Mastodawn

Redwood trees often have "volunteers" around their base, shoots from their own roots that are baby redwood trees. If for some reason the tree dies, the volunteers grow tall and become a ring of trees. We call them "fairy rings." There are big fairy rings of second-growth redwoods here, where I live. I've been a high school and middle school mountain bike coach for years. One of my favorite things to do is to take a side quest on a ride to one of these rings, talk about what they are - they can see the volunteers around the base of each tree - then look up, and have them imagine the original tree.

Resource extraction is the history of the USA, in large part. To what end?

#redwoods
#ResourceExtraction

A-Dub 🥝May 1

hahaha excellent!

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/593914/west-coast-mine-application-on-unesco-heritage-site-withdrawn

#NzPol #ResourceExtraction

West Coast mine application on UNESCO heritage site withdrawn

Resources Minister Shane Jones blames his "communist opponents" in the Green Party for opposing the project.

RNZ

A-Dub 🥝Apr 27

the current conservative coalition government of New Zealand has approved a prospecting permit within Te Wāhipounamu, one of the country's three UNESCO World Heritage Sites 🤦🏼‍♂️

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/593506/green-party-disapproves-of-government-granting-prospecting-permit-for-unesco-site

#ResourceExtraction #EnvironmentWreckers

Green Party disapproves of government granting prospecting permit for UNESCO site

It comes after a prospecting permit was approved within Te Wāhipounamu, one of the country's three UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

RNZ

CBC British Columbia Apr 22

Rights and reconciliation collide in B.C.
A conflict playing out in British Columbia is testing the limits of reconciliation in the province. It’s a fight that involves resource extraction, democracy, political flip-flops, and a test of values.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/frontburner/rights-and-reconciliation-collide-in-b-c-9.7172639?cmp=rss

CBC Top Stories Apr 22

The Inquisitive Biologist Apr 11

This week's #NewBooks at the library: Three more books from the January clearance sale of my employer:
- The Rise of Horses: 55 Million Years of Evolution from Johns Hopkins University Press (one I might just review in tandem with a more recent book on horse evolution. At some point.)
- Extraction to Extinction: Rethinking our Relationship with Earth's Natural Resources from @sarabandbooks.
- The Good Ancestor: How to Think Long Term in a Short-Term World from WH Allen. Somewhere there is a review series brewing about long-term thinking (no, not *that* sort of long-termism!)

#Evolution #Horses #NaturalResources #ResourceExtraction #Environmentalism #Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon @bookstodon

CBC Canada Apr 7

Watchdog's report on controversial RCMP unit delayed due to lack of chairperson
A years-long investigation into a special RCMP unit that polices protests against resource extraction in British Columbia is finished but can’t be finalized because the RCMP's oversight body has been without a chairperson for more than a year.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/rcmp-cirg-crcc-report-delay-9.7151904?cmp=rss

Zeke 🇨🇦Mar 28

@grrlscientist
The BC government has not enacted stand-alone legislation to protect at-risk species, relying instead on existing laws and regulations, which critics argue offer limited and fragmented protection.
Maximize resource extraction regardless of the harm caused to the ecosystems.
#EcosystemsCollapse
#ResourceExtraction
#OldGrowthForests
#Wildlife

A-Dub 🥝Mar 21

CBC: "There are billions of tonnes of valuable minerals for electric vehicle batteries and energy storage at the bottom of the ocean, and a Canadian-registered company is leading the race to mine them."

me: those minerals are not **for** electric vehicle batteries or energy storage. they're naturally occurring and sea beds deserve to be left in peace.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/seabed-mining-isa-trump-9.7136815

#UnderminingISA #InternationalLawOfTheSea #ResourceExtraction

U.S. pushes ahead on deep-sea mining. The rest of the world isn’t so sure | CBC News

Even as the race to mine the ocean floor for important minerals intensifies, a UN-body tasked with establishing regulations for the emerging industry ended a key global meeting this week without a new mining code.

CBC

A-Dub 🥝Mar 12

'The world should see this', say Papua deforestation doco filmmakers

"For a country with a record of large deforestation projects, Indonesia's current activities in the far south eastern corner of the republic, South Papua province, surpass all."

https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/589416/watch-the-world-should-see-this-say-papua-deforestation-doco-filmmakers

#FreePapua #ColonialistNonsense #ResourceExtraction

Watch: 'The world should see this', say Papua deforestation doco filmmakers

Filmmakers behind a new doco on deforestation devastation in Papua say the world should take note.

RNZ