#Exctinction
turns out, this meadow is controversial. some locals are more worried that their kids might run through a bit of dog shit than they are about the sixth mass extinction. this is why i don't trust humans.
#exctinction #biodiversity #meadow #nature #scotland
Scientists Warn Major Glaciers Won't 'Survive This Century,' With Grave Impacts for Billions
"Preservation of glaciers is not just an environmental, economic, and societal necessity," said one expert. "It's a matter of survival." #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #GlobalWarming #environment #exctinction
“#Nature has so far balanced our abuse. This is coming to an end,” - #JohanRockström, director of the Potsdam Institute for #ClimateImpact Research.
#Trees and #land absorbed almost no #CO2 last year. Is nature’s #CarbonSink failing?
The sudden collapse of carbon sinks was not factored into #ClimateModels – and could rapidly accelerate #GlobalHeating
by Patrick Greenfield, October 14, 2024
"It begins each day at nightfall. As the light disappears, billions of #zooplankton, #crustaceans and other marine organisms rise to the ocean surface to feed on microscopic #algae, returning to the depths at sunrise. The waste from this frenzy – Earth’s largest migration of creatures – sinks to the #ocean floor, removing millions of tonnes of #carbon from the atmosphere each year.
"This activity is one of thousands of natural processes that regulate the Earth’s climate. Together, the planet’s oceans, forests, soils and other natural carbon sinks absorb about half of all #HumanEmissions.
"But as the Earth heats up, scientists are increasingly concerned that those crucial processes are breaking down.
"In 2023, the hottest year ever recorded, preliminary findings by an international team of researchers show the amount of carbon absorbed by land has temporarily collapsed. The final result was that #forest, plants and soil – as a net category – absorbed almost no carbon.
"There are warning signs at sea, too. #Greenland’s Glaciers and #ArcticIceSheets are melting faster than expected, which is disrupting the #GulfStream ocean current and slows the rate at which oceans absorb carbon. For the algae-eating zooplankton, melting sea ice is exposing them to more sunlight – a shift scientists say could keep them in the depths for longer, disrupting the vertical migration that stores carbon on the ocean floor."
#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe #Exctinction #GlobalWarming
@Sergeir. This mastodon was chewing the scenery in southern #minnesota. #exctinction.
“…a historic loss of Arctic sea ice could be to blame for the latest gray whale die-off. That's because sea ice hosts a carpet of algae on its underside, which decays and showers the seabed with food for bottom-dwellers, including the whales' preferred crustaceans.” #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Oceans #Whales #exctinction
https://www.livescience.com/animals/whales/scientists-finally-figure-out-why-hundreds-of-gray-whales-keep-washing-up-dead-along-us-coasts
Climate change will raise sea levels, cause apocalyptic floods and displace almost a billion people - and we are totally NOT prepared for this probably scenario. "Sea level rise from our past of heat trapping emissions is really baked in for the next few decades." #ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming #SeaLevelRise #Exctinction #ClimateMigration #environment https://www.salon.com/2023/08/28/climate-change-will-raise-sea-levels-cause-apocalyptic-floods-and-displace-almost-a-billion-people/
Arrived in Nanyuki early so squeezed in a quick game drive at #OlPejeta conservancy & saw the last 2 northern white rhino on the planet - both females so species is functionally extinct - a privilege but also quite depressing. Sun setting on this magnificent animal #exctinction #rhino #biodiversity#cop15 #RhinoConservation #africa #kenya
(2/2) #exctinction #forests #meatisdestroyingtheplanet #vegan #horrific #speciesextinction #cop15 #Biodiversity2022 #biodiversity #climate #loss #monkeys #meatfree #govegan
#exctinction #forests #meatisdestroyingtheplanet #vegan #horrific #speciesextinction #cop15 #Biodiversity2022 #biodiversity #climate #loss #monkeys #meatfree #govegan
#introduction
Hi everyone! I am an #environmentalhumanities researcher working on #climatecolonialism, the #ocean and the #bluehumanities at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. My #research on #climatechange #literature focuses on #Oceania and the #pacific, via #animalstudies, #exctinction, #migration, and #nuclear testing.
Currently a Greenhouse Green Transitions Fellow at the Greenhouse #Envhum Research Centre, University of Stavanger, and soaking up all the Nordic blues & greens.