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Climate scientist at #DMI.
Coordinator of PolarPortal (lots of up-to-date Arctic data) and ROPEWALK (huge Danish logbook digitization project together with @rigsarkivet).
#ClimateChange in the Arctic, in particular #Greenland and in Africa, in particular #Tanzania.
Modelling subsea #permafrost.
Conveying science to the public: #IKFF #IKlimaforskernesFodspor #BestilEnForsker
with dual citizenship 
and 
and (occasionally) tooting in three languages.
Evil monsters.
With the return of Donald Trump to the White House, an executive order froze all new foreign aid spending. In a matter of days, USD 450 million in annual PEPFAR funding for Tanzania vanished, cutting off free ARVs for nearly 1.2 million Tanzanians.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2025/02/tanzanians-with-hiv-left-in-crisis-as-u-s-aid-ends/
Inter Press Service · Tanzanians with HIV Left in Crisis as USAID Funding EndsTanzania’s fight against HIV had relied on funding from the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), a USAID initiative that shut off funding.
The leaders of >½ of #Africa’s nations gathered in Dar es Salaam, #Tanzania to commit to the biggest burst of spending on #electric-power generation in Africa’s history.
The #WorldBank, #AfricanDevelopmentBank & others are pledging at least $35B to expand #electricity across a continent where more than a half-billion people still don’t have it. About half of the money will go toward #solar “minigrids” that serve individual communities.
#CleanEnergy #energy #climate
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/climate/africa-world-bank-solar-electricity.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
The New York Times · A $35 Billion Loan Project, Led by World Bank, Aims to Expand Electricity in Africa
Taarab from Tanzania and Kenya
https://amf.didiermary.fr/taarab-from-tanzania-and-kenya/
Taarab is a music genre popular in Tanzania and Kenya. Here, the singer is Bi Kidude, the Zanzibari star, the Queen of Taarab (RIP).
Her exact date of birth is unknown, much of her life story is uncorroborated, giving her an almost mythical status.
In interviews, she usually answers she’s 100 years old or more… […]
African Music Forum · Taarab from Tanzania and Kenya - African Music Forum
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The lakeside town of Kigoma is a gateway from Tanzania to its neighbours, Zambia, the DRC and Burundi. Ships that sail across Lake Tanganyika form one of East Africa’s most important economic networks. But now, the two major boats, the MV Liemba (the oldest ferry in the world) and the MV Mwongozo are out of action. @thecontinent explains what that means for the people of one of Tanzania’s poorest regions.
The Continent · Boats to nowhere
Bird of the Day — Sentinel Lark (formerly Rufous-naped Lark), Tanzania 2018
Oh boy: "Over the past 15 years, the Tanzanian government has forcibly displaced thousands of Maasai from their ancestral lands to establish new nature and hunting reserves along the eastern border of Serengeti National Park."
"This investigation has found that the Frankfurt Zoological Society (FZS), an international conservation NGO that receives funding from the German government, funded and equipped the Tanzania National Parks (TANAPA) authority as it carried out both violent and nonviolent evictions from high-conservation-value areas on the edge of Serengeti." - https://news.mongabay.com/2024/11/how-german-government-funds-and-tanzanian-conservation-agencies-fuel-the-serengeti-land-grab/
Mongabay Environmental News · How German government funds and Tanzanian conservation agencies fuel the Serengeti land grabOLOLOSOKWAN, Tanzania — Just days after rangers from Serengeti National Park confiscated Lankenua Sainguran’s cattle and pushed her family into poverty, the German ambassador to Tanzania ceremonially handed over the keys to new facilities for the park’s conservation authorities. While pictures were taken and handshakes exchanged, 70 kilometers (43 miles) away on the outskirts of […]
How German government funds and Tanzanian "conservation" agencies fuel the Serengeti land grab https://news.mongabay.com/2024/11/how-german-government-funds-and-tanzanian-conservation-agencies-fuel-the-serengeti-land-grab/ #Germany #Tanzania #HumanRights
Mongabay Environmental News · How German government funds and Tanzanian conservation agencies fuel the Serengeti land grabOLOLOSOKWAN, Tanzania — Just days after rangers from Serengeti National Park confiscated Lankenua Sainguran’s cattle and pushed her family into poverty, the German ambassador to Tanzania ceremonially handed over the keys to new facilities for the park’s conservation authorities. While pictures were taken and handshakes exchanged, 70 kilometers (43 miles) away on the outskirts of […]
Known for their menacing stare, gentle #shoebills are iconic in #Uganda #Congo #Tanzania. They are vulnerable from #hunting, #palmoil #deforestation and other threats. Help them and be #vegan and #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife!
https://palmoildetectives.com/2023/09/10/shoebill-balaeniceps-rex/
Palm Oil Detectives · Shoebill Balaeniceps rex
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"Tanzania Govt: Stop auctioning Maasai land to carbon traders and trophy hunters"
The Maasai people, already on the frontline of the climate crisis, are being further marginalised by the actions of the Tanzanian government.
They are being forcefully evicted from their homes, and their ancestral lands are being auctioned off to greedy corporations for trophy hunting and carbon credits trading under the guise of conservation.
Carbon credits are a false solution to the climate crisis, serving only to greenwash the continued exploitation of vulnerable communities.
Demand the Tanzanian government protect the rights of the Maasai, stop these evictions and prioritise real solutions to the climate crisis.
To: Samia Suluhu, President of the United Republic of Tanzania
* Immediately halt the forceful evictions of Maasai people from their ancestral lands
* Stop the allocation of Maasai land to Otterlo Business Corporation for trophy hunting
* Reject carbon credit projects, a false climate solution that is driving the displacement of the Maasai community
pages.greenpeaceafrica.orgTanzania Govt: Stop auctioning Maasai land to carbon traders and trophy huntersThe Maasai people, already on the frontline of the climate crisis, are being further marginalised by the actions of the Tanzanian government.
A seeming choreographed arrangement of four zebras, who line up and drink synchronously at a water hole in Tanzania. See more here: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/four-zebras-at-the-waterhole-tanzania-joan-carroll.html
#zebras #tanzania #africa #serengeti #animalphotography #naturephotography #nature #travel #travelphotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #giftideas #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt @joancarroll
