Documentary filmmaker | Marine #EcosystemServices, health & well-being researcher @UniEsaUnggul Indonesia | Director of Puspa Hanuman Foundation (https://www.puspahanuman.org)
Academic profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9581-8283
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One of the most delightful aspects of gardening is going out to the vegetable garden very early in the morning and finding bumblebees still asleep in the squash blossoms. ❤️🐝❤️🐝
How 12,000 Tonnes of Dumped Orange Peel Grew Into a Landscape Nobody Expected to Find
‘"This is one of the only instances I've ever heard of where you can have cost-negative carbon sequestration," says ecologist Timothy Treuer from Princeton University.’
Major tech companies are producing far more carbon emissions than they suggest in their sustainability reports.
They’re lobbying hard to rewrite the rules on how emissions are calculated to show net zero on paper, but not in practice.
https://www.ft.com/content/2d6fc319-2165-42fb-8de1-0edf1d765be3
"the Plutonian year that started on July 4, 1776 will end this year on June 12, 2024"
1. Pluto has long-ass years!
2. The entirety of US history occurred during a single year on Pluto
https://kottke.org/24/02/all-of-us-history-has-taken-place-in-one-plutonian-year
#Space #History
Our Observation of the Week is this trio of Orange-spined Drone Flies (Eristalis nemorum, Eristale interrompue in French), seen in France by @nicolashelitas! Nicolas Helitas tells me he was raised by his grandparents in the southwest of France. His father, who lived near Paris, would spend a lot of time fishing when on holiday and took Nicolas with him. “I think the hours I spent quietly on the bank of ponds gave me the love of being in nature,” he says, which led him to study biology. I made an herbarium, and I started to look more closely at plants - especially orchids. Those plants are often rare, so I started to take photos instead of collecting them. Then I looked at the butterflies which were visiting the plants, then dragonflies after that, while a passion for photography started to grow in me. Now my main interests are still botany and entomology, but I'm potentially interested in everything in nature! I currently have more than 200k images on my hard drive. Even if lots o...
Interesting. The more you know about #climate change the less anxious you are, because you also know about the options for tackling it. Educating the public works.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-023-03518-z
This study tests the hypotheses that overall environmental knowledge and climate-specific knowledge are inversely related to climate change anxiety, such that people who know more (less) about the environment in general, and about climate in particular, are less (more) anxious about climate change. Time lagged data were collected from N = 2,066 individuals in Germany. Results showed that, even after controlling for demographic characteristics, personality characteristics, and environmental attitudes, overall environmental knowledge and climate-specific knowledge were negatively related to climate change anxiety (both B = -.09, p < .001).
Mountain Hare.
From a rather blustery workshop today, here in the Scottish Highlands.
We were able to approach two hares which were both relaxed with us being there.
This one spent quite some time grooming, which was lovely to observe.
Laura Perry
VM (Vicky) Brasseur
Paris Marx
Dave Mark
KellyAnn Romanych (she/her)
GBIF
Peter Gleick
Pete Walkden
Vincent Arel-Bundock