not. Storks aren't good at fact checking and don't have access to historical average temperature records.
This again.
Same as last year, just a few days after the trees all started pushing leaves out. Not great.
Spring time in the Colorado mountains. Could be sun, could be snow. Today it’s snow. #estespark # spring #snow
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Went for a run today and it felt like summer with temperatures easily rising above 20℃.
Interesting that (almost) #OTD in 2008 we had heavy snow in Portsmouth!
Greg Cocks 
this foxy