Der höchste Berg der Erde wäre wohl etwas weniger hoch, wenn es in seiner Nähe nicht einen erosionsstarken Fluss gäbe. Wie kann das sein?#MountEverest #Himalaja #Erosion #Geologie #Geotektonik #Isostasie #Gebirge #ErdeUmwelt
Ein Fluss lässt den Mount Everest wachsen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ8jjSeEsus
#How #Old Are These #MEGALITHS? A Study of #Erosion in #Ancient #Egyptian #Architecture - #UnchartedX
The European Parliament supported on Jan. 18 the resolution calling on the European Council and member states to suspend Hungary's voting rights, said Petri Sarvamaa, a senior member of the European Parliament (MEP).
Earlier this month, Sarvamaa launched a petition to remove some of Budapest's membership rights due to the country's "erosion of the rule of law" and obstructive behavior in the face of EU #consensus building.
#Hungary #EU #VotingRights #law #treaty #erosion #obstructive #Ukraine #StandWithUkraine #RussiaInvadedUkraine #RussianAggression
Last week, we had a day trip to #Torquay but rather than drive or take the train, we decided on a different route. The first leg was a #cycle trip to #Exmouth, about 17 km, followed by a boat trip around the #Devon #coast. The weather was a bit changeable but there were only prospects of short showers.
Well the first shower- didn't take long to arrive and here you can see the drops falling into the #EnglishChannel in the #wake of the #boat. An interesting combination of periodicity and irregularity on the water's surface.
But soon the rain cleared up and the Sun poked through the broken clouds.
The first part of the #coast travelling #west is primarily #sandstone with its distinctive orange colour. You can see the layers tilted through geological action. #Erosion is always evident at the surface but on the action is the sea. The rocks are dated at about 250 million years.
On to a bit of #EngineeringGeology and #GeotechnicalEngineering, the erosion is a serious problem for any structures built on or near the coast and there is a mainline railway track on the route to London which runs along it on this stretch. #NetworkRail is busy trying to stabilize and strengthen the cliffs using #RockAnchor, #RockBolts and #meshing to retard the process. Here you can see workers #abseiling as part of their work.
The erosion causes all manner of interesting irregular shapes in the rocks which make ideal place for #Seabirds to live. These include #Cormorants, #Shags and #Gulls.
As you travel further west, the stratum abruptly changes to #limestone which is over 300 million years old. The form of erosion is also different as limestone is also chemically eroded by slightly acidic water. You can also see that the colour of the sea here is a very deep green.
The #limestone also forms small #islets just off the #coast, again on which birds alight.
A close approach to an islet reveals the beautiful detailed patterns of #rock and #vegetation.
Approaching our destination, some brave souls were clambering over this islet and perhaps were preparing to dive into the water.
An der Nordküste Afrikas verschwindet der Küstensand so schnell wie in kaum einer anderen Weltregion. Der ökologische und ökonomische Schaden sind immens. Forscher glauben, den Prozess zumindest aufhalten zu können.#Maghreb #Tunesien #Algerien #Libyen #Küsten #Sand #Bevölkerungsdruck #Marokko #Erosion
Nordafrikas schwindende Strände | DW | 31.07.2022
Erosionen und Sturmfluten bedrohen das Leben an Westafrikas Küsten, viele Menschen müssen bereits ins Landesinnere fliehen - sie verlieren ihre Lebensgrundlage.#Westafrika #Klimawandel #Sturmflut #Fuveme #Ghana #Erosion #Meeresspiegelanstieg
Klimawandel: Wenn das Meer an Afrikas Küsten nagt | DW | 22.07.2022
#science #ClimateChange #ocean #island #BarrierIsland #sea #erosion #geology
Die Stadt Bargny im Senegal wird zunehmend von ambitionierten Industrieprojekten eingekesselt. Die Bevölkerung verliert ihre Lebensgrundlage. Proteste ändern bisher aber wenig.#Senegal #Bargny #Industrialisierung #Erosion #Kohlekraft #Umweltschutz #Umsiedlung
Senegal: Die Verlierer der Industrialisierung | DW | 07.04.2022
Tom Dispatch
Consider this perhaps the strangest thing of all in our all-too-strange world: the greatest crisis humanity has ever faced essentially never leads the news. Yes, the immediate crises of our world, most recently Vladimir Putin’s disastrous invasion of Ukraine, are 24/7 headlines for weeks at a time. And any set of events that sends millions of us into external or internal exile, as has become all too common on this planet of ours, should indeed be a focus of attention. But to put all of this in context, it’s estimated that within three decades up to a mind-boggling 1.2 billion human beings could be driven from their homes thanks to the burgeoning climate emergency. (...)
When [climate change] hits as fire or flood, as a dramatic weather disaster of some sort, the news often loves to show us the calamity at hand (and the all-too-photogenic weeping survivors). But the cause of it all, climate change itself? No such luck. (...)
Only recently the authoritative U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its latest devastating report, produced by 1,000 scientists, on what we’re doing to ourselves. In the midst of the Ukrainian events, it got hardly a moment’s notice. (...)
Those Who Contribute the Least to Climate Change Suffer the Most
By Jane Braxton Little
(...) While California may be a poster child for extreme weather events, they are occurring almost everywhere. Such wild swings from tinder-dry to inundation are known as climate or weather whiplash. (...)
When it comes to weather whiplash, Australia is exhibit A for Anthropocene, the current geological epoch dominated by the human impact on the environment. (...)
Conflicts between wildlife and humans are already common enough, but climate scientists expect them to increase as droughts, floods, and fires push animals off their normal ranges and into agricultural areas. (...)
And here’s the only good news: climate change is a problem with a solution. We humans created it, which means it’s solvable. That, however, would require societal and political will of a kind we simply haven’t seen yet. And that’s the bad news. (...)
“a damning indictment of failed climate leadership… that reveals how people and the planet are getting clobbered by climate change.”
Swain, the UCLA climate scientist, put it this way: “We’re on a train going faster and faster down the tracks with perfectly functional brakes. But the drivers, for whatever reasons, are choosing not to engage the brakes.” (...)
A regular antidote to the mainstream media
Tags: #climate #climate_change #climate_crisis #Intergovernmental_Panel_on_Climate_Change #ipcc #headlines #media #news #jpurnalism #journalist #disinformation #refugees #climate_refugees #climate_whiplash #weather_whiplash #anthropocene #australia #california #forest_fires #bushfires #drought #global_warming #sea_level #flooding #rain_bomb #extinction #texas #storm #hurricane #extrme_weather #water_quality #soil #erosion #agriculture #cattle_farming
