Tag Archives: drought

Climate change, sea levels rising, countries sinking

Posted on August 29, 2025 by borderslynn

In past blogs I have written about land which sank beneath the oceans after the Ice Age melt began over 10,000 years ago. Now the world knows the Arctic and Antarctic ice caps are melting and sea levels are rising … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged Arctic melt, Boreal Forest, burn scars, climate change evidence, datacenters, drought, emissions, energy production, fooding, fossil fuels, glacier melt, human activity induced apocalyptic fires, human suffering, indigenous peoples, infrastructure destruction, loss of home, methane, migration, natural cycke of fires, permafrost melt, petroleum industry, pristine land, recognition of harm, responsibility, sea level rises, shrinking resources, sinking land, sovereignty, submerged land, survival, survival of humanity, threat, wildfires | Leave a comment

Damned if you do, damned if you don’t

Posted on January 12, 2025 by borderslynn

As fierce and unprecedented wildfires bring calamity to thousands of people, thousands of gallons of toxic retardant are dropped from special air tankers on the racing fires below to try to stop the fires spreading to valuable property. And, as … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged air tankers, building in resilience, building materials, climate change, community, drought, emissions warming climate, eucalyptus tree fire risk, fire resistant homes, first responders, forests, fossil fuels, freshwater, Grenfell Tower, groundwater, human habitation, human vulnerability, hurricane force winds, inferno, insurance nonsense, nature, opportunities, pacific, plastics, portugal, retardant drops, Santa Ana winds, soil, threats, tree burning emissions, warming oceans, weather patterns, wild space, wildfires, wildlife | Leave a comment

El Nino 2023 to 2024: Cocoa Beans, Chocolate shortage

Posted on October 7, 2024 by borderslynn

El Niño—the warm phase of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), our planet’s single largest natural source of year-to-year variations in seasonal climate—has been disrupting climate in the tropics and beyond since May 2023, likely contributing to many months of record-high global ocean temperatures, … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged adapting to change, climate, crop failure, drought, el niño, floods, food insecurity, fossil fuels, increasing prices, job losses, la Niña, opportunities, oscillations, transitional, warming planet | Leave a comment

Building in Resilience to Climate Catastrophe

Posted on June 24, 2024 by borderslynn

After wildfires destroyed homes across California, innovative, but expensive, intensely fire-resistant homes have been designed. Some are already in place in the still sparsely rehomed community of Paradise. These are modular, pre clad built homes and 12 month round produce … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged acceleration, adaptation, air conditioning, catastrophe, climate change, desalination, design, drought, emissions, engineering, extreme heat, FEMA, First Responder shortage, flood defences., flooding barrier landscape, fossil fuel, Hawick, heat stroke, invention, Mediterranean drought, National Parks, osmosis, power grids, reduce emissions, research, safety net, Scottish Borders, solutions, sudden death, survival techniques, upgrades, US, Vigliotti | Leave a comment

Green, green grass of home

Posted on June 11, 2024 by borderslynn

In the book, ‘Before It’s Gone’ by Jonathan Vigliotti, I read of the consequences of extensive loss of whole communities in Western States of America, plus the memorable loss of the old community of Lahaina in Hawaii, due to out … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged 1.5 degree limit, anti climate change lobbyists, carbon capture, carbon mapping, combustible, conservation, drought, fauna, flora, fossil fuel adverts, fossil fuels, grass, greenhouse effect, hat dome, heating world, Helheim glacier, nature, ocean warming, oceans conveyor belt., scotland, sea level rising, Thwaites glacier, trees, wildfires | Leave a comment

The Human Meteorite

Posted on November 18, 2023 by borderslynn

Back in 2010, this article about Sudan explained the different viewpoints of nomadic herders and Arab farmers, their belief systems about land use brought them into conflict. Of the five mass extinctions we described in Chapter 2, probably the most … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged Africans, Anthropocene theory, arabs, climate change, conflict, Darfur, diamonds, drought, egypt, elites, farmers, fertile land, fresh water, genocide, human harm, human sabotage, impact of human activity, Iran, mining, nomads, proxy wars, Russia, UAE, ukraine, Wagner, war crimes | Leave a comment

Desalination, long term solution to Drought

Posted on December 26, 2022 by borderslynn

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/countries-who-rely-on-desalination.html From the above map we learn Saudi Arabia has the most desalination plants in the world: “eight plants using the reverse osmosis technology and 12 using the multi-stage distillation process. The country has the largest floating desalination plant in … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged climate change, conflict, desalination, desertification, drought, famine, food security, multi-stage flash, reverse osmosis, solutions | 2 Comments

Fight the cause of the refugee crisis

Posted on November 5, 2022 by borderslynn

Use satellite imagery and track the problems and build solutions: https://www.planet.com/

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged asylum, authoritarian regime, child abuse, climate change, conflict, cruelty, discrimination, drought, drugs, environment, exploitation, famine, human rights, inhuman living conditions, low paid work, male domination, misogyny, no freshwater, persecution, poverty, rape, rebuilding, rehoming, replanting, rescue, satellite imagery, sustainable living, terror, torture, tracking, trafficking, unsanitary conditions, value every human, violence | Leave a comment

Drought tolerant plants

Posted on October 22, 2022 by borderslynn

Microbes living in and on the roots of plants keep them healthy just as the human gut microbes do. During drought conditions, plants increase the microbes which help them stay alive in drought conditions. Researchers have found they can inject … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged biology of plants, crops, drought, floods, food insecurity, genetics, global food shortage, microbes, research, rivers, seed banks, soil, threats, trade | Leave a comment

Drip irrigation when water is limited

Posted on September 30, 2022 by borderslynn

Shortages of fresh water can create difficult decisions, and lead to conflict. Industrial farming creating wealth for owners and investors may leave local poor communities without access to any clean water for personal use. This is illustrated by the South … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged cattle farming, cholera, conflict, deficit irrigation, drip irrigation, drought, food insecurity, industrial farming, innovation, war, water scarcity | Leave a comment

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