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[bumblebeeappletree]

Air pollution kills millions each year, especially in the world’s megacities. But we found some surprising news: In many places, it’s actually getting better! Here’s how megacities around the world are already making their air cleaner and safer. 

#planeta #smog #airpollution

We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.

Credits:

Author: Kira Schacht

Video Editor: Frederik Willmann

Supervising Editor: Kiyo Dörrer

Fact-check: Kirsten Funck 

With thanks for interviews (included and not):

Rafay Alam:

/ rafay_alam

Zoe Chafe: https://www.c40.org/our-team/zoe-chafe/

Sophie Gumy, Technical Officer at WHO's Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health

Frank Hammes, IQAir: https://www.iqair.com/

Bhavreen Kandhari:

/ bhavreen-kandhari-8028...

Abid Omar:

/ abidomar

Read more:

WHO Ambient (outdoor) air pollution:

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sh...

C40 – Air quality:

https://www.c40.org/what-we-do/scalin...

Pakistan Air Quality Initiative:

/ pakairquality

Chapters:

00:00 Intro

00:46 The problem

01:31 Our analysis

02:00 The causes

02:36 Transport

04:04 Industry

04:45 Waste

05:39 Energy

07:12 What now

09:46 Outro

[billpottsismygf]

Doctor Who: The Impossible Planet & The Satan Pit / The Legend of Ruby Sunday

[ghost-bison]

mary mother of christ. honestly donna slayed so fvcking hard in that episode and the doctor was just. kinda there

[notyoujamie]

Bonus:

[sailing-ever-west]

a quote my friend said about Sephiroth once that haunts me

[fadeyouout]

monthly post then i scurry back to my batcave

[razztazzel]

Hellloooo helliiooo

[swedenis-h]

When did it happen?

[gallifreyinstituteforlearning]

How bad did things even get during the Time War anyway?

How bad was the Time War?

The Last Great Time War was a complete breakdown of cause and effect, logic, and everything that made the universe vaguely comprehensible. It lasted 400 years linearly, but in reality, it was an eternal, ever-shifting conflict fought across countless time periods and alternate timelines. By the time it ended (sort of), even the concept of victory had stopped making sense.

🌀 The War Broke Time Itself

⏳ Time was rewritten constantly. Battles weren't just fought in space—they were fought across entire timelines. Victory could be erased retroactively, and some battles lasted for centuries in one version of history, seconds in another, and never even started in a third.

🧬 Entire species were unmade, then remade, then unmade again. Some were wiped out so thoroughly that no one even remembered they had ever existed. The Daleks seeded themselves throughout different epochs to ensure their survival in multiple timelines.

📖 History itself became a battlefield. Some battles ended before they began, and some never ended at all. Some were fought, won, and then rewritten so that the losers always won instead.

🧠 Conceptual warfare existed. Imagine an army that only exists if enough people believe in it. Imagine ideas being used as weapons, timelines unravelling into paradox knots, and reality breaking under strain.

💀 Millions were killed and brought back to life every second. Time Lords and Daleks alike resurrected their own forces on an industrial scale—a never-ending cycle of death and rebirth, ensuring the war never ran out of soldiers.

💀 Unthinkable Casualties

🔥 Planets were burned from time. Not just destroyed—erased. No ruins, no survivors, no memory they had ever existed.

🌌 Entire galaxies were reduced to cinders. Some were aged into dust in seconds. Others were trapped in permanent time loops, reliving the same devastation forever. Some were sealed in paradox bubbles, their populations stuck in an infinite moment of destruction.

👥 Whole civilisations were conscripted, wiped out, or worse. The Time Lords and Daleks weren't the only players—countless other species were caught in the crossfire. Some were recruited without their knowledge, and entire populations were twisted into warriors who never knew they had fought.

🚀 Refugees couldn't run. Because the war wasn't just happening everywhere; it was happening everywhen. Some tried to escape into the past, only to find it had already been rewritten. Others fled into the future, only to arrive at their own extinction.

🌠 Species were erased just to remove them as a strategic variable. The people of Ysalus were completely wiped from history, while others were forcibly rewritten into weapons of war.

🔬 The Weapons Were Insane

💀 The Time Lords built weapons that erased you from history before you were even born. Some of them removed individuals so thoroughly that even the concept of them ceased to exist.

🌪️The Daleks created time winds that could strip you down to raw possibility. They could reduce a being to nothing but potential energy, scattering them across history as stray thoughts and fragmented echoes.

🛡️ There were living weapons that thought and felt, cities that consumed invaders, and paradox bombs that collapsed entire timelines. Some planets developed sentience mid-battle and chose to self-destruct rather than be conquered.

👁️ The Nightmare Child, the Army of Meanwhiles and Neverweres, the Could-Have-Been King…

🧩 The Time Lords created battle TARDISes that were piloted by soldiers who could be resurrected indefinitely. The War Council threw entire fleets of Time Lords into battle, knowing they could die, be revived, and die again.

👑 And the Time Lords Became Morally Dubious

���️ Gallifrey abandoned every principle it stood for. The Laws of Time? Gone. Ethics? Forgotten. Anything was permitted in the name of survival.

🎭 The High Council became so desperate that they tried to destroy all of reality just to win. In the end, the only way they saw to "defeat" the Daleks was to end the entire universe.

☠️ The Time Lords nearly became as bad as the Daleks. Some would say they were worse.

👑 Rassilon returned, and his idea of victory was ending the entire universe. He saw Gallifrey's survival as the only thing that mattered. If everything else had to burn, so be it.

🧩 Entire divisions of Time Lords went rogue, forming resistance movements against their own leaders. The War Master, the Barber-Surgeon, and Morbius all saw the war as an opportunity to further their own agendas.

🏫 So ...

It wasn't just a war. It was the apocalypse, written and rewritten over and over again, until the only solution left was to burn it all down. And even that didn't quite work.

Related:

💬|⚔️⌛How did the Time War start?: The complicated origins of the Time War.

💬|⚔️🔒How does the Time War time lock work?: The extent of the time lock and its current status.

📺|⚔️🪖The Could’ve Been King with his army of … etc.

Hope that helped! 😃

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[bumblebeeappletree]

Floods threaten more people globally than any other natural hazard. But nature offers a solution to this problem. A region in Germany’s east has been training local forests to absorb more water.

#flooding #riverrestoration #wetlands

We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.

Follow Planet A on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com...

Credits:

Report: Anne-Sophie Brändlin 

Camera: Marco Borowski / Mathias Wolff

Video editor: Neven Hillebrands 

Supervising Editor: Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann / Kiyo Dörrer

Fact check: Jennifer Collins

Thumbnail: Em Chabridon

Chapters:

00:00 Intro

00:43 We messed up rivers

02:57 Training forests 

06:04 Revitalizing old water courses 

10:55 What’s the price 

12:26 Transferring knowledge

Read more:

The flood situation in Europe:

https://www.gfz-potsda...

https://environment.ec...

How we have messed up rivers:

https://joint-research...

https://www.umweltbund...

http://lrlr.landscapeo...

https://www.nature.com...

https://agupubs.online...

https://www.science.or...

How river and floodplain restoration reduces flood risk:

https://www.igb-berlin...

https://www.ecrr.org/R...

https://www.umweltbund...

https://www.eea.europa...

https://www.eea.europa...

https://environment.ec...

European networks restoring wetlands

https://restore4life.eu/

https://www.spongeboos...

[beingfacetious]

This is barmy! I was born in Chiswick. I've only ever done package holidays. And now I'm here. This is so... I mean it's... I don't know, it's all sort of, I don't know what the word is! ... Oh, I've got the word. Freezing!

[corallapis]

[notyoujamie]

Planet of the Spiders | Deep Breath | The Giggle

[lofan]

"Let me help." A hundred years or so from now, I believe, a famous novelist will write a classic using that theme. He'll recommend those three words even over "I love you." - James T. Kirk, The city on the edge of forever

[causalityparadoxes]

Hey, quick question, what did he mean by this.

[ghastigiggles]

what if you were an alien princess and the sole survivor of your planet's ruthless destruction and in your loneliness you were slowly going insane so you build a robot wife and try to persist in denial but its ok because your robot wife is silly and cute dont think about it dont think ab