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linkMay 21, 2013 5:24 pm
I Bet You Wouldn't Let Aliens Treat Your Mother This Way
Reality check.
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photoMay 16, 2013 5:55 pm
With Rising Seas, America’s Birthplace Could Disappear
The first successful English colony in America was at Jamestown, Va., a swampy island in the Chesapeake Bay. The colony endured for almost a century, and remnants of the place still exist. You can go there and see the ruins. You can walk where Capt. John Smith and Pocahontas walked.
But Jamestown is now threatened by rising sea levels that scientists say could submerge the island by century’s end.
Well worth clicking through. I once argued with a history prof that thousands of historic sites were at risk from climate change. She thought it was too extreme…
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linkMay 16, 2013 10:16 am
Did This Billionaire Just Say What I Think He Said?
Should we believe him?
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linkMay 13, 2013 4:38 pm
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photosetMay 11, 2013 3:22 pm
From Michael Marten’s series, Sea Change, which explores rising sea levels from regular tides and also climate change. His statement:
‘Sea Change’ is a study of the tides round the coast of Britain. The views in each diptych are taken from identical positions at low tide and high tide, usually 6 or 18 hours apart.
I am interested in showing how landscape changes over time through natural processes and cycles. The camera that observes low and high tide side by side enables us to observe simultaneously two moments in time, two states of nature.
Recent landscape photography often focuses on human shaping (and reshaping) of the environment - urbanisation, globalisation, pollution. Even when critical and committed, this approach can emphasise, even glamorise, humankind’s power over nature. I’m interested in rediscovering nature’s own powers: the elemental forces and processes that underlie and shape the planet.
The tides are one of these great natural cycles. I hope these photographs will stimulate people’s awareness of natural change, of landscape as dynamic process rather than static image. Attending to earth’s rhythms can help us to reconnect with the fundamentals of our planet, which we ignore at our peril.
‘Sea Change’ also comments on climate change. The tide floods in and quickly recedes again, but rising sea levels will flood our shores and not recede for thousands or millions of years. Many of the views in these pictures may have disappeared in 100 years’ time.
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photosetMay 11, 2013 2:06 pm
The Last Time This Awful Thing Happened, We Didn’t Even Exist
The Keeling Curve tells us how much CO2 is in the air. It’s about to break 400 parts per million. To put that in perspective, check out these images. The fourth one is the most eye-opening.
Can you see the problem here? Share it if you can.
[ORIGINAL: By Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Submitted by Micah Sifry. Also, just FYI, the last time we hit 400 ppm was 3 MILLION YEARS AGO.]
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photoMay 09, 2013 9:44 pm
EPA Warns Americans Not To Breathe | Full Report
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linkMay 09, 2013 12:49 pm
A Tiny Little Nuisance That’s Responsible For Life As We Know It
These guys are more incredible than I give ‘em credit for.
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linkMay 09, 2013 10:16 am
I Just Learned How To Use A Paper Towel Properly For The First Time In My Life
You’re going to want to try this as soon as you’re done watching. Then share it with that one person you know who needs to see this. You’ll know who.
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photoMay 07, 2013 2:05 pm
Southern California wildfire spreads to Naval Base Ventura County
Photo: NBC’s Ayman Mohyeldin
Seriously, it’s going to be a real rough year!
