Interesting events recently in the Palestine War.
The Gazan resistance has successfully caused enough damage to the Golani Brigade, the most elite Israel brigade, to force them to withdraw and recuperate. Given NATO doctrine, this implies that about a third of the brigade has been wiped out (dead+seriously wounded) as it takes a brigade being brought down to 70% of its original numbers to become combat ineffective. Things are thus going pretty badly for the Israel military inside Gaza despite the triumphant rhetoric and propaganda from the Zionist Propaganda Torment Nexus.
Nawaf Al Mussawi, Hizbullah’s official chargé of the Resources & Borders dossier: “Once our brothers in Hamas started the Al Aqsa Flood Operation on October 7, the element of surprise vanished. We [in Hizbullah] asked them about their strategic vision. When we questioned Hamas about the possibility of ending the aggression on Gaza through Hizbullah’s engagement in an all-out war, they said the aggression on Gaza wouldn’t stop. The war on Gaza will only end when the ‘Israeli’ fighter is defeated within Gaza.”
So, basically, Hamas doesn't want Hezbollah to start shit for realsies up on the northern front, at least not yet. This confirms my suspicions in November that it was Hamas who was telling Hezbollah not to do anything yet because they're acting on a much larger plan than most realize. That all being said, Hezbollah attacks are still regular, with 10-15 per day, give or take. There was some kind of serious incident on the northern border a day or two ago that prompted Israeli military censorship but idk what was that about. Also, Hezbollah took out those two Iron Dome batteries recently, and their attack on a settler settlement went un-intercepted, suggesting they were indeed destroyed.
Meanwhile, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq has been a little quieter than usual, until yesterday when they announced that they have struck the Karish gas field off the coast of Israel. A notable escalation on Israel energy supplies, therefore. I think we're in the realm of 100 total attacks on US bases in Iraq and Syria, though I haven't been paying too much attention, so correct me if I'm wrong. So still quite busy overall.
And, of course, Ansarallah pissing off the West. Further down the thread, John Helmer's coverage of what's going on there was mentioned. You can see this map from Naked Capitalism showing how busy the Red Sea is becoming. The Western naval forces are lining up to overlap their missile defence ranges to provide as much coverage as possible over the Red Sea, though obviously the whole problem of using million-dollar missiles to shoot down swarms of drones worth mere thousands of dollars has been covered in this thread before. Until the missiles and drones start flying, though, who can say what will truly happen.
There's three ways plants have evolved to do photosynthesis - there's the "C3 pathway", the "C4 pathway", and "CAM". The last one is used by plants growing in arid conditions. C3 is used by most plants on Earth, while C4 is less common.
Carbon dioxide is taken up by plants and is made into sugars through a complicated series of reactions and molecules. C3 plants have a design flaw where one of the molecules will sometimes grab hold of oxygen instead of carbon dioxide, and this design flaw happens more often in drier conditions and higher temperatures. This makes photosynthesis less efficient, sometimes by like 20-30%. C4 plants found a way to overcome this design flaw, and do photosynthesis better and more efficiently at higher temperature conditions.
Note that if the problem was merely higher CO2 concentrations, C3 plants might be better suited as they can take more CO2 in than C4 plants. But with added problems like higher temperature and drought, the C4 plants are better suited for that.
Scientists are trying to convert some C3 plants like rice into C4 plants, but this is difficult.