Tag Archives: pacific

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 →

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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

The seafaring Neanderthals and their descendants, the seafaring Pacific Islanders

Posted on November 7, 2017 by borderslynn

We are learning far more about ourselves thanks to the Human Genome Project. Adding this avalanche of new findings to what has been collected by other branches of discovery since, for example, the Taung child skull found in South Africa … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged Africa, apache, asia, fiji, genetics, melanesia, new guinea, new mexico, pacific, seafaring neanderthals, taiwan, taung skull, tectonics, zuni | Leave a comment

Fragility of human existence: following the migration of hominins

Posted on October 22, 2017 by borderslynn

The first humans to arrive in the Americas out of Africa would have been faced with crossing the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, the long migration through Asia to Beringia, or maybe through hops over Pacific islands. The migration of … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged Americas, anthropology, asia, China, global conveyor, Gulf Stream, hawai, human migration, north atlantic, pacific, philippines, sundaland, Weather | Leave a comment