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SMH

Some mice never learn

Lol, what did they do?

 

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Lol, what did they do?

One of the usual suspects making an absolute tit out of himself - yet again - in AaW. If he had a lick of sense he'd be dangerous.

 

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One of the usual suspects making an absolute tit out of himself - yet again - in AaW. If he had a lick of sense he'd be dangerous.

LOL. Soren per chance?

I actually thought you were talking about actual mice initially.

 

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LOL. Soren per chance?

I actually thought you were talking about actual mice initially.

Intellectual mouse trying to take on a cat

 

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Ireland divests, record heat, and rhino deaths – green news roundup
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In Kenya, seven out of 14 rhinos have died while being translocated. Photograph: Tony Karumba/AFP/Getty Images

• Environment editor
  at the same time incredible what they do, a poorer conutr with limited resource
  
  
  
  Eight of 14 rhinos die after move to Kenyan national park
  
  Relocation of endangered animals carries risks but loss of half of them is highly unusual
  
  
  
  
  Eight of 14 rhinos die after move to Kenyan national park

Portrait of spectral tarsier in Tangkoko national park, Indonesia, featured in the Natural History Museum’s new exhibition Life in the Dark. Photograph: Quentin Martinez/Trustee's of the Natural History Museum

Red list: thousands of species at risk of extinction due to human activity
Unsustainable farming, fishing and climate change has intensified the struggle for survival among vulnerable animals and crops, says IUCN at the release of its latest list of endangered species

Justin McCurry in Tokyo

Cause for hope: New Zealand’s kiwis are a rare conservation success story with the IUCN upgrading two species from endangered to vulnerable. Photograph: Neil Robert Hutton/AP
Red list: thousands of species at risk of extinction due to human activity

 

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still going on
will never end till animals are extinct,hopefully humans first
dont be thinking thats not fair comment, we dont deserve a thing

Illegal online sales of endangered wildlife rife in Europe
Exclusive: Study finds 12,000 items worth $4m, including ivory, live orangutans and a huge number of reptiles and birds for the pet trade

Illegal online sales of endangered wildlife rife in Europe

 

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nver
going to blame you KENYA for doing your part for wildlife preservation

Black rhinos die after relocation to national park in Kenya
The Kenyan government said the death of eight black rhinos was "unprecedented" in more than a decade of such transfers. The black rhino is critically endangered, with just over 5,000 remaining worldwide

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Black rhinos die after relocation to national park in Kenya
The Kenyan government said the death of eight black rhinos was "unprecedented" in more than a decade of such transfers. The black rhino is critically endangered, with just over 5,000 remaining worldwide.

Eight critically endangered black rhinos have died in Kenya after being transported from the capital, Nairobi, to a new national park in the country's south, the government said Friday.

Kenya's Tourism and Wildlife Minister Najib Balala ordered the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) to "immediately suspend the ongoing translocation of black rhinos following the death of eight of them," according to a ministry statement.

The surviving animals in the new park are being closely monitored.

Read more: Botswana's rhinos make a comeback

The ministry said preliminary investigations had pointed to salt poisoning as the suspected cause of death. The animals likely became dehydrated and drank more salty water in a fatal cycle, the ministry explained.

Relocation carries risks

Kenyan conservationist Paula Kahumbu of Kenyan-US wildlife organization WildlifeDirect said the loss was "a complete disaster."

Read more: Meet the Black Mambas

"Moving rhinos is complicated, akin to moving gold bullion, it requires extremely careful planning and security due to the value of these rare animals," Kahumbu said in a statement. "Rhino translocations also have major welfare considerations and I dread to think of the suffering that these poor animals endured before they died."

The relocation of endangered animals involves putting them to sleep during transit and then reviving them in a process which poses some risks.

Kenya transported 149 rhinos between 2005 and 2017 with eight deaths, the wildlife ministry said.

Read more: Should we bring extinct species back from the dead?

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Botswana's rhinos make a comeback
According to the World Wildlife Fund, the number of black rhinos fell dramatically in the 20th century, mostly as a result of European hunters and settlers. Between 1960 and 1995 numbers decreased by 98 percent, to less than than 2,500. Conservation efforts have seen that number rise to more than 5,000 in the world today.

Read more: Can IVF save the last white rhinos?

The animals continue to face challenges such as poaching for their horns and habitat loss.

The world's last remaining male northern white rhino died in March this year in Kenya, meaning conservationists have no option but to attempt to save that sub-species using in vitro fertilization.

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  SUDAN, THE LAST NORTHERN WHITE RHINO
  'A very old man' in rhino years
  Sudan was unable to stand up in the end. He was treated for age-related complications that led to degenerative changes in muscles and bones combined with extensive skin wounds. Veterinary experts took the decision to euthanize the animal." At the age of 45, Sudan was a very old man, well over 100 years old in human equivalent years," said the charity Helping Rhinos.

Black rhinos die after relocation to national park in Kenya | DW | 13.07.2018

 

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sustenance of life


AROUND THE WORLD: ITALY
Europe's fourth-largest economy, Italy was the birthplace of the Renaissance and is home to more UNESCO World Heritage Sites than any other country.

The Last Urban Farmers of Turin
Vilma and Paolo Stella are the last urban farmers in Turin, Italy, where “urban farming” means tractors and overalls, not hydroponics and gentrification.

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best State in the USA

Matthew Garner is one of the California Conservation Corps workers restoring a floodplain in Modesto, Calif.CreditJosh Haner/The New York Times
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California Is Preparing for Extreme Weather. It’s Time to Plant Some Trees.
The state expects drier dry years and wetter wet ones in the decades ahead. That means projects to restore river habitats now serve another purpose: battling the coming floods.

• July 15,MODESTO, Calif. — For years, there has been a movement in California to restore floodplains, by moving levees back from rivers and planting trees, shrubs and grasses in the low-lying land between. The goal has been to go back in time, to bring back some of the habitat for birds, animals and fish that existed before the state was developed.But in addition to recreating the past, floodplain restoration is increasingly seen as a way of coping with the future — one of human-induced climate change. The reclaimed lands will flood more readily, and that will help protect cities and towns from the more frequent and larger inundations that scientists say are likely as California continues to warm.
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• “We thought we were just going to plant some trees out here and get some birds to move in,” said Julie Rentner, executive vice president of River Partners, a conservation group that is restoring hundreds of acres of farmland on the outskirts of Modesto in the Central Valley, where agriculture has overwhelmed the natural environment. “Now we’ve got this whole much larger public benefit thing going on.”

Researchers say it is unclear whether climate change will make California drier or wetter on average. What is more certain is that the state will increasingly whipsaw between extremes, with drier dry years, wetter wet ones and a rising frequency of intense periods of precipitation.

Climate models agree that “this really big increase in wet events is quite likely,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California at Los Angeles and an author of a recent paper on the expected changes. “There’s just so much more moisture in the atmosphere in a warming world.”

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Near the confluence of the Tuolumne and San Joaquin rivers, farmland is being converted back into woodland.CreditJosh Haner/The New York Times
As more so-called atmospheric river storms blow in from the Pacific Ocean, and more precipitation falls as rain rather than snow in the Sierra Nevada, where most of the state’s main rivers begin, increased runoff may force reservoir operators to release more water from dams or may otherwise cause flooding downstream.

River Partners’ project, Dos Rios, covers more than three square miles of farmland here at the confluence of the Tuolumne and San Joaquin rivers. It will benefit endangered animals like the riparian brush rabbit and birds like the least Bell’s vireo, but it is also designed to absorb some of the floodwater, holding it or slowing its flow to reduce levels in the nearby town of Grayson and elsewhere along the rivers.

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California Conservation Corps workers planting trees and shrubs.CreditJosh Haner/The New York Times
Dos Rios is only one of many such efforts. Kris Tjernell, deputy director for integrated watershed management at the California Department of Water Resources, said the state was actively working on “upward of 20 or 30” projects, some on its own and some in concert with groups like River Partners.

That number is expected to grow significantly since California voters last month approved Proposition 68, which includes $300 million for floodplain projects in the Central Valley.

California, and especially the Central Valley, is no stranger to floods. The biggest one in modern times occurred in 1861-62, when 40 days of rain turned the valley into a 250-mile-long lake and Leland Stanford, the state’s new governor, took a rowboat to his inauguration in Sacramento.

That flood occurred before most of the state’s dams, levees and other flood-control works were built (and when the population was one-hundredth of what it is today). While not as big, some more recent floods have been severe, including one in 1997 that killed nine people and caused nearly $2 billion in damage.

Most recently, last year, after five years of drought, a string of storms dumped heavy rains on Northern California that led to a near disaster at the Oroville Dam when spillways were damaged as runoff forced the dam’s operators to release large amounts of water. About 200,000 people along the Feather River were evacuated from their homes, and repairs to the dam cost $870 million.

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Floodwaters in Oroville, Calif., in February 2017.CreditJosh Edelson/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
A study published last month found that climate change contributed to the problems at Oroville, as human-caused warming in the Sierra Nevada led to more rain and less snow and thus greater winter runoff.

John Carlon, the president of River Partners, said floodplains that the group had restored on the Feather proved their worth in that event.

“They just absorbed that floodwater beautifully — they acted like a shock absorber,” said Mr. Carlon, who farms blueberries in the northern valley town of Chico. “It was a big test for this concept and we’re really pleased with how it worked.”

Dr. Swain said his research suggested that in California, as in many other parts of the world, severe floods are far more likely as warming continues. “For me the most surprising aspect is that the likelihood of seeing a repeat of this 1862 event over the next 40 years is greater than 50 percent,” he said.

The United States Geological Survey has estimated that a similar event today would force the evacuation of up to 1.5 million people in the Central Valley. Statewide, damages would exceed $300 billion.

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Chalo Gonzalez of the California Conservation Corps. The Dos Rios project’s goal is essentially to restore the land to its pre-development state. CreditJosh Haner/The New York Times
California Is Preparing for Extreme Weather. It’s Time to Plant Some Trees.

 

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damn
whats wrong with us
the more we progress/advance the worse we get
geesus
our lust to kill,if not humans then animals

and i thought the Japanese were/ARE BAD at it



Whale killing: Iceland accused of slaughtering rare whale
By Matt McGrathEnvironment correspondent

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Image captionAn image showing the fin that experts say is evidence that this is a blue whale
Whalers in Iceland have killed what appears to be a blue whale, one of the largest creatures left on the planet.

Photographic evidence from campaigners opposed to whaling show a large animal being butchered for export.

Several experts have concluded from these pictures that it's a juvenile male blue, a species that hasn't been deliberately killed since 1978.

The whaling company involved say they are confident that the animal is a hybrid between a blue and fin whale.

DNA testing will be needed to confirm the whale's true

Why does the species matter?
The key reason for interest in the species is to determine whether this killing is legal or not under Icelandic law.

Weighing as much as 200 tonnes and stretching up to 30 metres, blue whales were hunted to the brink by commercial whalers from many countries including the UK from the 1940s to the 1960s when they became a protected stock under the International Whaling Commission. That means that all countries, including Iceland agreed not to kill the creatures.

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It's different for fin whales. While there is an international moratorium on killing all whales, Iceland doesn't agree that fin whales are threatened and gives permits for their hunting.

Hybrids between fin and blue whales are a grey area, say specialists. A hybrid allows the whalers to say they simply made a mistake.

"If this is a blue whale, it would be illegal and a breach and there could be fines and perhaps the company might lose their licence to hunt whales," said Arne Feuerhahn, from campaign group Hard to Port, which documented the latest killing.

What do experts think?
From the photographic evidence, most seem to be of the view that it is a blue whale.

"We cannot confirm 100%," said Arne Feuerhahn.

"We have consulted a lot of international experts, most think that it is a juvenile male blue whale but there also has been some doubts with some believing that it could be a hybrid between a blue and a fin whale."

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Image captionAn image showing the fin that experts say is evidence that this is a blue whale
Others were more definite.

"From the photos, it has all the characteristics of a blue whale," Dr Phillip Clapham, from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Alaska Fisheries Science Centre, said in a statement.

"Given that, notably the coloration pattern, there is almost no possibility that an experienced observer would have misidentified it as anything else at sea."

What do the whalers say?
The company involved is certain that the animal it has killed is not a blue whale but a hybrid.

"I am absolutely confident that it's a hybrid," said Kristján Loftsson who runs Hvalur hf.

"To mistake a blue whale for a fin whale is impossible, this whale has all the characterisations of a fin whale in the ocean. There are a lot of blue whales off the Iceland coast, when we see the blows and sail to it, and we realise it is a blue and then we leave it and go and look for fin whales."

What have the Icelandic government said?
Kristján Thor Juliusson, Iceland's Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, said: "While initial information suggests that the animal in question was not a blue whale, we take these reports seriously and the relevant authorities are investigating this matter with all urgency.

"At present, Icelandic authorities are not in a position to confirm the species, although initial information from the directorate of fisheries in Iceland suggests the animal caught is not likely to be a blue whale but rather a hybrid of a fin whale and a blue whale.

Campaigners believe that whether it's a blue or a hybrid won't matter that much in the long term as the overall impression in their view is negative.

"These images leave people around the world speechless - thousands come to Iceland to see these animals in the wild and there is just one company who keep this industry alive in Iceland. It really shines a bad light on Iceland's reputation internationally," said campaigner Arne Feuerhahn.

Will DNA testing be definitive?
Yes it's likely that it will be. But there are doubts among campaigners that this will happen swiftly.

"We've been contacting the Icelandic authorities and requested samples," said Arne Feuerhahn.

"But it looks right now that they are not really bothered as they have said it could be fall or winter before they get the results of DNA tests."

The Icelandic government say they are not dragging their feet on this issue..

"This will only be confirmed once a DNA analysis has been concluded, a process that is being expedited due to the nature of these reports," said Minister Kristján Thor Juliusson,

Are hybrid blue whales common?
Specialists believe that hybrids are not very common in the waters off Iceland.

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"Since 1983, they've only recorded five of them," said Astrid Fuchs from the charity,Whale and Dolphin Conservation.

"Four of them have been killed by whalers and one is a very beloved whale watching object and is still alive - they are very rare," she told BBC News.

What will happen to the whale meat?
Iceland sells almost all of its whale meat to Japan one of a handful of countries that reject the international consensus to protect whales. However, if this whale is a blue then this meat can't be legally shipped anywhere.

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Image captionA Japanese inspector and some of the crew taking pictures of the whale
Iceland accused of killing rare whale

 

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I need new/more books. Since my dominant hand/arm are fucked up, activity restrictions = I can't do my job until they're lifted. I can't play video games, and it is hot enough I don't really want my desktop or TV + consoles on anyway. Maybe I can find a mobile game to waste time on while one handed? I would rather find some good reading, though.

 

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Chided in the West, cave-rescued coach is seen as saintly in Thailand

The 12-member "Wild Boars" soccer team and their coach, who were rescued from a flooded cave, pose with a drawing picture of Samarn Kunan, a former Thai navy diver who died working to rescue them at the Chiang Rai Prachanukroh Hospital, in Chiang Rai, Thailand, July 14, 2018.

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Chiang Rai Prachanukroh Hospital and Ministry of Public Health/Handout via Reuters

The horror of imagining a dozen Thai boys trapped inside that frigid cavern chamber was followed — in the minds of some parents — by a sense of indignation.

The thirteenth soul wasting away in the cave was an adult: their 25-year-old football coach. Might he face charges, so the thinking goes, for joining and thus condoning this trek — especially since the cavernous tunnels were marked with warning signs?

This question has reverberated in Western tabloids — the New York Post, Britain’s The Sun — and has been batted around on American cable news. But a consensus seems to be emerging in Thailand: Ekapol Chanthawong, the assistant coach of the “Wild Boars” football squad, deserves no scorn.

He is instead held aloft as a bona fide hero.

Much of Thailand’s 70-million population is now on a first-name basis with the man known as “Coach Ek” in the Thai media. And many are transfixed by tales of Ekapol’s virtuosity.

He is beloved for relinquishing his meager rations, going hungry so the kids could nourish themselves — and for hugging them close to ward off hypothermia.

The coach, a former novice monk, is also exalted for teaching the boys meditation techniques, fortifying their minds against panic and conserving their energy. In a deeply Buddhist nation, this is widely seen as a powerful affirmation of meditation’s potential.

Initial images from the cave showed the boys swaddled in metallic blankets as the coach, clad only in a long-sleeve T-shirt, rested nearby — a Buddhist amulet noticeably slung around his neck.

Ekapol, who refused to leave until all of the boys were rescued first, was among the weakest of the thirteen to exit the cave. That he emerged looking so gaunt has only further endeared him to the Thai public.


Chided in the West, cave-rescued coach is seen as saintly in Thailand

 

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heres looking at you
natural cave dweller, better than us nw

Neanderthal man at the human evolution exhibit at the Natural History Museum in London, England, United Kingdom (Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty)
Geneticists to make Neanderthal ‘mini-brains’
Scientists will use blobs of brain tissue containing Neanderthal DNA to explore the unique characteristics of the brains of our ancient cousins. The brain organoids will be grown from human stem cells that have been edited to contain ‘Neanderthalized’ versions of several genes, says geneticist Svante Pääbo. “A dream result would be that the changes make for longer or more branched neuronal outgrowth,” Pääbo told The Guardian. “One would say it would be a biological basis for why our brain would function differently.”

 

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Paeony Double

Paeony
"Itoh Garden Treasure"

Paeony Bomb
"Red Charm"

Paeony Double
"Sarah Bernhardt"

Paeony Double
"Marie Lemoine"

Paeony
"Celebrity"

Paeony Double
"Francoise Ortegat"

Paeonye

We LOVE gardening!

 

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recall
someone mentioning books/reading
tbh
ive been getting mighty lazy in me older age
love listening to audio/podcasts myself ha

LONGREADS
Hey! Grist’s staffers don’t just make great things to read, we like to read, too. Here’s a sample of stories we’ve read recently that we’d recommend you check out. Read up!

News editor Kate Yoder suggests Surrendering to Rising Seas, an article about how coastal communities are adapting to sea-level rise by Jen Schwartzfor Scientific American.

Curious about the psychology behind climate denial? Editor Nikhil Swaminathan has you covered with an article about how ranchers in North Dakota dealt with the repercussions of a flash drought. The piece was written by Meera Subramanian for Inside Climate News.

Feel like summer is moving too quickly? I certainly do. I saw this poem on the subway in New York a few months ago, and have been thinking about it ever since. Take a break from the news for a second and check it out.


Surrendering to Rising Seas
Coastal communities struggling to adapt to climate change are beginning to do what was once unthinkable: retreat

• By Jen Schwartz | Scientific American August 2018 Is

Surrendering to Rising Seas

 

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but
if we had a brexit style referendum i would say YES get rid of them,amimal lover or not
seen too much devestation on a oppossum free island off NZ,with feral cats and rats to be loving them

SCIENTISTS QUESTION GOVT’S PREDATOR-FREE BY 2050 GOAL

The campaign to get New Zealand free of predators by 2050 has been called expensive, unworkable and even unethical.

The scheme was brought in by the previous National-led government and focussed on eliminating possums, stoats, and rats, as threats to native biodiversity.

However, two scientists, Wayne Linklater from Victoria University and Jamie Steer, of Greater Wellington Regional Council, say it is poorly thought out.

Dr Linklater said some people would not support the policy on moral grounds.

“We have a community who have a diversity of views and values about animals and how you treat them. There are many in New Zealand who might regard being ‘cruelty free’ as a more loftier goal than being ‘predator free’.

“And for many of them rolling out the current tools to kill predators is going to be regarded as cruel.”

Dr Linklater said the programme would be expensive and might not even work.

Scientists question govt’s predator-free by 2050 goal

CALLS FOR STRONGER DOG CONTROL BYLAWS AFTER KIWI KILLED

Calls for stronger dog control bylaws after kiwi killed

 

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smile
interesting article
silly i know but inforrmative of humankinds WW food abuse and the way we treat our resources
also related to the possible way we arre abusing GW/CC
relative common food growing wild NZ/AU elsewhere
notice its been ipcked up as a
'modern health wonder food' loved by the richies/chets, ie money making food item now..thats cool
but go figure',we are likely complicit in destroying it along with our other resources

So how’d those avocados handle the searing heatwave?

So how’d those avocados handle the searing heatwave?

 

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you decide

Hot water and antimicrobial soaps don’t get your hands any cleaner
You're probably washing your hands wrong.


you decide 2

The truth behind 8 common misconceptions about drugs
Your spine doesn't store LSD, and MDMA doesn’t put holes in your brain.

 

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i am sure we never expected to hear that in our lifetie


SMARTNEWS Keeping you current
Indian Supreme Court Orders Government to Restore the Taj Mahal — or Demolish It

After the government failed to file plans for restoring the monument, which is discolored by bug poo and pollution, the court has demanded action

image: https://thumbs-prod.si-cdn.com/KArL...165-0d4e-4372-a55a-46d4b9cfdfe1/taj_mahal.jpg

(Wikimedia Commons)
By Jason Daley
SMITHSONIAN.COM
JULY 17, 2018
Gareth Harris at The Art Newspaper, the Supreme Court of India has handed down an ultimatum—“Either you demolish [the Taj Mahal] or you restore it.”

The BBC reports this is not the first time the court has weighed in on the state of the Taj. In May, the court instructed the state of Uttar Pradesh, where the Unesco World Heritage Site is located, to seek out foreign experts to help stop the “worrying change in color” of the monument since it appeared state experts were unable or unwilling to save the monument. Since that order, however, the federal and state governments had not filed any sort of action plan or follow-up, prompting the court to accuse them of “lethargy” and to issue the hyperbolic mandate that they might as well demolish the site if they weren’t going to take care of it.

The once-gleaming Taj Mahal faces several threats, most of them manmade. In another article, the BBC reports that an insect called Chironomus calligraphus has invaded the monument, leaving patches of green-black frass in many parts of the structure. While the bug is native to the Yamuna River, which flows past the Taj, its population has exploded in recent years due to pollution of the waterway. “Fifty-two drains are pouring waste directly into the river and just behind the monument, Yamuna has become so stagnant that fish that earlier kept insect populations in check are dying. This allows pests to proliferate in the river,” environmental activist DK Joshi tells the BBC.

The bug poo can be scrubbed away, but frequent scrubbing of the marble is labor intensive and dulls its shine.

ndustrial pollution is also taking its toll. Nearby oil refineries, a 200-year-old wood-burning crematorium, and other factories have caused the marble to start turning yellow. Though the government has closed dozens of nearby factories, it has not stopped the yellowing of the Taj. While conservators use a special type of mud plastered to the walls to pull out the pollutants every few years, the pollution stains keep returning.

The threat to demolish the iconic landmark is certainly a bluff, but one the federal government is not planning to call. Today, Dipak K. Dasha and Vishwa Mohan of The Times of India report that the government is preparing to file an affidavit with the court including a 100-year plan for the Taj in response to the Supreme Court’s admonishment. The plan includes closing down more industries near the Taj, cleaning up and preventing pollution discharge into the Yamuna, establishing a green mass transit system in Agra, improving the area’s sewage treatment plants and establishing a rubber dam to maintain the flow of water in the river, which can help in conservation efforts.

“We’ll take all possible measures on a war footing in a time bound manner to conserve the Taj Mahal and protect it from all kinds of pollution, be it air or water,” water resources minister Nitin Gadkari tells The Times. “We are sad over the Supreme Court’s observations. We, perhaps, couldn’t tell the court as to what all we have already done and what all we have been doing. We’ll inform the court all this in our affidavit.”

Any investment to preserve the Taj Mahal is probably worth it. The nation’s top tourist attraction draws up to 70,000 visitors per day, and all the dollars that go along with that. Of course, tourism is a double-edged sword, too: All that foot traffic is impacting the foundations of the aging structure and the touch of oily human hands and moist breath is discoloring the interior. That’s why earlier this year the Archaeological Survey of India proposed capping the number of Indian visitors to the site at 40,000 per day. And in March the Survey implemented a 3-hour limit to visits, also an attempt to keep crowd sizes down.


Read more: Indian Supreme Court Orders Government to Restore the Taj Mahal — or Demolish It | Smart News | Smithsonian


Indian Supreme Court Orders Government to Restore the Taj Mahal — or Demolish It | Smart News | Smithsonian