Batı #Antarktika’da yer alan ve #deniz seviyesinin yükselmesine en fazla katkı sağlayan buzullardan biri olan #PineIsland buzulu, 2017’den bu yana belirgin biçimde hızlandı #SonDakika #Isınma #Buzul #İklim

https://cevrehatti.com/buz-sahanliginin-zayiflamasi-antarktikadaki-hayati-oneme-sahip-buzullarin-hizlanmasina-neden-oldu/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Between the bristled
towers step; emerge on an
island ever green.

#DailyHaikuPrompt #PineGate #haiku #poetry #PineIsland #druid

From 2021:

#NativeAmerican tribe in #Maine buys back island taken 160 years ago

The #Passamaquoddy’s purchase of #PineIsland for $355,000 is the latest in a series of successful ‘#LandBack’ campaigns for #IndigenousPeoples in the US

by Alice Hutton
Fri 4 Jun 2021

"The advert painted an idyllic picture of White’s Island.

"For $449,000 you could buy 143 acres of forests with sweeping views of the rugged shoreline of Big Lake in Maine, on the east coast of the United States. “[It’s] a unique property … steeped in history … with only two owners in the last 95 years,” wrote the real estate agent from privateislandsonline.com.

"In fact, #KuwesuwiMonihq, or #PineIsland, is its original name, and it technically has just one true 'caretaker'; the Passamaquoddy: a small tribe of 3,700 Native Americans who had lived there for at least 10,000 years.

"It’s a spiritually important place for the tribe, filled with graves from devastating #smallpox, #cholera and #measles outbreaks caused by #WhiteSettlers.

"In 1794 it was officially granted to the tribe by Massachusetts for their service during the revolutionary war. But after 1820, when Maine became its own state, colonialists changed its title, voiding the treaty. In the 1851 census there were 20 Passamaquoddy living there, in 1861 there were none.

"By 2021, they had not only lost all but 130,000 acres of their original 3m. They hadn’t stepped foot on Pine Island in 160 years.

“'The land was stolen from us and it’s been every chief’s goal ever since to return it,' said chief William Nicholas, 51, leader of the tribe’s Indian township reservation for the last 11 years, who spotted the advert on a shop noticeboard on 4 July last year.

"In March, with a grant from conservation charities, the tribe raised $355,000, and finally bought the island back."

Read more:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/04/native-american-tribe-maine-buys-back-pine-island
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/04/native-american-tribe-maine-buys-back-pine-island

#PassamaquoddyTribe #Wabanaki #MaineTribes #IndigenousPeople #FirstNations

#Thwaites and #PineIsland #Glaciers Rapid Melting Could Cause Four Foot Global Sea Level Rise

March 4, 2020

"Over the weekend of February 8-9, 2020, a significant calving event was observed by the European Space Agency’s Sentinel satellites on Thwaites’ neighbor #PineIslandGlacier. A 120-mile ice chunk—approximately the size of three San Franciscos—broke off the glacier’s front and splintered into several smaller icebergs, one of which was huge enough to receive its own name, B-49. Pine Island Glacier’s unstable state is evidenced by the diminishing time between calving events; prior events this century happened in 2001, 2007, 2013, 2015, 2017, and 2018. Between Thwaites and Pine Island, the amount of ice lost from Antarctica’s ice shelves is rapid and indicates a serious future threat. Both are susceptible to the encroachment of warm sea level because the “grounding line,” where the glaciers meet bedrock, lies below sea level. These two glaciers form the gateway to a large supply of frozen water on land that if released into the sea would cause global sea levels to rise by an estimated four feet. Although Pine Island Glacier appears to have stabilized for now, the threat of an increasingly unstable ice shelf yielding larger and larger icebergs (marine cliff instability) may cause dangerously fast losses of ice in West Antarctica."

Read more: https://www.climatecenter.pitt.edu/news/thwaites-and-pine-island-glaciers-rapid-melting-could-cause-four-foot-global-sea-level-rise

#SeaLevel #SeaLevelRise #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe #GlobalWarming

RT @DawnRoseTurner
One of #Antarctica's fastest-shrinking #glaciers just lost an iceberg twice the size of Washington, D.C.

Scientists worry that #PineIsland and the neighboring #Thwaites 'Doomsday' Glacier could be headed toward collapse. | Live Science https://www.livescience.com/pine-island-glacier-calving-retreat.html