My husband had to wait for 6 years to capture this view of #TheNeedles.
Taken as the #moon set at 4.30 am last summer. This shot is only possible a couple of times each year. He almost had it in 2016 but it was slightly too breezy and the telephoto lens couldn't keep in focus.
It causes controversy as some think it's fake, I promise you that it is not. It involved much research, persistence and luck with the weather! It's the cover shot on our 2024 calendar #IsleofWight #photography
"The Miyawaki reforestation method seeks to restore #nature to its original state with results that can be seen in around 6 years."
Discover how this method is helping reforest the Amazon in Brazil. 🇧🇷
🗞️@mongabay ⬇️
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/01/from-japan-to-brazil-reforesting-the-amazon-with-the-miyawaki-method/
When Takushi Sato left Japan for Belém, Brazil, in 1971, he never imagined what he would go through. By 2000, as the manager of a timber company that shipped Brazilian wood to Japan, he was tired of being extorted by officials from IBAMA, the environmental protection agency, to get the required export documents, he recalled. […]
Recently updated - history of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) from 800,000 years ago 🥴
Animation by https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/history.html
Only days ahead of the one-year anniversary of the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a bipartisan group of U.S. senators again submitted to the Senate a draft resolution on recognizing Russia’s war against Ukraine as genocide. — Ukrinform.
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