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Scientists reveal how trawling the bottom of the ocean could release millions of tonnes of CO2 | Euronews

A new study has revealed how much carbon bottom trawling releases into the atmosphere.

Much of the damage done by dragging huge nets – some as big as 10 passenger jets – across the bottom of the sea to catch fish has been clear for a long time. But this new research reveals the practice is also an unaccounted source of carbon emissions that is “too big to ignore”.

“Only recently, we have discovered that bottom trawling also unleashes plumes of carbon, which otherwise would be safely stored for millennia in the ocean floor,” says Dr Trisha Atwood, a marine ecologist from Utah State University and National Geographic Pristine Seas.

Source: Scientists reveal how trawling the bottom of the ocean could release millions of tonnes of CO2 | Euronews

hope and the breaths wrapped in a song – Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

I chose black or the colour black has chosen me
withered stars, curled up under the canopies
the earth, the air and naked trees
the close calls from the tips of those misty hills

the isle of refugees
the horizon indistinguishable from the port
the clouds lower than the water
when the storms are eager to swallow whole the light
-house
trying to find the light the night sings its own tune

the wind of the tides flows
I’m on the roof of a house
the silent rafts are blown away by the cliffs
as the western glebe preen its feathers, flies away in the October light
I dip my fingers into the water
pick up the smell of fish scales so the sea may wash it away

I’m familiar with the nightmares
bulging like a metastasized nipple
passing a mirror in a dark corridor
I’m the testament of the sky
a dead fish on the cold boat deck

my neighbour is an annoying spectre
in thick glasses, on me
he drops his bombs
the days unbelievably adrift
me falling
like a boat smashed to smithereens
my death is slow
the grey waves crashing in my lungs
a version of migrating fish
or the procession of a funeral

on a bed soaked with sweat
where the dwarves grows nonsensically in a quadratic equation
I find an annotation describing the saints and apostles
in a tattered dream rows away in a boat

January 2024

Source: hope and the breaths wrapped in a song – Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

Jan. 13-17: Settlers Assault 74-year-old Maghayir al-‘Abeed Widow, Rob her of her Lambs | The Villages Group: Cooperation in Israel-Palestine

We sit – Ophir, Yo’av, and me – with 74-year-old N. and her 36-year-old daughter G., by their beautiful hillside cave and modest dwelling in Maghayir al-‘Abeed. I spotted colorful balloons hanging from a pole, and wondered why. “It was beautiful, like today, so we made a celebration for the beautiful day”, answers G. “And how has it been with the settlers?” I ask. “The last few days were quiet, hamdulillah“, answers G.

N. said she is afraid all the time. G., too, says they live in fear all day, every day. We sat there for a long hour, coddled by the winter sun. It seemed that fear, too, is being mollified. That was on Monday, January 15.

We then visited Taban, also in Massafer Yatta a couple of hills to the south. We saw young A., who is studying to be a veterinarian with our support.

On Wednesday morning, the 17th, we had to visit Maghayir al-‘Abeed again – Ehud, Yohi, Irena and myself – because a few hours earlier, at 2:30 AM, three settlers kicked open the door of the room where N., G., and G’s 14-year-old son S. were sleeping their fearful sleep. They immediately turned to 74-year-old N. who sleeps to the right of the entrance. “WHERE IS YOUR HUSBAND????” they roared. As N. tries to sit up and reply, one of them hits her face with a fist. “There is no husband”, she answers. He roars again: “WHERE IS YOUR HUSBAND????”, she tries to answer again – and again a fist into her face. Thus, three times, with the addition of kicks to her legs. [a defenseless 74-year-old widow]

Source: Jan. 13-17: Settlers Assault 74-year-old Maghayir al-‘Abeed Widow, Rob her of her Lambs | The Villages Group: Cooperation in Israel-Palestine

By The Rebel Bear – in Edinburgh, Scotland (5 photos) | STREET ART UTOPIA


Couldn’t agree more. Our skies are cleaner our oceans are a little clearer and seeing animals in places we haven’t in decades. Long last the lockdown!!

In Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.

By The Rebel Bear: https://www.instagram.com/the.rebel.bear/

Source: By The Rebel Bear – in Edinburgh, Scotland (5 photos) | STREET ART UTOPIA

Just What I’ve Been Sayin’ … | Filosofa’s Word

You’ve all heard me say more than a few times that for every ‘right’, there is an accompanying responsibility.  Of late, my pet peeve has been people’s claim to various ‘rights’ such as freedom of speech under the 1st Amendment, or the ‘right’ to own a gun as covered by the 2nd Amendment, but they don’t accept the responsibility to use that speech or that gun responsibly so that it doesn’t cause harm to others. I’ve long said that your rights end where they step on my toes.  When I saw Dr. John Persico’s post first thing this morning, I said, “BINGO!!!”  He is spot-on and I think (most of) you will agree.  Thank you, John, for this excellent reminder …

Source: Just What I’ve Been Sayin’ … | Filosofa’s Word

U.S. just expanded its territory by one million square kilometers • Earth.com

The areas encompassed in this claim include the Arctic, the east coast Atlantic, the Bering Sea, the west coast Pacific, the Mariana Islands, and two regions in the Gulf of Mexico.

The addition of this vast territory, equivalent in size to double the state of California, significantly strengthens the nation’s control over marine resources.

“America is larger than it was yesterday,” said Mead Treadwell, a former Alaska lieutenant governor and former chair of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission.

“It’s not quite the Louisiana Purchase. It’s not quite the purchase of Alaska, but the new area of land and subsurface resources under the land controlled by the United States is two Californias larger.”

Source: U.S. just expanded its territory by one million square kilometers • Earth.com

Ohio poised to be 2nd state to restrict gender-affirming care – Los Angeles Times (Me: What’s next? Will Ohio require trans people to wear badges, as in Nazi Germany?)

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced proposals this month that transgender advocates say could block access to gender-affirming care provided by independent clinics and general practitioners, leaving thousands of adults scrambling for treatment and facing health risks.

Ashton Colby, 31, fears the clinic where he gets the testosterone he has taken since age 19 would no longer offer it. The transgender Columbus man believes he could eventually be treated by another provider that would meet the new requirements. But even a few months’ wait could leave Colby experiencing a menstrual cycle for the first time in many years.

“My mental health has been stressed,” Colby said. “These are feelings related to being transgender that I have not felt in years, but now I’m thrown into feeling devastated about my experience as a transgender person.”

Source: Ohio poised to be 2nd state to restrict gender-affirming care – Los Angeles Times

IL CANTO DEI GABBIANI. – caterinarotondi

 

Come gabbiano sulle onde…

Ascolto
all’alba di ogni giorno
il richiamo della vita.
Lasciandomi cullare
fin dove le reti
cercano ristoro.

Aspettami…
all’imbrunire del giorno.

Aspettami sempre.

Come il canto dei gabbiani.
Come il porto la sua barca.

Come…
il crepuscolo la notte.

Aspettami come il mare.

Ti cullero
e ti lascerai andare.
Senza temere,
all’onda…
delle emozioni.

Source: IL CANTO DEI GABBIANI. – caterinarotondi