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#pacific — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #pacific, aggregated by home.social.

  1. #Hawaii is turning #ocean #plastic into roads to fight pollution
    An island #recycling program is designed to solve the islands’ unique exposure to discarded fishing gear, tourist waste and the #GreatPacificGarbagePatch, which engulfs the island chain every few years. To date, 90 metric tons of plastic trash have been removed from the #Pacific Ocean, and more than a metric ton of fishing nets alone have been paved into Hawaiian roads.
    sciencenews.org/article/hawaii
    archive.ph/IX4yD

  2. 🟡 Military Strike | 7/10
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    US strike on vessel in eastern Pacific linked to narco trafficking
    The United States has conducted a strike on a vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean suspected of involvement in narco trafficking. The operation, designated Southern Spear, was carried out by US forces. Three individuals on board were killed as a result of the attack. According to official reports, there were no casualties among American military personnel. This strike is part of broader Washington efforts to combat illicit drug trafficking in the region.

    #OSINT #NewsGroup #MilitaryStrike #NarcoTrafficking #Pacific

  3. 🟡 Military Strike | 7/10
    🇺🇸 🇻🇪

    US strike on vessel in eastern Pacific linked to narco trafficking
    The United States has conducted a strike on a vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean suspected of involvement in narco trafficking. The operation, designated Southern Spear, was carried out by US forces. Three individuals on board were killed as a result of the attack. According to official reports, there were no casualties among American military personnel. This strike is part of broader Washington efforts to combat illicit drug trafficking in the region.

    #OSINT #NewsGroup #MilitaryStrike #NarcoTrafficking #Pacific

  4. 🟡 Military Strike | 7/10
    🇺🇸 🇻🇪

    US strike on vessel in eastern Pacific linked to narco trafficking
    The United States has conducted a strike on a vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean suspected of involvement in narco trafficking. The operation, designated Southern Spear, was carried out by US forces. Three individuals on board were killed as a result of the attack. According to official reports, there were no casualties among American military personnel. This strike is part of broader Washington efforts to combat illicit drug trafficking in the region.

    #OSINT #NewsGroup #MilitaryStrike #NarcoTrafficking #Pacific

  5. The #GreatPacificGarbagePatch is a #plastic #trash nightmare. It is also part of a much bigger, problem.

    Out in the #PacificOcean, between #Hawaii & #California, is the Great #Pacific #Garbage Patch, a swirl of #PlasticTrash >2X the size of Texas. As pieces of plastic tumble against each other, they break down into particles tiny enough to be borne aloft on the wind [& inhaled].

    #law #EnvironmentalLaw #microplastics #PublicHealth #health #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange
    cnn.com/2026/05/04/climate/mic

  6. To place these findings in a broader context, the newly reported assemblages were analyzed together with other Pleistocene assemblages across the IWP region (Indo-West #Pacific). Only weak geographic and temporal separation was detected, suggesting a relatively #cosmopolitan #community composition in #subtropical waters during the #Pleistocene, likely reflecting low temperature variability despite glacial–interglacial cycles.

  7. To place these findings in a broader context, the newly reported assemblages were analyzed together with other Pleistocene assemblages across the IWP region (Indo-West #Pacific). Only weak geographic and temporal separation was detected, suggesting a relatively #cosmopolitan #community composition in #subtropical waters during the #Pleistocene, likely reflecting low temperature variability despite glacial–interglacial cycles.

  8. To place these findings in a broader context, the newly reported assemblages were analyzed together with other Pleistocene assemblages across the IWP region (Indo-West #Pacific). Only weak geographic and temporal separation was detected, suggesting a relatively #cosmopolitan #community composition in #subtropical waters during the #Pleistocene, likely reflecting low temperature variability despite glacial–interglacial cycles.

  9. To place these findings in a broader context, the newly reported assemblages were analyzed together with other Pleistocene assemblages across the IWP region (Indo-West #Pacific). Only weak geographic and temporal separation was detected, suggesting a relatively #cosmopolitan #community composition in #subtropical waters during the #Pleistocene, likely reflecting low temperature variability despite glacial–interglacial cycles.

  10. World held hostage by reliance on fossil fuels,
    Christiana Figueres warns – and climate health impacts are ‘mother of all injustices’

    * "While the timing of the announcement – amid the US-Israel war on Iran – is coincidental, Figueres said the fuel crisis was “dramatic proof” of the global dependence on fossil fuels that is driving geopolitical instability and the health impacts the commission will examine."

    “Companies should understand for their business continuation, they should reduce emissions. Governments should understand that in order for them to stabilise their economy, and protect their people, they should reduce emissions...I just think that enlightened self-interest based on scientific facts – which is what the commission is going to put forward – is a much more effective route to emission reductions than a legally binding agreement from which anybody can withdraw.”
    theguardian.com/society/ng-int

    * Sea-level rise is a health crisis and we must hold polluters accountable >>
    theguardian.com/commentisfree/
    #FossilFuel #climate #war #harm #oil #petrol #SeaLevelRise #coast #Pacific #inequality #ClimateCrisis #PolyCrisis #MobilityDesign #cars #accountability #liability

  11. The #NOAA Fisheries agency declared an unusual mortality event for eastern #GrayWhales — meaning those in the eastern #Pacific — from late 2018 to late 2023. It involved 690 gray whale strandings during that time, stretching from Alaska to Mexico.

    NOAA Fisheries investigators concluded the preliminary cause was “localized #ecosystem changes in the #whales’ sub-Arctic & #Arctic #feeding areas that led to changes in food, malnutrition, decreased birth rates & increased mortality.”

    #Climate #law

  12. #Mining the deep #ocean
    Policymakers debate if we even need deep ocean mining and if we can do it safely.
    More than 13,000ft below the surface of #Pacific Ocean, a more-than-70-ton machine trundled like a tank on its caterpillar tracks for a tenth of a mile—sucking up potato-sized nodules of rock packed with #copper, #manganese, #cobalt, and #nickel. It was 2022, and that pilot run of a subsea harvester by a Canadian business, The #MetalsCompany, was pronounced a success.
    arstechnica.com/science/2026/0

  13. Pacific Palisades' newspaper, shut down after the fire, stages comeback

    misryoum.com/us/us/pacific-pal

    After the loss of thousands of family homes and businesses to the Palisades fire, the subsequent closing of the community’s nearly century-old newspaper felt like yet another a gut punch.But as the infrastructure of the Palisades rises from the...

    #Pacific #Palisades #newspaper #shut #down #after #the #fire #stages #comeback #US_News_Hub #misryoum_com

  14. Erewhon and others shut by fire set to reopen in Pacific Palisades mall

    misryoum.com/us/lifestyle/erew

    Fancy grocer Erewhon will return to Pacific Palisades in an entirely rebuilt store, as the neighborhood’s luxury mall, owned by developer Rick Caruso, undergoes renovations for a reopening next August. Palisades Village has been closed since the Jan. 7...

    #Erewhon #and #others #shut #fire #set #reopen #Pacific #Palisades #mall #US_News_Hub #misryoum_com

  15. Apia, Samoa Island life! 🌴 30°C with passing clouds and a gentle ocean breeze. A few coastal showers possible, but otherwise pure paradise. #Apia #Samoa #Pacific

  16. “We don't understand why, when these people are not criminals, and why they don't stay in the United States. Why is the United States looking for other country to host them?” #Palau #Pacific #Politics #USPol rnz.co.nz/international/pacifi

  17. The #Trump admin says all 11 people aboard were killed.

    What remains “unclear” was who ordered the strikes & whether #Defense Secy #PeteHegseth was involved, one of the people said. That will be part of a classified congressional briefing Thursday with the commander that the Trump admin claims ordered the 2nd strike, Adm. Frank “Mitch” Bradley.

    #scapegoat #CoverUp #law #criminal #murder #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings #Congress #Carribean #Pacific #Venezuela #InternationalLaw

  18. The #Pentagon knew there were survivors after a Sept attack on an alleged drug boat in the #Caribbean Sea & the #US #military still carried out a follow-up strike, acc/to 2 people familiar with the matter.

    The rationale for the 2nd strike was that it was needed to sink the vessel, acc/to the people….

    #Trump #Hegseth #scapegoat #CoverUp #law #criminal #murder #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings #Congress #Carribean #Pacific #Venezuela #InternationalLaw
    apnews.com/article/trump-hegse