Hundreds of #Caribbean islanders forced to abandon homes amid rising #SeaLevels
Experts worry it will put the culture and way of life of #CartiSugtupu’s #Indigenous community of fewer than 2,000 at risk
by Verity Bowman, September 6, 2023
"Hundreds of people are preparing to escape a tiny Caribbean island as rising waters threaten to engulf their homes.
"The densely populated island of Carti Sugtupu off #Panama’s north coast is under threat from climate change induced sea level rises, suffering from flooding on a regular basis.
"Experts say the sea will engulf #Carti #Sugtupu and dozens of neighbouring islands in the Guna Yala region by the end of the century.
Forty-nine of the islands are populated and are just a few feet above sea level.
Read more:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/hundreds-of-caribbean-islanders-forced-to-abandon-homes-amid-rising-sea-levels/ar-AA1gkVxU?rc=1&ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=1112fa09f5dd4480ab5b7106462d874b&ei=5
#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #CaribbeanIslanders #ClimateRefugees #IndigenousNews #RisingSeaLevels
#Archeologists in Norway found an arrow that was likely trapped in ice for 4,000 years
by Dustin Jones, September 6, 2023
"Archeologists in Norway discovered an arrow shaft that appears to be from the #StoneAge, meaning it is approximately 4,000 years old.
"The discovery was made on the side of #MountLauvhøe, which stands at just over 6,500 feet in Norway's Lom Municipality. Archeologists had found arrows from the Iron and Middle ages when they last surveyed the area in 2017. However, this arrow shaft was found after ice at the site melted away in recent years, according to Lars Holger Pilø, co-director Secrets of the Ice, part of Norway's Department of Cultural Heritage.
"He said the discovery predates earlier finds by more than 2,000 years, which adds a lot more "time depth" to the site. Researchers can determine the age of the artifact by its shape, but will submit a sample of the wood for carbon dating once the field season is over."
https://www.wfdd.org/story/archeologists-norway-found-arrow-was-likely-trapped-ice-4000-years
#History #ArchaeologicalSites #archaeology #Norway #Histodon
#Archeologists in Norway found an arrow that was likely trapped in ice for 4,000 years
by Dustin Jones, September 6, 2023
"Archeologists in Norway discovered an arrow shaft that appears to be from the #StoneAge, meaning it is approximately 4,000 years old.
"The discovery was made on the side of #MountLauvhøe, which stands at just over 6,500 feet in Norway's Lom Municipality. Archeologists had found arrows from the Iron and Middle ages when they last surveyed the area in 2017. However, this arrow shaft was found after ice at the site melted away in recent years, according to Lars Holger Pilø, co-director Secrets of the Ice, part of Norway's Department of Cultural Heritage.
"He said the discovery predates earlier finds by more than 2,000 years, which adds a lot more "time depth" to the site. Researchers can determine the age of the artifact by its shape, but will submit a sample of the wood for carbon dating once the field season is over."
https://www.wfdd.org/story/archeologists-norway-found-arrow-was-likely-trapped-ice-4000-years
#History #ArchaeologicalSites #archaeology #Norway #Histodon
#Archeologists in Norway found an arrow that was likely trapped in ice for 4,000 years
by Dustin Jones, September 6, 2023
"Archeologists in Norway discovered an arrow shaft that appears to be from the #StoneAge, meaning it is approximately 4,000 years old.
"The discovery was made on the side of #MountLauvhøe, which stands at just over 6,500 feet in Norway's Lom Municipality. Archeologists had found arrows from the Iron and Middle ages when they last surveyed the area in 2017. However, this arrow shaft was found after ice at the site melted away in recent years, according to Lars Holger Pilø, co-director Secrets of the Ice, part of Norway's Department of Cultural Heritage.
"He said the discovery predates earlier finds by more than 2,000 years, which adds a lot more "time depth" to the site. Researchers can determine the age of the artifact by its shape, but will submit a sample of the wood for carbon dating once the field season is over."
https://www.wfdd.org/story/archeologists-norway-found-arrow-was-likely-trapped-ice-4000-years
#History #archaeological #archaeology #Norway #Histodon
Archeologists in Norway found an arrow that was likely trapped in ice for 4,000 years
7:15pm September 06, 2023
by Dustin Jones
"Archeologists in Norway discovered an arrow shaft that appears to be from the #StoneAge, meaning it is approximately 4,000 years old.
"The discovery was made on the side of #MountLauvhøe, which stands at just over 6,500 feet in Norway's Lom Municipality. Archeologists had found arrows from the Iron and Middle ages when they last surveyed the area in 2017. However, this arrow shaft was found after ice at the site melted away in recent years, according to Lars Holger Pilø, co-director Secrets of the Ice, part of Norway's Department of Cultural Heritage.
"He said the discovery predates earlier finds by more than 2,000 years, which adds a lot more "time depth" to the site. Researchers can determine the age of the artifact by its shape, but will submit a sample of the wood for carbon dating once the field season is over."
https://www.wfdd.org/story/archeologists-norway-found-arrow-was-likely-trapped-ice-4000-years
#History #archaeological #archaeology #Norway #Histodon
Archeologists in Norway found an arrow that was likely trapped in ice for 4,000 years
7:15pm September 06, 2023
by Dustin Jones
"Archeologists in Norway discovered an arrow shaft that appears to be from the #StoneAge, meaning it is approximately 4,000 years old.
"The discovery was made on the side of #MountLauvhøe, which stands at just over 6,500 feet in Norway's Lom Municipality. Archeologists had found arrows from the Iron and Middle ages when they last surveyed the area in 2017. However, this arrow shaft was found after ice at the site melted away in recent years, according to Lars Holger Pilø, co-director Secrets of the Ice, part of Norway's Department of Cultural Heritage.
"He said the discovery predates earlier finds by more than 2,000 years, which adds a lot more "time depth" to the site. Researchers can determine the age of the artifact by its shape, but will submit a sample of the wood for carbon dating once the field season is over."
https://www.wfdd.org/story/archeologists-norway-found-arrow-was-likely-trapped-ice-4000-years
#History #archaeological #archaeology #Norway #Histodon
#RentControl laws on the national level? Biden administration offers a not-so-subtle push
by Medora Lee, September 6, 2023
"Rent control would prevent #corporate #landlords from profiting by using low-interest, government-backed financing while raising #rents and evicting #tenants, Hoang said.
"Though that may be true, critics say, rent control could hurt millions of people, including some who supplement their retirement with rental income.
"Among 49.5 million rental units, nearly 46% are small rental properties of one to four units, the National Association of Realtors said. More than 70% of those are owned by individuals, or mom-and-pop landlords. About 70% are also managed by them.
"'Cost of rental housing is expensive,' Geno said. 'If they can’t pass on expenses they don’t control, many owners will be upside down.'"
"Many mom-and-pop landlords were forced into forbearance during the 1½-year pandemic-related rent moratorium that allowed tenants to forgo rent payments without fear of eviction. Some even had to sell their properties and defer maintenance on their rentals."
And then corporations bought them up, tore down or gutted the places, then created condos or high-rent housing out of the reach of most people! Creating affordable housing would be great, but it takes time. And judging by the number of homeless and those seeking climate change and political asylum, this problem needs to be solved sooner than later!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/rent-control-laws-on-the-national-level-biden-administration-offers-a-not-so-subtle-push/ar-AA1ggiXW?rc=1&ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=8a51f854e3ac4dd9ce096c7ac81fbc04&ei=6
#AffordabeHousing #HousingForAll #AffordableHousingForAll
@b420dccf I hadn't heard about that. I just avoid the area from Memorial Day through Labor Day. Light rail or a trolley would be nice. I believe there used to be trolleys all around the North Shore/Seacoast back in the day.
What's going on with #NPR these days?!! Last week, they have someone on the air promoting nuking the atmosphere, today they interviewed two pro-nuke scientists justifying #TEPCO's dumping of #Fukushima water, and only had a recorded statement by WHOI's Ken Buesseler, while the "experts" pooh-pooh'ed his statements without him being able to defend himself! Then I heard some piece about digging for more oil and carbon credits, which sounded like #greenwashing BS to me. Way more quality news can be found in a half-hour of a #DemocracyNow broadcast. Ugh!
Dam bursts open as deadly #flooding washes away homes in #Norway
Entire towns have been evacuated in Norway after unrelenting rain sparked widespread flooding, and the country's prime minister warned residents that the flooding is "by no means over."
By Brian Lada, AccuWeather meteorologist and staff writer
Published Aug 11, 2023 1:09 PM EDT
"Torrents of water gushed through multiple towns across Norway and #landslides cascaded down mountainsides after a deluge drenched Norway earlier in the week. Residents have been forced to evacuate, and the situation could get worse before it gets better.
"Significant flooding was reported in the Norwegian towns of #Nes, #Bagn and #Valer, all located north of the capital city of #Oslo.
"A wet July was the precursor to the flooding, with monthly rainfall more than 300% of the historical average in and around Oslo. The wet pattern persisted through the first part of August with rain falling every day through the first 10 days of the month."
Read more:
https://www.accuweather.com/en/severe-weather/dam-bursts-open-as-deadly-flooding-washes-away-homes-in-norway/1569058
#Wx #Weather #WeatherExtremes #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #Europe
Are #Coastal #Nuclear Power Plants Ready for #SeaLevelRise?
As shorelines creep inland and #storms worsen, nuclear reactors around the world face new challenges.
by John Vidal, August 21, 2018
"The outer defensive wall of what is expected to be the world’s most expensive nuclear power station is taking shape on the shoreline of the choppy gray waters of the Bristol Channel in western England.
"By the time the US $25-billion #HinkleyPointC nuclear station is finished, possibly in 2028, the concrete seawall will be 12.5 meters high, 900 meters long, and durable enough, the UK regulator and French engineers say, to withstand the strongest storm surge, the greatest tsunami, and the highest sea-level rise.
"But will it? Independent nuclear consultant #PeteRoche, a former adviser to the UK government and #Greenpeace, points out that the tidal range along this stretch of coast is one of the highest in the world, and that #erosion is heavy. Indeed, observers reported serious flooding on the site in 1981 when an earlier nuclear power station had to be shut down for a week, following a #SpringTide and a #StormSurge. However well built, says Roche, the new seawall does not adequately take into account #sealevel rise due to climate change.
"#Flooding can be catastrophic to a nuclear power plant because it can knock out its electrical systems, disabling its cooling mechanisms and leading to overheating and possible #meltdown and a dangerous release of #radioactivity. Flooding at the #FukushimaDaiichi plant in Japan as a result of the March 2011 tsunami caused severe damage to several of the plant’s reactors and only narrowly avoided a catastrophic release of radioactivity that could have forced the evacuation of 50 million people.
"In the #UnitedStates, where nine nuclear plants are within three kilometers of the #ocean and four reactors have been identified by Stanford academics as vulnerable to #StormSurges and sea-level rise, flooding is common, says David Lochbaum, a former nuclear engineer and director of the nuclear safety project at the Union of Concerned Scientists (#UCS).
"Lochbaum says over 20 flooding incidents have been recorded at US nuclear plants since the early 1980s. “The most likely [cause of flooding] is the increasing frequency of extreme events,' he says."
#ExtremeWeather #ClimateCrisis #NuclearPlants #UK #HinkleyPoint #CoastalFlooding
Full article:
https://hakaimagazine.com/features/are-coastal-nuclear-power-plants-ready-for-sea-level-rise/
A hearty welcome to folks who have recently come over to Mastodon from the #BirdSite! I recognize some of my old Tweeps over here, and I'm so glad you made it! So, back on the birdsite, I maintained a public list titled #GlobalAlerts. Since coming to Mastodon, I've started a new list, but unfortunately, I can't share it.
However, I copied and pasted my list into a text file -- which includes one of my favorite accounts from the birdsite, @cc2fdf26, who graciously hosts and maintains a number of alert-bots. If you miss having #NWS and #EmergencyAlerts, please consider creating your own list with these accounts... Note: #Earthquake related accounts are at the bottom of the list (since there are quite a few here). Suggestions welcome!
@cc2fdf26
The account of AI6YR Ben, on his own server. Also at @ai6yr (ham radio). Yes, I'm the guy who found that hiker using only the selfie of his feet. If you want to support this server, https://patreon.com/ai6yr@6e806df2
#Hurricanes, #weather, #wildfires, and observations of the #Earth from satellite.
@8a2678ee
Unofficial automated mirror. No copyright asserted. ∎ The #EarthObservation component of the EU Space Programme
@b81f389e
#EAS warning bot *EXPERIMENTAL* Do not use for official advice.
@69b81f13
Automated postings based on GOES 16 X-ray flux for at least M-class #SolarFlares. Currently in development.
@b1df71b5
Posting about #SpaceWeather conditions during #solarcycle25 & how it affects #propagation.
@5d2b4d0b
Normally relay #emergency info.
@9f269d28
This is an automated bot which toots out new #wildfires reported by WatchDuty (app.watchduty.org). Not run by WatchDuty. Created by @ai6yr
@6c02a30a
The unofficial account relaying #Tornado information from https://twitter.com/NWStornado - PLEASE DO NOT RELY ON THIS AS YOUR MAIN SOURCE
@fe001d61
This is a bot account which toots the content that shows up on the USGS #Volcanoes Twitter account. NOT OFFICIAL. Experimental, too. Created by @ai6yr
@27cbf411
This automated bot toots out: NWS #Tsunami Alerts (Twitter), NWS NTWC(direct), and NWS PTWC bulletins (direct) (UNOFFICIAL). ***EXPERIMENTAL - Don't bet your life on it*** Created by @ai6yr
@09b2817d
Note
Not a meteorologist, just an avid weather geek. I'll be posting about active severe weather events across the US, and occasional off-topic weather & climate news. I tend to look at the bigger picture via hourly-daily-weekly outlooks, and will not post every warning or watch. Always use official and local sources for important weather information.
@5a4391a3
#EMSC provides rapid earthquake information. This account displays all recorded #worldwide earthquakes.
@0d3f67a8
This bot posts all earthquakes greater than 2.5 in near real time as they are posted by the #USGS.
@e2111163
(Unofficial) #geonet earthquake feed. Posts earthquakes felt in #NewZealand at at least an intensity of III (weak)
@7cd6d464
* EXPERIMENTAL *
This bot posts earthquakes within #California.
@1aec8574
This account shares a feed with earthquakes over 4.0 magnitude worldwide, the feed is from here http://www.emsc-csem.org/service/rss
#SupremeCourt rules against #Navajo Nation in water supply case
The court pointed to treaties signed in the 1800s to support its decision. The #NavajoNation suit comes as water from the #ColoradoRiver is scarce and states in the arid southwest are tangled in disputes over water allocation.
By Ariane de Vogue, CNN, Jun 23, 2023
"The suit comes as water from the Colorado River is scarce and states located in the arid southwest are tangled in disputes concerning water allocation. The tribe claims that while the average person on the Navajo reservation uses seven gallons of water a day, that national average is 80 to 100 gallons.
"The nation, which extends across #Arizona, #NewMexico and #Utah and lies within the drainage basin of the Colorado River, has signed two treaties with the United States. In 1868, the United States promised the tribe a permanent homeland.
"Shay Dvoretzky, a lawyer for the Navajo Nation, told the Supreme Court: that the Navajos 'made clear' that they understood the 'promise of a permanent homeland' in the 1800s to include 'adequate water for agriculture and raising livestock. Hauled from miles away, water can cost up to twenty times more than it does in neighboring off-Reservation communities,' he argued. "
#WaterIsLife #RespectTheTreaties #NativeAmericanNews #WaterRights #SCOTUS
Read more:
https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/supreme-court-rules-against-navajo-nation-in-water-supply-case/1547711
Now we know how a solar storm took out a fleet of Starlinks
by Carolyn Collins, April 3, 2023
"The folks at Starlink found that out the hard way in February 2022. On January 29th that year, the sun belched out a class M 1.1 flare and related coronal mass ejection. Material from the sun traveled out on the solar wind and arrived at Earth a few days later. On February 3, Starlink launched a group of 49 satellites to an altitude only 130 miles above Earth's surface. They didn't last long, and now solar physicists know why."
#SolarFlare #SolarFlares #SpaceWeather #SolarCycle24 #CarringtonEvent #SolarWind #CMEs #KesslerSyndrome
Read more: https://phys.org/news/2023-04-solar-storm-fleet-starlinks.html
Lights Out
Failure to harden electrical structures and spent nuclear fuel storage leaves US, global population vulnerable to solar or terrorist induced apocalypse
by Michael Collins, October 14, 2014
"Should a serpentine #CME hit Earth head-on, the consequences would be catastrophic."
#SolarFlares #SolarCycle25 #SolarFlare #CarringtonEffect #LightsOut #SpaceWeather #NoNukes #NoNewNukes #RethinkNotRestart
Read more:
https://www.enviroreporter.com/2014/10/lights-out/
Xcel Energy to temporarily shut down #Monticello nuclear plant after two radioactive water leaks; company says no threat to public
March 24, 2023
"On Wednesday, the plant's monitoring equipment detected hundreds of gallons worth of radioactive water since the crews made temporary repairs, and that it had reached #groundwater. Officials say the contaminated water, containing the radioactive isotope #tritium, has not yet reached the #MississippiRiver, which runs next to the plant.
"When the leak was first detected back in November, Xcel used a catchment and a pumping strategy to recovered the water containing tritium. They say they've recovered about 30% of that water so far. But over the past couple days, some of that radioactive water was spilling over the catchment, creating a new leak."
#Minnesota #XcelEnergy #Monticello #NoNukes #NoMoreNukes #RethinkNotRestart #NoDumping #Fukushima
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/xcel-energy-to-temporarily-shut-down-monticello-nuclear-plant-after-two-radioactive-water-leaks-company-says-no-threat-to-public/ar-AA192hW7
#Radioactive #Cicadas Found In #Tokyo
March 3, 2023, Editor, SimplyInfo
"No, this isn’t the latest movie from Toho. 11 years after the meltdowns at #FukushimaDaiichi, radioactive cicadas were found in Tokyo. Mothers’ Radiation Lab in Iwaki discovered them as part of their ongoing radiation testing work."
#NoDumping #WaterIsLife #Fukushima #NoNukes #Nucleare #ClimateCrisis #SaveThePlanet
Read more:
https://simplyinfo.org/2023/03/radioactive-cicadas-found-in-tokyo/
Um... Looks like we're getting close to #KesslerSyndrome-level stuff...
Astronomy news: International Space Station fires engines to avoid satellite
It is getting crowded in space, and NASA recently had to take action to dodge a #satellite that was headed toward the #ISS.
#satellites #StarLink #KesslerEffect
https://www.accuweather.com/en/space-news/live-news/astronomy-news-current-space-events-2023/1480879
‘Cop City’ opposition spreads beyond Georgia forest defenders
"The DeKalb county commissioner, Ted Terry, whose district includes the South River forest, and #environmentalist Jackie Echols, of the South River #Watershed Alliance, say they have been rebuffed or ignored in attempts to have the county reject #Atlanta’s applications for permits to begin construction of the training center, due to alleged violations of the #CleanWaterAct the project would incur.
"The county approved the “land disturbance permit” anyway last week. The Atlanta mayor, Andre Dickens, and the DeKalb county CEO, Michael Thurmond, held a press conference without advising Terry of the decision in advance. “I’m being boxed out of the process,” said Terry, a former state director of the #SierraClub.
"Dickens and Thurmond referred several times to a committee meant to represent communities surrounding the forest, which are mostly #Black, with large shares of #LowIincome residents. [#EnvironmentalRacism]
"But the permit approval led a member of the same committee to file an appeal seeking to stop the project this week, also calling it a violation of the Clean Water Act.
"Meanwhile, another member has resigned in protest of the killing of #Tortuguita.
Manuel Esteban Paez Terán.
‘#Assassinated in cold blood’: activist killed protesting #Georgia’s ‘#CopCity’
"Tortuguita had been staying in South River forest for about six months, at times in tree houses, when dozens of officers swept through the forest on 18 January. The activist was one of dozens of “forest defenders” who formed part of a loose coalition of people trying to protect the forest.
"At least 85 acres of the #forest
is under threat from the training center, while another 40 acres is under threat from Ryan Millsap, former owner of Blackhall Film Studios, who made a deal with DeKalb county to swap the forest land for another parcel."
#SaveWeelauneeForest #StopCopCity
Read more:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/09/cop-city-opposition-georgia
February 2023: Market-based instruments to incentivize more #sustainable practices in #OuterSpace
"The greatest danger is a cascading effect — the #KesslerSyndrome — that could arise once the number of objects in orbit increases past a tipping point. Collisions between resident objects could generate more fragments than the atmosphere can clear, slowly rendering some orbits economically unusable. Models extrapolating current behaviors to the future show an exponential increase in collision rates, suggesting that we have already passed the tipping point. The rising cost associated with space debris will not only affect spacefaring nations but also nonspacefaring nations, as the vital services provided from those orbits will become more expensive or even unavailable."
#SpaceJunk #SpaceDebris
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877343522000999?dgcid=rss_sd_all
Wikipedia: Kessler syndrome
"The #KesslerSyndrome (also called the #KesslerEffect, collisional cascading, or ablation cascade), proposed by #NASA scientist Donald J. Kessler in 1978, is a scenario in which the density of objects in low Earth orbit (LEO) due to space pollution is high enough that collisions between objects could cause a cascade in which each collision generates space debris that increases the likelihood of further collisions. In 2009 Kessler wrote that modeling results had concluded that the debris environment was already unstable, 'such that any attempt to achieve a growth-free small debris environment by eliminating sources of past debris will likely fail because fragments from future collisions will be generated faster than atmospheric drag will remove them'. One implication is that the distribution of debris in orbit could render space activities and the use of satellites in specific orbital ranges difficult for many generations."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
#KesslerSyndrome and the space debris problem
This feared space-junk cascade called Kessler Syndrome may have already begun.
By Mike Wall, July 14, 2022
"The Kessler Syndrome is a phenomenon in which the amount of junk in orbit around Earth reaches a point where it just creates more and more space debris, causing big problems for #satellites, #astronauts and mission planners.
"Consider this scenario: The destruction of a dead spy satellite spawns a swarm of debris in Earth orbit, which wreaks ever-increasing havoc as it zooms around our planet.
"The cloud destroys a number of communications satellites, generating more and more debris with every violent collision. It takes out the iconic #Hubble Space Telescope and a NASA #SpaceShuttle, killing several crewmembers aboard the winged vehicle. It then lines the International Space Station (#ISS) up in its crosshairs, destroying the $100 billion orbiting lab with a hail of fast-flying shrapnel."
#SpaceJunk #Starlink
https://www.space.com/kessler-syndrome-space-debris
@ccb4768b "Scientists have long known that the loss of olfactory capacity, or ability to smell, can predict development of nearly 70 neurological and psychiatric diseases. These include Alzheimer’s and other dementias, Parkinson’s, schizophrenia and alcoholism. Evidence is emerging about a link between smell loss due to COVID and ensuing cognitive decrease. Researchers have previously found that exposing people with moderate dementia to up to 40 different odors twice a day over a period of time boosted their memories and language skills, eased depression and improved their olfactory capacities. The UCI team decided to try turning this knowledge into an easy and non-invasive dementia-fighting tool."
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