"I'm not afraid of risk" - A newly independent GOG eyes indie game publishing, something it couldn't do under CD Projekt Red

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.eurogamer.net/gog-eyes-indie-game-publishing-something-it-couldnt-do-under-cd-projekt-red

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"But they were unaware that the great majority of the #biota, perhaps 99%, easily streamed through the holes of their nets; the holes were simply too big to capture these microbes. Even when membrane flters and microscopy were used, and they revealed great diversity of #microplankton and #nanoplankton, most #microbes evaded detection. The view of the pelagic web of life that emerged and became entrenched for a century was then based on a tiny fraction of marine biota."

Farooq Azam, 2011

The Ambitious [but do-able] Effort To Save New Zealand’s Iconic Bird [and so many more - including eradication of ferals]
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https://www.npr.org/2025/10/13/nx-s1-5565215/the-ambitious-effort-to-save-new-zealands-iconic-bird <-- shared media article
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https://www.doc.govt.nz/nature/pests-and-threats/ <-- shared New Zealand Department of Conservation Pests & Threats site
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“The kiwi, a… flightless bird from New Zealand, is disappearing, largely because of invasive species brought to the country’s islands by humans. So New Zealand has set a goal of exterminating rats, possums and other invasive animals that threaten the country’s biodiversity…”
#biodiversity #feral #NewZealand #habitat #risk #hazard #threat #death #humanimpacts #invasivespecies #kiwi #kea #flightlessbird #indigeneous #reptile #bat #skink #biota #cat #domesticcats #possum #stoat #ferret #weasel #culling #eradication #protection #systematic #endangered #island #Australasia
#DepartmentOfConservation

🔊 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #WoPop

Biota:
🎵 Liberto

#Biota

https://tropicaltwistarecords.bandcamp.com/track/biota-liberto

https://open.spotify.com/track/5LWh4yAnsEdDKF7RF2jpql

🎶 show playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1U6b1BIkvU3ngVIpRxLEuo

🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VNALrOa3gWbk794YuIrwg

Amazon Rainforest Mystery Unraveled - New Study Challenges Ice Age Evolution Theories
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https://scitechdaily.com/amazon-rainforest-mystery-unraveled-new-study-challenges-ice-age-evolution-theories/ <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s44185-024-00056-4 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #SouthAmerica #Amazon #rainforest #amazonrainforest #vegetation #model #modeling #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #species #ecosystems #biota #flora #fauna #change #biodiversity #IceAge #tropical #climatechange #landuse #humanimpacts #woodland #forest #savannah #evolution #specialisation

Legacy Mercury Contamination From Historical Gold Mining - A Visualization Tool For Spatial Data On Sediment, Water, And Biota In The Sierra Nevada, California
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https://ca.water.usgs.gov/sierra-mercury/ <-- shared technical article / storybook
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https://doi.org/10.5066/P9EL0UN9 <-- shared USGS technical report
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https://www.pbssocal.org/shows/earth-focus/mercury-in-our-waters-the-10-000-year-legacy-of-californias-gold-rush <-- shared media article
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #water #hydrology #sediment #biota #ecosystems #spatialanalysis #sampling #mercury #gold #goldmining #history #SierraNevada #goldrush #California #USA #contamination #humanimpacts #waterquality #hydraulicmining #minewaste #environment #methylmercury #watersecurity #publichealth #transportation #uptake #bioaccumulation #landmanagement #hotspots #remediation #ecology #mining
@USGS

The End Homage (Biota's Live-Dive)

#music #Biota #Moses-Chemin #Roman-Galperin #The-End-Homage

New fossil site of worldwide importance uncovered in southern France
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-fossil-site-worldwide-importance-uncovered.html #geology #palaeontology #france #ordovician #biota #refugium

Shipwreck Ecology - Understanding The Function And Processes From Microbes To Megafauna
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https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biad084 <-- shared paper
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[as a scuba diver who has done some wreck diving in various places around the world, there is an extra layer of interest here for me…]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #ship #shipwreck #underwater #ecology #function #processes #shipwrecks #shipping #archaeology #erosion #degradation #habitats #organisms #shipwreckecology #biota #trophiclevels

Colorado Wetland Inventory Mapping Tool
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https://csurams.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=a8e43760cb934a5084e89e46922580cc <-- web map access
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #wetlands #fen #bog #marsh #colorado #USA #webmapping #opendata #ColoradoWetlandsInventoryMappingTool #CWIMT #hydrology #water #biota #ecosystems #habitat #riparian #NWI #CHNP #playa #conservation #stressors

What should happen to native forests when logging ends? Ask Victoria’s First Peoples

"Conservationists are celebrating a win sought for decades. The damage done by logging on biodiversity has been significant, with once common species now endangered and mature forests now fragmented and dotted with young fire-prone regrowth."
"Colonisation affected Country differently across Australia. But many effects are similar across the continent. European-style land management coincides with species extinctions across the continent. "
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https://theconversation.com/what-should-happen-to-native-forests-when-logging-ends-ask-victorias-first-peoples-206412

Reading the black book: The number, timing, distribution and causes of listed extinctions in Australia

"We conclude that 100 Australian endemic species are validly recognised as extinct since 1788: a rate of loss of about 4.3 species per decade since European colonisation of the continent. This rate is not diminishing and we interpret this more-or-less constant but continuing rate of loss .."

"Here, we review the record of extinctions. We ask the following: (1) how many extinctions have occurred; (2) whether particular taxonomic groupings have been most affected; (3) when did they occur; (4) where did they occur; and (5) what factors caused or contributed to them?"
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S000632071930895X
#PostLogging #NativeForests #Biodiversity #biota #restore #extinctions #BusinessAsUsual #colonisation #IndigenousPeoples #restoration

Trattlav (Cladonia pyxidata)

#photography #trattlav #Cladoniapyxidata #closeup #nature #noroads #outdoors #lichens #lichen #biota #biotope #home #rural #mountains #northernsweden #jämtland #august #fall #autumn #sweden

Violett fingersvamp (Clavaria zollingeri)

#photography #Violettfingersvamp #Clavariazollingeri #fungi #mushroom #nature #pasture #rural #home #noroads #fingersvamp #svamp #lila #outdoors #closeup #purple #field #green #wilderness #mountains #sweden #northernsweden #jämtland #fall #august #raindrops #rare #biota #biodiversity #Amethystfarbenekoralle

In honor of #CuneiformRecords reissuing the #Heretic catalog, here's our #review from 1996 of Past in Future. " In general the music straddles the line between #ElectronicRock and #AmbientMusic, hovering somewhere between the random soundscapes of #Biota, the aggressive imagery of #RichardPinhas, and the ambient driftiness of #ForrestFang's Migration, but in fact is like none of these." #ExposeOnline #tbt http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/heretic-past-in-future-3.html

The less-noticed #biota are the ones that are also most important to us. #Insects, #fungi, #protists, #bacteria, #archaea… and #plants. This report is worrisome and we need more #botany #education at all levels.

https://theconversation.com/botanists-are-disappearing-just-when-the-world-needs-them-most-186849

#FossilAdventCalendar Day 4

The oddest and - at over 560 million years in age - oldest #fossil featured in this #AdventCalendar is Fractofusus misrai from #Newfoundland 🇨🇦. This specimen in the #RoyalOntarioMuseum is from #MistakenPoint, one of the sites preserving the #Ediacaran #biota, the term for some of our planet's oldest #multicellular #fossils. Lots of questions remain about these ancient enigmas, among them, were #Ediacarans #animals or members of a different branch of the tree of life?