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This photo shows the climate changes taking place: I shoot this little grebe at the lakes of Colbricon, in the heart of the Dolomites, in August, at an altitude of 1927 meters, where it had nested (the couple had 2 chicks). Usually little grebes do not nest above 500 meters, and in any case in 50 years that I frequent the area I had never seen one. In the same period I saw a couple of grey herons at the Calaita lake, at over 1600 meters above sea level: even in this case I had never seen herons in the area.
Apparently the higher temperatures, especially at night, and the frequent thermal inversion are changing the habits of the fauna...
My 5th visited of the New Seven Wonders of the World having seen the Colleseum in Rome Italy, the Great Wall in China, Taj Mahal in Agra India, and Petra in Jordan.
Machu Picchu is a 15th-century Inca citadel, located in the Eastern Cordillera of southern Peru, on a 2,430-metre (7,970 ft) mountain ridge. It is located in the Cusco Region, Urubamba Province, Machupicchu District, above the Sacred Valley, which is 80 kilometres (50 mi) northwest of Cuzco. The Urubamba River flows past it, cutting through the Cordillera and creating a canyon with a tropical mountain climate.
Most archaeologists believe that Machu Picchu was constructed as an estate for the Inca emperor Pachacuti (1438–1472). Often mistakenly referred to as the "Lost City of the Incas", it is the most familiar icon of Inca civilization. The Incas built the estate around 1450 but abandoned it a century later at the time of the Spanish conquest. Although known locally, it was not known to the Spanish during the colonial period and remained unknown to the outside world until American historian Hiram Bingham brought it to international attention in 1911.
Machu Picchu was built in the classical Inca style, with polished dry-stone walls. Its three primary structures are the Intihuatana, the Temple of the Sun, and the Room of the Three Windows. Most of the outlying buildings have been reconstructed in order to give tourists a better idea of how they originally appeared. By 1976, 30% of Machu Picchu had been restored and restoration continues.
Machu Picchu was declared a Peruvian Historic Sanctuary in 1981 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983. In 2007, Machu Picchu was voted one of the New Seven Wonders of the World in a worldwide Internet poll.
I'll be in Melbourne this afternoon with some of my FFF friends marching in the Global Climate Strike today. I've been marching for years to get better policy and action on climate. Perhaps Australia will wake up to the actuality of what current policies are doing to the land, sea, native animals and people. One can only hope, protest peacefully, plus take individual action. globalclimatestrike.net/
Climate-change protesters sitting it out with chess in the middle of the approach to Westminster Bridge.
Capitol Climate Action Activists stand before Federal Police blocking the gates of Capitol Power Plant in Washington, DC, March 2, 2009. More than 2,500 former coal miners, ministers, mothers, students, and climate activists, representing over 40 states from Arizona to Appalachia, successfully blocked all five entrances to the Capitol Power Plant for nearly four hours today, forming the largest display of civil disobedience on the climate crisis in U.S. history.
The University of Bristol Botanic Gardens, in Stoke Bishop, Bristol, Avon.
The University of Bristol established a botanic garden in 1882 at Royal Fort House adjacent to Tyndall Avenue. It was laid out by Adolf Leipner. This site was later known as the Hiatt Baker Garden.
In 1959 the site of the Botanic Garden was used to build the university's Senate House. The botanic collection was moved to the spacious gardens of Bracken Hill beside North Road, Leigh Woods, near the Clifton Suspension Bridge. The Bracken Hill house and gardens had been established in 1886 by Melville Wills, a noted benefactor to Bristol University.
Bracken Hill house and some of the gardens continued to be used by the plant pathology and other services of the government's National Agricultural Advisory Service (NAAS), advising farmers and growers from Herefordshire and Dorset to Lands End during and after World War II when UK-grown crops were vital to minimise rationing. See, for instance, the cereal and vegetable diseases work of Lawrence Ogilvie at Bracken Hill. The NAAS staff, laboratories and offices had moved there from the Long Ashton Research Station also to the west of Bristol.
In 2005 the botanic collections were relocated to The Holmes, a site in Stoke Bishop opposite Churchill Hall. The Holmes had been built in 1879 and had a 1.77 hectares (4.4 acres) ornamental garden. It had been used by United States Army staff during the preparations for the Normandy landings during World War II.
The garden has 640 square metres (6,900 sq ft) of greenhouses divided into cool, warm-temperate, sub-tropic and tropical zones which house plants from the evolution collection. The tropical zone includes a raised pool with aquatic plants including the water lily Victoria cruziana.
The displays include 4500 plant species, these are divided into collections of evolution, Mediterranean, local-flora, rare-native, and finally useful plants. The useful plant displays include herb gardens with western, Chinese and herbal medicine, including species used in Ayurvedic and Southern African medicine. Displays of plants from the Mediterranean climate region include those from several continents.
The local-flora and rare-native collection includes the unusual species found in the Avon Gorge, Mendip Hills, Somerset Levels, and surrounding areas. These plants include the Bristol Onion, Cheddar Pink, and various species of Whitebeam.
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It has been a mild and dry winter so far. Almost no snow in the lower parts of the alps.
View of Mittaggüpfi (1917m).
Call it what you will, you can't deny the weather is causing issues with civilisation or is it the other way around......
Looking into the setting sun at Mexborough the DB climate loco 66004 takes the Thrybergh line working the 6H39 Scunthorpe - Earles , rake of HTA's with coal for the cement works .
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A first attempt with my new toy... :-)
A spherical photograph of an installation of artist Marc Hautman. Taken in "Landvermessung - Schnittpunkte finden" an exibition of Wolfgang Greiner and Marc Hautmann. Caponniere 4, Neu-Ulm, 20.5.2016 - 5.6.2016.
Postprocession realized with GIMP (minor modification of colour curve) and Hugin (horizontal panorama shift).
Unfortunately flickr's panoramic projection is much worse than e.g. that with the Ricoh viewer... Therefore also look at the full equirectangular picture.
Update:
Try THIS! Much better/sharper than the flickr VR viewer! Although the projection is the same.
Another UPDATE: Temporarily in Explore:
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Another poster supporting action on Climate Change. It is amazing how our government leaders seem to live in a bubble of denial.
The amazing Koala Skeleton motif is by Jodi Magi and is used with permission.
Get off your couches people and join a protest or go talk to your local member.
Balkan countries, especially Serbia and Bosnia have been hit by severe flooding, which has been the worst in the past 120 years. Thousands of people had to be evacuated and are left without homes. Thanks to many volunteers and donations these people are in shelters. If you can donate these are some of the places from where you can help: www.asb.de/asb-hilft-nach-hochwasser-in-serbien-und-bosni... www.floodrelief.gov.rs/eng/
This is how it looks now:
More than 100 000 Climate Justice supporters shouted, sang, danced, drummed and protested against the injustice that today's industrialised and 'developed' cultures have thrust upon the world's indigenous cultures. Through torrential rain to biting cold sunshine, they provided representation for the climate-disadvantaged and good old Planet Earth itself.
Tens of thousands more Glaswegians lined the streets, sat upon their window ledges, held up their own flags and cheered in support of the the activists who had come from all corners of the globe to protest in the city. Police Scotland reported no major incidents. Bravo. Chapeau.
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Detail of a 1m wide acrylic abstract painting (recent project). I titled
it "Climate Changes" because I had the feeling it looked like clouds
and tornadoes seen from space but with strange colors... :)
View some other minimalist and abstract photos (Flickr album).
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ODC-What Is There To Be Afraid Of
I think this year more than ever we're seeing the devastating effects of Climate Change. I know the west coast is burning up and over here in the east we are inundated with excessive amounts of moisture and flooding! it's truly frightening how extreme the weather is becoming. climate.nasa.gov/evidence/
Members of the D.C. Youth Climate Strike and others gathered at the U.S. Capitol to protest as part of the Global Climate Strike September 20 2019. West front the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, DC.
The black smoke of the ship is extremely harmful to the environment, and with its effects on climate change and our natural biodiversity is also threatened for this. We should focus on environmentally friendly commuting.
Location: NafRiver,Teknaf,Bangladesh.
Door County, Wisconsin's geography and climate make it prime for growing bountiful cherry trees. In the past the cherries were picked by local folks and migrant workers. Today the cherries are removed from the trees by machines that shake them off.
blocks my trail!
"I think there are other channels that would be more suited to doing this and not interrupting people's lives," I said, to absolutely no one.
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A polar bear is reduced to just a small white spot between a couple of patches of snow in the late summer landscape, Vikingebugt, Scoresby Sund, Greenland. In the background a waterfall has formed from melting snow and ice. With climate change the rate that the Greenland ice sheet is melting is accelerating, contributing to the rise in global water levels and endangering the survival of indigenous species.
04/02/2020 www.allenfotowild.com
HECATOMBE - CLIMATE EMERGENCY
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVosD_SueP0
Carlotta Storelli & Eriobotrya Japonica
Honevo Photo