France and Italy share a lot of cultural features, but people often fail to grasp how centralised France is compared to how decentralised Italy is, at least regarding population. Different historical paths, different political and social dynamics today.1yr ⋅ GreenIbex ⋅ r/europe
Forests of Europe (legend in ES) from 2018 Copernicus data, with broadleafs in light green and conifers in dark green. Notice how depleted the British Isles are.1yr ⋅ GreenIbex ⋅ r/europe
Take-off and landing on a plane as seen by a smartphone accelerometer [OC]10mo ⋅ GreenIbex ⋅ r/dataisbeautiful
London as it might have appeared between 200 and 400 AD, when it was a Roman town called Londinium1yr ⋅ GreenIbex ⋅ r/europe
June 2023 is a milestone in the clean energy transition of the EU: for the first time wind and solar generated more electricity than fossil fuels10mo ⋅ GreenIbex ⋅ r/europe
Heavy rain in Europe: map of the number of days in a year with more than 20 mm of precipitation6mo ⋅ GreenIbex ⋅ r/europe
France is under an extreme heatwave right now and likely for the rest of the week.9mo ⋅ GreenIbex ⋅ r/europe
Between April 25 and 29, 1859, this blue area in Italy was flooded to stop the Austrian invasion of Piemonte, in the first days of Italy's Second War of Independence. The flooding was planned and executed by engineer Carlo Noe, which is ironic since Noe is the Italian version of Noah.1yr ⋅ GreenIbex ⋅ r/europe
Europe is on the verge of an extremely severe heatwave, Italy will likely see new high temperature records11mo ⋅ GreenIbex ⋅ r/europe
The sheer scale of offshore wind farms in the Netherlands (yellow dots) as seen from orbit9mo ⋅ GreenIbex ⋅ r/europe
2023 begins with a long list of record high temperature across the whole continent, due to the ongoing heat wave.1yr ⋅ GreenIbex ⋅ r/europe
Another set of data on Internet use in Europe: percentage of population that used it to interact with state institutions1yr ⋅ GreenIbex ⋅ r/europe
There is a small part of Italian territory (Valle di Lei, in Lombardy) that actually drains its waters in the Atlantic (North Sea) and it's inside the drainage basin of the river Rhine. Another testimony that Europe is a treasure of curious geography facts.1yr ⋅ GreenIbex ⋅ r/europe
Europe is headed towards one the warmest New Year's Eve in History. As an example, that kind of anomaly will mean days in the 20s °C and nights in the mid 10s °C for southern Germany.1yr ⋅ GreenIbex ⋅ r/europe
What Europeans knew about the world in 1294, when Marco Polo returned from China1yr ⋅ GreenIbex ⋅ r/europe
Air pollution in Europe: concentration of particulate matter (< PM2.5) averaged over the last three years1yr ⋅ GreenIbex ⋅ r/europe
Many cities in the Alpine region were under the ice cap of the Alps during the Last Glacial Maximum1yr ⋅ GreenIbex ⋅ r/europe