Mira Anand

Pay attention to the language that will be used by much of the media.

The Global Sumud Flotilla never entered Israeli waters.

They are in international waters attempting to reach Palestinian waters.

Israel is once again breaking international law

In Port Morien, a persistent hum from the Donkin mine is undermining residents’ health and daily lives. The Cow Bay Environmental Coalition is transforming this noise into a call for public health and a just energy transition.

👉 Read their story: https://loom.ly/lcJhMns

"These damn bicycles are taking over the streets!"

NEW MCGILL STUDY: Hard facts from #Montreal to set things straight.

Cars now get 79.6% of the infrastructure area (roads) in the city.

Pedestrians (sidewalks): 18.3%

Micromobility (lanes for bikes, scooters etc.): 1.57%

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ALWAYS give to Sameer Project. They're in Gaza, they're Palestinian, and they provide with dignity and respect.

Gazans often say that it's generally best to donate to individual fundraisers, that prominent orgs are nowhere to be seen in Gaza!--Except the Sameer Project which is consistently active.

Dozens of Palestinians killed in latest Israeli attacks near food aid distribution site, medics and witnesses say Witnesses describe people shot in head and torso near sites run by Israeli-backed US organisation Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

There is no longer any doubt that Israel has set up a fake humanitarian organisation so it can kettle Gazans into a kill box and murder them en masse

It is evil beyond description and in a decent world it would result in immediate, massive, global action to stop them and prosecute those responsible

Hydrology Paper of the Day @olefeldt.bsky.social on how a new version of the Global Lakes and Wetlands Database was calculated from freely-available satellite and ground based observations: capturing seasonality and classes; integration of wetlands and peatlands; and robust validation.

Global map of wetland extent. Darker blue areas show higher densities of wetland cover, lighter blue shows less dense wetland cover, and grey areas have no wetland.

Global map of peatland extent. Bright yellow areas, mostly in arctic or boreal regions, have the highest percentage of peatland, and darker purple regions have less peatland. Grey areas do not have peatland.

GLWD v2 includes not only total wetland extent & dominant class maps, but also individual maps of all 33 classes which can be used to break out sub-groups based on hydrological or ecological characteristics.

To view individual class maps online or download the data: www.hydrosheds.org/products/glwd

Mapping the world's inland surface waters: an upgrade to the Global Lakes and Wetlands Database (GLWD v2) Abstract. In recognition of the importance of inland waters, numerous datasets mapping their extents, types, or changes have been created using sources ranging from historical wetland maps to real-tim...

Happy to share the new GLWD v2! This product maps the global distribution of 33 distinct wetland and waterbody classes, covering 18.2 million km2. I'm excited that it's ready for use in conservation efforts, large-scale modelling, & more 🌍🌏🌎

doi.org/10.5194/essd... #geosky #water #wetlands

Presenting my poster STRENGTH AND PERSISTENCE OF STREAMFLON MEMORY ACROSS EUROPE

Group dinner at a winery

Five people + me on a rooftop

Sitting in the grass with cake

Had a great time at #EGU25 last week surrounded by interesting people and research! I really enjoyed discussions at my poster session, plus HydroLAB reunions, celebrating a birthday by the river, ECS/first-time attendee networking events and a mini food tour with @turbulentflo.bsky.social

Gaza will be entirely destroyed, Israeli minister says Bezalel Smotrich says Palestinians will ‘leave in great numbers to third countries’, raising fears of ethnic cleansing

A world historical crime, taking place in full view, with the perpetrators so convinced of their impunity that they can brag about genocidal intent, and it’s hard not to agree with their calculation that no one will stop them and no one will be held accountable

This is where your Harry Potter money goes

Israel just committed *the largest child massacre in its history*, according to Haaretz. Two hundred Palestinian children murdered in a single day, with direct support from the US and UK, and zero outrage from Western media. What stage of barbarism is this...

War crimes.

List of "the 10 most beautiful crags in the Netherlands". The first is an artificial outdoor wall, the second is a cobblestone wall, and the third is an overpass.

beauty really is all around

Mahmoud Khalil’s Detention Is a Trial Run The pro-Palestine student was arrested without due process for exercising his right to free speech. He will not be the last.

The arrest of Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil, a greencard holder, without due process is a structure test to see what they can get away with. If his deportation holds, we will see the mass dissappearing of dissenting voices. Freedom for Mahmoud and eternal shame on the enablers shorturl.at/fMiLA

The main DEI page from @agu.org has been modified to take diversity out of the title. Glad to see it's not deleted entirely, but hey AGU, we're watching what you do and remembering the big game you once talked about supporting your diverse membership.

Today vs. January

Here's a lesson for all of us that the universities are relearning today:
Staying silent in the face of fascism will not protect you.

Why Are Quebec's Wetlands Disappearing – The Rover In Montreal, where 80 per cent of wetlands have disappeared, locals are fighting to make Quebec enforce its own environmental laws.

As Montreal loses its wetlands at an alarming pace, locals are fighting to get the province to enforce its own environmental laws. Excellent piece by Natalia Rivero Gómez. therover.ca/why-are-queb...

Palestinian babies are not spontaneously freezing to death. They are being deliberately subjected to conditions calculated to terminate life. In other words, they are being murdered. The cause of death is not the cold, but the genocide being perpetrated by Israel and the US.

Scientists mapped the world’s rivers over 35 years. They found shocking changes | CNN The flow of water through the planet’s nearly 3 million rivers is changing rapidly, with potentially drastic implications for everything from drinking water supplies to flood risks, according to a new...

Major new research finds “shockingly” fast changes to flows of Earth’s c. 3 million rivers, mapped across 35 years.

“Rivers are dynamic and beautiful beasts & humans should never take them for granted or squander the resources they provide us with.” (Hannah Cloke)
www.cnn.com/2024/12/12/c...

University of Waterloo says two PhD students killed in Gaza airstrike The University of Waterloo says twin sisters, who were set to start their PhD studies at the school, were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza.

This is so horrible. This needs to stop.

kitchener.ctvnews.ca/university-o...

Amnesty International has officially concluded that a genocide is being committed by Israel.

A group of Israeli’s block an Egyptian aid truck from getting into Gaza by dancing and waving flags in front of it 🎞️ www.instagram.com/reel/C2f9eiF...

Journalist questions bombing of Gaza university A reporter questions the US State Department about Israeli justification for destroying Israa University in Gaza City.

"It looks like a controlled demolition... And you have nothing to say ...it takes a lot of planning and preparation to do and if there was a threat from this particular facility, they wouldn't have been able to do it."

The chyron says it's Matt Lee from the AP

www.aljazeera.com/program/news...

Good morning, Bluesky. Free Palestine.

Gaza reports more than 11,100 killed. That’s one out of every 200 people.

One out of every 200 people in Gaza have been killed by the Israeli army — and the bombing still hasn’t stopped.

Let that sink in for a moment, then remember how Israeli authorities are trying to make Western publics believe they aren’t targeting civilians. This is a massacre.

The terrorist regime has over 6000 Palestinians held hostage in their jails. They’ve taken almost 3000 hostages in the West Bank alone since October 7. They torture Palestinians all day every day and even brag on social media about it, and now their convicted terrorist minister wants more torture.