The US-Israel war on Iran has emitted 5 million tonnes of CO₂ₑ in its first 14 days. The world currently has 0.6 million tonnes of novel and permanent CO₂ removal (CDR) capacity annually.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/21/middle-east-iran-conflict-environment-climate

A Wind-Powered Tumbleweed That Heals the Desert as It Rolls

#science

https://www.yankodesign.com/2026/03/20/a-wind-powered-tumbleweed-that-heals-the-desert-as-it-rolls/

Save the Planet! Recycle right!

There is no Planet B.

#Recycling #Environment #Environmentalism #ThinkGreen #GoGreen

Ukraine will no longer send troops abroad for training, shifting all preparation to domestic facilities. The decision was driven by concerns over limited modern combat experience among foreign instructors.

A decision long time due... #Ukraine

I love this so much.

Hunting The Wren
LANKUM

Sharp is the wind
Cold is the rain
Harsh is the livelong day
Upon the wide open plain

By Donnelly's hollow
Under sod, gorse and furze
There lies the young wren, oh
By the saints she was cursed

The wren is a small bird
How pretty she sings
She bested the eagle
When she hid in its wings

With sticks and with stones
All among the small mounds
They come from all over
To hunt the wren on the wide open ground

They flock round the soldiers
In their jackets so red
For barrack-room favours
Pennies and bread

The soldier is rough
In anger or fun
And he causes much bloodshed
With his big musket gun

There are birds of the earth
And beasts of the field
By spite and by fury
Are people revealed

Attacked in the village
Spat on in town
They come from all over
To hunt the wren on the wide open ground

The wren is a small bird
Though blamed for much woe
Her form is derided
Wherever she goes

With cold, want, and whiskey
She soon is run down
Her body paraded
On a staff through the town

A rag for her ceiling
The sod was her floor
She chose the cold open plain o’er
The dark workhouse door

With two broken wings
And feathers so brown
They come from all over
To hunt the wren on the wide open ground

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUReQ9GhT8s

...What had proved incomprehensible to me was that this bloodshed had been committed again and again, and with no attempt to bring the perpetrators before the authorities. Acts of violence committed in broad daylight, without hesitation and without regret. Commanding officers who would have encouraged, no, even demanded such displays of brutality.

-Han Kang, Human Acts re: the repression after Gwangju in #southkorea

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