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Members of Her Majesty's Canadian Ship (HMCS) FREDERICTON and embarked air detachment perform hoisting drills with both cargo and personnel during OPERATION REASSURANCE, May 19, 2016.
Photo: Corporal Anthony Chand, Formation Imaging Services
HS2016- A088-006
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Des membres d’équipage du Navire canadien de Sa Majesté (NCSM) FREDERICTON et du détachement aérien embarqué effectuent des exercices de treuillage avec de la cargaison et du personnel au cours de l’OPÉRATION REASSURANCE, le 19 mai 2016.
Photo : Caporal Anthony Chand, Services d’imagerie de la formation
HS2016- A088-006
we pass this old tree regularly, and noticed the bark is packed with snails sheltering on the shady side.
Sands Point Preserve,
Port Washington North, Long Island
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The most likely colors to attract bees, according to scientists, are purple, violet and blue. Bees also have the ability to see color much faster than humans.
-- Mark Owens
Quick-Look Hill-shaded Colour Relief Image of 2014 0.50m LIDAR Composite Digital Terrain Model (DSM).
Data supplied by Environment Agency under the Open Government License agreement. For details please go to: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/v...
For full raster dataset go to: environment.data.gov.uk/ds/survey
Quick-Look Hill-shaded Colour Relief Image of 2014 2m LIDAR Composite Digital Surface Model (DSM).
Data supplied by Environment Agency under the Open Government License agreement. For details please go to: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/v...
For full raster dataset go to: environment.data.gov.uk/ds/survey
A nice little documentary about the benefits of the most useful
plant on the planet lovingly compiled by the U.S. Department of Agriculture: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3rolyiTPr0
Also a kind suggestion to look into the omega 3,6,9 rich hemp-milk that can easily be made from the seeds.
Basically you soak them in water for 24 hours and then you put them in a blender with some fresh carrots, apples, beetroot or whichever fruit or vegetable it makes for a very powerful breakfast smoothie.
And that without the guilt of animal suffering or more rainforest going down for even more soya plantations..
You can find plenty of information about this on the internet:
www.youtube.com/results?search_query=hemp+milk&aq=f
Only one disclaimer: do never ever cook the seeds. That is less than healthy.
Please see also: www.globalhealingcenter.com/natural-health/benefits-of-he...
Vice President Kamala Harris gives remarks in front of the Space Environment Simulator (SES). Harris underscored how the U.S. is harnessing one of the nations’ most powerful tools – our space program to combat the climate crisis and protect vulnerable communities. (Photo Credit: NASA/Taylor Mickal)
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Glaciers and ice caps cover about 10% of the world’s landmass. These are concentrated in Greenland and Antarctica and contain 70% of the world’s freshwater. Unfortunately, most of these resources are located far from human habitation and are not readily accessible for human use. According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), 96% of the world’s frozen freshwater is at the South and North Poles, with the remaining 4% spread over 550,000 km2 of glaciers and mountainous icecaps measuring about 180,000 km3 (UNEP, 1992; Untersteiner, 1975; WGMS, 1998, 2002). Groundwater is by far the most abundant and readily available source of freshwater, followed by lakes, reservoirs, rivers and wetlands. Analysis indicates that: - Groundwater represents over 90% of the world’s readily available freshwater resource (Boswinkel, 2000). About 1.5 billion people depend upon groundwater for their drinking water supply (WRI, UNEP, UNDP, World Bank, 1998). - The amount of groundwater withdrawn annually is roughly estimated at 600-700 km3, representing about 20% of global water withdrawals (WMO, 1997). - A comprehensive picture of the quantity of groundwater withdrawn and consumed annually around the world does not exist. Most freshwater lakes are located at high altitudes, with nearly 50% of the world’s lakes located in Canada alone. Many lakes, especially those in arid regions, become salty through evaporation, which concentrates the inflowing salts. The Caspian Sea, the Dead Sea, and the Great Salt Lake are among the world’s major salt lakes. Rivers form a hydrologic mosaic, with an estimated 263 international river basins covering 45.3% (231,059,898 km2) of the earth’s land surface, excluding Antarctica (UNEP, Oregon State University et al., in preparation). The total volume of water in the world’s rivers is estimated at 2,115 km3 (Groombridge and Jenkins, 1998).
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This photo has been graciously provided to be used in the GRID-Arendal resources library by: Philippe Rekacewicz
Hand crafted with original plans in 1987, it is thought that this may be the first of its kind in Canada.
Straddling the borders of Chad, Niger and Cameroon in West Africa, Lake Chad has been a source of freshwater for irrigation projects in each of these countries. Maps drawn from a series of satellite images show a dramatic decrease in the size of the lake over the past 30 years. Since 1963, the lake has shrunk to nearly a twentieth of its original size, due both to climatic changes and to high demands for agricultural water. Since 1963, the surface area of Lake Chad has decreased from approximately 25,000 km2 to 1,350 km2 (Scientific American, 2001). The changes in the lake have contributed to local lack of water, crop failures, livestock deaths, collapsed fisheries, soil salinity, and increasing poverty throughout the region: - Between June 1966 and January 1973, the surface area of Lake Chad shrunk from 22,772 km2 to 15,400 km2. - In 1982, the lake’s surface area was estimated to be about 2,276 km2. In February 1994, Meteosat images measured it at just 1,756 km2. - Between 1953 and 1979, irrigation had only a modest impact on the Lake Chad ecosystem. But between 1983 and 1994 irrigation had increased four-fold. - About 50% of the decrease in the lake’s size since the 1960s is attributed to human water use, with the remainder attributed to shifting climate patterns. - Invasive plant species currently cover about 50% of the remaining surface of Lake Chad. Research carried out over the past 40 years indicates that the main factors in the shrinking of the lake have been: - Major overgrazing in the region (Coe and Foley, 2001), resulting in a loss of vegetation and serious deforestation, contributing to a drier climate. - Large and unsustainable irrigation projects built by Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad, which have diverted water from both the lake and the Chari and Logone rivers.
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This photo has been graciously provided to be used in the GRID-Arendal resources library by: Philippe Rekacewicz, February 2006
Colourful Camden, with the great street art, and so many expressions, on the weekend many many people…..This image is one I am adding to the Flickr World Day Photography for the their theme of Built Environment
Global water type by percentage. Estimates of global water resources based on several different calculation methods have produced varied estimates. Shiklomanov in Gleick (1993) estimated that: - The total volume of water on earth is 1.4 billion km3. - The volume of freshwater resources is 35 million km3, or about 2.5% of the total volume. Of these, 24 million km3 or 68.9% is in the form of ice and permanent snow cover in mountainous regions, and in the Antarctic and Arctic regions. - Some 8 million km3 or 30.8% is stored underground in the form of groundwater (shallow and deep groundwater basins up to 2,000 metres, soil moisture, swamp water and permafrost). This constitutes about 97% of all the freshwater potentially available for human use. - Freshwater lakes and rivers contain an estimated 105,000 km3 or 0.3% of the world’s freshwater. - The total usable freshwater supply for ecosystems and humans is 200,000 km3 of water, which is less than 1% of all freshwater resources, and only 0.01% of all the water on earth (Gleick, 1993; Shiklomanov, 1999).
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This photo has been graciously provided to be used in the GRID-Arendal resources library by: Philippe Rekacewicz, February 2006
Taken at a Maria Abramović retrospective at the Albertina Modern, Vienna.
Visual concept by Abhinav Vats
Quick-Look Hill-shaded Colour Relief Image of 2014 2m LIDAR Composite Digital Terrain Model (DTM).
Data supplied by Environment Agency under the Open Government License agreement. For details please go to: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/v...
For full raster dataset go to: environment.data.gov.uk/ds/survey
The Entrada Sandstone is a Jurassic-aged succession of redbeds, which are hematite-rich siliciclastic sedimentary rocks. Sediments were deposited in environments ranging from very shallow ocean (tidal flats) to sand dunes along ancient coastlines.
The "goblins" of Utah's Goblin Valley formed by differential weathering and erosion - the harder sandstones weather and erode more slowly than the softer, finer-grained shales and siltstones.
Stratigraphy: Entrada Sandstone, San Rafael Group, upper Middle Jurassic
Locality: Goblin Valley, east-central Utah, USA