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Can Farming Kelp and Seaweed Help Ease the Climate Crisis?
This story was originally published by Hakai Magazine and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Cornelia Rindt steadies herself on a rocking boat while she and colleagues lean over the side to secure a meter-long tube of mud. It is her team’s first sample taken from the seafloor on British Columbia’s coastline. It will take more than a week to get just six more. “It’s as much of an art as it is a science,” says Rindt, a project developer for BC-based consultancy Ostrom Climate Solutions (formerly NatureBank). The coring device has to be lowered blindly through 100 meters of...
‘We need to keep up the pressure on water companies’: the farmer fighting to save Britain’s waterways
Environmentalist John Barker doesn’t just whinge about how utilities firms are ruining our rivers. He campaigns to stop them, saving dead fish and allWhen the water company executive arrived, John Barker presented him with a bucket of dead fish. It was September 2020. Barker was furious. The fish came from the River Ems, which winds for six miles from Stoughton, West Sussex, to Chichester Harbour.Barker, 68, a retired environmental campaigner, owns a sustainable farm in the village of Westbourne. The Ems flows through it. Barker prizes it because it is one of only 200 chalk streams in the world. Shallow...
Nature: Crafty orcas are teaching each other how to STEAL fish and their remains from fisheries
The feeding behaviours of orcas living off of the coast of the Crozet Islands in the southern Indian Ocean between 2010-2017 were studied by a team of researchers led from Deakin University.Did you find this post inspiring? Share on Pinterest by pinning this article!
The Last Keeper by J.V. Hilliard – Spotlight and Giveaway
This post is part of a virtual book tour organized by Goddess Fish Promotions. J.V. Hilliard will be awarding a $10 Amazon or B/N GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour. Click on the tour banner to see the other stops on the tour. A young boy’s prophetic visions. Blind at birth, Daemus Alaric is blessed with the gift of prophetic Sight. Now, as a Keeper of the Forbidden, he must use his powers of the Sight to foil the plans of a fallen Keeper, Graytorris the Mad. An elven Princess with a horrifying secret. Princess...
Cold Weather Activities to Keep Your Kids Off Their Screens
Winter is here! For some, this may be exciting and magical, but for others, the cold weather brings with it a lack of outdoor activities and bored children. For many parents, controlling their children’s boredom during the Winter is most easily achieved through the use of technology. There are certainly pros and cons to this solution, but today, I will be discussing other, non-screen activities that parents can facilitate to educationally entertain their children in the cold winter months! Even though it may seem like there are not many options for engaging activities during the colder months excluding screens, a...