#spring2025 — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #spring2025, aggregated by home.social.
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Alice + Olivia Embraces Whimsy and Modernity Amidst Fashion Landscape Shifts
Alice + Olivia is using AI in all departments and bringing back handbags for Spring 2025. Find out how this affects their new collections.
#AliceAndOlivia, #StaceyBendet, #FashionTech, #Spring2025, #HandbagLaunch
https://newsletter.tf/alice-olivia-ai-design-handbag-launch-spring-2025/
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Alice + Olivia Embraces Whimsy and Modernity Amidst Fashion Landscape Shifts
Alice + Olivia is using AI in all departments and bringing back handbags for Spring 2025. Find out how this affects their new collections.
#AliceAndOlivia, #StaceyBendet, #FashionTech, #Spring2025, #HandbagLaunch
https://newsletter.tf/alice-olivia-ai-design-handbag-launch-spring-2025/
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Alice + Olivia is using AI across all departments, from design to merchandising. The brand is also reintroducing handbags with its Spring 2025 collection.
#AliceAndOlivia, #StaceyBendet, #FashionTech, #Spring2025, #HandbagLaunch
https://newsletter.tf/alice-olivia-ai-design-handbag-launch-spring-2025/
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Alice + Olivia is using AI across all departments, from design to merchandising. The brand is also reintroducing handbags with its Spring 2025 collection.
#AliceAndOlivia, #StaceyBendet, #FashionTech, #Spring2025, #HandbagLaunch
https://newsletter.tf/alice-olivia-ai-design-handbag-launch-spring-2025/
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ETH-Zurich: Digital Design and Computer Architecture; 227-0003-10L, Spring, 2025
https://safari.ethz.ch/ddca/spring2025/doku.php?id=start
#HackerNews #ETHZurich #DigitalDesign #ComputerArchitecture #Spring2025 #Education
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ETH-Zurich: Digital Design and Computer Architecture; 227-0003-10L, Spring, 2025
https://safari.ethz.ch/ddca/spring2025/doku.php?id=start
#HackerNews #ETHZurich #DigitalDesign #ComputerArchitecture #Spring2025 #Education
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ETH-Zurich: Digital Design and Computer Architecture; 227-0003-10L, Spring, 2025
https://safari.ethz.ch/ddca/spring2025/doku.php?id=start
#HackerNews #ETHZurich #DigitalDesign #ComputerArchitecture #Spring2025 #Education
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ETH-Zurich: Digital Design and Computer Architecture; 227-0003-10L, Spring, 2025
https://safari.ethz.ch/ddca/spring2025/doku.php?id=start
#HackerNews #ETHZurich #DigitalDesign #ComputerArchitecture #Spring2025 #Education
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ETH-Zurich: Digital Design and Computer Architecture; 227-0003-10L, Spring, 2025
https://safari.ethz.ch/ddca/spring2025/doku.php?id=start
#HackerNews #ETHZurich #DigitalDesign #ComputerArchitecture #Spring2025 #Education
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Watch at: https://youtu.be/7g7y1Uk5hLk
Play at: https://tic80.com/play?cart=4428#youtube #youtuber #youtubechannel #fall #tic80 #fall2025 #spring #spring2025 #leaf #leaves #october #pixel #pixelart #pixelartist #pixelartwork #animation #animated #animator #animation2d #art #artistsonmastodon #programming #program #code #coding #creativecoding #creative #creativecodingart #nerd #geek #lua
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Watch at: https://youtu.be/7g7y1Uk5hLk
Play at: https://tic80.com/play?cart=4428#youtube #youtuber #youtubechannel #fall #tic80 #fall2025 #spring #spring2025 #leaf #leaves #october #pixel #pixelart #pixelartist #pixelartwork #animation #animated #animator #animation2d #art #artistsonmastodon #programming #program #code #coding #creativecoding #creative #creativecodingart #nerd #geek #lua
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Watch at: https://youtu.be/7g7y1Uk5hLk
Play at: https://tic80.com/play?cart=4428#youtube #youtuber #youtubechannel #fall #tic80 #fall2025 #spring #spring2025 #leaf #leaves #october #pixel #pixelart #pixelartist #pixelartwork #animation #animated #animator #animation2d #art #artistsonmastodon #programming #program #code #coding #creativecoding #creative #creativecodingart #nerd #geek #lua
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Watch at: https://youtu.be/7g7y1Uk5hLk
Play at: https://tic80.com/play?cart=4428#youtube #youtuber #youtubechannel #fall #tic80 #fall2025 #spring #spring2025 #leaf #leaves #october #pixel #pixelart #pixelartist #pixelartwork #animation #animated #animator #animation2d #art #artistsonmastodon #programming #program #code #coding #creativecoding #creative #creativecodingart #nerd #geek #lua
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Watch at: https://youtu.be/7g7y1Uk5hLk
Play at: https://tic80.com/play?cart=4428#youtube #youtuber #youtubechannel #fall #tic80 #fall2025 #spring #spring2025 #leaf #leaves #october #pixel #pixelart #pixelartist #pixelartwork #animation #animated #animator #animation2d #art #artistsonmastodon #programming #program #code #coding #creativecoding #creative #creativecodingart #nerd #geek #lua
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Un peu de couleur pour contrer la grisaille, et bonne rentrée à celles et ceux qui la font!
#Photography #Nature #ArbreDeJudee #Spring2025 #Spring #Printemps #CercisSiliquastrum #JudasTree -
Un peu de couleur pour contrer la grisaille, et bonne rentrée à celles et ceux qui la font!
#Photography #Nature #ArbreDeJudee #Spring2025 #Spring #Printemps #CercisSiliquastrum #JudasTree -
Un peu de couleur pour contrer la grisaille, et bonne rentrée à celles et ceux qui la font!
#Photography #Nature #ArbreDeJudee #Spring2025 #Spring #Printemps #CercisSiliquastrum #JudasTree -
Un peu de couleur pour contrer la grisaille, et bonne rentrée à celles et ceux qui la font!
#Photography #Nature #ArbreDeJudee #Spring2025 #Spring #Printemps #CercisSiliquastrum #JudasTree -
Un peu de couleur pour contrer la grisaille, et bonne rentrée à celles et ceux qui la font!
#Photography #Nature #ArbreDeJudee #Spring2025 #Spring #Printemps #CercisSiliquastrum #JudasTree -
Styled by the legendary Emmanuelle Alt, the campaign stars rising runway favorites Lulu Tenney, Bibi Breslin, and Rejoice Chuol, each rocking standout interpretations of the signature DG Grille design.
https://retroworldnews.com/italian-elegance-meets-high-fashion-dolce-gabbanas-spring-2025-eyewear-campaign-with-celebrity-models/#ItalianElegance #DolceGabbana #HighFashion #Spring2025 #EyewearCampaign #CelebrityModels #LuxuryStyle #FashionForward #ChicEyewear #Glamour #FashionInspiration #StyleIcon #TimelessElegance #FashionPhotography #RunwayReady #DesignerEyewear #FashionTrends #LuxuryLifestyle
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Styled by the legendary Emmanuelle Alt, the campaign stars rising runway favorites Lulu Tenney, Bibi Breslin, and Rejoice Chuol, each rocking standout interpretations of the signature DG Grille design.
https://retroworldnews.com/italian-elegance-meets-high-fashion-dolce-gabbanas-spring-2025-eyewear-campaign-with-celebrity-models/#ItalianElegance #DolceGabbana #HighFashion #Spring2025 #EyewearCampaign #CelebrityModels #LuxuryStyle #FashionForward #ChicEyewear #Glamour #FashionInspiration #StyleIcon #TimelessElegance #FashionPhotography #RunwayReady #DesignerEyewear #FashionTrends #LuxuryLifestyle
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AI agent startups at Y Combinator’s Spring ’25 Demo Day
https://www.businessinsider.com/y-combinator-yc-demo-day-spring-ai-agent-startups-2025-6
#HackerNews #AIstartups #YCombinator #DemoDay #Spring2025 #Innovation
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The Alaska climate summary for May is now posted in the Alaska and Arctic Climate newsletter. As usual, lots of regional variability but more cool and wet than not. @Climatologist49
https://alaskaclimate.substack.com/p/alaska-may-2025-climate-summary
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There was less sun this past Spring in most of Southeast and parts of southwest Alaska than any other spring since the late 1970s. Most of Southcentral was sun-limited too. In contrast, Northwest Arctic Borough and portions of the North Slope coast had much more sunshine than usual. Data from ERA5 and analysis and plotting courtesy @Climatologist49
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Spring (March through May) average temperature departure from the 1991-2020 baseline around the Arctic. Most of Iceland and the Nordic Arctic had a top-3 warmest spring since 1950, as did parts of Greenland and eastern Siberia. Nowhere in the Arctic had a top-3 coolest Spring. ERA5 courtesy of ECMWF/Copernicus. @Climatologist49
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Sixth: "To bee or not to bee", where we mourn the now departed hairy-footed flower bees and the many species of mining bees – see you next Spring –, and welcome a whole new range of bees, awoken at the right time to feast on the pink lampwick, bright yellow fear-leaf yarrow, and deep pink Deutzia bushes. The rooster includes mason bees, leaf-cutter bees, sweat bees, armoured-resin bees, masked bees, and the spectacular European woolcarder bee. The last two kinds are putting in quite the territorial control and mating show.
https://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/college/news/bee-or-not-bee
#Pembroke1347 #iNaturalist #Spring2025 #UK #CambridgeUK -
Fifth: "Fantastic colours on the wing", where we linger on the many beautiful flies that inhabit the college gardens, from beeflies to bright emerald greenbottle flies, hoverflies, dagger flies, assassin flies, and many others, plus the expected set of bees for late April and early May in Cambridge, UK.
(No images because an update to the blogging platform broke functionality needlessly and carelessly – so click on the iNaturalist links to see them.)
https://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/college/news/fantastic-colours-wing
#Pembroke1347 #iNaturalist #Spring2025 #UK #CambridgeUK -
For your listening enjoyment, here are eight seconds of baby sparrows chirping in a hidden nest in the eaves above our front door. Happy Spring!
#birds #sparrow #BirdsOfMastodon #BirdsOfFediverse #BabyBird #BabyBirds #spring #Spring2025 #sounds #BirdSong
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Fairbanks Airport reported thunder on Tuesday between 140pm and 215pm AKDT. This is the third day this month with thunder. This ties with 2004 and 1935 for most May days with thunder. Most Mays have no thunder. #akwx #weather #Spring2025 @anisian
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Fairbanks Airport reporting thunder at 1230pm Monday. This is the second day this month with thunder (May 18 was the first day), making this the first May with two days of thunder since 2012. #akwx #Spring2025 #thunder @anisian @Climatologist49 @debmcqueen
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May has been a very rainy month in Southeast Alaska, with most places seeing 1.5 to 3 times normal rainfall through the first 25 days of the month. Quite variable elsewhere, though very little data in western Alaska. Base graphic from the NOAA funded High Plains Regional Climate Center with some modifications for data QC. #akwx #Climate #Spring2025 @SilverSalmonAK @seachanger
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The transition of winter to summer happens quickly in the Arctic, with the loss of snowpack and sea ice leading the way. I've got an update on where things stand this year in that annual cycle with a new post on the Alaska and Arctic Climate newsletter. @Climatologist49
https://alaskaclimate.substack.com/p/late-may-2025-snow-and-ice-update
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Snow cover continues to decrease over Alaska and vicinity. As of May 23, low elevations now mostly clear of snow except northwest Arctic and Brooks Range northward. Meltout is not as far advanced north of about 67N as this date last year in both Alaska and northwest Canada, but more snow-free ground in western Alaska. Analysis from National Ice Center and data courtesy NSIDC. #akwx #Snow #Spring2025 @Climatologist49
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Scenes from the #garden
First bud on the cherry tomatoes.
Got two sunflowers planted.
Goji is going nuts, but I don't know if I'll get fruit this year.
#gardening #flower #flowers #flowerstadon #bloomscrolling #tomatoes #goji #pansies #sunflower #spring #spring2025 #springtime
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Scenes from the #garden
First bud on the cherry tomatoes.
Got two sunflowers planted.
Goji is going nuts, but I don't know if I'll get fruit this year.
#gardening #flower #flowers #flowerstadon #bloomscrolling #tomatoes #goji #pansies #sunflower #spring #spring2025 #springtime
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Scenes from the #garden
First bud on the cherry tomatoes.
Got two sunflowers planted.
Goji is going nuts, but I don't know if I'll get fruit this year.
#gardening #flower #flowers #flowerstadon #bloomscrolling #tomatoes #goji #pansies #sunflower #spring #spring2025 #springtime
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Scenes from the #garden
First bud on the cherry tomatoes.
Got two sunflowers planted.
Goji is going nuts, but I don't know if I'll get fruit this year.
#gardening #flower #flowers #flowerstadon #bloomscrolling #tomatoes #goji #pansies #sunflower #spring #spring2025 #springtime
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Scenes from the #garden
First bud on the cherry tomatoes.
Got two sunflowers planted.
Goji is going nuts, but I don't know if I'll get fruit this year.
#gardening #flower #flowers #flowerstadon #bloomscrolling #tomatoes #goji #pansies #sunflower #spring #spring2025 #springtime
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Taking center stage is Dutch supermodel Lara Stone, who brings effortless glam to the Spring 2025 Versace Eyewear collection—especially in the standout Versace Signature Cat-Eye sunglasses.
https://retroworldnews.com/versace-taps-lara-stone-to-front-bold-spring-2025-eyewear-campaign/#VersaceEyewear #LaraStone #Spring2025 #LuxuryFashion #BoldStyle #HighFashion #EyewearCampaign #FashionIcon #ChicElegance #VersaceVision #LuxuryLifestyle #FashionForward #TimelessElegance #DesignerEyewear #FashionPhotography #Glamour #StyleInspiration #FashionTrends #LuxuryBrand
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Taking center stage is Dutch supermodel Lara Stone, who brings effortless glam to the Spring 2025 Versace Eyewear collection—especially in the standout Versace Signature Cat-Eye sunglasses.
https://retroworldnews.com/versace-taps-lara-stone-to-front-bold-spring-2025-eyewear-campaign/#VersaceEyewear #LaraStone #Spring2025 #LuxuryFashion #BoldStyle #HighFashion #EyewearCampaign #FashionIcon #ChicElegance #VersaceVision #LuxuryLifestyle #FashionForward #TimelessElegance #DesignerEyewear #FashionPhotography #Glamour #StyleInspiration #FashionTrends #LuxuryBrand
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🔥🐍🚀 Behold: #Pyrefly, because who doesn't want to run a #Python type checker written in #Rust that launches in the distant future of Spring 2025? 🤔 You'll be faster too if you never actually do anything! 🌟👻 Enjoy the endless scroll through #legalese and cookie policies. 🍪📜
https://pyrefly.org/ #Spring2025 #TypeChecker #HackerNews #ngated -
As #Norway Considers #DeepSeaMining, a Rich History of Ocean Conservation Decisions May Inform How the Country Acts
In the past, scientists, industry and government have worked together in surprising, tense and fruitful ways
by Christian Elliott, April 21, 2025
"At the #Arctic #MidOceanRidge off the Norwegian coast, molten rock rises from deep within the Earth between spreading tectonic plates. Black smoker vents sustain unique ecosystems in the dark. Endemic species of long, segmented bristle worms and tiny crustaceans graze on bacteria mats and flit among fields of chemosynthetic tube worms, growing thick as grass. Dense banks of sponges cling to the summits and slopes of underwater mountains. And among all this life, minerals build up slowly over millennia in the form of #sulfide deposits and #manganese crusts.
"Those minerals are the kind needed to fuel the global green energy transition—#copper, #zinc and #cobalt. In January 2024, Norway surprised the world with the announcement it planned to open its waters for exploratory deep-sea mining, the first nation to do so. If all went to plan, companies would be issued licenses to begin identifying mineral deposits as soon as #Spring2025. To some scientists who’d spent decades mapping and studying the geology and ecology of the Norwegian seabed and Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge, the decision seemed premature—they still lacked critical data on the area targeted for mining. The government’s own Institute of Marine Research (IMR) accused it of extrapolating from a small area where data has already been collected to the much larger zone now targeted
“ 'Our advice has been we don’t have enough knowledge,' says Rebecca Ross, an #ecologist at IMR who works on Norway’s #Mareano deep-sea mapping initiative. She says the decision was based solely on the #geology of the area. Taking high-resolution scans of the seabed and sampling its geology is the first step when research ships enter a new area, but critical biological and ecological research is more difficult and tends to come later—which is the case on the ridge area targeted for mining. Ross says it’s certain that area contains vulnerable marine ecosystems that would be affected by the light and noise pollution and sediment plumes generated by mining. The IMR estimates closing the knowledge gap on the target area could take ten years.
"The same conflict, with a partial scientific understanding misinterpreted and used to justify resource extraction, is playing out in the #Pacific, where mining pilot projects are already underway in international waters. Years before, scientists funded by industry scouted the #seabed there, discovering both valuable minerals and new forms of life."
#LeaveItInTheOcean #DeepSeaMining #NoDeepSeaMining #RecycleCopper #LifeOnEarth #Ecocide #PlanetDestroyers #HumanGreed
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As #Norway Considers #DeepSeaMining, a Rich History of Ocean Conservation Decisions May Inform How the Country Acts
In the past, scientists, industry and government have worked together in surprising, tense and fruitful ways
by Christian Elliott, April 21, 2025
"At the #Arctic #MidOceanRidge off the Norwegian coast, molten rock rises from deep within the Earth between spreading tectonic plates. Black smoker vents sustain unique ecosystems in the dark. Endemic species of long, segmented bristle worms and tiny crustaceans graze on bacteria mats and flit among fields of chemosynthetic tube worms, growing thick as grass. Dense banks of sponges cling to the summits and slopes of underwater mountains. And among all this life, minerals build up slowly over millennia in the form of #sulfide deposits and #manganese crusts.
"Those minerals are the kind needed to fuel the global green energy transition—#copper, #zinc and #cobalt. In January 2024, Norway surprised the world with the announcement it planned to open its waters for exploratory deep-sea mining, the first nation to do so. If all went to plan, companies would be issued licenses to begin identifying mineral deposits as soon as #Spring2025. To some scientists who’d spent decades mapping and studying the geology and ecology of the Norwegian seabed and Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge, the decision seemed premature—they still lacked critical data on the area targeted for mining. The government’s own Institute of Marine Research (IMR) accused it of extrapolating from a small area where data has already been collected to the much larger zone now targeted
“ 'Our advice has been we don’t have enough knowledge,' says Rebecca Ross, an #ecologist at IMR who works on Norway’s #Mareano deep-sea mapping initiative. She says the decision was based solely on the #geology of the area. Taking high-resolution scans of the seabed and sampling its geology is the first step when research ships enter a new area, but critical biological and ecological research is more difficult and tends to come later—which is the case on the ridge area targeted for mining. Ross says it’s certain that area contains vulnerable marine ecosystems that would be affected by the light and noise pollution and sediment plumes generated by mining. The IMR estimates closing the knowledge gap on the target area could take ten years.
"The same conflict, with a partial scientific understanding misinterpreted and used to justify resource extraction, is playing out in the #Pacific, where mining pilot projects are already underway in international waters. Years before, scientists funded by industry scouted the #seabed there, discovering both valuable minerals and new forms of life."
#LeaveItInTheOcean #DeepSeaMining #NoDeepSeaMining #RecycleCopper #LifeOnEarth #Ecocide #PlanetDestroyers #HumanGreed
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As #Norway Considers #DeepSeaMining, a Rich History of Ocean Conservation Decisions May Inform How the Country Acts
In the past, scientists, industry and government have worked together in surprising, tense and fruitful ways
by Christian Elliott, April 21, 2025
"At the #Arctic #MidOceanRidge off the Norwegian coast, molten rock rises from deep within the Earth between spreading tectonic plates. Black smoker vents sustain unique ecosystems in the dark. Endemic species of long, segmented bristle worms and tiny crustaceans graze on bacteria mats and flit among fields of chemosynthetic tube worms, growing thick as grass. Dense banks of sponges cling to the summits and slopes of underwater mountains. And among all this life, minerals build up slowly over millennia in the form of #sulfide deposits and #manganese crusts.
"Those minerals are the kind needed to fuel the global green energy transition—#copper, #zinc and #cobalt. In January 2024, Norway surprised the world with the announcement it planned to open its waters for exploratory deep-sea mining, the first nation to do so. If all went to plan, companies would be issued licenses to begin identifying mineral deposits as soon as #Spring2025. To some scientists who’d spent decades mapping and studying the geology and ecology of the Norwegian seabed and Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge, the decision seemed premature—they still lacked critical data on the area targeted for mining. The government’s own Institute of Marine Research (IMR) accused it of extrapolating from a small area where data has already been collected to the much larger zone now targeted
“ 'Our advice has been we don’t have enough knowledge,' says Rebecca Ross, an #ecologist at IMR who works on Norway’s #Mareano deep-sea mapping initiative. She says the decision was based solely on the #geology of the area. Taking high-resolution scans of the seabed and sampling its geology is the first step when research ships enter a new area, but critical biological and ecological research is more difficult and tends to come later—which is the case on the ridge area targeted for mining. Ross says it’s certain that area contains vulnerable marine ecosystems that would be affected by the light and noise pollution and sediment plumes generated by mining. The IMR estimates closing the knowledge gap on the target area could take ten years.
"The same conflict, with a partial scientific understanding misinterpreted and used to justify resource extraction, is playing out in the #Pacific, where mining pilot projects are already underway in international waters. Years before, scientists funded by industry scouted the #seabed there, discovering both valuable minerals and new forms of life."
#LeaveItInTheOcean #DeepSeaMining #NoDeepSeaMining #RecycleCopper #LifeOnEarth #Ecocide #PlanetDestroyers #HumanGreed
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As #Norway Considers #DeepSeaMining, a Rich History of Ocean Conservation Decisions May Inform How the Country Acts
In the past, scientists, industry and government have worked together in surprising, tense and fruitful ways
by Christian Elliott, April 21, 2025
"At the #Arctic #MidOceanRidge off the Norwegian coast, molten rock rises from deep within the Earth between spreading tectonic plates. Black smoker vents sustain unique ecosystems in the dark. Endemic species of long, segmented bristle worms and tiny crustaceans graze on bacteria mats and flit among fields of chemosynthetic tube worms, growing thick as grass. Dense banks of sponges cling to the summits and slopes of underwater mountains. And among all this life, minerals build up slowly over millennia in the form of #sulfide deposits and #manganese crusts.
"Those minerals are the kind needed to fuel the global green energy transition—#copper, #zinc and #cobalt. In January 2024, Norway surprised the world with the announcement it planned to open its waters for exploratory deep-sea mining, the first nation to do so. If all went to plan, companies would be issued licenses to begin identifying mineral deposits as soon as #Spring2025. To some scientists who’d spent decades mapping and studying the geology and ecology of the Norwegian seabed and Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge, the decision seemed premature—they still lacked critical data on the area targeted for mining. The government’s own Institute of Marine Research (IMR) accused it of extrapolating from a small area where data has already been collected to the much larger zone now targeted
“ 'Our advice has been we don’t have enough knowledge,' says Rebecca Ross, an #ecologist at IMR who works on Norway’s #Mareano deep-sea mapping initiative. She says the decision was based solely on the #geology of the area. Taking high-resolution scans of the seabed and sampling its geology is the first step when research ships enter a new area, but critical biological and ecological research is more difficult and tends to come later—which is the case on the ridge area targeted for mining. Ross says it’s certain that area contains vulnerable marine ecosystems that would be affected by the light and noise pollution and sediment plumes generated by mining. The IMR estimates closing the knowledge gap on the target area could take ten years.
"The same conflict, with a partial scientific understanding misinterpreted and used to justify resource extraction, is playing out in the #Pacific, where mining pilot projects are already underway in international waters. Years before, scientists funded by industry scouted the #seabed there, discovering both valuable minerals and new forms of life."
#LeaveItInTheOcean #DeepSeaMining #NoDeepSeaMining #RecycleCopper #LifeOnEarth #Ecocide #PlanetDestroyers #HumanGreed
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As #Norway Considers #DeepSeaMining, a Rich History of Ocean Conservation Decisions May Inform How the Country Acts
In the past, scientists, industry and government have worked together in surprising, tense and fruitful ways
by Christian Elliott, April 21, 2025
"At the #Arctic #MidOceanRidge off the Norwegian coast, molten rock rises from deep within the Earth between spreading tectonic plates. Black smoker vents sustain unique ecosystems in the dark. Endemic species of long, segmented bristle worms and tiny crustaceans graze on bacteria mats and flit among fields of chemosynthetic tube worms, growing thick as grass. Dense banks of sponges cling to the summits and slopes of underwater mountains. And among all this life, minerals build up slowly over millennia in the form of #sulfide deposits and #manganese crusts.
"Those minerals are the kind needed to fuel the global green energy transition—#copper, #zinc and #cobalt. In January 2024, Norway surprised the world with the announcement it planned to open its waters for exploratory deep-sea mining, the first nation to do so. If all went to plan, companies would be issued licenses to begin identifying mineral deposits as soon as #Spring2025. To some scientists who’d spent decades mapping and studying the geology and ecology of the Norwegian seabed and Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge, the decision seemed premature—they still lacked critical data on the area targeted for mining. The government’s own Institute of Marine Research (IMR) accused it of extrapolating from a small area where data has already been collected to the much larger zone now targeted
“ 'Our advice has been we don’t have enough knowledge,' says Rebecca Ross, an #ecologist at IMR who works on Norway’s #Mareano deep-sea mapping initiative. She says the decision was based solely on the #geology of the area. Taking high-resolution scans of the seabed and sampling its geology is the first step when research ships enter a new area, but critical biological and ecological research is more difficult and tends to come later—which is the case on the ridge area targeted for mining. Ross says it’s certain that area contains vulnerable marine ecosystems that would be affected by the light and noise pollution and sediment plumes generated by mining. The IMR estimates closing the knowledge gap on the target area could take ten years.
"The same conflict, with a partial scientific understanding misinterpreted and used to justify resource extraction, is playing out in the #Pacific, where mining pilot projects are already underway in international waters. Years before, scientists funded by industry scouted the #seabed there, discovering both valuable minerals and new forms of life."
#LeaveItInTheOcean #DeepSeaMining #NoDeepSeaMining #RecycleCopper #LifeOnEarth #Ecocide #PlanetDestroyers #HumanGreed
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Spring is emerging everywhere in our woods and we're almost at leaf out (except for the laggard black walnuts). Photos include dogwood bark, pawpaw flower, emerging ginseng (three pronged) and a showy orchid along one of our trails. #orchids #spring2025 #pawpaw #flowering_dogwood #ginseng
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Spring is emerging everywhere in our woods and we're almost at leaf out (except for the laggard black walnuts). Photos include dogwood bark, pawpaw flower, emerging ginseng (three pronged) and a showy orchid along one of our trails. #orchids #spring2025 #pawpaw #flowering_dogwood #ginseng
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Alaska and vicinity comparison of April 15 snowpack snow water equivalent against same date last year. Much lower SWE southwest Alaska and lower Mackenzie valley. Much higher in the central Interior. Data from ERA5. #snow #Spring2025 #akwx #ytwx #ntwx @Climatologist49
