Shannon Kirshner

Scientists can now predict how climate change will alter plant growth cycles On February 2, 1887, residents of Punxsutawney Pennsylvania consulted a large rodent regarding the arrival of spring, marking the first official celebration of Groundhog Day. According to Rob Guralnic...

Plant species in the US are now flowering 3 to 4 weeks earlier than they were in the 1850s. Using historical citizen science data, Florida scientists are developing methodologies to predict future bud break and flowering dates. www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/scie...

12.01.2025 11:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Monitoring the Common Murre Mass Mortality in Coastal Alaska | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Sentinels of ocean health: counting a climate catastrophe Common murres help us understand the health of Alaska's marine ecosystems – and sound a warning when there is trouble below the waves.

Is this the future for many more of our beloved seabirds? Please don't make it so. www.fws.gov/project/moni...

13.12.2024 08:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What are the inheritance tax changes affecting UK farmers? Farmers to protest in central London as they say changes will destroy family farms

Support the farmers. And read every word in this article. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

19.11.2024 08:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

‘You betrayed us’: how UK farmers swiftly turned on Labour over inheritance tax plans Despite winning a swathe of rural seats, the government’s budget has caused a rupture with the farming community, who have vowed to ‘fight their corner’

Nothing good happens when you destroy family farms. Farming margins are so tight as it is and yet as a cash-poor business, small farmers would have to break up their farms to pay the inheritance tax. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

17.11.2024 09:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Fireworks blamed for baby red panda’s death at Edinburgh zoo Royal Zoological Society of Scotland calls for tougher laws after three-month-old Roxie dies from Bonfire Night stress

We don't need fireworks anymore. I know that's going to be disappointing to the kids but the disappointment can be softened with an explanation that it harms helpless animals, like this highly endangered red panda cub. And countless birds. www.google.com/amp/s/amp.th....

16.11.2024 08:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The iconic African penguin is now critically endangered, primarily from a lack of food. Sign and share this petition to call on the South African government to expand and enforce the no-take fishing zones off their coast. Thank you! only.one/act/save-afr...

13.11.2024 14:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0