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> ... receding water levels in a Serbian stretch of the Danube... surfaced a flotilla of Nazi-era German warships that were still packed with ammunition and unexploded ordnance... In Spain, parched riverbeds and shrinking reservoirs have exposed a Neolithic monument known as the Spanish Stonehenge, a Roman fortress, a medieval church, and a number of more recent “ghost towns” that had been abandoned and flooded following 20th century dam projects.
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2209/S00005/on-king-coals-comeback-plus-a-music-playlist.htm
#Climate #ClimateChaos
On King Coal’s Comeback, Plus A Music Playlist | Scoop News

Of late, the news bulletins have been carrying alarming images of extreme flooding in parts of Asia, and extreme drought across Europe. Pakistan has 7,000 glaciers, the largest number in any country outside the polar regions. Those glaciers are melting, ...

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> Europe’s rivers are turning up bleak omens — the receding waters in parts of central Europe have revealed old “hunger stones,” markers placed along riverbeds that locals centuries prior left as guides to earlier droughts. One stone that emerged out of the Elbe read: “When this goes under, life will become more colourful again.”
#StoneTablets #Drought #Rivers #Scoop
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speaking of #StoneTablets:
> .. around #Fukushima.. stone tablets had been placed along the shoreline in the Middle Ages to serve as #tsunami warnings; future generations were explicitly told ‘Do not build your homes below this point!’
The #Japanese are certainly no more inattentive to the words of their ancestors than any other people: yet not only did they build exactly where they had been warned not to, they actually situated a #NuclearPlant there.
#AmitavGhosh in The #GreatDerangement
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