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auschwitzmuseum, 6 days ago to random

16 May 1944 | The main phase of the extermination of Hungarian Jews began at the German camp Auschwitz. Three trains arrived on that day: ca. 9,000 people were murdered in gas chambers. Until 9 July, 142 trains brought ca. 420,000 Hungarian Jews.

See our online lesson: lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_6_dep_zydow/

formuchdeliberation, 1 month ago to Weather

The frequency of Warm Arctic-Cold Continent events is anticipated to increase until the 2020s, but is expected to decrease after the 2030s, influencing weather patterns worldwide... #weather #globalwarming #geography #temperature #climatechange #climate #climatewarming #weatherpatterns #extremeweather #environment #EarthScience https://scitechdaily.com/the-paradox-of-february-2024-warmest-global-temperatures-meet-record-breaking-cold/

formuchdeliberation, 1 month ago to environment

Worldwide over the past 35 years, dams and land reclamation activities have converted 250,000 acres of estuary to urban land or agricultural fields, with most land conversion and estuary loss in rapidly developing countries... #development #builtenvironment #urbandevelopment #environment #landreclamation #agriculture #Estuary #wetlands #ecosystems #habitat #wildlife #carbonsequestration #DevelopingCountries #ClimateCrisis #climatechange #globalwarming #geography
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-humans-acres-estuaries-cities-farms.html

formuchdeliberation, 1 month ago to Iceland

Lava poured from a volcanic fissure near the town of Grindavík, Iceland, in spring 2024. The eruption, which began on March 16 and remained active over two weeks later, was the largest in a string of four volcanic events on the Reykjanes peninsula starting in December 2023...
#volcano #iceland #IcelandVolcano #geography #Reykjanes #grindavik #volcaniceruption #newsheadlines #currentaffairs #volcanism #naturaldisaster #nature #nasa #EarthObservatory #icelandicmetoffice https://scitechdaily.com/lava-unleashed-icelands-fiery-spectacle-on-the-reykjanes-peninsula/

formuchdeliberation, 1 month ago to climate

Measurements from land-based instruments and airplane-mounted radars in Greenland’s far northeast reveal the extent of ice loss experienced by the 79° N-Glacier. The Alfred Wegener Institute’s findings indicate that the glacier’s thickness has reduced by over 160 meters since 1998...
#climatechange #globalwarming #greenland #thawing #glaciers #glaciology #ClimateCrisis #climate #climatescience https://scitechdaily.com/160-meter-thaw-scientists-uncover-enormous-ice-loss-from-greenland-glacier/

auschwitzmuseum, 1 month ago to random

31 March 1914 | Grisha Prishkulnik (George Preston) was born in Równe (today Rivne, Ukraine).

A Jew, an engineer educated in France. Arrested by Gestapo in Lille, he survived Auschwitz (no 160581) - Bobrek sub-camp. He emigrated to the USA. He passed away in 2006.

formuchdeliberation, 1 month ago to climate

The interaction between the oceans and the atmosphere plays a vital role in shaping the Earth's climate. Changing sea surface temperatures can heat or cool the atmosphere, and changes in the atmosphere can do the same to the ocean surface...
#oceans #climate #atmosphere #jetstream #oceanatmosphere #SeaSurfaceTemperature #climatechange #EarthScience #environment #marinescience #geography https://phys.org/news/2024-03-extratropical-ocean-atmosphere-interactions-contribute.html

formuchdeliberation, 1 month ago to climate

World’s fossil-fuel producers on track to nearly quadruple output from newly approved projects by decade’s end, report finds...
#currentaffairs #fossilfuels #OilandGas #climate #environment #EarthScience #ieareport #energy #parisagreement #fracking #guyana #extraction #greenhousegasemissions #climatescience #geography #unitedstates #temperature https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/28/oil-and-gas-fossil-fuels-report

formuchdeliberation, 1 month ago to worldwithoutus

Earlier this month, a sudden atmospheric warming event caused the Arctic's polar vortex to reverse its trajectory. The swirling ring of cold air is now spinning in the wrong direction, which has triggered a record-breaking "ozone spike" and could impact global weather patterns...
#EarthScience #polarvortex #arctic #atmosphericwarming #weather #geography https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/weather/polar-vortex-is-spinning-backwards-above-arctic-after-major-reversal-event

formuchdeliberation, 1 month ago to philosophy

"Concentration is a cornerstone of mindfulness practice. Your mindfulness will only be as robust as the capacity of your mind to be calm and stable. Without calmness, the mirror of mindfulness will have an agitated and choppy surface and will not be able to reflect things with any accuracy."

– Jon Kabat-Zinn

#mindfulness #quote #quotesonmastodon #jonkabatzinn #dailylife #concentration #Calmness #wellbeing #mind

auschwitzmuseum, 1 month ago to random

26 March 1905 | An Austrian Jew, Viktor Frankl, was born in Vienna. A neurologist & psychiatrist. One of the founders of psychological humanism.

He passed through Theresienstadt and the camps of Auschwitz, Kaufering & Türkheim. He survived. Author of 'Man in Search of Meaning'.

formuchdeliberation, 1 month ago to geopolitics

At the half-way point of the 2030 Agenda, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) “are in deep trouble.” The need to accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals has never been more urgent as only approximately 12% of targets are currently on track. “Planet” is equally at risk as “people”...
#geography #development #sustainability #sustainabledevelopmentgoals #SDGs #unitednations #humandevelopment https://www.ipsnews.net/2024/03/new-report-examines-progress-global-sustainable-development-goals/

formuchdeliberation, 2 months ago to climate

A new review of literature on global climate change written by an international team of more than 200 researchers leaves no room for doubt: humanity is heading for disaster, unless significant steps are taken to change that course...
#climatechange #climate #ClimateCrisis #climatescience #naturaldisasters https://www.sciencealert.com/pivotal-moment-for-humanity-as-disasters-threaten-to-converge

formuchdeliberation, 2 months ago to climate

As permafrost melts as a result of climate change, it may release more radon, a colorless, odorless gas linked with lung cancer...
#climate #climatechange #permafrost #radon #lungcancer #ClimateCrisis #climateaction #climatescience #radioactivity #arctic #PermafrostThaw #cancerrisk #atmosphere #earth #EarthScience https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/thawing-arctic-permafrost-could-release-radioactive-cancer-causing-radon

formuchdeliberation, 2 months ago to climate

Unusually high temperatures combined with the abatement of the El Niño southern oscillation could aid the formation of extreme hurricanes this year...
#climatechange #climate #elninosouthernoscillation #elnino #temperatures #hurricanes #extremeweather #climatescience #weather #atlanticocean #hurricanealley #stormseason #ClimateCrisis #climateemergency #geography https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/climate-change/atlantics-hurricane-alley-is-so-hot-from-el-nino-it-could-send-2024s-storm-season-into-overdrive

formuchdeliberation, 2 months ago to climate

The U.N. named Eleni Myrivili its first-ever global chief heat officer... In an interview, she talks about why extreme heat is a health crisis and what cities must do to protect the most vulnerable from rising temperatures...
#globalwarming #temperatures #climatechange #climate #climatemitigation #urbanplanning #ExtremeWeatherEvents #extremeweather #greendesign #sustainability #sustainabledesign #heatwaves #ClimateCrisis #unitednations #geography #healthcrisis https://e360.yale.edu/features/eleni-myrivili-interview

formuchdeliberation, 3 months ago to climate

A new report finds that 1 in 4 people in the U.S. are breathing unhealthy air as rising temperatures and bigger fires create a "climate penalty."...
#climatechange #ClimateCrisis #climatescience #climateemergency #unitedstates #Climateresearch #airquality #temperatures #geography #EarthScience #health https://grist.org/health/climate-change-is-undoing-decades-of-progress-on-air-quality/

auschwitzmuseum, 3 months ago to random

19 February 1922 | Władyslaw Bartoszewski was born. Prisoner of Auschwitz (4427).

Home Army member, activist of "Żegota" Council, participant of the Warsaw Uprising; historian & writer; Chairman of the International Auschwitz Council, and Founder of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation.

He passed away in 2015.

formuchdeliberation, 3 months ago to space

NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office is tasked with finding, tracking, and assessing the risk associated with potentially hazardous asteroids in our solar system...
#nasa #planetarydefence #solarsystem #asteroids #outerspace #planetaryscience #asteroidimpact https://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-reveals-how-it-would-warn-world-of-impending-asteroid-disaster

formuchdeliberation, 3 months ago to environment

One of the worst methane leaks ever recorded took place last year at a remote well in Kazakhstan, it is estimated that 127,000 tonnes of the gas escaped when a blowout started a fire that raged for over six months...
#environment #methaneemissions #MethaneLeak #methane #kazakhstan #climate #ClimateCrisis #climateemergency #climatecatastrophe #EnvironmentalPollution #environmentalCrisis #environmentalnews #methanemystery #pollution #airpollution #atmosphere #geography
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-68166298

StillIRise1963, 3 months ago to random

Dear women,

ALWAYS have secret money just in case you find yourself in a situation.

Love,

An older woman

formuchdeliberation, 3 months ago to climate

Trinidad and Tobago is considering declaring a national emergency over a huge oil spill from a ship that ran aground and overturned this week...
#TrinidadTobago #trinidadandtobago #caribbean #beaches #oilspill #tourism #climate #climatechange #fossilfuels #oceans #CoralReefs #oilpollution #nationalemergency #environment #geography #EnvironmentalPollution #climateemergency #EnvironmentalDisasters https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-68266339

formuchdeliberation, 3 months ago to chile

Intense forest fires burning around a densely populated area of central Chile have caused at least 46 deaths, Chile’s president said Saturday evening, and officials said at least 1,100 homes had been destroyed...
#chile #wildfires #environment #climatechange #ClimateCrisis #climate #disasters #forestfires #chileforestfires #currentaffairs #newsheadlines https://apnews.com/article/chile-forest-fires-430181f95724369f805779010450ee5f

auschwitzmuseum, 3 months ago to random

4 February 1925 | A French Jewish woman, Ginette Kolinka (née Cherkasky), was born in Paris.

She was deported to Auschwitz from Drancy in April 1944. She was transferred to Bergen-Belsen and then to Theresienstadt. She survived.

Today she turns 99.

#Auschwitz #survivor #birthday

pixiecata, 3 months ago to random

A leaf beetle or salaguinto (Aplosonyx philippinensis) very busily cutting holes into a plant in my mother's garden. We're torn between protecting the plant or promoting insect biodoversity, hahaha.