Life on the Moon?
#Soil on #Moon might sustain life
Researchers from University of Hong Kong developed technology to extract #water from #lunar soil & use it to convert carbon dioxide into #oxygen & #chemical #fuel
The #research could “potentially open new doors for future deep space exploration” because it could mitigate the expensive costs needed to bring essential resources such as water to the Moon.
A post about #water & #rivers: From the history of the #Danube to the #Wutach in the #BlackForest – one of the last wild rivers in Germany. With reflections by Alexander von Humboldt, one of the first ecologists, and a #readingtip: the new book by #RobertMacfarlane. Bonus track: a #photo exhibition.
Untitled, 2023
Belal Khaled’s Hands Tell Stories series began while living in a tent outside the morgue at Nasser hospital in Gaza after his house was destroyed. The tent overlooked an area where bodies were being gathered after the morgue reached full capacity. Khaled began documenting hands.
Photograph: Belal Khaled
The End, 2025
In his series Alfredo Jaar documents the Great Salt Lake, Utah, which is being destroyed by excessive water extraction and has become what scientists have described as an ‘environmental nuclear bomb’. A keystone ecosystem for the western hemisphere, sustaining rainfall and providing a habitat for 10 million migratory birds, it has lost 73% of its water ...
Photograph: Alfredo Jarr
‘No life without water’: Settler attacks threaten West Bank communities
The settlers came and the first thing they did was break the pipeline.
The spring is the source of water for some 110,000 people.
“When you restrict water supply in certain areas, people simply move where water is available.”
“So in a plan to move people to other lands, water is the best and fastest way.”
An empty island from my snorkling adventure yesterday and a wild blackcurrant bush
And a video of an almost dream like scene of paddling: https://loops.video/v/9DUqrEzClT
@snorkling @paddleboarding @nature @photography
#SilentSunday #Silent #Sunday
#Water #Sea #Underwater #Photography
#June #Southern #Finland #Archipelago #Åland #Jomala #Kungsö
#Snorkling #InMy #Summer #Wonderland
Ultimately, it was a bad decision to stay as long as US forces remained following the assassination of Osama Bin Laden. This as well as #climatechange, was justification for President #Biden to exit the war
"Kabul is inching toward catastrophe. It could soon become the first modern capital in the world to run completely dry according to a recent report by Mercy Corps, a non-government organization that warns the crisis could lead to economic collapse."
#Afghanistan
#water
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/19/asia/afghanistan-kabul-water-crisis-report-intl-hnk
The Trump administration's decision to slash nearly all U.S. foreign aid has left dozens of water and sanitation projects half-finished across the globe, creating new hazards for the people they were designed to benefit. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/20/world/politics/trump-aid-water-sanitation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #water #us #famine #drought #floods #donaldtrump #aid
All good things must come to an end.
From Lise Olsen: One of Entergy’s favored pathways for the project would cut across about a mile of the reservoir. And yet Entergy didn’t ever bother to inform the City of #Houston—which gets about 70 percent of the #water produced by the reservoir. https://www.texasobserver.org/locals-oppose-lake-livingston-proposed-power-line-project/
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/19/ministers-tackle-water-pollution-england-wales. "Labour" ministers aren't prepared to do the necessary & renationalise the #water #industry, so this is pure nonsense, @georgemonbiot.bsky.social, @thegreenparty, @NorthantsGreens.
Featured story, from Chilton Tippin: Trapped between the treaty and the drought, many Conchos Valley residents find themselves in an increasingly dire situation. As one Mexican farmer said, “When the #water goes down, everything goes down with it.” https://www.texasobserver.org/rio-conchos-texas-mexico-water-treaty/
A story from my world. USAID funds were committed by Congress to support providing safe #water and sanitation to millions of people.
Trump and the GOP eliminated those funds. People will die as a result.
“As we get warmer #water with less ice cover, you’re more likely to extend the growing season so there’s more opportunity for these cyanobacteria to grow,” even in an inland ocean like Great Slave Lake. https://cabinradio.ca/249051/news/environment/algal-blooms-becoming-more-common-in-great-slave-lake/