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#TextureTuesday #MobilePhotography 📷

great captures...love how the red metal frames the birds

a Spicebush Swallowtail sits atop a volunteer butterfly milkweed plant in our yard #nativeplants #butterflies 🌱💚

Buttermilk Sky #SkySunday

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“Something else that adds to the climate change impacts on discomfort is the fact that a warmer climate can accommodate more moisture,” Shepherd said. “The Gulf waters are warmer too, which means more evaporation and humidity.” #climate

Writing By Hand Is Surprisingly Important For Thinking And Learning Digital methods for note taking are everywhere, but are they as valuable as old fashioned handwriting skills?

"why is handwriting better for learning? ...the relative complexity of the act when compared to typing. ...more skill and coordination & greater visual attention... encourages different parts of the brain to come together to convert the shapes in our heads to something visible on the page." #brain

Paperback books are like velveteen rabbits — ours to be loved and squeezed and read and stuffed into shoulder bags and left in the sun and read and read again until there's nothing left but memories from something real

Route 30 drawbridge stuck open due to heat in Atlantic City Route 30 is closed in both directions Tuesday evening due to a malfunction on the Absecon Boulevard bridge in Atlantic City, the state Department of Transportation said.

Extreme heat isn’t only a health issue; it’s an infrastructure issue as well. We should invest in #ClimateResilience with that understanding.

love the tree underplanting 🌱💚

oh, MY! 🌱

Why plane turbulence is becoming more frequent - and more severe — BBC News Flights are getting bumpier, thanks in part to climate change. But new studies are looking into innovative potential ways to turbulence-proof wings - using AI and owls

Why plane turbulence is becoming more frequent - and more severe - BBC News. Captain Nathan Davies, a commercial airline pilot, says: "I have noticed more large storm cells spreading 80 miles plus in diameter in the last few years, something you'd expect to be rare." apple.news/ACbfD-yUIQ7u...

ahhhhhh 💙

I just switched to Ecosia and so far so good! (it also offers AI answers to click on)

Everything we've made will break, buildings and streets will crumble, and cities will be abandoned. But the CO₂ we emit into the atmosphere will persist for centuries, and the climatic impacts will last longer than human civilization has existed. This is our legacy for the future.

also, some browser don't default to AI for searches, like Ecosia and DuckDuckGo

The "CO2 is necessary" denialist talking point is truly one of the stupidest.

Lots of things are necessary, but also bad for you in large quantities.

Food, for example, is pretty necessary. But too much food is quite bad for your health.

"Native flowering plants good for nest-building materials and/or food: Purple coneflowers... Sunflowers... Cardinal flower... Milkweed... Velvet-leaved blueberry. Native shrubs good for nest-building materials, habitat and/or food: Arrowwood -Viburnum dentatum... Chokeberry... Serviceberry." 🌱#birds

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#vegetarian

Sharks, Lies, and Videotape: Scientists Document Many Problems With Shark Week, Marine Biology’s Biggest Stage Shark Week is many things. First and foremost, it’s a week of shark-themed documentary programming on the Discovery Channel. Now in its 33rd year, it’s

Sharks, Lies, and Videotape: Scientists Document Many Problems With Shark Week, Marine Biology’s Biggest Stage - Allegheny College

YouTube video by DonMcLeanVEVO Don McLean - American Pie (Lyric Video)

#music #nostalgia

How hot is too hot for the human body? Our lab found heat + humidity gets dangerous faster than many people realize New research on young, healthy humans found the body begins overheating when exposed to temperatures and humidity lower than previously believed.

It’s not just the heat, it’s the humidity.

New research shows that muggy air can push the human body past safe limits faster than we realized. Even healthy people can overheat in conditions we used to think were fine. theconversation.com/how-hot-is-t...

lovin' the bamboo that softens the wall, adds privacy 🌱

another free-range plant extravaganza 🌱💚

gotta love free range plants 🌱💚

A photo of a stripped skunk surrounded by vegetation and looking toward the camera.

Pspspsps... Here, stinky kitty. Here, stinky kitty.

#nature #wildlife

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Friendly amendment: stop burning fossil fuels (responsible for 2/3 of historical CO2 emissions), and also stop deforestation & land-use change (the other 1/3).

And if you do something that reduces fossil CO2 but increases land use and deforestation EVEN MORE, that’s an anti-solution. Avoid.

Trump's EPA now says greenhouse gases don't endanger people The Trump administration wants to reverse a 2009 EPA finding that greenhouse gases endanger people. The finding is the basis for much of the United States' climate change regulations.

Trump EPA is dead wrong. Scientific evidence that #climatechange harms humans is overwhelming! @ipbes.net Nexus Assessment says:

🦠 58% of infectious diseases likely to worsen due to CC

☠️ Extreme events caused 12,000 disasters and 2 million human deaths in past 50 yrs

www.npr.org/2025/07/24/n...

Floods are Becoming More Common. Here’s What I Tell my Kids Laura Schifter writes about how climate change is changing childhood and parenthood.

"The harsh reality of parenting today is this: our children are living in a changing climate. We all have a role to play in securing our shared future: and as a parent, it means committing to advocating for policies that keep you safe, protect your future, and empower you to make a difference."