#shipping routes

[mapsontheweb]

International shipping routes before and after the Houthi attacks in the Red Sea

[fieriframes]

[Revolution of the Fates, some change in trade and shipping routes.]

[bumblebeeappletree]

The ice in the arctic is melting, revealing huge amounts of fossil fuels, rare earths and new shipping routes. And the rush to secure these has already begun. Will countries continue their race for economic and militaristic advantages or will they finally work together to solve the global problem of climate change?

Credits

Reporter: Monika Sax

Video Editor: Markus Mörtz

Supervising Editor: Joanna Gottschalk, Kiyo Dörrer & Michael Trobridge

We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our channel explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.

#PlanetA #Arctic #FossilFuels

Special thanks (for research support and background information):

The Arctic Council: https://www.arctic-council.org/

GRID-Arendal: https://www.grida.no/

Malte Humpert, The Arctic Institute: https://www.thearcticinstitute.org/

Dr. Nina Döring, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies e.V. (IASS): https://www.iass-potsdam.de/de

Andreas Østhagen, Fridtjof Nansen Institute: https://www.fni.no/

Elena Tracy, Arctic Programme, WWF: https://www.arcticwwf.org/

Dr. Sanna Kopra, The Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law Arctic Centre, University of Lapland & The Arctic Institute | Center for Circumpolar Security Studies: https://www.thearcticinstitute.org/ex...

Dr. Volker Rachold, Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung: https://www.arctic-office.de/

Dr. Michael Paul, SWP Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, German Institute for International and Security Affairs: https://www.swp-berlin.org/

Read more:

Status of offshore oil and gas activities and regulatory frameworks in the Arctic (May 2021): https://pame.is/document-library/pame...

Various arctic fact sheets: https://www.arctic-office.de/en/publi...

Impact of Arctic Change: https://arcticrisk.org/latest-data/

Information about arctic peoples, biodiversity, climate, ocean, pollutants, emergencies: https://www.arctic-council.org/resour...

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction

00:28 The run to the melting Arctic has begun

02:44 Why the Arctic is so important

04:13 Political leaders and their plans

05:55 Arctic players today – where are they?

06:57 How scientific guess became fact

07:34 The people & habitat of the Arctic

09:00 Effects of traffic in the Arctic

10:52 Introducing the Arctic Council

11:17 Conclusion

[afrotumble]

Key analysis sees Red Sea shipping diversions starting to boost oil demand - FreightWaves

[newsvistaarblog]

अमेरिका ने श्रीलंका बंदरगाह पर अदानी टर्मिनल परियोजना के लिए $553 मिलियन की प्रतिबद्धता जताई

Written By Shafeek Ahmad, Published On 08-November-2023, 10:00 IST. यूएस इंटरनेशनल डेवलपमेंट फाइनेंस कॉरपोरेशन (DFC) ने श्रीलंका में कोलंबो बंदरगाह टर्मिनल परियोजना का समर्थन करने के लिए $553 मिलियन की महत्वपूर्ण वित्तीय प्रतिबद्धता की घोषणा की है। यह पहल विशेष रूप से उल्लेखनीय है क्योंकि यह बंदरगाह क्षेत्र में किसी भारतीय कंपनी, अदानी समूह की पहली भागीदारी का प्रतीक है। यह विकास एक महत्वपूर्ण…

[greenglowinspooks]

Thinkin about a DCxDP where Danny’s helping ghosts find peace while he’s laying low in Gotham.

Like, he moved away from Amity for whatever reason. Maybe the reveal went badly, maybe he just couldn’t stand staying any longer. For whatever reason, he’s in Gotham, because the rent is cheap and he’s nowhere near the strangest thing there so no one looks at him twice.

However, this city is cursed. Like, cursed beyond cursed. It’s actively alive with how many curses there are, and the ghosts there are extremely unhappy about it.

(Of course, that’s not a problem for Danny. His ghost side filters out the toxic smog and the chemicals in the water, and his human side gives a resistance to the rank ecto and the hexes that are actively trying to devour him.)

He doesn’t really want to do anything about it, to be honest.

He’s sick of playing hero, considering how it went last time, and he’s busy working at Waffle House or Walmart or whatever other store doesn’t bother doing a background check (in Gotham, that’s probably all of them), and maybe trying to find a way to get highschool credits that don’t immediately disqualify him from every college in existence.

Still, the ghosts know he can hear them. They know, and they keep coming for help.

So, hey, why not? He definitely can’t put this as experience in any sort of job application, but he really doesn’t have much else to do.

So, he becomes errand boy for a bunch of ghosts.

Sometimes he’s finding objects that are important to them, sometimes he’s giving evidence they collected together of their murders to the police, sometimes he’s getting them the last meal they never had, sometimes he’s just spending time with them like they’re not dead.

The ghosts don’t always move on, but they’re always more at peace. Occasionally they pay him back in charms and blessings and the locations of valuables that he can keep or pawn for cash.

Eventually, a new ghost shows up.

She looks like a shadow, like all the ghosts of Gotham, but she seems stronger than usual. She asks him for a favor that those who came before him were never able to fulfill.

She asks him to find her engagement ring, and give it to her son.

Easy enough, he thinks. It’s a bit of a pain to buy the ring from the seedy pawn shop it’s in (he would usually just steal it, but he doesn’t want to implicate her kid in anything, which she seems grateful for), but everything’s going mostly alright.

Then, she tells him who her son is, and wow, no wonder no one’s helped her yet.

He’s Red Hood. The guy who is(/was) the crime lord in charge of crime alley. The title sounds a bit stupid to Danny, but he’s still a genuine threat to a living person.

Good thing he’s not one of those.

And so, the next time he sees Red Hood out and about, he goes right up to him. The man seems mostly unbothered, but Danny does notice how his hand slightly drifts towards one of his many weapons.

He tells Red Hood outright that he’s there on behalf of the man’s mother, then just holds out his hand with the ring inside, dropping it into Red Hood’s open palm.

Then he leaves, not waiting for a response.

—

Jason has a mystery on his hands, and he might just cash in some favors from Babs and Tim to figure it out.

He’s got to find the guy who gave him his mother’s ring, and find out everything he knows.

[stars-obsession-pit]

Tim has found his soulmate (not a soulmate AU, just in the like “i think we’re totally meant to be together” way). Well, okay, it’s entirely one-sided so far, but he’s sure SpecterNova will reciprocate once they’re in proper contact.

He’s already found everything he publicly can on the youtuber, but he’s still digging deeper. It’s weirdly difficult—his love must like his privacy!—but he’s making headway.

On the other end, Danny is getting nervous about the dedication of his new internet stalker. Even with Tucker’s help in setting up his online security and the scrambling effects of ectoplasm, they can tell that the person is still making progress. They don’t seem like they’re a part of the GIW, but that doesn’t mean their search can’t harm him in some other way.

He really hopes he doesn’t have to change identities again. Having to do it the first time to flee the GIW was bad enough, and he’s been liking his current life.

[mblue-art]

"…heh. you ran all the way here? can't resist free treats, huh." "Pff, hah. Of course."

🎯 >>

[the-meme-monarch]

deltarune as tumblr posts/text I’ve seen on tumblr no way it’s part 6

had trouble gathering links for the last one so let’s try again: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6(you are here) part 7

[necrotic-nephilim]

I think what I love the most about Reverse Robin AU TimJay is the absolute potential for hero worship with Jason toward Tim. In canon we often forget that Tim didn't really care for Jason as Robin, meanwhile as I never shut up about, Jason has been weirdly respecting and obsessed with Tim since finding out about Tim's existence. So if you flip their order, make Tim Red Hood and make Jason Red Robin, there's so much room for hero worship from Jason.

As Robin, Jason has always teetered that edge of being pro-murder or not. Whether you believe he killed Felipe or not, even in his Post-Crisis introduction as Robin, he almost kills Two Face. Those concepts of lethal justice have always been brewing inside him, just reigned in by Bruce. So if you have Robin!Jason witnessing Red Hood!Tim start killing people and quickly making noticeable change in the landscape of gangs in Gotham, Jason would take quick notice. I think Tim as Red Hood would still be lethal, but there'd be a different application than Jason's Red Hood. Heads in duffle bags isn't Tim's style, even if he kills. I think you'd see something much more akin to that time Tim almost killed Boomerang, where it's such an elaborately thought out set up, it realistically doesn't even look like Tim killed anyone. It'd take months for Bruce to connect this string of deaths as anything other than coincidental, let alone link them to Red Hood. And Jason is wickedly smart, even as Robin. Jason, putting those pieces together before Bruce does and witnessing the undeniable positive change for Gotham it's enacting? Robin!Jason would be incredibly drawn in by that, and then even more-so, a Red Robin!Jason who has to grapple with being replaced to make room for the next Robin would I think, in anger, turn to Red Hood. And Tim would push him away at first, his plans don't have room for a scorned teenager who's trying to get back at Bruce and Nightwing!Damian like this- but I think Jason would wear him down. Prove to Tim that Jason can think on his wavelength.

Slightly related, what interests me about Red Hood!Tim is how it'd implicate his closeness to Ra's. Jason is taken into the League by Talia in Lost Days and Ra's doesn't necessarily approve of Jason's presence, especially not of Talia dunking him in the Pit, but Ra's has always canonically been A Little Weird about Tim. I think in a world Tim dies as the second Robin, it would be Ra's who dunks Tim to preserve his mind that Ra's thinks shouldn't be wasted, and you have the potential for 'apprentice of Ra's' Tim wrapped up in it all, even without him experience the Red Robin arc. So when it's Jason as Red Robin, instead of him going to Ra's when he's scorned by the Batfamily, he goes to Tim. The person he once idolized, because I think Tim would've been Jason's Robin. Smart, competent, a strong legacy to live up to. And now he's back, and he's pro-killing, an edge that Jason has always teetered on and would feel even closer to when he's replaced by a young Dick. I think Tim wouldn't ever be able to get rid of Jason.

Then on Tim's side, I think his reaction to being replaced after his death would be a complicated one. Objectively, being the Robin who believes Batman needs a Robin, he'd respect the logic and know Bruce was always going to replace him eventually. But still, there's always going to be that instinctual emotional reaction of betrayal and replacement. I think he'd view Jason at first with anger and distance, but then, seeing Jason as this street kid with begrudging potential, I could see Red Hood!Tim testing Jason. Constantly throwing things at Jason, seeing how he reacts, if he lives up to being Robin. Tim has a need for analyzing people, understanding their strengths and weaknesses. And he seems the Robin mantle very uniquely, he'd need to have it proven to him that Jason can handle it.

So you would have this dynamic of Jason hero worshipping Tim, slowly believing in Tim's methodology. While Tim is at first dismissive of him, but then starts to test him, see what makes this kid tick. And I think the TimJay potential of Jason trying to prove himself to Tim could be Neat.

[5ivers]

love is strange!!!!!! i love love is strange!! everrryyone should play who likes life is strange ships breh its on itch.io its amazing

[mapsontheweb]

The Arctic shipping route that not many people are talking about. By 2050 (if not sooner), a seasonal Transpolar Passage more than likely will open up across the Arctic Ocean via the North Pole. Few countries are seriously preparing for this new reality, except China.

[totally-average-kid]

Im going to hell

[shmowder]

Having the option to either run away with Aglaya or kill her at the end of the haruspex's P1 route feels like this:

Or

[pparkerized]

the scene where loki and mobius narrowly escape death together, wrapped in each others arms was SO gay. but of course they had to ruin it with loki immediately bringing up sylvie afterwards.

[theraedar]

a letter to you

(Letter transcription under the cut)

Mom,

I know a letter wouldn’t reach you if I wrote one, but if it could, there’s so much I’d want to tell you.

I’d write about everything that’s happened in the time I’ve been gone, and how overwhelmed I’d felt at first. I’d apologize for disappearing without an explanation, but let you know that I’d be okay, because I’d found friends that stayed by my side through all of it...friends I’d cross the universe for. I’d tell you how I’d like you to meet them, but to please bear with them because they can be a bit of a handful, though their hearts are in the right place.

I’d ask if you remember how you always wished that you’d given me siblings, then assure you that you didn’t have to worry about that anymore, because there are people that look out for me now and guide me when I’m lost. I’d admit that I admire them, then think that must be what it feels like to have older siblings.

I’m sure you’d also love to hear about a boy I met, embarrassing as that would be. I’d tell you not to get any ideas, though. It’s not a romantic story, but maybe he and I got off on the wrong foot, and maybe he’s not so bad after all.

I’d wrap the letter up hoping that the house isn’t too big without me and that the fire would keep it warm enough for you this winter, because it’d be a shame if your fingers were too cold to play the piano. I’d tell you I miss you and that I’m trying to find a way home, that I can’t wait to hear your music again. I’d promise to write again soon, then sign it,

“Your one and only,

Lorel.”