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The annual competition draws thousands of entries from across the world and brings together images from below the water’s surface that show the diversity and challenges of subaquatic life

 

Sustainability is sexy.

 

Sustainability is sexy.

 

Israeli soldiers storm the Far’a refugee camp, killing three, as raids and arrests continue across the West Bank.

The killings come as the Israeli military continues its weeks-long, large-scale offensive on several areas of the northern West Bank, including Jenin and its refugee camp, as well as Tulkarem and its Nur Shams refugee camp, forcing thousands to flee their homes.

The army has also deployed hundreds of soldiers and bulldozers that demolished houses and tore up vital infrastructure in the camps, cutting off water and power.

Israel launched its crackdown on refugee camps in the West Bank in January.(...) The army has since killed dozens of Palestinians and forced at least 40,000 to flee as they have demolished homes and torn up vital infrastructure in refugee camps across the West Bank, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) reports.

 

While some attempted to frame the attackers as members of the Turkish neo-fascist Grey Wolves organization, activists on the ground identified markings linked to French far-right groups.

However, workers’ organizations have made it clear that they will not rely on mainstream politicians to resist these violent trends. Instead, they have announced more mobilizations alongside antifascist networks. “We will give them no ground—not in our cities, not in our neighborhoods, not in our workplaces, and not in our struggles,” Solidaires declared.

 

Abstract: Replying to criticism to the term infrastructural colonization, this commentary article discusses the colonial and how colonization is conceived. Infrastructural colonization, as opposed to colonialism, takes a literal approach to territorial control, landscape and socio-cultural change, exploring the literal colonization of habitats, people, social fabrics and more-than-human networks. Colonization—discrimination, control and extraction—operates on numerous scales and across various actors and places, accumulating into large-scale irreparable socio-ecological consequences. While it should not be conflated with (settler) colonialism, infrastructural colonization seeks to identify the roots and mechanisms of the colonial model, specifically how habitats and peoples are captured, psycho-politically captivated and together accumulated into an extractivist political economy. As an approach, infrastructural colonization implicitly recognizes state formation as colonialism, statism as (neo) colonialism and the state as colonial model(s). States, in their relative diversity, are understood as a structure of political and socioecological conquest.

 

Swapping QR codes in group invites and artillery targeting are latest ploys.

 

The study has some great pictures that clarify the process.

 

Siver's team identified fossilized phytoliths—microscopic silica structures formed in plant tissues—from palm trees in ancient lakebed sediments extracted from the Giraffe kimberlite pipe locality in Canada's Northwest Territories. These fossils, alongside preserved remains of warm-water aquatic organisms, indicate a climate far warmer than previously thought, challenging assumptions about when and where ice first formed in the Northern Hemisphere.

 

Despite their distinction as one of Earth's oldest lifeforms and the key role they play in sustaining coral reef ecosystems, marine sponges are vastly understudied.

Sponges are notoriously difficult to study, for a variety of reasons.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You might be interested in taking a look at the following articles:

Reality check on technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the air | MIT, Nov 2024

Study finds many climate-stabilization plans are based on questionable assumptions about the future cost and deployment of “direct air capture” and therefore may not bring about promised reductions.

Guide to Investigating Fossil Fuels: Greenwashing | Global Investigative Journalism Network, Feb 2025

The fossil fuel industry promotes solutions such as carbon capture and storage, liquefied natural gas, hydrogen, and renewable natural gas, which critics argue are far more focused on preserving industry profits than significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The tactics they use include funding university research that skews public discourse and policymaking in the direction of their preferred solutions. They have hired management consultancies to conduct skewed analysis supporting those solutions and funded lobbyists, and advertising and public relations firms to promote them.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

there is no chance that it is legal in any country that recognises and protects human rights.

It looks like there is No ban on conversion therapy in many states in the US, parts of Australia, Sweden and several places in Europe, according to the map on the wiki page Legality of conversion therapy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

To where? Where will they go? Who will take them?

(To) Hospitals

How will they even be let out?

According to the article : "Under this ceasefire agreement, there is supposed to be a mechanism in place for medical evacuations. We've still not seen that process spelled out,"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I cannot thank you enough for taking the time to explain all this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

The boiling thing sounds like a great tip

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (4 children)

If you have a good link on how to do pickled vegetables or with tips, please share!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I suppose if you have some bureaucratic ties with an EU country, Ireland would be easier to go to. Or if you want easy access to other european countries in the long term. To my knowledge finding a place to stay there is very hard as well as expensive, especially in Dublin. I don't really know how the squatting scene is but I guess you would need to know at least one local for this sort of info. Few years back, you find a job online (with a short contract usually), and accommodation would be provided, I don't mean free. Currently, I'm not sure.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Without knowing much about current politics in Serbia (or having actual trust or hope in governmental politics in general) I wanted to ask you: is there any interesting opposing politicians/parties/coalitions to your knowledge?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Now that you mentioned the Luddites, last year I listened to a very informative podcast from Margaret Killjoy:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

as long as evidentiary screenshots are good to go

Interesting point and the way you put it, kinda helps me frame an answer. For me, the keyword you used was evidentiary

Practically, I can think of a couple of reasons for now (there could be more!) to use a screenshot, let's say from twitter.

  • As evidence of what a deleted tweet was saying. I have the impression that due to how things are there nowadays, we are far from that sort of discourse.

  • Or as a reference to an actual tweet. In this case - imo - the screenshot is not necessarily enough as evidence, so a link is needed like we see in some articles. I suppose it also depends very much on the community itself. For example a white people twitter community is very different from one that is related to ocean conservation & tidalpunk, like this one.

For now, that's more or less what I have in mind, and I'm open to discussion for sure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I am not denying there is a historical reference to the use of this term. I just think it also makes sense - especially if we take into consideration the last 100 years or so - for this term to shift from its initial meaning. Or to put it differently, in other languages this shift has taken place for decades now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I understand what you say and I agree. Still I would like to add something:

I have noticed that in the english speaking world when people talk about the left they often include anarchy in this term. For me, this is highly problematic too, since the left has hierarchical structures and anarchy has horizontal ones.

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