Water Boatman preparing for takeoff from a pond at #WWTCastleEspie.

#nature #naturephotography #wildlife #invertebates #insects #water #Freshwater #pond #pondlife #wwt #spring #NorthernIreland #macro #closeup

#NewSpecies!
New freshwater snail from #spain just crawled in:

Corrosella ballestae

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E487C4-B22D-FFA8-18B2-F919FC21FBF7
Publication: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2026.1043.3203
#ejtaxonomy #CorrosellaBallestae

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #fauna #malacology #gastropods #snails #freshwater

1. An all-female music group from #UummannaqChildrensHome (GL) filming a 360º documentary which can then be viewed in the same VR headsets that the youth use for gaming.

2. Simi, a hunter, shows two girls from #UummannaqChildrensHome how to collect #GlacierIce pieces (#nilat) from an #iceberg for #freshwater, a Greenlandic #Inuit tradition.

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We've received funding from the Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Culture to establish this project, in collaboration with Uummannaq Polar Institute.

#360Filmmaking #Uummannaq #UummannaqPolarInstitute @nordiskkulturkontakt #nordiskkulturkontakt

Winter salt is an existential threat to freshwater [in the Great Lakes watershed]

Excerpt:
"Modernity is a fickle partner for life on earth. It has brought vast improvements for human vitality — less disease, lower infant mortality rates, stable food supplies, and longer lifespans. In the same breath, the environment and our non-human kin have suffered on almost every front over the last century — drastic reductions in wildlife populations, accelerating extinction rates of flora and fauna, almost unimaginable biodiversity and habitat loss, and the systematic pollution of the ecosystems that once supported life."

https://esemag.com/commentary/winter-salt-existential-threat-freshwater/

#freshwater #greatlakes #Environment

#NewSpecies!
New freshwater snail from #georgia just crawled in:

Gveleshapia kvevri

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/B5BF9640-514B-571F-A43E-9628688A5D6D
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1272.178534
#ZooKeys #GveleshapiaKvevri

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Why would a desalination plant be a military target? | About That
Andrew Chang explains how the war in the Middle East is threatening critical freshwater infrastructure in the region.

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https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.7124491?cmp=rss