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YouTube video by Fritids Tur The Bali myna (Leucopsar rothschildi) Bird song

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Indigenous-led protections spark Bali starling’s recovery in the wild NUSA PENIDA, Indonesia — Two young conservation workers rattle up on a motorbike and dismount at the edge of a coconut grove. Picking through husks, fallen fronds and stray plastic bottles, they scan…

An Indonesian songbird once nearly extinct in the wild, the Bali starling, is making a comeback through community-led conservation.

Villages embraced traditional awig-awig regulations to protect the starling, creating powerful cultural, social and financial deterrents to poaching.

When art turns into a sustainable treasure JALAPÃO, Brazil — Capim dourado, or golden grass, grows in Jalapão, a wild part of the Brazilian Cerrado, the most biodiverse savanna in the world. With its unique color, the grass has lifted women…

Capim dourado, or golden grass, grows in a wild part of the Brazilian Cerrado, the most biodiverse savanna in the world.

Through the sustainable management of the grass – harvesting once a year and leaving the plant seeds in the field – artisans are trying to keep their golden treasure safe.

This is figure 5, which shows examples of the species identified from the ROV videos.

More marine life is living on some World War II munitions disposed of on the Baltic Sea’s seabed than on the sediment surrounding it, according to a paper in Communications Earth & Environment. go.nature.com/48yFNLy 🌊 🧪

Mindat.org Mindat.org is the world's leading website about minerals and where they come from.

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Mcguinnessite, DeGrussa Mine, Western Australia Mineral Matters #834

Mineral Matters # 834 - Mcguinnessite, DeGrussa Mine, Western Australia
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California’s kelp forests struggle to recover a decade after collapse More than 10 years after unusually high water temperatures in the Pacific Ocean killed off Northern California’s aquatic kelp forests, the region has still not recovered, reports David Helvarg,…

More than 10 years after unusually high water temperatures in the Pacific Ocean killed off Northern California’s aquatic kelp forests, the region has still not recovered, reports David Helvarg, executive director of ocean conservation group Blue Frontier, for Mongabay.

🎉 Breaking News: The New Zealand government has announced major cuts to catch limits for orange roughy, cutting catch limits in half on the Chatham Rise.

The DSCC welcomes this news, calling for an end to bottom trawling on all seamounts. Read more: https://bit.ly/46xSogU

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Where is multilateral policy on autonomous weapon systems (#AWS) headed?

This new report by Dr Alexander Blanchard and Netta Goussac aims to equip policymakers with a structured and realistic overview of possible next steps to advance multilateral policy efforts ➡️ doi.org/10.55163/VLLZ7787

Ich präsentiere Ihnen die Köstlichkeit des Hauses, reines Fasanenpüree vom rumänischen Fasan…

Waiter …the just served table is a Vegetarian eating mostly Pears…

Waiter…don’t you know I Am a Lacto vegetarian?

Poland – The Holocaust Explained: Designed for schools A map showing the Allied and Axis countries in March 1941.

By 28 September 1939, Poland had been defeated and divided up between the Nazis and Soviets as per the Molotov-Ribbentrop Non-Aggression Pact .

The western area of Poland was annexed into the Greater German Reich. The Soviet Union occupied the eastern section...

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A cluster of dark purple tapering amethyst prisms. From Romania. Specimen on display in the Natural History Museum, London.

Several pale purple amethyst crystals on white milky quartz crystals. From Diamond Hill, Rhode Island, USA. Specimen on display in the Natural History Museum, London.

A cut and polished slice of amethyst showing colour zoning which resembles a dark purple and pale purple radioactive symbol due to twinning. From Minas Gerais, Brazil. Specimen on display in the Natural History Museum, London.

A cluster of dark purple amethyst crystals which become colourless towards the base. From Wheal Uny, Cornwall, England, UK. Specimen on display in the Natural History Museum, London.

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Amethyst
- Purple variety of quartz
- Is purple due to Fe replacing Si and exposure to radiation
- Exposure to UV light makes it colourless
- Heating turns it orange-brown
- Its name is from the Greek amethystos (not drunk) because it was thought to cure drunkenness #minerals

Bright, shiny black sphalerite dodecahedra on a matrix contaning grey dolomite and calcite. From Weardale, County Durham, England, UK. Specimen on display in the Natural History Museum, London.

Drusy black sphalerite dodecahedra on pale purple fluorite and pale orange siderite. From Alston, Cumbria, England, UK. Specimen on display in the Natural History Museum, London.

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Sphalerite:
- A sulphide mineral
- An important zinc ore
- Forms in various types of deposits, e.g., hydrothermal, metamorphic, sedimentary...
- Its name comes from the Greek word "σφαλεροζ/sphaleros" (treacherous) because it was easily mistaken for galena #minerals

Voices from the land: Europe’s competition over Indigenous Sámi resources (commentary) This series, Voices from the Land, brings together opinion pieces led and written by Indigenous peoples from around the world. Through these commentaries, we share our lived realities and reflections…

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In northern Europe, Indigenous Sámi people continue to compete with neighboring nations for the same resources and lands, says Áslat Holmberg, former president of the Saami Council, arguing that this is part of continued colonial control.

** The views expressed are the author's.

Jethro baiting an abyssal amphipod trap aboard the RRS James Cook. Image credit: Ben Walker

Cleaning a specimen of the abyssal slickhead Conocara salmoneum aboard the RRS James Cook – Curating that same specimen in the Discovery Collections, Southampton. Image credits: not known, Tammy Horton

Left: The pearlside Maurolicus muelleri, one of the most common mesopelagic fishes in the North Atlantic. Right: An otolith, part of the inner ear, extracted from the same species.

Hey, members! Here's the latest addition to our "Meet the Next Generation of #DeepSea Researchers" series: Jethro Reading @jethroreading32.bsky.social, a PhD student at
@unisouthampton.bsky.social researching deep #pelagic fishes.

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