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Sunday, 13 July 2025

Why Are Chinese Cities Sinking?

quote [ Rapid urbanization, industrial growth, and excessive groundwater extraction are just some of the reasons why Chinese cities are sinking. ]

Read about the whole water management situation in China and found many shorter articles on current studies.. this one seems to paint a bigger picture on the history of industrialization and water management. Was reminded of Californian wells.

One of the linked studies in my newspaper article was about uneven urban infrastructure heights. What's also not mentioned is the side effects of the heavy dam building and the successive regulation by opening and closing them, partly to destructive consequences.

[SFW] [environment & nature] [+1 Insightful]
[by Paracetamol@7:15amGMT] [0 comments]

Wednesday, 9 July 2025

The Wild Within the Walls

quote [ From antiquity to modern times, Rome has been entangled with the wild animals who creep, slither, scurry, and nest among its pillars and palaces. ]

I know so many roads, that lead to Rome
[SFW] [environment & nature] [+1 Interesting]
[by ScoobySnacks@5:01amGMT] [0 comments]

Saturday, 5 July 2025

Why One Geologist Thinks We Should All Pay More Attention to Rocks

quote [ Professor Marcia Bjornerud urges us to understand rocks as records of earlier versions of the planet?and as a call to protect its future. ]

Take you 'round the world like geologist
That's just what we do, this ain't nothin' ne
[SFW] [environment & nature] [+2]
[by ScoobySnacks@5:01amGMT] [0 comments]

Friday, 4 July 2025

The People Will Keep Fishing, Despite Forever Chemicals in the Fish

quote [ Bay Area sport fish sampled in a study were tainted with PFAS. But it?s not so easy to persuade anglers to eat less fish. ]

Yeah, I'm gonna go fishing, that's what I'll do
[SFW] [environment & nature] [+1 Sad]
[by ScoobySnacks@5:01amGMT] [0 comments]

Saturday, 28 June 2025

The Cormorant Wars

quote [ The Toronto waterfront is home to the largest colony of cormorants in North America. And now they're spreading?squawking, puking, leaving toxic guano. Inside the fight between residents, conservationists, and governments over the most divisive and persecuted bird on the planet. ]

See how the cormorant swoops and dives
[SFW] [environment & nature] [+1 WTF]
[by ScoobySnacks@5:00amGMT] [1 comment]

Thursday, 26 June 2025

A Spanish Lagoon Was Granted Legal Personhood. Then What Happened?

quote [ The protection of Mar Menor was a huge step for the pioneering Rights of Nature movement. But three years on, little has changed. ]

Podría pagar la limpieza del Mar Menor
[SFW] [environment & nature] [+1 Informative]
[by ScoobySnacks@5:00amGMT] [1 comment]

Monday, 23 June 2025

Can a crowdsourced map of the world help save millions of people from climate disaster?

quote [ Volunteer cartographers on the island of St. Lucia are turning local knowledge into life-saving maps in the face of rising seas and stronger storms. ]

There's an unmapped world
[SFW] [environment & nature] [+1 Informative]
[by ScoobySnacks@10:58amGMT] [0 comments]

Wednesday, 18 June 2025

Evolution and Guinea Pig Toes

quote [ How one animal's oddity inspired Sewall Wright to take on one of Darwin's big ideas ]

With patient guinea pigs
[SFW] [environment & nature] [+1 Original]
[by ScoobySnacks@8:29amGMT] [0 comments]

Monday, 16 June 2025

Is a Smart Gate the Key to Habitat Connectivity?

quote [ In South Africa, an unlikely quartet?s clever contraption could help connect elephants? fragmented habitat. ]

Baby elephants in action walk.
[SFW] [environment & nature] [+3]
[by ScoobySnacks@5:52amGMT] [0 comments]

Monday, 9 June 2025

In Death, New Life: The Science And Symbolism of a Whale Fall

quote [ When a whale dies, its body creates a new mini ecosystem on the ocean floor?a process full of biological and poetic lessons. ]

Where life's reborn, at the whale fall.
[SFW] [environment & nature]
[by ScoobySnacks@8:40amGMT] [0 comments]

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