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Growing from 5,600 – 9,500 feet, the Ponderosa pine is one of the most common trees in the Montane Ecosystem of Rocky Mountain National Park. The bark of the Ponderosa pine changes from gray-brown to cinnamon-red as it ages, and releases a pleasant butterscotch-like fragrance when warmed by the sun. Photograph courtesy National Park Service
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The Zimmerman Center for Heritage is seen on the Susquehanna River in Wrightsville, Pa., on June 14, 2019. The center is part of Susquehanna National Heritage Area as well as the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail, and is the headquarters of Susquehanna Heritage. Hanging on the walls are artworks depicting different scenes on the Susquehanna River. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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German army Col. Helmut Remus, Operation Response Force Regimental Commander, left, and U.S. Army Col. John Norris, commander of the Joint Multinational Readiness Center (JMRC) (Operations Group), right, watch U.S. Army Soldiers participate in a fire phobia training exercise during a Kosovo Force (KFOR) mission rehearsal exercise (MRE) at the JMRC in Hohenfels, Germany, Jan. 21, 2014. The KFOR MRE is based on the current operational environment and is designed to prepare the unit for peace support, stability, and contingency operations in Kosovo in support of civil authorities to maintain a safe and secure environment. The 7th Army Joint Multinational Training Command regularly provides MREs, specialized military-skills training, and pre-deployment training for U.S. and multinational forces. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Tristan Bolden/Not Reviewed)
Water moccasins are common in the wetlands and are identified by their muscular bodies and triangle-shaped heads. They are venomous snakes but if you leave them alone, they will probably leave you alone. It makes no sense to waste a bite on an animal that’s too big to eat. Photo courtesy National Park Service.
The Chenango River is seen in Oxford, N.Y., on May 26, 2015. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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Panshiri farmer Kazem struggled to grow enough before UNDP provided him with a greenhouse that has boosted his production.
Afghanistan is one of the most vulnerable countries for climate change; even here, in beautiful, mountainous Panjshir province.
In response, UNDP is helping farmers grow more and protect themselves from natural disasters.
Our Climate Change Adaptation project operates in four provinces and is made possible with funding from the Global Environment Facility's Least Developed Countries Fund.
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Instructional Guide on saving money by building your own solar water heaters
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A tree planted at Petersburg Elementary School provides shade while absorbing runoff before it reaches the South Branch Potomac River in Petersburg, W.Va., on April 28, 2017. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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Oxford Summer School in Ecological Economics 2017 took place at St Hilda's College, Oxford, 27 August - 2 September 2017. The sustainability think-tank, Environment Europe, has been instrumental in offering executive education in ecological economics and sustainability to participants in 53 countries, including Canada, USA, Mexico, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Argentina, UK, France, Germany, Austria, Switzeland, Spain, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Belgium, the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland, Norway, Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia, Albania, Latvia, Ghana, Nigeria, Jordan, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, China, India, Bhutan, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Philippines, and Australia, which included members of UNDP, UNEP, ILO, IUCN, OECD, WWF, companies and leading universities. For the full list of clients, please see: environmenteurope.org/clients
The Susquehanna River is seen from an area of Native Lands Park in Wrightsville, Pa., that was the site of the last known village of the Susquehannock Indians from about 1676 to 1680 on June 14, 2019. The 187-acre property is part of the Susquehanna Heritage Park system of recreation and open space. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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Oahu Army Natural Resource Program staff builds fences to help keep pigs, goats and other ungulates (hoofed mammals) from destroying native habitat and harming threatened and endangered species.
Ruddy ducks swim in the Back River as they are being counted by Kevin Graff and Pete Webb of the Baltimore Bird Club during the National Audubon Society's 117th annual Christmas Bird Count in Baltimore County, Md., on Dec. 31, 2016. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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Creating Healthy Work Environments
24-26 March 2022
Washington, DC, USA
Day 1 - 24 March 2022
ANHE Pre-Conference
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On Saturday, April 21 sixteen students from two Newark schools launched three canoes in the Passaic River, culminating a three-month program presented by Project USE. The Boat Building Project was our first effort to combine standard curriculum (math, physics, history, etc.) and experiential learning. With almost 100 people in attendance, including families, teachers, foundation supporters, and even a Newark city councilman, the students representing North Star Academy Charter School of Newark and Link Community School floated their vessels from the edge of Riverbank Park. The event was part of a larger Earth Day celebration, and some of the students participated in a park clean up prior to the launching.
This pilot program will be replicated in schools throughout New Jersey in the coming years.
Please contact us at mbagley@projectuse.org if you are interested in implementing a Boat Building Project within your school. You can also find out more about our organization by visiting our website: www.projectuse.org
Panel chaired by Olivier Thereaux, with Volker Buscher of Arup theodi.org/article/how-data-is-becoming-a-defining-asset-..., Sarah Cumbers of Lloyd's Register, and Mark Enzer of the Centre for Digital Built Britain.
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On NEWSREAL, people -- not corporations -- make the news!NewsReal is a monthly joint project of Free SpeechTV (http://www.freespeech.org) and the Independent Media Center (http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml ).Each program covers actions taken in local communities, by ordinary people, to address critical issues like the war, air and water pollution, reproductive rights, homelessness, for-profit prisons, sweatshops, racism, police brutality, indigenous struggles, and more.Please keep sending in submissions and spreading the word to videoactivists you know! Each episode airs on Free Speech TV over the Dish Network to a national audience.http://newsreal.indymedia.orghttp://newsreal.indymedia.org/produceasegmentfaq.htmlApril 2008 Indymedia Newsreal:Smash I.C.E."NewsReal" starts off with a contribution by PepperSpray's Tacoma Joe, on the subject of the ICE regional detention center in Tacoma. What's going on at the center is shocking, and the footage of brave black-garbed demo
nstrators faced off against robocops is worth the watch.Producer: Pepperspray Productionshttp://www.peppersprayproductions.orghttp://indymediapresents.blip.tvTacoma Students for a Democratic Societyhttp://www.tacomasds.orgProtest in Tacoma against the current immigration regime.To Pay Or Not To Pay (trailer)Producer: Steev Hisehttp://www.panleft.orgA preview for an in-progress documentary about war tax resistance.National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committeehttp://www.nwtrcc.orgPicnic for Fun and UnityVoices from the African American community on the questions of the day. Corporate media attention on Reverend Wright has played him as a wild-eyed America-damning kook. This piece brings you other voices, just as passionate, from Black America.Producer: Maia and Elfie Ballishttp://www.sunmt.org"No Match" Letters Immigration RallyImmigration rally against employer santions in Portland, OR.Producer: Jim Lockharthttp://www.PhilosopherSeed.orghttp://philosopherseed.blip.tvPort
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The Susquehanna River is seen from an area of Native Lands Park in Wrightsville, Pa., that was the site of the last known village of the Susquehannock Indians from about 1676 to 1680 on June 14, 2019. The 187-acre property is part of the Susquehanna Heritage Park system of recreation and open space. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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Crotalus horridus, commonly known as timber rattlesnake, canebrake rattlesnake or banded rattlesnake, is a species of venomous pit viper found in the eastern United States. This is the only rattlesnake species in most of the populous northeastern United States. No subspecies is currently recognized.
Photo taken in Carbon County, PA.
Rwanda has launched a new facility that will invest in climate action led by the public sector on the sidelines of COP27 in Sharm El-Sheik, Egypt. The facility, which will be managed by the Rwanda Green Fund, has been capitalised through a grant of EUR 46 million from the Federal Republic of Germany through the Rwandan-German Climate and Development Partnership.
Known formally as the NDC Facility, the new funding will be available to government institutions working to implement Rwanda's climate action plan, also known as the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) to the Paris Agreement.
The NDC Facility will be housed at the Rwanda Green Fund and act as the financial driver of Rwanda’s climate action plan. It also aims to attract additional climate finance from investors and development partners looking to be part of Rwanda’s green growth journey.
At the event, Rwanda and Germany also signed a Joint Declaration of Intent on Climate Research and Science Cooperation. The declaration will facilitate scientific exchange between Rwanda and Germany, supporting scientific analyses of the impacts of climate change.
A delegation from Rwanda is attending the 25th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change taking place in Madrid, Spain. The delegation is led by Minister of Environment, Jeanne d'Arc Mujawamariya and includes representatives from government, the private sector, civil society and young Rwandans.
The COP25 aims to raise global ambition to address climate change and develop a robust rulebook to govern the Paris Agreement.
On my way out to see the disappearing Lake Mead, I wanted to look around the Lake Las Vegas development to get some images of development despite water shortage. Unfortunately, with a booming economy, the developers have made it much more difficult to explore Lake Las Vegas, so I settled on wandering through another high-end development that’s “Lake-Las-Vegas-adjacent” – Calico Ridge. Note that both areas are in the city of Henderson – Henderson and Las Vegas are separate cities (and the Las Vegas strip is in neither), but you can’t see any differences in the two cities, they just meld together.
Calico Ridge is 12 miles from the Las Vegas strip (the high rises stretching across the picture) and just south of the Las Vegas Wash, which is the green strip and water area in the middle of the picture – the Las Vegas Wash is the runoff (including reclaimed water) from the urban area. If you zoom in, you can see the extent of housing development past the industrial looking building, which is an elementary school (hopefully not a future school shooting site, this was written on the day of the Texas school shooting). The snow-capped peak in the distance is Mt. Charleston.
More Calico Ridge homes in adjacent photos.
On an exploration through Nevada and California in May, 2022. See tag CANV0522
Scientific Name: Ursus maritimus
Description : Polar bears are considered the largest land carnivores in the world, matched only by very large individual Kodiak brown bears. Both sexes differ in size throughout their range; males being much larger than females and continuing to grow for a longer period of time. These bears have long, massive skulls, necks and bodies with long legs and large paws. Ears and tail are short. The nose is more prominent or “Roman†with a black rhinarium (nose pad). The tongue is black and the eyes brown. The surface of the skin is also black. Fur colour varies slightly with the season: new coats grown just prior to the winter season are very white appearing as slightly creamy white against the stark white of their icy winter environment. This pelage is thick, coarse and long with dense underfur. Guard hairs, found throughout the pelage, are shiny, almost glossy, oily and waterproof and have hollow shafts. Polar bears moult annually between the end of May and August. The coat becomes thinner and has a yellow wash or is almost a golden colour.
Male polar bears weigh between 400 – 600 kg, and have been recorded up to a maximum of 800 kg. Females are smaller than the males weighing up to 300 kg, and when pregnant up to 460 kg. Polar bears are 2.5 – 3.5 m long.
Distribution : The polar bear is circumpolar in distribution, inhabiting all Arctic seas and coastlines. It is found on the pack-ice off the Alaskan coast north of Bering Strait, off the coasts of Greenland and along the Eurasian Arctic coast from Spitsbergen to Wrangell Island. Rare stragglers reach Iceland. Individual bears have been seen on the frozen Arctic Ocean as far as latitude 88 degrees North, only 2 degrees from the North Pole. In Canada, they are found along the Arctic coasts from Alaska to Labrador and from the tip of James Bay to northern Ellesmere Island. Polar bears do roam as far as 150 kilometres inland into the coniferous forests, where they live very differently from the polar bears which belong to the high Arctic.
Habitat : They prefer areas of annual ice, which they use as a hunting platform and protective cover. This includes snow-drifted pressure ridges, refrozen cracks and areas of open water surrounded by ice. In areas where the pack ice melts by mid to late summer they come inland and live in coniferous forest areas. Here they remain until the ice re-freezes. Areas of solidly frozen sea ice and the open seas are avoided. Generally they are most common along coastal areas. Some do enter the permanent pack ice.
Food : The ringed seal is by far the most common prey. They also eat bearded seal, harp seal and hooded seal. Young walrus are sometimes taken. During the summer months they feed upon the shoreline carrion, fish, mussels, crabs, starfish, lemmings and the eggs and nestling young of waterfowl and cliff-dwelling birds. They will also graze on kelp, grasses and eat mushrooms and crowberries.
Reproduction and Development : Normally they are solitary animals outside the breeding season, the exception being a mother with cubs. Polar bears mate in mid-summer. Females first start to breed at 3 to 5 years of age. In April and May adult females are in oestrus and ready to accept a mate. They are polyandrous, meaning one female will mate with more than one male in one breeding season. Males fight among themselves for the female’s attention and a couple will pair off for a period of a few days to two weeks. With females, delayed implantation occurs, the fertilized egg does not implant in the uterus until mid-September to mid-October. Embryonic development begins at this time. Gestation periods, therefore, vary a great deal when including this period of delay. Females choose suitable locations to build their maternity dens in mid-October and retreat to them for the winter season. They give birth to one to four cubs somewhere between late November and early January. Twins are most common. The newborns are small; 25 to 30 cm long and weigh less than 1 kg. They are covered with very fine hair, appearing almost naked and their eyes are closed. Their eyes open at 6 weeks. Growth is very quick; at two months their fur has thickened; they weigh about 5 kg and move about the den. By mid-March to early April, when the den is opened, the cubs weigh about 10 kg and are surprisingly strong. The cubs suckle for nine months, occasionally one year. They are very dependent on their mother and stay with her for two years. At that time they weigh 90 - 180 kg and are half grown.
Adaptations : Polar bears are wonderfully adapted to their Arctic surroundings.
Locomotion. On land a shuffling walk may be increased to a rolling gallop of 40 km/h and can outrun caribou over a short distance. Bears are often seen standing high on their hind legs, necks stretched to scan the landscape. On thin ice, legs are spread to distribute body mass. Thickly padded and furred soles allow the bear to move quietly as well as providing good traction. Small bumps and cavities on the soles act like suction cups keeping bears from slipping on the ice. The claws are used to dig into icy slopes and to grip prey. They are strong swimmers, paddling with their forefeet only and trailing their hind feet which act as a rudder. They can stay submerged for over one minute, keeping their eyes open. They swim at a speed of approximately 6.4 km/h, often covering long distances.
Insulation. Polar bears have a thick layer of sub-cutaneous fat and very dense underfur with several layers of glossy guard hair on the outside. Their pelt is much thicker in winter and provides excellent insulation. The fat layer also adds to buoyancy in the water. Water is shed easily from the oily waterproof fur. Small, furry ears have a heavy network of blood vessels, keeping them warm and conserving heat. The tail is short and rounded also conserving heat. Fur is very dense around the soles of the feet.
Pelage. The creamy white appearance of the coat allows the bear to be inconspicuous when hunting seal. Each hair is similar to an optical fibre; colourless and hollow. Being translucent, it reflects the heat from the sun down to the base of the hair, where it is absorbed by the black skin. Whiteness comes from reflection of light rather than pigmentation.
Hunting. Bears use their keen sense of smell to detect seal breathing holes. These can be up to a kilometer away and covered by a layer of snow and ice. They will stand or lie by the seal’s blowhole in the ice for hours; they may swim towards seals resting on the ice flows with only their nose showing above the water. They will dive quietly, then swim up to the ice edge and jump out on the seal, and will also crawl towards a sunbathing seal using every piece of raised ice to conceal the approach.
Denning. Both sexes occupy dens for shelter. Topographic factors influence the den sites. In Canadian core areas, dens frequently occur on south-facing slopes where northerly prevailing winds create the best drifts, where the wind-chill is least and insulation from received solar radiation is greatest. One of the three largest denning areas worldwide is in Canada. There are three main types of winter refuges: maternity dens, temporary dens and winter shelters. During the winter any bear may dig a temporary den and use it for a few days during a storm, or take shelter in a natural cavity. Winter shelters are used for longer periods of time as resting places. This type of shelter is usually roomier with additional features such as alcoves, porches and ventilation holes. Bears do not hibernate in the strict sense of the word; they have the ability to slow down their metabolism to conserve energy at any time of year. The state of self-induced lethargy while in the shelter allows them to preserve their vital fat reserves. During this time, the body temperature of the polar bear decreases by a few degrees from normal and the respiration rates are markedly reduced. Maternity dens are built and occupied by pregnant females and can vary in size. The denning chamber is at the upper end of an entrance tunnel 1 to 2 m long. It averages 1.5 m in diameter with a height of 90 to 100cm in the middle. Drifting snow seals the entrance. The chamber is higher than the tunnel, trapping bear body heat inside. Dens not only provide a safe place to give birth to her cubs, but are also a place of protection for the cubs during their first few months. During this time she does not leave the den, remaining with her cubs and living on her reserves of fat. In the spring, with her fat severely depleted she must leave to find food to sustain herself and her cubs. After they leave the maternity den she will build temporary refuges in which to nurse, rest and shelter her young cubs and warms them as they all sleep together. She heads with her cubs towards the nearest supply of food, usually towards pack ice.
Sight and sounds. Polar bears have good eyesight. Their eyes have inner eyelids that keep the glare of the sun on snow and ice from blinding them. When defending a food source from other bears they use a deep growl. They hiss and snort to show aggression. Angry bears use loud roars and growls. Mothers scold cubs with a low growl.
Threats to Survival : Polar bears are one of the animals most threatened by global warming. They depend entirely on sea ice as a platform from which to hunt seals. Reduction of the total ice cover in the Arctic is a serious concern globally. When the ice does not form or forms too late in the season many polar bears starve. In Hudson Bay, scientists have found the main cause of death for cubs to be either lack of food or lack of fat on nursing mothers. Exploitation of minerals and fossil fuels in the Arctic pose a continuous threat. Of the oil and natural gas deposits globally, 20% are located in the Arctic. As the ice cap recedes these become more accessible. Countries are competing which each other in claiming ownership of Arctic and its resources. This can only result in further and more drastic impact on polar bear habitat.
Status : IUCN: Vulnerable; CITES: Appendix II; COSEWIC: Special Concern
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