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We are in a world that
seems to be unknown:
1. Governments with leaders
who exhibit the little knowledge
they have.
2. A society with platforms
and platforms without any
regulation.
3. A society of lies.
4. Increase in poverty.
5. Decrease in the schooling of
children and young people
The aforementioned concepts
were the ones that generated
the 17 proposals to achieve a
development that would allow
well-being for all human
beings: Sustainable Development
Goals (SDG).
Those 17 development
proposals would allow it to be
so that life would be possible
since what was seen to
be happening was that all
possibility of existence was
ending. The 17 proposals were
the result of the meeting of
heads of government, representatives
of civil society and
the United Nations Organization
(UN) at its 70th General
Assembly, held in New
York, in September 2015. It’s
a sustainable development
agenda for the people and by
the people.
In the elaboration of this
agenda there was an active
participation of the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
“To shift to a sustainable
future, we need to rethink
what, where and how we learn,
to develop the knowledge,
skills, values and attitudes
that enable us all to make
informed decisions and take
individual and collective action
on pressing global issues, local,
national and global”. Education for Sustainable Development–
Road Map. 2020, p. 8. https://
unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/
pf0000374896
Depending on the proposed
objective, the actions to be
carried out are very evident.
According on current life, the
situation seems to have become
more complicated with the
development of Platforms with
very little regulation where they
publish all possible lies.
Quality Education was the
proposal to be achieved from
2015 to 2019 but given the experience
we have, the problems generated by the Covid 19
pandemic, the agenda has been
extended to 2030 and is known
as the Sustainable Development
Goals 4.7 agenda, which
means: Sustainable Development
Goals from number 4
integrated to 17. SDG 4.7
Learning is learning to
live and act differently
from how we are doing
it. The way we live is
without caring what we
destroy. Without caring
about the other.
Nowadays
we are in which
we have to destroy the
other to achieve what
we want instead of
developing our skills. It
seems that the important
thing is to destroy.
Aristotle and nature itself
teach us that we are gregarious:
a newborn can’t develop
alone in its early life.
We have to learn to
take care of our livelihood
and to develop the
skills that are possible
for us according to our biological heritage also
to develop the skills that
our culture offers us.
“Putting digital technology
at the service of lifelong learning
for all • Launch of “Towards
2050 – digital learning technologies
for the common and public
good”. UNESCO. Adopt a Culture
of Lifelong Learning. 2021, p.
9 https://unesdoc.unesco.org/
ark:/48223/pf0000377810
Learning must be throughout
life because otherwise we
are left out of the world in
which we live. We already have
a considerable problem having
generated a development without
looking, anywhere, now
we have to do what we didn’t
achieve before and generate
a sustainable way of life and
achieve more learning so that
what we live today doesn’t
happen to us.
“The international community
increasingly recognizes
that lifelong learning —available
to all, at every stage and
in all spheres of people’s
lives— is key to addressing
the multiple challenges
facing them. humanity faces”
UNESCO. Adopt a culture of lifelong
learning. 2021, p. 10 https://
unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/
pf0000377810
Life without learning what
the world is becoming would
be very difficult for every
human being. Nowadays we
live the consequences of the lack of learning due to the
easy way in which the populist
rulers appropriate the
consciences of these human
beings to achieve their objectives
and do what they want
with the peoples.
UNESCO has, in Hamburg,
Germany, an Institute for
Lifelong Learning. The Institute
has a focus on literacy,
non-formal basic education,
continuing education and
adult education.
The Institute, among other
activities, publishes. It also
seats fellows, interns, and
visiting researchers. UNESCO.
UNESCO Institute for lifelong
learning. https://www.uil.unesco.
org/en/unesco-institute
For there to be lifelong
learning, Higher Education
institutions offer support for it.
We know that the objectives
of Higher Education are
teaching, dissemination
of science and extension
of culture. “…to achieve the
vision formulated in the SDGs
and articulated concretely in
SDG 4, it will be necessary to
substantially transform higher
education institutions, in particular
universities”. UNESCO.
International Research Project: the
contribution of higher education
institutions to lifelong learning.
https://uil.unesco.org/en/
long-life-learning/internationalresearch-
project-contributionto-
institutions Universities have proposals
to help education throughout
life, such as the Atlantic
International University (AIU)
where at the end of each job
they ask you to make a local,
national and international application.
You also have to take
into account an objective of the
17 SDGs. In your research you
have, to look for people in your
community and integrate them
into the solution in order to
achieve it.
UNESCO also has a global
network of Learning Cities.
“The 292 members of the
network collaborate closely
to share good practices,
strategies and activities that
guarantee learning for young
people and older people”.
UNESCO. Join the UNESCO global
network of learning cities. https://
articles.unesco.org/es/articles/
join-the-world-network-oflearning-
cities-of-unesco
We always have to learn because
otherwise we stay out of
the society in which we live.
You always have to learn
in your studies, instead of
spending time looking for
ways to present a work without
understanding, without
knowing what it says there,
it’s better to spend that time
on what, how, why and for
what of the topic on which you
are doing your research.
In any case, at present, when
looking for a job, companies have many tools to know if the
knowledge and skills that you
say you have is true.
Also, at work the skills you
have will be demonstrated, so
it’s wasted time copying or
having someone else do the
research for you.
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Abstract
The study focuses on the
clothing practices of Rabari
community in and around
Ahmedabad. This study aims
to document and analyze the
changes in clothing practiced
over the last 50 years,
the influence of urbanization
and causes that lead to
this change and how far this
change has come.
Key words: Rabari, Community,
Clothing, Practices,
Usage, Traditional, Evolution,
Urbanization, Ahmedabad.
Introduction
India is rich in handlooms
and handcrafted textiles. Each
region expresses their environment,
emotions, narratives,
and traditions through their
craft where nomadic communities
are inherently linked
to their environment. This
is expressed through crafts,
which are a celebration of harmony
between human life and
the surrounding environment.
These are living customs linked
with historic customs. Gujarat
is the home to many diverse
communities each with its own
culture expressed through their
craft traditions.
Nomadic groups or community
have ability to survive and
to adapt their surroundings by
all means. Previously camelherding
pastoral wanderers,
today the Rabari community
is living in regions of Gujarat-
India, allover the Kutch, Saurashtra
and northern regions,
and in western and southern
Rajasthan. Rabari community
is generally individual
and distinctive. The community
is very much divided
in to subgroups in allover the
Kutch, Saurashtra and northern
regions, and in western and
southern Rajasthan.
In past, when the nature
and surroundings no longer
supported the group of camel
herders and herd, they scattered
and traveled in search of
new place. Group of wanderers
have great ability of adopting
the physical environment and
the needs of neighbours along
with their distinct cultural
identity. Ability to adaptation
can be seen in their embroidery
where they balanced between
the need to adapt surroundings
and to maintain their identity,
which is important Rabari
ethnicity. Originally, the Rabari
were keeping camels as their
herd but in recent times they
have started keeping sheep and
goats as well. The rabari community
treasure their customs,
history and heritage, which are
closely interwoven to their traditional
occupation of animal
keeping.
The Rabari do large-scale
migration to various parts (Gujarat
and other states of India
to graze their animals. In the
Kutch district, the Rabari’s follow
three distinct patterns of
migration, which are seasonbased
movements: small-range
migration within Kutch; longrange
migration between Kutch
and Gujarat hinterlands, and
circular migration within a delimited
area, outside Gujarat.)
(Salpeteur et al. 2015).
Today a Rabari who does
not prefer to do migration or
those who have sold their goats
and sheep’s have come back to their native places and prefer
to maintain cows and buffaloes.
They work in fields, drive
rickshaw, keep shop, etc. They
prefer to remain self-employed
instead of working in company
or doing job. Traditionally
Rabari community forms a very
cohesive group, which shows
change in current decades due
to adaptation of modern times.
In Rabari community men
wear kediyu, which is upper
garment, a dhoti, which
is lower garment and over the
head they wear pagadi, which
is draped on head. All this
garments are always white in
colour and in cotton material.
On special occasion like weddings,
men wear a khes, which
is like a scarf kind of garment
worn over the shoulder,
which is woven from wool
and intricately embroidered in
traditional way. The women of
Rabari community wear kapadu,
which is a blouse like upper
garment, ghagharo, which is
like a skirt and to cover the
head, a scarf like drape called
chundari over the head.
Ahmedabad, the city named
after Sultan Ahmed Shah
and situated on the banks
of the River Sabarmati, was
the state capital until 1970.
Ahmedabad is also called as
Karnavati or Amdavad. It is a
cluster comprising the district
of Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar,
Mahesana, Patan, banaskantha
and sabarkantha from central
to northern part of Gujarat.
Ahmadabad is known as the
Manchester of India because of
the high quality cotton mills
and this became prevalent during
the British Rule. Ahmedabad
is largest manufacturer
of denim fabrics in India. In
past the major industry were
textile industries and after
several mills were established
it became major center for
commercialization. Due to its
industrialization, commercialization
and urbanization, it
provides lot of opportunity for
work, therefore lot of people
from villages and from near
by cities migrates towards this
place in search of betterment.
Statement
of research problem
Change in clothing practices
from traditional to contemporary
has been observed over a
period of time. Due to urbanisation
and exposure to it, it
has led to changes in Rabari
communities social lifestyle.
Objectives of research
• To study the clothing practices
of the Rabari community
in Ahmedabad- Gujarat
• To study the changes in
clothing practices over last
50 years
• The influence of urbanization
in clothing practices
• To study the present clothing
practices
Research design
This research approach is
expected to generate qualitative
data. Different research tools
and techniques will be used:
Research Techniques
• Rabari community-based
surveys will be undertaken to
study the change.
• Interviews will be conducted
with the Rabari community.
(any and every sub-group
available in Ahmedabad and
near by Ahmedabad.)
• Participant Observation
technique will be adopted in
order to establish a comfortable
relationship with the
Rabari community.
• Snowball technique will be
used to identify Rabari community
for observation and
interview.
Research Tools
• Questionnaires will be
developed for Rabari community.
Since they are often
illiterate or semi-literate, the
questionnaire will be orally
administered.
Qualitative data from interviews
will be recorded which
will be later transcribed, coded
and categorized.
Methodology
• Informal Interaction
• Literature Study
• Visit to Site
• Verbal Interaction
• Questionnaire
• Data Compilation and
Analysis
• Observations
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Microlearning is a way of teaching
and delivering content to learners
in bite-sized (3-5 minutes) bursts at
the point of need, with a focused and
specific learning outcome. The learner
is in control of what and when they are
learning, and can complete their training
at a time and place that suits their
busy schedule.
Think about how you consume
content in your day-to-day life. Most
likely, it’s via short bursts of information
on your social media feed, or news
update notifications on your mobile
phone. Microlearning content harnesses
this behavior by replicating your
existing habits, allowing you access
to short bursts of information that are
more engaging and easily digestible.
The concept of microlearning is
based on the Hermann Ebbinghaus forgetting curve, which demonstrates
that when people take in large amounts
of information, retention of what was
learned tends to degrade over time. In
fact, people typically lose 80% of the
knowledge they learn within a month.
Microlearning combats the forgetting
curve by breaking information down
into bite size chunks and allowing
learners to revisit training over time,
improving retention of key points and
enabling them to incorporate this into
their daily workflow.
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different forms. The one non-negotiable,
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Although people have various individual
perspectives on disability, these
viewpoints can be categorized into three
overarching models of disability. ...
Moral model. Disability is seen as
having meaning about the person’s or
the family’s character, deeds, thoughts,
and karma. From this perspective,
disability can carry stigma, shame and
blame, particularly if the disability is
seen as a mark of wrongdoing. Alternatively,
disability can be seen as a sign of
honor, faith or strength. For example,
someone who is religious may believe
they were chosen to have a disability
due to God’s faith in them. ...
Medical model. Disability is perceived
as an impairment in a body system or
function that is inherently pathological.
From this perspective, the goal is to
return the system or function to as
close to “normal” as possible. Professionals
with specialized training are the
“experts” in disability. ...
Social model. Disability is seen as
one aspect of a person’s identity, much
like race/ethnicity, gender, etc. From
this perspective, disability is believed
to result from a mismatch between the
disabled person and the environment
(both physical and social). It is this
environment that creates the handicaps
and barriers, not the disability. From
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between the risk of cancer and
clusters of chemicals in an individual’s
cells, a screening program that could
detect tumors decades in advance is on
the horizon. The chemicals are called
circular RNAs, and when they stick to
DNA strands in great enough numbers
they can cause tumors known as oncogenes.
The breakthrough offers hope
of developing personalized vaccines for
vulnerable patients.
“Environmental and genetic factors
have long been believed as the major
contributors to cancer,” explains
lead author Professor Simon Conn, of
Flinders University in Australia. “We
call this revolutionary finding ‘ER3D’
—from endogenous RNA-directed DNA
damage’. It ushers in an entirely new
area of medical and molecular biology
research. [It] opens the door for using
these molecules as markers of disease at
a very early stage, where the likelihood
of curing cancers is much higher.”
The study compared neonatal blood
tests, or ‘Guthrie cards’, of babies who
went on to develop acute leukemia as
infants. One specific circular RNA was
present at much higher levels at birth,
prior to the onset of symptoms, compared
to peers with healthy blood.
The findings suggest it’s the abundance
of the circular RNA molecules
which is a major determinant for why
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as evident in natural disasters that are
now becoming more common. Now,
a new study [published in Geophysical
Research Letters] reveals that the Earth’s
tilt has changed by 31.5 inches (80 cm)
between 1993 and 2010. Humans have
pumped so much groundwater from
Earth that its tilt has been affected.
Between this time period, humans
have sucked out 2,150 gigatons of water
from natural reservoirs. Owing to this
enormous displacement of water, the
Earth’s axis has been affected, scientists
say.
Scientists studied various models
that would cause changes in the Earth’s
rotational pole. They found that it is affected by climate processes like melting
of icecaps and the aforementioned
changes in the distribution of water.
When they added pumped out water to
their models, they discovered that the
model was off by 31 inches. “Earth’s
rotational pole actually changes a lot,”
said the study’s lead author, Ki-Weon
Seo, a geophysicist at Seoul National
University. “Our study shows that
among climate-related causes, the
redistribution of groundwater actually
has the largest impact on the drift of
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Even in vegan leathers that purport
to be plant-based, a hefty portion of
the layers, binders, and finishes are
fossil-fuel-based plastics.
The leather alternative by Tôm-
Tex is what’s known in the consumer
products world as a mono-material,
made of 100% chitosan (pronounced
“kai-toe-san”), a biopolymer created
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for him not to have assistive technology
that would help him around the
house. She later learned that the lack of
assistive technology was hard on him,
and he often had to use a bucket as a
toilet, since he could not use the regular
toilets. With this newly found knowledge,
she set to work on a design that
could be used by people with mobility
challenges. This was the beginning of
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Syna Consultancy is a social enterprise
committed to delivering fair and inclusive
sanitation solutions. While their
mandate has transformed over the years,
their major objective is to ensure universal
access to safe and appropriate water
and sanitation, with special emphasis
paid to the needs of underprivileged
communities.
One of their best-selling products
is the UTULAV toilet, an idea that was
born following a chat between the Syna
team and the parents of a disabled child.
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infrastructure, the team began to develop a solution that would help
countless families facing similar challenges
every day.
The UTULAV toilet support frame
includes wheels for mobility. This
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and light, allowing for easy carrying
and movement. This toilet includes
a simple waste disposal system that
can be used safely and hygienically,
reducing interaction with waste, and
promoting hygienic practices. It also
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has an unhealthy downside. According
to Sydney scientists, stress combined
with calorie-dense ‘comfort’ food creates
changes in the brain that drive
more eating, boost cravings for sweet,
highly palatable food and lead to excess
weight gain.
A team from the Garvan Institute
of Medical Research found that stress
overrode the brain’s natural response
to satiety, leading to non-stop reward
signals that promote eating more highly
palatable food. This occurred in a part
of the brain called the lateral habenula,
which when activated usually dampens
these reward signals. ...
The researchers discovered that at
the centre of the weight gain was the
molecule NPY, which the brain produces
naturally in response to stress. When
the researchers blocked NPY from activating
brain cells in the lateral habenula
in stressed mice on a high-fat diet,
the mice consumed less comfort food,
resulting in less weight gain.
The researchers next performed a
‘sucralose preference test’ —allowing
mice to choose to drink either water or
water that had been artificially sweetened.
“Stressed mice on a high-fat diet
consumed three times more sucralose
than mice that were on a high-fat diet
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treating mental health conditions among
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Laura Chavez, a senior research scientist
at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in
Columbus, Ohio.
“Even when they’re able to navigate
the health care system and visit with
a physician in an office setting, they
may not receive the treatment that they
need,’ she said. There are several possible reasons,
including stigma and a lack of access
to pediatric therapists, according to the
Child Mind Institute. ... This finding
echoes multiple other studies showing
dramatic increases in youth mental
health conditions.
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children in the U.S. had a diagnosed
anxiety disorder in 2019, according to
the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention. Last year, the influential
U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommended
that children as young as 8
be screened for anxiety. While the new
report ends in 2018, it’s possible a rise
in screening could result in even more
children being prescribed medication. ...
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While they are being promoted
around the world as a crucial
weapon in reducing carbon emissions,
solar panels have an average lifespan of
25-30 years. ...
“The world has installed more than
one terawatt of solar capacity. Ordinary
solar panels have a capacity
of about 400W, so if you count both
rooftops and solar farms, there could
be as many as 2.5 billion solar panels,”
says Dr Rong Deng, an expert in solar
panel recycling at the University of
New South Wales in Australia. According
to the British government, there are
tens of millions of solar panels in the
UK. But the specialist infrastructure to
scrap and recycle them is lacking.
Energy experts are calling for urgent
government action to prevent a
looming global environmental disaster.
“It’s going to be a waste mountain
by 2050, unless we get recycling chains
going now,” says Ute Collier, deputy
director of the International Renewable
Energy Agency. “We’re producing more
and more solar panels —which is great
— but how are we going to deal with
the waste?” she asks.
It is hoped a major step will be taken
at the end of June, when the world’s
first factory dedicated to fully recycling
solar panels officially opens in France.
ROSI, the specialist solar recycling company
which owns the facility, in the Alpine
city of Grenoble, hopes eventually
to be able to extract and re-use 99% of
a unit’s components. ...
The government (UK) has proposed
a ban on the sale of new petrol and
diesel cars from 2030. The problem with
the initiative is that it seems to be largely
based on conclusions drawn from only
one part of a car’s operating life: what
comes out of the exhaust pipe.
Electric cars have zero exhaust emissions
... but if you zoom out a bit and look
at a bigger picture that includes the car’s
manufacture, the situation is different.
In advance of the Cop26 climate conference
in Glasgow in 2021, Volvo released
figures claiming that greenhouse gas
emissions during production of an electric
car are nearly 70% higher than when
manufacturing a petrol one. The problem
lies with the lithium-ion batteries fitted
currently to nearly all electric vehicles:
they’re absurdly heavy, huge amounts of energy are required to make them, and
they are estimated to last only upwards
of 10 years. It seems a perverse choice
of hardware with which to lead the
automobile’s fight against the climate
crisis. ...
New ‘solid-state’ batteries are being
developed, but they are years away from
being on sale. ... Hydrogen is emerging
as an interesting alternative fuel, even
though we are slow in developing a truly
“green” way of manufacturing it.
But let’s zoom out even further and
consider the whole life cycle of an automobile.
The biggest problem we need
to address in society’s relationship with
the car is the “fast fashion” sales culture
that has been ...
Oil companies plan to pump crude
oil from Lake Albert, Uganda to the
coast of neighbouring Tanzania, with
the goal of producing 1.4bn barrels over
the next two decades. But the pipeline
project has created a human tragedy
for those living in its 900-mile path.
The area around Lake Albert is now
a huge construction site. After years
of discussions between the Ugandan
government and international oil companies,
TotalEnergies of France won the
largest deposit. It has since drilled 400
oil wells, including 100 in the middle
of the Murchison Falls national park, a
haven of biodiversity vital for Uganda’s
tourism industry. The Chinese oil company
CNOOC won the exploitation rights
to a smaller field south of the lake.
Once extracted, the crude oil will
be heated to 50C (120F) and injected into the 900-mile East African Crude
Oil Pipeline (EACOP), heading for the
Tanzanian coast, at a rate of 240,000
barrels a day.
In order to build the pipeline and
other infrastructure, tens of thousands
of Ugandans had to be moved off their
land. They are known as ‘projectaffected
people’, or ‘PAPs’ in TotalEnergies
jargon. Most are subsistence
farmers. On the shores of Lake Albert,
nearly 31,000 people had to abandon
their land. In this part of Africa, land
ownership is often the only bulwark
against poverty.
In many villages, expropriation is
causing human tragedy. Many farmers
have been barred from working their
land ...
Hong Kong’s government is trying
to ban a song —and get major
tech firms to act as accomplices. The
tune in question is Glory to Hong Kong,
a protest song from 2019. Apparently,
Hong Kong authorities and their Beijing
overlords are not yet satisfied with the
level of repression they’ve already imposed,
which includes absurd extremes,
like jailing authors of children’s books
for sedition.
Books. Songs. They clearly want
to ban anything that might remind
people they have rights. To ban a song,
however, Hong Kong’s authorities
need tech companies to play along,
because, well, this isn’t the 1970s, and
they can’t just send police around to
the record stores to gather up all the
vinyl. The global giants involved in the
streaming and sharing of music —like Apple, Google (including YouTube),
Meta, Twitter, and Spotify— run the
music distribution world today.
So, the Hong Kong government is
seeking an injunction by the High
Court of Hong Kong to ban the broadcasting
and distribution of the song. If
the court issues the injunction, it would
require companies to remove the song
from their online platforms.
And at that point, the tech companies
will have to decide what to do: uphold
freedom of expression or cave into
China’s authoritarian demands.
Obviously, human rights groups and
tech rights groups are strongly urging
the companies to do the former.
They need to take a stand against
the Hong Kong government’s censorship.
...
A plan to build the world’s first octopus
farm has raised deep concerns
among scientists over the welfare of
the famously intelligent creatures. The
farm in Spain’s Canary Islands would
raise about a million octopuses annually
for food, according to confidential
documents seen by the BBC. They have
never been intensively farmed and
some scientists call the proposed icy
water slaughtering method “cruel.”
The Spanish multinational behind
the plans denies the octopuses will
suffer. The confidential planning
proposal documents from the company,
Nueva Pescanova, were given
to the BBC by the campaign organisation
Eurogroup for Animals. Nueva
Pescanova sent the proposal to the
Canary Islands’ General Directorate of Fishing, which has not responded to a
BBC request for comment.
Octopuses caught in the wild using
pots, lines and traps are eaten all over
the world, including in the Mediterranean
and in Asia and Latin America.
The race to discover the secret to
breeding them in captivity has been
going on for decades. It’s difficult
as the larvae only eat live food and
need a carefully controlled environment,
but Nueva Pescanova announced
in 2019 that it had made a scientific
breakthrough.
The prospect of intensively farming
octopus has already led to opposition:
Lawmakers in the US state of Washington
have proposed banning the practice
before it even starts. ...
High in the Andes Mountains, the
mighty Amazon River begins. It
trickles from glaciers and oozes from
mountain wetlands. It gains momentum
and volume and feeds into clear streams
and muddy rivers that pass through
high cloud forests and lowland valleys.
The torrents of the waters carry nutrients
through the vast Amazon River
basin, some 4,000 miles across the rest
of the South American continent.
At the same time, in the rainforest
and delta estuaries, another, more
ethereal —but no less essential— river
is forming. Across the Amazon rainforest,
water is being sucked up by plant
roots, transported through their bodies,
and emitted or “transpired” from their
leaves. In the air, this vapor rises and
cools, condensing into clouds. Thus suspended, it becomes a sort of “flying
river” of water vapor, flowing west,
back toward the Andes. Along its own
winding journey, its contents will fall
as precipitation, forming upland rivers,
wetlands, and mountain snow and icepack
to feed, once again, the Amazon. ...
The Amazon rainforest is prized for
its climate-regulating role of absorbing
and sequestering prodigious amounts
of carbon. But it might be the forests’
exhalation of water vapor that has an
even larger impact on climate overall,
through mass-scale cloud formation,
moisture transport, and other largescale
connections of water and weather
cycles. ...
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