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DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Siberia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Siberia</span></a>: Residents stunned after strange new formations appear across remote landscape: 'The landscape has become pockmarked'</p><p>by Zachary Ehrmann<br>Fri, May 16, 2025</p><p>"Thawing ground in Siberia's remote <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YamalPeninsula" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YamalPeninsula</span></a> is warping the landscape — and residents say the changes are becoming impossible to ignore. Strange mounds, sudden sinkholes, and even explosive craters are reshaping the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/tundra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tundra</span></a>, alarming locals and researchers alike, per the Malay Mail.</p><p>"These changes are tied to a disturbing trend beneath the surface: the rapid thaw of once-frozen ground, known as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/permafrost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>permafrost</span></a>. </p><p>What's happening?</p><p>"As Siberia warms at nearly four times the global average, vast stretches of permafrost are thawing. When this frozen ground melts, it releases methane gas from ancient organic material once safely locked beneath the surface.</p><p>"In the Yamal region, that gas is pushing the earth upward into large mounds that sometimes explode, tearing open the landscape and leaving behind deep craters.</p><p>"Innokenty Poselsky, who bought land in Churapcha, noted that he had about 20 mounds pop up but that it wasn't always like that. 'About 40 years ago, there was an airstrip here and the land used to be quite flat. Over the last four decades, the landscape has become pockmarked. It's like that everywhere here,' he told the Malay Mail.</p><p>"Local villagers, many of whom rely on the tundra for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/reindeer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reindeer</span></a> herding, say their homeland has become nearly unrecognizable. One herder told researchers that familiar flatlands have been replaced by unpredictable swells and holes. </p><p>Why is the thawing of Siberia's permafrost important?</p><p>"Beyond changing the physical landscape, permafrost melt poses major threats to communities and the planet. Thawing ground can damage roads, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/pipelines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pipelines</span></a>, and homes. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Methane" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Methane</span></a>, the gas being released, is over 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide in the short term. That means this process isn't just a local hazard — it's a global <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a> risk.</p><p>"Thawing permafrost can also accelerate other problems. Warmer, wetter conditions can spread disease, disrupt food systems, and increase the severity of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExtremeWeather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExtremeWeather</span></a> events by adding more heat-trapping polluting gases to the atmosphere.</p><p>"While extreme events such as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/wildfires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wildfires</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/floods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>floods</span></a> aren't new, scientists agree that a hotter planet — caused by human activity, mainly the burning of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFuels</span></a> — makes them both more destructive and more frequent."</p><p>Source:<br><a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/residents-stunned-strange-formations-appear-111505716.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">yahoo.com/news/residents-stunn</span><span class="invisible">ed-strange-formations-appear-111505716.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YamalNenets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YamalNenets</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReindeerHerders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReindeerHerders</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ArcticCircle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArcticCircle</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GlobalWarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalWarming</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCatastrophe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCatastrophe</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PermafrostMelt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PermafrostMelt</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MethaneRelease" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MethaneRelease</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MethaneEmissions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MethaneEmissions</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>What happens to the world if <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/forests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>forests</span></a> stop absorbing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/carbon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>carbon</span></a>? Ask <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Finland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Finland</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NaturalSinks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NaturalSinks</span></a> of forests and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/peat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>peat</span></a> were key to Finland’s ambitious target to be <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CarbonNeutral" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CarbonNeutral</span></a> by 2035. But now, the land has started emitting more <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GreenhouseGases" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenhouseGases</span></a> than it stores</p><p>"The number of dying trees also increased in recent years as forests are stressed by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/drought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>drought</span></a> and high temperatures. In south-east Finland, the number of dying trees has risen rapidly, increasing 788% in just six years between 2017 and 2023, and the amount of standing deadwood – decaying trees – is up by about 900%."</p><p>by Patrick Greenfield, Inari, Finland</p><p>"Tiina Sanila-Aikio cannot remember a summer this warm. The months of midnight sun around <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Inari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Inari</span></a>, in Finnish Lapland, have been hot and dry. Conifer needles on the branch-tips are orange when they should be a deep green. The moss on the forest floor, usually swollen with water, has withered.</p><p>"'I have spoken with many old <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReindeerHerders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReindeerHerders</span></a> who have never experienced the heat that we’ve had this summer. The sun keeps shining and it never rains,' says Sanila-Aikio, former president of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FinnishSami" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FinnishSami</span></a> parliament.</p><p>"The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BorealForests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BorealForests</span></a> here in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Sami" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sami</span></a> homeland take so long to grow that even small, stunted trees are often hundreds of years old. It is part of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Taiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Taiga</span></a> – meaning “land of the little sticks” in Russian – that stretches around the far northern hemisphere through <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Siberia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Siberia</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Scandinavia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scandinavia</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Alaska" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Alaska</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a>. </p><p>"It is these forests that helped underpin the credibility of the most ambitious carbon-neutrality target in the developed world: Finland’s commitment to be <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CarbonNeutral" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CarbonNeutral</span></a> by 2035.</p><p>"The law, which came into force two years ago, means the country is aiming to reach the target 15 years earlier than many of its EU counterparts.</p><p>"In a country of 5.6 million people with nearly 70% covered by forests and peatlands, many assumed the plan would not be a problem.</p><p>"For decades, the country’s forests and peatlands had reliably removed more carbon from the atmosphere than they released. But from about 2010, the amount the land absorbed started to decline, slowly at first, then rapidly. By 2018, Finland’s land sink – the phrase scientists use to describe something that absorbs more carbon than it releases – had vanished."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/15/finland-emissions-target-forests-peatlands-sinks-absorbing-carbon-aoe?CMP=GTUK_email" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/environment/20</span><span class="invisible">24/oct/15/finland-emissions-target-forests-peatlands-sinks-absorbing-carbon-aoe?CMP=GTUK_email</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousPeople</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GlobalWarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalWarming</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CarbonSinks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CarbonSinks</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DyingTrees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DyingTrees</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Extinction</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Norway’s Treatment of Sámi Indigenous People Makes a Mockery of Its Progressive Image</p><p>By Martine Aamodt Hess </p><p>March 13, 2023</p><p>"On March 1, global media outlets reported that <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GretaThunberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GretaThunberg</span></a> had been arrested in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oslo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oslo</span></a> while protesting <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WindTurbines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WindTurbines</span></a>. It wasn’t that the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateActivist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateActivist</span></a> had suddenly taken a stand against renewable energy. Rather, she had joined forces with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/activists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>activists</span></a> standing up for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousPeople</span></a> ’s plea to be able to continue practicing their culture in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fosen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fosen</span></a>, central <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Norway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Norway</span></a>. For hundreds of years, this land has been home to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReindeerHerders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReindeerHerders</span></a> — an important tradition, which helps preserve the Sámi’s endangered language. Yet today, the siting in Fosen of wind turbines, which frighten the reindeer, puts its continuation in doubt.</p><p>"Some five hundred days ago, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Norway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Norway</span></a>’s supreme court ruled that the turbines are a violation of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousRights</span></a> under international conventions. Yet they are still running even now — and indeed, even after the ebbing of the short-lived news attention surrounding Thunberg’s role in the protest. Once again, the Norwegian government has proven that it remains indifferent to Sámi lives.</p><p>"'What’s happening in Norway doesn’t surprise me — [there’s] this double standard of working to protect <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>indigenous</span></a> groups around the world and presenting itself as this <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/progressive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>progressive</span></a> nation, yet not giving a shit about the indigenous people living within its own borders,' Elle Rávdná Näkkäläjärvi tells me. Between reindeer herding and her studies, the twenty-two-year-old is the leader of the Sámi Parliament’s youth committee and is a board member of the Norwegian Sámi Association youth group. During the recent eight days of protest in Oslo, she stood arm in arm with her Sámi sisters and brothers. “We are used to it but that doesn’t make it any less unjust. It’s about time Norway drops the mask. It’s about time the rest of the world sees Norway for what it really is,' she says.</p><p>"From the outside looking in, the Scandinavian country is often seen as a progressive social democracy. But — as Elle’s comments suggest — a story far less told is that of its <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/colonial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>colonial</span></a> past, also striking at indigenous people in Norway itself."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://jacobin.com/2023/03/norway-sami-indigenous-people-reindeer-herding-wind-turbines-dispossession-protest" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jacobin.com/2023/03/norway-sam</span><span class="invisible">i-indigenous-people-reindeer-herding-wind-turbines-dispossession-protest</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Assimilation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Assimilation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousPeople</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SamiPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SamiPeople</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SamiResistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SamiResistance</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Colonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LandBack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LandBack</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousResistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousResistance</span></a></p>
Boardda Mihkkal<p>The <a href="https://samenet.social/tags/Melk%C3%B8ya" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Melkøya</span></a> project is announced in a year that has seen the sharpest conflicts between <a href="https://samenet.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> <a href="https://samenet.social/tags/S%C3%A1mi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sámi</span></a> and the government of <a href="https://samenet.social/tags/Norway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Norway</span></a> in four decades.</p><p>Large-scale protests have been taking place due to the government's failure to act after Supreme Court ruled that a <a href="https://samenet.social/tags/windturbine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>windturbine</span></a> plant built on reindeer herding lands at <a href="https://samenet.social/tags/Fosen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fosen</span></a> was illegal due to violating the <a href="https://samenet.social/tags/humanrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humanrights</span></a> of local Sámi <a href="https://samenet.social/tags/reindeerherders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reindeerherders</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://samenet.social/tags/Melk%C3%B8ya" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Melkøya</span></a> is set to worsen these conflicts.</p><p><a href="https://time.com/6259144/greta-thunberg-norway-protests-climate-activists/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">time.com/6259144/greta-thunber</span><span class="invisible">g-norway-protests-climate-activists/</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>World Governments Rattled as Indigenous Expose Atrocities at the United Nations</p><p>By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, April 22, 2023</p><p>"Governments from around the world are rushing to defend their <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> records as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousPeoples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousPeoples</span></a> describe the atrocities during the 22nd session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues."</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmericans</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousNews</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Colonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/War" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>War</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OakFlat</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReindeerHerders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReindeerHerders</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Sami" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sami</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Shoshone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Shoshone</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GreenColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Brazil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Brazil</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NewZealand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewZealand</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Australia</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mongolia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mongolia</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Vietnam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vietnam</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SouthAfrica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SouthAfrica</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirstNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstNations</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Genocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indonesia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Indonesia</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Colombia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Colombia</span></a></p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/04/world-governments-rattled-as-indigenous.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/04</span><span class="invisible">/world-governments-rattled-as-indigenous.html</span></a></p>