1 Million Acres Burned and Counting as Texas Offers ‘Terrifying’ Glimpse of Climate Future
Experts say the Smokehouse Creek fire is a vision of what the climate crisis has in store for the world
https://www.commondreams.org/news/1-million-acres-texas-smokehousefire
#Texas #USA #US #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
👍 HarperCollins made a tiny tweak to its book design—and has saved thousands of trees as a result
In an effort to reduce the carbon footprint of each book, they’re tweaking fonts, layout, and even the ink used. The goal is to pack more into each page, while ensuring that the pages are as readable as ever. And so far, these subtle, imperceptible tweaks have saved 245.6 million pages, equivalent to 5,618 trees.
#News #Books #Ecology #Conservation
https://web.archive.org/web/20240403054930/https://www.fastcompany.com/91071102/harper-collins-made-a-tiny-tweak-to-its-book-design-and-has-saved-thousands-of-trees-as-a-result
Walpurgisnacht raccoon: The one who takes everything in its hands pays a personal visit
It was about an hour after midnight, and I groped for my glasses on the bedside table. I went to the window to look. A raccoon stared back at me.
Replacing some or all of your #lawn with native plants and food is one way to support each other and the environment – but it truly does so much more than that.
Here are some significant research-backed and expert-approved benefits you’ll experience when you make the switch.
#nolawn #nolawns #rewilding #gardening #biodiversity #cities #urbannature #insects #ecology #landscaping #ediblelandscaping #mentalhealth #bees
https://www.rewildingmag.com/6-reasons-to-downsize-your-lawn/
NEW from my lab in Ecology Letters: Machine learning trained on >10k iNaturalist records let us "hindcast" Joshua trees' flowering back over the 20th Century. The hindcast recovers flowering events recorded in field notes, herbarium records, and newspaper archives. Joshua trees now flower a bit more often than they once did— but that's probably not good for the trees overall
OA paper: https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14478
First duck orchid of the spring starting to take flight near Genoa, VIC. These large duck orchids (Caleana major) are fairly common around Mallacoota most years but are usually out in larger numbers in October. Only saw the one early flower on the one plant this trip.
#Orchids #OzPlants #Biodiversity #Ecology #Botany #Photography #Spring #EastGippsland #InTheField #Nature
