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The Mekong (In Vietnamese Me Kong and in Chinese Meigōng Hey 湄公河) is a river in Southeast Asia. The river is 4,909 km long (some sources give a short length of 4350 km) and is considered one of the major rivers in Asia. The river passes successively through the countries of China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand and Cambodia. Although the Mekong delta in Vietnam is located, the river is not called Mekong through Vietnam. In Phnom Penh down the river in the Hau and the Bassac. The Bassac changes its name once it's in the Xa Vinh Xuong and Thuong Phước 1 Vietnam flows.
The Mekong rises in the Tanglagebergte in China and culminates with a delta (Mekong Delta) in the South China Sea. The river has fluctuating water levels. The Tonle Sap Lake, which the Mekong by the Tonle Sap river is connected, has an important regulatory function.
In the river lives the largest species of catfish in the world, which are threatened with extinction and that in parts of Thailand, despite a ban on fishing.
In the upper and middle reaches, the river is partly navigable in its lower reaches, the river is navigable to Luang Prabang in Laos. The Khone Falls are important for energy production, the delta is very fertile for rice cultivation.
The Chinese part is called Lancang Jiang 澜沧江 and is one of the rivers of the "Three Parallel Rivers Protected Area in Yunnan", a nature reserve which is included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
On October 7, world-wide, a group calling itself Extinction Rebellion congregated to bring attention to the climate crisis by disrupting traffic. The idea was to block a bridge during rush-hour.
The Extinction Rebellion people in Calgary were very polite during their take over of the Louise Bridge near Kensington. Most of the time they stood in crosswalks with their signs and banners when drivers waited at red lights. They were almost entertaining with one guy dressed as The Joker and another guy dancing with a hula hoop. Occasionally they followed the XR program and stopped traffic during green lights but then some of them went car-to-car offering Timbits during their disruption.
The police were there mostly in an observational capacity, watching that everyone stayed civil. One officer took photos of protesters. But he also photos of drivers who edged too closely to the demonstrators or seemed overly aggressive with their car horns. And there were a few. One pedestrian shouted at them that there was no climate crisis. An old lady asked me what was going on. When I told her it was to draw attention to climate change she scowled and asked, "During rush hour?!"
* Extinction Rebellion website
* Extinction Rebellion Calgary website
* Extinction Rebellion - Google News
* Calgary climate protesters skip major traffic disruption, hand out Timbits instead - CBC News
Protesters link hands, facing City of London Police Officers (distinguished from Their Met Police colleagues by their red/white chequered hat bands) who seem relaxed about this demo which took place outside Parliament
On the eve of the G20 Leaders' Summit, Extinction Rebellion activists used a series of unpermitted “guerrilla projections” to draw attention to the climate and health dangers of new fossil gas infrastructure. Fifteen grassroots activists beamed infrared footage of usually invisible methane leakage from Italian gas infrastructure onto the walls of the Tiber River in the heart of Rome.
Community members from nearby Civitavecchia co-led the action, criticizing the Italian government’s plans to build a new fossil gas plant in the city as they phase out coal. Methane is a greenhouse gas more than 100 times more potent than CO2 while in the atmosphere. “Natural gas” is more than 95% pure methane.
“Moving from coal to gas is like moving from unfiltered cigarettes to filtered. What our climate and communities need instead are for countries like Italy to quit building fossil fuel infrastructure entirely and start investing instead in renewable energy that supports local economies. Italy’s plans to replace the Enel coal-fired power plant in Civitavecchia with another climate-wrecking fossil fuel shows that their real interest lies in keeping Enel and Snam happy - not in reducing climate emissions,” said Neal Huddon-Cossar from XR Roma.
The case of Civitavecchia has become emblematic in Italy of the national government's climate and energy strategy that relies heavily upon the transformation of its existing coal infrastructure into fossil gas infrastructure. Of all countries in the EU, Italy is planning the largest expansion of fossil gas use in the electricity sector between 2018 and 2025.
“Investing in methane gas today means investing billions of euros that would directly harm public health and workers. The new gas plants do not create stable and lasting employment and expose local communities to serious health risks,” said Riccardo Petrarolo from No Fossil Fuels Civitavecchia.
The recent and ongoing release of infrared methane leakage images taken by the Clean Air Task Force in Europe is part of increased scepticism about EU public funding for new fossil gas infrastructure as a climate strategy.
“Methane in the atmosphere is rising at unprecedented rates. Emissions from the development and use of fossil gas are a major reason, and some research indicates increased emissions from fossil gas are the single largest cause of higher methane in the atmosphere globally over the past 10 to 15 years,” says Robert W. Howarth, PhD, global expert on methane emissions at Cornell University.
Photo by Michael Danner
The Moa was a large flightless bird which lived on New Zealand. It was hunted to extinction by primitive peoples and their Maori decendants, who first arrived on the islands 20,000 years.
Florida activists at Rep. Stephanie Murphy's office meeting with staff in support of the Endangered Species Act.
"Panoramic" view looking northeast from the Juniper Canyon trail. The first real "vista" we had on our ascend to the top of High Peaks. It took four pictures combined into one to capture the entire scene.
"Extinction Rebellion (abbreviated as XR) is a socio-political movement which uses nonviolent resistance to protest against climate breakdown, biodiversity loss, and the risk of human extinction and ecological collapse." (Wikipedia)
29.11.2019. The EU have now declared a Climate Emergency, so we decorated the Europaplatz in Aachen accordingly.
Everything for the evolution. But how long can we continue like this?
How long until these animals can only be found in museums?
Natural History Museum,
South Kensington
London
so collaging for me first kind of started in notebooks that I carried around with me and worked on as I went and so I started another after more than a year with a moleskine I had lying around. some are unfinished some will get borders and some will get added or ripped out and some are fine, but here's a little preview of things going on hope you're all doing well <3 <3
The Concord grape is a variety of the Vitis Lambrusca (called "Fox grape" too is a species of grape native to the eastern United States) cultivated mainly in Northern Italy. It was used for the first time in Europe to fight the famous epidemic of phylloxera in the nineteenth century, in which almost all species of Vitis vinifera risked extinction. It was thanks to the American vines, immune from this insect, that they managed to ward off a mass extinction using the rootstocks of the new continent on which to use European vines.
The use of these grapes is exclusively for table consumption.
Po Valley - Piedmont/Italy