Greenish phytoplankton swirl in the dark water around Gotland, a Swedish island in the Baltic Sea (USGS)
The USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center has posted views of the earth from space in Earth as Art 3. Many thanks!
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It was recently reported that director James Cameron is planting 1 million trees through the EarthDay Network. A laudable goal, but a significant effort towards reforestation? James Cameron will make $350 million just from his share of Avatar's profits. This means his earnings are higher than any other director's, and also higher than the GDP of fourteen other nations. (Do the math and see if you have planted or gifted the planting of a relative number of trees for your income.) Enter Gashaw Tahir, an American citizen, who returned to his birth country of Ethiopia to find the green hills that surrounded his home eroded and ruined due to deforestation. So he did something extraordinary: Plant one million trees.
My past post on the Hellenic pagan organization Ellinais has generated enough interest that I decided to provide information and links to Hellenic (and some Roman) religion and culture websites. The organizations listed tend to be based in Greece or Rome, though I'm sure there are others elsewhere. Enjoy, and let me know if there are other resources I should add.  Stonehenge 2003 Given the recent discovery of the remains of a wooden henge near Stonehenge, those in the know are saying that theories that the stone circle existed in "splendid isolation" can now be put to rest. I would say so given that there have been lots of recent discoveries in the area, proving that these sites are regional in nature. *** Archaeologists unearth Neolithic henge at Stonehenge, BBC News, 22 July 2010 The circular ditch surrounding a smaller circle of deep pits about a metre (3ft) wide has been unearthed at the world-famous site in Wiltshire. Archaeologists used radar imaging to find this circle, and believe timber posts were in the pits. Continue reading → Update (just when you thought it couldn't get any worse): Scientists Find Evidence That Oil And Dispersant Mix Is Making Its Way Into The Foodchain (Huffington Post, 7-31-10) On-topic update: Michigan Oil Spill Among Largest In Midwest History: Kalamazoo Spill SOAKS Wildlife (VIDEO), Huffington Post, 7-27-10 On-topic update: US Expert: China Oil Spill Far Bigger Than Stated, AP/NPR, 7-30-10 *** On June 26, 2010 join Hands Across the Sands to protest off-shore oil drilling, at a beach near you!  USCG- Deepwater Horizon oil platform 2010 The Gulf Coast is just now heading into what will be months and years responding to the April BP drilling platform explosion and oil leak. At his point scientists are worried that the oil will spread at least as far as the Florida Keys, another important marine ecosystem area. Oil is about to wash up in Louisiana and is effecting New Orleans. (See New Orleans artist Michelle Levine's painting that seems to foretell this disaster, that she started last year. Bless the talented and grounded people of New Orleans!) Now that the enormity of this oil disaster is sinking in, good people are trying to find ways to help. Chief ARVOL LOOKING HORSE (of the Lakota), 19th Generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe has asked that we join together in prayer to heal Grandmother Earth and stop this oil disaster- A Great Urgency: To All World Religious and Spiritual Leaders (May 12, 2010). Amen, and let's all join in. Continue reading → Interesting recent reports about climate change effects- About an hour east of Washington, D.C., there's a forest where trees are suddenly growing much faster than ever before — some of them even twice as fast: Curiosity Rises With Trees' Strange Growth Spurt- NPR, 3-28-10. Just the fact that this researcher has seen a 12% rise in carbon dioxide in the 23 years he's taken measurements is amazing by itself. (Higher CO2 so faster tree growth?)
Greenland and Antarctica hold the world's largest reservoirs of fresh water, locked in their giant ice sheets. Global warming may cause large parts of these ices sheets to melt within centuries — changing the shape of coastlines around the world. Neat animated graphic of coastal area around the world & the effects of rising sea levels: Rising Temperatures, Disappearing Coastlines- NPR, 12-8- 2009
Green globs of mucilage form around the Mediterranean coasts in the summer. But the authors of a recently published study on mucilages found that outbreaks have risen nearly exponentially over the last two decades. And they are forming in the winter as well. Researchers suspect a connection between the proliferation of these goopy blobs and climate-driven sea surface warming: Watch out for the blob!- Yahoo Green, 10-22-09 .  Moringa oleifera (Forest & Kim Starr -http://www.hear.org/starr/) The Moringa oleifera tree is native to India, and is cultivated widely throughout many countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. (It is not tolerant to frost- so would only grow in some climates.) Many parts of this tree are edible and highly nutritious. (It's called the 'drumstick' tree for it's edible immature green pods.) Organizations like Trees for Life advocate Moringa's use in human malnutrition and disease prevention, and for livestock fodder. Now Science News reports about the use of this tree for low-cost water purification in the developing world. Continue reading → |
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