When it comes to mitigating the worst impacts of climate change, keeping excess carbon out of the atmosphere is the prime target for improving the health of our planet. One of the best ways to do that is thought to be locking more of that carbon into the soil that grows our food.
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Good Samaritans save stranded manatees from Irma
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Two manatees were stranded after Hurricane Irma sucked the water out of Sarasota Bay, in Florida’s Manatee County.
Several people posted photos of the mammals on Facebook Sunday, hoping rescue workers or wildlife officials would respond. Michael Sechler posted that the animals were far too massive to be lifted, so they gave them water.
Link: https://nypost.com/2017/09/10/good-samaritans-save-stranded-manatees-from-irma/
Scientists jam with musicians, artists to stir public passion for nature
STOCKHOLM: Norwegian artist Tone Bjordam was moved to tears when she heard an eminent Swedish scientist explain the relationships between nature, society and the economy at a 2013 workshop in Uruguay.
https://tribune.com.pk/story/1498519/scientists-jam-musicians-artists-stir-public-passion-nature/
A juice company dumped orange peels in a national park. Here’s what it looks like now.
In exchange for donating a portion of unspoiled, forested land to the Área de Conservación Guanacaste — a nature preserve in the country’s northwest — the park would allow the company to dump its discarded orange peels and pulp, free of charge, in a heavily grazed, largely deforested area nearby.
Scientists Find Record 2.7-Million-Year-Old Ice Core in Antarctica
Back in 2010, a group of scientists drilling in Antarctica pulled up a one-million-year-old chunk of ice. At the time, it was the oldest ice core ever discovered. But as Paul Voosen reports for Science, the team recently dug even deeper into Earth’s glacial history, unearthing an ice core that dates back 2.7 million years.
Trees with “Crown Shyness” Mysteriously Avoid Touching Each Other
If you look up toward certain types of towering trees—including eucalyptus, Sitka spruce, and Japanese larch—you may notice a unique phenomenon: the uppermost branches don’t touch. Known as “crown shyness,” this natural occurrence results in rupture-like patterns in the forest canopy that seem to perfectly outline the trees’ striking silhouettes.
A Butterfly Reappears in Scotland After 133 Years Away
LAST WEDNESDAY, IAN COWE TOOK a photograph of a white-letter hairstreak in Scotland—the first time since 1884 the butterfly had been seen in the country. The butterfly, he told the BBC, was “a very ragged and worn individual found feeding on ragwort in the grassy edge of an arable field.”
Testing Out Ocean Cleanup
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Mass Transit Now Free in Luxembourg
Sono Motors’s Sion Is a Crowdfunded, Solar- and Battery-Powered Electric Car
Electric car startups are nothing new, but Germany’s Sono Motors has found a way to stand out from the crowd. Sono just unveiled the Sion, an electric city car powered by a combination of batteries and solar cells. That’s not the only novel thing about this project, though; It’s also crowdfunded.
http://www.thedrive.com/tech/12963/sono-motorss-sion-is-a-crowdfunded-solar-and-battery-powered-electric-car
Pangaea With Current International Borders
The map above is one of my all time favourites. It shows Pangaea, a supercontinent that existed from 300 million to 175 million years ago, with modern international borders.