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The Seychelles were the #1st to create a field-verified seagrass #map and estimate how much carbon is stored. Now #LaSMMI is developing a standardized, field-verified seagrass map and carbon assessment for Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zanzibar www.pew.org/en/research-... END

Posidonia meadow is swayed by current while receiving the energy of the sun rays through the clear water; some Yellow fishes swim and graze through it.
From: https://www.discoverwildlife.com/plant-facts/water-plants/seagrass-guide-what-is-it-and-why-is-it-so-important

The road to seagrass restoration at scale using engineering:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925857425000953#bb0140

They play a crucial role in cleaning surrounding water and sequestering CO2 from the atmosphere. Since seagrass health is directly linked to the health of the entire coastal ecosystem, by monitoring it, we can gain valuable insights into the status of our coastal waters.

Portrait of a green sea turtle seen from below in crystal-clear blue water in Mayotte; Sunlight penetrates through the water and illuminates it from the top of the photo, just above the turtle's head, like a halo.

From: https://earth.org/in-pictures-guardians-of-the-lagoon-mayottes-green-sea-turtles/

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Implications for seagrass restoration and for conservation iris.unive.it/handle/10579... Functional strategies in Mediterranean seagrass fish assemblages besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Seagrass in physical and monetary terms www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A vertical picture of seagrass covered by water that briefly covers its tips. A blue sky is above the water and seagrass, a strip of land with trees on the left.

From: UN decade of Ecosystem Restoration 2021-30
https://www.decadeonrestoration.org/scientists-outline-10-golden-rules-seagrass-restoration

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including rare or ecologically important ones, such as tuna, which rarely inhabit shallow and nearshore environments. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

A graphical summary of the functions of the seaweed meadows: biodiversity, food, oxygen, water quality, habitat corridors, nutrient cycling, climate resilience, carbon storage, livelihoods, shelter.
From: https://blog.wcs.org/photo/2021/11/01/the-importance-of-seagrass/

Seagrass blue carbon stocks and sequestration rates in the Colombian Caribbean:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-90544-5

The role of lag phases between real-term marine heatwaves in the trait responses of two macrophyte species:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0141113624005555

Projecting climate change impacts on the distribution of the most captured tuna species on Atlantic waters:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10531-025-03121-x

Benthic Fish Communities Associated with Posidonia oceanica Beds May Reveal the Fishing Impact and Effectiveness of Marine Protected Areas: Two Case Studies in the Southern Tyrrhenian Sea
https://agris.fao.org/search/en/providers/122436/records/675ad23d0ce2cede71d22ccc

https://agris.fao.org/search/en/providers/122436/records/675ad23d0ce2cede71d22ccc

A UCLA-led study uncovered distinct fish communities associated with different geographically located seagrass beds, and revealed the hidden biodiversity of these habitats. The use of #eDNA allowed researchers to detect a greater variety of species than traditional visual methods

A school of fish swims in line above green Posidonia oceanica, blue sea in the background; in Port Cros National Park

From: eDNA reveals unique fish communities in Southern California seagrass meadows
https://www.ioes.ucla.edu/article/edna-reveals-unique-fish-communities-in-southern-california-seagrass-meadows/

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The role of the #microbiome in the successful transplantation of seagrass meadows www.projectseagrass.org/research/the... Location and #CarbonStorage of Erosional Escarpments of Seagrass Posidonia Mats www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...

Figure 1. Erosional escarpment in a P. oceanica meadow in Es Pujols Cove (Formentera, Balearic Islands, Spain) illustrating the organic-rich soils (A,B), Erosional escarpment in a P. australis meadow in Big Lagoon (Shark Bay, Western Australia; C,D)

From:Location and Associated Carbon Storage of Erosional Escarpments of Seagrass Posidonia Mats

Seagrass meadows offer visual and structure protection; they also provide an acoustic refuge for estuarine fish from marine mammals. doi.org/10.3354/meps... Seagrass Meadows Reduce Wind-Wave Driven Sediment Resuspension in a Sheltered Environment www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...

A meadow on the left with the escarpment in evidence (from which 3 highlights start: rocky fish, archaeological artefacts, escarpment cavity) and a rocky substrate.
On the right the conclusions:
Escarpments are 3D structures that provide habitat and shelter for typically rocky fish;
Escarpments can sustain fish abundance and biomass comparable to rocky substrates;
Higher structural complexity of escarpments enhances fish diversity and biomass

From: Escarpments within Mediterranean seagrass Posidonia oceanica meadows increase habitat heterogeneity and structural complexity enhancing fish diversity and biomass
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/marine-science/articles/10.3389/fmars.2024.1373074/full

Results:
Total fish abundance was similar between rocky substrates and escarpments but up to 5-fold higher than in seagrass meadows. Similarly, total fish biomass was comparable between rocky substrates and seagrass escarpments, but 18-fold higher than in seagrass meadows. On the other hand, total number of fish species and Shannon´s diversity Index were significantly higher in rocky substrates than in seagrass escarpments. In addition, total number of species and Shannon´s diversity Index in seagrass escarpments were significantly higher than in seagrass meadows.

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Underwater video reveals higher fish diversity and abundance in seagrass meadows and diff. in trophic interactions www.nature.com/articles/s41... Seagrass meadows as buffers for metal concentrations www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Posidonia escarpments www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...

A graphic illustrates the anthropogenic pressures on the left (mining, agriculture, industry) insisting on the sea, that receives sediment and metals (in the center of the image) and the seagrass on the right capturing those sediment and metals.

From: Metals in coastal seagrass habitats: A systematic quantitative literature review
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10643389.2022.2164154

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Large Dugong Aggregations Persist in Continuous Seagrass Meadows Despite Anthropogenic Disturbances Around Hawar Island, Bahrain ↓ www.ceab.csic.es/en/la-contin... A dynamic view of seagrass meadows in the wake of successful green turtle conservation ↓ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dugong feeding in a seagrass meadow

How Might Climate Change Affect the Ethology and Behavioral Ecology of Dugongs and Manatees?
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-90742-6_8

Dugong foraging behavior on tropical intertidal seagrass meadows: the influence of climatic drivers and anthropogenic disturbance
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10750-021-04583-0

Climate change redefines sea turtle hotspots: Vessel strike risks and gaps in protexted areas
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw4495

A half-century of demographic changes in a green turtle (Chelonia mydas) foraging aggregation during an era of seagrass decline
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00227-022-04056-5

Marine heatwaves threaten key foraging grounds of sea turtles in Southeast Asian Seas
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10113-022-01952-w
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10113-022-01952-w

The #SeagrassMeadows that migrating sea turtles and dugongs feed on are disappearing. To date, around 30% of the world's seagrass beds have been lost. They store around 20% of the 🌏's oceanic carbon, support fisheries and protect coastlines. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Green turtles feed on seagrass, which provides habitat for numerous animals and can sequester significant amounts of carbon.
From:https://www.science.org/content/article/turtles-map-seagrass-better-satellites

Green turtle tracking leads to the discovery of seagrass blue carbon resources:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2024.0502

To conserve migratory marine life, protected areas are not enough. Migratory Species need dynamic management strategies (real-time #tracking , shifting shipping lanes/requiring vessel speed limits, stricter fishing regulations, in key habitats and timings) and international cooperation.

Fig. 2: Locations of all migratory species metasites
From: Marine megavertebrate migrations connect the global ocean
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-59271-7

Migratory Connectivity in the Ocean project
https://mico.env.duke.edu/

Conserve marine migratory species to protect ecological links between land and sea
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02475-0

Translating Marine Animal Tracking Data into Conservation Policy and Management (Cell Press Review)
https://repository.kaust.edu.sa/server/api/core/bitstreams/3067f093-308a-47e7-ac4c-5c447efb9705/content

Global tracking of marine megafauna space use reveals how to achieve conservation targets
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adl0239

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772735125000265

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The N.Pacific humpback have experienced significant changes in their migratory routes due to CC, which has resulted in many getting entangled in dungeness crab fishing gear. The #Krill graze on algae growing on the underbelly of sea ice and, as sea ice disappears, they are moving to colder waters

Antarctic larval krill feeding on algae that grow on the underside of sea ice
From: https://www.pew.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/2023/08/03/krill-experts-discus

Krill, climate, and contrasting future scenarios for Arctic and Antarctic fisheries
https://academic.oup.com/icesjms/article/71/7/1934/666832

Climate change impacts on Antarctic krill behaviour and population dynamics
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43017-023-00504-y

Predicted changes in the distribution of Antarctic krill in the Cosmonaut Sea under future climate change scenarios
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X22007063

Antarctic krill genes could reveal how they’re responding to climate change
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2024/november/antarctic-krill-genes-could-reveal-responding-climate-change.html

Antarctic krill habitat suitability changes: Historical trends and future projections under climate scenarios
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0025326X25006174

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Whales and dolphins are particularly vulnerable species as rising T threaten both their prey and their habitat: - Heatwaves can exceed the species’ physiological tolerance; it's happening for 🐬 in the Amazon River, and they'll reduce fin 🐋' habitat in the Med.up to 70% by 2050

The pink Amazon river dolphin

Amazon lakes hit ‘unbearable’ hot-tub temperatures amid mass die-offs of pink river dolphins
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/06/climate-crisis-amazon-lakes-water-temperature-hotter-than-spa-bath-aoe

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Arbma Cip @arbmacip.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

The CMS published the Report of the Migratory Species & CC in October. #ClimateChange is disrupting migratory routes and reshaping critical habitats across the 🌏 by altering the environmental conditions, food networks, when/where resources appear, how abundant they are A🧵

A whale and a dolphin in the sea, seen from above.

Whale and dolphin migrations are being disrupted by climate change
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/10/whale-and-dolphin-migrations-are

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Il mio peace of lore preferito about Carletto è il suo legame affettivo-energetico con Eni tramite il ponte del nonno 🥹 Ovvero di come il Piano Mattei sia ancora oggi croce e delizia d'Ita, tra fossili, armi e minacce di flussi migratori. Nella stessa Libia dove abbiamo rimandato in jet Al-Masri.

Dal FB di Carlo Calenda (7/10/2020):
Su la Repubblica un ricordo di mio nonno Carlo, Ambasciatore in Libia nel 1969.
Uomo tosto, caratteraccio ma colto e grandissimo senso delle istituzioni e di patria. Per molti versi un modello per me.

Sull pezzo di giornale condiviso da Calenda si legge:
In quel settembre 1969 l'ambasciatore d'Italia a Tripoli era ancora Carlo Calenda, nonno del leader politico di oggi. Calenda era un diplomatico energico, attivo, mai distratto: capì dal primo momento come sarebbe andata a finire con Gheddafi, e lo scrisse nei suoi telegrammi a Roma. Il colonnello e la sua giunta militare - scriveva Calenda - useranno in ogni modo gli italiani rimasti in Libia per costruire una narrativa "rivoluzionaria" da vendere al popolo, con gli eredi dei colonialisti che inevitabilmente dovranno essere espulsi per dare forma alla nazione libica.

Andò a finire così: dopo il di-scorso di Misurata, il 21 luglio Gheddafi emanò il decreto di confisca che serviva a «restituire al popolo libico le ricchezze dei suoi figli e dei suoi avi usurpate dagli oppressori» italiani. «Fu la confisca totale, di tutto quello che avevamo», ricorda Giovanna Ortu, che da anni è la presidente e il motore stesso della Airl, l'Associazione dei rifugiati italiani di Libia. <<Ci portarono via tutto, i conti in banca, le case, le aziende agricole...

Dalla pagina Wikipedia su "colpo di stato in Libia del 1969":

SFONDO.
La scoperta di importanti riserve petrolifere nel 1959 e il conseguente reddito dalle vendite di petrolio hanno consentito al Regno Unito di Libia di passare da una delle nazioni più povere al mondo a uno stato ricco. Sebbene il petrolio abbia migliorato drasticamente le finanze del governo libico, il risentimento ha cominciato a crescere per la maggiore concentrazione della ricchezza della nazione nelle mani del re Idris. Questo malcontento crebbe con l'ascesa del nasserismo, del nazionalismo arabo e del socialismo arabo in tutto il mondo arabo.

COLPO DI STATO.
il 1º settembre 1969, un gruppo di circa 70 giovani ufficiali dell'esercito noto come Movimento degli ufficiali unionisti liberi e uomini arruolati per lo più assegnati al corpo di segnalazione ottenne il controllo del governo e abolì la monarchia libica. Il colpo di Stato è stato lanciato a Bengasi; e, nel giro di due ore, fu completato...

Link dell'ultimo screenshot: https://www.istitutoeuroarabo.it/DM/la-libia-e-stata-la-pompa-di-benzina-dellitalia-quali-prospettive-per-il-futuro/

La Libia è stata la pompa di benzina dell’Italia. Quali prospettive per il futuro?

...Eni era attiva in Libia già dal 1939, quando scopre il petrolio, e in partnership con Agip dà il via alla «operazione Petrolibia». Il primo accordo fu raggiunto solo nel 1959; Eni si aggiudicò importanti concessioni grazie a royalty molto vantaggiose che offriva ai libici...Tanto basta per capire che il colpo di Stato del 1969, con cui Gheddafi rovesciò la monarchia di Re Idris, sarebbe potuto essere una catastrofe per Eni e per l’economia ita. Ma quando decise di nazionalizzare tutte le imprese ita in Libia salvò Eni e Fiat.
Il 5/5/1971, poco dopo la cacciata degli ita dal Paese, il min. degli esteri A. Moro si recò a Tripoli. In quell’incontro si si decise che l’Italia avrebbe contribuito alla modernizzazione della Libia con manodopera qualificata, tecnologia e infrastrutture, in cambio gli ita avrebbero avuto vantaggi nell’approvvigionamento petrolifero e nella fornitura di armi. Questa sarà la “croce e delizia” dell’Italia per gli anni a venire: nonostante l’appoggio dei governi e dei servizi segreti ita, e nonostante i miliardi versati dall’Eni nelle casse libiche, i rapporti sono stati contrassegnati da molti “rospi da ingoiare” pur di mantenere le necessarie relazioni commerciali (vedi minacce di influenzare i flussi migratori diretti verso l’Italia). D’altra parte, la Libia è stata la pompa di benzina dell’Italia per mezzo secolo.
Eni con Mattei cominciò ad attuare una propria politica estera. Non era ben accetta al tavolo delle grandi compagnie int., in particolare quelle britanniche, tuttavia non voleva dipendere dalle policy imposte dalla GB e iniziò a cercare autonomamente le fonti di approvvigionamento, offrendo ai Paesi condizioni più favorevoli: non più la famosa 50-50 imposta dalle 7 sorelle ma il 25% alle compagnie e il 75% ai produttori.Gli effetti non tardarono a farsi sentire. Fra gli anni 1960 e '70 l’interscambio commerciale italo-libico crebbe di 17 volte.

Arbma Cip @arbmacip.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Solo? 😏 Dalle grandi aziende all'alta moda, passando per interessi fossili e istituti clinici, non si lascia scappare nessuno sponsor. E infatti schiuma perché hanno di nuovo aut. ambientale preventiva, unica cosa giusta fatta da dx pagellapolitica.it/articoli/fin... altreconomia.it/calenda-inve...

Da: https://corrieredelveneto.corriere.it/notizie/politica/25_ottobre_07/imprese-l-affondo-di-calenda-su-transizione-5-0-urso-ha-costruito-un-sistema-barocco-e-fatto-un-disastro-43ea3f52-40fc-4c7b-b6fc-5a4fbe93dxlk.shtml
Quali le differenze fra Industria 4.0 e Transizione 5.0?

<<<Per Industria 4.0 avevo cancellato tutti gli incentivi a bando che prevedevano richieste e contro-richieste creando, invece, un sistema automatico in cui l'imprenditore investiva. Poi,come si fa nei Paesi normali, nel caso ci fosse un atto sbagliato di qualunque genere, si pagava il fio delle proprie colpe. Ma non costruiva un sistema barocco in cui prima devi chiedere una pre autorizzazione dimostrando di rispettare i canoni di risparmio ambientale previsti. Industria 5.0 è molto complicata. Meloni e Urso ne erano consapevoli. Quando ho visto i decreti attuativi, ho scritto a entrambi un documento in cui spiegavo i problemi che avrebbe provocato in termini di complessità in modo puntuale. Meloni l'ha capita ma poi s'è fidata di Urso che ha fatto un disastro».

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Arbma Cip @arbmacip.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Interregionalization opportunities advantaged riverine hunter-fishers over herders. Tin from Altai mines made possible large-scale bronze production that brought metal and metal artifacts from Ural mines and forgeries westward to Europe. 3

In the same time frame (as the 4.2 Ka climate event) came the Seima-Turbino Transcultural Phenomenon (henceforth ST), an archaeological complex marked by distinctive bronze artifacts, especially symbols of power such as spearheads and axe heads, found across many archaeological cultures and along major waterways from the Altai to Scandinavia. In particular, tin from Altai mines made possible large-scale bronze production, with the forging and casting done there as well as in the southeastern Ural area and Southwest Asia. The most recent radiocarbon dates place ST between c. 4,200 and 3,900 BP, and somewhat later west of the Urals along the Volga (Marchenko et al. 2017; Krause et al. 2019; Chernykh 2008).

ST is evidently the archaeological signature of a waterborne trade network (Barfield 2009; Nichols & Rhodes 2018) that brought metal from Ural and Sayan mines and metal artifacts from Ural forgeries westward to Europe. Its heyday coincides rather closely with the 4.2 ka event. The trade network itself probably existed long before the Bronze Age and demonstrably continued into the Middle Ages as the Bulgar and Viking trade routes.

Arbma Cip @arbmacip.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

The catastrophic climate event caused drought in the low and mid latitudes of continental interiors, wetter conditions in the northwest of Eurasia. Competition and warfare were intense, and militarization increased. www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour... 2

It was Common Uralic that was involved in Seima-Turbino trade and Indo-Iranian contacts. The non-pastoral, non-agricultural, sparsely distributed Commion Uralic populations suffered less from the 4.2 ka event and accompanying plague, and were able to recover from it faster than the denser stockbreeding Indo-European populations. As a result, early Uralic replaced IE-speaking populations along the Volga and near the Urals, acquiring no Indo-European substratum and no evidence of IE lexical contact prior to the Indo-Iranian episode.l

The 4.2 ka event and ST are nearly simultaneous and the I-I episode occurred within that time range, and we suggest they are causally connected. During the drought, herders saw their traditional subsistence falter and fail, and the populations of herds and probably herders were reduced by famine. There is evidence of overgrazing on the steppe in late Yamnaya times (Anthony 2007: 330), half a millennium earlier, so it must be assumed that by 4,200 BP the entire grazable Pontic-Caspian steppe was inhabited to carrying capacity, with no leeway except what could be gained by warfare. To the east, the alternative was to seek water sources at the steppe periphery. Herders from the almost certainly Indo-Iranian-speaking Poltavka culture crowded into the river valleys around the Urals, where they established fixed year-round settlements (Anthony 2007: 371–411, especially 389–391, describing permanent settlement as a strategy for claiming access among traditionally mobile societies facing diminishing resources). Competition and warfare were intense, and militarization increased.

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Arbma Cip @arbmacip.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Also "how an era of global climate changes helped the Uralic populations spread and have continental-scale effects on language and culture" A 🧵 Feat. : •The 4.2 ka BP Megadrought (aka the boundary between mid and late Holocene) •ST= Seima-Turbino Transcultural Phenomenon 1

Archaeologists have long connected Uralic's spread with what is called the Seima-Turbino phenomenon, or the sudden appearance around 4,000 years ago of technologically advanced bronze-casting methods across northern Eurasia.

The resulting artifacts, primarily weapons and other displays of power, have also been tied to an era of global climate changes that could have advantaged the small-scale cultures that spoke Uralic languages during and after the Seima-Turbino phenomenon.

The newest genetic samples, assembled by Kim with the help of other archaeologists, including third co-lead author Leonid Vyazov at Czechia's University of Ostrava, revealed strong currents of Yakutia ancestry at a succession of ancient burial sites stretching gradually to the west, with each bearing rich reserves of Seima-Turbino objects.

"This is a story about the will, the agency of populations who were not numerically dominant in any way but were able to have continental-scale effects on language and culture," said Kim, an archaeologist with longstanding interest in Siberia and Central Asia.

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Arbma Cip @arbmacip.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

YOU CAN HELP THEM TOO Every spring the fish swim through Utrecht's canals and waterways, searching for a place to spawn and reproduce. Watch the live-stream from the underwater cam. Did you spot a fish? Press the doorbell to help them on their journey! visdeurbel.nl/en/

Every spring, thousands of fish swim through Utrecht's canals and waterways, searching for a place to spawn and reproduce.

Map of the canals of Utrecht, through which the fish swim.

In the heart of the city lies the beautiful Weerdsluis, a manually operated lock.

When the lock gates are closed, fish are forced to wait, wasting valuable time and energy - making them easy prey for birds and predatory fish.

To help the fish, an underwater camera is installed at the lock. If fish appear on screen, you can press the doorbell! This alerts the lock keeper, who will open the lock when many fish are waiting.

You can "ring" the Fish Doorbell from early March to late May

People do so enthusiastically every year. In 2024, the Fish Doorbell attracted around 2.7 million viewers, from America to Brazil! The project has gained global recognition, helping people worldwide learn about fish migration and Utrecht's underwater world.

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Arbma Cip @arbmacip.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Great catch today 😁 Spotted some Ide 🐟 nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/fact...

Underwater cam: an ide on the left, approaching from a distance; greeny water

A DIVA TAKING A SELFIE 💃
An ide in the upper left corner, front facing

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Arbma Cip @arbmacip.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Tomorrow's the great protest march #protest

Tweet from Ilaria Salis:
Tomorrow in Venice will be held an important protest against the arrogance of Bezos and his world. Bezos, founder of Amazon , is one of the richest man in the world..

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Arbma Cip @arbmacip.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

È già pronto per la consegna un bel regalo, rigorosamente locale e per la sostenibilità di Venezia 🥰 Jeff ha appena ricevuto la mail che lo avvisa che i corrieri passeranno domani 🎁

Tweet di Ilaria Salis:
QUESTO MATRIMONIO NON S'HA DA FARE

Domani si terrà a Venezia un importante corteo contro l'arroganza di Jeff Bezos e del suo mondo...

Arbma Cip @arbmacip.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

PFAS in Veneto 🇮🇹: a tale as long as time 💕 1966-present at least today justice has been done x.com/Agenzia_Ansa...

First article about PFAS in Veneto (1977)

Title:
L'acqua? Non è buona neanche per le bestie. Oggi arrivano le autobotti della Ederle

= Water? It is not even good for animals. Elderle's water tankers coming today.

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Arbma Cip @arbmacip.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

It answered: 1) could this be scalable globally? = YES 2) when? It depends on the policies that can speed up the transition, but nonetheless it will, eventually, because they are cheaper now even without subsidies. Can't say exactly when, but they're faster than any other source, no doubts.

8 days ago on this platform

Jameson Reichert: Thing is, wind and solar can totally stay afloat without subsidies. We're just using the subsidies to build them out faster

Jesse D. Jenkins: Yep. See difference in a world with and without ITC/PTC in these charts from REPEAT Project's latest report (at repeatproject.org/reports). And speed matters to US energy prices, economic security w.r.t. gas price shocks, and our ability to power data centers and the industries of the future.

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Arbma Cip @arbmacip.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Processing whey for human consumption pushes costs onto ecosystems and communities In EU is reserved for Prosciutto di Parma hogs A balanced diet improves water quality, an effect comparable to upgrading wastewater treatment plants; the largest potential to reduce nitrogen is in coastal cities.

Instead, small dairies like River Whey often give their whey to local hog farms a practice with historical precedent. For centuries, whey-fed pork has been a means of closing the loop between dairy and meat production. In Europe, whey is specially reserved for raising more marketable Italian hogs to produce Prosciutto di Parma. In the U.S., artisanal producers still follow this model, often mixing whey with spent brewery grain and feeding it to pigs.

Yet these practices are the exception, not the rule. Most commercial whey protein comes from industrial-scale dairy operations, where their extra profit pushes true costs onto ecosystems and communities.

The study, published in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, said that if Americans ate protein at recommended amounts, projected nitrogen excretion rates in 2055 would be 27% less than they are today despite population growth.

The study is the first to estimate how much protein consumption contributes to excess nitrogen in the environment through human waste. It also indicates that coastal cities have the largest potential to reduce nitrogen excretions headed for their watersheds.

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Arbma Cip @arbmacip.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Disclaimer: I'm not used to read/talk about Elon but this is so big that it's time to grab some pop-corn 🍿

Elon musk tweeted:

Time to drop the really big bomb:

@realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public.

Have a nice day, DJT!

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Arbma Cip @arbmacip.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Se avete interagito con i post di Seawatch/RESQSHIP potreste essere già stati bloccati preventivamente dal troll r*zist. Lascio screen per i bloccati. Rimandiamo questo ratto nelle fogne #antifa #antiracism #facciamorete #lampedusa #kickfascistsout

@razist.bsky.social
(già il nickname è contro la policy di Bluesky) risponde :"bruttissimo vento per voi ONG... maledetti scafisti"
al post di RESQSHIP che comunica il salvataggio in mare di alcuni migranti, e purtroppo, la morte di alcuni di essi, tra cui dei bambini, presumibilmente morti di fame.

Arbma Cip @arbmacip.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Per your source: - generators were turned off in July '24 ahead of its full closure in '28 - the EnergyConnect project delay raised concerns for SA - gen. back online to support the grid supply in periods of high demand - EC project ready in '27 ⚛️ can't help SA 1ˢᵗ 🌏 non-hydro 100%REN grid by'27

From the same ABC News article shared by Christian:
In July, French company Engie turned off its Port Lincoln and Snuggery peaking generators, ahead of its full closure in 2028.

Energy Minister Tom Koutsantonis has sought rule changes that would give the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) the power to compel companies to bring decommissioned generators back online to support the grid supply during periods of high demand.

Mr Koutsantonis has warned the forecast for the reliability of power supply in SA this summer - which shows a predicted shortfall of 200 megawatts - has been underestimated because the AEMO has not accounted for the delay in a new interconnector with New South Wales.

The $2.3 billion project Energy Connect will establish 900 kilometres of transmission lines between SA and NSW, allowing greater flow of electricity both ways.
It was due to be completed by July 2026 but is currently about 12 months behind schedule.

South Australia has secured federal funding through a Renewable Energy Transformation Agreement to become the first non-hydro grid globally to achieve 100% net renewable energy...
South Australia's renewable milestone highlights the evolving energy landscape as it aims to retire coal by 2032. This target was initially set by the previous Liberal government and accelerated from 2030 to 2027 by the current administration.
Federal Climate Minister Chris Bowen announced the deal at Port Augusta, formerly home to a coal plant and now a green energy hub, and highlighted the significance of South Australia's contribution to the federal Capacity Investment Scheme (CIS), which targets 32 GW of new renewable capacity across Australia by 2030. The state’s secured funding allows it to move forward with critical infrastructure and grid stability projects, supporting new renewable developments.
The expansion includes several wind and solar projects, with South Australia’s largest solar plant, the 412 MW Goyder South wind farm, set to connect to the grid. New battery storage installations at sites like Blyth, Hallett, and Clements Gap, among others, will further advance the state’s journey to 80% renewable energy over the next year, laying the groundwork for achieving the 100% net renewable milestone by 2027.

From: https://www.energy-box.com/post/south-australia-secures-federal-funding-to-achieve-100-net-renewables-by-2027

Arbma Cip @arbmacip.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Well from your own source: "The cumulative impacts of wind power plants AND the GAS PIPELINE in the same areas would be devastating for the environment and the local economy." I think that a Gas Pipeline is more disruptive than the wind turbines. The plan should be to stop the pipeline, not wind

Nelle stesse aree appenniniche è anche previsto il tracciato del gasdotto “Linea Adriatica", in progetto da parte del Gruppo SNAM s.p.a.

L'infrastruttura energetica in progetto si snoda per 687 km circa, con un condotto di 1200 mm di diametro adagiato a 5 metri di profondità (con una pressione di 73 bar), una servitù di pertinenza di 40 metri (20 per lato), più l'inevitabile corollario
logistico di piste di percorso e cantieri.

In the same areas of the Apennines is also planned the route of the gas pipeline "Linea Adriatica", in project by the SNAM s.p.a.

The planned energy infrastructure is approximately 687 km long, with a 1200mm diameter pipeline lying at 5 metres depth (73 bar pressure), and a 40-metre service facility (20 on each side), plus the inevitable logistical corollary of track and construction sites.

Gli impatti cumulativi di impianti di produzione energetica da fonte eolica (20 nuove "torri" eoliche alte più di 200 metri oltre a quelle già esistenti, per una potenza complessiva di 117 MW) e del gasdotto sarebbero semplicemente devastanti per l'ambiente e il tessuto socio-economico locale.

The cumulative impacts of wind power plants (20 new "towers" more than 200 meters high in addition to existing ones, for a total capacity of 117 MW) and the gas pipeline would be simply devastating for the environment and the social fabriclocal economy.

Arbma Cip @arbmacip.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Maria Ressa (Nobel Peace 2021) shares a cautionary tale for the #US & the #West, after Duterte’s arrest: The free rein of technology paves the way for populism to be tipped into #authoritarianism "If you do not protect your #rights today, what’s destroyed takes a hell of a long time to rebuild."

Screenshot from the "Princeton Pre-read (2023) : ‘How to Stand Up to a Dictator’ " video presentation.
A Maria Ressa's book is in the center, the background is dark, on the sides two figures emerge from the dark under an orange light: on the right a half bust of the author herself and on the left a half bust of what seems to be a tiger.
Link: https://www.princeton.edu/news/2023/04/06/how-stand-dictator-nobel-peace-prize-winner-maria-ressa-class-2027-pre-read

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This is a nonsense, really. You should stop. You are cherry-picking rare events for the sake of what? Do you know that without REN we'll still rely in FF, that are harming the environment more than anything else? Your uninformed opinion is dangerous. ilgiornaledellambiente.it/energie-rinn....

Oltre ad essere una risorsa inesauribile, l’eolico non produce emissioni di gas serra durante il funzionamento. Richiede inoltre una superficie di terra non eccessivamente vasta. L’impatto ambientale è quindi meno problematico e imponente rispetto a quello proveniente da altre fonti di energia . L’energia eolica si caratterizza dunque come energia green, a favore di un’economia green

ucsusa.org "Environmental impacts of wind power":
Harnessing power from the wind is one of the cleanest and most sustainable ways to generate electricity as it produces no toxic pollution or global warming emissions. Wind is also abundant, inexhaustible, and affordable, which makes it a viable and large-scale alternative to fossil fuels
https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/environmental-impacts-wind-power

eia.gov "Wind explained":
...A small number of wind turbines have also caught fire, and some have leaked lubricating fluids, but these occurrences are rare.
https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/wind/wind-energy-and-the-environment.php

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Don't know what you're saying here, maybe about migratory routes? Anyway there are study even on these, I reposted one new steady about that just a couple of days ago...making better turbines for birds is possible, it doesn't mean we shouldn't do them. Fossil Fuels kill way more birds.

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You should READ your own sources: -there's NO WWF involved, just the son of Pratesi -Italia Nostra and Amici della Terra are fake environmentalists, in fact Amici della Terra was expelled from the original Friends of the Earth for their indulgence on fossil gas Please do better than this nonsense

L'hanno scoperto Francesco Pratesi, il figlio del fondatore del Wwf scomparso giorni fa, gli ambientalisti del Tess (Transizione energetica senza speculazione), Italia Nostra, Amici della Terra e Maremma Viva che si stanno battendo contro «l'installazione di oltre 100 pale eoliche sui campi e sulle colline della Maremma prospicienti le rinomate aree protette della costa, da Grosseto fino alla Tuscia laziale».

It was discovered by Francesco Pratesi, the son of the founder of WWF who died days ago, the environmentalists of Tess (Energy transition without speculation), Italia Nostra, Amici della Terra and Maremma Viva who are fighting against «the installation of more than 100 wind turbines on the fields and hills of Maremma overlooking the famous protected areas of the coast, from Grosseto to Tuscia laziale».

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That article is misleading. x.com/g_rizzo76/st... Also, there are many ways to reduce the wind turbines' impact on birds bsky.app/profile/ian-... Please don't spread this false propaganda. More here, from Hanna Ritchie's Sustainability by numbers: www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/wind-power...

$ASK MIT CLIMATE Do wind turbines kill birds? Yes—but only a fraction as many as are killed by house cats, buildings, or even the fossil fuel operations that wind farms replace. https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/do-wind-turbines-kill-birds$

Chart by Statista: Annual estimated bird mortality from selected anthropogenic causes in the U.S.
Cats are the main killers of bird, followed by collision with building glass,vehicles, poison, electrical lines, electrocutions and, at last, collision with wind turbines.

Note to Giuseppe: if we want to follow what the numbers are saying, we should get rid of glasses, never let cats outside without leash and make safe electrical lines. Wind Turbines are not the problem and they can even be improved with precautions that are small and cheapy.