Kevin Thornton
@lowcarbonkev.bsky.social
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#LowCarbon / #climate.
A lapsed purposeful birder, just #BareNakedBirding (no longer carry binoculars/telescope) just camera for a few pics.
Exploring n/ne #Kent by #train/ #bike.
Centred on #Medway towns/ estuary .
#Allotment holder.
#LowCarbon / #climate.
A lapsed purposeful birder, just #BareNakedBirding (no longer carry binoculars/telescope) just camera for a few pics.
Exploring n/ne #Kent by #train/ #bike.
Centred on #Medway towns/ estuary .
#Allotment holder.
Great news:
Train worker who saved passengers from stabbings leaves hospital
Samir Zitouni's family say they are
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Great news:
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This is brilliant.
November 15, 2025 at 3:18 PM
This is brilliant.
BBC reporting the huge plastic pellet spillage from Southern Water's Eastbourne wastewater site has now started turning up in the county on the Dungeness Peninsula. #KentNature
Carcinogenic microplastic that smell like food. 🤔 No wonder wildlife eats 'em..
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Carcinogenic microplastic that smell like food. 🤔 No wonder wildlife eats 'em..
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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What are bio-beads used for and how did they get spilled on to Camber Sands beach?
Plastic pellets attract algae and smell like food so can be eaten by birds, fish and dolphins, which can prove fatal
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:20 AM
BBC reporting the huge plastic pellet spillage from Southern Water's Eastbourne wastewater site has now started turning up in the county on the Dungeness Peninsula. #KentNature
Carcinogenic microplastic that smell like food. 🤔 No wonder wildlife eats 'em..
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Carcinogenic microplastic that smell like food. 🤔 No wonder wildlife eats 'em..
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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'“Saalumarada Thimmakka, who lived for 114 years, passed away today. She was born in Hulikal village of Magadi taluk. Childless herself, Thimmakka nurtured trees as though they were her own children. The saplings she planted have grown into large, proud banyan trees today...”'
Padma Shri environmentalist Thimmakka's last rites to be held with full State honours #PadmaShri #Thimmakkas #State #socialnewsxyz
Padma Shri environmentalist Thimmakka’s last rites to be held with full State honours
Bengaluru, Nov 14 (SocialNews.XYZ) Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah announced on Friday that the funeral of Padma Shri awardee 'Saalumarada' Thimmakka will be conducted with full state honours. Speaking to the media after paying his last respects to 'Vruksha Mata (Mother of Trees)' Saalumarada Thimmakka, the Chief Minister said, “Saalumarada Thimmakka, who lived for 114 years, passed away today. She was born in Hulikal village of Magadi taluk.
www.socialnews.xyz
November 14, 2025 at 4:09 PM
'“Saalumarada Thimmakka, who lived for 114 years, passed away today. She was born in Hulikal village of Magadi taluk. Childless herself, Thimmakka nurtured trees as though they were her own children. The saplings she planted have grown into large, proud banyan trees today...”'
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This is real good news .. a non-brainer decision for anyone with a brain .. but still .. in an abnormal human world .. REAL BIG GOOD F@CKING NEWS! 👏👏👏👏👏
💥 Victory: Three oil fields in the North Sea declared illegal
“This is a huge victory. Today’s children and future generations will reap the benefits of the courage the judges showed today. It proves that our struggle for climate justice has real force"
PRESS RELEASE:
“This is a huge victory. Today’s children and future generations will reap the benefits of the courage the judges showed today. It proves that our struggle for climate justice has real force"
PRESS RELEASE:
Victory: Three oil fields in the North Sea declared illegal - Greenpeace International
Borgarting Court of Appeal agreed with Greenpeace Nordic and Natur og Ungdom that three oil fields in the Norwegian North Sea are illegal.
act.gp
November 14, 2025 at 5:06 PM
This is real good news .. a non-brainer decision for anyone with a brain .. but still .. in an abnormal human world .. REAL BIG GOOD F@CKING NEWS! 👏👏👏👏👏
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People have tried to say that the Green surge is just on social media.
Or in a bubble that's just about polls and just about new members.
Yet up and down the country - Greens are also winning elections.
Huge congratulations to the Canterbury Greens! 💚🎉
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Or in a bubble that's just about polls and just about new members.
Yet up and down the country - Greens are also winning elections.
Huge congratulations to the Canterbury Greens! 💚🎉
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Wincheap (Canterbury) Council By-Election Result:
🌍 GRN: 39.1% (+24.1)
🔶 LDM: 24.1% (-12.2)
➡️ RFM: 16.3% (New)
🌹 LAB: 12.8% (-25.5)
🌳 CON: 7.7% (-2.6)
Green GAIN from Liberal Democrat.
Changes w/ 2023.
🌍 GRN: 39.1% (+24.1)
🔶 LDM: 24.1% (-12.2)
➡️ RFM: 16.3% (New)
🌹 LAB: 12.8% (-25.5)
🌳 CON: 7.7% (-2.6)
Green GAIN from Liberal Democrat.
Changes w/ 2023.
November 14, 2025 at 1:35 PM
People have tried to say that the Green surge is just on social media.
Or in a bubble that's just about polls and just about new members.
Yet up and down the country - Greens are also winning elections.
Huge congratulations to the Canterbury Greens! 💚🎉
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Or in a bubble that's just about polls and just about new members.
Yet up and down the country - Greens are also winning elections.
Huge congratulations to the Canterbury Greens! 💚🎉
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Do like wet days, more time to go down rabbit holes. C/o my recent trips down the Medway Gap, I'm now busy reacquainting myself with name 'The Vale of Holmesdale' for the valley joining Surrey to Kent.
A name I think I first read in the 1981 Kent avifauna, but seen little in print since.
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A name I think I first read in the 1981 Kent avifauna, but seen little in print since.
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November 14, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Do like wet days, more time to go down rabbit holes. C/o my recent trips down the Medway Gap, I'm now busy reacquainting myself with name 'The Vale of Holmesdale' for the valley joining Surrey to Kent.
A name I think I first read in the 1981 Kent avifauna, but seen little in print since.
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A name I think I first read in the 1981 Kent avifauna, but seen little in print since.
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Down 53% Why?
"better and more frequent train services,
higher Air Passenger Duty,
concern re environmental impact,
changing work patterns.."
"..(rail) passenger journeys (up) from c. 1.08bn in 05/06 to 1.73bn in 24/25"- Office of Rail and Road Data.
Not just me taking the train more then🤔😉
"better and more frequent train services,
higher Air Passenger Duty,
concern re environmental impact,
changing work patterns.."
"..(rail) passenger journeys (up) from c. 1.08bn in 05/06 to 1.73bn in 24/25"- Office of Rail and Road Data.
Not just me taking the train more then🤔😉
'Staggering' 20-year fall in domestic UK flights - as another form of transport benefits
Better and more frequent train services, higher flying taxes, concern about the environmental impact of flying, and changing work patterns - especially since COVID - have contributed to the change.
news.sky.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Down 53% Why?
"better and more frequent train services,
higher Air Passenger Duty,
concern re environmental impact,
changing work patterns.."
"..(rail) passenger journeys (up) from c. 1.08bn in 05/06 to 1.73bn in 24/25"- Office of Rail and Road Data.
Not just me taking the train more then🤔😉
"better and more frequent train services,
higher Air Passenger Duty,
concern re environmental impact,
changing work patterns.."
"..(rail) passenger journeys (up) from c. 1.08bn in 05/06 to 1.73bn in 24/25"- Office of Rail and Road Data.
Not just me taking the train more then🤔😉
Today's lunch bench view: Leybourne Lakes Country Park.
Whilst checking out www.kentcrp.org.uk 's leaflet route, nice to see sign promoting close control for dogs. And nice to see beautiful British warblers in the park 😉
(An 8-station journey for me, for less than cost of an advent calendar)
Whilst checking out www.kentcrp.org.uk 's leaflet route, nice to see sign promoting close control for dogs. And nice to see beautiful British warblers in the park 😉
(An 8-station journey for me, for less than cost of an advent calendar)
November 13, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Today's lunch bench view: Leybourne Lakes Country Park.
Whilst checking out www.kentcrp.org.uk 's leaflet route, nice to see sign promoting close control for dogs. And nice to see beautiful British warblers in the park 😉
(An 8-station journey for me, for less than cost of an advent calendar)
Whilst checking out www.kentcrp.org.uk 's leaflet route, nice to see sign promoting close control for dogs. And nice to see beautiful British warblers in the park 😉
(An 8-station journey for me, for less than cost of an advent calendar)
Commie Sandpiper.
This 'un keeps a Russian sub alongside it's winter territory. When not busy chasing off other 'pipers, it marches up and down in front of the 'Black Widow'.
( #Train cancelled, 25 mins to kill? Strood station 200 yds from tidal river #Medway? Cunning plan time 😊)
#KentNature
This 'un keeps a Russian sub alongside it's winter territory. When not busy chasing off other 'pipers, it marches up and down in front of the 'Black Widow'.
( #Train cancelled, 25 mins to kill? Strood station 200 yds from tidal river #Medway? Cunning plan time 😊)
#KentNature
November 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Commie Sandpiper.
This 'un keeps a Russian sub alongside it's winter territory. When not busy chasing off other 'pipers, it marches up and down in front of the 'Black Widow'.
( #Train cancelled, 25 mins to kill? Strood station 200 yds from tidal river #Medway? Cunning plan time 😊)
#KentNature
This 'un keeps a Russian sub alongside it's winter territory. When not busy chasing off other 'pipers, it marches up and down in front of the 'Black Widow'.
( #Train cancelled, 25 mins to kill? Strood station 200 yds from tidal river #Medway? Cunning plan time 😊)
#KentNature
Waterside thinking.
Back from museums via south shore of estuary. Y'day's Ringed Plovers had me thinking about roost site - concrete barges - as I passed at low tide.
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Back from museums via south shore of estuary. Y'day's Ringed Plovers had me thinking about roost site - concrete barges - as I passed at low tide.
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November 12, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Waterside thinking.
Back from museums via south shore of estuary. Y'day's Ringed Plovers had me thinking about roost site - concrete barges - as I passed at low tide.
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Back from museums via south shore of estuary. Y'day's Ringed Plovers had me thinking about roost site - concrete barges - as I passed at low tide.
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Poppy wreath and 'Standing with Giants' figures.
Historic Dockyard Chatham.
Historic Dockyard Chatham.
November 12, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Poppy wreath and 'Standing with Giants' figures.
Historic Dockyard Chatham.
Historic Dockyard Chatham.
17°C approaching mid-November? Tee-shirt weather(😲) on today's lunch bench - Commissioner's Garden, Historic Dockyard Chatham.
Last visit of year, site shuts end of wk until mid-Feb. Absolute pleasure to have taken opportunity this year to visit garden c. once every 10 days or so.
Last visit of year, site shuts end of wk until mid-Feb. Absolute pleasure to have taken opportunity this year to visit garden c. once every 10 days or so.
November 12, 2025 at 2:24 PM
17°C approaching mid-November? Tee-shirt weather(😲) on today's lunch bench - Commissioner's Garden, Historic Dockyard Chatham.
Last visit of year, site shuts end of wk until mid-Feb. Absolute pleasure to have taken opportunity this year to visit garden c. once every 10 days or so.
Last visit of year, site shuts end of wk until mid-Feb. Absolute pleasure to have taken opportunity this year to visit garden c. once every 10 days or so.
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Heatwaves are already killing Pallid Swifts in Spain
“You would walk down the street and there would be 100 chicks, lying at the foot of a building, some dying and some barely alive,”
www.theguardian.com/world/2022/j...
“You would walk down the street and there would be 100 chicks, lying at the foot of a building, some dying and some barely alive,”
www.theguardian.com/world/2022/j...
‘They’re being cooked’: baby swifts die leaving nests as heatwave hits Spain
Ecologists raise concern over chicks’ attempts to escape high temperatures during one of earliest heatwaves on record
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Heatwaves are already killing Pallid Swifts in Spain
“You would walk down the street and there would be 100 chicks, lying at the foot of a building, some dying and some barely alive,”
www.theguardian.com/world/2022/j...
“You would walk down the street and there would be 100 chicks, lying at the foot of a building, some dying and some barely alive,”
www.theguardian.com/world/2022/j...
One for the locals:
Recognition of a big reason solar farm built on Graveney marshes:
"..its ability to use same substation as London Array (offshore) wind farm to connect to national grid."
Cabling was already built in to cope w. offshore expansion, but found devloping on land cheaper than..
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Recognition of a big reason solar farm built on Graveney marshes:
"..its ability to use same substation as London Array (offshore) wind farm to connect to national grid."
Cabling was already built in to cope w. offshore expansion, but found devloping on land cheaper than..
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UK's biggest solar park in Faversham is 'blueprint' for future
Cleve Hill is almost five times bigger than the next largest solar site in operation.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 7:17 AM
One for the locals:
Recognition of a big reason solar farm built on Graveney marshes:
"..its ability to use same substation as London Array (offshore) wind farm to connect to national grid."
Cabling was already built in to cope w. offshore expansion, but found devloping on land cheaper than..
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Recognition of a big reason solar farm built on Graveney marshes:
"..its ability to use same substation as London Array (offshore) wind farm to connect to national grid."
Cabling was already built in to cope w. offshore expansion, but found devloping on land cheaper than..
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“I want you to understand, regardless of your politics, the historical danger of a secret police…I want you to understand that every issue you care about—any hope of participatory democracy—is downstream of this.”
Please read this whole thing. Before you keep scrolling. And then please share it.
Please read this whole thing. Before you keep scrolling. And then please share it.
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 11, 2025 at 11:28 PM
“I want you to understand, regardless of your politics, the historical danger of a secret police…I want you to understand that every issue you care about—any hope of participatory democracy—is downstream of this.”
Please read this whole thing. Before you keep scrolling. And then please share it.
Please read this whole thing. Before you keep scrolling. And then please share it.
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Folks have been telling me they’ve noticed I’ve gotten “a lot more political” on social media this year.
Of course I have.
The circumstances have gotten nightmarishly worse, and the consequences of inaction and staying silent infinitely more obvious.
Everyone needs to get “a lot more political.”
Of course I have.
The circumstances have gotten nightmarishly worse, and the consequences of inaction and staying silent infinitely more obvious.
Everyone needs to get “a lot more political.”
November 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Folks have been telling me they’ve noticed I’ve gotten “a lot more political” on social media this year.
Of course I have.
The circumstances have gotten nightmarishly worse, and the consequences of inaction and staying silent infinitely more obvious.
Everyone needs to get “a lot more political.”
Of course I have.
The circumstances have gotten nightmarishly worse, and the consequences of inaction and staying silent infinitely more obvious.
Everyone needs to get “a lot more political.”
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More of this. It’s time the world took a stand.
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break — CNN
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
apple.news
November 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
More of this. It’s time the world took a stand.
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Day eleven and we have hit 200 species of flowering plant in November, with additions including Common Broomrape (!), Blue Fleabane and Common Bird’s-Foot Trefoil. Quite overwhelmed by the numbers of species flowering this warm month.
November 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Day eleven and we have hit 200 species of flowering plant in November, with additions including Common Broomrape (!), Blue Fleabane and Common Bird’s-Foot Trefoil. Quite overwhelmed by the numbers of species flowering this warm month.
(Reuters saying no casualties as bridge had been closed Monday when cracks in hillside first started to appear.)
Risse im Berghang, Wasser staut sich... Brückeneinsturz, China.
The Hongqi Bridge collapsed due to cracks in the mountainside caused by water storage at Shuangjiangkou in Sichuan Province, China 🇨🇳
The Hongqi Bridge collapsed due to cracks in the mountainside caused by water storage at Shuangjiangkou in Sichuan Province, China 🇨🇳
November 11, 2025 at 4:10 PM
(Reuters saying no casualties as bridge had been closed Monday when cracks in hillside first started to appear.)
Today's lunch bench? Lower Halstow.
When tide's been out since sun-up, Ringed Plovers can feed themselves silly and be to pre-roost nice and early. Already gathered on their spot when I arrived an hour before cover. Pleasure to just sit and watch them loafing about.
#KentNature
#Medway estuary
When tide's been out since sun-up, Ringed Plovers can feed themselves silly and be to pre-roost nice and early. Already gathered on their spot when I arrived an hour before cover. Pleasure to just sit and watch them loafing about.
#KentNature
#Medway estuary
November 11, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Today's lunch bench? Lower Halstow.
When tide's been out since sun-up, Ringed Plovers can feed themselves silly and be to pre-roost nice and early. Already gathered on their spot when I arrived an hour before cover. Pleasure to just sit and watch them loafing about.
#KentNature
#Medway estuary
When tide's been out since sun-up, Ringed Plovers can feed themselves silly and be to pre-roost nice and early. Already gathered on their spot when I arrived an hour before cover. Pleasure to just sit and watch them loafing about.
#KentNature
#Medway estuary
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Holidays ruined!
'The tourism industry in these nations is experiencing significant losses as travelers reconsider their plans. From the stunning landscapes of New Zealand to the cultural hotspots of Japan and the popular destinations in South Korea, the impact on the travel industry is undeniable'
'The tourism industry in these nations is experiencing significant losses as travelers reconsider their plans. From the stunning landscapes of New Zealand to the cultural hotspots of Japan and the popular destinations in South Korea, the impact on the travel industry is undeniable'
New Zealand Joins Canada, Japan, South Korea, Spain, Portugal, Brazil in Facing Massive Wildfire This Year... www.travelandtourworld.com/news/article... #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #Wildfire #NewZealand
New Zealand Joins Canada, Japan, South Korea, Spain, Portugal, Brazil in Facing Massive Wildfire This Year, Witnessing Tourism Industry Loss, New Update is Here on This Devastating Disaster - Travel A...
This year, New Zealand joins Canada, Japan, South Korea, Spain, Portugal, and Brazil in facing massive wildfires, leaving a trail of destruction and devastation.
www.travelandtourworld.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Holidays ruined!
'The tourism industry in these nations is experiencing significant losses as travelers reconsider their plans. From the stunning landscapes of New Zealand to the cultural hotspots of Japan and the popular destinations in South Korea, the impact on the travel industry is undeniable'
'The tourism industry in these nations is experiencing significant losses as travelers reconsider their plans. From the stunning landscapes of New Zealand to the cultural hotspots of Japan and the popular destinations in South Korea, the impact on the travel industry is undeniable'
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Warnings were ignored by cruise passengers, swept into sea
" #Worldwide_Disasters_Thread #cr41w
#Spain – #Tragedy on #Tenerife: Huge waves claim #lives
On November 8, 2025, waves up to 6 meters high struck the coast of Tenerife, one of Spain's Canary Islands, & swept several people from the pier."
" #Worldwide_Disasters_Thread #cr41w
#Spain – #Tragedy on #Tenerife: Huge waves claim #lives
On November 8, 2025, waves up to 6 meters high struck the coast of Tenerife, one of Spain's Canary Islands, & swept several people from the pier."
1.) #Weltweit_Katastrophen_Thread #cr41w
#Spanien – #Tragödie auf #Teneriffa: Gewaltige Wellen fordern #Menschenleben
Am 8. November 2025 trafen bis zu 6 Meter hohe Wellen die Küste von Teneriffa, einer der Kanarischen Inseln Spaniens, und rissen mehrere Menschen von der Mole.
Trotz der an diesem ⤵️
#Spanien – #Tragödie auf #Teneriffa: Gewaltige Wellen fordern #Menschenleben
Am 8. November 2025 trafen bis zu 6 Meter hohe Wellen die Küste von Teneriffa, einer der Kanarischen Inseln Spaniens, und rissen mehrere Menschen von der Mole.
Trotz der an diesem ⤵️
November 11, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Reposted by Kevin Thornton
Not having as much fun these cruise ship tourists these days..
'More than 50 cruise ship passengers left floating at sea after boat sinks in the Caribbean' >
metro.co.uk/2025/11/11/5...
'More than 50 cruise ship passengers left floating at sea after boat sinks in the Caribbean' >
metro.co.uk/2025/11/11/5...
November 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Not having as much fun these cruise ship tourists these days..
'More than 50 cruise ship passengers left floating at sea after boat sinks in the Caribbean' >
metro.co.uk/2025/11/11/5...
'More than 50 cruise ship passengers left floating at sea after boat sinks in the Caribbean' >
metro.co.uk/2025/11/11/5...
Reposted by Kevin Thornton
[Tenerife again..] Giant Wave Crashes Onto Pier Sweeping Cruise Ship Visitors Away. 1 dead. www.cruisehive.com/giant-wave-c... #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #Ocean #Storms #PuertoDeLaCruz #Tenerife #CanaryIslands
Giant Wave Crashes Onto Pier Sweeping Cruise Ship Visitors Away
Tourists were swept into the sea by a giant wave in Tenerife. Cruise passengers were among the victims in a tragic day of coastal accidents.
www.cruisehive.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
[Tenerife again..] Giant Wave Crashes Onto Pier Sweeping Cruise Ship Visitors Away. 1 dead. www.cruisehive.com/giant-wave-c... #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #Ocean #Storms #PuertoDeLaCruz #Tenerife #CanaryIslands