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tonixe · 1 year

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My prerogative

n.o.t.e.s - Sorry for being inactive for the past weeks :c

w.a.r.n - Homelander being a warning, anger issue, the reader being disrespected on, a chainsaw man reference, gore topics, organs.

p.a.i.r.i.n.g - Homelander x Supe!Fem! reader (kind of?)

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Another day at Vought INC, you were sitting in your office writing up a storm in a document. You worked in the PR team for Vought superheroes.

Today was an especially hard day.

First, wake up late because of your alarm clock, then your phone is not even fucking charging.

Then if that wasn't good enough, being late to the train and then walking to work in heels that were 30 mins away. Then coming back to this hellhole for your boss to give you a horrible time at work.

As you were here fucking slaving away on your computer, your thought running around your head, it was hard to come with the concept for that experiment that you call heroes.

Not that you had any aggression with any of the superheroes except with The deep, translucent, and demon you call America's golden boy, Homelander. As you were typing on your computer in your small office, your boss walked up to you, clicking her heels annoying; not like you had an anger issue, but when you saw her, everything in your body rang anger.

"Y/N, your last idea was interesting, needless to say. I don't think that having Queen Maeve and Starlight helping out, survivors of Cyclone Idai, wouldn't be a good pitch. Think, Feminism, think two women showing the world that women can do anything." she slams the paper you worked hard on onto your desk, tapping down on the paper.

"What do you mean?" you responded to her interesting comments.

"What I said, a feminist is the topic" she exaggerate her hands and clasped her hand.

"Sure," your eyes twitched as you picked up the paper she placed on the desk.

As she walked out of your office, she yelled out, "-And make sure it is good this time!" the final comment made you crush the paper in your hand and throw it on the wall.

"What the hell does feminism do with superheroes" you mumbled yourself. Swiping a piece of your hair to the side of your ears, moving closer to the computer, and thinking about some ideas. Needless you say, you were fricking annoyed by the comments your boss said.

Bite at your lip, till it drew some blood. It was getting tiring, trying to live a normal life, was tiring, you thought of your choices when you were 12 between staying in the lab or escaping, but you glad that you are able to escape that hellhole than being monitored for 24 hrs, and ending to be doll being on display.

But ironic that you landed a job at the same brand you escaped. You wanted a breather from being locked up in your small office; besides that, your break was coming in, standing up and stretching your neck and your body. Walking out of your office, going to the elevator.

As you were walking down, getting pushed by two dickhead of Vought employees, they responded by saying to watch where you were walking.

The disrespect you were getting from this company was crazy. While you enter the elevator, pressing the 25th floor, where the company Starbucks was, you need some Caffeine to boost your mood and energy, even though Dunkin Donuts was better than the overpriced coffee store.

Standing the side of the elevator lending to the walls, as you scrolled on your phone while the elevator was going down. the elevator music chiming in.

Your eyes was still laid on your phone, you didn't notice the person that came into the elevator, not taking your eyes on off, until your eyes look at the familiar cape, it was red, white and blue.

Making quick eye contact with the person you dread meeting on top of that, Homelander.

But out of all the elevators in the building, why the heck would he take the elevator taken by lowly Vought employees? Getting off the wall, straightening yourself up.

He walked in with his hand behind his back.

The music chimed in and played through; your body was tense by his immediate presence, and the elevator door closed.

You wished that the elevator would go faster as you stared at the floor indicator with the lowering numbers of the floor going down. You should help it, but your heart was pumping out of your chest.

"So, I heard you got a promotion, Y/N." the comment he said caught you off guard, 'The Fuck' and you just stared at him.

Besides the point, he said that, your promotion was literally 6 months ago.

"Quiet, aren't we?" he looked you in the eye, and you soon pulled away.

"Thank you, Sir," you responded, not bothering to correct him. Now you were begging that time would go faster, biting down on your lip.

The elevator so coming down to the 25th floor, and he soon slapped his arm on the control panel breaking it and catching himself off caught.

Faster than you can even react, he grabbed your neck, pinning you to the elevator wall, leaving you shocked to even react.

An ominous chuckle erupted from him, "You honestly got everyone else fooled, but not me at all, Y/N."

You were scared for your life inside that elevator, there nobody here, and there was no one to hear you scream at all. "W-what, do you mean" you stared at him, your legs were trembling.

"Your not normal at all, you're more than having a lowly lifestyle. You are a god like me" he grabs your face and squishes it.

You help but stare at him; you have a hard time responding to him; even if you tried doing something, your chances of being slayed by him would be high.

"What?" the word slipped out of your mouth, you were wondering how he know, but I guess you can't hide anything from Homelander; if you were to lie, you would probably just die right there.

"Don't fuck with me, Y/N." he barked at you, his hand breaking inside the elevator wall. Your eyes felt wet, and tears were escaping you. Your lips were trembling.

"Don't fucking turn soft on me now." He yelled at you, "Just admit it, don't lie to me."

"O-okay, I am one" you mumbled, he released his grip on you and pressed the button on the elevator panel, as he stood away from you in his original spot.

You fell down on the floor, breathing heavily, as you put your face in your hand.

The elevator door opened, "Cut that crying crap up; it not working on me at all," he mumbled as he exited the elevator, with his hand behind his back in a military position.

The feeling of getting to Starbucks left your mind; the only thing you could hear in the elevator was music as the elevator closed; you just wanted to get out of this building.

Walking out of the tall building, it was accordingly 8:45 pm when you exited the building. Unfornutaly for you, your day was only getting worse; it started raining on you, soon drenching your body in water.

'Just my day..' you mumbled out

A terrific day for you since it was just sunny outside, and you didn't bother to bring one of your jackets with you, but that's just New York weather. Grabbing your bag and using it as a protection shield for your head, you ran to the train station to catch it from its left.

Entering the station, your body was drenched in water head to toe; as the sound of your soaking wet clothes made a 'plop' sound, you moved to the scanner, swiping your MetroCard into it. The gate opening allows you to enter the waiting area of the train.

The screeching sound of the train came halting at the station. The door opened, allowing the people inside to get out; you grabbed your stuff and entered as you sat down, waiting for your stop.

30 MINUTES LATER

Lucky for you, the rain wasn't as bad when you exited work. You were walking to your apartment complex; your clothes were less drenched than before but still had some moister.

It got way darker than before; you were walking down the street. You live a little far away from the Vought building, and you usually take some shortcuts to make your journey less. As you looked in the alleyway, you dismissed the idea from your mind, the time for using a shortcut was way too risky.

"HEY, LADY!" a masculine voice yelled, ringing in your ears.

"Just my luck," you muttered as you turned to the voice. "Give me all your money," the mysterious man said, holding a pocket knife and wearing all black.

"No," you responded to him.

"Do you want to die right now? Just give me your fucking purse, or I'll stab you in the fucking neck," he yelled, walking towards you.

"Maybe, but do you know what is even better than money" you walked towards the mysterious figure, throwing your bag onto the floor.

"Your life," you made a gun sign with one of your men and pointed towards him "bang" soon, the man's chest, stomach, and abdomen area were blasted off and sprayed on the wall. His head had a confused expression, and as his head landed on the floor, his legs fell down as well. It was a pure, clean cut; his organ was destroyed by the blast, and the red liquid was everywhere on the street.

His blood was sprayed on some of your clothes as you grabbed your bag from the dirty floor and walked away from the massacre of the man's body.

You didn't know it, but someone was following you as he popped out from his invisible trick. Translucent face had a scared expression etched on it as he looked at the gory display on the floor. The mysterious man's blood trickled down the street to the road.

"What the hell" he covered his mouth at the killing. Pulling out his mouth, testing the head of the seven, a message saying, "It 's the real deal."

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wikiuntamed · 3 months

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On this day in Wikipedia: Thursday, 14th March

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oaresearchpaper · 2 months

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#Natural disaster #Livelihood #Climate change #Shocks #Agriculture #Adaptation and mitigation

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brookstonalmanac · 3 months

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Events 3.14 (after 1930)

1931 – Alam Ara, India's first talking film, is released. 1939 – Slovakia declares independence under German pressure. 1942 – Anne Miller becomes the first American patient to be treated with penicillin, under the care of Orvan Hess and John Bumstead. 1943 – The Holocaust: The liquidation of the Kraków Ghetto is completed. 1945 – The R.A.F. drop the Grand Slam bomb in action for the first time, on a railway viaduct near Bielefeld, Germany. 1951 – Korean War: United Nations troops recapture Seoul for the second time. 1961 – A USAF B-52 bomber crashes near Yuba City, California whilst carrying nuclear weapons. 1964 – Jack Ruby is convicted of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy. 1967 – The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.[ 1972 – Sterling Airways Flight 296 crashes near Kalba, United Arab Emirates while on approach to Dubai International Airport, killing 112 people. 1978 – The Israel Defense Forces launch Operation Litani, a seven-day campaign to invade and occupy southern Lebanon. 1979 – Alia Royal Jordanian Flight 600 crashes at Doha International Airport, killing 45 people. 1980 – LOT Polish Airlines Flight 007 crashes during final approach near Warsaw, Poland, killing 87 people, including a 14-man American boxing team. 1982 – The South African government bombs the headquarters of the African National Congress in London. 1988 – In the Johnson South Reef Skirmish Chinese forces defeat Vietnamese forces in an altercation over control of one of the Spratly Islands. 1995 – Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on board a Russian launch vehicle. 2006 – The 2006 Chadian coup d'état attempt ends in failure. 2006 – Operation Bringing Home the Goods: Israeli troops raid an American-supervised Palestinian prison in Jericho to capture six Palestinian prisoners, including PFLP chief Ahmad Sa'adat. 2007 – The Nandigram violence in Nandigram, West Bengal, results in the deaths of at least 14 people. 2008 – A series of riots, protests, and demonstrations erupt in Lhasa and subsequently spread elsewhere in Tibet. 2017 – A naming ceremony for the chemical element nihonium takes place in Tokyo, with then Crown Prince Naruhito in attendance 2019 – Cyclone Idai makes landfall near Beira, Mozambique, causing devastating floods and over 1,000 deaths. 2021 – Burmese security forces kill at least 65 civilians in the Hlaingthaya massacre.

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samafricanreporter · 6 months

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We are a South African Christian charity founded in 2011, motivated by compassion and social well-being i.e. medical, education and bursary support, food and shelter assistance, disaster relief, and all other activities beneficial to the public interest and or common good through raising of funds, the formation of long- and short-term partnerships and solicitation of sponsorships. Pastor Alph Lukau. KZN FLOODS AL Foundation went down to Durban, KwaZulu-Natal to give much needed donations to the victims of the floods. The donations were received by the Mayor of eThekwini. AL FOUNDATION PROJECTS"- 1 SOUTH AFRICAN COVID-19 PANDEMIC Our country, like the rest of the world is grappling with the effects of the Covid19 pandemic which saw the President of the Republic of South Africa announcing a complete economic and social lockdown of the country on the 26th March to date with gradual levels but still with tight regulations. Pastor Alph Lukau.

2 HEAL OUR LAND MARCH The Heal Our Land MARCH was a great success and signaled a CHANGE in our country and worldwide.

MOZAMBIQUE CYCLONE RELIEF The AL Foundation and Alleluia Ministries International extended a helping hand to the survivors of Cyclone Idai in Mozambique as it is always done to any other victims of natural disasters.

CHILDREN’S MINISTRY Every weekend we find ourselves with hundreds of children from different walks of life at our church premises, coming along with their families to AMI to fellowship. More than half of these children are sent without necessities such as lunch packs, toiletries, and proper/adequate clothing. Alph Lukau

FEEDING SCHEMES Currently, we offer services to our surrounding locations such as Alexandra, Soweto, Tembisa, Cosmos City and Limpopo children’s and old age homes. However, we wish to extend help to more areas across the country and beyond with better permanent solutions. Pastor Alph Lukau

SOCIAL CAUSES We utilize the seasons in our country in our plan to continue to combat issues relating to poverty and as an effort to rewrite the future. The legacy of the AL Foundation will live on in generations to come through our process of social enlistment.

EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE We have centered this program around children who do not have families of close relatives to care for them, but also taking into consideration those individuals who have families but lack the resources.

HOUSING AND CONSTRUCTION A cause that is very close to our hearts, is to assist underprivileged people living in unimaginable bad conditions with better housing structures. It is clear to all of us that a life without secure housing is a life without basic needs being met.

MEDICAL SUPPORT Another important objective of the AL Foundation is to help the sick gain back their health, but also develop health care facilities in order to reduce the incidence of diseases among poverty-stricken families and communities. Pastor Alph Lukau

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ethology-conservation · 7 months

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cavenewstimes · 7 months

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A Cyclone, a Flood, and a Very Big Park

When Cyclone Idai struck Mozambique in 2019, it knocked into Gorongosa National Park with 105-miles-per-hour winds and flooding that threatened 200,000 individuals in its course. Right away, the park jumped into action: Its rangers changed into a quick reaction group that saved individuals in canoes and helicopters, and the park’s coffee factory ended up being a food packaging center for…

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jim-fetter-illustrations · 10 months

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Global Warming,... you ain't seen nothing yet,... wait for it......

Ya know it's not just Hawaii that is devastated because of climate change, Climate Disasters are happening Daily now.

Welcome to the ‘New Normal People', from our consistently polluting the earth.

Ya see,... Catastrophic floods in the Hudson Valley. An unrelenting heat dome over Phoenix. Ocean temperatures hitting 90 degrees Fahrenheit off the coast of Miami. A surprising deluge in Vermont, a rare tornado in Delaware, and the Maui Fires are all linked to climate change, or global warming because of mans spewing pollutants into our earths atmosphere.

This year, a powerful El Niño developing in the Pacific Ocean is poised to unleash additional heat into the atmosphere, fueling yet more severe weather and fires around the globe because of this climate change.

20 years ago, any one of these events would have been seen as a departure from what is normal on earth.

This week, they are happening simultaneously as climate change fuels extreme weather changes that are detrimental to human beings.

Now,.. I'm just talking about here in The United States,.... because overseas However, we are currently witnessing a scale of destruction and devastation that is new and terrifying weekley. The last year alone has seen a series of devastating climate disasters in various parts of the world such as Cyclone Idai, deadly heatwaves in India killing thousands, Pakistan, and Europe, and flooding in south-east Asia.

Which make the Maui Fires almost seem miniscule.......

Our political leaders, both republican and democrat have continually supported polluting industry for the last 50 years now, creating our world we have today.

Voting for these same people will continue business as usual.

Voting for a different government body independent of that ideology is the only thing that's gonna change anything to a more humanitarian and environmentally sound concept.

That's how we make things better for our children, because we here and now are fucked because we trusted our leaders to do the right thing.

And they didn't!!!

#global warming #climate change #status quo stupidity #government supporting polluting industry #WE THE PEOPLE aren't

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nomorerww · 11 months

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Since the 1880s, mean sea level globally has already risen by 16cm to 21cm (6-8in). Half of that rise has happened over the past three decades.

It is accelerating, too: the ocean rose more than twice as fast (4.62mm a year) in the most recent decade (2013-22) than it did in 1993-2002, the first decade of satellite measurements, when the rate was 2.77mm a year. Last year was a new high, according to the World Meteorological Organization. It is no coincidence that the past eight years were the warmest on record.

[...]To stop the acceleration of sea level rise over the past century, Bamber says, we would have to go back to pre-industrial temperatures.

But under any temperature rise scenario, countries from Bangladesh to China, India and the Netherlands, all with large coastal populations, will be at risk. Megacities on every continent will face serious impacts, including Lagos, Bangkok, Mumbai, Shanghai, London, Buenos Aires and New York.

[...]The climate crisis has many other hazards, of course: blistering heatwaves, droughts, floods and more extreme weather events. But there is a certain apocalyptic inevitability to a rising ocean.

“The thing about sea level rise is that it is absolutely guaranteed,” Bamber says. “If you warm the planet, sea level is going to go up, period, no caveats. The oceans warm up and the ice melts. It’s an absolute given of global heating.”

So far, the ocean has acted as a buffer against global heating. About 90% of the energy trapped in the climate system by greenhouse gases goes into the ocean as heat – keeping the planet cooler than it otherwise would be, but threatening marine life. Even though the world has been experiencing a cooler period over the past few years (known as La Niña conditions), more than half – 58% – of the ocean surface last year experienced at least one marine heatwave.

But heat is just one factor in the rising sea. Thermal expansion explained about 50% of sea level rise during 1971-2018 – the other components are glacier melt (22%), ice-sheet melt (20%) and changes in land water storage.

The impact is hard to gauge because the ocean does not rise at the same speed uniformly, it’s not like a bath. For one thing, Earth is not a perfect sphere; temperatures are also different across the planet, and are affected by ocean currents. The impact of sea level rise are boosted by storm surges and tidal variation, as happened during Hurricane Sandy in New York and Cyclone Idai in Mozambique.

What we do know, of course, is that the first impact of rising seas will be on coastal communities worldwide, especially densely populated, low-lying urban areas. Major cities on all continents are at risk and it is an existential threat for countries such as Tuvalu and other small island developing states.

[...]“The worst case we’re looking at is something like more than 2 metres in a century,” Bamber says.

“To put that in context, 2 metres of sea level rise would displace, or would affect or flood on an annual basis, approximately a 10th of the planet’s population, so about 790 million people.” (In 2020, 896 million people lived within the “low elevation coastal zone – a figure probably rising to 1 billion people by 2050.)

#climate change #rising sea levels

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idealchildrenmentalhealthservice · 2 years

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Maternal and Child Health Care in China - Impact of Cyclone Idai

Despite having the world's largest population, China faces a number of important challenges when it comes to providing maternal and child health care. In order to ensure the survival of millions of children and women, the government is working to increase access to health services. In order to provide these services, the government is establishing specialised public welfare institutions. These institutions are responsible for providing basic medical services to women and children, and promoting public health. This Children's Primary Care Provider has been found to be effective in promoting innovation in the field of maternal and child health care.

Child health care service delivery indicators showed substantial variability across the districts. For example, the RHIS (Revenue Health Improvement System) indicators showed that the Buzi district, which was severely affected by the cyclone, had a 38.0% relative loss in March 2019, while the other districts had a 49.4% loss. Using RHIS indicators, we assessed the impact of Cyclone Idai on the utilization of child health care services. The following indicators were analyzed:

The percentage of households holding Below Poverty Line (BPL) cards was similar between the two time periods. The average household size was also similar. However, the percentage of households holding health insurance cards increased from 1.7 percent in 2005 to over 10 percent in 2011/12.

The results from the study suggest that Cyclone Idai impacted service utilization in many ways. For example, Buzi and other districts that were affected by the cyclone had a significant decrease in all maternal and child health service indicators. This reduction in service utilization occurred as quickly as possible for most indicators. However, it took longer for some indicators to recover. This suggests that the disruptions caused by Cyclone Idai were longer lasting for districts with more severe impacts. Moreover, the lack of a proper medical facility is a major barrier to accessing health services. This study has important implications for international maternal and child health care. Click here to learn more about Meridian HealthCare.

There are several research limitations with the study. For instance, the sample was only based on one region of China. There are also some limitations regarding the data and the methodology. However, the findings could be replicated in other regions of China. Moreover, the study does not include any opinion from the patients or their families. Therefore, further study should be conducted to understand the perspectives of patients and their families. The study also does not explore the opinions of the women who gave birth to babies under the Idai program. This could provide a more comprehensive analysis of the program's effects on the utilization of child health care services.

The study highlights that specialised public welfare institutions can be effective in promoting maternal and child healthcare innovation. However, these institutions need to be matched to the domestic economic situation. In addition, they need to work with other healthcare groups to provide optimal services for women and children. In many developing countries, women have little authority over household decisions. Therefore, it is important to investigate suggestions for reforming the MCHI. If you probably want to get more enlightened on this topic, then click on this related post: https://www.britannica.com/topic/child-mental-health.

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sulemanchitera · 2 years

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DoDMA Takes Fight Against Food Insecurity Head On

…Rehabilitates five irrigation schemes in Nsanje, communities start harvesting crops following completion of works The Department of Disaster Management Affairs (DoDMA) has taken a bold step in breaking the food insecurity cycle through rehabilitation of irrigation schemes which were damaged by the March 2019 Cyclone Idai-induced floods. DoDMA is rehabilitating the irrigation schemes with…

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don-lichterman · 2 years

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Zimbabwe’s environmentalists pile pressure on government for change

The Southern African nation has seen some of the worst effects of climate change, with prolonged droughts and floods taking a toll on crops, infrastructure and the lives of many people in the past decade. In 2019, Cyclone Idai hit the eastern parts of Zimbabwe killing more than 300 people and destroying infrastructure worth $622m. Innovative solutions are possible when people are educated on…

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unjobstoday · 2 years

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MOZAMBIQUE- DEPUTY COUNTRY DIRECTOR FOR PROGRAMS (M/F) -PEMBA

Desired start date: 01/10/2022 Duration of the mission: 5 months renewable_ recruitment subject to availability of funding Location: Pemba, Mozambique Mission: size, bases, budget, number of expatriates and national staffs. Solidarités International intervened in Mozambique in March 2019 for a few months following the passage of Cyclone Idai, which hit the Province of Sofala and the city of Beira…

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worldoffrausto · 2 years

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🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 CLIMATE EMERGENCY DECLARED (We Don’t Need Politicians To Do It) #Africa ✍️Via @vanessanakate1 • “Since we are all now talking about the climate crisis, can we talk about how the climate crisis has already been affecting so many people in Africa? It is important to know that the entire continent of Africa is responsible for less than 4% of global emissions. Africans are already suffering some of the most brutal impacts fueled by the climate crisis: rapidly intensifying hurricanes, devastating floods and withering droughts. Many Africans have lost their lives while countless more have lost their homes, farms and businesses. The World Health Organisation announced that 1 in 3 people across Africa are facing water scarcity. The World Bank announced that by 2050, 86 million Africans will be forced to leave their homes and try to find somewhere else to exist. Millions of people across the African continent are now facing drought, crop failure and starvation. The climate and ecological crisis is not just about weather patterns. Or data points. Or net zero targets. The climate and ecological crisis is about people. Real people. And while Africa is on the frontlines of the climate crisis -we are not on the front pages of the world's newspapers. We are not in a new normal. It's not a new normal. The climate crisis has not just started. The climate crisis has been affecting so many people for so long. As western media focuses on wildfires and heatwaves in the Global North, climate-related catastrophes are ravaging communities across the Global South - but this receives very little coverage. Cyclone Idai was one of the worst cyclones to affect the African continent: ripping apart and flooding large parts of Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi. The strong winds and heavy rainfall left more than 1,300 people dead and many more were recorded as missing. The rising water levels of Lake Victoria led to the displacement of over 200,000 people in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. East Africa was invaded by swarms of locusts brought on by heavy rainfall and abnormally warm temperatures. The locusts ate everything in their path. Crops were devoured.” (Continued in comments) (at Africa) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgnLXDgvQoo/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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xtruss · 2 years

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Tagged Turtles Are Helping Scientists Predict Cyclones

In the southeast Indian Ocean, turtle-borne sensors are filling in the gaps researchers need to forecast storms

— Kate Golden, Hakai Magazine | July 15, 2022 | Smithsonian Magazine

Sea turtles, such as olive ridleys and loggerheads, spend most of their time just below the ocean’s surface—the perfect place to collect data for tropical cyclone forecasting. Photo by EyeEm/Alamy Stock Photo

Even with good data, it’s hard to predict tropical cyclones, which often appear with little warning and wander drunkenly around the world’s oceans. But five years ago, Olivier Bousquet, now the research director for France’s Ministry of Sustainable Development, was tasked with forecasting storms’ strengths and paths in the cyclone-infested southwest Indian Ocean. The need for better predictions was great. The area gets nine or ten cyclones a year, and the storms are getting stronger. Tropical Cyclone Idai, in 2019, killed more than 1,000 people in Mozambique and 2014’s Gafilo killed 350 in Madagascar.

Unlike in some other parts of the ocean—like the North Atlantic, where the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration flies weather drones—Bousquet had almost no data to work with. Sure, there are satellites that spy on the ocean’s surface, but those are biased around coastlines and blind in clouds, which storms have in spades. Just a handful of floating oceanographic buoys collected temperature, depth, and salinity information where Bousquet needed it. So he set out to find a new source of data.

For the past few decades, scientists have been using satellite-tagged animals to collect ocean data. For instance, in the Southern Ocean off Antarctica—a famously hostile area for humans, ships, and robot explorers—southern elephant seals have gathered most of the basic data we have on the water’s temperature and salinity.

The southwest Indian Ocean, though, didn’t have any seals Bousquet could enlist. At first, Bousquet tried seabirds, like tropicbirds and puffins, but they were too lightweight for the sensors. So he turned to sturdier helpers: loggerhead and olive ridley sea turtles.

Now here is a hardy character that can wear a 250-gram tag, travels thousands of kilometers each year, and reliably comes back to its natal beach. This homing instinct makes it easier for scientists to recover the sensor’s full suite of data, instead of just the summaries that the equipment can send to satellites over limited bandwidth while the turtle is out and about.

Sea turtles are excellent candidates for another reason. The energy that powers a tropical cyclone comes mostly from the water. To predict if a storm will intensify, you need to know what’s going on in the ocean just below the surface, from about 25 to 200 meters depth. Sea turtles spend most of their time in exactly this layer, so their intel is perfect for tropical cyclone forecasting.

Beyond that, tagged turtles could help climate studies by giving scientists a way to calibrate ocean models and satellite data. Moreover, turtles spend a lot of time foraging in giant ocean eddies—an oceanographic feature scientists would love to learn more about. A dense network of turtle data, if collected over the long term, could help scientists see how the structure of the ocean is changing over time at a very high resolution, Bousquet says.

Biologists were excited about the project, too. The temperature, depth, and location data would give them a new view of the turtles’ environment, diving behavior, and movements.

So, starting in January 2019, Bousquet teamed up with biologists at Kélonia—a sea turtle observatory on Réunion, a French island about 950 kilometers east of Madagascar—to release 15 tagged sea turtles. All had been accidentally caught by fishermen and healed in turtle rehab.

The first turtle to go out was Ilona, a loggerhead named by the fisherman who had caught her. For a few weeks, Ilona’s tag reported to the satellites 20 to 50 times per day, just as Bousquet had hoped. When Ilona got to Madagascar, though, her track stopped short. Bousquet enlisted a local NGO to investigate. They found the still-broadcasting tag … stuck to an empty shell.

Ilona had been eaten.

“We were shocked,” Bousquet says. But Ilona’s three-week journey had produced data galore.

When Bousquet and his colleagues released their initial results, suddenly everyone wanted in. The French National Centre for Space Studies, the European Union’s Interreg ocean research program, and the University of Reunion Island, among others, all jumped on board. Known as STORM (Sea Turtles for Ocean Research and Monitoring), Bousquet’s project has more than two dozen partners—and a lot more turtles. Scientists working in stormy tropics across the globe have contacted Bousquet looking to replicate the project in their areas.

Clive McMahon, a biologist at the Sydney Institute of Marine Science in Australia and a leader among those using animals to collect oceanography data, recently tagged 20 olive ridley sea turtles in a project that “is absolutely inspired by [Bousquet]’s work,” he says. STORM is “showing really clearly that turtles are able to collect these essential ocean observations to be able to predict storms.”

This year, STORM has continued to grow. Between January and March, Bousquet’s group released 80 tagged sea turtles from 10 spots around the southwest Indian Ocean. Some were rehabilitated turtles released on a schedule. Others were females caught at night on beaches after they’d laid their eggs—though “caught” might be overstating things. The procedure involves a biologist placing a box around the turtle to corral it, epoxying a tag to its back, and sampling its blood. After five minutes, the box is removed and the turtle goes on its way.

So far, storms have caught out a few turtles, Bousquet says. The turtles’ tracks show they stopped swimming, waited for the storm to pass, and moved on as before. Once, a cyclone did pass over a turtle, and then the storm did a U-turn and passed over it again. The turtle was fine.

Data from the heart of a cyclone is incredibly valuable, Bousquet says, and “every cyclone is different.” But to get the data, researchers will have to perfectly time a turtle’s release, two or three weeks before a storm blows through. They’ve missed a couple of storms by just days. “We need a little bit of luck,” Bousquet says.

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