Water is being pumped out of Iran's aquifers so aggressively to sustain it's growing agriculture in semi-arid terrain that they can see the land subside from outer space - at rates up to 30-40 cm per year I hear. Iran depends on this unsustainable groundwater abstraction for ~50% of it's supplies.

Of je kunt aftellen naar Chinees Nieuwjaar van volgende woensdag. Tegen dan zitten we al aan -2 februari

Ze zat daarnet in De Zevende Dag om over factchecking bij Meta te discussieren, maar ze wist duidelijk niet waarover het ging.

And yet for some reason many people have an irrational fear of spiders

sites.google.com/view/arctic-...

Maybe it will be surpassed by 2016 in the next few days. But the refreeze in the Arctic should slow down soon since both the Laptev Sea and East Siberian Sea are almost entirely frozen over by now.

And here is the corresponding sea ice thickness anomaly map (green=thicker ice than normal, blue=thinner ice than normal)