Victoria Falls Dry Up
Just wow. One of the world's most famous waterfalls is running dry. Of course, the local people are suffering too - no water, no tourists, no crops, no money.

Victoria Falls dries to a trickle after worst drought in a century
One of southern Africa’s biggest tourist attractions has seen an unprecedented decline this dry season, fuelling climate change fears
Reuters at Victoria Falls
Sat 7 Dec 2019 01.53 GMT

For decades Victoria Falls, where southern Africa’s Zambezi river cascades down 100 metres into a gash in the earth, have drawn millions of holidaymakers to Zimbabwe and Zambia for their stunning views.

But the worst drought in a century has slowed the waterfalls to a trickle, fuelling fears that climate change could kill one of the region’s biggest tourist attractions.

While they typically slow down during the dry season, officials said this year had brought an unprecedented decline in water levels.
Zimbabwe on verge of 'manmade starvation', warns UN envoy

“In previous years, when it gets dry, it’s not to this extent,” Dominic Nyambe, a seller of tourist handicrafts in his 30s, said outside his shop in Livingstone, on the Zambian side. “This [is] our first experience of seeing it like this.

“It affects us because ... clients ... can see on the internet [that the falls are low] ... We don’t have so many tourists.”

As world leaders gather in Madrid for the COP25 climate change conference to discuss ways to halt catastrophic warming caused by human-driven greenhouse gas emissions, southern Africa is already suffering some of its worst effects – with taps running dry and about 45 million people in need of food aid amid crop failures.

A combination photo of water flowing down Victoria Falls (top) and during the current drought. Photograph: Reuters

Zimbabwe and Zambia have suffered power cuts as they are heavily reliant on hydropower from plants at the Kariba dam, which is on the Zambezi river upstream of the waterfalls.

Stretches of this kilometre-long natural wonder are nothing but dry stone. Water flow is low in others.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/ ... -a-century

Clothes washing linked to ‘pervasive’ plastic pollution in the Arctic
Polyester fibres that injure marine life were found in sea water across region
A study has found microplastics in 96 of 97 sea water samples taken from across the polar region.
Damian Carrington Environment editor
Last modified on Tue 12 Jan 2021 19.26 GMT

The Arctic is “pervasively” polluted by microplastic fibres that most likely come from the washing of synthetic clothes by people in Europe and North America, research has found.

The most comprehensive study to date found the microplastics in 96 of 97 sea water samples taken from across the polar region. More than 92% of the microplastics were fibres, and 73% of these were made of polyester and were the same width and colours as those used in clothes. Most of the samples were taken from 3-8 metres below the surface, where much marine life feeds.

Other recent analysis estimated that 3,500tn plastic microfibres from clothes washing in the US and Canada ended up in the sea each year, while modelling suggested plastic dumped in the seas around the UK was carried to the Arctic within two years.

The researchers found plastic fibres at the north pole. With plastic recently discovered at the deepest point on Earth, the Mariana Trench, and the peak of Mount Everest, it is clear humanity’s litter has polluted the entire planet. It is known to injure wildlife that mistake it for food. People also consume microplastics via food and water, and breathe them in, although the health impact is not yet known.

Much more water flows into the Arctic from the Atlantic than the Pacific, and the new research found higher concentrations of the microplastic fibres nearer the Atlantic, as well as longer and less degraded fibres.

“We’re looking at a dominance of Atlantic inputs, which means sources of textile fibres in the North Atlantic from Europe and North America are likely to be driving the contamination in the Arctic Ocean,” said Peter Ross, at Ocean Wise Conservation Association in Canada, who led the study. “With these polyester fibres, we’ve essentially created a cloud throughout the world’s oceans.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... the-arctic

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Johno35 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 13, 2021 3:33 am There’s really only one way for the planet to survive. And that is to reduce the number of people inhabiting the planet. Either by a benevolent government who will step in and stop population growth or we’ll have to do it ourselves.

A better way is for the lovers of Gaeia to commit revolutionary suicide and be martyrs for Mother Earth. Soldiers die for us by killing and are called hero’s, why can’t we die for us and for the planet.

We can’t live in this toxic, racist, sexist, Capitalist world the right wing corrupt ruling classes have created. It’s time for some heroes to step over to the other side for earth and For The People. To do so creates zero emissions. It will fertilize the earth and the greenery that your sacrifice makes will create oxygen for the earth to breathe. You also will stop exhaling co2.

Just one person’s descendants will create as much carbon as Bangkok in a century. Imagine the good we could all do if we took one for the planet and volunteered to step over to the other side and end our carbon footprint!

https://www.scientificamerican.com/arti ... l-illness/

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