Tag Archives: flooding

Living in a Sewer, courtesy of Israel

Posted on December 11, 2025 by borderslynn

10 Dec 2025 The view from Al Jazeera journalists of the additional trauma adding to the Gazans long term suffering as Storm Byron drowns their fragile existence: https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2025/12/10/heavy-rains-flood-tents-sheltering-the-displaced-heaping-misery-on-gaza

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged Al Mawasi, drowning, flooding, Gaza, Gaza City, hypothermia, inadequate supplies, israel, Palestinians, preventing rescue, Storm Byron, tented cities, winter | Leave a comment

Alaska

Posted on August 14, 2025 by borderslynn

From Christopher Armitage List of Actions of Trump administration since Jan 2025: See Christopher Armitage, Substack Trump and Putin chose to meet in Alaska, Aug 15th 2025 Looking up the history now as Trump sometimes made it sound like Putin … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged Alaska, america, climate change, conflict, flooding, gangster, history, Juneau, land grabs, mob Don, politics, Putin double, rare earths, real estate, resources, Russia, Trump pro Alaskan oil and gas drilling, ukraine, US subservience, war, war machine | Leave a comment

Higher elevations and Climate change

Posted on October 3, 2024 by borderslynn

The higher you live, the more likely you are to experience impacts of climate change, as these impacts are increasing at a more rapid rate in recent years than human experience can adapt to. I only live 900ft above sea … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged Appalachians, Asheville, climate change, danger, devastation, ecology, ecosystems, flooding, fossil fuels, glacier melting, hurricane Helene, lush environments, mountain rivers, mountains, threat, warming oceans, windward side | Leave a comment

Climate Change and the right to sanitation

Posted on August 18, 2023 by borderslynn

Watching the evacuation of people around the world suffering climate change impacts such as flooding, landslides, wildfires – it occurred to me, how do these thousands of people arrive at a safe place and have access to sanitation? Today, the … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged cholera, clean water, climate change, contamination, disaster management, emergency services, favelas, FEMA, flooding, hospitals, migration centres, pollution, poor housing, prisons, sanitation, schools, sewage, toilets, water stress, water treatment plants, wildfires | Leave a comment

Learning from our mistakes

Posted on July 3, 2023 by borderslynn

One thing we hear often said by authorities after a disaster is, ‘let us learn from our mistakes and work to ensure this can never happen again.’ Earthquakes ………a map of the world, with the locations of the biggest earthquakes … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged avoidable death, climate change, common sense, construction, dams, earthquakes, engineering, excess death, flooding, freshwater demand, local knowledge, prevention, tragedy, water shortages | Leave a comment

Wobbly polar vortex threat

Posted on December 25, 2022 by borderslynn

How a wobbly polar vortex brings cold weather “Judah Cohen, a climatologist at MIT and the director of seasonal forecasting at Atmospheric and Environmental Research, told Newsweek that, as average global temperatures rise, winter temperatures are increasing at a slower rate than … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged arctic warming, climate change, energy outages, extreme weather, flooding, food insecurity, hypothermia, polar vortex, road accidents, sudden freezing, threat to life, uninhabitable earth, wildlife deaths, winter storm | Leave a comment

Water, water everywhere, not a drop to drink

Posted on September 22, 2022 by borderslynn

Recent excessive flooding, rising sea levels and glacial melt combined with monsoon seasons make us have to address the world crises with full force. Water covers much of our planet, but a small percentage is drinkable. The land we walk … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged adapting to climate change impacts, aquifers, drought, flooding, hydrology, ice age, investing, land sinking below sea levels, no time left, pacific, relocation, seas rising, tectonic movement, weather patterns, winter storms | Leave a comment

Human existence has weaponised the environment

Posted on August 27, 2022 by borderslynn

David Wallace – Wells, author of The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future, tells us a truth we must, by now, all understand. He says it is “…the end of normal” because ” we have already exited the state … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged catastrophe, climate future, David Wallace-Wells, desolation, extremes, famine, feedbacks, flooding, greenhouse gas, homelessness, industry, snow melt, unprecedented weather, war, wildfires | Leave a comment

We are experiencing Extremes

Posted on August 2, 2021 by borderslynn

Republished article: Extreme heat waves in a warming world don’t just break records – they shatter them July 23, 2021 1.14pm BST Updated July 26, 2021 5.15pm BST Author Scott DenningProfessor of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University Disclosure statement Scott Denning has … Continue reading →

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Will we be Fishless soon?: Part II

Posted on February 28, 2021 by borderslynn

I often see livestock standing happily in rivers and streams. They are innocent, the farmers are not. We learned centuries ago that livestock, particulary dead livestock, in water courses leads to contamination of all water which was once running pure … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged clean water, climate change, fish health, flooding, human health, land management, livestock management, oceans, pollution, responsible farming, rivers, seas, sewage, shanty towns, streams, water courses, water treatment | Leave a comment

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