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Scientists find millions of tons of nanoplastics in the North Atlantic Ocean https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/07/scientists-find-millions-of-tons-of-nanoplastics-in-the-north-atlantic-ocean/
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Scientists find millions of tons of nanoplastics in the North Atlantic Ocean
Scientists have measured the amount of nanoplastics in the open ocean for the first time and found they make up the vast majority of marine plastic pollution. Plastic debris in the ocean can be of varying sizes. Nanoplastics are the tiniest, about 1,000 times smaller than the smallest microplastics — small enough to go through […]

Versehen oder geplant 🤔
Als (?)letzte Aktion werden am #Ledenhof in #osnabruck auch #fahrradbugel montiert.
Hat man die bei der Planung vergessen?
Vorgeschichte 👇

With the #OpenStreetMap website’s new #VectorTiles, it’s nice to see that we can zoom in to level 23! Unfortunately, if the vector coordinates are not stored with OSM’s 7 decimal places for higher-zoom tiles, then what’s the point of all that zoom? 👀

🏄 Experiment will attempt to counter climate change by altering ocean
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/experiment-will-attempt-to-counter-climate-change-by-altering-ocean/

Experiment will attempt to counter climate change by altering ocean
Gulf of Maine will be site of safety and effectiveness testing.

As expected, @… (OpenStreetMap France) has bid to host #StateOfTheMap 2026 in #Paris, #France

It’s a vicious cycle:
Pumping for groundwater is dehydrating our world.
And yet, people take more water from underground due to need, when climate-driven heat and drought are at their worst.
https://www.propublica.org/article/water-aquifers-gro…

“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat
A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.

Blue whale vocalizations have been decreasing as the animal's food sources have disappeared.
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/blue-whales-silent-study-b2803250.html#

Blue whales have gone silent. Why that has scientists worried about Earth’s biggest animals ... and the ocean
A dense pool of warm water dubbed ‘The Blob’ drove unprecedented temperature increases in the Pacific Ocean, affecting the blue whale’s primary food source

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Editors:
🎵 Ocean Of Night
#NowPlaying #Editors
https://barefootprince.bandcamp.com/track/editors-ocean-of-night-barefoot-prince-tropical-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/4vFVZyn6RdvrXpeEqsTas6

Oof. #OpenStreetMap minutely replication is currently broken: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/131884
For me this means that recent edits I made are not queryable via O…

Is OSM partially down? New data isn't able to be queried on the map, and new data isn't being rendered
I’m finding that I can pull data into JOSM and iD that I know exists (due to recently pushed edits), but a query on the map doesn’t list them (not to mention that they also aren’t being rendered; however, when something’s awaiting rendering, I always, at least by my experience, can still query it). For example, this query should list building=toilets, but it doesn’t. If I edit that location in iD I can see the aforementioned feature, and I can also pull it into JOSM, but it isn’t b…

#TuneTuesday (Aug 26)
To me Toad the Wet Sprocket is one of those cool 1990s alternative rock bands and know them for their major hits like “All I Want” and “Fall Down”.
It was only in the last few years that I got to listen to some of their non-singles and “Windmills” from their 1994 album Dulcinea is one that really stood out to me with its laid-back melancholic vibe.