What we know so far about the major oil spill unfolding off China, Japan and Korea.: image by Ekaterina Popova via Deirdre Lockwood / Chemical and Engineering News, 22 January 2018

The Sanchi engulfed in flame on 13 January: photo by China Daily via Reuters, 13 January 2018

The Iranian oil tanker #Sanchi sank last Sunday after a week of burning. Only 3 bodies of the 32 missing sailors have been recovered. People in Bushehr mourned the loss of life by practicing one of the oldest and most heart wrenching grieving ceremonies practiced in southern #Iran.: image via Reza H. Akbari @rezahakbari, 16 January 2018

The Iranian oil tanker #Sanchi sank last Sunday after a week of burning. Only 3 bodies of the 32 missing sailors have been recovered. People in Bushehr mourned the loss of life by practicing one of the oldest and most heart wrenching grieving ceremonies practiced in southern #Iran.: image via Reza H. Akbari @rezahakbari, 16 January 2018

The Iranian oil tanker #Sanchi sank last Sunday after a week of burning. Only 3 bodies of the 32 missing sailors have been recovered. People in Bushehr mourned the loss of life by practicing one of the oldest and most heart wrenching grieving ceremonies practiced in southern #Iran.: image via Reza H. Akbari @rezahakbari, 16 January 2018

The Iranian oil tanker #Sanchi sank last Sunday after a week of burning. Only 3 bodies of the 32 missing sailors have been recovered. People in Bushehr mourned the loss of life by practicing one of the oldest and most heart wrenching grieving ceremonies practiced in southern #Iran.: image via Reza H. Akbari @rezahakbari, 16 January 2018Holding the memorial ceremony of the victims of #Sanchi oil tanker in #Kish Island, #Iran: image via Real Iran @real_iran, 21 January 2018

Photos: Holding the memorial ceremony of the victims of #Sanchi oil tanker in #Kish Island, #Iran: image via Real Iran @real_iran, 21 January 2018

Photos: Holding the memorial ceremony of the victims of #Sanchi oil tanker in #Kish Island, #Iran: image via Real Iran @real_iran, 21 January 2018



Photos: Holding the memorial ceremony of the victims of #Sanchi oil tanker in #Kish Island, #Iran: image via Real Iran @real_iran, 21 January 2018



Photos: Holding the memorial ceremony of the victims of #Sanchi oil tanker in #Kish Island, #Iran: image via Real Iran @real_iran, 21 January 2018 
 

Iran to send frogmen to search for #Sanchi sailors: image via Iran @Iran, 24 January 2018 

 

A robot submarine sends the first images of the sunken Iranian oil tanker #Sanchi: image via Press TV @PressTV, 24 January 2018

 

A robot submarine sends the first images of the sunken Iranian oil tanker #Sanchi: image via Press TV @PressTV, 24 January 2018

 

A robot submarine sends the first images of the sunken Iranian oil tanker #Sanchi: image via Press TV @PressTV, 24 January 2018



A robot submarine sends the first images of the sunken Iranian oil tanker#Sanchi: image via Press TV @PressTV, 24 January 2018
 

Maritime authorities with the Chinese mainland, Iran, Panama and HKSAR sign a joint agreement to launch an investigation into the collision between the #Sanchi and the CF Crystal: image via CGTN @GGTNOfficial, 24 January 2018


 
 Great imagery from our #Sentinel3 courtesy of @oceandatalab Sun glitter helped capture the oil spill from #Sanchi tanker wreckage in the East China Sea on January 17: image via Copernicus EU @CopernicusEU, 24 January 2018
 

@SkyTruth: "looks like bilge dumping" Here fullres subset of EarthData S1B_IW_GRDH_1SDV_20180120T213337_20180120T213357_009260_0109A6_639B, Sentinel 1B radar satellite image via @NASAearthData, granule just to the W of one above. MV Sanchi oil spill? #Sanchi: image via Tom Bike @tom_bike, 25 January 2018


 '#Impossible To Estimate Magnitude' of the #Sanchi #OILSpill - @Greenpeace: image via Anish Wankhede @Anish_MI, 26 January 2018, 24 January 2018


 
 Predictive modelling reported by @Reuters on fallout from the #Sanchi sinking. Southern Honshu and the Korean peninsula in the crosshairs.: image via Dave Mills @northisland140, 26 January 2018
 

Oil slick from sunken #Iranian tanker #Sanchi off #China coast trebles in size: Official: image via The Straits Times @STcom, 21 January 2018

hands across the sand 2016 - 5210298 | hands across the sand 2016, glenelg beach, adelaide, south australia | because BP has no right to risk the great australian bight! BP - of deepwater horizon fame - proposes to undertake offshore drilling operations in the bight in south australian waters, threatening one of the most pristine marine habitats in the world#joinHANDS #FightfortheBight: photo by bill doyle, 21 May 2016

hands across the sand 2016 - 5210298 | hands across the sand 2016, glenelg beach, adelaide, south australia | because BP has no right to risk the great australian bight! BP - of deepwater horizon fame - proposes to undertake offshore drilling operations in the bight in south australian waters, threatening one of the most pristine marine habitats in the world#joinHANDS #FightfortheBight: photo by bill doyle, 21 May 2016

hands across the sand 2016 - 5210298 | hands across the sand 2016, glenelg beach, adelaide, south australia | because BP has no right to risk the great australian bight! BP - of deepwater horizon fame - proposes to undertake offshore drilling operations in the bight in south australian waters, threatening one of the most pristine marine habitats in the world#joinHANDS #FightfortheBight: photo by bill doyle, 21 May 2016

Protesters burn a mask bearing symbols of the U.S. flag during a rally in metropolitan Manila, Philippines on Friday, Jan. 26, 2018. Manila's top diplomat has accused Human Rights Watch of deceiving the international community by making it appear "that the Philippines has become the Wild, Wild West of Asia where we just kill people left and right." Foreign Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano demanded an apology Friday from the U.S.-based rights group for reporting a larger number of drug suspects killed in President Rodrigo Duterte's crackdown on illegal drugs to back up a statement that human rights in the Philippines "is at its worst.": photo by Aaron Favila/AP, 26 January 2018

A Syrian child sits on a wheelchair after he and the family crossed into Turkey, in the Oncupinar border crossing with Syria, known as Bab al Salameh in Arabic, in the outskirts of the town of Kilis, Turkey, Friday, Jan. 26, 2018. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces says the first week of Turkey’s incursion into the Syrian Kurdish enclave of Afrin has left more than a 100 civilians and fighters dead.: photo by Lefteris Pitarakis/AP, 26 January 2018

Weapons of Indian policemen are placed against a wall before the Republic Day parade in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Friday, Jan. 26, 2018. Shops remained closed Friday as separatists called for a general strike in the Indian-controlled portion of the disputed Kashmir region on India's Republic Day.: photo by Mukhtar Khan/AP, 26 January 2018

A Bangladeshi life guard keeps watch from a tower, behind as the setting sun is reflected of the goggles of a speed boat driver who awaits customers on the beach in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Friday, Jan. 26, 2018.: photo by Manish Swarup/AP, 26 January 2018

A Palestinian man displays potteries found in a discovered tomb consisting of nine burial holes, in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza City, Friday, Jan. 26, 2018. Archeologists in Gaza say they believe the graveyard is about 2,000-year-old, dating back to the Roman era, where Gaza was part of the far-flung Roman Empire.: photo by Khalil Hamra/AP, 26 January 2018

Untitled: photo by Rammy Narula, 23 January 2018

Untitled: photo by Yuro De Iullis, 15 January 2018

 
Untitled: photo by Yuro De Iullis, 15 January 2018

Untitled: photo by Yuro De Iullis, 15 January 2018

Untitled [Barcelona]: photo by Bar Barbosa, 27 December 2017

Untitled [Barcelona]: photo by Bar Barbosa, 9 January 2018

DSC08987-vozhgora2017 |Vozhgora, Arkhangelsk region, Russia, 2017: photo by Emil  Gataullin, 20 January 2018

Fidelity, Junior!

"King Penguin singing": Two King Penguins (Aptenoydes patagonicus patagonicus), South Georgia Island: photo by Lt. Philip Hall, NOAA, 1994-95 (NOAA photo library)

Fidelity, after long absence, to return to find
The things that have crossed your path in life
Emerging from under the flat surface of the past
Like vague shapes of wrecked and sunken ships
 
Now that you live largely in the mind --
As though there had ever been any other
Place -- once born, once having existed -- and then
These things too are gone, forgotten years ago now, 

All but forgot-- now that you live largely in the mind --
As though there had ever been any other
Place -- once born, once having existed -- inside that egg --
Thus did I explain to that appalled and stricken child

What I had not yet then known, and do not know now
Though when I speak of it my voice cracks, the egg breaks, my ancient eyes grow wild

King Penguins (Aptenoydes patagonicus patagonicus), East Falkland Island: photo by Ben Tubby, 18 March 2007

King Penguins (Aptenoydes patagonicus patagonicus), East Falkland Island: photo by Ben Tubby, 18 March 2007

King Penguins (Aptenoydes patagonicus patagonicus), East Falkland Island: photo by Ben Tubby, 18 March 2007

Magellanic Penguins, East Falkland Island: photo by Ben Tubby, 18 March 2007

 

A freshly hatched chick rests after strong efforts to break through the egg in the zoo in Frankfurt, Germany, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018.: photo by Michael Probst/AP, 23 January 2018



A freshly hatched chick rests after strong efforts to break through the egg in the zoo in Frankfurt, Germany, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018.: photo by Michael Probst/AP, 23 January 2018