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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

El deshielo de glaciares del Himalaya pone en riesgo a un cuarto de la población del mundo

Ecological tipping points could occur much sooner than expected, study finds

Stigmatis

Amazon rainforest and other ecosystems could collapse ‘very soon’, researchers warn

By Jonathan Watts Global environment editor

Ecological collapse is likely to start sooner than previously believed, according to a new study that models how tipping points can amplify and accelerate one another.

Deforestation of the Amazon, near Santarém, Brazil. Photograph: Brazil Photos/LightRocket/Getty Images

Based on these findings, the authors warn that more than a fifth of ecosystems worldwide, including the Amazon rainforest, are at risk of a catastrophic breakdown within a human lifetime.

“It could happen very soon,” said Prof Simon Willcock of Rothamsted Research, who co-led the study. “We could realistically be the last generation to see the Amazon.”

The research, which was published on Thursday in Nature Sustainability, is likely to generate a heated debate. Compared with the long-established and conclusively proven link between fossil fuels and global heating, the science of tipping points and their interactions…

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Food Porn Friday: What is Your Popular Slice of Pie Around the World?

From Behind the Pen

It’s been a while since I featured special dishes on Food Porn Friday. Today, I am posing this question to you – “What is the most popular pie in your country?”

History, cultures, and origins of sweet and savory pies ooze with deliciously filled baked pastry shells around the world. So whether it’s Tourtière (a hearty French-Canadian meat pie), Vlaai (Dutch fruit pies), the Filipino Buko pie, or the American Apple Pie, I want to hear from you.

Be it a mouthwatering torta, pita, tarte, tert, pai, or pie, please leave your baked delicacies in the comment section along with their country of origin. Feel free to participate in the following poll, whether you leave a comment or not. Thanks so much and have a deliciously FANtabulous Food Porn Friday!

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Music Video + RU an Artist? + Birgit on Pollution + Podcast

Happiness Between Tails by da-AL

Subscribe, listen to, and share Happiness Between Tails Podcast on most any platform; from Spotify and Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts and Breaker, to Pocket Casts and RadioPublic and Castbox and Stitcher, plus many more and an RSS feed. The full list of 50+ places is H-E-R-E.

Feast your ears on Carlos Luis Ferretti’s musical art. My musical artist cousin lives in Buenos Aires…

How do you define “artist”? Do you make art, yet don’t consider yourself an artist? My novels have yet to be published (click here for more on them) but fortunately, I have no problem declaring myself an author artist.

It’s scary how strict some of us can be when it comes to self-imposed art standards about earnings, recognition, and birth. How I admire those who create art entirely out of passion, curiousity, or whatever. Bravo to all who persist without needing to make…

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