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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music
Richard Hawley:
🎵 The Ocean
#RichardHawley
https://benicassimpop.bandcamp.com/track/fiber-moment-the-ocean-de-richard-hawley
https://open.spotify.com/track/7zbGF3nDwYpDcS1Yjcaxt2

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Piebald:
🎵 Rich People Can Breed
#Piebald
https://iodinerecordings.bandcamp.com/track/rich-people-can-breed-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/719OJiN13GuiicpdipeWrJ

Identifying the topographic signature of early Martian oceans: #Mars: https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/bathtub-ring-is-new-evidence-for-an-ancient-ocean-on-mars

Samstag, 24.01.2026
⚠️ Nach dem Glatteis, nochmal Glatteis ⚠️
Auch heute sehr gefährliche Verhältnisse für den öffentlichen Verkehr.
Alles dabei von vereist bis nass.
Gestern Freitag 👇🏻
https://osna.social/@gardenscorpion/115942613605660849

🫧 Shipping regulations to reduce pollution may have exacerbated Great Barrier Reef bleaching
https://phys.org/news/2026-01-shipping-pollution-exacerbated-great-barrier.html

Shipping regulations to reduce pollution may have exacerbated Great Barrier Reef bleaching
Rising ocean temperatures have been implicated in mass coral bleaching events affecting the Great Barrier Reef (GBR). These events have been increasingly frequent, with major events occurring in 2016, 2017, 2020, 2022, 2024, and 2025. Now, in an unexpected turn of events, it appears that regulations introduced in 2020 to reduce ship fuel pollution may have actually increased the solar radiation that leads to increased coral bleaching, according to a study published in Nature Communications Eart…

Sea levels around Africa are rising faster than the global average: What's behind this alarming trend #Africa

Sea levels around Africa are rising faster than the global average: What's behind this alarming trend
For over three decades, satellites orbiting Earth have measured the height of the ocean surface with remarkable precision. These measurements are crucial because changes in ocean height are one of the clearest indicators of how our planet is responding to climate change. Rising ocean surfaces signal warming temperatures, melting ice, and shifting ocean currents.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@andrewnez/116108709896510035
"When a whale dies in the open ocean, its carcass sinks to the abyssal floor and becomes an ecosystem. Marine biologists call this a whale fall, and the body sustains life in three overlappin…

This is a really good 40-minute documentary by Daniel T. Allen for his The Limit series on #BusinessInsider on the current state of automated/autonomous driving.
https://youtu.be/Kcq0tjmvGOs

The Endangered Species Committee “is meeting regarding an exemption under the Endangered Species Act with respect to oil and gas exploration, development, and production activities in the Gulf of America associated with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Program”
The God Squad – Digby's Hullabaloo
https://digbysblog.net/2026/03/22/the-god-squad/

Key Figures in the Hunt for Osama bin Laden
⭐️Alfreda Frances Bikowsky
Role: Chief of the Bin Laden Issue Station
Background: Started her CIA career in the 1990s as a Soviet analyst. Promoted to Deputy Chief of the Bin Laden Issue Station after the USS Cole bombing in 2000, and became Chief by March 2003.
Controversies: Involved in the CIA's interrogation program and linked to the extraordinary rendition of Khalid El-Masri. Criticized for her role in the tortur…