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The steep sides of the Khutzeymateen Inlet have a number of avalanche slopes and waterfalls that slash through the north temperate rain forest down to the estuary. A large population of grizzly bears hibernate on the slopes over the winter and migrate down to the sedge grass meadows at the shoreline to feed in the spring. Khutzeymateen Grizzly Bear Sanctuary,
BC.
23/12/2019 www.allenfotowild.com
Take a deep breath. Even if the air looks clear, it is nearly certain that you will inhale millions of solid particles and liquid droplets. These ubiquitous specks of matter are known as aerosols, and they can be found in the air over oceans, deserts, mountains, forests, ice and every ecosystem in between.
If you have ever watched smoke billowing from a wildfire, ash erupting from a volcano or dust blowing in the wind, you have seen aerosols. Satellites like NASA's Earth-observing satellites, Terra, Aqua, Aura and Suomi NPP, “see” them as well, though they offer a completely different perspective from hundreds of kilometers above Earth’s surface. A version of a NASA model called the Goddard Earth Observing System Forward Processing (GEOS FP) offers a similarly expansive view of the mishmash of particles that dance and swirl through the atmosphere.
The visualization above highlights GEOS FP model output for aerosols on August 23, 2018. On that day, huge plumes of smoke drifted over North America and Africa, three different tropical cyclones churned in the Pacific Ocean, and large clouds of dust blew over deserts in Africa and Asia. The storms are visible within giant swirls of sea salt aerosol (blue), which winds loft into the air as part of sea spray. Black carbon particles (red) are among the particles emitted by fires; vehicle and factory emissions are another common source. Particles the model classified as dust are shown in purple. The visualization includes a layer of night light data collected by the day-night band of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on Suomi NPP that shows the locations of towns and cities.
Image credit: NASA/Joshua Stevens/Adam Voiland
My 15-year-old grandson Riley took me to see a project he has been working on. He has been changing a polluted, stagnant ecosystem to a healthy one. An area at a concrete culvert that goes under a road. There is a tiny stream of water that follows a cement channel thru fields between neighborhoods. There are several wide spots along the way with thriving ecosystems. But at the area under the road there was litter and grass clippings and it had algae choking the oxygen out of the water. Riley cleaned it up, removed the algae and transplanted aquatic plants from healthy areas to it. He took samples of water and silt from healthy areas and cultivated it in an aquarium at home, tested it on little native plants and small fish in the aquarium to be sure it was all good. Then took vials of it and added to his project. He is comparing it to another polluted area downstream left alone. His project area looks great now and has an amazing diversity of dragon and damselflies and fish, frogs, snakes, aquatic bugs, butterflies. Tracks in the mud of herons. We visited at 3pm on a very hot Father's Day. Got my lifer dragonfly sanddragon. I was able to take a few photos before we had to give in to hot conditions and cut the visit short. These mosquitofish had found their way there. There was plenty of vegetation surrounding the water to provide cover for them.
Western Mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis)
Forney, Tx
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(Photo Credit: Suzanne Clary/Jay Heritage Center)
UPDATE:
As of August 2013, under a new collaborative public/private partnership with New York State Parks and Westchester County Parks and the Jay Heritage Center, restoration of the upland part of the Jay Meadow is planned under a Cultural Landscape Plan. Many of the dumps have been remediated under NYDEC review.
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In just under 20 years, neglect by Westchester County Parks has erased centuries of history on Long Island Sound. And it has resulted in the creation of a dangerously unbalanced ecosystem characterized by overgrowth of invasive plants, overpopulation of deer and unchecked dumping of construction debris by humans.
The Jay Meadow is the oldest man-managed meadow on record in all of New York State. The meadow once extended more than 3/4 of a mile from the mansion to the water and was wide as well but invasives are narrowing, shortening and in fact erasing it as chokeberry, porcelainberry, poison ivy, Tree of heaven, Norway maple trees and multiflora roses take over the expanse, especially the upland Jay Property. A visible new island of trees in the center is growing at an alarming rate and soon the meadow will vanish and be replaced by a forest of invasive trees.
Ironically these plants are identified, cautioned against, and removed by Westchester County Parks at its other properties but not in Rye. See Westchester County Parks brochure on invasive plants: www.nativeplantcenter.org/Invasive Brochure.pdf
Find out how you can help restore the historic Jay Property, restore its ecological balance and bring back meadowbirds, butterflies and native wildlife at
tclf.org/landslides/the-jay-property-threatened-by-erasure
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Tundra are cold biomes covering much of Alaska in a delicate yet thriving ecosystem ExploreTraveler.com/
Did you know that one of Canada’s richest ecosystems is also one of its most endangered?
Garry oak ecosystems are enchantingly beautiful and high in biodiversity. They are unique to a small part of southwestern British Columbia, where less than 5% of the habitat remains in a near-natural condition.
Doñana's National park (Spain), Dunes ecosystem,
Doñana's National Park includes five different ecosystems: Beaches, Dunes, Border, Marsh and Forest. The system of mobile dunes of Doñana, unique in Spain, is one of the most beautiful landscapes of the park. The dunes, extremely interesting both from an ecological and a cultural viewpoint, are formed by accumulations of sand whose front of progress has a steeper slope than the part of displacement called tail. The progress of the dunes from the beach buries and destroys the vegetation that finds on its way, forming between two dunes the “corrales”, copses of stone pines and bushes. (www.donanavisitas.es/en)
[ESP] El Parque Nacional de Doñana incluye cinco ecosistemas distintos: Playas, Dunas, Vera, Marisma y Bosque. El sistema de Dunas móviles de Doñana, único en España, es uno de los paisajes más bellos del parque. Sumamente interesante, tanto ecológica como culturalmente, las dunas se forman por acumulaciones de arena cuyo frente de avance tiene una pendiente más acusada que la parte de desplazamiento denominada cola. El avance de las dunas desde la playa entierra y destruye la vegetación que encuentra a su paso, formándose entre dos dunas los "corrales", bosquetes de pino piñonero y matorral. (www.donanavisitas.es)
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Solitude and beauty along Rucker Creek. This rare perennial stream provides a reliable water supply for a diverse range of flora and fauna, found only in Arizona's southeastern mountains and the adjacent Sierra Madre in Sonora, Mexico. - Chiricahua Wilderness, Coronado National Forest, Arizona
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🇫🇷 L'or des fougères
Dans les petites clairières de la 🌳hêtraie🌳, les fougères dorent le sous-bois de leurs couleurs fauves. Un rien de soleil bas entre les troncs permet de les faire miroiter comme des visions entre les étincelles de la rosée. Oui, l'hiver sait aussi comment nous charmer dans la forêt.
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en The gold of ferns
In the small clearings of the 🌳 beech forest🌳, ferns gild the undergrowth with their tawny colors. A touch of low sun between the trunks allows them to shimmer like visions between the dew sparks. Yes, winter also knows how to charm us in the forest.
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Milieu naturel, écosystème : 🌳Hêtraie🌳
Natural environment, ecosystem: 🌳Beech forest🌳
Lieu / Location : Forêt de Fontainebleau / Seine-et-Marne / France
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Together we’re building a new identity ecosystem, a globally recognized universal biometric ID blockchain system. It will be a biometric smartchip ID that will be tracked worldwide by AI to solve the 17 sustainable development goals.
The Mark of the Beast is a Certification Mark of authentication (the new global standard), affirming that all who are involved with this new global biometric digital ID blockchain are compliant with the core principles of the 17 Sustainable Development goals, which have been adopted by all the United Nations Member States. No one will be able to buy or sell or do anything in society without this Certification Mark. This Mark will now become mandatory for all. Without it, you will be arrested.
Through the means of a microchip implant we will be able to eradicate human trafficking (we cause the crisis, and then we offer you the solution). Every kind of supposed virtuous cause will be exploited to promote the 666 Beastchip. Climate change…take the smartchip…blah, blah, blah. Refugees…take the smartchip…blah, blah, blah. Human rights…take the smartchip…blah, blah, blah. Fight poverty…take the smartchip…blah, blah, blah. For the sake of equality, inclusiveness, and sustainability…take the smartchip…blah, blah, blah.
www.accenture.com/us-en/services/blockchain/digital-identity
In a scene more reminiscent of a watercolor painting, the remains of the C&O Railway's former Ansted Branch are being returned to nature with looming, towering trees growing in the gauge with the crossties and rails themselves making homes for mosses and fungi on the morning of April 11, 2021, in Hawks Nest, WV.
This is a frame from a side-mounted GoPro as I drove through an aspen forest on a back road near Monarch Pass, Colorado.
Simangaliso Wetland Park
(previously known as the Greater St. Lucia Wetland Park)
is situated on the east coast of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, about 275 kilometres north of Durban.
It is South Africa's third-largest protected area, spanning 280 km of coastline,
from the Mozambican border in the north to Mapelane south of the Lake St. Lucia estuary, and made up of around 3,280 km2 of natural ecosystems,
@Wikipedia
Located in central Switzerland, Lake Lucerne has a maximum depth of 702 feet (214 meter) and is the fourth largest lake in the country. The Rütli mountain meadow in the canton of Uri on the southeast shore was founding site of the Swiss Confederation.
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I moved sideways into clouds and skies for this series. This could be a "hard hat" storm out east. Keep your "rock" umbrella as ready as I keep my rock skis ready for the early season. Finally, the fairgrounds really approached twilight's end for last summer's carny; I am ready for the rides to pop. This cloud was a feast of captures. Clouds do this as the atmosphere vastly expands after compressing, cooling and clearing the Rockies from the west. I liked this sky but there are degrees. I figured folks on the eastern plains, Colorado, Kansas and Oklahoma, better go for the hard hats. Black is the new blue.
No global warming under here; no global warming under there! People won't continue to believe the TheRump's lies after FEMA is broke. This will soon be a thumper and those folks will need to flash the sign of the cross to the heavens. That fossil-fueled summer heated up our atmosphere and with 8% more atmospheric moisture trigger smack downs worl d wide! Insurance companies declare events as acts of god instead of global warming for obvious reasons. They don't have payouts if they can blame god. It's more important to stage a WWIII even before our regular scheduled mass extinction. Few southern conservatives are listening. "The extinction won't be televised," Gil Scott Heron. Well... scientists said the weather would be more violent as the climate warmed. The heating increased humidity in the atmosphere by 8%. Here we are, we have met the enemy and he is us.
The long, skinny ecosystem that stretches through Kansas, Oklahoma and into Central Texas was known as "the Cross Timber" before American writer Washington Irving toured Indian Territory (Oklahoma) with U.S. Indian Commissioner Henry Ellsworth and a party of mounted rangers. But Irving made the Cross Timbers famous.
“I shall not easily forget the mortal toil, and the vexations of flesh and spirit, that we underwent occasionally, in our wanderings through the Cross Timber. It was like struggling through forests of cast iron,” Irving wrote.
Post and blackjack oaks dominate the Cross Timbers, growing so closely together that their canopies often overlap. These rugged, drought-stressed oaks are interspersed with hickory, elm and hackberry trees, while tangles of vines, briars and shrubs clutter the understory. The CT separates the big forests of the East and the Southern Plains.
An entire ecosystem in a hole in the rock shelf. Twice daily top ups of fresh seawater and the sea grass is flourishing!
Windang is an aboriginal word meaning "scene of a fight".
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windang,_New_South_Wales
www.wollongong.nsw.gov.au/library/onlineresources/suburbp...
The mountains, forests and wetlands of Eastern Hokkaido are located at the boundary of a cool-temperate zone and a subarctic zone, and they contain a mixture of northern and temperate plant species. The wetlands and the temperate broadleaf and mixed forests of the area provide a diversity of habitats and a variety of wildlife including some endangered species such as the red crowned crane, the Blakiston's fish owl, and the Stellar's sea eagle and a small population of Hokkaido brown bears.
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For the last few years I’ve been photographing signs of man-made damage to my local ecosystem as a side project.
This time I was hiking in my favourite area and found out that some of the trash that was scattered around was rearranged in this little scene. I may just wonder if what this tire represents: a swing, window or target practice… but this kids mind managed to turn it into something marginally better.
Shot with Pentax Spotmatic SP and Takumar 28/3.5 on Ilford hp5
Bali Ulun Danu Beratan Temple
Is a temple dedicated to the goddess of the lake is Ida Batari Dewi Ulun Danu on the edge of a huge crater. The dominant shrines are Meru’s (pagodas) dedicated to the lake goddess and the gods of Mount Batur and Mount Gunung Agung, the largest volcano in Bali.
The temple was built in the 17th century in worship of the main Hindu trinity, Brahma-Vishnu-Shiva, as well as the lake goddess, Dewi Danu. The sight and cool atmosphere of the Bali uplands have made the lake and this temple a favourite sightseeing and recreational spot as well as a frequently photographed site.
Ulun Danu Beratan Temple, literally ‘the source temple of Lake Beratan’, is easily the island’s most iconic sanctuary sharing the scenic qualities with the seaside temples of Uluwatu Temple and Tanah Lot Temple.
The smooth reflective surface of the lake surrounding most of the temple’s base creates a unique floating impression, while the mountain range of the Bedugul region encircling the lake provides the temple with a scenic backdrop.
INSIDE 2 ULUN DANU TEMPLE | LAKE TEMPLE | Bali Golden TourUlun Danu Beratan Temple mostly called as a Ulun Danu Temple but not to be confused with Ulun Danu Batur Temple, which is on the rim of the caldera at Batur Lake. It is especially important for the Balinese.
Only here can you get holy water of a particular variety. The water is collected from the lake itself, directly in front of the temple. Visitors have to wear a sash and not go near.
Bathing is forbidden. The lake is the ultimate source of water for the rivers and springs that irrigate central Bali. It is therefore of the utmost importance.
The temple priests say that the lake is fed by springs located at each of the wind directions. Each of the springs is the origin of water for that particular region of central Bali. So, farmers from North Bali collect their holy water from the northern spring of the lake and so on.
Ulun Danu Temple lies by the western banks of Lake Bratan in the Bedugul Highlands at a level of 1239m, is one of the most picturesque and most photographed temples in Bali.
Ulun Danu is inside the caldera of the now extinct volcano Gunung Catur. It is one of the main sources of irrigation in the Balinese highlands, and so the temple is dedicated to Dewi Danu, the lake goddess.
History Ulun Danu Beratan Temple
Ulun Danu temple can be traced back to the rise of the Mengwi kingdom.
The name of Ulun Danu Beratan Temple is taken from the lake where the temple is built at Beratan Lake.
The name of Beratan Lake is inseparable with the Beratan Mount as Deity and Goddess as fertility source, prosperity to keep the prosperity in life and society life.
In Papyrus Chronicle of the Mengwi is elaborated by the history of Ulun Danu Beratan Temple founding together with existence of the Mengwi Empire. Therefore its status is pertained with the secondhand of Temple Empire what is usually pertained as Dang Kahyangan.
It is the same to the description in papyrus of Usana Bali and Padma Bhuwana, hence Puncak Mangu Temple where the Panyawangan (representative place to worship) is the Ulun Danu Beratan Temple. So it is called by entire Balinese residents as Kahyangan Jagat (The Biggest Group of Hindu Temple in Bali )
The ‘floating’ temple complex is comprised of four groups of shrines, including the prominent Lingga Petak shrine to its east. There are four gates facing each of the four points of the compass.
Ulun Danu Beratan Temple is consisted of 4 temples complex that are:
Lingga Petak Temple owns the function to worship the Siwa God
Penataran Pucak Mangu Temple is referred this gate as Parhyangan ri pinggiring rawa Beratan or Danu Beratan Temple is founded by I Gusti Agung Putu to worship the Hyang ing Parwata or Deity which is placed in Pucak Mangu that is Bhatara Hyang Danawa as according to papyrus of Padma Bhuwana and Usana Bali, because Mangu Mount is located in north direction, hence it is called the Bhatara Hyang Danawa or Wisnu God
Terate Bang Temple is functioning to worship of Brahma God
Dalem Purwa Temple is functioning to worship of Danu Goddess which is considered to be miraculous of the Bhatara Hyang Danawa or Laksmi Goddess.
Ulun Danu Beratan Temple Ceremony
The temple ceremony execution at Ulun Danu Beratan Temple is consisted of two types those are:
The temple ceremony which is executed every six-month (210 days) that on Anggara (Tuesday) Kliwon Julungwangi (Base on Balinese Hindu calendar). Every 12 months (420 days) is executed by the bigger ceremony from the ordinary ceremony, so-called Piodalan Agung
Pakelem ceremony is executed at any times as according to situation and condition. The Pakelem ceremony owns the function to worship the supremacy and also cheapness of the infinite for award of life, fertility, prosperity, as impact of the existence of ecosystem balance so that give the benefit for life and universe life forever and ever, during Beratan Lake and Beratan Mount stand up