Coyotes play a crucial role in maintaining the health of the ecosystem. Hunting at sunrise is an advantageous strategy as their acute senses allow them to capitalize on the low light conditions when their prey are most active. Bosque Del Apache
(1/6) Just one more week until the Ars Electronica Festival takes over Linz, becoming the epicenter of the #mediaart world. The festival begins with a pre-opening walk on the evening of September 5th, starting at the Mariendom and visiting various cultural and artistic institutions. This event will feature performances and engaging presentations, igniting excitement for #art, #technology, #science, and #society – in essence, the future. https://ars.electronica.art/who-owns-the-truth/en/highlights/#pre-opening-walk
(4/6) Festival Friday builds on Thursday's themes of 21st-century innovation and emphasizes holistic thinking about the #future. It shifts our perspective from human superiority to recognizing our place as a vital but small part of the planet's #ecosystem. This highlights our interdependence with the planet's health and urges us to protect it, given our perfect adaptation to its conditions. https://ars.electronica.art/who-owns-the-truth/en/highlights/#more-than-planet-day
(1/6) The theme exhibition at the Ars Electronica Festival “(Co)Owning More-than-Truth" argues that while #truth is crucial for progress, we need more than that. It suggests using truth as a tool to navigate complex knowledge structures and adapt to changing truths. The exhibit features various #artworks exploring truths from Earth's ecosystems, data collection, and information processing, challenging existing knowledge systems. Let’s take a look at some of them ...
On the 50th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act, looking back to look forward.
August 21, 2023 - by Terry Tempest Williams
As a child, I watched the men I loved in my family lift their high-powered rifles and shoot one #PrairieDog after another and another for fun, and then walk away. They called them “pop-guts.” On the way back to our camp, I stepped over their small blood-soaked,
Or maybe you know of a species in your state or a particular #ecosystem that needs federal protection. You can support a specific species campaign addressed to the #FishAndWildlifeService to nominate newly threatened plants and animals to be concerned for protection under the #EndangeredSpeciesList.
Stand in solidarity with local communities in Argentina — sign now to stop the Vaca Muerta Sur oil pipeline!
If completed, the Vaca Muerta Sur oil pipeline would have incalculable negative impacts on both the global #climate and the gulf #ecosystem — not to mention the local communities. We're already experiencing severe consequences of the #ClimateCrisis all over the world, and we can't afford to be set back even further.
A student can't afford to pay the $8 per month for #Obsidian sync, so builds a #FOSS alternative. Then posts to HN and says "I probably violate ToS, so will take down the repo if asked".
Then the Obsidian CEO replies. Explains they aren't VC-funded and the $8 bucks subscription keeps the light on. Applauds the work of the student, points to other open ways that content sync can be handled and gives advice "if you rename, there's no ToS problem". 👍
@edafe@pavelzinoviev@smallcirclesnodds in agreement I'm convinced @obsidian - just like #Tarsnap - are more focussed on keeping a good product / service online than being toxic towards users and customers.
After all, "Imitation is the highest form of flattery" and I do think it's important to look at things in the sense of an #EcoSystem:
For example, Microsoft did not succeed with Xbox as platform by sheer capital, but by making it easy for developers to write games for it. #DirectXbox
A sweeping look at the crisis in the Amazon. "What we were predicting to happen perhaps in two or three decades is already taking place," said one scientist. https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-023-02599-1
Scientists are beginning to better understand the consequences of melting glaciers on humans, species of all kinds and the ecosystem in which they live....
I have a written a bit of rust by now, but one problem I always seem to encounter it that the features a create supports never seem to be documented. Neither what features are available, what they each do or which are default. Is that really the case, or am I missing something?...
Some have cast doubt on the #IAEA’s findings, with China recently arguing that the group’s assessment “is not proof of the legality and legitimacy” of Fukushima’s wastewater release.
By Jessie Yeung, Mayumi Maruyama and Emiko Jozuka, July 5, 2023
"Robert H. Richmond, director of the Kewalo Marine Laboratory at the University of #Hawaii at Manoa, is among a group of international scientists working with the #PacificIslandForum to assess the wastewater release plan – including visits to the Fukushima site, and meetings with TEPCO, Japanese authorities and the IAEA. After reviewing the details of the plan, Richmond called it 'ill-advised' and premature.
"One concern is that diluting the wastewater might not be enough to reduce its impact on marine life. #Pollutants like tritium can pass through various levels of the #FoodChain – including plants, animals, and bacteria – and be '#bioaccumulated,' meaning they will build up in the marine #ecosystem, he said.
"He added that the world’s oceans are already under stress from #ClimateChange, ocean #acidification, #overfishing and #pollution. The last thing it needs is to be treated like a 'dumping ground,' he said.
"And the potential risks won’t just affect the #AsiaPacific region. One 2012 study found evidence that bluefin #tuna had transported #radionuclides – radioactive isotopes like the ones in #nuclear#wastewater – from Fukushima across the Pacific to California."
These #shrimp -like #crustaceans occur around #Antarctica but are most highly concentrated in the #AntarcticPeninsula, which also happens to be one of the fast-warming places on the planet. That’s bad news for krill — and everything that depends on them — which is a lot.
Only a few inches long, Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) may be small, but their contributions to the #ecosystem are massive — much like the swarms themselves.
Researchers are using remote-sensing technology and machine-learning algorithms to map and predict the presence of mycorrhizal fungi in ecosystems around the world.
The Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN) is an initiative that aims to map the distribution of fungal networks to spread awareness and advocate for their protection.
As deadly, unrelenting heat scorches Arizona, some entomologists are growing concerned about the increasing number of dead honeybees – a species vital to our #ecosystem, especially #FoodProduction.
By Jared Formanek, CNN
Published Aug 3, 2023 4:09 PM EDT
"'It’s a very major concern,' Shaku Nair, an entomologist with the University of Arizona, told CNN, 'Honeybees can forage up to 113 degrees. As of July, we’ve had many days over 113 degrees, so bees are taking a bad hit right now.'"
Climate change is an immediate threat to the majority of the world's population.
We need a local, regional, state, national, and international "moon shot" type of concentration of effort using available resources while developing and advancing new science and technologies to counteract the damage humans have caused.
Without this type of all-out, universal cooperation, human civilization, and perhaps humanity itself, are in imminent danger of extinction.
"My personal view is that the change is worth pursuing in the interest of slowing the negative effects on our #ocean#ecosystem that #GlobalWarming and #ClimateChange is having right now. It's not free. It comes at a cost, and that's a trade-off that we have to consider when we decide to put #WindFarms into the #ocean."
Nothing is free, everything has a cost. The perfect is too often the enemy of the good.
Doing Everything, Everywhere, All at Once is what we need, now.
With all of the hot air these days, I am reminded of this prescient quote by Aldo Leopold: "The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the pieces."
I believe that the only way to reduce and then reverse the damage we are doing to every part of the #ecosystem is to intentionally, gradually but consistently, reduce the amount of energy we run through our economy, slow our physical speeds, and begin a global project to regenerate working ecosystems of every sort that was here when the Europeans started this industrial thing, probably at least 300-400 years before the #IndustrialRevolution
Dutch East India Company, or before.
In questi casi estremi il fallimento non è un’opzione: qualsiasi cosa accada, bisogna sempre avere il controllo per riportare in brevissimo tempo il sistema in uno stato sicuro e, secondo loro, Linux non ha questa caratteristica poiché non ha:...
Disappearing glaciers will give way to emerging, 'novel' ecosystems, new research finds (abcnews.go.com)
Scientists are beginning to better understand the consequences of melting glaciers on humans, species of all kinds and the ecosystem in which they live....
are features never documented
I have a written a bit of rust by now, but one problem I always seem to encounter it that the features a create supports never seem to be documented. Neither what features are available, what they each do or which are default. Is that really the case, or am I missing something?...
Ancient pathogens released from melting ice could wreak havoc on the world, new analysis reveals (phys.org)
Science fiction is rife with fanciful tales of deadly organisms emerging from the ice and wreaking havoc on unsuspecting human victims.
Linux è davvero adatto a qualsiasi ambito? Secondo alcuni tecnici che si occupano di aerospazio non ancora! (www.miamammausalinux.org) Italian
In questi casi estremi il fallimento non è un’opzione: qualsiasi cosa accada, bisogna sempre avere il controllo per riportare in brevissimo tempo il sistema in uno stato sicuro e, secondo loro, Linux non ha questa caratteristica poiché non ha:...