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New research indicates that forests deliver climate benefits well beyond just storing carbon, helping to keep air near and far cool and moist due to the way they physically transform energy and water. ➡️ buff.ly/3qzEXYb
New book illustrates patterns and shapes behind life on Earth zmescience.com/ecology/book-…
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#TheOutsideStory Even in the cold of winter, the food web within lakes is alive and well, with plant-like phytoplankton and animal-like zooplankton moving below the icy surface. ➡️ conta.cc/3hJMjDx
🖌 Illustration by Adelaide Tyrol
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#TheOutsideStory Shy cosmet moth caterpillars overwinter in cattail heads, weaving silk threads to prevent the insulating cattail fluff from blowing away. Some birds forage for these and other overwintering critters within the cattails. ➡️ conta.cc/3I8DRsh
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The most acoustically diverse place on the planet: the western Amazon rainforest. Life’s exuberance expressed in sound. Hundreds of millions of years of evolutionary creativity gathered in one place.
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I highly recommend this book of delights,”Wild Design” by Kim Ridley. A treasure chest of wonder w/antique prints of Nature’s architecture from bird nests to shells to prairie dog towns.@ridleykim invites us to reconnect with the miraculous before our eyes. A meditation on beauty
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Though an ambitious coastal restoration project in Louisiana aims to rebuild vanishing habitats and promises to buffer against flooding & hurricanes, protecting the basin from further erosion also has the potential to disrupt some livelihoods. bit.ly/3kiooNq
ALT Little Blue Heron and chick. Credit: Robert Black/Audubon Photography Awards
Today is the birthday of my new book, Wild Design: Nature’s Architects! Feeling grateful to the organisms who inspired the book. indiebound.org/book/97816489…
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We will never conquer this world; we will never understand it. The best we can do is listen when we are spoken to and make peace with the silence when we are not. When was the last time you took a moment to listen?
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Wild Spectacle has been out for just over a week now and I couldn't be more grateful for all of the love and support that has poured in. I am so deeply thankful for each and every one of you.
#WildSpectacle #NatureWriting
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Islands of Abandonment is in this @washingtonpost culture round-up—Jake Cline calls it “vital.”
“Flyn offers cautious optimism... She resists being paralyzed by fear and encourages people to ‘find faith enough to fight’ climate change”
washingtonpost.com/entertain…
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Congratulations to @DGHaskell on the publication of his new book today. Thirteen Ways to Smell a Tree is wrapped in a drawing of Dair, or Oak. 🌱
Thirteen Ways to Smell a Tree launches today. An invitation to get nosy, inhale, and follow our senses.
hachette.co.uk/titles/david-…
Available as hardcover, ebook, and audio. I narrate the audio, accompanied by Katie Lehman's original violin compositions for each chapter.
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Wintry gray bark and seemingly slumbering buds hide the inner dynamism of plants...
The weed in winter: How plants detect seasonal changes
news.yale.edu/2021/10/14/wee…
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You have a choice this morning.
You can watch a video of a stupid stupid man, and then, in a fit of despair at the state of humanity, whack yourself over the head with a cast-iron skillet.
Or you can say hello to this fox.
Up to you.
ALT Fox, all russet fur with grizzled front and lopsided ears, sitting on the grass in our local cemetery.
Here are ways to keep migrating birds from crashing into your windows. abcbirds.org/glass-collision…. I’ve drawn patterns with a bar of soap on the outside of our deck window. So far, no strikes this fall! #americanbirdconservancy,#fallmigration,#mainebirds
