Within three to four months of publishing their findings, the researchers said coal companies immediately took action to reduce air pollutio
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Trained in air quality mapping, grassroots women leaders monitored air quality across 69 sites in rural areas of Bokaro and Dhanbad in Jharkhand, identifying 26 pollution hotspots.
Despite the awareness about air pollutionβs health impacts, the study found that the public health system is unresponsive and inadequate.
The research prompted immediate action with the coal company installing water sprinklers, covering coal loads during transport, and setting up air quality monitors in public places.
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1. Amazon villages build autonomous energy systems after mega-dam failed pledges
βA pilot project in the TapajΓ³s-Arapiuns Reserve is providing 24-hour electricity through an integrated system of solar panels and river-based hydrokinetic turbines [β¦ which] use specialized filter systems and slow-rotation grids designed to generate electricity without harming local river fauna. [β¦] βWe have a community freezer that serves the whole community. Thereβs a system there that works 24 hours, for the internet and for the community freezer.ββ
2. Mine restoration projects bring hope for bird communities
β[Ecologists] compared bird communities in [former mining] sites restored via the FRA [forestry reclamation approach] with mine sites that had not been actively restored and unmined areas[, β¦ and] found that sites that had only been restored for two to five years prior to the study were already filled with birds[β¦.] His group has also found improvements in water quality as well and more bats and frogs in FRA-restored areas, demonstrating some hope in these heavily degraded landscapes.β
3. Worldβs largest solar-battery hybrid project powers up in the Philippines
βThe first phase of an integrated solar and battery project under construction in the Philippines has been officially synchronised and energised, less than 15 months since groundbreaking and on the way to becoming the worldβs largest such project. [β¦] The project will soon begin to export 85 MW of constant power to the local grid, demonstrating the projectβs stability and reliability, ahead of a scheduled ramp up in its overall capacity.β
4. Rare blue-faced monkeys seen swinging through remote forest in Vietnam
βA new population census of [β¦] the Tonkin snub-nosed monkey, has confirmed that numbers are stable [around 160] in a small forest area known as Khau Ca in northern Vietnam[β¦.] A particularly poignant moment during the survey was the sighting of three infants, spotted with their families. [β¦] βThe project has also introduced a range of livelihood activities that provide additional income for local households, helping to reduce their dependence on forest resources.ββ
5. Robot clean-up crews tackle litter on Europe's seabed
βGuided by AI and supervised by humans, the robots take over much of the work. Their onboard AI system allows them to spot bottles, tires and other debris in camera and sonar images, and distinguish litter from rocks, plants and marine life. [β¦] The surface vessel then sends out a collection drone to retrieve the debris[β¦.] The technology could [also] help detect unexploded mines on the seabed left over from World War II.β
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Alberta singer Corb Lund has been given the go-ahead to start collecting signatures for a petition to ask the province to pass a law banning
Singer Corb Lund has been given the go-ahead to start collecting signatures for a petition to ask the Alberta government to pass a law banning new coal mining on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains.
Elections Alberta posted the official OK on its website Monday.
Lund, who has received multiple Juno and Canadian Country Music Association nominations and awards, lives in southern Alberta and has been a vocal opponent of coal mining.
In his application for the petition, he said he's seeking the intervention because mines could threaten land and water in the area.
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As an Appalachian and West Virginian, the most important thing in the Hunger Games series is the fact that Lucy Gray is a mystery.
Already, the series is almost completely accurate to Appalachian culture and strays from the harmful "hillbilly" stereotypes presented in modern media. (I could rant on and on about how and why that stereotype came to be, the classist and racist implications behind it, etc.) Particularly, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes highlights the culture and way of life of Appalachia while placing it in a dystopian fantasy world.
Now, to my point, the mystery of Lucy Gray.
I understand the curiosity behind her completely, even the fan theories about her grave site in Sunrise on the Reaping (which I have yet to read, so no spoilers! I'm waiting on my local library to get a copy, lol.) I am vehemently against any confirmation of Lucy Gray's ending because she is an unsung symbol of resistance and the unyielding, never dying spirit of Appalachia.
In Appalachia, our history has been stolen and our people left intentionally uneducated and exploited. We do not know most of our history, but the culture is still there. With Lucy Gray, she represents the fact that we don't know where our way of life comes from but we are still resilient.
Lucy Gray is a coal miner singing as he gets crushed by a mine shaft and the greed filled companies erase his name to prevent liability. Lucy Gray is a quilt sewed by a MeeMaw, one day your babies and their babies wont remember her name, but that old quilt will still warm them. Lucy Gray is a loving mama who may not be educated herself but will get those babies on a school bus because they have to do better than her. Lucy Gray is a kid fresh out of school, scrubbing their accent from their vocal chords in an effort to sound more educated at their new university.
Lucy Gray has to be a forgotten and erased piece of history because SHE is the Appalachian spirit. She is everything that the United States has exploited and stolen from us and everything Panem stole from 12. Lucy Gray is the spirit of a mountain song, you don't know the artist or even where it came from, but you sing it. Just look at the music and lyrics in the film. "Nothing you can take was ever worth keeping," or You Can't Catch Me Now shows that you can take HER and she'll still slip out of your fingers.
If we know her ending, we know that they finally got their hands on her. Lucy Gray doesn't die, she doesn't live, she's everywhere all at once.
Construct-class 2-8-0+0-8-2 steam locomotive, Slaibsgloth Coal Mine Railway No.14, ex-G&NE No.1303010β, pulling a coal train out of the coal pits ca. 2324 AD.
These locomotives were built on planet Gymnome for the Glooiw & North Eastern Railroad in the year 2297 AD, late into the first steam era, and were very successful freight workhorses. After dieselization followed, they were sold to in large batches to various coal mine railroads, where they were popular enough to warrant additional batches.
They saw use through the oil crisis of the 2330s and 40s in mainline service as well as in the mines, and continued to work all the way into 2379 as the last remaining coal burning steam engines on Gymnome (Though by that time oil and biofuel burning advanced steam engines were still in use alongside diesel engines in regular service in a few less developed areas)
The Construct class, like so many Gymnomi Slime locomotives, is a Garratt-type articulated loco, with the boiler slung between two engine units, with a tender atop each engine unit.
This engine has been seen several times in my art:
As a model built by Eaurp Guz
As an even larger model built by Eaurp Guz (and mysteriously with the face of her childhood friend Slamtha) in this Artfight Attack
And in full scale in two varieties in this drawing of two trains passing eachother in a mountainous part of Gymnome.
After making my first model of the Advanced Steam Tank Engine for Train Misconductor, and working on a Thomas the Tank Engine model, the Garratt was my next modelling project.
Here is an early iteration of that.
I picked at the model over the next few months in between other projects, and I had plans to fully model the Southern valve gear too, but that hasn't happened yet, because I realized that the loco was just about the right size to fit into Train Misconductor as a Broad Gauge locomotive!
The model in the game was finished by taking a lot of shortcuts. The detail density didn't have to be nearly as high as planned, so the rest of the detailing and the pixel-art texturing went fairly smoothly.
The engine can be seen in-game here.
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I wanted to do a nice drawing of the new model, to sort of retcon the inconsistencies of previous drawings and also to put some detail into the engine since that didn't make it into the model.
I made several renders from different angles, but settled on this one:
I traced the locomotive using the vanishing point snap feature in Firealpaca as well as the straight line and ellipse tools. This isn't that unlike how I would approach a normal train drawing, except the sketch layer is replaced with a 3D model.
Here's a look at the line art alone after it was finished. Several of the plumbing details come from the Chinese JS class locos, as they were the original inspiration for Guz's model in the first drawing. The valve gear is Southern valve gear, chosen because it's just a little unfamiliar and alien to people familiar with the more typical Walschearts. The light on the smokebox--which is normally unnecessary on a Garratt--is known on Earth as a "Mars Light." It's a swivelling light that moves in a figure eight shape so it looks like it's flashing, but also so that it can be aimed by the engineer by controlling the speed of the swivelling.
Several major elements had to be modelled from scratch. The pivot on the front engine, alongside its ball-jointed plumbing, the reverse lever, and the steam pipe which delivers exhaust steam from the high pressure cylinders at the back, through a gap in the firebox ashpans, and into to low pressure cylinders at the front.
Then the environment was drawn--using the Sandaoling Coal Mine Railroad as a reference. The environment is done fairly simply so as not to distract (me) from the foreground, but is detailed enough to get across the setting. This is one of the moodier pieces I've done, taking place on an overcast day in Slaibsgloth.
Then the loco was colored
And weathered, referencing the Sandaoling locos, previous drawings of the engine, and the game model's texture.
Then the loco was rendered, yielding the finished result above.
1949 - Paul Robeson sings "I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night" to Scottish miners
Extract from Mining Review 2nd Year No. 11 (1949) The highlight of this 1949 issue is the visit of American actor and singer Paul Robeson to Woolmet Colliery near Edinburgh.
Robeson was a renowned (and often persecuted) left-wing political activist and he made several visits to British mining communities.
On this occasion he sings "I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night" for miners in the canteen, a song about the American trade unionist who was framed on a murder charge and executed in 1915.
Robeson had long been something of a hero to the British mining community, ever since he starred in the film Proud Valley (d. Pen Tennyson, 1940) as an American sailor stranded in Cardiff who finds work in a Welsh colliery (the newsreel opens with a short clip from the film).
