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Lesser kudu are forest antelopes found in East Africa. The females and juveniles have a reddish-brown coat, while the males become yellowish grey or darker after the age of 2 years. Males have a prominent black crest of hair on the neck. One long white stripe runs along the back, with 11-14 white stripes branching towards the sides. A black stripe runs from each eye to the nose and a white one from each eye to the center of the dark face. There is also a chevron between the eyes. The area around the lips is white, the throat has white patches, and two white spots appear on each side of the lower jaw. The underparts are completely white, while the slender legs are tawny and have black and white patches. Horns are present only on males and are dark brown and tipped with white in color
This is the sun rising through the smoke haze from the massive fires in NSW. There looks to be no end in sight as they are so massive that they cannot be controlled. A State of Emergency has been declared in NSW this week.
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Monday : The Hawk was gone ( Killed by the Game keeper ) and the little Bunnies danced.
Tuesday : the Fox was gone ( Killed by the Hunter ) and the little Bunnies danced.
Wednesday the Fish was gone ( Killed by the Plastic man ) and the little Bunnies danced.
Thursday the tree was gone ( Killed by the Palm oil man ) and the little Bunnies danced.
Friday the Man was gone ( Killed by the Warmonger ) and the little Bunnies danced.
Tomorrow the Earth is gone ( Killed by the Politician ) NO BUNNIES
I first posted this on NGYS on a day I was feeling despondent with humanity I am reposting it now because I hope at the end of this current crises we will be more enlightened
La base di partenza della sciovia "La Polla", forse la più antica del comprensorio. Siamo oltre i 1450 mt, alla base, ma la temperatura sperimentata quel 24 agosto era , anche qui,
bollente.
Il 2023, d'altronde, è stato uno degli anni più caldi che sempre più frequentemente si susseguono:nell'ultimo decennio
"Negli ultimi dieci anni, le estati nel centro-nord Italia sono state caratterizzate da un aumento generale delle temperature, con estati particolarmente calde nel 2022 e nel 2003. Tuttavia, ci sono state anche variazioni significative, con periodi di caldo intenso alternati a fasi più fresche"
* "It is going to be very hard, and it's going to take some time. We have come a long way, but we have much further to go." (Barack Obama near the conclusion of a 193-nation global warming summit)
luci e colori autunnali per un inverno irriconoscibile...
(salendo all'alpe Vallè - Area dell'alpe Veglia)
autumn lights and colors for an unrecognizable winter...
(going up to Alpe Vallè - Alpe Veglia area)
Seasons Collide....
the changing of the seasons...a rapid and at times abrupt change to weather patterns; Southern Ontario just went through the annual change from summer to fall and then the abrupt change from fall to winter.
this photo mash up is my version of climate change...
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A few short weeks ago I was photographing ducks, blackbirds, terns, frogs, Wilson's Snipes, and even an American Bittern in this small marshy area in Grasslands Park. When I visited yesterday, it was completely dry - not an unusual scenario as we segue into late summer, but nevertheless disappointing, and raising some concern in the dim recesses of my mind. This is an arid part of the prairie. Wetlands contain such biological diversity. I don't want to lose them.
Fortunately, by late July all birds have either concluded or are in the final stages of their reproductive cycle. This mama Northern Shoveler stashed at least three ducklings in among the cattails and sedges before boldly - and noisily - swimming over to check me out. I shot from my rolling red Toyota car-blind, with morning light behind me. My files contain thousands of shots from this precise location.
But what's going on with the wetlands? We're having a rainy summer, meaning we have been receiving a few mm to a few cm of rainfall per week. However, recent winters have produced very little snow; I know this because I have to shovel the stuff, and I've gotten off easy, of late. Contrast this with the winter of 2010-11 - the year before I relocated here full time. I was out on the west coast, wrapping up business there. Friends stayed in my house that winter, while renovating their own new digs on the edge of the village. Like me, they came from another part of the country. "Prairie winters here are cold, but there isn't much snow," I had told them.
Naturally, it snowed and snowed that winter; it wouldn't stop snowing. Long-time residents said it was the deepest snow pack in 50 years. The park's resident Pronghorn herd was wiped out. The largest hibernaculum (snake den) in the area collapsed, killing a lot of snakes. Deer were wandering into the village, dying of starvation. And all the nearby wetlands, ditches, sloughs, ponds, and dugouts were topped up for years to come. The following summer, I saw Horned Grebes nesting and raising their young in the park, for the first and only time. Waterfowl and shorebirds were plentiful. So were mosquitoes.
Since then, we have slipped back into a relatively dry cycle. The wetlands are drying up. Will they be renewed? Or is this the new normal? And if the latter, to what extent is it the result of widespread climate change? Obviously no one can answer these questions definitively, and as a photographer I can only observe and report. And speculate.
Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2020 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
Our lack of stewardship with our earth is obvious through the huge climate changes. Yet it seems that we still have not learned how to nurture our world rather than abuse it. So my message is let's take heed how nature is reacting and if we don't make the change we will lose!
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Witzelrodaer (Witzelröder) Schweiz, trockenes Seitental im Buntsandsteinhang rechts der Werra
Witzelrodaer (Witzelröder) Switzerland, dry side valley in the Buntsandstein (or Bunter sandstone) slope right of the Werra
Blick in Richtung Bad Salzungen und den Bergen der Rhön.
View towards Bad Salzungen and the Rhoen mountains.
Unfortunately, no. This is an older photo, but it's 11 February, 2022 and today's high will hit low 70s. Desperately in need of rain, haven't had ANY in over a month!
Drought in the Dutch nature reserve Galderse Heide next to the Mastbos (Breda, North Brabant). The dry, but originally swampy terrain is overgrown with the invasive swamp stonecrop or Crassula helmsii plants; these are practically impossible to remove.
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It's all about attitude and being neighbourly!
Happy Fence Friday!
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Tout est une question d'attitude!
Sea Forest / Land De-Forest - the Madness of Mankind.
Rain forests - that reduce tons of CO2 - destroyed by the thousands of acres each day.
Wind turbines - that reduce? CO2 - built by the thousands at great cost to the electricity consumer.
Links to the original 2017 LD web page;
londondada.art/2017/01/13/london-dada-work-no-900-sea-for...
A reflection of a closed window in an open window.
It's all about attitude and being neighbourly!
Un reflet d'une fenêtre fermée dans une fenêtre ouverte.
Tout est une question d'attitude!
big storm in the forecast - again. Yesterday there was a violent storm and Tornado at UBC.
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part of Of course of 'Climate Change"
Sedotto dalla cappa di caldo, l’avventore della piazza trova ristoro nella parvenza d’ombra di un albero stordito dagli umori del suo sudore.
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Low water levels as well as haze from regional forest fires are seen at the Palisades Reservoir, on the Snake river in Bonneville County, Idaho August 25, 2021. According to the Bureau of Reclamation, the reservoir is 24% full following a summer of drought.
I digitalized analogue photos, taken during a congress in Luzern. showing swiss posters against the climate change. these photos are 25 years old, and the posters were made 25 years after the warnings of the ClubOfRome. Result: mankind seems to be stupid. and maybe the stupidness is increasing.
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.
Climate change...seen just along the highway going north from Lima to Huarmey in April. Could not see the source of water, but we just stopped briefly to photograph this coastal spot. There were some birds here, but no vegetation, which surprised me.
Kitsilano Beach February 9, 2021
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I wonder how this scene will look in 2050...
Flying back from Melbourne to Brisbane yesterday, it was devastating to see continuous fires and smoke from the Hunter Valley to Brisbane. Here you can see the town of Armidale and the fires on the nearby Great Dividing Range in the Oxley Wild Rivers National Park. Three people have lost their lives and 100s of houses destroyed as well as wildlife.
This is the "URG Coral"; first recorded and measured by the Underwater Research Group in the 1960s. Based on growth rates it is thought to be over a century, maybe 300 years, old. Today I found it totally bleached, following months of extreme conditions with heavy rains, storms and warm waters.
Within the former German-Soviet Environmental Agreement in the years 1989-1991 3 biological expeditions to the Taymyr peninsula in northernmost Siberia were performed. They laid the ground for a partnership agreement between the Taymyrsky Zapovednik (nature reserve) and the Schleswig-Holstein Waddensea National Park and later the establishment (1993) of the Great Arctic Reserve (Zapovednik). The Taymyr peninsula is covered by the most extensive and northernmost tundra habitats in Siberia. These enormous wetlands are used during the short Arctic summer by millions of waterbirds, which winter in Southern Europe, Southern Asia and Africa. The biodiversity of the Taymyr peninsula is with 20% well covered with different kinds of protected areas. However, there may be need to connect them by South-North corridors to secure adaptation of biodiversity moving North with climate change. With increased warming and thawing of tundra massive release of methane stored in the ground could trigger further climate change.
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This photo has been graciously provided to be used in the GRID-Arendal resources library by: Peter Prokosch