i remember reading sbr in 2019 and getting so upset over diego and hot pants that i skipped love train and then years later i saw panels from it and was genuinely confused over not remembering them happening 😭 (ive read it since then)
PENEMUAN SPESIES KETAM BAHARU DI SARAWAK! 🦀
Berita baik untuk biodiversiti negara! Satu spesies ketam separuh darat (semiterrestrial) baharu daripada kumpulan ketam 'vampire', iaitu 𝑮𝒆𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒔𝒂𝒓𝒎𝒂 𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒏, telah berjaya direkodkan dan didokumentasikan sebagai spesies baharu.
📍 Lokasi Penemuan: Spesies ini ditemui di hutan pergunungan di Gunung Penrissen, Barat Daya Sarawak, pada ketinggian sekitar 1,040 meter dari aras laut. Ia lazimnya ditemui di celah-celah lapisan daun gugur atau tumbuh-tumbuhan berhampiran aliran air dan formasi batuan.
Ciri-ciri Unik:
✅ Spesies ini dinamakan 𝑮𝒆𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒔𝒂𝒓𝒎𝒂 𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒏 sempena lokasi penemuannya, iaitu Gunung Penrissen.
✅ Ia mempunyai cangkerang yang berbentuk hampir segi empat sama.
✅ Mempunyai variasi warna dari coklat kemerahan gelap (bagi ketam dewasa) hingga warna coklat gelap dengan sedikit kilauan.
✅ Mempunyai bintik-bintik kecil berwarna biru atau putih pada cangkerang dan apendajnya (terutamanya pada ketam muda), manakala matanya berwarna hitam berbanding berwarna kuning berkilauan dan boleh memantulkan cahaya dalam tona yang berbeza seperti spesies Geosesarma yang lain.
✅ Signifikan Penemuan: Ini merupakan spesies genus ketam Geosesarma yang ketiga yang diketahui mendiami kawasan hutan pergunungan di kepulauan Borneo (selain G. larsi dan G. aurantium).
👏 Tahniah diucapkan kepada barisan penyelidik, iaitu Dr. Jongkar Grinang dari UNIMAS, Sarawak, Dr. Paul Y. C. Ng, dan Dr. Peter K. L. Ng dari Singapura atas penerbitan hasil kajian ini di dalam Raffles Bulletin of Zoology (2026).
Sebagai rakyat Malaysia, marilah kita bersama-sama menyokong usaha pemuliharaan alam sekitar agar habitat pergunungan yang menjadi rumah kepada pelbagai spesies endemik yang unik seperti ketam ini terus terpelihara dan kekal dara.
📷 photographed by Chien Lee
#MyBIS #BiodiversitiMalaysia #KetamVampire #VampireCrab #GeosesarmaPenrissen #GunungPenrissen #Sarawak #SpesiesBaharu #PemuliharaanAlam Sekitar #KhazanahMalaysia
ive been worried about climate change since i was 9 years old the flashflood in nepal is so vile so many people gone because the fuckass billionaires think it's fine for glaciers to be breaking and melting as long as they get more money eugh
The way ppl are talking abt the floods in nepal is infuriating bc major news outlets are only mentioning tourists endangered, not the locals, and an absurd amount of commenters are making it abt their religion and end of times. people are suffering stop thinking abt yourself
"Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters filmed on phones that will get closer and closer to where you live until you are filming it on your own phone" keeps getting real day by day and we're doing nothing to stop it, this is so fkn scary
how many “making jokes about eipstein and isr@el to drag the things you hate is watering down those serious issues and is a form of memetic warfare” do you guys need to hear for it to finally get in your head that these ‘jokes’ is insensitive and not funny
#News #NewsThisHour #NewsWorld #RRR #RWorld
#Nepal#Tibet #China
As of Now the current Situation 5:40 am Local Time In Nepal. 27th August 2026
Foreign nationals among the missing (primarily tourists in Nepal)
No confirmed deaths of US or British nationals have been publicly specified yet; they are listed among the missing. Numbers come from Nepal Tourism Board and police updates and are still being verified with travel agencies.
United States: 47 missing (US State Department is tracking the situation and assisting via the embassy; earlier reports had lower figures like 3).
United Kingdom / British: 33 missing (includes a 13-year-old girl; some early reports listed 12). UK officials have pledged support.
India: 105–142 missing (most common recent figures around 133; many were pilgrims heading to Kailash Mansarovar in Tibet). Some NRIs also listed separately in certain reports.
Other foreigners:
Australia (~34),
Canada (~24),
Malaysia (11–17),
South Korea (~8–9,
mostly hydropower project workers), plus smaller numbers from
South Africa,
Netherlands,
and others (total foreign missing ~341 from ~28 countries).
Local (Nepali and Tibetan) casualties
Nepal locals: Majority of the 157 confirmed deaths and a large share of the missing. Includes villagers in riverside settlements, security forces (~44 Army personnel among the missing), police, and workers at hydropower sites. Some locals were trekking in areas like Gosaikunda during a festival.
Foreign nationals among the missing (primarily tourists in Nepal)