#atolls — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #atolls, aggregated by home.social.
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Meanwhile, in the #SouthChinaSea, the #PRC is cementing its hold on the #NineDashLine now known as the #TenDashLine —apparently an increase in the #Chinese claims of #Sovereignty over numerous #Shoals, #Reefs, #Lagoons and #Atolls mostly in other nations’ internationally recognised #ExclusiveEconomicZones. The #PLA base building is as impressive as it looks threatening. China (or whatever counts as its historical nationhood) has never had second thoughts when it comes to enlarging its territory at the expense of other sovereign nations (it even took on #Vietnam… and got a bloody nose out of it :)
That most of the international community and the self-appointed #Sheriff of the free world have condemned this aggressive expansion of Chinese territoriality makes no difference. We are all passively contemplating China’s ever growing offensive military capability (Q. To what ends?) knowing full well that nothing but a major confrontation will put a break on it. The juggernaut has awakened and we are powerless to stop it. When China runs out of sand to reclaim land, as it surely will, where will it expand next? Is war with China an inevitable otcome of all this build-up? I think I’ll start learning mandarin.
“Beijing’s land grab in the South China Sea shows no signs of slowing down, and Antelope Reef marks the latest in a decades-long string of island seizures that it can leverage during a potential dustup in the future. But whether it will eventually run out of islands to claim remains unclear. “China doesn’t have a lot left to dig,” according to Poling, “so unless China plans to seize another island, I don’t see it building anything, at least anything substantial.” (Source: TWZ)
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The Maldives is 1,192 islands. None of them rise more than 1.8 meters from the sea.
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It was a privilege to write two #ScienceCommunication articles for the UK's Royal Museums Greenwich including the National Maritime Museum:
1. "Atolls and climate change" https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/ocean/atolls-climate-change
2. "Coastal storms and climate change" https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/ocean/coastal-storms-climate-change
#oceans #climate #climatechange #islands #DRR #StormSurge #atolls #IslandStudies #storms -
"Tsunamis and atolls: why warnings must be locally meaningful"
https://www.preventionweb.net/drr-community-voices/tsunamis-and-atolls-why-warnings-must-be-locally-meaningful
#EWS #WarningSystems #Warning #DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterWarning #EarlyWarning #EarlyWarningSystems #IslandStudies #Atolls #Tsunami #Tsunamis #NoNaturalDisasters #DisastersAreNotNatural #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters -
#WeekendReading: Acker and Wilber about what we learned from looking down at #reefs, #atolls, and other #marine carbonate depositional systems from #space over the last three decades. Notably, the importance of #cyclones.
(a bit too much Bahamas, but that is an ongoing issue in the field)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dep2.70014 -
#WeekendReading: Rivas et al., on an Early #Cretaceous volcaniclastic–carbonate ramp in southern Chile. An interesting aperture into the Cretaceous temperate #carbonates (lots of #oysters) and their interactions in #volcanoes
I constantly find myself comparing and contrasting with these Late Cretaceous volcanic #atolls I worked on.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10347-023-00669-4 -
« La crise climatique crée-t-elle une situation d’urgence dans les #atolls ? » par Virginie Duvat
(La Rochelle université / CNRS / Institut universitaire de France / GIEC)
#Changementsglobaux #Géo5e #HGGSP #risques #climat
https://geoconfluences.ens-lyon.fr/informations-scientifiques/dossiers-thematiques/changement-global/articles-scientifiques/crise-climatique-urgence-atolls -
"Wang Yi told his Philippine counterpart, Enrique Manalo, during a Dec 20 call, tt “faced w the choice of what path to follow, #Philippines must act w caution”. He added: “China has always been committed to resolv'g #disputes thru dialogue & consultatn & jointly safeguard'g maritime stability”"
>> Qn: has #PRC ever "consulted" its Southeast Asian neighbors before reclaiming #atolls into military-capable facilities?
>> Stop PRC big-country mindset else dialogues will fail!
https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3246759/south-china-sea-return-dialogue-vital-china-philippines-ties?utm_source=rss_feed -
"A new paper challenges Darwin’s theory." No. Not that one.
Fascinating piece on how #coralReef #Atolls form...
https://eos.org/articles/rethinking-darwins-theory-of-atoll-formation
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#Cathlic #Church accused of attempting to appropriate seven Pacific #atolls in #Tahiti -- three arrested https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/leglise-catholique-accusee-de-spolier-des-atolls-de-tahiti-25-01-2023-RMWPQFWQ5NBLNAMPL6XZ3YYMLQ.php