#ecosystem — Public Fediverse posts

Instead of building more unnecessary reservoirs, I think that building more large water storage tanks spread out at cities and housing estates would be better. The Eco-system will not be affected. #reservoirs #ecosystem

A quotation from Adlai Stevenson

We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent upon its vulnerable reserve of air and soil; all committed for our safety to its security and peace; preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work, and I will say, the love we give our fragile craft. We cannot maintain it half fortunate, half miserable, half confident, half despairing, half slave — to the ancient enemies of mankind — half free in the liberation of resources undreamed of until this day. No craft, no crew, can travel safely with such vast contradictions. On their resolutions depends the survival of us all.

Adlai Stevenson II (1900–1965) American politician, diplomat, statesman
Speech (1965-07-09), “Strengthening the International Development Institutions,” sec. 12, United Nations Economic and Social Council, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland

More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-adlai-ewin…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #adlaistevenson #world #smallworld #biosphere #earth #economicinequality #economicinjustice #ecosystem #humanity #mankind #progress #resources

Amid increasing wildfire risk, the Forest Owner Association has warned against overly strict nature conservation measures. According to President Andreas Bitter... https://news.osna.fm/?p=59469 | #news #deadwood #dilemma #ecosystem #escalating

#News: #Plastic #pollution creates a bizarre mutant #ecosystem in the Great #Pacific Garbage Patch. Coastal animals like anemones and crabs now live and breed on floating plastic 1000's km from shore. Take action! #SaveOceans #BanPlasticWaste #Boycott4Wildlife 🦀🌊 @palmoildetectives
https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/coastal-animals-colonize-ocean-plastic/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

Virginia woman’s passion project blooms into network of gardens and business https://www.allforgardening.com/1930357/virginia-womans-passion-project-blooms-into-network-of-gardens-and-business/ #ecosystem #garden #gardening #GardeningVirginia #green #HamptonRoads #NativePlants #norfolk #organic #pollinators #sustainable #virginia

@MyWildlifeAllotment If only everyone would do something. I've been creating migrating bird habitat for my woodland (17 acres). I'd love to add more acreage. I have also been creating a #habitat in D.C. where, even though it's a tiny yard, the #ecosystem change has attracted more insects and birds in a very positive way.

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🐗🐇 On #Okunoshima, #Japan’s #bunny island, tourist feeding has pushed the #ecosystem past its limits.

Visitors bring roughly 27 tons of #food in peak seasons, far beyond the roughly 3.4 tons the #island can sustain, thinning #vegetation and driving #rabbits to toxic #plants. Wild #boars now hunt rabbits, but the real issue is the feeding system itself.

👉 https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/animals-ecology/japan-rabbit-island-boars-tourists/

#ecology #wildlife #tourism #ecosystem #conservation #overpopulation #nature #science #animals

The Magic of a Front Yard Edible Garden https://www.allforgardening.com/1929369/the-magic-of-a-front-yard-edible-garden/ #birds #EastCoast #EastCoastFrontYardGarden #EastCoastFrontYardGardening #ecosystem #EdibleGarden #FrontYardGarden #FrontYardGardening #FrontYard? #GardenDesign #GardeningZone #GrowingFood #insects #irrigation #monarch #MonarchWaystation #neighborhood #neighbors #planting #pollinators #RaisedBeds #RemoveGrass #UrbanGardener #wildlife

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🌡️🌋 #Yellowstone spans roughly 24 km (15 mi) of #boardwalks around its scalding #hydrothermal features, all built by hand.

Park geologists use thermal #cameras to map the hottest zones and route around them, while botanists flag rare #plants and archaeologists check for buried #artifacts before any path is laid. The process keeps millions of visitors safe without disturbing the area’s fragile #ecosystem or #history.

👉 https://www.popsci.com/environment/yellowstone-boardwalk-video/

#geyser #nationalpark #engineering #science #geology #conservation #nature #architecture #wildlife #outdoors

our neighbors are part of the same ecosystem that sustains us

#art #drawing #mastoArt #neighbors #ecosystem #MarkedCalligrapherFly

https://www.annearchy.com/shop/p/our-neighbors-are-part-of-the-same-ecosystem-insect-art-print

The wind is picking up along rh #eastcoast #australia all kinds of #clouds moving fast across the #sky absolute magic watching these two cloud #species collide and blend into a new #ecosystem what will the weather do? It's kind of warm - are we tropical 🌴 already #observational #photography

Some #clouds unsure 🫥 of what #ecosystem they are going to engage with over the weekend #changing skies in #blackandwhite #photography a pleasant mess

New publication: Digital twins as a tool for #ecosystem research. #digitaltwins #biodiversity #landuse #climatechange
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2026.04.016

Restore nature?
From abundance to degradation
A shifting baseline means it’s hard to see what has been destroyed

"Nature is not doing well in Australia. Many unique mammals, birds and insects are struggling. Entire ecosystems are collapsing"

"The tireless burrowing of millions of bandicoots and bettongs once shaped the grassy woodlands of southeast Australia. But foxes and cats, coupled with logging, farming and mining, have largely put an end to their work as ecosystem engineers."

"The global target is to restore 30% of degraded ecosystems. But Australia hasn’t announced a numerical target...Aiming to restore 30% of degraded land would mean working across private lands, public reserves and the Indigenous estate. It would likely take decades and come with a substantial price tag. Our ballpark figure is a little over A$7 billion a year over 30 years. "

"That’s less than a third of what the federal government spends subsidising activities which damage nature annually." >>
https://theconversation.com/australia-has-pledged-to-restore-nature-but-could-we-ever-bring-back-lost-ecosystems-286141
#biodiversity #conservation #ecosystem #degradation #harm #loss #ShiftingBaselineSyndrome #experience #extractivism #farming #logging #mining

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 💩🌊 Scientists at #Flinders University and #Germany’s #Karlsruhe Institute of #Technology argue fossilized feces, or #coprolites, helped fuel the #Cambrian Explosion 540 million years ago.

As early #animals evolved complex guts, their pellets carried nutrients through ancient #oceans, accelerating #ecosystem growth. The #study drew on deposits from more than 35 sites worldwide.

👉 https://phys.org/news/2026-08-fecal-revolution-earth-ecosystems.html

#paleontology #fossils #evolution #science #biology #nature #earth #history #research #marinebiology

The Base community has spoken, and #Bankr has become the next addition to the EVRGROW liquidity network.

This isn't about chasing the latest narrative. It's about expanding a #network designed to connect the major sectors of the Base #ecosystem through self-reinforcing #liquidity.

Every new pool creates new trading routes.

Every new connection creates new #opportunities for liquidity to flow.

The network keeps growing. 🌱

It's here! Finally we're ready to officially announce "Becoming Stewards Where We Already Are".

Four Saturdays in September, online: this is a four-part course on what changes when you stop treating yourself as standing outside the ecosystem you live in.

You do not need land! A good part of this is the argument that your "site" is not your "property", but rather is every place, flow and relationship you can actually reach and affect, which for one person is six acres and for another is a balcony, a verge, a vacant lot, a restaurant's compost bucket, the woods behind the trailer park. The people nearest you are part of it too, and they are the largest part.

Four sessions: how to observe the ground you can reach and what is worth observing rather than merely looking at, how to read what a growing system actually runs on including the inputs that arrive on a truck and are never counted, and how to plan something that feeds you without asking the place to subsidize you indefinitely. Half of every session is discussion, because eight people in eight different situations will teach each other things we could not.

The examples come from the Ranch, as well as our experiences living in a variety of other ecosystems: the forests of Michigan, New York, Oakland, New Orleans, Tampa, Crestline: and learning that the transferable part was never the species list, it was the questions. We will not claim expertise in your climate but we will offer you the questions that build it.

Eight seats, pay what you can, one seat at the top of the scale covers one at the bottom. Three tiers are available at the booking link below, pick the one you can afford OR send me a message if you cannot and I'll see what I can do!

Saturdays 5 / 12 / 19 / 26 September, 15:00 UTC (8:00 Pacific), one hour each. [link]

We'll be hosting this on Jitsi, and the link isn't live yet but will be added to your course registration and sent our via email before the event.

ALL of the materials from the class will be published and available for free once it's done. We still firmly believe that knowledge should always be free. The value in the paid class is the discussion, the access to immediate questions answered, and knowing that you're helping support the Ranch, but you know that you can always email us questions and we're happy to share. Ultimately signing up is a choice and we've tried to make it accessible but understand wholly that not everyone can access it, which is why even if you cannot everything will be available regardless :)

https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=40066932

#Stewardship #ClimateJustice #Climate #ClimateAction #Ecosystem #Ecology #LandStewardship #RanchoDeLaLibertad

Every tree planted is a step toward cleaner air, a cooler planet, and a healthier future. Be responsible—plant a tree today and inspire others to protect our environment for generations.
#environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDiary #ClimateJustice #ClimateResilience #climateemergency #afforestation #agroecology #agroforestry #USA #wildlife #wildfires #nature #NaturePhotography #Photography #Mastodon #linux #Fediverse #solarpunk #deforestation #garden #ecosystem #agroecology

I am generally an advocate, when you don't have HOAs to answer to as we all know any HOA is the most evil thing on any block, for letting the grass in your lawn grow because it creates a much better ecosystem for animals and insects to thrive in than mowing once a week or whatever.

However, undecided if it is hypocritical that I was getting real pissed that they let the grass grow like almost knee-high in the medians of our street which made tripping or accidentally stepping into a hole or divot much more likely when crossing our busy street.

#lawn #lawns #ecosystem #insects #insect #animals

I am wondering how many totally different versions of soil there were right at the beginning of terrestrial ecosystems, well before the arrival of land plants.

(The picture shows a pencil and oil pastel drawing I made)

#soil #soils #biodiversity #ecosystem

Press Release from @CenterForBioDiv

#BorderWall Construction Triggers Tree Sit to Save Ancient #Arizona #Cottonwood

For Immediate Release, July 29, 2026
Contact: Russ McSpadden,

LOCHIEL, Ariz.— "Protesters today climbed into an ancient cottonwood tree in Arizona’s #SanRafaelValley to stop the Trump administration from cutting it down for construction of two parallel 30-foot-tall border walls.

"The action comes after Department of Homeland Security contractors cut down three neighboring Fremont cottonwoods estimated to be 200 to 250 years old.

" 'Destroying these ancient cottonwoods is a death sentence for an entire ecosystem,' said Russ McSpadden, Southwest conservation advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity. 'These magnificent cottonwoods survived centuries, nourishing wildlife through floods and drought, only to be bulldozed for the Trump administration’s disastrous border wall. The San Rafael Valley is one of the most biologically rich landscapes in North America. It’s both a refuge and crucial corridor for #jaguars, #ocelots, #BlackBears, #pronghorn and hundreds of bird species.'

Today’s action is believed to be the first tree sit aimed at stopping U.S. border wall construction.

"The three cottonwoods cut down earlier this week stood along a rare stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border where mature trees once formed a #transboundary canopy. The trees provided nesting habitat, shade and shelter within an increasingly scarce riparian #ecosystem that supports hundreds of animal species. One #protester was arrested Monday while trying to protect those trees and nesting #MigratoryBirds .

"Federal officials said preconstruction surveys would be conducted during Arizona’s active #nesting season, but observers at the site reported that no surveys for nesting migratory birds were completed before the trees were destroyed.

"The area also contains prehistoric #ArchaeologicalSites that preserve evidence of thousands of years of #Indigenous presence in the borderlands. Ongoing construction threatens cultural resources that would be permanently lost if disturbed.

"The Department of Homeland Security is constructing the #BorderWall under authorities that waive dozens of the nation’s cornerstone environmental and cultural resource protection laws, allowing construction to proceed without reviews normally required under laws including the National Environmental Policy Act, the #EndangeredSpecies Act and the National #HistoricPreservation Act.

"In a letter sent today to the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Center called for an immediate halt to construction in the #Lochiel area. The letter urged the agencies to conduct comprehensive biological and cultural resource surveys, consult with Tribes with ancestral and cultural connections to the San Rafael Valley, protect the remaining ancient cottonwoods, and assess the ecological and cultural resources at risk."

Source [includes link to materials]:
https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/border-wall-construction-triggers-tree-sit-to-save-ancient-arizona-cottonwood-2026-07-29/

#OldGrowth #NestingBirds #USPo #TrumpsBorderWall #RespectTheTreaties #LandBack #IndigenousCulture #ProtectTheSacred
#CulturalGenocide #EndangeredSpecies #TreeSitters

🎉 Fantastic! Another 'groundbreaking' #tool so you can finally ship "faster, #safer, and more reliably"—because before vlt 1.0, everyone was just using carrier pigeons and blindfolds. 🚀🤦‍♂️ Thank goodness for those "ecosystem #mirrors," because who doesn't love a good reflection on their #package #management choices? 😂
https://www.vlt.io/blog/1-0 #groundbreaking #shipping #faster #ecosystem #HackerNews #ngated

Besieged by lobbyists, will UK ministers protect our ecosystems? No, they’ll chicken out | George Monbiot https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/23/lobbyists-uk-environment-ministers-ecosystems-chicken-poultry-faming

#UnitedKingdom #UK #environment #ecosystem #UKpol #AnimalRights #AnimalAgriculture

“ #Political #organisation alone can provide a vehicle for the expression of #public #anger and disillusionment with the way in which our #economy is governed and our #ecosystem looted and devastated.”

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/post/3ms7654ptik25

Cartoonjournaal 3 augustus 2026:

'Ecosystemen functioneren circulair. Daar is de dood zelden een eindpunt, maar meestal het beginpunt van iets nieuws...'

#ecologie #ecosysteemdenken #circulair #kringloop #lineair #economie #biodiversiteit #nature #ecology #ecosystem #circularity #biodiversity #cartoonjournaal #nieuws