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The ocean conservation world has lost a giant. Kristina Gjerde, known as the "mother of the high seas," spent two decades building the coalitions that led to the historic 2023 UN High Seas Treaty—protecting biodiversity in international waters for the first time.
Her work became urgent as industrial activities threatened deep-sea ecosystems. She was 68.

Kristina Gjerde, defender of the deep ocean, has died
Half the planet lies outside any country’s border. In those waters, rules have long been thinner than the myths: freedom to fish meant freedom to take; “out of sight” became “out of mind.” The deep ocean and the high seas were treated as a backdrop to coastal concerns, even as they stored carbon and heat, […]

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Salt Marsh and Boulders at Odiorne Point State Park
#photo #photography #landscape #ocean

The photography is by Arch-Exist.

I just learned that Frank Gehry passed away. 😔
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/arts/design/frank-gehry-dead.html
One of his buildings that I hope to visit is the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao 🇪🇸. I looked at the list of buildings he designed and the only o…

Finally done creating a bookmarklet that lets me do a series of three clean-up #Wikibase edits on #WikimediaCommons files for this notorious user that uploads thousands of files.
The edits replace a creator=<some value> statement into a known value referring to this user’s

File:04578jfRecoletos Church Bulletin Baluarte San Andres Landmarks Intramurosfvf 46.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

🎈 CO₂ as a raw material: Catalyst system makes climate gas usable for the chemical industry
#chemistry

CO₂ as a raw material: Catalyst system makes climate gas usable for the chemical industry
Researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Catalysis (LIKAT), Ruhr University Bochum and Evonik Oxeno have developed a novel catalyst system that enables the use of the climate gas carbon dioxide (CO₂) as a raw material for the chemical industry. This breakthrough allows for the more sustainable production of key products such as fragrances and building blocks for plastics.

Binary partitioning with k-d trees is silly amazing. And with OSM data in radians and pretending the planet is a perfect sphere, scikit-learn's BallTree works wonderfully for quickly finding things nearby some reference point.
Like how far away the nearest bicycle_parking is for every building in a city.
#IMadeAThing #python #osm #overpassql

Japan is building the world's largest liquefied hydrogen carrier — a massive 40,000 cubic meter vessel set to revolutionize clean energy transport by the 2030s.
Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Japan Suiso Energy are teaming up on this groundbreaking ship, which will run on both diesel and hydrogen fuel. It features specialized tanks and advanced insulation to keep the super-cold liquid hydrogen stable during ocean voyages.

Japanese companies to build world’s largest liquefied hydrogen carrier
Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Japan Suiso Energy will construct a 40,000 cubic meter vessel designed to meet global hydrogen demand in the 2030s.