Africa: Sights Set On Highest Ambition As World Rows Through Toughest Ocean Crisis: [IPS] Busan, Korea -- Participants from over 100 countries will leave the 10th Our Ocean Conference in Busan, the Republic of Korea, with stark reminders that with sea levels rising dangerously, coastal regions and low-lying areas globally, particularly densely populated areas, are threatened. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TKSq1z #OceanConference #ClimateChange #SustainableDevelopment #RisingSeaLevels #CoastalProtection
#RisingSeaLevels
https://www.alojapan.com/1259851/a-man-airlifted-from-japans-mount-fuji-returns-to-the-slope-days-later-and-is-rescued-again-national-news/ A man airlifted from Japan’s Mount Fuji returns to the slope days later and is rescued again | National News #GeneralNews #health #JapanMountFujiRescueClimberStudent #MountFuji #MountFujiNews #MountFuji #news #Oddities #RaceAndEthnicity #RisingSeaLevels #WorldNews #富士山 TOKYO (AP) — A climber airlifted with altitude sickness from near the peak of Japan’s Mount Fuji last week returned to the slope and was rescued for a second time just fo…
NASA SVS | Sea Level Through a Porthole (2025)
#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #StopFossils #CleanEnergy #ProtectNature #RisingSeaLevels
From #Himalaya to #Arctic - #GlaciersAtRisk: A Wake-Up Call on #WorldWaterDay
Story by Namrata Dadwal, March 21, 2025
"This year on World Water Day on March 22, the UN is highlighting '#GlacierPreservation'. Why? Because these frozen reservoirs that supply freshwater to nearly two billion people are disappearing at an alarming rate due to #ClimateChange.
"According to the #Copernicus Climate Change Service (#C3S), Earth's #glaciers have lost over 8,200 gigatonnes of ice since 1976, leading to #RisingSeaLevels and #WaterScarcity concerns. Nearly 6,000 gigatonnes were lost between 2000 and 2023, with the 2010s being the worst decade on record for glaciers almost the annual ice loss was more than double that of the 1980s, with an average of 370 gigatonnes of ice vanishing each year."
Read more:
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/India/from-himalaya-to-arctic-glaciers-at-risk-a-wake-up-call-on-world-water-day/ar-AA1Bqrlg
#WaterSecurity #WaterIsLife #OceanWarming #OceansAreLife
Human use of fire has produced an era of uncontrolled burning: Welcome to the #Pyrocene
by Stephen Pyne, The Conversation, January 22, 2025
"#LosAngeles is burning, but it isn't alone. In recent years, fires have blasted through cities in #Colorado, the southern #Appalachians and the island of #Maui, along with #Canada, #Australia, #Portugal and #Greece. What wasn't burned was smoked in.
"Is this another case of a future not only dire but strange, without a narrative to join past to present or an analog for what is to come?
"I'm a historian of fire, and my reply is that we have both a narrative and an analog. The narrative is the unbroken saga of humanity and fire, a companionship that extends through all our existence as a species. The analog is that humanity's fire practices have become so vast, especially in recent centuries, that we are creating the fire equivalent of an ice age."
[...]
Welcome to the Pyrocene
"Widen the aperture a bit, and we can envision Earth entering a fire age comparable to the ice ages of the Pleistocene, complete with the pyric equivalent of ice sheets, pluvial lakes, periglacial outwash plains, mass extinctions and sea-level changes. It's an epoch in which fire is both prime mover and principal expression.
"Humanity's firepower underpins the #Anthropocene, which is the outcome not just of #anthropogenic meddling but of a particular kind of meddling, made possible by humans' species monopoly over fire. Even climate history has become a subset of fire history.
"Fires in living landscapes, fires burning lithic landscapes—the interaction of these two realms of fire has not been much studied. It's been enough of a stretch to fully include human fire practices within traditional ecology. Yet humans—the keystone species for fire on Earth—are merging the two arenas of earthly burning with a give and take that is reshaping the planet in what resembles a slow-motion #Ragnarok.
"Add up all the effects, direct and indirect: the ice driven off by fire, the areas burning, the biogeographical #migrations as biotas move to accommodate changed conditions, the collateral impacts with damaged #watersheds and #airsheds, the unraveling of #ecosystems, the pervasive power of #ClimateChange, #RisingSeaLevels, a #MassExtinction, the disruption of human life and habitats. The result is a #pyrogeography that looks eerily like an ice age for fire. You have a maturing Pyrocene.
"If you doubt it, just ask California."
Full article (it's a good read):
https://phys.org/news/2025-01-human-era-uncontrolled-pyrocene.html
#Wildfires #UncontrolledFires #HistoryOfFire #PyroceneEra #ControlledBurning #ClimateCrisis
Beach Tourism: An Ever Growing Industry
Beach Tourism has become a major economic driver for many coastal regions and island nations globally. In some locations beach tourism now dominates the economy.
Beach Tourism-https://timessquarereporter.com/business/beach-tourism--an-introduction-to-top-beach-destinations-around-the-world
#CoherentMarketInsights #Climateandweatherconditions #culturalsignificance #recreationactivities #Risingsealevels
Are you concerned about #ClimateChange f.k.a. #GlobalWarming? Possibly #RisingSeaLevels due to #GlacialMelt?
Well, Tim Walters here does not have a LOT of power in this world, but he's donating his spare time to burning your world for jollies. All his art posts are AI.
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Are you concerned about #ClimateChange f.k.a. #GlobalWarming? Possibly #RisingSeaLevels due to #GlacialMelt?
Well, Tim Walters here does not have a LOT of power in this world, but he's donating his spare time to burning your world for jollies. All his art posts are AI.
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Are you concerned about #ClimateChange f.k.a. #GlobalWarming? Possibly #RisingSeaLevels due to #GlacialMelt?
Well, Tim Walters here does not have a LOT of power in this world, but he's donating his spare time to burning your world for jollies. All his art posts are AI.
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Are you concerned about #ClimateChange f.k.a. #GlobalWarming? Possibly #RisingSeaLevels due to #GlacialMelt?
Well, Tim Walters here does not have a LOT of power in this world, but he's donating his spare time to burning your world for jollies. All his art posts are AI.
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Are you concerned about #ClimateChange f.k.a. #GlobalWarming? Possibly #RisingSeaLevels due to #GlacialMelt?
Well, Tim Walters here does not have a LOT of power in this world, but he's donating his spare time to burning your world for jollies. All his art posts are AI.
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"Rising tides threaten tents of displaced Palestinians | AJ #shorts" [ < 1 min]
by aljazeeraenglish
Feel very lucky to be able to spend my holiday near #Sandbanks #Dorset this year.
But watching the tide come in, I couldn’t help but think what flood defences will be needed sooner rather than later to protect these very expensive homes.
But I cannot sense any sense of urgency here. If not here, probably one of the most expensive square miles in the UK…then where?
Alt Text: Evening view across Poole Harbour from Sandbanks
#Maine’s #SaltMarshes are at risk of disappearing, from #RisingSeaLevels and much more
A University of Maine analysis suggests a significant portion of them could be gone by the end of the century, without a lot of human intervention.
Posted July 28, 2024
Kate CoughMaine Monitor
Wetland loss may be “difficult to reverse”
"For much of American history, the marsh has often been considered more of an impediment than an asset; something to be filled, ditched, dug and bulldozed into something more useful.
"More than half of the #wetlands that existed at the start of the #RevolutionaryWar are gone, according to estimates from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service — much of them altered by farming, but also lost to houses, #StripMalls, #marinas and other #development."
#EelGrass #SaveTheWetlands #SaveTheMarshes #Capitalism #CorporateColonialism #ProtectNature #NewEngland
The photos in this article are amazing
Newly identified tipping point for ice sheets could mean greater sea level rise https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/25/newly-identified-tipping-point-for-ice-sheets-could-mean-greater-sea-level-rise #RisingSeaLevels #GlacierMelt #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
"Cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good /
No, cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good /
When the levee breaks, mama, you got to move..." - "When the Levee Breaks," by #MemphisMinnie and #KansasJoeMcCoy in 1929, covered by #LedZeppelin in 1971.
The #Flooding Will Come “No Matter What”
The complex, contradictory and heartbreaking process of American #ClimateMigration is underway.
April 11, 2024
"As the U.S. gets hotter, its #coastal waters rise higher, its #wildfires burn larger and its #droughts last longer, the notion that humankind can triumph over #nature is fading, and with it, slowly, goes the belief that self-determination and personal preference can be the driving factors in choosing where to live. Scientific modeling of these pressures suggest a sweeping change is coming in the shape and location of communities across America, a change that promises to transform the country’s politics, culture and economy.
"It has already begun. More Americans are displaced by catastrophic #ClimateChange driven storms and floods and fires every year. The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, the global nongovernmental organization researchers rely on to measure the number of people forcibly cast out of their homes by natural disasters, counted very few displaced Americans in 2009, 2010 and 2011, years in which few natural disasters struck the #UnitedStates. But by 2016 the numbers had begun to surge, with between 1 million and 1.7 million newly displaced people annually. The disasters and heat waves each year have become legion. But the statistics show the human side of what has appeared to be a turning point in both the severity and frequency of wildfires and #hurricanes. As the number of displaced people continues to grow, an ever-larger portion of those affected will make their moves permanent, migrating to safer ground or supportive communities. They will do so either because a singular disaster like the 2018 wildfire in Paradise, California — or Hurricane Harvey, which struck the Texas and Louisiana coasts — is so destructive it forces them to, or because the subtler 'slow onset' change in their surroundings gradually grows so intolerable, uncomfortable or inconvenient that they make the decision to leave, proactively, by choice. In a 2021 study published in the journal Climatic Change, researchers found that 57% of the Americans they surveyed believed that changes in their climate would push them to consider a move sometime in the next decade."
The gradual sinking of coastal land areas has been a “silent problem” that figures to exacerbate flooding risks and livelihoods in locales experiencing sea-level rise, such as Houston-area communities along the Gulf Coast, according to a new study.
#ClimateChange #EnergyEnvironment #Flooding #Local #News #CoastalFlooding #GulfCoast #IkeDike #RisingSeaLevels #Subsidence
The #USA Buried #NuclearWaste Abroad. #ClimateChange Could Unearth It
A new report says melting ice sheets and rising seas could disturb waste from US #nuclear projects in #Greenland and the #MarshallIslands
by Anita Hofschneider
Science
Mar 2, 2024 8:00 AM
"Ariana Tibon was in college at the University of Hawaii in 2017 when she saw the photo online: a black-and-white picture of a man holding a baby. The caption said: 'Nelson Anjain getting his baby monitored on March 2, 1954, by an AEC RadSafe team member on Rongelap two days after ʻBravo.’
"Tibon had never seen the man before. But she recognized the name as her great-grandfather’s. At the time, he was living on Rongelap in the Marshall Islands when the US conducted #CastleBravo, the largest of 67 nuclear weapon tests there during the Cold War. The tests displaced and sickened #Indigenous people, #poisoned fish, upended #TraditionalFood practices, and caused #cancers and other negative health repercussions that continue to reverberate today.
"A federal report by the Government Accountability Office published last month examines what’s left of that nuclear contamination, not only in the Pacific but also in Greenland and #Spain. The authors conclude that #ClimateChange could disturb nuclear waste left in Greenland and the Marshall Islands. '#RisingSeaLevels could spread contamination in RMI, and conflicting risk assessments cause residents to distrust radiological information from the US Department of Energy,' the report says.
"In Greenland, #ChemicalPollution and #radioactive liquid are frozen in #IceSheets, left over from a #NuclearPowerPlant on a #USMilitary research base where scientists studied the potential to install nuclear missiles. The report didn’t specify how or where nuclear contamination could migrate in the Pacific or Greenland, or what if any health risks that might pose to people living nearby. However, the authors did note that in Greenland, frozen waste could be exposed by 2100.
"'The possibility to influence the environment is there, which could further affect the food chain and further affect the people living in the area as well,' said Hjalmar Dahl, president of #InuitCircumpolarCouncil Greenland. The country is about 90 percent #Inuit. “I think it is important that the Greenland and US governments have to communicate on this worrying issue and prepare what to do about it.'"
#EnvironmentalRacism #IndigenousPeople #NuclearContamination #NoNukes #NoWar #Genocide
Castles made-of-sand,
Slip into the sea, eventually.
- Jimi Hendrix 1967.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/13/sand-dune-tide-beach-house-massachusetts
#Waterfront #climatechange #hightide #sanddunes #massachusetts #risingsealevels #oceanViews #erosion
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