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Beside the title, a very interesting conversation about the environmental cost of war and we should be worried about. youtube.com/watch?v=tKtD...
Why the U.S. Military is 'Earth's Greatest Enemy' (w/ Abby Martin) | The Chris Hedges Report
YouTube video by The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel
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Greenland's Fragile Wealth: How a Melting Island Became a Global Obsession Part III open.substack.com/pub/ulgc/p/g...
Greenland's Fragile Wealth: How a Melting Island Became a Global Obsession Part III
landes
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Must-read: The Pleistocene Cuck-Chair. | Ben Woodard open.substack.com/pub/benwooda...
The Pleistocene Cuck-Chair
Poking holes in the incel->autistic pipeline
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Persian Gulf — Red Sea — Gulf of Aden-Bab el-Mandeb Closure Scenario: Geopolitical + Ecological Impacts: ulgc.substack.com/p/persian-gu... #landscapeasterritory #conflictpatterns #militarylandscapes
Persian Gulf — Red Sea — Gulf of Aden - Bab el-Mandeb Closure Scenario: Geopolitical and Ecological Impacts
Persian Gulf — Red Rea — Gulf of Aden - Bab el-Mandeb closure Scenario: Geopolitical and Ecological Impacts starts with this idea: as US/Israel-Iran tensions escalate, what’s inside Iranian officials’...
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With the world focused on the acute wartime environmental risks in the Middle East, it's important to remember that these legacies can last decades, as this study from the Solomon Islands demonstrates. www.undp.org/pacific/pres...
Decaying World War II bombs in Solomon Islands releasing toxic chemicals, new research finds
Coastal communities in Solomon Islands are facing growing health and environmental risks as decaying World War II bombs release toxic chemicals into land and sea, new research has found.
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Enjoying: SIM City | Iman Ansari | @eflux.bsky.social | Positions series #architecture #urbanism #essays www.e-flux.com/architecture...
Positions - Iman Ansari - SIM City
To become a citizen in Iran is to first become legible to a surveillance infrastructure. The threshold of civic existence is no longer architectural or even bureaucratic. It is electromagnetic.
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Reading: How a drought drives Iran's protests | Alessandra Hay and Jacqueline Cole
How a drought drives Iran’s protests
Protests sparked by drastic inflation are raging all over Iran. Mehdi has spent years watching Iran’s water shortage drive the country to a tipping point.
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“Architect Luis Callejas: “some images from The Road. My studio at The Oslo School of Architecture and Design including Maximilian Vinzenz Schob and guest critics Charles Waldheim, Sabine Müller , Beate Hølmebakk and engineer Finn Erik Nilsen”” www.linkedin.com/posts/luisca...
some images from The Road. My studio at The Oslo School of Architecture and Design Thank you Maximilian Vinzenz Schob and guest critics Charles Waldheim, Sabine Müller , Beate Hølmebakk and engineer… ...
some images from The Road. My studio at The Oslo School of Architecture and Design Thank you Maximilian Vinzenz Schob and guest critics Charles Waldheim, Sabine Müller , Beate Hølmebakk and engineer F...
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Greenland’s Fragile Wealth: How a melting Island Became a Global Obsession Part III ulgc.substack.com/p/greenlands...
Greenland's Fragile Wealth: How a Melting Island Became a Global Obsession Part III
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Another world is possible. A post on a very intriguing exhibition… Singapore, including architect and filmmaker Liam Young
Another World is Possible
Another World is Possible By Honor Harger 20 September 2025 In recent years, the future has come to feel less like a promise and more like a warning. As my friend Liam Young says, it’s as if we are…
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⏱ But if you don't have time for that, I would appreciate it if you could comment sharing any interesting examples, patterns, or resources you’ve seen that demonstrate how AI fits into development
🧠 Developers, I need your input! 🙏 😊 We’re exploring ways to enhance the developer experience with ArcGIS. AI-assisted coding is reshaping how we build software, and I’d love to hear how you use it in your everyday work. 👉 Got 2 minutes? You can share your thoughts in our survey: lnkd.in/erxe7twp
This is why Greenland became so attractive these recent years… “There is still time for the two superpowers to step back from the brink of their latest row over rare earths. These minerals are needed to manufacture most electronics of both the consumer and military sort”
America and China return to fierce trade conflict
Donald Trump threatens an extra 100% levy as rare-earth minerals prompt a fresh spat
economist.com
What can we learn from Iran's Military-Infrastructural Landscape? #militarylandscape #infrastructurallandscape open.substack.com/pub/ulgc/p/w...
What can we learn from Iran's Military-Infrastructural Landscape?
In my last entry in my series of Why Greenland matters, I promised that I would focus on international attention for Greenland’s natural resources.
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Theo Riofrancos, Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism - WW Norton, October 2025 wwnorton.com/books/978132... @triofrancos.bsky.social
Extraction
'Dazzling in the bold questions it asks.…An immense contribution.' —Naomi Klein<br /><br />An in-depth investigation into the growing industry of green technologies and the environmental,...
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@forensicarchi.bsky.social Israel is besieging Gaza City from three directions, pushing the nearly 1m Palestinians currently sheltering there towards southern Gaza. (…)
Forensic Architecture on X: "Israel is besieging Gaza City from three directions, pushing the nearly 1m Palestinians currently sheltering there towards southern Gaza. Each military advance flattens homes and infrastructure in its path, threatening the erasure of millennia-old Gaza City, and displacing the https://t.co/LRtq2MTsYD" / X
Israel is besieging Gaza City from three directions, pushing the nearly 1m Palestinians currently sheltering there towards southern Gaza. Each military advance flattens homes and infrastructure in its path, threatening the erasure of millennia-old Gaza City, and displacing the https://t.co/LRtq2MTsYD
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“The architects of today can and should acknowledge and embrace the multi-species collaboration inherent in any ecosystem. We should be just as concerned with whooping crane-centered design, wetlands-centered design, atmosphere-centered design, or even hard-drive-centered design...” Liam Young
Designing Futures
Can storytelling prototype the future? Speculative architect Liam Young examines how imaginative narratives navigate tomorrow's challenges.
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Reuters: As Madrid sweltered at the peak of one of Spain's longest-ever heatwaves, *the temperature in one of its poorest neighborhoods — Puente de Vallecas — measured as much as 8 degrees Celsius higher* than other parts of the city which had more trees”.
Madrid’s poor neighbourhoods clamour for more trees to cool streets in deadly heatwaves
As temperatures in Spain rise as a result of global warming, trees may play a crucial role.
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“NEW INV.: The disappearance of Namibia’s grasslands is not a natural occurrence but rather can be traced back to German settler colonial practices following their genocidal campaign against the Nama and Ovaherero peoples in the early 20th century.” @forensicarchi.bsky.social x.com/forensicarch...
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China says it has talked with countries downstream about its new dam project in Tibet, a massive undertaking that will affect a key source of water for India and Bangladesh
China Says It Spoke With Neighbors on Planned Mega-Dam’s Impacts
China said it has talked with countries downstream about its new dam project in Tibet, a massive undertaking that will affect a key source of water for India and Bangladesh.
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Territories of Extraction: Mapping Palimpsests of Appropriation | Berta Flaquer How do we represent territories whose histories, economies, and ecologies have been shaped by centuries of extraction, yet are still often perceived as peripheral or empty? landezine.com/territories-...
Territories of Extraction: Mapping Palimpsests of Appropriation
How do we represent territories whose histories, economies, and ecologies have been shaped by centuries of extraction, yet are still often perceived as peripheral or empty? 1. Introduction In his book...
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Check out my new post on where Greenlanders live as #Greenland is getting more and more international attention for its new opportunities including new trade route, route for travel (tourism), untapped mineral resources (including REEs, oil and gas)… open.substack.com/pub/ulgc/p/n...
Note #5 Greenland: Where People live in Greenland (a map, three charts)
Map of Greenland's towns and three charts plotting its total population count, total population growth projection and its urban population growth projection
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Why not using existing infrastructures rather than clearing a part of Amazon rainforest to build what? a… highway!?!?!?!
Jen Iris Allan@jenirisallan.bsky.social · last yr.Belem was always a bad choice. There is existing infrastructure in Rio. This is infuriating. I'm working on MegaCOP dynamics and the environmental impact is the worst hypocrisy. #COP30 www.bbc.com/news/article...
The recent conflict has devastated Gaza’s already fragile waste collection system. With hundreds of thousands of tons of waste piling up in the streets, health and environmental risks are escalating. Explore our latest Reuters Graphics piece 🗑️ #Gaza #ReutersGraphics www.reuters.com/graphics/GAZ...
Gaza’s garbage crisis
After 15 months of war, Gaza is suffering from a destroyed waste system.
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Disappearing landscapes: The #Arctic at +2.7°C #globalwarming Julienne C. Stroeve et al #shiftingenvironment www.science.org/stoken/autho...
Disappearing landscapes: The Arctic at +2.7°C global warming
Under current nationally determined contributions (NDCs) to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, global warming is projected to reach 2.7°C above preindustrial levels. In this review, we show that at su...
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Why are minerals so central to geopolitics? How green are electric cars? Why is anti-mining protest increasing? Can the inequalities of the global economy be transformed? I tackle these topics in my book EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism 👀 September 2025 @wwnorton.bsky.social
Note #4 Why Greenland matters? Inhabiting a disputed cold territory #landscapeecologies #extremeenvironments open.substack.com/pub/ulgc/p/n...
Note #4
Why Greenland matters? Inhabiting a disputed cold territory
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NEW INVESTIGATION: Israeli forces repeatedly attacked Gaza’s main port in the week following 7 Oct 2023. By Jan 2024, after months of continued attacks, all docked vessels had been rendered non-operational, devastating Gaza’s fishing industry and increasing Palestinian dependence on foreign aid.
