Looks really interesting! It uses "a major comparative study of water beings in diverse cultural and historical contexts, and considers the central importance of water beings such as Māori taniwha and the Australian Rainbow Serpent in such legal conflicts, and in broader debates about human and non-human rights. Like other water deities around the world, these beings personify the generative (and potentially punitive) powers of water and its co-creative role in shaping human and non-human lives. They are resurfacing today with an important representational role in contemporary conflicts over land and water." https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ocea.5375

Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez #Monserrate draws on five years of research and ethnographic fieldwork in #server farms to illustrate some of the diverse #environmental impacts of #datastorage. "The Cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry. A single data center can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes" #ethnography #computing #data

The MIT Press Reader

The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud

Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate draws on five years of research and ethnographic fieldwork in server farms to illustrate some of the dive...

#IndigiNews publisher #EdenFineday writes about how she found out her relative was at the #Smithsonian #Indigenous #Cree #ancestor

Indiginews

Thanks to the Washington Post, I found my ancestor’s remains at the Smithsonian

Eden Fineday writes about how she found out her relative was at the institution — and her responsibility to visit and give thanks

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Barking dog chorus!

BBC News

Dogs perform Mozart with orchestra in Denmark

Three dogs participated in a performance of the Hunting Symphony, a piece by Mozart's father Leopold.

Fun essay by #AgustinFuentes 'I put a camera on a monkey'...who happened to live on the top of #Gibraltar

Big Think

I put a camera on a monkey. Here's how it shook my understanding of humanity

Awe is a powerful force, a fact that is exciting and terrifying. Both humans and animals experience awe, but our experience is more profound.

#Indigenous defence of the remote #Amazon 'Caíque Souza Wapichana, an Indigenous photojournalist who teaches Rede Wakywai’s reporters to use cameras and drones, said he was inspired by a famous 1989 photograph showing a Kayapó activist using a machete to confront the president of a hydropower company plotting to dam a river in another part of the Amazon. “In the old days we pointed machetes. These days we fly drones,” Souza said, calling unmanned aerial vehicles “defensive weapons” against invaders.'

the Guardian

‘It’s dangerous work’: new generation of Indigenous activists battle to save the Amazon

Campaigners in Brazil use drones to document work of self-defence teams trying to stop environmental destruction caused by illegal mining

Bring back #dengue fever from a quick trip to Paris?

the Guardian

‘A first in Paris’: city fumigates for tiger mosquitoes as tropical pests spread, bringing disease

Parisian health authorities treat French capital for the first time as Zika and dengue-carrying tiger mosquitoes advance through northeastern Europe

Not sure how much money to put on this gemome study, but it's all over the papers today. Supposedly about 900 Ka for an extended period, the population ancestral to humanity (incl Nean and Denisovans) was drastically reduced to some 1300 individuals (probably some African refuge?). This coincided with the Early to Middle #Pleistocene transition with it's big Ice Age oscillations, and may have led to evolution of a new species as common ancestor of us, Neanderthals and Denisovans (called H heidelbergensis here, but not everyone would agree with that). https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02712-4

Happy Full Moon tonight (early hours, it's just rising)