De incompetentie van Eppo Bruins #sargasso

https://sargasso.nl/eppos-emmertje/

Eppo’s emmertje - Sargasso

De wereld staat in brand, en de incapabele minister van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschappen schept ondertussen wat zand in een emmertje

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De Polder | De blauwe oceaan van Nederland - Sargasso

SERIE - Sargasso duikt deze zomer de polder in. Per aflevering van de zomerserie vertelt een lezer over zijn of haar favoriete polder. Marcel Kolder is organisatieadviseur en heeft een eigen communicatiebureau. Hij woont in Almere en breekt een lans voor de jongste provincie van Nederland.

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Kiezers uitsluiten? - Sargasso

OPINIE - De PVV zag als eerste Nederlandse partij hoe krachtig de sociale media zou worden. In de beginjaren van de eenmanspartij werd Geert Wilders door de pers redelijk kritisch aangepakt. De reactie daarop was even simpel als doorzichtig: voortaan weigerde Wilders deel te nemen aan talkshows. Zijn argument? Dat is allemaal ‘vooringenomen links’. Het […]

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NO TIME TO EXPLAIN!

I need a PDF or a snip of #Bebe #Sunday from "#Biggles and The #Sargasso Triangle" comic circa 1977/1978.

This one:

Nieuwe ontwikkeling, waar ik wel blij mee ben: ik kan op mijn instance #Sargasso geen bijlagen (foto's) zonder beschrijvingen meer posten. #toegankelijkheid

"#Eels have fascinated us for ages - now we need to stop eating them"

"we have barely added any knowledge on eel reproduction in the last 100 years. A recent report that tracked eel reproductive migration has been highlighted for providing the first direct observation of eels migrating to the #Sargasso Sea to mate."

"Today, fewer than five glass eels arrive on European coasts for every 100 that used to arrive in the period from 1960 to 1979. "

https://theconversation.com/eels-have-fascinated-us-for-ages-now-we-need-to-stop-eating-them-201520

Eels have fascinated us for ages - now we need to stop eating them

No one would think of eating an endangered animal like the Iberian lynx. So why do we still eat eels?

The Conversation

#Sargassum #Toxicity: Here's what you need to know

Experts predict it's likely here to stay

By Petar Denoble, MD, D.Sc., Mar 2, 2020

"If you’ve cruised the eastern #Caribbean or South #Florida recently, you probably caught a whiff of a rotten egg smell and noticed piles of floating brown seaweed hugging the shore. Far more than an eyesore, this Sargassum seaweed—and the gases it emits as it rots—has been proven to be hazardous to human health.

"Since 2011, massive Sargassum rafts have been washed up ashore along the eastern Caribbean, spoiling beaches, affecting near-coastal sea life, and causing health problems for beachgoers, boaters, and fishers. Recent satellite observations reveal an unprecedented belt of this brown macroalgae stretching from #WestAfrica to the Gulf of #Mexico—and experts predict that it’s likely there to stay. The problem has become such a menace south of the border that the Mexican Navy has been put in charge of dealing with it.

"Causes of the proliferation of #sargasso are thought to be the influx of fertilizers from the #Amazon and #Congo river basins; dust blown in from the #Sahara Desert carrying nitrogen, phosphorus, and #iron; and increased surface #temperature of the #ocean. In normal circumstances, the mass of sargasso may double in 11 days. With increasing temperatures, that growth gets boosted. The thickness of sargasso rafts gets larger, and the shores get hit by walls of sargasso mass.

"Under normal conditions, floating Sargassum is a thriving #ecosystem, providing a vital habitat and food source for many sea species—including turtles and mahi-mahi. But when it grows too thick, #dolphins and #turtles cannot break through it to the surface and often choke. And when sunlight cannot get through it to the bottom, bottom life gets damaged to the point of #extinction.

"Sargassum presents risks to human health as well. In the water, it’s harmless to humans, but the trouble begins once it lands on the beach and starts to decompose. The decomposition of beached sargasso begins 48 hours after washing up. It then releases hydrogen sulfide (H2S) gas and ammonia. H2S is a broad-spectrum poison that smells of rotten eggs.

"Breathing in these toxic gases may cause respiratory, skin and #neurocognitive symptoms in people that come in close contact with degrading sargasso. In 2018, in Guadeloupe and Martinique, there were 11,000 cases of suspected #poisoning reported. Patients complained of heart palpitations, shortness of breath, dizziness, vertigo, headache, and skin rashes."

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #Pollution #Fertilizers

Read more:
https://danboater.org/travel-health-and-safety/sargassum-toxicity-health-hazard-what-you-need-to-know.html

Sargassum Toxicity: Here's what you need to know

Massive seaweed blooms causing health problems for boaters, fishermen, and beachgoers.