Playing with some kelpy inspiration for today's #inkyDays drawing.

Here's an in-progress shot.

The rest is now posted for my supporters on Patreon and ko-fi: https://www.patreon.com/posts/154543614 https://ko-fi.com/Post/InkyDays-April-2026-O5O61X2LH7

#ink #drawing #art #SciArt #kelp #wip

ピークデザイン、カスタマイズ性の高い軽量アウトドアバッグに新色「ケルプ」

 Peak Design(ピークデザイン)は、アウトドアバッグの新色「Kelp(ケルプ)」を4月10日に発売する。銀座の「Peak Design Tokyo」やオンラインショップ、全国の正規販売店で取り扱う。

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Seaforestation Can Reverse Climate Chnage with Brian von Herzen

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All-around very cool story and well worth the read. 💛

#Nuns & #NativeWomen from the #indigenous #Shinnecook tribe in #NewYork have started a #kelp #farm to help remove #carbon & #nitrogen / #nitrates #pollution from their #ocean waters.

After two years, there are #scallops, #clams, #SeaHorses, and other #MarineLife not seen in years, sheltering the kelp lines.

It's not just an #environmental success story, but of #friendship, #allyship, & support as well. 💪

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/27/shinnecock-tribe-nuns-kelp-farm-long-island-bay

#Seaweed #Kindness #Poetry

Saved by seaweed: nuns and Native women heal polluted New York waters using kelp

The sisters and a group of women from a local Indigenous tribe started a kelp farm in the hopes of cleaning up the pollution in their shared backyard

The Guardian
Ice Age Sloths of North and South America

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How many runways can you see for El Paso International airport (USA) ? : The answer is on https://www.bigorre.org/aero/meteo/kelp/en #elpasointernationalairport #airport #elpaso #usa #kelp #elp #aviation #avgeek vl
El Paso International airport (United State) aviation weather and informations KELP ELP

Aviation weather with TAF and METAR, Maps, hotels and aeronautical information for El Paso International airport (United State)

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Going with some kelpy inspiration for today's #inkyDays drawing.

Here's an in-progress shot.

#ink #drawing #art #kelp #SciArt #MastoArt #GenerativeArt #ProceduralArt

#ClimateCrisis #kelp

"The planet’s other forest crisis

The decline of California’s kelp forests since the marine heat wave of 2013-17 has seen only minor recovery despite heroic efforts at restoration carried out by scientists, fishermen, coastal tribes, volunteer divers and conservationists. Nor is the threat to kelp localized. Rather the loss, like the expansion of mega-wildfires on land from Los Angeles to Siberia and from Canada to Australia comes in response to an ever-warming world where 90% of the human-generated heat from the burning of fossil fuels is absorbed by the ocean.

Kelp forests cover some 2.8 million square miles, more area than the Amazon rain forest, and generate some $500 billion a year in value. This includes edible marine species (including many species of kelp itself), thickeners and emulsifiers used in ice cream and cosmetics, and powerful storm and coastal erosion protection, according to a 2023 report in *Nature Communications*. Photosynthesizing kelp, a form of algae, also generates more oxygen (and sequesters more carbon dioxide) than does the Amazon basin. Along with coral reefs they constitute one of the most complex and productive — if little-known — ecosystems on the planet.

(. . .)

Historically, overfishing, loss of predators like sea otters, pollution and overharvesting have posed the main threat to kelp forests. Today, it’s marine heat waves. A 2026 study carried out by scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and 30 other institutions around the world reports the ocean absorbed more heat in 2025 than ever before. This in turn has set off a record number of marine heat waves that can increase regional water temperatures 5-10 degrees, enough to radically alter ocean conditions.

Because of this warming, these large macroalgae are facing the biggest threat to their existence since they evolved more than 32 million years ago. If they disappear, what happens to the salmon, cod, abalone, whales and more than 1,000 other creatures dependent on kelp forests? What happens to us? Neither science nor society has figured that one out."

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2026-02-19/kelp-forests-recovery-global-warming

Contributor: The planet's other forest crisis

Struggling kelp forests like those along the California coast show why 'out of sight, out of mind' is not good climate change policy.

Los Angeles Times
Aviation weather for El Paso International airport (USA) is “KELP 181851Z 23020G27KT 10SM SCT250 18/M03 A2989 RMK AO2 PK WND 23029/1819 SLP077 T01781028 $” : See what it means on https://www.bigorre.org/aero/meteo/kelp/en #elpasointernationalairport #airport #elpaso #usa #kelp #elp #metar #aviation #aviationweather #avgeek vl
El Paso International airport (United State) aviation weather and informations KELP ELP

Aviation weather with TAF and METAR, Maps, hotels and aeronautical information for El Paso International airport (United State)

Bigorre.org