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An important role played by the ocean is the storage and exchange of CO2 with the atmosphere, and its diffusion toward deeper layers. At high latitudes, dense waters sink, transferring carbon to the deep ocean. Warming of the ocean surface inhibits this sinking process and therefore reduces the efficiency of CO2 transport and storage. Furthermore, as water warms up, the solubility of CO2 declines, therefore less gas can be stored in the sea water.
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Employees supported a special Earth Month celebration with the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew. Around 100 volunteers supported this important environmental organisation through either gardening with the horticulture team, or lantern making for their award-winning winter lantern trails. The activities ended with a lunch and talk from Kew Director of Science, Alex Antonelli on biodiversity.
4th graders raking me over the coals during an Interview for a Siemens-sponsored challenge. #nkcsedu #SAGE #environment
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Employees supported a special Earth Month celebration with the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew. Around 100 volunteers supported this important environmental organisation through either gardening with the horticulture team, or lantern making for their award-winning winter lantern trails. The activities ended with a lunch and talk from Kew Director of Science, Alex Antonelli on biodiversity.
Dr. Jaime Prohens (Spain; left), with Dr. Hemal Fonseka (Sri Lanka; middle) and Dr. Auguste Kouassi (Cote d’Ivoire; right) exchange seeds that “allows the complementarity of environments in order to obtain a maximum of seed combinations”, says Prohens. “Sometimes hybrid or backcross seed for particular combinations are obtained in one country but not in the others.”
Credit: Shawn Landersz for the Crop Wild Relatives Project
Employees supported a special Earth Month celebration with the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew. Around 100 volunteers supported this important environmental organisation through either gardening with the horticulture team, or lantern making for their award-winning winter lantern trails. The activities ended with a lunch and talk from Kew Director of Science, Alex Antonelli on biodiversity.
Employees supported a special Earth Month celebration with the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew. Around 100 volunteers supported this important environmental organisation through either gardening with the horticulture team, or lantern making for their award-winning winter lantern trails. The activities ended with a lunch and talk from Kew Director of Science, Alex Antonelli on biodiversity.
Rip Rap Islands serve as crucial nesting ground for seabirds near the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel in coastal Virginia. Currently, species that rely on the island include the royal tern, common tern, gull-billed tern, sandwich tern, herring gull, laughing gull, great black-backed gull, black skimmer, and snowy egret.
For decades before the expansion of the HRBT, two artificial islands anchored the underwater tunnels and housed the large colony of seabirds. The construction made these islands unsuitable nesting grounds.
In February 2020, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam tasked the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources with relocating the colony. A quick yet massive renovation of Fort Wool, a Civil War-era military installment built in 1819, transformed Rip Rap Islands into a landscape for the seabird colony similar to the barrier islands. Along with Fort Wool, DWR leased three flat-top barges to create additional habitat next to Rip Rap Islands for the birds to nest. July 15, 2021 (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Virginia Sea Grant)
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Inspired by the traditional all-night concerts along India’s Ganges River, Sun to Stars evokes the traditional durbar and bethak-style concerts where performers and audiences interact in an informal setting to create an intimate artistic experience. With a backdrop defined by both natural and urban elements, the performers present work that grapples with the environment, be it through mythological folktales or a particular raga connected to nature.
The Sun to Stars festival is solar-powered by the energy collected by the photovoltaic panels on the Solar 1 roof. The event also features a market place that includes regional South Asian cuisine from local chefs, Indian style seating with floor rugs and cushions, and information about important local South Asian and environmental nonprofit organizations.
At the Lancaster County Super Fair, 4-H Home Environment exhibits include several projects, including Celebrate Art, Design Decision, Child Development, and Heritage.
The lakes are supposed to be a little clearer in Maine. These data buoys help keep an eye on lakes across the state, where small shifts in water quality can be a big deal.
A data buoy named "Goldie" is keeping track of changes on Maine's Great Pond, a seemingly pristine lake that scientists say may actually be in slow decline.
Read the full story: www.fondriest.com/news/great-pond-data-buoy-maine-lakes-c...
Photo courtesy of Alex Wall / Colby College
As the state election’s getting closer and the politicians are jostling for your vote, we thought it was high time to find out who’s standing up for our environment.
So we gathered curious Victorians on Thursday, 18 November at the Melbourne Town Hall to ask the big questions of the main political players just nine days out from the state election.
The night featured the Minister for the Environment, the Hon Gavin Jennings, the Shadow Minister for the Environment, the Hon Mary Wooldridge, and Greens MP, the Hon Greg Barber.
They were joined by a panel of environmental experts, including our very own CEO, Kelly O’Shanassy, Matt Ruchel from Victorian National Parks Association and comedian Claire Hooper from Good News Week who made the evening just a little fun. In addition the Q&A was facilitated by a man who sure knows his stuff - Adam Morton, Chief Environment Reporter for The Age Newspaper.
Photo credit: Peter Campbell
Employees supported a special Earth Month celebration with the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew. Around 100 volunteers supported this important environmental organisation through either gardening with the horticulture team, or lantern making for their award-winning winter lantern trails. The activities ended with a lunch and talk from Kew Director of Science, Alex Antonelli on biodiversity.
Before many of the sculptures were moved.
To see the decaying remnants of Wickham Stone Park, visit Buck Smith Hill Road, between Shiloh Canaan Road and Oak Ridge Road, in rural Palmyra about an hour northwest of Nashville. About five statue fragments remain on Buck Smith Hill Road, the original location of all the statues. From there drive ¾ mile east on Buck Smith Hill Road to Oak Ridge Road, and turn left. A few hundred feet down, on the right, ten pieces are visible; these were relocated in 2003 behind a wire fence to help prevent further vandalism. Just past the statues on the left is Wickham Road, and down the road is the Wickham cemetery, where Wickham’s statue of an angel, the only in situ statue in its original pristine state, keeps watch over Wickham’s family plot. A few of Wickham’s smaller pieces have been collected by Austin Peay State University as well as the Customs House Museum, both in nearby Clarksville, TN.
~Rich Gabe (SPACES Archives)
On 2 June 2016 the government of Nigeria set in motion a $1 billion clean-up and restoration programme of the Ogoniland region in the Niger Delta. Find out more about the inauguration of the Ogoniland clean-up in UN Environment's Press Release: unep.org/newscentre/default.aspx?DocumentID=27076&Art...
or at www.unep.org/Nigeria
© Emeka Echefu/UN Environment