Workers from Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife remove marine organisms in order to prevent invasive species from a derelict Japanese dock that washed up on Agate Beach. Credit: OSU’s Hatfield Marine Science Center.
I never used to think that I was smart enough to understand science.
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Some shots from today. Taken with my iPhone. It doesn’t quite show up in the photos, but sunspots were clearly visible.
This is so rad.
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Waterman Butterfly (Taken with instagram)
New poster for my dorm room next year!
I’m jelly!!
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Excellent video showing “four examples that clearly illustrate the impact of a warming planet — the reduction of summer Arctic sea ice, shrinking alpine glaciers, ocean temperature, and global sea level rise.”
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Climate change affecting owl color in Finland➜
I’m on an owl kick today…
Climate change is affecting the color of owls in Finland.
Researchers who looked at Finnish tawny owls over the last 28 years found that the brown variant is winning over the gray one in the wild.
Writing in the journal Nature Communications, the researchers at the University of Helsinki in Finland say that bird populations appear to be able to evolve in response to climate change.
Plumage color is about 80% heritable in Strix aluco, the Finnish tawny owl. The researchers modeled the survival of 466 owls and found that historically, brown owls had lower survival rate compared to gray owls in winter when there was lots of snow. “Predation on brown individuals may be more severe under snow-rich conditions,” the paper says.
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Planned Parenthood is excited to be launching our new Tumblr that’s all about sexual and reproductive health – bodies, birth control, relationship issues, “is it normal for this to do this?” type things. In the coming weeks and months we’ll be sharing what we know, answering questions, and just… tumblring.
We hope you like it! And we hope it helps.
Welcome! You’ll find tons of allies here. Metric tonnes.
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I think I’ll live on that island just north of where Texas used to be..
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Seven Ways to Improve Environmental Education➜
1. Design environmental education programs that can be properly evaluated, for example, with before-after, treatment-control designs.
2. Teach where resources come from
3. Show what “tipping points” are
4. Teach a world view. (US ranks last in geographic and world history)
5. Teach how governments work. (This one is my personal favorite. When was the last time you went to your city’s city council meeting?)
6. Teach the unforeseen effects of conservation legislation.
7. Teach critical thinking skills.From, The Failure of Environmental Education (and How We Can Fix It) published on PLoS
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LUGNARLY A geologic map of an area of the moon based on photographs from the Lunar orbiter spacecraft and albedo [surface reflectivity] data from the Russian Zond 8 probe. (Photo: Barcroft Media via The Telegraph)](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2l6d2h9pE1qz82gvo1_400.jpg)
LUGNARLY A geologic map of an area of the moon based on photographs from the Lunar orbiter spacecraft and albedo [surface reflectivity] data from the Russian Zond 8 probe. (Photo: Barcroft Media via The Telegraph)
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Palm oil facts:
* 90 per cent of Sumatra’s orangutan population has disappeared since 1900. They now face extinction
* 90 per cent of wildlife disappears when the forest is replaced by palm, creating a biological desert
* 98 per cent of Indonesia’s forests may be destroyed by 2022 according to the United Nations
* 43 of Britain’s 100 top grocery brands contain or are thought to contain palm oil
The Independent. Warning, article will infuriate. (via climateadaptation)
