Bridge of Sighs, glowing after dark 🌕 📷 | ObservingOxford (December, 2024)

- Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire - @bodleianlibs has over 13 million printed items - A superhero studied at @PembrokeOxford For #TriviaDay, we’re sharing a round-up of Oxford facts you might not have heard before.

For 80 years, the UN has been a beacon of hope in times of turmoil. As global conflicts, crises & challenges put millions at risk, the UN will continue its vital work in the year ahead assisting vulnerable people and delivering for those most in need. https://t.co/pZVGSTztXb

Worth pursuing a PhD instead!

Mangrove forests are disappearing at an alarming rate due to pollution, land clearance & natural disasters. In the Solomon Islands, local groups are preserving mangroves & combating climate change w/ support from @theGEF, @UNDP_Pacific & the Govt of 🇦🇺.

Let us choose 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆. Let us choose 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲. Let us choose 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆. #SolidarityDay

Our planet is under strain like never before. Temperatures rising, biodiversity collapsing & nearly every person on Earth breathing unsafe air. But there is hope. With the tide turning in favor of renewables & the help of the next generation, transformation is within reach.

This holiday season and beyond, let's come together in kindness and solidarity! Let's celebrate our unity in diversity & let's work towards a more peaceful and fairer world for all. #SolidarityDay #NoToHate

Every fraction of a degree counts. Rising temperatures put marine life and coastal ecosystems at risk of irreversible loss. Urgent #ClimateAction is needed to #SaveOurOcean. https://t.co/BbhuCsAvcG via @UNEP

Kenya’s Nathaniel Manyeki captures the U10 Gold Medal at the 2025 African Youth Chess Championship with an incredible score of 8.5/9. Nathaniel has the potential to become Kenya’s 1st ever chess Grandmaster 🇰🇪.

David Munyua bringing the vibes to Ally Pally 🕺

David Munyua stuns Mike De Decker at the World Darts Championship 💪

It is shocking and unacceptable for any leader, including Woman Rep Donya Aburi, to support FGM/C. The practice is illegal in Kenya under the Prohibition of Female Genital Mutilation Act (2011) and the Children Act.

Such an insensitive statement to survivors of uterine cancer, fibroids, endometriosis, and whatever other reason they had to save their lives by removing their wombs!!

At #UNEA7 high-level segment, UNEP Executive Director @andersen_inger stressed that a safe climate and healthy nature are the basis for thriving societies. She called on countries to move from commitments to concrete results and to scale the solutions already within reach. Full

#JamhuriDay2025

Honestly, Truphena Muthoni is not your ordinary environmental activist!! She has displayed so much resilience and power in her activism to support Environmental Conservation by breaking a Guinness World Record of hugging a tree nonstop for 72 hours!! With no food, no water, no

Truphena Muthoni, lady attempting to set a 72-hour tree-hugging world record in Nyeri, blindfolds herself to pay tribute to people living with disability after surpassing the 48-hour mark

Environmental activist Truphena Muthoni sets 72-hour tree-hugging record, finishing at 12:25pm; says goal to promote conservation and mental health