UK to return Chagos Islands to Mauritius in historic deal | BBC News
#CurrentEvents #OurModernWorld #UK #IndianOcean #ChagosIslands #Mauritius #USA #UKEmpire
#indianocean
Our wars add greenhouse gases by the tons.
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EU climate service: Earth records 12 straight months of record high temperaturesBy Clyde Hughes, UPI
July 8 (UPI) -- "June 2024 was hotter than any June previously on record, leaving people exposed to life-threatening temperatures and more extreme weather, the European Union's #Copernicus #ClimateChange Service said Monday.
"Copernicus researchers found that temperatures worldwide each month for the past 12 months were 1.5 degrees Celsius greater than the average before the #preindustrial age.
"The report said temperatures in Europe were higher on average than in the southeast regions. It added the countries and regions with the hottest temperatures outside of #Europe were eastern #Canada, the western #UnitedStates, western #Mexico, #Brazil, northern #Siberia, the #MiddleEast, northern #Africa, and western #Antarctica.
"'Even if this specific streak of extremes ends at some point, we are bound to see new records being broken as the climate continues to warm,' said Carlo Buontempo, director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service, according to The Guardian.
"'This is inevitable unless we stop adding greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and the oceans.'
"The report said its review of the oceans, air temperatures were higher than average in the #AtlanticOcean and #IndianOcean along with most of the #PacificOcean. Temperatures were below average in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean and smaller regions around the world, like the Bering Sea.
"Copernicus uses measurements from various sources, including airplanes, weather stations, ships and satellites to capture vital climate information worldwide.
"'This is not good news at all,' said Aditi Mukherji, the co-author of the newest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. 'We know that extreme events increase with every increment of global warming and at 1.5 degrees Celsius, we witnessed some of the hottest extremes this year.'"
#ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming #ExtremeHeat #ClimateCatastrophe
An Israeli owned cargo ship was attacked in Indian ocean on Thursday.
The UK media claim that it was attacked by an Iranian made Shahed 136 drone operated by Yemeni rebels.
Yemeni rebels have warned all shipping companies that they will target any Israeli owned ship or ships going to Israel in the red sea, or anywhere else in the world.
#Israel #Yemen #IndianOcean #CargoShip #WarOnIsrael #Gaza #Palestine #Politics
Kenya's stolen islands: Three companies could face land grab charges
Anti-corruption investigators in Kenya have recovered stolen islands in a nature reserve in the Indian Ocean. Three companies are now facing possible court p...#Kenyawildlifeservice #KenyasEthicsandAntiCorruptionCommission #KisiteMpungutilowerisland #KisiteMpungutimarinereserve #africanews #environment #indianocean #kenyaislands #kenyalandgrabs #kenyalatestnews #politicsandlaw #AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews
Kenya's stolen islands: Three companies could face land grab charges
The #September #Equinox will occur in about 15 minute from now (06:49Z) when the #Sun will be directly overhead about the #Equator at #midday somewhere over the #IndianOcean. #Autumn begins for people on this half of the world and #Spring for the other half.
The #equinox will occur later today, in about four hours from now. It marks the beginning of #spring in the #NorthernHemisphere and #autumn in the #SouthernHemisphere. It is marked by the moment the #Sun is overhead on midday somewhere on the #Equator. Given its time this year, it'll be somewhere over the #IndianOcean (15:33Z).
17 Years Ago Today: The 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake & Tsunami
The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami (also known as the Boxing Day Tsunami and, by the scientific community, the Sumatra–Andaman earthquake) occurred at 07:58:53 local time (UTC+7) on 26 December, with an epicentre off the west coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia. It was an undersea megathrust earthquake that registered a magnitude of 9.1–9.3 Mw, reaching a Mercalli intensity up to IX in certain areas. The earthquake was caused by a rupture along the fault between the Burma Plate and the Indian Plate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake_and_tsunami
This is the first major news event I followed largely through Wikipedia, which demonstrated itself to be phenomenally well-adapted to following a large (multi-continent, multi-ocean), long-term, and complex story. See the first version of the event's entry here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake_and_tsunami&oldid=8828080
#BoxinDayTsunami #2004 #OnThisDay #Earthquake #Tsunami #Indonesia #Thailand #SriLanka #IndianOcean #Wikipedia
