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Hawaii does not often experience wildfires, and life did not evolve defenses to fire. However, with the rapid acceleration of heat and drought from global warming, that has changed for the North Pacific island chain. With help from the rainforest's...
by Pakalolo
on Mon Nov 13, 2023 at 02:49 AM PST
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For our Daily Bucket today: the latest in my intermittent local news series. This month’s focus is on kelp, a seaweed with many critical ecosystem roles, but which is declining at an unprecedented rate, especially along the West coast of North America,...
by OceanDiver
on Thu Mar 30, 2023 at 07:00 AM PDT
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Below are a series of historical turning points where scientists of one stripe or another have outlined problems for our planet that we have become newly aware of. The fact that each of these turning points have been recognized before the previous set...
by bisleybum
on Thu Nov 24, 2022 at 09:54 AM PST
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All the disheartening words about our climate and environment fell away for a short while when I saw this. A new bird species is discovered! And the discovery was made by a local professor at the University of North Texas, Denton.
by mahdalgal
on Sat Sep 10, 2022 at 11:32 AM PDT
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As reported in The New Yorker: Near the port of Hodeidah, in southern Yemen, at the terminus of an oil pipeline from the Marib, sits what used to be a very impressive ship, owned by the Safer Exploration and Production Operations Company (SEPOC). It is...
by strawbale
on Thu Oct 07, 2021 at 11:42 AM PDT
with 355 Recommends
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The Daily Bucket is a nature refuge. We amicably discuss animals, weather, climate, soil, plants, waters and note life’s patterns. We invite you to note what you are seeing around you in your own part of the world, and to share your observations in the...
by OceanDiver
on Wed Dec 30, 2020 at 07:00 AM PST
with 60 Recommends
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SACRAMENTO - In the latest battle in the California Water Wars during the midst of an unprecedented pandemic, five environmental groups sued the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) today in Sacramento Superior Court for adopting a resolution...
by Dan Bacher
on Thu Oct 29, 2020 at 01:35 PM PDT
with 14 Recommends
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Yes, it’s Steve Donziger, of taking-it-to-Chevron fame, with a $9.5billion judgement by the Ecuadorian court (since overturned on appeal), currently being countersued by Chevron in the United States for alleged contempt. He spoke with my good friend,...
by citixen
on Sat May 23, 2020 at 10:24 PM PDT
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All life on planet earth exist in a bubble called the biosphere. In simple terms, the biosphere is defined as the regions below and above the surface of the earth that are inhabited by the various lifeforms. In this biosphere the life that is dominant...
by melshim
on Tue Apr 28, 2020 at 04:19 AM PDT
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On Wednesday, researchers published their findings in PLOS ONE of ecological fallout connected to an ocean heat wave experienced in the North Pacific between 2014-2016. Specifically, researchers looked at the mass die offs of the common murres sea...
by Walter Einenkel
on Fri Jan 17, 2020 at 10:48 AM PST
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More than half a million hermit crabs have died after getting stuck in plastic pollution on two remote tropical island groups, according to a new study. Researchers behind the study, published in the Journal of Hazardous Materials, say that plastic...
by Marissa Higgins
on Thu Dec 05, 2019 at 12:47 PM PST
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Look at the comments on this linked Facebook post: How Did The End Of The World Become Old News? (the article referred to in the post is here.) It’s a very serious post about the human species walking inexorably into a torturous extinction. When...
by UnaSpenser
on Fri Aug 23, 2019 at 08:27 AM PDT
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At its June meeting in Redding, the California Fish and Game Commission voted to move the proposed policy on Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta fisheries management from the Wildlife Resources Committee to the full Commission at their August 7 meeting in...
by Dan Bacher
on Fri Jun 21, 2019 at 08:52 PM PDT
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Over the past few years, climate change has been linked to the mass die-offs of a variety of animal and plant populations across the planet. Warming climates disrupt ecosystems everywhere, and when that balance is thrown off, a lot of death follows....
by Walter Einenkel
on Wed Jun 05, 2019 at 08:59 AM PDT
with 93 Recommends
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The Daily Bucket is a nature refuge. We amicably discuss animals, weather, climate, soil, plants, waters and note life’s patterns.
We invite you to note what you are seeing around you in your own part of the world, and to share your observations...
by OceanDiver
on Mon Apr 29, 2019 at 09:52 AM PDT
with 29 Recommends
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Source: The Guardian
Biodiversity is not an optional extra. It is the web that holds all life, including human life.
The most recent study concluded that insect biomass is decreasing around the world at a rate of 2.5% a year. At that rate, half...
by vape standish
on Wed Feb 13, 2019 at 10:41 AM PST
with 19 Recommends
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Trump Doesn't Care About America's $21 Trillion Debt Crisis because "I won't be here" When it Blows Up...
Seen through the squinty golf ball eyes of Donald Punked, a World without him in it is valueless, and what might happen to The Human Race after...
by vape standish
on Thu Dec 06, 2018 at 12:22 PM PST
with 13 Recommends
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This post was written and reported by contributor Bret VandenBos through our new Daily Kos freelance program.
One thing that’s amazing about Las Vegas is its ability to constantly create new revenue per square foot. What used to be a pool is now a...
by Daily Kos Correspondent
on Wed Aug 22, 2018 at 01:34 PM PDT
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Charles P. Pierce picks up on a story from National Geographic. It All Started With a Few Trout. Now Yellowstone’s Iconic Birds Face ‘Collapse.'
DOUG SMITH DOESN’T remember the moment he realized that a serious ecological crisis was under way...
by xaxnar
on Mon Jul 09, 2018 at 01:19 PM PDT
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by cultjake
on Fri Jan 12, 2018 at 12:57 PM PST
with 0 Recommends
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