tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23340907586603718472024-03-05T14:06:57.418+07:00Cempaka Maritime, Marine and FisheriesNews, Subjects Related to Maritime, Marine & FisheriesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2679125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2334090758660371847.post-60505132045053025962023-03-09T04:07:00.007+07:002023-03-09T04:09:15.155+07:00Antarctic Sea Ice Cover At Record Low<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.barrons.com/news/antarctic-sea-ice-cover-at-record-low-37f33396" target="_blank">Barrons – AFP</a>, By Marlowe HOOD, March 8, 2023</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhlMGeiheVoc4pvPd1Ta1CLDDZirEhqTkoVXo1w2wdkTDK9eTYwrkXupHZyYxY8VvMcoX-jxfjzht0dfy_XM7nv4lKbTL7Hm_QQ0uH3EMWdBgFMnTNaIqV_koODo1PUJfo8T8RhjOAau7rx48XF6-gC_FJGzm5AHqfVLaaKcSBV1SOsS0CXO1yUmeasw/s768/AFP7770841678034372908301133768145289566891---1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="510" data-original-width="768" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhlMGeiheVoc4pvPd1Ta1CLDDZirEhqTkoVXo1w2wdkTDK9eTYwrkXupHZyYxY8VvMcoX-jxfjzht0dfy_XM7nv4lKbTL7Hm_QQ0uH3EMWdBgFMnTNaIqV_koODo1PUJfo8T8RhjOAau7rx48XF6-gC_FJGzm5AHqfVLaaKcSBV1SOsS0CXO1yUmeasw/w400-h266/AFP7770841678034372908301133768145289566891---1.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Antarctic sea ice reached its lowest extent in the 45-year satellite data record last<br />month. Johan ORDONEZ</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Sea ice in Antarctica shrank to the smallest area on
record in February for the second year in a row, continuing a decade-long
decline, the European Union's climate monitoring service said Tuesday.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">On February 16, the ocean surface covered by ice
around the frozen continent shrank to 2.09 million square kilometres (800,000
square miles), the lowest level since satellite records began, according to
figures provided to AFP by the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S).</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"Antarctic sea ice reached its lowest extent in
the 45-year satellite data record," said Samantha Burgess, Deputy Director
of C3S.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">US government scientists have also confirmed a new
record last month but indicated an even lower figure of 1.79 million sq km, a
difference Copernicus attributed to "different sea ice retrieval
algorithms".</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Sea-ice concentrations during the southern hemisphere
summer were well below average in all sectors of the Southern Ocean.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Startlingly, the record lows this year and in 2022 are
about 30 percent below the 1981-2010 average.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"These low sea-ice conditions may have important
implications for the stability of Antarctic ice shelves and ultimately for
global sea level rise," said Burgess.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">"Polar ice caps are a sensitive indicator of the
climate crisis."</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Melting sea ice has no discernible impact on sea
levels because the ice is already in ocean water.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">But diminished ice cover is nonetheless a major
concern because it helps accelerate global warming, including in the Arctic
region.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">About 90 percent of the Sun's energy that hits white
sea ice is reflected back into space. But when sunlight hits dark, unfrozen
ocean water, nearly the same amount of that energy is absorbed instead,
contributing directly to a warming planet.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Both the North and South pole regions have warmed by
roughly three degrees Celsius compared to late 19th-century levels, three times
the global average.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span> </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgynLqRa5mFTx12kZjIYpRyP7qdbg5NKlGlRiFt1HV8BGnHOIngpJgtl4iqrli_Z_qcfnmx0KoU-BoAn8qsa3KM_DBsj6Err_DQ4HeO5cfq3-Y_NUezBHk38nkrXrIJ3M43X3n3TaOtjN8LY_BSvbXhH-lsb5mab1wF0gNKRYZRjISbSe51TOCCLvWYVw/s768/AFP7770841678034372908301133768145289566891---2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="743" data-original-width="768" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgynLqRa5mFTx12kZjIYpRyP7qdbg5NKlGlRiFt1HV8BGnHOIngpJgtl4iqrli_Z_qcfnmx0KoU-BoAn8qsa3KM_DBsj6Err_DQ4HeO5cfq3-Y_NUezBHk38nkrXrIJ3M43X3n3TaOtjN8LY_BSvbXhH-lsb5mab1wF0gNKRYZRjISbSe51TOCCLvWYVw/w400-h388/AFP7770841678034372908301133768145289566891---2.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="text-align: left;">Antarctic sea ice at record low. </span><span style="text-align: left;">Valentin RAKOVSKY</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><br />But unlike sea ice in the Arctic, which has diminished
by three percent a year since the late 1970s, sea ice in Antarctica has
remained relatively constant over the same period, albeit with large annual
variations.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span>
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Until recently -- over the last eight years -- minimum
sea ice extent in the Southern Ocean has consistently been below the average
for the 1991-2020 period.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Antarctica encountered its first recorded heatwave in
2020, with an unprecedented 9.2C above the mean maximum. In March last year, a
research centre in eastern Antarctica saw temperatures soar 30 degrees above
normal.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Recent ice cover during the austral summer has shrunk
most around West Antarctica, which is more vulnerable to the impacts of global
warming than the far larger East Antarctica.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The record minimum sea ice extent in the Arctic -- 3.4
million square kilometres -- occurred in 2012, with the second- and
third-lowest ice-covered areas in 2020 and 2019, respectively.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In 2021, The UN's IPCC climate science advisory panel
forecast with "high confidence" that the Arctic Ocean would become
practically ice-free in September at least once by mid-century.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2334090758660371847.post-23802892269595858972023-03-07T03:43:00.005+07:002023-03-07T03:45:35.317+07:00UN states agree 'historic' deal to protect high seas<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://uk.news.yahoo.com/treaty-ahoy-un-states-finally-025421955.html" target="_blank">Yahoo – AFP</a>, Amélie BOTTOLLIER-DEPOIS, </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">5 March 2023</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC9HRfhRGWD4C-F3sRjauFj5h0ZMpEAyu7iZ4cv8R_jucT-t64pVkI552vQRCj1yrd6vxfo0ZpLyViPjlNTucWwa0wtYt9vq3CCRsAGmpk4uIjVuuw06DRC7Wb-MTia8DEyYk9k3ywzom30pKbOPpO3A18G-aexwRc8Q16z-XFbdYASB-3ys0z0P77Zw/s768/5dca2d22504147e4cf27f8ff8e1c9efa.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="510" data-original-width="768" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC9HRfhRGWD4C-F3sRjauFj5h0ZMpEAyu7iZ4cv8R_jucT-t64pVkI552vQRCj1yrd6vxfo0ZpLyViPjlNTucWwa0wtYt9vq3CCRsAGmpk4uIjVuuw06DRC7Wb-MTia8DEyYk9k3ywzom30pKbOPpO3A18G-aexwRc8Q16z-XFbdYASB-3ys0z0P77Zw/w400-h266/5dca2d22504147e4cf27f8ff8e1c9efa.webp" width="400" /></span></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">UN member states finally agreed Saturday to a text on
the first international treaty after years of negotiations to protect the high
seas, a fragile and vital treasure that covers nearly half the planet.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"The ship has reached the shore," conference
chair Rena Lee announced at the UN headquarters in New York shortly before 9:30
pm (0230 GMT Sunday), to loud and lengthy applause from delegates.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The exact wording of the text was not immediately
released but activists hailed it as a breakthrough moment for the protection of
biodiversity after more than 15 years of discussions.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The treaty is seen as essential to conserving 30
percent of the world's land and ocean by 2030, as agreed by world governments
in a historic accord signed in Montreal in December.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"This is a historic day for conservation and a
sign that in a divided world, protecting nature and people can triumph over
geopolitics," said Greenpeace's Laura Meller.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">EU environment commissioner Virginijus Sinkevicius on
Sunday called the treaty "a crucial step forward to preserve the marine
life and biodiversity that are essential for us and the generations to
come."</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Following two weeks of intense talks, including a
marathon overnight session Friday into Saturday, delegates finalized a text
that now cannot be significantly altered.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"There will be no reopening or discussions of
substance," Lee told negotiators.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The agreement will be formally adopted at a later date
once it has been vetted by lawyers and translated into the United Nations' six
official languages, she announced.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres commended the
delegates, according to a spokesperson who said the agreement was a
"victory for multilateralism and for global efforts to counter the
destructive trends facing ocean health, now and for generations to come."</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">'Critical role'</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The high seas begin at the border of countries'
exclusive economic zones, which extend up to 200 nautical miles (370
kilometers) from coastlines. They thus fall under the jurisdiction of no
country.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Even though the high seas comprise more than 60
percent of the world's oceans and nearly half the planet's surface, they have
long drawn far less attention than coastal waters and a few iconic species.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Ocean ecosystems create half the oxygen humans breathe
and limit global warming by absorbing much of the carbon dioxide emitted by
human activities.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">But they are threatened by climate change, pollution
and overfishing.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Only about one percent of the high seas are currently
protected.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">When the new treaty comes into force it will allow the
creation of marine protected areas in these international waters.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"High seas marine protected areas can play a
critical role in building resilience to the impact of climate change,"
said Liz Karan of The Pew Charitable Trusts, which called the agreement a
"momentous achievement."</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The treaty will also oblige countries to conduct
environmental impact assessments of proposed activities on the high seas.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">A highly sensitive chapter on the sharing of potential
benefits of newly discovered marine resources was one of the focal points of tensions
before it was finally overcome as the scheduled talks, due to end Friday,
overran by a day.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">'Profits'</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Developing countries, without the means to afford
costly research, had fought not to be excluded from the expected windfall from
the commercialization of potential substances discovered in the international
waters.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Eventual profits are likely from the pharmaceutical,
chemical or cosmetic use of newly discovered marine substances that belong to
no one.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">As in other international forums, notably climate
negotiations, the debate ended up being a question of ensuring equity between
the poorer global South and richer North, observers noted.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In a move seen as an attempt to build trust between
rich and poor countries, the European Union pledged 40 million euros ($42
million) in New York to facilitate the ratification of the treaty and its early
implementation.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The EU also announced $860 million for research,
monitoring and conservation of oceans in 2023 at the Our Ocean conference in
Panama that ended Friday. Panama said a total of $19 billion was pledged by
countries.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In 2017, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution
calling on nations to establish a high seas treaty.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It originally planned four negotiating sessions but
had to pass two resolutions to ensure two additional sessions.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: arial;">"We can now finally move from talk to real change
at sea," said Greenpeace's Meller.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2334090758660371847.post-27401741090985498072022-09-22T03:02:00.004+07:002022-09-22T03:02:48.620+07:00Mass stranding kills 14 whales in Australia<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="https://sg.news.yahoo.com/mass-stranding-kills-14-whales-013907627.html" target="_blank">Yahoo – AFP</a>, 21 September 2022</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirh8Bb_nhg3RfnHVXzdC47WwUxZ2rpfpKGWwp1dEh3KSu632Xe1rlQdpfV279eb8JOy_qE09YKfnqbtZjOnoUStWlCHC-Z8z5RcVSgYeIrBsT6-SafjEF6RBHPPIyYbrv3fSJ8JxEeEz-KPFptgfyYwOENz0WKxJPSxYrHHS1XMptQhs1VSOHgeURUhQ/s768/30824423bfd43e2fcac5b7bce5a7d242.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="511" data-original-width="768" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirh8Bb_nhg3RfnHVXzdC47WwUxZ2rpfpKGWwp1dEh3KSu632Xe1rlQdpfV279eb8JOy_qE09YKfnqbtZjOnoUStWlCHC-Z8z5RcVSgYeIrBsT6-SafjEF6RBHPPIyYbrv3fSJ8JxEeEz-KPFptgfyYwOENz0WKxJPSxYrHHS1XMptQhs1VSOHgeURUhQ/w400-h266/30824423bfd43e2fcac5b7bce5a7d242.webp" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Australian wildlife investigators were on Wednesday
trying to piece together why more than a dozen young male sperm whales died in
a mass stranding on a remote beach in the state of Tasmania.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The 14 whales were discovered beached on King Island
earlier this week, off Tasmania's north coast.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Biologists and a veterinarian from the state's
conservation agency have travelled to the small island to investigate, with an
aerial survey finding no other stranded whales.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The young whales' deaths may be a case of
"misadventure", wildlife biologist Kris Carlyon from the state
government conservation agency told the local Mercury newspaper.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"The most common reason for stranding events is
misadventure, they might have been foraging close to shore, there might have
been food and possibly they were caught on a low tide," Carlyon said.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"That's the theory at the moment."</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">He said the whales likely beached themselves on
Sunday, before being found dead on Monday.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Mass strandings of whales were "infrequent but
certainly not unexpected" in the region, Carlyon told The Mercury.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">In 2020, Tasmania experienced Australia's largest-ever
mass stranding when 470 whales became stuck in the state's west.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">More than 300 pilot whales died during that stranding,
despite the efforts of dozens of volunteers who toiled for days in Tasmania's
freezing waters to free them.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The reason for mass whale strandings remains
mysterious, but some experts theorised the 2020 pod may have gotten lost after
feeding close to the shoreline or by following one or two whales that strayed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2334090758660371847.post-70135233436383186662022-08-05T02:48:00.002+07:002022-08-05T02:50:48.776+07:00Great Barrier Reef sees fragile coral comeback<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://news.yahoo.com/great-barrier-reef-sees-fragile-054926017.html" target="_blank">Yahoo – AFP</a>, Andrew BEATTY, August 4, 2022</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhihVEgJeDEChdnkSwQb7GXoJepkkB0lQ6PVULUIRLvwyu9FuEeOSdLykjY6vd_nIyT58ogxiqcU3QiawITnY8wZwk5C6k6NWw9CbWKESsroL-hBr8dzRxcJbXAuY2bY6JiZ2nbqqh0_3ZTjLd-rRX7BXwB9q0eMZoqHSsFo8JrUwILdh9YKaCR2pQjeg/s705/a08b36ff1843f2a06f9294e00fc5ad6d.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="470" data-original-width="705" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhihVEgJeDEChdnkSwQb7GXoJepkkB0lQ6PVULUIRLvwyu9FuEeOSdLykjY6vd_nIyT58ogxiqcU3QiawITnY8wZwk5C6k6NWw9CbWKESsroL-hBr8dzRxcJbXAuY2bY6JiZ2nbqqh0_3ZTjLd-rRX7BXwB9q0eMZoqHSsFo8JrUwILdh9YKaCR2pQjeg/w400-h266/a08b36ff1843f2a06f9294e00fc5ad6d.webp" width="400" /></span></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Parts of Australia's beleaguered Great Barrier Reef
now have the highest levels of coral cover seen in decades, a government report
said Thursday, suggesting the aquatic wonder could survive given the chance.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Portions of the vast UNESCO heritage site showed a
marked increase in coral cover in the last year, reaching levels not seen in 36
years of monitoring, the Australian Institute of Marine Science said.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Scientists surveying 87 sites said northern and
central parts of the reef had bounced back from damage more quickly than some
had expected, thanks mainly to fast-growing Acropora -- a branching coral that
supports thousands of marine species.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"These latest results demonstrate the reef can
still recover in periods free of intense disturbances," said the
Australian Institute of Marine Science's CEO Paul Hardisty.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">But far from declaring victory, Hardisty warned the
gains could easily be reversed by cyclones, new bleaching events or
crown-of-thorns outbreaks.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">He pointed to a reversal in fortunes for the southern
portion of the reef, which a year ago had appeared to be on the mend, but was
now in decline again.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"This shows how vulnerable the reef is to the
continued acute and severe disturbances that are occurring more often, and are
longer-lasting," he said.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Coral coverage has increased by 36 percent across
sites monitored in the northern part of the reef, up from 27 percent in 2021.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">But the picture was less encouraging as the scientists
moved south, with a smaller increase in cover in the reef's central belt and a
marked decrease in coral cover in the south.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The spread of coral-killing crown-of-thorns starfish
has also taken a toll.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Only fierce lobbying by the Australian government
stopped the reef from being labelled "in danger" by UNESCO -- a
potentially devastating blow to the country's multi-billion-dollar tourism
industry.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Many fear that the speeding rate of damage could cause
the reef to be destroyed entirely.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Marine scientist Terry Hughes said it was "good
news" that coral was regrowing, but warned the species driving the
recovery were very vulnerable to ocean heating.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">He added that replacing large, old, slow-growing
corals that had defined the reef was likely "no longer possible. Instead
we're seeing partial reassembly of fast-growing, weedy corals before the next
disturbance."</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQJOm5wZdSAAH421rmJY1K3vgEeiya5NqrvJaHcrGoBBZc14WzZPHlzi19AJYCuQZtQiCFZTUyEz_dPWwaCILJ4Ac9gx64_CODvIOUMLnDWCFBwEmEadIwrJYhM1GaoGRUDPxNngta_PqPLb_78u7YcFo8BqCXPoVq63_HjHqs-xc_p18Z0p1bv1mR2A/s705/596fbde625e2355f6dc92bed070f1288.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="529" data-original-width="705" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQJOm5wZdSAAH421rmJY1K3vgEeiya5NqrvJaHcrGoBBZc14WzZPHlzi19AJYCuQZtQiCFZTUyEz_dPWwaCILJ4Ac9gx64_CODvIOUMLnDWCFBwEmEadIwrJYhM1GaoGRUDPxNngta_PqPLb_78u7YcFo8BqCXPoVq63_HjHqs-xc_p18Z0p1bv1mR2A/w400-h300/596fbde625e2355f6dc92bed070f1288.webp" width="400" /></span></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Zoe Richards a researcher at the Coral Conservation
and Research Group at Curtin University also cautioned against over-optimism.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"This recovery trend is driven by a handful of
Acropora species which often grow in a boom-and-bust pattern," she said.
"This means that the next thermal stress event could easily decimate these
coral communities once again."</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="font-family: arial;">"We are already finding evidence that each mass
bleaching event leads to local extinctions of rarer species, so the short-term
success of a handful of fast-growing coral species masks the full story about
the largely hidden losses of biodiversity."</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;"><b>Related Article:</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" lang="EN-US"><b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #f22300;"><b><b><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.kryon.com/cartprodimages/download_Boulder_11.html" target="_blank">“2011 and Beyond” - What you are seeing, and why - Jan 16, 2010 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll)</a> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #f22300;"><b></b></span></span></span></b></span></b></span></b></span></b></span></b></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></b></b></span></span></span></b></span></b></span></b></span></b></span></b></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></b></span></b></span></b></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></b></b></span><b><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #f22300;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-weight: normal;"><b><b><b><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">(<a href="http://www.kryon.com/k_channel11_boulder.html" target="_blank">Text version</a>)</span></i></span></b></span></span></b></b></b></span></b></span></span></span></b></span></b></span></b></span></b></span></b></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"></span></p><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">"....</span><b>The Prediction: The Renewal of the Life Cycle</b></span><br /></span><div class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial;">When you change the temperature strata of the oceans of the earth, things start to change, for the life cycle of the food in the ocean depends upon that which is the smallest. The plankton of the planet survive in certain temperatures, and that's changing. Throw away what you think you know about how it's all supposed to work, and instead think "renewal" or "how did it begin." This will serve you to understand what is happening now. This cycle is built to replenish the ocean with life and not always by sustaining the kind that was there.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial;">Let us just talk about the ocean for a moment. We won't even get to what's happening in the air and what mammals might experience. Let's just speak of the ocean. Have you heard about the salmon? What has your science warned you against? <b>You're overfishing! The sea is dying. The coral is dying. The reefs are going away. You're not seeing the food chain that used to be there. You've overfished everything. Fishing quotas have been set up to help this. Oh, all those little people in the red room - they don't know about the purple. Red people only know about the red paradigm</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial;">Did you hear about the salmon recently? There's too many of them! In the very place where quotas are in place so you won't overfish, they're jumping in the boats! Against all odds and any projections from environmentalists or biologists, they're overrunning the oceans in Alaska - way too many fish.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial;">What does that tell you? Is it possible that Gaia takes care of itself? That's what it tells you! Perhaps this alignment is going to keep humanity fed. Did anybody think of this? What if Gaia is in alliance with you? What if the increase in consciousness that raised your DNA vibration has alerted Gaia to change the weather cycle and get ready to feed humanity? Are you looking at the ocean where the oil spill occurred? It's recovering in a way that was not predicted. What's happening?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial;"><b>The life cycle itself is being altered by the temperature change of the ocean and much of what you have believed is the paradigm of life in the sea is slowly changing. A new system of life is appearing, as it has before, and is upon you in your lifetime. It will compliment what you know and expose you to a new concept: Gaia regularly refreshes the life cycle on Earth.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial;">Within this process, there will be the extinction of certain plants and animals, birds and fish. My advice to you, especially to those environmentalists, is to understand the cycle of life so that you may relax with what nature has always done. It puts life on the planet to serve the planet for a time. When certain life no longer serves the planet in the ways it used to, it takes it away. The extinction of life, especially through weather change, is normal for Gaia. It is honored, appropriate and normal, even if you don't think so. Don't try to save all the disappearing animals, fish and birds! Some are supposed to go away. And, dear ones, don't assign all this activity to something you did to cause it!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span lang="EN-US">The red people are stressing. The purple is here, and they are trying to figure out what they did wrong. They don't know they are in the Rainbow Room. They think they are in the RED ROOM. This is what the Rainbow Room does; it changes colors. So as the room does what it has always done, the red people are sitting there in fear trying to figure out what it is that they did that possibly could have caused the purple to appear.</span><br /><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The Rainbow Room is beautiful. The color purple is significant. Going from red to purple has metaphysical significance within this parable, but I'll let you figure it out. For those who are into colors, there's a reason why I gave those two. The earth is becoming more sacred than it's ever been before. Gaia is with you in this. It's cooperating in ways you never thought it could, in the way biologists said it would not. You think you're killing it? Instead, it's giving birth to an altered ecological system.</span><b><b><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span lang="EN-US"><b><b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><b><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #f22300;"><b><b><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span lang="EN-US"><b><b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><b><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #f22300;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><b><b><b><span lang="EN-US"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> ...."</span></span></span></b></span></b></b></b></span></b></span></span></b></span></b></b></b></span></b></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></b></b></span></span></b></span></b></b></b></span></b></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></b></b></span></span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2334090758660371847.post-3897235013981136872022-05-08T03:40:00.000+07:002022-05-08T03:40:10.206+07:00Mystery mega yacht impounded by Italian authorities<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="https://news.yahoo.com/mystery-mega-yacht-appears-ready-195028045.html" target="_blank">Yahoo – AFP</a>, May 6, 2022</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcrx-8pynuFkC8oXnjIK280JT7fHrCMVsQOLSDttdcjTgy2bu4ybn4UZAVqeE3UN23YJ9XsUB3Ropd5s7jdxWGf3n9_vZKt3tTPQKxOL3Zif0aPKcAN0HqV87RPotWsEdtlbhAqJs7oYr741qhhnwqcxeGunDXXvrar5-CBAvqVgOd67wo9oyOePBP_w/s705/de198581725315434e21c7e74056adc7.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="529" data-original-width="705" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcrx-8pynuFkC8oXnjIK280JT7fHrCMVsQOLSDttdcjTgy2bu4ybn4UZAVqeE3UN23YJ9XsUB3Ropd5s7jdxWGf3n9_vZKt3tTPQKxOL3Zif0aPKcAN0HqV87RPotWsEdtlbhAqJs7oYr741qhhnwqcxeGunDXXvrar5-CBAvqVgOd67wo9oyOePBP_w/w400-h300/de198581725315434e21c7e74056adc7.webp" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">'Scheherazade' worth an estimated $700 million, is the subject of a probe<br />into its ownership by Italy's financial police (AFP/Federico SCOPPA)</span></td></tr></tbody></table></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The Italian authorities on Friday impounded a mega
yacht at the centre of a mystery over its ownership as speculation swirled it
might even belong to the Russian president.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"Scheherazade", worth an estimated $700
million, has been the subject of a probe into its ownership by Italy's
financial police.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The Italian probe has helped "establish
significant economic and business links between the person who officially
possesses the Scheherazade and eminent people in the Russian government,"
as well as Russian figures sanctioned by the West following Russia's invasion
of Ukraine, the Italian ministry of economy and finance said in a statement.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Following the probe, "the minister of Economy and
Finance, Daniele Franco, has signed a decree impounding" the yacht, the
statement added.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">It had been berthed for several months for maintenance
work at a shipyard at the Marina di Carrara, within the western seaside town of
Massa.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">But the yacht was back on the water and seemed about
to set sail on Friday, an AFP photographer said before the Italian government
statement was issued.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjReWOv_J0LucgWtYSkTrH3iAiQBd8vkz9YgRFLf50jUozni6OIG0ZAlZRZdnKeJYwgj71AAU6NyxqurPKdksf_nnYplsDwpiz0iNTZsP5OqnPyuVnrdXhSZk-8bk_gTNJoDmKKRs23PD0AASFSMOxGYZB08HNO3VpzeedArf0RBYZVv2s8MKKgqV14ug/s705/95d133589bb9e666671442712a381396.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="469" data-original-width="705" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjReWOv_J0LucgWtYSkTrH3iAiQBd8vkz9YgRFLf50jUozni6OIG0ZAlZRZdnKeJYwgj71AAU6NyxqurPKdksf_nnYplsDwpiz0iNTZsP5OqnPyuVnrdXhSZk-8bk_gTNJoDmKKRs23PD0AASFSMOxGYZB08HNO3VpzeedArf0RBYZVv2s8MKKgqV14ug/w400-h266/95d133589bb9e666671442712a381396.webp" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">The 140-metre yacht features two helipads, a swimming pool and a movie theatre, <br />according to the SuperYachtFan website (AFP/Federico SCOPPA)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">But the mystery remains unresolved: who does
"Scheherazade" belong to? A Russian oligarch? Vladimir Putin?</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Built by Germany's Luerssen in 2020, the 140-metre
yacht features two helipads, a swimming pool and a movie theatre, according to
the SuperYachtFan website, which researches yachts and their owners.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Italian police had said they were doing their best to
identify the owner.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"It's not always easy to attribute
ownership" of a yacht, a source close to the Italian probe told AFP in
late March.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The same source said earlier Friday there was
"nothing new" in the investigation.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Researchers at the anti-corruption foundation of
Russian dissident Alexei Navalny link the yacht to Putin.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">They cited a crew list in their possession that
included several members of Russia's federal protective service, charged with
Putin's security.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">But the Italian Sea Group said in a statement the
yacht was "not attributable to the property of Russian President Vladimir
Putin".</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The shipyard's owner said its assessment was based on
"the documentation in its possession and following the findings of the
checks carried out by the relevant authorities".<o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2334090758660371847.post-17931617624627171732022-03-21T04:32:00.008+07:002022-03-21T04:32:42.269+07:00Antarctica hits record temperatures, say experts<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220319-antarctica-hits-record-temperatures-say-experts" target="_blank">France24 – AFP</a>, Saturday 19 March 2022</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgZxDGYi_AVPHup2hoF27SAUupgBiEfQ1kmYzSC18Sds8EcD624owv0eU16QUo3-YionlmzIWSMaHVKV5zXOEa3tQ4QrfNHWFpJKMOm1Y3BKr5ByNtzrTEBDTAmiJRXP2Js2HfnCCUeWnlnWBiPOnImhiytn5GI_r6Dr9TD9N4Lp_ILiugb29xiUi-oUA=s1024" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgZxDGYi_AVPHup2hoF27SAUupgBiEfQ1kmYzSC18Sds8EcD624owv0eU16QUo3-YionlmzIWSMaHVKV5zXOEa3tQ4QrfNHWFpJKMOm1Y3BKr5ByNtzrTEBDTAmiJRXP2Js2HfnCCUeWnlnWBiPOnImhiytn5GI_r6Dr9TD9N4Lp_ILiugb29xiUi-oUA=w400-h225" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Handout picture released by Chile's National Antarctic Institute (INACH)showing <br />a view of Union Glacier in Antarctica, on September 14, 2017 Felipe TRUEBA<br /> INACH/AFP/File</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Paris (AFP) – Eastern Antarctica has recorded
exceptionally high temperatures this week, more than 30 degrees Celsius above
normal, say experts.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The Concordia research base at Dome C of the
Antarctic, which is at an altitude of 3,000 metres (9,800 feet), on Friday
registered a record -11.5 degrees Celsius (11.3 Fahrenheit), Etienne Kapikian,
a meteorologist from France-Meteo tweeted.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Normally, temperatures fall with the end of the
southern summer, but the Dumont d'Urville station on Antarctica registered
record temperatures for March with 4.9C (40.82F), at a time of year when
normally temperatures are already sub-zero.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Gaetan Heymes of France Meteo described the
unseasonably mild weather as a "historic event".</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">And geoscientist Jonathan Wille wrote on Twitter:
"And there it is, Concordia broke its all time record temperature by
1.5°C.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"This is when temperatures should be rapidly
falling since the summer solstice in December.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">"This is a Pacific Northwest 2021 heat wave kind
of event," he added. "Never supposed to happen."</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The unprecedented temperatures come after the National
Snow and Ice Data Center in the United States said Antarctica's sea ice fell
below two million square kilometres (772,204 sq miles) in late February for the
first time since 1979.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2334090758660371847.post-49920128981895645132022-02-04T03:42:00.001+07:002022-02-04T03:42:50.062+07:00‘A bridge too far’: local anger at dismantling of historic bridge for Bezos boat<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2022/02/a-bridge-too-far-local-anger-at-dismantling-of-historic-bridge-for-bezos-boat/" target="_blank">DutchNews</a>, February 3, 2022, Senay Boztas</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhRKUPJ7JiZFlvoIffebpCTx4n5Y7cCkcPAPh1kuq9_ymrC1vEtBHjErimeT3RHpUoVUB01cs8bS4sRntN0pKeOCC7Saa6z4ujtgt2RbnYbeSmJq6NIwTV-6TWyQDGF2LIdlLV2kAr7C9xh6FczJ-TMq_ckHuHT6cvAtBq-ny_BXCcKgf4kZ8wMyKBXbA=s560" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="431" data-original-width="560" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhRKUPJ7JiZFlvoIffebpCTx4n5Y7cCkcPAPh1kuq9_ymrC1vEtBHjErimeT3RHpUoVUB01cs8bS4sRntN0pKeOCC7Saa6z4ujtgt2RbnYbeSmJq6NIwTV-6TWyQDGF2LIdlLV2kAr7C9xh6FczJ-TMq_ckHuHT6cvAtBq-ny_BXCcKgf4kZ8wMyKBXbA=w400-h308" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Hef is an iconic part of Rotterdam’s skyline. Photo: elm3r via Wikimedia Commons</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The Rotterdam branch of political party GroenLinks has
called an emergency council debate over the fact that an iconic bridge will be
temporarily taken apart to allow passage for a mega-yacht for Amazon founder
and billionaire Jeff Bezos. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The <a href="https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2022/02/rotterdam-bridge-to-be-dismantled-so-jeff-bezos-yacht-can-pass-through/" target="_blank">news</a> that a section of national monument De Hef
would be dismantled (and then put together again) to allow passage for the 127m
long, <a href="https://www.boatinternational.com/yachts/the-superyacht-directory/y721--98581" target="_blank">three-masted, aluminium and steel schooner</a> swiftly voyaged the world. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">But
the story, broken on Wednesday by local broadcaster Rijnmond, sparked fury
amongst history lovers, the Dutch public and some local councillors. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">GroenLinks
councillor Stephan Leewis told <a href="https://www.rijnmond.nl/nieuws/1461614/veel-ophef-over-jeff-en-de-hef-dit-gaat-een-brug-te-ver" target="_blank">Rijnmond</a> that he took a dim view of the
permission, particularly in the light of Amazon personnel policies and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/may/12/amazon-wins-appeal-over-250m-eu-tax-bill" target="_blank">tax andregulation avoidance battles</a>. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">‘Now, we have to break apart our beautiful listed
monument?’ he reportedly said, in calling an emergency debate. ‘This really is
a bridge too far.’ </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b>Heritage </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">According to Dutch media, next week Rotterdam city
council will debate the planning permission given to dismantle the middle
section of the 1927 bridge, and reconstruct it – reportedly, at the cost of
shipbuilder <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N85B3Mns7EQ" target="_blank">Oceanco</a> and Bezos. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Project leader at Rotterdam city council Marcel
Walravens previously defended the decision as a pragmatic one. ‘It is about a
ship with high masts which cannot pass through the bridge. The only alternative
is to take out the middle section,’ he told Rijnmond. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Walravens hoped that with
proper preparation, the middle section of the bridge would only be removed for
a day and pointed out the economic and jobs benefit to the region, plus the boost
to its international shipbuilding reputation. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">However, some history experts
were unimpressed. ‘Jobs are important, but there are limits with what you can
and should do with our industrial heritage,’ said Ton Wesselink of the local
history society Historisch Genootschap Roterodamum to Rijnmond. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b>‘Inequality’ </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">On
social media, commentators also pointed out the apparent inconsistency in
strict, Dutch listed building policy and the privilege apparently afforded to
an American billionaire to take apart a bridge which the council had previously
promised would no longer be touched. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">On social media, the story inspired
humorous comment as well as outrage, particularly in the light of the bridge’s
historical destruction during the 1940 Nazi bombardment. A commenter called
‘Marky Mark’ suggested: ‘Can’t we simply dismantle Jeff Bezos and have
Rotterdam pass through him?’ </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Jeroen Stet commented: ‘Mega-yachts are a symbol
of greed, inequality, and all that is bad about capitalism and the impact it
has on the world. If you think you need something like this, it says a lot
about you.’ </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b>Ophef </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Others pointed out that the bridge would be repaired again,
and that the shipyard was a huge local employer. Meanwhile, Paul Peeters,
podcast host at DutchNews.nl, noted that this was a scandal, or ophef, with a
ring about it: ‘De Hef/Jeff-ophef.’ </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">At 127 metres long, Bezos’ yacht is set to
be the largest sailing yacht in the world when delivered at some point this
year, according to Boat International. It is reportedly being moved from one
shipyard to another for final fitting. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">A spokesman for Rotterdam council told
DutchNews.nl. ‘The municipality of Rotterdam only gives permission to the
maritime sector to take a ship to sea. The municipality does not build ships,
so we have no further information about this.’</span></div><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2334090758660371847.post-2398034271571821662022-01-28T02:41:00.000+07:002022-01-28T02:41:01.353+07:00King opens largest sea sluice in the world at IJmuiden<p> <a href="https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2022/01/king-opens-largest-sea-sluice-in-the-world-at-ijmuiden/" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank">DutchNews</a><span style="font-family: arial;">, January 26, 2022</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhNiSKu1IHGxjDm3vB9PAtQ91Eb4A10MKhEh50oGgYdo11b5yqBQ614J_mKEYDwcmhMm0yqJn9OYkfL1DneLSOEmdvlwsfLWPKKlZlvZkOKhHn7HJHDfx5200OWocG1Pv8z099vEKTK1KD7PXXObDa1sxn6to1y7SPSaEF07bifGHF5REgLHKdEGaUBOA=s560" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="370" data-original-width="560" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhNiSKu1IHGxjDm3vB9PAtQ91Eb4A10MKhEh50oGgYdo11b5yqBQ614J_mKEYDwcmhMm0yqJn9OYkfL1DneLSOEmdvlwsfLWPKKlZlvZkOKhHn7HJHDfx5200OWocG1Pv8z099vEKTK1KD7PXXObDa1sxn6to1y7SPSaEF07bifGHF5REgLHKdEGaUBOA=w400-h264" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Zeesluis IJmuiden is open for shipping. Photo: ANP/Robin van Lonkhuijsen</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">King Willem-Alexander opened the largest sea sluice in the world at IJmuiden on Wednesday afternoon, concluding a project that finished over time and over budget. </span></p><p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">The new sluice replaces the smaller Noordersluis which was built in 1929. The construction of the new sluice, which was started in 2016 and expected to be finished in 2019, was plagued by mishaps, causing delays and rising costs. </span></p><p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">A construction error made by builders BAM and VolkerWessels cost the companies hundreds of millions of euros to rectify. </span></p><p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">A public contest <a href="https://www.velsen.nl/zeesluis" target="_blank">to name the new landmar</a>k sparked hilarity online when Velsen municipality sifted through 5,000 entries before opting for the prosaic ‘Zeesluis IJmuiden’. Infrastructure minister Cora van Nieuwenhuizen said: ‘The name Zeesluis IJmuiden is exactly what it is.’</span></p><p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;"> Alternative suggestions included De Irma Sluis, after the sign language interpreter who became a household name during the coronavirus press conferences, but the idea was rejected because public infrastructure projects cannot be named after living people, except for royalty. </span></p><p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">The sluice, which is 500 metres long, 70 metres wide and 18 metres deep, has been put through its paces since the summer and is now ready to accommodate today’s ever-larger sea vessels, waterways agency <a href="https://www.rijkswaterstaat.nl/nieuws/archief/2022/01/koning-opent-zeesluis-ijmuiden" target="_blank">Rijkswaterstaatsaid</a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">‘Amsterdam has just been given a bigger front door,’ Jaap Zeilmaker of Rijkswaterstaat said. ‘The new sluice will not just benefit the economy but thanks to the technical expertise involved sea level rise and the influx of salt water have also been taken into account.’</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2334090758660371847.post-69184284784845069782022-01-21T04:15:00.006+07:002022-01-21T04:15:47.616+07:00Monster iceberg released 'billions of tonnes' of fresh water into ocean<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/monster-iceberg-released-billions-of-tonnes-of-fresh-water-into-ocean/ar-AASYITX#image=1" target="_blank">MSN - AFP</a>, 20 January 2022</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhU_P7US2PZHtGQOHpJQ4drpMge0M2DOezWdbZ8L9J_lF_oZ4x7-wGMToZUEtg4zax9Obd9ut7iTcKYAP7umR9kKcSF1UXO8hLGw1-CbV4rFcjmsEc-pPJGP4UGHH2j8vx8LXedRb4_JY2lJy3qMcGi5WqqeEshqttqTa2S25ZSzfs76gyjdpZFZ_Pq4Q=s768" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhU_P7US2PZHtGQOHpJQ4drpMge0M2DOezWdbZ8L9J_lF_oZ4x7-wGMToZUEtg4zax9Obd9ut7iTcKYAP7umR9kKcSF1UXO8hLGw1-CbV4rFcjmsEc-pPJGP4UGHH2j8vx8LXedRb4_JY2lJy3qMcGi5WqqeEshqttqTa2S25ZSzfs76gyjdpZFZ_Pq4Q=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The A-68 iceberg was one of the largest ever observed</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US"><br />A giant iceberg that detached from Antarctica in 2017
released the equivalent of 61 million Olympic-sized swimming pools of fresh
water as it melted, according to research published Thursday, raising questions
over the impact on the marine ecosystem.</span> </div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The monstrous iceberg was twice the size of Luxembourg
when it separated from the Larsen ice shelf, which has warmed faster than any
other part of Earth's southernmost continent.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">At 5,719 square kilometres (2,200 square miles) it was
the biggest iceberg on Earth when it formed and the sixth-largest on record,
according to the British Antarctic Survey.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">For two years, the trillion-tonne giant known as A-68,
drifted close to home in the cold waters of the Weddell Sea before travelling
northwards and menacing the British island of South Georgia, some 4,000
kilometres (2,500 miles) from its starting point.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The iceberg, by then known as A-68a after a piece
snapped off, came dangerously close to the island in late 2020, raising fears
that it would become stuck on the seabed, block ocean currents and obstruct the
passage of thousands of penguins and seals.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">But the new study found that while it did briefly
graze the seabed, the iceberg melted quickly once in the warmer region around
South Georgia and had already lost a significant amount of its bulk by the time
it reached shallower waters.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Researchers who tracked its journey via satellites
calculated that from late 2020 until it melted away in 2021, A-68 released an
estimated total of 152 billion tonnes of nutrient-rich fresh water into the
sea.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">That is equivalent to 20 times the water in Scotland's
Loch Ness, or 61 million Olympic-sized swimming pools, said the BAS in a press
release, adding it was "a disturbance that could have a profound impact on
the island's marine habitat".</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"This is a huge amount of melt water," said
Anne Braakmann-Folgmann, a researcher at the Centre for Polar Observation and
Modelling (CPOM), who led the research published in the journal Remote Sensing
of Environment.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"The next thing we want to learn is whether it
had a positive or negative impact on the ecosystem" around South Georgia,
she said.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">'Classic' route</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Researchers said the cold fresh meltwater and
nutrients released as icebergs melt can influence local ocean circulation and
spark biological production.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Braakmann-Folgmann said A-68 had taken a
"classic" route for icebergs in the region, adding that further
research would look to learn more about how these icebergs are affecting the
polar oceans.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Icebergs form when hunks of ice break off from ice
shelves or glaciers and begin to float in open water.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Their formation is part of a natural process, although
one which can be accelerated by warming air and ocean temperatures due to
human-caused climate change.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Earth's average surface temperature has gone up by one
degree Celsius since the 19th century, enough to increase the intensity of
droughts, heat waves and tropical cyclones.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">But the air over Antarctica has warmed more than twice
that much.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Ice sheets atop Greenland and West Antarctic hold
enough frozen water to lift oceans a dozen metres (40 feet), drowning cities and
redrawing the planet's coastlines.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Icebergs are traditionally named after the Antarctic
quadrant in which they were originally detected, then a sequential number.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">If they break apart more letters are added to
differentiate the fragments.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2334090758660371847.post-71484182654615625742021-12-29T04:26:00.007+07:002021-12-29T04:27:32.189+07:00South Africa court suspends Shell seismic survey plan<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20211228-south-africa-court-suspends-shell-seismic-survey-plan" target="_blank">France24 – AFP</a>, 28 December 2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj1frgIw0aXh3nH4ZnHGxw7NvQ8ck26DYv46zuUXn__KQyNFBO3RccodBeW2EmUr2falY3gaOYgJe5mR77miLaSfA3Yz1DjzDG8LLJUzf40ktleFFHrstXYmK4ovGdlzK9FwDcBZj_aZfq_qASLPx0_2sYFa76H3X6UppKmETohKvsUxNwQ2cFMFMk5Ow=s1024" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj1frgIw0aXh3nH4ZnHGxw7NvQ8ck26DYv46zuUXn__KQyNFBO3RccodBeW2EmUr2falY3gaOYgJe5mR77miLaSfA3Yz1DjzDG8LLJUzf40ktleFFHrstXYmK4ovGdlzK9FwDcBZj_aZfq_qASLPx0_2sYFa76H3X6UppKmETohKvsUxNwQ2cFMFMk5Ow=w400-h225" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The ruling is a temporary victory for green groups who said seismic exploration <br />would harm whales, seals and other fragile species RODGER BOSCH AFP</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><br /></span><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span lang="EN-US">Johannesburg (AFP) – A South African court on Tuesday
blocked Shell from using seismic waves to explore for oil and gas in the Indian
Ocean, in a victory for environmentalists worried about the impact on whales
and other species.</span> </span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Backing a suit filed by conservationists, the High
Court in the Eastern Cape town of Makhanda ruled that Shell was "hereby
interdicted from undertaking seismic survey operations."</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The fossil fuel giant had announced plans to start
exploration over more than 6,000 square kilometres (2,300 square miles) of
ocean off South Africa's Wild Coast region.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The Wild Coast is a 300-kilometre (185-mile) stretch
of natural beauty, dotted with marine and nature reserves.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The area of interest lies 20 kilometres (12 miles) off
the coast, in waters 700 to 3,000 meters deep (2,300 to 10,000 feet).</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Shell's scheme entails using seismic shockwaves which
bounce off the sea bed, and whose signature can point to potentially
energy-bearing sites.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"Many sea creatures will be affected, from
whales, dolphins, seals, penguins to tiny plankton that will be blasted,"
said Janet Solomon, of the environmental group Oceans Not Oil in the runup to
the hearing.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Exploration had been scheduled to start on December 1
and last up to five months.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">A Shell spokesperson said Tuesday: "We respect
the court's decision and have paused the survey while we review the judgement.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><b>'Huge victory'</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"Surveys of this nature have been conducted for
over 50 years with more than 15 years of extensive peer-reviewed scientific
research."</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The campaigners were jubilant at the ruling, but
stressed that the relief was only temporary.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"It's a huge victory," said Katherine
Robinson of the NGO Natural Justice.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"But the struggle is not over -- this decision is
just the interdict. We understand that the proceedings will continue."</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">A petition against the project had gathered nearly
85,000 signatures.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Campaigners said the scheme would entail "one
extremely loud shock wave every 10 seconds, 24 hours a day, for five months at
a time."</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Shell argued that it took "great care to prevent
or minimise" the impact on wildlife, and promised that the work would strictly
follow the guidelines of the Joint Nature Conservation Committee, a UK
government adviser on nature conservation.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">On Tuesday, it also stressed what it described as the
benefits for South Africa if oil and gas were found.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"South Africa is highly reliant on energy imports
for many of its energy needs," the company's spokesperson said.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"If viable resources were to be found offshore,
this could significantly contribute to the country’s energy security and the
government’s economic development programmes."</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">South Africa's energy ministry had backed the scheme,
and lashed those who opposed it as thwarting investment in the country's
development.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The High Court's ruling comes after a lower court
rejected the conservationists' suit in early December.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Several fishermen and local groups were also part of
the petition.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2334090758660371847.post-64220638657402764332021-07-14T03:34:00.000+07:002021-07-14T03:34:05.862+07:00Big cruise ships banned from Venice centre from August: govt<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/big-cruise-ships-banned-from-venice-centre-from-august-govt/ar-AAM70Nf" target="_blank">MSN – AFP</a>, 13 July 2021</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe1vDXtpzdR0IAnfYMwKsuCwCxOTNtG-oHDY8toCb_-6lyuBf5_bWWbqdA7EbJLwvhvQh9-jY6YSh-x8WL562x5YbiDLt6krP2Ix5G4dCkxMT4OEimouqI3fw45f5QB6eqTTToybgLTgiP/s768/AAM7cFV.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="491" data-original-width="768" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe1vDXtpzdR0IAnfYMwKsuCwCxOTNtG-oHDY8toCb_-6lyuBf5_bWWbqdA7EbJLwvhvQh9-jY6YSh-x8WL562x5YbiDLt6krP2Ix5G4dCkxMT4OEimouqI3fw45f5QB6eqTTToybgLTgiP/w400-h256/AAM7cFV.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Scenes like this will soon be a thing of the past in Venice (Miguel Medina)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Large cruise ships will be banned from sailing into
the centre of Venice from August 1 amid fears they are causing irreparable
damage to the lagoon city, Italy's government said Tuesday.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">a large ship in the water: Scenes like this will soon
be a thing of the past in Venice© Miguel MEDINA Scenes like this will soon be a
thing of the past in Venice<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"The decree adopted today represents an important
step for the protection of the Venetian lagoon system," said Prime
Minister Mario Draghi in a statement following a cabinet minister that approved
the law.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Instead they will be diverted to the city's industrial
port of Marghera, although this is viewed as only a temporary solution, with
ministers calling for ideas on a new permanent terminal.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Campaigners have for years been calling for cruise
ships to be banned from sailing past the iconic St Mark's Square, saying they cause
large waves that undermine the city's foundations and harm the fragile
ecosystem of its lagoon.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The debate was reignited by the return last month of
cruise ships after months of quiet in the city during the coronavirus pandemic.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The UN's cultural agency UNESCO late last month
recommended Venice be put on a list of "World Heritage in Danger"
sites ahead of a meeting of its World Heritage Committee in China starting
Friday.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Infrastructure minister Enrico Giovannini said the ban
was a "necessary step to protect the environmental, landscape, artistic
and cultural integrity of Venice".</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The ban will apply to ships which fulfil any of four
criteria: weighing more than 25,000 tonnes, measuring more than 180 metres
long, more than 35 metres high or producing more than 0.1 percent sulphur.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Ships that do not fulfil one of these criteria --
notably smaller cruise ships with around 200 passengers -- are "considered
sustainable" and will continue to be able to dock in Venice centre.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2334090758660371847.post-72183799636608324062021-05-07T03:08:00.010+07:002021-05-11T03:29:07.526+07:00Nature's GPS: Sharks read magnetic fields for directions<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://news.yahoo.com/natures-gps-sharks-read-magnetic-180327217.html" target="_blank">Yahoo – AFP</a>, May 6, 2021</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirRMCtzESsz9R6Z_odaX0sVvHNbc3QMFwxvIi2_1kgR2BBkV5ww-zM03dONLWKQna19Q-w1Q-ZPl3ECOL7qPL2uoHdXA3GLS8SIGJzJFOgdKzCDmmAjaXAbqhs9go57wHl0xRXlpCKzSLX/s1014/E06VNi_UUAIomqg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="682" data-original-width="1014" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirRMCtzESsz9R6Z_odaX0sVvHNbc3QMFwxvIi2_1kgR2BBkV5ww-zM03dONLWKQna19Q-w1Q-ZPl3ECOL7qPL2uoHdXA3GLS8SIGJzJFOgdKzCDmmAjaXAbqhs9go57wHl0xRXlpCKzSLX/w400-h269/E06VNi_UUAIomqg.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Forget Google Maps -- sharks can read the Earth's
magnetic field like a GPS navigator to find their way, a study in Current
Biology showed Thursday.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></div></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Lead author Bryan Keller told AFP the paper vindicates
a decades-old theory about how the aquatic predators are able to migrate vast
distances, swim in arrow-straight lines, and return to their precise point of
origin.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Sharks are also known to have a fine-tuned
electrosensing ability that helps them detect prey.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">All these factors led scientists to believe that
sharks -- like sea turtles and certain other species -- can glean their
position and orientation using the magnetic field generated deep within our
planet.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">But there had been no way of proving it, until now.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">For their research, Keller, project leader of Save Our
Seas Foundation Florida, decided to study a small member of the shark family,
called bonnetheads, that are native to the Gulf of Mexico.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"The bonnethead returns to the same estuaries
each year," said Keller, a biological oceanographer at Florida State
University Coastal and Marine Laboratory.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"This demonstrates that the sharks knows where
'home' is and can navigate back to it from a distant location."</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The team caught 20 juvenile bonnetheads then exposed
them to a device called a Merritt coil -- a wooden cube with vertically and
horizontally arranged copper wiring running along it, and a shark tank at the
center.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The device was used to simulate magnetic field
conditions that corresponded to different locations on Earth, hundreds of
kilometers from where the bonnetheads were caught.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">As predicted, the sharks oriented themselves northward
when the magnetic conditions simulated a position south of where they were
caught.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">They didn't orient themselves in any direction when
the coil told them they were already at their home.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"This work provides clarity for how they maintain
navigational success," said Keller.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">He added that it was unlikely that bonnetheads evolved
this ability independently of other sharks, and the finding illuminated
impressive feats among its cousin species.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"The great white, for example, has been shown to
migrate from South Africa to Australia, returning to the same tagging site the
following year in South Africa," he said.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">This movement was over 20,000 kilometers over nine
months with the animal displaying an "incredibly straight swimming
trajectory."</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Keller said in future studies he'd like to explore the
effects of magnetic fields from human sources, such as submarine cables, on
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I'll give you this prediction in a moment. There is a Human 3D paradigm that says everything gets "used" and then goes away. But nature doesn't work that way, and our prediction is going to go against everything you have been told. I'm going to give you a parable and the prediction in a moment, but before that, I'm going to give you the explanation of the birds and the fish.</span></span></div><div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: arial;">In the last few weeks, fish have been washing up dead in certain lakes by the hundreds of thousands, if not millions. Birds have been falling from the sky. <b>I'm going to make a statement way in advance of what science is going to tell you. All of it can be traced to the water cycle - all of it. It's always about the weather, a cycle of weather you've not seen before. Do you remember a few years ago when whales were beaching themselves? Did you notice that this attribute stopped? But while they were beaching themselves every year, many Human Beings were in fear, saying, "<i>It's the end of the world. They're committing suicide.</i>"<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial;"><b>The whales beached themselves because the magnetics of the earth shifted so greatly that their navigational system [the magnetite in their biology, which is their migration compass] steered them right into the land. The land didn't move; the magnetics did. Therefore, you might say their internal inherited migration map was flawed. The reason it's not happening now is because the calves, the generation beyond the one that beached themselves, figured it out and rewrote the maps. Nature [Gaia] does this. So the next generation didn't repeat it. Instead, it realigned itself to the migratory lay lines and now whales don't beach themselves nearly as often.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial;">The magnetics of the planet continue to shift and the birds are unaware. Like the whales, many of the birds have migrated themselves right into a high place in the atmosphere, which pummeled them to death by freezing rain and hail. Then they fall from the sky. It's the weather cycle. Will they continue to do this? Some will, for awhile, and then they will figure it out and recalibrate. That's what nature does.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial;">You might say, "<i>Well, nature's way is severe.</i>" It is not severe. It is a positive learning system that allows generations of birds to be around next time. The few deaths allow for the many to continue their life cycle and their lineage on the earth.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span lang="EN-US">I want you to analyze the fish that have washed up. Let science reveal this as well. I want you to analyze the fish. They have something in common. They're all juveniles. And why is that? What do you know about the water cycle? What do you know about cold water and the life cycle of certain fish and their habits of reproduction? I will tell you the layers of water are changing in temperature and that is going to change the life cycle of the oceans and lakes. The juvenile fish are the most susceptible to death by becoming too cold, especially the ones of the kind that washed up dead. By the tens of thousands, the cold killed them. It is the water cycle. Will it continue? For awhile, until they acclimate, until they recalibrate for the cold - and they will<b>.</b> </span>Nature does that. <i> ….“</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.8px;"><b style="line-height: 16.8px;"><a href="http://www.kryon.com/cartprodimages/2014%20downloads/download_newport_14.html" target="_blank">"The Energy of the Future" (2) - Dec 7, 2014 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll)</a> </b></span><b style="background-color: white;">- </b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.kryon.com/CHAN2015/k_channel15_newport-15.html" style="font-style: italic;" target="_blank">(Text version)</a></span></span></div><div><b style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.8px;"><span style="color: red; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">“… <b>The Physics of It: A Review</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial;">Now for some physics, and I'll call it <i>spiritual physics</i> so it's not too complicated. In 1993, we gave you a book called <i>The End Times</i>. In this book, we made some statements. We talked about the magnetic grid of the earth, and we told you that it had to be there for Human life to exist - and it does. At the time, science didn't agree, but now many are seeing it. We went on to give you the esoterics of it, what my partner calls the woo-woo part. Your DNA, a multidimensional molecule, has within it everything that the Universe knows. It carries your Akashic Record, all of your lifetimes, all of your spiritual purpose, your spiritual being and your karma. Everything is in your DNA. This will never be proven, since it's a spiritual attribute. The DNA creates a field and it's called the Merkabah (a Hebrew word).<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial;">We also told you that the magnetic grid of the earth, a multidimensional energy, transfers certain things to your DNA on a day-by-day basis. The grid then becomes a major energy transfer system. That should have connected the dots for some of those who were paying attention - for if the grid changes, dear ones, you do, too. <b>I told you the grid would change more in 10 years than it had in 100, and it did. You can measure your magnetic grid's movement with a compass. Between 1993 and 2002, it moved greatly, more than in any other time in modern Human history. We said this would be, and so it was. Our grid group left in 2002, as we told you we would.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial;">Again, those paying attention should have known something was happening. I also told you within those initial transmissions back then that you would have no Armageddon, and you did not. Also, that there would be no World War III, and there wasn't. In the face of all the prophecy that told you differently, we told you there was a potential for Human Beings to pass the marker, survive, and start a new energy on the planet. <b>We told you this would be the start of peace on Earth, and this is where you sit today.</b> All of those years ago, we told you about the potential of where you sit today, listening to this message, and asking what might be next. So I'll label the channel right now: The Energy of the Future.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial;"><b>The Energy of the Future</b><o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial;">Last week, I gave you a channelling of what to expect within the <a href="http://www.kryon.com/cartprodimages/2014%20downloads/download_ottawa_14.html" target="_blank">next three years</a>. The message tonight will talk to you about the energies that are going to be manifested beyond that and some of the changes to expect and why they are taking place. You may want to listen to this channel a number of times to put it together, for there are reviews and new information.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial;">So before we begin, what have we established?<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial;">Number One: Locked into the Human body via your DNA is brilliance and mastery, working at approximately 34 percent.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: start;"><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Number Two: The magnetic grid of the planet postures everything to do with your DNA. It also has much to do with what you call Human nature, what you want and what you've created. It seems static, never changing, and has been seen as "the way it is". However, we will call it the temporary lock on DNA. You see, when your Human consciousness and spiritual maturity starts to move in the next years, your DNA will start to change. This has nothing to do with chemistry, but everything to do with energy stored within it, and rewriting the data. New energies will unlock certain parts that have been locked, some of them being the very parts that I've just told you about at the beginning of this channelling - the things that are puzzling regarding healing and the Akash. …”</span></div><div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></div></div></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2334090758660371847.post-68888406648997177302021-04-21T03:39:00.006+07:002021-04-21T03:39:44.876+07:00Warm waters draw sharks off Israel's Mediterranean coast<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210420-warm-waters-draw-sharks-off-israel-s-mediterranean-coast" target="_blank">France24 – AFP</a>, 20 April 2021</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjteLqEc_IPDEIwKmABmjteQhfO798w3u1jT1hLIywSAksaCoQfxxQILZ8v-MPx7jY6TOWNYrqHzAUPXDiftsVweanRuRtFjUxIkhiYehVxAQcRlYi3AWxt6kuiZ7gD2pKzA2oq-fP6B2M/s980/963b1d0e04b1b0a9d0c7f265d181b9f511c612a4.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="551" data-original-width="980" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjteLqEc_IPDEIwKmABmjteQhfO798w3u1jT1hLIywSAksaCoQfxxQILZ8v-MPx7jY6TOWNYrqHzAUPXDiftsVweanRuRtFjUxIkhiYehVxAQcRlYi3AWxt6kuiZ7gD2pKzA2oq-fP6B2M/w400-h225/963b1d0e04b1b0a9d0c7f265d181b9f511c612a4.webp" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">This picture taken on April 20, 2021 shows an aerial view of people using their <br />phones and cameras to film a shark swimming past in the shallow Mediterranean <br />Sea water off the Israeli coastal town of Hadera north of Tel Aviv JACK GUEZ AFP</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Hadera (Israel) (AFP) -</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Dozens of sharks gathered Tuesday in warm
waters of the Mediterranean near an Israeli power plant, drawing sightseers in
what has become an annual occurence.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The sharks' fins sliced through the swallow waters
just metres (yards) away from bathers eager to take photos of them near the
city of Hadera.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Sandbar and dusky sharks, which are known to frequent
the waters, can grow up to three metres (10 feet) in length.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The sharks gather each year near where the power
plant's hot water outlet gushes into the Mediterranean Sea.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The Israel Nature and Parks Authority warned both
amateur and professional divers against swimming with the creatures.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"The interaction with sharks is neither
predictable or controllable, and in recent days there has also been a change in
the sharks' behaviour," the authority wrote.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The sharks are endangered and it is illegal to harm,
feed or harass them, the authority added.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Most of those in the waters off Hadera on Tuesday were
dusky sharks, though some were the slightly smaller sandbar sharks, said Aviad
Scheinin, an expert on apex predators at the University of Haifa.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">In the Mediterranean, the sandbars are endangered and
there is not enough data on the dusky sharks to determine their status, he told
AFP.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The mostly female dusky sharks come in late November
and leave in early May, Scheinin said.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"We think it might be something to do with the
reproductive cycle," he said.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The mostly male sandbar sharks arrive in January,
although this season researchers found one female among some 20 males, he said.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"We're not sure why they are coming. It's an open
question," he said of the sandbar sharks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2334090758660371847.post-53352672856296176652020-10-21T02:06:00.002+07:002020-10-21T02:06:11.044+07:00A zoo soap opera: Gay penguins steal nest with eggs from lesbian couple <p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2020/10/a-zoo-soap-opera-gay-penguins-steal-nest-with-eggs-from-lesbia" target="_blank">DutchNews</a>, October 20, 2020 </span></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5hhW9uFAkcfhCZlWWRcRePf26syzjQLB6JkmJs2VymgxfI3JsmoIQOq1NTcRVonb-u0MADKNQJDioq4Dp1eIfKgYsoVzKhIGNt-VGzI7bI5tyrs6dFWiPxq_ShcLAEy9HbBi43j-slYuU/s560/Pingui%25CC%2588ns-leven-monogaam-en-kiezen-e%25CC%2581e%25CC%2581n-vaste-partner-560x373.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="373" data-original-width="560" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5hhW9uFAkcfhCZlWWRcRePf26syzjQLB6JkmJs2VymgxfI3JsmoIQOq1NTcRVonb-u0MADKNQJDioq4Dp1eIfKgYsoVzKhIGNt-VGzI7bI5tyrs6dFWiPxq_ShcLAEy9HbBi43j-slYuU/w400-h266/Pingui%25CC%2588ns-leven-monogaam-en-kiezen-e%25CC%2581e%25CC%2581n-vaste-partner-560x373.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The would-be fathers. Photo: Dierenpark Amersfoort</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">A gay penguin couple at Amersfoort’s Dierenpark zoo, who
hit the international headlines last year when they stole an egg to hatch, have
gone a step further this year by stealing the complete nest of another couple –
who happen to be a lesbian duo. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Last year the same African penguin couple stole
an egg from another penguin family, ‘acquiring’ it at a moment when no-one was
looking.That egg failed to hatch and the couple remained childless – and are
likely to remain so, for now at least. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The couple are taking in it in turns to
sit on the eggs and keep them warm, while the other forages for food. However,
the eggs are unlikely to hatch because they have probably not been fertilised,
given they were laid by the lesbian couple, says zoo keeper Sander Drost. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Drost
says the would-be fathers are a dominant couple within the 17-strong group in
penguin enclosure. ‘Each couple in the enclosure have their own shelter but
this couple has commandeered two,’ he told RTV Utrecht <a href="https://www.rtvutrecht.nl/nieuws/2080089/liefdesbaby-voor-homopinguins-amersfoort-blijft-uit.html" target="_blank">earlier this year</a>. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Penguins breed twice a year and the ousted females will probably build a new
nest shortly, the zoo told DutchNews.nl. Homosexuality is fairly common in
penguins and there have been <a href="https://www.livescience.com/gay-penguins-steal-egg.html" target="_blank">various other reports</a> of them fostering chicks.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2334090758660371847.post-36119110156742544832020-08-29T03:46:00.002+07:002020-08-29T03:47:17.769+07:00Polar bear kills man in Arctic Svalbard<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://news.yahoo.com/polar-bear-kills-man-arctic-151722592.html" target="_blank">Yahoo – AFP</a>,
Line NAGEN-YLVISAKER, August 28, 2020</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The campsite near Longyearbyen where the polar bear attack took place</span></span></td></tr>
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bear has killed a Dutch man on Norway's Arctic Svalbard archipelago, local
officials said Friday, the sixth fatal attack in almost 50 years in the region.</span></div>
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to experts, the shrinking icecap has reduced the polar bears' preferred seal
hunting grounds, pushing them to approach populated areas in their search for
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incident took place overnight in a camping area near Svalbard's main town of
Longyearbyen, located 1,300 kilometres (800 miles) from the North Pole.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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38-year-old victim was found seriously injured in his tent and died shortly
afterwards, the local governor's office said in a statement.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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people at the scene shot at the bear, which was later found dead in the parking
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In
Svalbard, which is also known as Spitzberg, people are advised to carry a
weapon when outside urban areas.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"The
bears generally stay away from humans. We are not at the top of their menu, as
they prefer to feed on seals," Jon Aars, a researcher at the Norwegian
Polar Institute, told AFP.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"But
they are also opportunistic animals, and if they are hungry and are desperate
enough, we can become their prey," he added.</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">There are
an estimated 1,000 polar bears in the Svalbard archipelago<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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to a 2015 tally, the archipelago is home to about 1,000 polar bears, a
protected species since 1973.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Around 300
of them live year-round in the archipelago, with some concentrated in the west
of the territory near human settlements. The area was free of polar bears while
it was still legal to hunt them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The
campsite worker's death was "a tragic event," Svalbard's deputy
governor Soelvi Elvedah said in a statement.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"But
this is also a strong reminder that we are in polar bear country and must take
the precautions to defend ourselves."<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Five deadly
attacks on people had previously been recorded since 1971.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The most
recent previous fatality occurred in 2011 when a bear attacked a group of
British campers on a school trip.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A
17-year-old student was killed and four others were injured before the animal
was killed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Last month
the Svalbard archipelago recorded its highest temperature for over 40 years,
21.2 degrees Celsius (70.2 Fahrenheit), almost equal to the all-time record,
Sweden's meteorological institute reported.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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to scientific studies, global warming in the Arctic is happening twice as fast
as the rest of the planet.</span></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2334090758660371847.post-65684445410560724042020-08-25T03:52:00.002+07:002020-08-25T03:52:54.438+07:00Virus-hit Indian resort turns pool into fish farm<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://news.yahoo.com/virus-hit-indian-resort-turns-110546213.html" target="_blank">Yahoo – AFP</a>, Arun CHANDRABOSE, August 24, 2020</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The pool at the Aveda Resort now houses thousands of pearl spot fish</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A luxury resort in southern India has turned its
swimming pool into a fish farm to stop the business sinking amid the economic
crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Normally the 150-metre (500-feet) pool at the Aveda
Resort in Kerala state is packed with European tourists. Now thousands of pearl
spot fish are causing the splash.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The complex was forced to shut in March when a
nationwide coronavirus lockdown was ordered. Few hotels have been allowed to
reopen since.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Of those which are still shuttered, not many boast a
pool with 7.5 million litres of water, which can be put to alternative use.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"We have had zero revenues, so in June, we put
around 16,000 two-month-old pearl spot fish in the pool," Aveda's general
manager Jyotish Surendran told AFP.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The fish, which takes about eight months to reach full
size, is a popular ingredient in dishes in southern India and the Middle East.</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The resort's manager hoped money from the fish farm
would help cover </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">basic bills until tourists return<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"We plan to harvest by November and will export
to the Middle East," Surendran said, predicting about four tonnes of pearl
spots growing in the swimming pool could be worth $40,000 on the market.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The makeshift farm would not cover the losses from the
pandemic, which has driven many hotels to bankruptcy, said the hotel boss.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But Surendran was hopeful that the money would help cover
basic bills so the business can keep running until tourists return.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And the Aveda plans to keep faith with the pearl spot
even when business resumes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"We can't continue with this farm in the pool,
but we are trying to find alternative land where we can build up this knowledge
for bigger projects," he said.</span></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2334090758660371847.post-10705722256413972042020-08-17T03:07:00.000+07:002020-08-17T03:17:35.576+07:00Lebanon president hedges over eventual peace with Israel in interview<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/lebanon-president-hedges-over-eventual-peace-with-israel-in-interview/ar-BB1813FO" target="_blank">MSN – AFP</a>, 16 Aug 2020</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Lebanon president hedges over eventual peace with Israel in interview</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Lebanese President Michel Aoun, ally of Israel's
arch-foe Hezbollah, seemed to leave the door open to eventual peace with the
Jewish state, in an interview with French news channel BFMTV.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Michel Aoun wearing a suit and tie: Lebanese President
Michel Aoun, pictured here in a file photo, seemed to leave the door open to
eventual peace with the Jewish state, in an interview with French news channel
BFMTV© - Lebanese President Michel Aoun, pictured here in a file photo, seemed
to leave the door open to eventual peace with the Jewish state, in an interview
with French news channel BFMTV<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Lebanon has technically been at war with neighbouring
Israel for decades, with tensions sporadically flaring in the border area in
Lebanon's south, stronghold of the Shiite Muslim Hezbollah movement.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Asked in an interview on BFMTV on Saturday whether
Lebanon would be prepared to make peace with Israel, Aoun responded: "That
depends. We have problems with Israel, we have to resolve them first."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">His statement came in the wake of an announcement
Thursday that Israel would normalise relations with the United Arab Emirates,
only the third Arab state to establish full diplomatic ties with Israel since
its creation in 1948. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"It's an independent country," Aoun said of
the UAE.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Aoun's Christian Free Patriotic Movement has for years
been politically allied with Hezbollah, enabling them to dominate parliament
and the government, which resigned on Monday amid outrage over negligence that
led to the deadly explosion at Beirut's port that devastated the capital.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said on Friday of the
Israel-UAE agreement that "it's a betrayal of Jerusalem and the
Palestinian people. It's a knife in the back."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">A key point of contention between Lebanon and Israel
concerns oil and gas resources in the eastern Mediterranean, where both
countries have sought bids for exploration in their exclusive economic zones.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The maritime border between the countries is disputed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Aoun's interview was aired in the aftermath of the
Beirut blast on August 4 that killed 177 people and wounded at least 6,500
more, with many blaming systemic corruption and negligence of the entrenched
political class for the disaster.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Many Lebanese have demanded the ouster of the entire
ruling class, dominated by ex-warlords from the country's 1975-1990 civil war,
including of Aoun. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Asked by the BFMTV journalist if he had thought of
stepping down, Aoun said, "it's impossible, there would be a vacuum".</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2334090758660371847.post-23142206904358644082020-08-13T03:38:00.000+07:002020-08-13T03:38:12.803+07:00The Japan firms behind Mauritius oil-leak ship<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://news.yahoo.com/japan-firms-behind-mauritius-oil-023935070.html" target="_blank">Yahoo – AFP</a>, Shingo ITO, August 12, 2020</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The MV Wakashio ran aground off Mauritius in July and is leaking fuel into<br />the island's pristine coral-filled waters</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Japanese firm that operates a ship leaking fuel
off the coast of Mauritius has been involved in accidents before, including a
2006 oil spill in the Indian Ocean.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mitsui OSK Lines operates the MV Wakashio, which ran
aground on July 25 just off the coast of Mauritius, carrying 4,000 tonnes of
fuel that has been seeping into the pristine coral-filled waters of the island
nation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Both the operator and the vessel's owner Nagashiki
Shipping have apologised for the spill, and pledged to help mitigate the
damage.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The accident is not the first involving Mitsui OSK
Lines. In 2006, the Bright Artemis crude oil tanker operated by the firm
suffered damage while attempting to rescue the crew of another ship, according
to a company statement from the time. An estimated 4,500 tonnes of crude oil
leaked from the ship into the Indian Ocean.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The leak took place far offshore and the spill was left
to dilute and vaporise after the firm judged the crude unlikely to reach land.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The company has been involved in other smaller
accidents, including in 2013, when a container ship it operated sank in the
Indian Ocean.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Mitsui OSK Lines operates the MV Wakashio, which is
owned by Nagashiki Shipping<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Tokyo-based company traces its history back to
1878, when trading house Mitsui and Co. began operating a steamboat between
Nagasaki and Shanghai.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1884, the shipping operation was devolved to a firm
named Osaka Shosen Kaisha Lines, or OSK lines, under the umbrella of the Mitsui
zaibatsu, or conglomerate.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The firm gradually expanded its routes in the 1930s
and began carrying passengers and cargo between Japan and major cities in North
and South America, including New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was renamed Mitsui Steamship in 1942 and -- like
many other Japanese private shipping lines -- was heavily involved in military
transport before and during World War II.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It survived the chaos of the post-war period and was
part of Japan's so-called economic miracle, involved in the export of Japanese
cars overseas and the import of natural gas to the energy-poor nation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Following a series of mergers and acquisitions, it was
renamed Mitsui OSK Lines in 1999, and now operates 740 vessels around the
world, employing more than 1,000 people.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Leaked oil from the MV Wakashio has been seeping into
the pristine </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The MV Wakashio is owned by Nagashiki Shipping, which
is based in western Japan's Okayama.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The company currently owns 11 ships, including
container ships, tankers and bulkers like the Wakashio, a so-called cape size
bulker built in 2007.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The MV Wakashio had passed its latest annual
inspection in March without any problems, according to Japan's ClassNK
inspection body.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nagashiki Shipping began life as a salt ship line in
the final years of Japan's Edo period (1603-1868), according to the firm's
website.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Originally known as Nagashiki Ship Department, the
firm also transported rice to Japan from the Korean peninsula, which was under
Tokyo's colonial rule from 1910 to the end of World War II in 1945.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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re-established in 1958 and renamed Nagashiki Shipping.</span></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2334090758660371847.post-67483261651928085972020-08-07T03:43:00.002+07:002020-08-07T03:43:11.196+07:00Bali sea turtles set free after poacher arrests<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://sg.news.yahoo.com/bali-sea-turtles-set-free-poacher-arrests-000823548.html" target="_blank">Yahoo – AFP</a>, 5 August 2020</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Rescuers released two dozen green sea turtles on Kuta beach near Denpasar <br />in Bali after police arrested seven alleged poachers</span></span></td></tr>
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the wild in Bali on Wednesday after the endangered creatures were rescued from
poachers on the Indonesian holiday island.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Marine officials carefully guided the giant reptiles
as they thrashed their flippers in the sand to propel themselves toward the
water.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The turtles were among 36 seized after a raid last
month that saw the arrest of several suspected traffickers -- who could face
five years behind bars if convicted under Indonesia's wildlife protection laws.</span></span><br />
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Denpasar in Bali for release<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Hopefully these 25 turtles will survive so that
they can lay their eggs again," said Bali conservation agency chief Agus
Budi Santosa, adding that 11 others rescued at the time would be freed later.</span></div>
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(three feet) in length and weigh upwards of 300 kilograms (700 pounds), are
under threat due to poaching and habitat destruction.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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slaughtered for their meat, skin and shells.</span></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2334090758660371847.post-89903755251262222062020-07-29T03:22:00.001+07:002020-07-29T03:22:09.381+07:00Scientists revive microbes from 100 million years ago<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://news.yahoo.com/scientists-revive-microbes-100-million-years-ago-154439850.html" target="_blank">Yahoo – AFP</a>, Patrick GALEY, July 28, 2020</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The research sheds light on the remarkable survival power of some of Earth's<br />most primitive species (AFP Photo)</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Scientists have successfully revived microbes that had
lain dormant at the bottom of the sea since the age of the dinosaurs, allowing
the organisms to eat and even multiply after eons in the deep.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Their research sheds light on the remarkable survival
power of some of Earth's most primitive species, which can exist for tens of
millions of years with barely any oxygen or food before springing back to life
in the lab.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A team led by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth
Science and Technology analysed ancient sediment samples deposited more than
100 million years ago on the seabed of the South Pacific.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The region is renowned for having far fewer nutrients
in its sediment than normal, making it a far-from-ideal site to maintain life
over millennia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The team incubated the samples to help coax the
microbes out of their epoch-spanning slumber.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Astonishingly, they were able to revive nearly all of
the microorganisms.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"When I found them, I was first sceptical whether
the findings are from some mistake or a failure in the experiment," said
lead author Yuki Morono.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">"We now know that there is no age limit for
(organisms in the) sub-seafloor biosphere," he told AFP.</span></div>
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study co-author Steven D'Hondt said the microbes came from the oldest sediment
drilled from the seabed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"In the oldest sediment we've drilled, with the
least amount of food, there are still living organisms, and they can wake up,
grow and multiply," he said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Nature Communications, proved the remarkable staying power of some of Earth's
simplest living structures.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2334090758660371847.post-84830648740742965002020-07-01T03:53:00.002+07:002020-07-01T03:54:42.851+07:00Russian Arctic sets 'fantastical' heat records: weather chief<a href="https://news.yahoo.com/russian-arctic-sets-fantastical-heat-records-weather-chief-132627542.html" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Yahoo – AFP</a><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">,
June 30, 2020</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Russia struggles with wildfires in its remote taiga every summer (AFP Photo/<br />Ekaterina ANISIMOVA)</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Moscow
(AFP) - The Russian Arctic set record temperatures in June that sparked
abnormal tundra fires, the head of Russia's weather service said Tuesday,
blaming climate change for the "fantastical" anomalies.</span></div>
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northern territories, including parts of Yakutia region which borders the
Arctic ocean, have faced a heat wave in recent weeks, and villages in the
remote tundra are battling wildfires with some districts declaring a state of
emergency.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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had extremely anomalous weather" in June, Roman Vilfand said, adding that
"previous records were broken easily".<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He noted
one record in particular in the Arctic town of Verkhoyansk, where temperatures
reached 38 degrees Celsius (100 degrees Fahrenheit)on June 17.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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is a fantastical degree," Vilfand said at a press conference, noting that
Verkhoyansk previously set the record for the lowest temperature with minus
67.8 degrees Celsius.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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said the trend of hotter temperatures and sunnier weather was caused by climate
change and a change in atmospheric circulation, with polar anticyclones --
phenomena that bring sunny skies -- becoming more frequent.</span></span><br />
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clouds, in turn, causes the ground to heat up during the Arctic summer, he
said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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"meteorologists didn't note fire hazardous situations in the polar regions
often," he said, but this is now changing due to these patterns.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"It's
an astonishing situation. Anticyclones happen more and more often and you can
never predict where they are going to occur," he said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"This
is the most important problem of climate change and a result of climate
change."<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The
resulting fires contribute to the cycle of warming since ash darkens the
surface of ice that previously reflected the sun, causing it to melt instead,
Vilfand said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Russia is
warming 2.5 times faster than the rest of the world due to its vast Arctic
territories.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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President Vladimir Putin has noted the benefits of warmer temperatures opening
up transportation routes and energy resources, climate change is a huge hazard
for the country's infrastructure built on permafrost.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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struggles with wildfires in its remote taiga every summer as well as
catastrophic floods.</span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Let's talk about the weather. We retreat to exactly what we told you before in this very chair. The water cycle is a cooling cycle, not a heating cycle. You're going to have more severe winters and storms. It's going to get colder. <b>But it gets warmer before it gets colder.</b> That is the cycle, and it has always been the cycle. You can see it in the rings of the trees and the cores of the ice. Don't let your scientists pull the political wool over your eyes for their own purposes. Start seeing these things for what they are. It's a recurring cycle based on four Earth alignment attributes, including the wobble (the precession). You're in this cycle. Prepare.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>The beginnings of it will be with you from now at least until the end of the 2012 36-year window, and you can watch it work. The first thing that happens is that the ice melts at the poles, but not completely. It's the way it has happened before.</b> As the redistribution of weight from the poles to the oceans of the earth takes place, the weight is redistributed to the crust, and that creates earthquakes. And the earthquakes that will be the most powerful are the ones that are closest to the poles. We told you that some time ago. <b>So it's not a mystery that suddenly you have some of the most powerful earthquakes that you've ever had. Not only that, but a cooling ocean creates larger storms.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What do the conspiracists do with all this? </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"See? We're doomed. Here it comes,"</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> they say. </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Here it comes! The end is here!"</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Twenty-two years ago, we gave you the information that is happening today. We told you about the weather. We told you to get ready for it, but we still haven't told you why the water cycle is needed. We've hinted at it since it is very controversial, and we'll lose many readers right here and now. Here's the prediction: The scientists are going to laugh and biologists are going to scratch their heads and roll their eyes.</span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2334090758660371847.post-47945869579376325952020-06-30T01:59:00.003+07:002020-06-30T02:10:09.363+07:00South Pole warming three times faster than rest of Earth: study<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://news.yahoo.com/south-pole-warming-three-times-faster-rest-earth-150156003.html" target="_blank">Yahoo – AFP</a>,
Patrick GALEY, June 29, 2020</span><br />
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- The South Pole has warmed three times faster than the rest of the planet in
the last 30 years due to warmer tropical ocean temperatures, new research
showed Monday.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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temperature varies widely according to season and region, and for years it had
been thought that the South Pole had stayed cool even as the continent heated
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Researchers
in New Zealand, Britain and the United States analysed 60 years of weather
station data and used computer modelling to show what was causing the
accelerated warming.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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that warmer ocean temperatures in the western Pacific had over the decades
lowered atmospheric pressure over the Weddell Sea in the southern Atlantic.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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turn had increased the flow of warm air directly over the South Pole -- warming
it by more than 1.83C (about 3.3F) since 1989.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the research said the natural warming trend was likely boosted by manmade
greenhouse gas emissions and could be masking the heating effect of carbon
pollution over the South Pole.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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temperatures were known to be warming across West Antarctica and the Antarctic
Peninsula during the 20th century, the South Pole was cooling," said Kyle
Clem, a researcher at Victoria University of Wellington, and lead study author.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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was suspected that this part of Antarctica... might be immune to/isolated from
warming. We found this is not the case any more," he told AFP.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The data
showed that the South Pole -- the most remote spot on Earth -- was now warming
at a rate of around 0.6C (1.1F) a decade, compared with around 0.2C (1.4F) for
the rest of the planet.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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of the study, published in the Nature Climate Change journal, attributed the
change to a phenomenon known as the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation (IPO).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The IPO
cycle lasts roughly 15-30 years, and alternates between a "positive"
state -- in which the tropical Pacific is hotter and the northern Pacific is
colder than average -- and a "negative" state where the temperature
anomaly is reversed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The IPO
flipped to a negative cycle at the start of the century, driving greater
convection and more pressure extremes at high latitudes, leading to a strong
flow of warmer air right over the South Pole.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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that the 1.83C (3.3F) level of warming exceeded 99.99 percent of all modelled
30-year warming trends.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the warming was just within the natural variability of climate models, it was
highly likely human activity had contributed," he said.</span></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2334090758660371847.post-5780225434326967402020-05-14T02:15:00.002+07:002020-05-14T02:15:32.783+07:00Investigators look into role of sea foam in surfer deaths <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2020/05/investigators-look-into-role-of-sea-foam-in-surfer-deaths/" target="_blank">DutchNews</a>, May 13, 2020 </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Friends and family of the dead surfers have been placing flowers on the beach. <br />Photo: Robin Utrecht HH</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Dutch sea research institute NIOZ is investigating the possible role
of a thick layer of sea foam in the death of five surfers off the coast of
Scheveningen on Monday evening. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Several experts have suggested the surfers may
have become disorientated in the foam, which according to some eyewitnesses was
over two metres high as it approached the harbour wall. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Sea foam is formed when
sea water has a high concentration of dissolved organic matter from algal
blooms and is whipped up by the wind. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">‘There was a lot of foam and this may be
due to the large quantity of algae,’ researcher Katja Philippart told
broadcaster NOS. ‘This might be due to the good weather of recent days,
combined with the strong winds.’ </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">However, Philippart told NOS she is not aware
of any cases in which people have been suffocated by sea foam. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">One body has not
yet been recovered and the search resumed on Wednesday morning. Two other
bodies were found earlier on Tuesday morning and two others died after being
pulled from the sea on Monday evening. Three of the men who died came from The
Hague, the other two from Delft. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Hague mayor Johan Remkes told reporters at
a press conference that a thorough investigation into what happened would now
take place. ‘How can it be that people with so much experience and who knew
this place so well came to die,’ Remkes said. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">In total, 10 people are thought
to have been in the water at the time, a group of six, a group of three and one
single surfer. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Community </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Friends and family of the dead have been flocking to
the location where the five men died, to leave flowers and comfort one another.
The deaths have caused shock throughout the Netherlands’ surfing scene. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">‘These
were very experienced surfers and swimmers, with a great love for the sea and
their sport,’ the Holland Surfing Association said. ‘They were caught up in
extraordinary circumstances and lost their lives in such a tragic way.’</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2334090758660371847.post-20430041417195243762020-05-14T02:02:00.001+07:002020-05-14T02:02:15.172+07:00Dolphin Zafar, which followed ship to Amsterdam, is found dead<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2020/05/dolphin-zafar-which-followed-ship-to-amsterdam-is-found-dead/" target="_blank">DutchNews</a>, May 13, 2020</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The dolphin
which followed a Dutch sailing boat into Amsterdam harbour before being led
back to sea has been found dead on the beach at Wijk aan Zee. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The dead animal,
known as Zafar, was found by a man out <a href="https://www.nhnieuws.nl/nieuws/267142/dolfijn-zafar-dood-aangespoeld-op-strand-wijk-aan-zee" target="_blank">walking his dog lying in the surf</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The body
has been taken to Utrecht University for a post mortem, animal welfare group
SOS Dolfijn said. The animal appears to have died fairly recently and its tail
is missing, the organisation said. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The bottlenosed dolphin was healthy when it
returned to the sea and had been catching fish, a spokesman told broadcaster
NOS. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The dolphin was given its name after it was first spotted on the coast of
France in 2018 where it was observed to interact with divers.</span><br />
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Het is gelukt! <br />
De dolfijn is de sluis van IJmuiden doorgezwommen en begeleidt richting zee. Tussen de pieren in de havenmonding bleef de dolfijn nog wat rondhangen bij boeien. Maar vanaf dat punt is de toegang naar zee vrij voor het dier. <a href="https://t.co/nb8DiWxGE7">pic.twitter.com/nb8DiWxGE7</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Hong Kong
has seized 26 tonnes of smuggled shark fins, sliced from some 38,500 endangered
animals, in the largest bust of its kind in the southern Chinese city.</span></div>
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haul was discovered in two containers from Ecuador, and highlights the
continued demand for shark fin, which is served at wedding banquets in many
Chinese communities.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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customs department unveiled the haul on Wednesday and said it smashed previous
records.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Each
consignment consisting of 13 tonnes broke the previous record seizure of 3.8
tonnes of controlled shark fins made in 2019," customs official Danny
Cheung told reporters.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Most of the
fins came from thresher and silky sharks, both endangered species. A
57-year-old man was arrested but has been released on bail pending further
enquiries.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some of the
ocean's most vital apex predators, shark populations have been decimated over
the last few decades with finning and industrial long line fishing the main
culprits.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Fishing
fleets often cut the fin from the shark and then and throw the fatally maimed
animal back in the sea to maximise profit.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The dried
fins sell for considerable sums and are usually served in a glutinous soup at
banquets.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The sale
and consumption of shark fin is not illegal in Hong Kong, but must be licensed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Years of
campaigning by environmentalists and celebrities like Chinese basketball star
Yao Ming have led to the dish becoming less fashionable among younger consumers
in China, Macau, Hong Kong and Taiwan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But it
remains stubbornly popular among older generations and many prominent hotels
and restaurants still offer it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A 2018
survey by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) found seven out of 10 Hong Kongers had
eaten shark fin that year.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"There
is still strong cultural value placed on consuming shark fin, particularly at
weddings, business events and family gatherings like the upcoming Mother's
Day," senior conservation officer Gloria Lai Pui-yin told AFP.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some
restaurants and hotels had signed WWF's "no shark fin" pledge but
many continued to offer the dish, she added.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wild Aid
estimates some 73 million sharks are killed every year for the trade.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Their
research says consumption has dropped significantly on the Chinese mainland but
there is growing appetite for the dish in Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With its
busy port and international connections, Hong Kong has long been a major
trafficking route for wildlife and drug smugglers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Importing
endangered species without a licence is illegal and carries a maximum penalty
of 10 years in jail and a HK$10 million ($1.3 million) fine.</span></span></div>
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