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Arctostaphylos sp. - manzanita tree in California, USA.
Plants are multicellular, photosynthesizing eucaryotes. Most species occupy terrestrial environments, but they also occur in freshwater and saltwater aquatic environments. The oldest known land plants in the fossil record are Ordovician to Silurian. Land plant body fossils are known in Silurian sedimentary rocks - they are small and simple plants (e.g., Cooksonia). Fossil root traces in paleosol horizons are known in the Ordovician. During the Devonian, the first trees and forests appeared. Earth's initial forestation event occurred during the Middle to Late Paleozoic. Earth's continents have been partly to mostly covered with forests ever since the Late Devonian. Occasional mass extinction events temporarily removed much of Earth's plant ecosystems - this occurred at the Permian-Triassic boundary (251 million years ago) and the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary (65 million years ago).
The most conspicuous group of living plants is the angiosperms, the flowering plants. They first unambiguously appeared in the fossil record during the Cretaceous. They quickly dominated Earth's terrestrial ecosystems, and have dominated ever since. This domination was due to the evolutionary success of flowers, which are structures that greatly aid angiosperm reproduction.
Manzanita trees are angiosperms that occur in Mexico, western America, and southwestern Canada. They are distinctive in having red-colored bark that curls and peels off.
Classification: Plantae, Angiospermophyta, Ericales, Ericaceae
Locality: grounds of Calistoga Petrified Forest, northern side of Petrified Forest Road, west-southwest of the town of Calistoga, eastern Sonoma County, Coast Ranges of northwest-central California, USA
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To mark World Environment Day 2018, the British Deputy High Commissioner Kolkata Bruce Bucknell participated in a discussion to beat plastic pollution at West Bengal Pollution Control Board in Kolkata, Tuesday 5 June 2018. The programme was attended by Environment minister and Mayor of Kolkata Sovan Chatterjee, Environment Secretary Arnab Roy and Board Chairman Kalyan Rudra. Follow us on Twitter @UKinIndia
A joint meeting of NJBIA's Environment and Energy Policy Committees delved into the details of the new Energy Master Plan and Gov. Phil Murphy's Executive Order No. 100.
An electro-acoustic environment conceived by David Tudor and realized by the group Composers Inside Electronics. The installation is located in Fort Jay, part of the NEW YORK ELECTRONIC ART FESTIVAL Wave(form)s – an Exhibition of Electronic Art on Governors Island, and is accompanied by a performance on Jul 30, and two workshops on Jul 6 and 16, to introduce the audience to a world of sound based on resonance.
A joint meeting of NJBIA's Environment and Energy Policy Committees delved into the details of the new Energy Master Plan and Gov. Phil Murphy's Executive Order No. 100.
About 40 employees from HR, CSO and Sales Support, IBM Thailand, contributed their time to assemble artificial coral reefs which would be placed under sea water around Thai Gulf coast. This is to promote coastal zone environment of the gulf, one of the world's richest coastal ecological systems.
Freezing rain created a beautiful landscape. Unfortunately, the morning of my grandmother's funeral.
Earthship houses built north of Taos. The goal of the Earthship houses is to be as much off-the-grid as possible through using natural and recycled materials in construction, through design and placement that harnesses the value of the available environment, through using solar and wind energy for electricity and heating/cooling, and by being self-contained in terms of water and sewage.
The yellow-billed teal is a South American species of duck. It occurs in Argentina, the Falkland Islands, Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Uruguay, and Brazil. It has also established itself in South Georgia, where it was first recorded breeding in 1971. It inhabits freshwater wetlands, preferring palustrine habitat to rivers.
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U.S. Embassy officers cleaned up bottles, tires, Christmas lights, lawn furniture and other trash that had washed ashore at Ambassador Nolan's residence. An hour of volunteer clean-up effort resulted in more than 25 garbage bags full of trash.
My brother is blurred out because in my opinion his surrounding environment isn't were he belongs. I like the detailed environment because you can see a lot of little details. The colors in the environment radiate warmness while my brother is giving off an emotion of discomfort, and the color of his clothing as well portray that. He is a gray emotion.
Photographs of "Plant a tree this monsoon" drive event at Satya Marg 28-July-2011 Follow us on www.facebook.com/greenleapdelhi
Japan has a vast array of natural beauty, from vast mountain ranges to open
plains, from snowy landscapes to tropic islands. One such gem is Yakushima,
an island located just south of Kagoshima. This island is covered in
ancient cedars, and has more deer and monkeys than it does people. On this
island I discovered an interesting combination of the natural environment
and human technology in for of a hollowed out tree trunk with a door and
pay phone inside.
National Environment Week launched on 29 May 2018 and will conclude on June 5. It began with a high-level policy conference on strategies and mechanisms to address plastic pollution. The conference attracted participants from government institutions, international organisations, the private sector, civil society, academic institutions and the media.
The conference included discussions on managing plastic waste in Rwanda in line with this year’s World Environment Day theme: Beat Plastic Pollution. Participants shared ideas on strategy and policy solutions to combat the use of plastics and the business opportunities in the reduction, reuse and recycling of plastics.
Other activities during National Environment Week include a countywide inspection of the illegal use of plastic bags, community work ‘Umuganda’, a Beat Plastic Pollution Walk in Kigali during Car Free Day on 3 June 2018, a Green Drinks Kigali discussion on plastic management, and an exhibition on plastic recycling, among others.
Me, standing by the bathroom sink. The "stuff" surrounding a person tells something about their personality, supposedly. This is a shot in front of my bathroom window *before* editing out what I might not want you to necessarily know, and *before* putting in little things I would want someone to know about me. So it's a self-portrait in the making, but halfway accidental (even though I'm holding the camera up and pointing it at myself) rather than wholly purposeful. DSC00654.JPG
For the past few years, TREES has helped schools plant trees in their fields and communities during World Environment Day.
At the Lancaster County Super Fair, 4-H Home Environment exhibits include several projects, including Celebrate Art, Design Decision, Child Development, and Heritage.
Nov. 12, 2022
Philadelphia
Development in Philly is out of control, worsening conditions for working class people & the environment. Hundreds of community activists took to the streets to set the tone for Philly's 2023 election: anyone running for mayor or city council better have policy solutions for ensuring long-term, working class residents have a place in this city and that Philly is truly tackling and prepared for the climate crisis.
The march was organized by community groups fighting for land justice across our city, including Philly Thrive, Sunrise Movement, VietLead, Save UCTownhomes, Save the Meadows, Cobbs Creek EJ, and more!
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.
'Entertaining the environment'
Featuring Erin Manning, Riki-Metisse Marlow, Laura Woodward, Bryan Cera, Tony Falla, Nathaniel Stern, Kent Wilson & Andrew Goodman.
Opening Tuesday 30 October 6-8pm
Tuesday 30 October – Saturday 17 November 2012
Entertaining the environment brings together a group of Australian and international artists to explore the concept that an artwork might reject a contract of exchange with a viewer. Instead of accepting the entertainment of the audience as an obligatory, primary relationship, this exhibition proposes a more modest ambition – the artwork’s acquisition of agency for the purposes of entertaining themselves and/or their environment.
This does not imply a nihilistic denial of the possibility of engaging the viewer but rather that any such engagement sits in excess to the aim of an immersion in the field of unfolding experience, and the exploration of the non-human scales of attention and timeframes within an art event.
Within the exhibition the artists explore a number of techniques that question the position of the spectator, the role of technology in art and the possibilities for a more complex and intertwined bodily relation in the creation of an art event.
The exhibition at the Bus Projects is the third iteration of the exhibition, following shows at the Phoenix Gallery at Deakin University and the La Trobe Visual Arts Centre.”