SplitSoul posted:

Karach posted:

When the Mennonites aren't busy destroying Mexico's forests, they're commiting culinary genocide

Oglethorpe posted:

475ml is 2ml too much apparently

i say swears online posted:

mennonites can make me a chicken fried steak any day

Karach posted:

When the Mennonites aren't busy destroying Mexico's forests, they're commiting culinary genocide

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An Edinburgh-based research team fears plankton, the tiny organisms that sustain life in our seas, has all but been wiped out after spending two years collecting water samples from the Atlantic.

The landmark research blames chemical pollution from plastics, farm fertilisers and pharmaceuticals in the water. Previously, it was thought the amount of plankton had halved since the 1940s, but the evidence gathered by the Scots suggest 90% has now vanished.

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Hamdani blamed Ankara for using "water waste" as a pretext for cutting Iraq's water supply, which it has done by damming key rivers that flow southward into Iraq.

Guney stated that the solution to the issue is "not to demand more water from Turkey, but to use the available water most efficiently," audaciously noting in the remarks that “investments must be made in [the water] infrastructure and Turkish companies are ready for this."

Water scarcity is a severe issue in Iraq. The country is the fifth-most vulnerable nation in the world to the effects of climate change, including water and food insecurity, according to the UN.

However, the issue is exacerbated by the Turkish and Iranian damming of rivers that flow into Iraq, cutting off the increasingly dry nation from much-needed water relief. Ankara has built a mega-dam on the Tigris River.

Much of Iraq's agricultural lands depend on irrigation, but dams and reservoirs were at record-low levels this summer.

A senior advisor at the Iraqi water resources ministry warned in April that the country's water reserves have halved since last year, due to a combination of drought, lack of rainfall, and declining water levels.

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On Tuesday, Turkey's Ambassador to Iraq Ali Riza Guney sparked anger by accusing Iraqis of "squandering" water resources, calling on Twitter for "immediate measures to reduce the waste" including "the modernization of irrigation systems."

Hamdani responded that Ankara was assuming "the right to reduce Iraq's ­water quota."

Iraq has seen three years of successive droughts and has halved cultivated agricultural areas for its 42 million inhabitants. "Water reserves have dropped 60 percent compared to last year," a government official said last week, Iraq's INA news agency reported.

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Ethiopia and Sudan have been locked in a decades-old dispute over the 260-square-kilometer border area of al-Fashqa, a patch of fertile agricultural borderland from which Khartoum expelled thousands of Ethiopian farmers in mid-December 2020, in an escalation that has since led to renewed clashes between the two countries.
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The border dispute between Sudan and Ethiopia is fueling wider tensions in the region, even affecting the controversial Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) that Addis Ababa is building on the Blue Nile.

The downstream countries, Egypt and Sudan, fear that the dam will limit their supplies of the Nile River, on which they depend for most of their water needs.

Gebreluel sees that Addis Ababa is looking for a way to mend relations with Khartoum, but the GERD issue, as well as al-Fashqa dispute, will be difficult to overcome.

Torpor posted:

https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/humanity-will-not-survive-extinction-of-most-marine-plants-and-animals/

not ideal


edit: can't seem to find the report itself, and this isn't reported elsewhere so take with a grain of salt. In any case, we've killed off somewhere between 50-90% of the plankton and it will be gone in 20-25 years.

Karach posted:

When the Mennonites aren't busy destroying Mexico's forests, they're commiting culinary genocide

Torpor posted:

https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/humanity-will-not-survive-extinction-of-most-marine-plants-and-animals/

mahershalalhashbaz posted:

river valleys are bad news, the hills and the desert are where it's at

Shifty Nipples posted:

good places to find interesting adaptations to the harsh conditions, like cacti clinging to sheer rocky cliff faces

Torpor posted:

edit: can't seem to find the report itself, and this isn't reported elsewhere so take with a grain of salt. In any case, we've killed off somewhere between 50-90% of the plankton and it will be gone in 20-25 years.

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Dr. Howard Dryden: 40 years as marine biologist; social entrepreneur with 4 decades of industry experience in water treatment and closed loop
marine life support systems
Diane Duncan: 20 years in public sector economic development - senior roles in policy and strategy for low carbon and economic development
of environmental, clean technologies and water treatment systems
Caroline Duncan: marine biologist; environmental consultant in the engineering and water treatment sector (10 years
industry experience); MSc on photochemical toxicity on marine phytoplankton; commencing PhD in decentralised water treatment in the Canadian
High Arctic
...
Recommendations
1. Industrial and municipal wastewater
a) Only 20% of the world’s wastewater is treated, with a tiny percentage returned in a better condition than
when it was abstracted [56]. Governments and regulators need to bring forward infrastructure plans and
initiate ‘polluter pays’ regulation to fund effective systems and innovation to achieve zero discharge or
zero impact of the water to the receiving environment.
b) In the UK, less than 10% of municipal water treatment systems are fitted with tertiary treatment to remove
plastic or toxic chemicals, and only some of these systems are effective. For example, in England billions
of tonnes of untreated wastewater and storm water are discharged into the sea every year [57].
...

SKULL.GIF posted:

https://twitter.com/chriscartw83/status/1548639904846028800

CRUSTY MINGE posted:

Crop failures, here we come!

i say swears online posted:

maybe we can keep plankton alive in captivity

CRUSTY MINGE posted:

Crop failures, here we come!

SplitSoul posted:

Ah, so that's what that out of place color band means.

Tzen posted:

read about this an hour ago and i don't have a lmao big enough

Rectal Death Adept posted:

name one thing a plankton has ever done for me

Torpor posted:

https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/humanity-will-not-survive-extinction-of-most-marine-plants-and-animals/

not ideal


edit: can't seem to find the report itself, and this isn't reported elsewhere so take with a grain of salt. In any case, we've killed off somewhere between 50-90% of the plankton and it will be gone in 20-25 years.

Ihmemies posted:

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The Yellow Line is our prediction for the increased growth of bacteria and dinoflagellates, based on (i) the IPEN (2021)
report, funded by the German and Swedish Governments (see Figure 2) and (ii) A European Commission report, which
states we will see a 40% decline of the marine environment [18]. The paper also reports an increase in bacteria and
protozoa which we are now witnessing in the Marmaris Sea [19][20][21].

Ihmemies posted:

2040s: All marine life and plankton based on carbonate dissolves, along with the ross of all the whales, and fish. We now have run-away climate change and mass starvation of billions of people.

Ihmemies posted:

Seems good. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinoflagellate

"Dinoflagellates sometimes bloom in concentrations of more than a million cells per millilitre. Under such circumstances, they can produce toxins (generally called dinotoxins) in quantities capable of killing fish and accumulating in filter feeders such as shellfish, which in turn may be passed on to people who eat them. This phenomenon is called a red tide, from the color the bloom imparts to the water."

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Some dinoflagellates also exhibit bioluminescence—primarily emitting blue-green light. Thus, some parts of the ocean light up at night giving blue-green light.