#waterways — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #waterways, aggregated by home.social.
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Vessels seen on Strait of Hormuz by Bandar Abbas, Iran as sun sets
Iran said Sunday it struck an unmanned U.S. vessel trying to enter the Strait of Hormuz, a claim…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #2024-2025MideastWars #breakingnews #Generalnews #Iran #iranwar #MediaAPIvideo #Militaryanddefense #MohsenGanji #StraitofHormuz #Waterways
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Video shows vessels near Strait of Hormuz amid tensions between Iran and U.S
The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #2024-2025MideastWars #BBC #breakingnews #DonaldTrump #Energyindustry #Iran #Irangovernment #iranwar #MediaAPIvideo #MohsenGanji #Oilandgasindustry #StraitofHormuz #Television #Waterways
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https://www.europesays.com/iran/279157/ Video shows vessels near Strait of Hormuz amid tensions between Iran and U.S #20242025MideastWars #bbc #DonaldTrump #EnergyIndustry #Iran #IranGovernment #IranWar #MediaAPIVideo #MohsenGanji #OilAndGasIndustry #StraitOfHormuz #television #Waterways
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Nepal floods came as climate change brings more disasters to the Himalayas
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — When a wall of water, rocks and mud tore through her remote village in…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #AsiaPacific #Climate #Climateandenvironment #Climatechange #Floods #Generalnews #Glaciers #Greenhouseeffect #Landslidesandmudslides #ManjeetDhakal #Naturaldisasters #Nepal #Nepal-Tibetfloods #Waterways #World #Worldnews
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@ukwaterways
We turned round and began our walk back to the cottage, noticing the #shed alongside the #drydock that operated as the #office, the #waterlevel above through and below the #stoplock which seems exceptionally high and a well restored old #workboat in #Brit[sh #Waterways livery. -
There will be a high-pitched, continuous hum on NSW ocean beaches from shark surveillance drones
* "Shark-spotting drones will provide year-round coverage at about 70 beaches along the NSW coast as part of an expanded surveillance program announced after a Sydney mother was attacked by a suspected white shark."
"The state government on Sunday announced it would allocate an additional $34 million for shark-spotting drones, providing coverage at every ocean beach from Palm Beach to Cronulla 365 days of the year."
"About 70 beaches across the state will have year-round drone surveillance, with all Sydney beaches covered from July 1.It will also trial artificial intelligence to improve shark detection." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-28/more-funding-for-nsw-shark-spotting-drone-program/106852096* Restore confidence to beachgoers
"NSW beaches to get dawn-to-dusk drone patrols in $34m anti-shark program...We need to treat the beach like the bush. It’s the wild.” >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jun/28/nsw-beaches-to-get-dawn-to-dusk-drone-patrols-in-34m-anti-shark-program* A deep dive on sharks and the law in NSW
https://lsj.com.au/articles/a-deep-dive-on-sharks-and-the-law-in-nsw/
#uavs #drones #beaches #swimming #surfing #NSW #sharks #habitat #surveillance #MarineLife #MarineHabitat #wildlife #conservation #sewage #SewerOverflow #pollution #runoff #SydneyHarbour #waterways #MarineEnvironment #noise #birds #SharingSpaces #TheWild #TheCivilised -
A multi-stressor scenario for the ocean and waterway ecosystems:
* The ocean is 'cooked' by the combustion of fossil fuels.
* Add a generous heap of 'nutrient-rich' floodwaters (runoff) from farms and suburbia.
* Get a harmful algal bloom (HAB) disaster, killing bio-diverse marine life and threatening the hip pocket nerve of coastal dwellers."A survey found that Australians remained far more concerned about disasters such as bushfires and flooding than they did HABs, despite 22 million people living with seven kilometres of the coastline and climate change modelling predicting more frequent and severe blooms."
"The study also found Australians had a "relatively low prioritisation of disasters — and HABs in particular — when compared with everyday socio-economic concerns"...Cost of living and healthcare dominated respondents' concerns in Australia, while environmental and climate change-related risks were perceived as less pressing.' >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-25/sa-harmful-algal-bloom-public-understanding-survey-findings/106833676
#ocean #MarineLife #waterways #Biodiversity #FossilFuels #ClimateDisasters #disasters #MarineHeatwaves #ToxicBlooms #eutrophication #SystemicDisaster #MassMortalities #fish #hypoxia #FishKills #farms #fertiliser #Impervioussurfaces #runoff #pollution #Sewerage #Infrastructure #HipPocket #mindsets -
#Cities with extensive #waterways can exhibit higher levels of #urban #biodiversity; however, modified and slow-flowing #rivers and #canals can also release #methane and #carbon #dioxide, which support #globalwarming. Their importance as #flightcorridors for the urban #dispersal of #flying #animalspecies should not be overlooked. Pictured here: the #Spree River in #Berlin.
© #StefanFWirth, 10 June 2026Please support me with a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/sfwirth
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Trump says he may delay China trip as Iran war roils oil prices
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is suggesting he may delay his mu…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #AsiaPacific #Beijing #breakingnews #Business #China #Chinagovernment #Diplomacy #DonaldTrump #Energyindustry #Generalnews #Governmentandpolitics #Iran #Irangovernment #iranwar #LinJian #Politics #ScottBessent #UnitedStatesgovernment #Warandunrest #Washingtonnews #Waterways #Worldnews #XiJinping
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Detection And Spatial Modelling Of Trends In UK Rainfall Frequency
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https://doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2026.2622458 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #extremeweather #rainfall #pluvial #frequency #trends #nonstationarity #extremevalue #model #modeling #monitoring #UnitedKingdom #UK #Britian #England #Scotland #Wales #precipitation #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #drainage #monitoring #planning #resilience #naturalhazards #flooding #flood #water #hydrology # #sewerage #sewage #wastewater #waterways #pollution #spills #releases #stormwater #erosion #massmovement #landslides #engineeringgeology #risk #hazard #climatic #covariates #raingauges #maximums #duration #winter #NorthernEngland #NorthAtlanticOscillation #NAO #index #metrics #annualmaximum #AMAX #seasonalmaximum #SMAX #peaksoverthreshold #POT #statistics #geostatistics #MetOffice #weather #climate -
Leaching Of Legacy Paper Mill Sludge Induces Lithification By Cementation Of Fluvial Sediment
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ancene.2025.100523 <-- shared paper
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[For almost 300 years – from 1709 to 2004 – Penicuik and district was producing high-quality paper which went out all over the world; Walter Scott’s Waverley novels and Robert Louis Stevenson’s notebooks were printed on Penicuik paper, and Turner painted on it too.]
#Legacy #Papermill #Penicuik #Midlothian #scotland #Sludge #Anthropogenic #lithification #Conglomerate #Cementation #geology #water #hydrology #fluvial #sediment #calcium #leacging #river #stream #waterways #streambed #calciumcarbonate #CaCO3 #SEM #EDX #sampling #XRD #waste #wastemanagement #industrial #industry #industrialwaste #pollution #sedimentology #geochemistry #papermillsludge #PMS -
Council wants to ban artificial grass on nature strips over microplastics and PFAS concerns
"Fake lawns produce microplastics and contain PFAS chemicals that should not be near gutters. Artificial turf has PFAS and it's not good for our stormwater...If it gets into the stormwater, it can contaminate it... It can get up to 90 degrees …It also leeches microplastics into the waterways, impacting ecosystems. And finally, it will eventually end up in landfill."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-16/queanbeyan-council-artifical-grass-ban/105894880
#plastic #microplastics #fake #ocean #waterways #ecosystems #pollution #ArtificialGrass #PFAS #NatureStrip #lawn #councils #HotOcean #FossilFuel #landscapes #RepellWildlife #cars #TyreParticlesImage: Hot Fossil Fuel Landscape (Still life)
Fake plastic lawn and chairs on a hot 'nature strip' between fossil fuel parking with plastic tyre particles and a cement path. Al fresco space at a coastal town on the mid north coast of NSW -
The smoke from #Canada’s #wildfires may be even more #toxic than usual
A legacy of #mining means that #ToxicMetals could be carried along plumes of smoke.
by Matt Simon, June 5, 2025
"More than 200 wildfires are blazing across central and western Canada, half of which are out of control because they’re so hard for crews to access, forcing 27,000 people to evacuate. Even those nowhere near the wildfires are suffering as smoke swirls around Canada and wafts south, creating hazardous air quality all over the midwestern and eastern parts of the United States. The smoke is even reaching Europe.
"As the climate changes, the far north is drying and warming, which means wildfires are getting bigger and more intense. The area burned in Canada is now the second largest on record for this time of year, trailing behind the brutal wildfire season of 2023. That year, the amount of #carbon blazed into the atmosphere was about three times the country’s #FossilFuel emissions. And the more carbon that’s emitted from wildfires — in Canada and elsewhere — the faster the #PlanetaryWarming, and the worse the fires.
" 'There’s obviously the #ClimateFeedback concern,' said Mike Waddington, an environmental scientist at McMaster University in Ontario who studies Canada’s forests. 'But increasingly we’re also concerned about the smoke.'
"That’s because there’s much more to wildfire smoke than charred sticks and leaves, especially where these blazes are burning in Canada. The country’s #forests have long been #mined, operations that loaded #soils and #waterways with #ToxicMetals like #lead and #mercury, especially before clean-air standards kicked in 50 years ago. Now everyone downwind of these wildfires may have to contend with that legacy and those pollutants, in addition to all the other nasties inherent in #WildfireSmoke, which are known to exacerbate respiratory and cardiac problems.
" 'You have there the burning of these organic soils resulting in a lot of carbon and a lot of #ParticulateMatter,' said Waddington. 'Now you have this triple whammy, where you have the metals #remobilized in addition to that.'
"What exactly is lurking in the smoke from Canadian wildfires will require further testing by scientists. But an area of particular concern is around the mining city of #FlinFlon, in #ManitobaCanada, which is known to have elevated levels of toxic metals in the landscape, said Colin McCarter, an environmental scientist who studies pollutants at Ontario’s #NipissingUniversity. Flin Flon’s 5,000 residents have been evacuated as a wildfire approaches, though so far no structures have been destroyed.
"But a fire doesn’t need to directly burn mining operations to mobilize toxicants. For example, in #Yellowknife, in Canada’s #NorthwestTerritories, #GoldMining operations between 1934 and 2004 spread #arsenic as far as 18 miles away, adding to a landscape with an already high concentration of naturally occurring arsenic. In a paper published last year, Waddington and McCarter estimated that between 1972 and 2023, wildfires around Yellowknife fired up to 840,000 pounds of arsenic into the atmosphere. Arsenic is a known carcinogen associated with cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and developmental problems, according to the World Health Organization. (After the 2023 #LahainaFire in Maui, officials reported elevated levels of arsenic, lead, and other toxic substances in ash samples. California officials also found lots of lead in smoke from 2018’s #CampFire.)"
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https://grist.org/climate/canada-wildfire-smoke-toxic-arsenic/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us#WaterIsLife #SoilIsLife #AirIsLife #Mining #ToxicLegacy #FirstNations #Canada #Pollution #Worldwide #AQI #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe #AirQualityIndex
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#Backroads on #DididahtTerritory.
This is part of the #SanJuanRiver & forests in the valley. The #watershed area is under ongoing #ecological threats by industrial #clearcut #logging. This is near #CarmannahWalbran #BritishColumbia provincial park.
The forests here are longtime foraging, mating & birthing grounds for the #CowichanValley Roosevelt elk herd. The San Juan is an important salmon bearing river. The old growth forests here are home to several #SpeciesAtRisk & #EndangeredSpecies.
There is ongoing eco activism work to try & protect more of the forests & #waterways in this #wilderness valley on Southern #VancouverIsland.#SilentSunday #monochrome #Nature #WildFirst #landscape #photography #WorldInMyEyes #VanIsle #UncededNativeLand #Cascadia #environmental #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #BCForestryReform #forests #ProtectTheWild #WildFirst #Conservation #PacificNorthwest #PNW #SaveOurForests #TreesOverGreed #BanCorporateLobbyists #WaterIsLife #ProtectWatersheds #NatureFirst #Degrowth #ClimateChange #CarbonSinks
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@cabinradio #ImperialOil who got a slap on the wrist for unreported massive spills of #tarsands tailings into #waterways in northern #Alberta from the #Kearl dirty #oil project now wants to bully regulators in the #NWT. #BigOil is a menace in too many ways.
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#Climatechange is making us #sick, literally;
In hundreds of U.S. cities and towns, extreme #rainfalls are overwhelming outdated #sewersystems, #flooding #waterways with untreated #sewage.https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/08/climate-change-is-making-us-sick-literally/
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After being told that "cleaned water" has been recycled into the #RiverCam testing has shown that "#Phosphate level is massively higher than the acceptable maximum and is stifling the #River. Often agriculture is blamed but in this case it is clearly related to sewage. This points to serious neglect by #AnglianWater and the #EnvironmentAgency (EA).."
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It’s that time of year, again, to debunk a common and widespread myth about Barton Springs Pool in Austin: The myth is that the temperature of the pool “remains a constant 68 degrees” (or 70 degrees, depending on your source). In fact, the temperature of the pool has never been constant but can range from 68°F to 75°F, depending on the season and the exact location where the temperature is measured.
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After years of #environmental assault — from #DamBuilding , #overfishing & #logging — stretches of the #MekongRiver , upon which millions of people depend, appear to be #recovering . #HeavyRains have helped, along with a #crackdown on #IllegalFishing and other #conservation efforts.
https://e360.yale.edu/features/mekong-river-cambodia-recovery
#AsianMastodon #environmental #ecosystems #biodiversity #StopEcocide #ecology #river #Vietnam #Cambodia #RiverOfLife #ProtectRivers #WaterIsLife #Asian #SouthAsia #Mekong #waterways
