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Thanks to Sky News for the Headline

A plane , a Fokker 50 with 55 passengers and crew had to do an emergency landing in Somalia and overshot the runway and ended up in shallow waters in the Indian Ocean. Thankfully no one suffered any injuries which is truly miraculous as the wing of the plane snapped off on landing. Well done to the crew for ensuring everyone’s safety.

AI generated image of Plane , not the actual Plane.

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Thanks to Mary Randolph- Freelance contributor and the Smithsonian magazine for the Headline.

I got to admit when I saw this headline at first , I thought of Cows, it was the Cows! I was wrong unsurprisingly.

Evidence shows in order to break down Methane in the atmosphere we need hydroxy radicals which are created with sunlight and various gases including air pollutants emitted from manmade processes such as nitrogen oxides. In other words we need pollution to reduce the Methane in our atmosphere.

A second factor was the role of Wetlands, the pandemic coincided with La Niᾔa, a periodic climate event that causes increased rainfall in tropical areas. Apparently the little methane producing microbes had a field day and saturated the atmosphere with more methane.

The solution, to this if there is one, is to increase the satellite imagery of these atmospheric gases to show what is happening. It’s just another way of those pesky little bugs getting on camera. The cows are not impressed.

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Thanks to Sana Noor Haq and CNN World News Online for the Headline.

A 25 year old lawyer, Mahnoor Omer, is taking the Pakistani Government to court to remove tax from “sanitary products” and class the products as essential, which if you are a woman they are.

This is indeed a no brainer and also would give more women with low incomes the chance not to have to worry about leakages and to improve their all round reproductive health. More importantly it will raise the profile of women and the practicalities of being a woman. Presently, with import duties in Pakistan every woman faces a 40% surcharge on products they use while menstruating.

Mahnoor is the petitioner, while the case is being brought by her associate Ashan Jehangir Khan. They are following up on legislation that has been put in place already in India and Nepal. I wish them success.

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Thanks to Dan Martin and Ellis Maddison of BBC News Online for the Headline

The final piece of my trio today about “trees” , the pieces show what a varied role trees play in our lives. This particular tree , an oak was planted in 1967, in memory of the Great Sir Winston Churchill in the village of Cossington in Leicestershire.

Sad to say it is again a story of House Building and Development. One hundred and thirty houses are to be built by Bellway Houses in the village with the only access suitable to the development being blocked by the tree that was planted in 1967 ,which had to go because the planning permission granted in 2022 allowed it to be removed for the development to have suitable access from the main street. The villagers fought this decision and tried to save the tree to no avail.

This week the tree was removed , though the developer has offered it’s trunk to the villagers to carve a memorial from and have arranged for a sapling from one of the trees acorns to be grown and planted nearby ( I’d check the D.N.A if I were the villagers). Other acorns from the tree were saved and hopefully will be planted out too, in various locations in the future.( again might be worth checking the D.N.A) .

So I’m sorry that the tree has gone, there is no going back and it is very sad, so I can understand the tears.

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Thanks to Sascha Pare and LiveScience Online for the Headline.

Basically the Chinese have ecologically engineered a forest around a desert that was increasingly getting drier and windswept and increasing the area of desertfication in the direction of human habitation.

In 1978 the plan to grow trees around the margins of the Taklamakan and Gobi deserts in order to stop s desertification in it’s tracks and it seems to be working. The desert is being transformed into a carbon sink by planting (and looking after )more than 66 billion trees around it’s edges and the plan is to continue this process until 2050.There is some evidence it is working , however, there is concern that it has not stopped the famous sand storms in the area. Still it is I think it is a positive ecological story.

AI generated image of trees being grown at the edge of a dessert.

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