I'm looking for collaborators to pull together map data related to tribal / #Adivasi communities in #SouthAsia and have that added to the Native-Land.ca project.
I have some analog maps to start with like the one below. It's going to take some work to translate these to GIS!
If you have either subject-area expertise or technical expertise (i.e., translating analog maps--> #GIS), I would love to hear from you...
Eerie silence now dominates the atmosphere around the abandoned school in Yonphula, Trashigang where the wind almost seems to screech through broken windowpanes....
" #ClimateChange has made the South Asian monsoon evermore unpredictable. Heavy rains in the catchment areas of the Beas, Ravi & #Sutlej rivers deep inside #India have flooded #Pakistan ’s #Punjab province."
Great read on how India & Pak carved up the #Indus Rivers under the world's most successful water treaty, & how climate crisis is ruining it
Ok, its already been here for a couple of years (floods and heatwaves in #Pakistan alone have led to multiple cycles of crop losses), but the fact that its going to happen to upto 22% of production across #Asia
An old bicycle locked and leaning against a concrete building outside of India Coffee House at Connaught Place, New Delhi, India. Taken on 5 September 2023.
Asoka's commitment to spreading these policies across his empire is considered to be borne from his experience of the Kalinga war in Orissa, where he was horrified at the destruction caused by his own army. Do you think these rock edicts were a good way to popularise his beliefs?
Images courtesy of Wikipedia Commons and World History Encyclopedia.
I would not normally post a photo taken in a moving car. But seriously, what a sunset! The quality may not be the best but it was just so surprising I had to try and capture it.
At least 157 people were killed and over 160 others injured when a powerful 6.4 magnitude earthquake, the worst since 2015, struck Nepal and destroyed hundreds of houses in the Himalayan nation's remote mountainous region, officials said on Saturday....
A few days ago, we took a trip to Chandni Chowk in Old #Delhi. Right across from Red Fort is Lal Mandir, a #Jain Temple from the 17th century. The inside is gorgeous but what makes it so special is that it hosts the Charity #Bird Hospital. This facility takes injured #birds from all over the city, nurses them back to health, and releases them. It is a true embodiment of #nonviolence (#ahimsa), the essential virtue of #Jainism.
The books for Class 11 and 12 students of Kerala will also touch upon the issue of poverty and include the latest report of the Global Hunger Index....
There are many posts today about Climate Overshoot Days. August 2nd, today, is the global day for 2023 when the earth's ecosystem's ability to renew/recover itself has been overshot by "our'' consumption and destruction of it.
Think of it like the Doomsday Clock that the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists used to show how close we are to destroying the world with nuclear weapons. The double whammy of nuclear annihilation and global warming (ech boiling) looms.
How is this climate overshoot day calculated?
Climate overshoot days is estimated by multiplying the number of days in a year (365) with the ecological footprint of a nation (measured per capita as global hectares) divided by the “global biocapacity” of 1.6 global hectares (Gha) per person. This global biocapacity limit, defined as of 2018, ensures we are living "sustainably", i.e., like decent human beings ought to. If the ecological footprint is greater than the global capacity, the number we get is the number of overshoot days in a year.
Find below a summary chart of climate overshoot days.
It is a fun way to show how significant a threat “we” pose (so that the more educated and enlightened societies will ponder about it?). It’s noble, and concerned, but I don't see what actions it prompts. Maybe, I should try to cultivate optimism.
In the meanwhile, here are some facts/observations/omissions evident from that chart.
At least 14 people were killed and more than 100 others injured after two trains collided on Monday in Bhairab of Kishoreganj in Bangladesh, about 80 kilometres from capital Dhaka....
"#ClimateChange-induced #downpours, #drought, and soaring temperatures have become increasingly common across the eight countries of #SouthAsia, making it one of the world’s most vulnerable regions to the impacts of #GlobalWarming."
Another environmental (sewage) sample from Karachi has been found positive for polio which raised the current year’s tally for Pakistan to 55, according to sources in the National Polio Laboratory at the National Institute of Health (NIH)....
"..cities in #Punjab are expected to receive spells of heavy rain today and tomorrow, while #Chenab and #Ravi rivers will be flooded due to an incessant downpour in #India’s northern states, which has increased the water discharge towards downstream areas."
"The #monsoon which started on June 25 has so far resulted in the death of 80 people while 142 were injured..."
According to officials, more than 111.2 tonnes of rice being smuggled into Nepal has been seized by the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) and police in the last four months....
Sri Lanka said on Thursday it reached an agreement with the Export-Import Bank of China covering about $4.2 billion of outstanding debt, while talks with other official creditors stall....
India, the world’s top rice exporter, may extend an export levy on parboiled rice to control local prices ahead of key polls, keeping the market tight and raising the risk of higher global food inflation....
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is responding to flash floods in Bangladesh that have displaced over 15,000 Rohingya refugees and 300,000 members of the local communities in Cox’s Bazar....
Once vibrant, now silent: Abandoned school in Yonphula, Bhutan haunts locals (kuenselonline.com)
Eerie silence now dominates the atmosphere around the abandoned school in Yonphula, Trashigang where the wind almost seems to screech through broken windowpanes....
157 killed as strong earthquake jolts Nepal's mountainous western region (death count expected to rise) (www.thehindu.com)
At least 157 people were killed and over 160 others injured when a powerful 6.4 magnitude earthquake, the worst since 2015, struck Nepal and destroyed hundreds of houses in the Himalayan nation's remote mountainous region, officials said on Saturday....
Kerala textbooks to retain sections deleted by National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) (www.thehindu.com)
The books for Class 11 and 12 students of Kerala will also touch upon the issue of poverty and include the latest report of the Global Hunger Index....
Bangladesh train accident: 14 killed, over 100 injured as intercity, freight trains collide in Bhairab (www.firstpost.com)
At least 14 people were killed and more than 100 others injured after two trains collided on Monday in Bhairab of Kishoreganj in Bangladesh, about 80 kilometres from capital Dhaka....
Poliovirus detected in another sample from Karachi, Pakistan (www.dawn.com)
Another environmental (sewage) sample from Karachi has been found positive for polio which raised the current year’s tally for Pakistan to 55, according to sources in the National Polio Laboratory at the National Institute of Health (NIH)....
After export ban, rice smuggling booms along Indo-Nepal border (www.bqprime.com)
According to officials, more than 111.2 tonnes of rice being smuggled into Nepal has been seized by the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) and police in the last four months....
Sri Lanka says China debt deal covers $4.2 bln as talks with other creditors drag on (www.reuters.com)
Sri Lanka said on Thursday it reached an agreement with the Export-Import Bank of China covering about $4.2 billion of outstanding debt, while talks with other official creditors stall....
India Mulls Extension of Parboiled Rice Curbs Ahead of Key Polls (www.bloomberg.com)
India, the world’s top rice exporter, may extend an export levy on parboiled rice to control local prices ahead of key polls, keeping the market tight and raising the risk of higher global food inflation....
Bangladesh: Flash flooding in Cox’s Bazar has impacted over 15,000 refugees and 300,000 people living in host communities (reliefweb.int)
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is responding to flash floods in Bangladesh that have displaced over 15,000 Rohingya refugees and 300,000 members of the local communities in Cox’s Bazar....