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Could 3D seaweed farms save our climate and heal our oceans?

by DoyleHeidenreic Posted on November 24, 2015

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Princess DUNGOG Panahon – Viet Hung

-Ek Ubang guy sa pag-adto sa eskwelahan sa panahon na sa! Credit kaninyo natulog bag ibutang gio.- En Yuan misinggit.  Pagputol! Ako matulog sa usa ka gamay na! – Usa ka miingon ug higdaanan unlan sa nawong nga mga materyal.  Kamo! .. Ikaw … ginganlan ko kamo nga sa kaayo sa ingon nga ikaw moadto sa eskwelahan […]

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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up – Marie Kondo

This New York Times best-selling guide to decluttering your home from Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo takes readers step-by-step through her revolutionary KonMari Method for simplifying, organizing, and storing. Despite constant efforts to declutter your home, do papers still accumulate like snowdrifts and clothes pile up like a tangled mess of noodles? Japanese cleaning consultant […]

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Fix It, Make It, Grow It, Bake It – Billee Sharp & Anneli Rufus

In this D.I.Y. guide to the good life, readers learn how to edit their lives, since in the long run, less is more — pedal now or paddle later! Readers and their families can live more joyfully and far more creatively, all on a dime. The best things in life are free — or very […]

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The Art of Raising a Puppy (Revised Edition) – Monks of New Skete

For more than thirty years the Monks of New Skete have been among America's most trusted authorities on dog training, canine behavior, and the animal/human bond. In their two now-classic bestsellers, How to be Your Dog's Best Friend and The Art of Raising a Puppy, the Monks draw on their experience as long-time breeders of […]

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How to Be Your Dog’s Best Friend – Monks of New Skete

For nearly a quarter century, How to Be Your Dog's Best Friend has been the standard against which all other dog-training books have been measured. This new, expanded edition, with a fresh new design and new photographs throughout, preserves the best features of the original classic while bringing the book fully up-to-date. The result: the […]

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Collections of fairy tales Vietnam 2 – Nguyen Luan

“STORY OF THE RICE CAKE LEGEND OF THE HEAVENLY KING OF PHU-DONG LEGEND OF SON TINH (MOUNTAIN SPIRIT) AND THUY TINH (SEA SPIRIT) LEGEND OF THE WATER MELON (DUA HAU) THE LEGEND OF PRINCESS LIEU HANH THE STORY OF TRUONG'S WIFE THE DIALOG MOUNT NA-SON THE GOLDEN AX CHU DONG-TU AND PRINCESS TIEN DUNG THE […]

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War Zone Damocles: Mont’ka (Enhanced Edition) – Games Workshop

Following a humbling defeat at the hands of Commander Shadowsun, the forces of the Imperium return to the former hive world of Agrellan, now the Tau Empire’s youngest sept world of Mu’gulath Bay. Countless regiments of tanks and Guardsmen are thrown into the meat grinder as the Imperial commanders vow to reclaim the world from […]

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How to Raise the Perfect Dog – Cesar Millan & Melissa Jo Peltier

From the bestselling author and star of National Geographic Channel's Dog Whisperer , the only resource you’ll need for raising a happy, healthy dog. For the millions of people every year who consider bringing a puppy into their lives–as well as those who have already brought a dog home–Cesar Millan, the preeminent dog behavior expert, […]

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Collections of fairy tales Vietnam – Nguyen Luan

“THE LEGEND OF THE MILKY WAY THE SANDALWOOD MAIDEN THE HUNDRED-KNOT BAMBOO THE STORY OF TAM AND CAM THACH SANH – LY THONG SUE GOD FOR RAIN STORY OF KITCHEN GODS THE MOON BOY (CUOI) DRAGON'S CHILDREN, FAIRY'S GRAND CHILDREN THANH GIONG STORY OF WATER MELON HOUSE OF THE RISIN' SUN”

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Dataslate: Captain Karlaen (Enhanced Edition) – Games Workshop

Captain Karlaen commands the 1st Company of the Blood Angels and has earned a reputation as a formidable warrior and brilliant tactician over centuries of service to the Chapter. Trained by Commander Dante himself, Karlaen has distinguished himself time and again in the two centuries he has held the rank of Captain within the Blood […]

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Could 3D seaweed farms save our climate and heal our oceans?

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This Map Shows What San Francisco Will Look Like After Sea Levels Rise

by Myrna Posted on July 30, 2015

And not much is being done about it. Mark Schwettmann/Shutterstock Developers in the booming San Francisco Bay Area are busy planning everything from much-needed new housing to sports stadiums and gleaming tech campuses. But according to a new report just published by the San Francisco Public Press, many of these construction projects sit on land susceptible to rising waters due to climate change. And regulators and local governments are not doing much to prepare. The Public Press found 27 major commercial and residential developments that will be vulnerable to flooding if San Francisco Bay sea levels rise as much as climate researchers like the National Research Council project in the next century. These developments include a new stadium for the Golden State Warriors, campuses being built by Google and Facebook, and revamped public spaces like San Francisco’s iconic ferry terminal and Jack London Square in Oakland. Read the rest at Mother Jones. This article is from:  This Map Shows What San Francisco Will Look Like After Sea Levels Rise ; ; ;

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This Map Shows What San Francisco Will Look Like After Sea Levels Rise

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Obama Will Use Veto to Defend Climate Change Plan If Necessary

by Myrna Posted on July 30, 2015

President will use all powers available to push through Clean Power Plan to cut carbon emissions from power stations, says White House. Drop of Light/Shutterstock Barack Obama will use all of his powers – including his veto – to defend his plan to fight climate change, the White House said, on the eve of new rules cutting carbon pollution from power plants. Obama is expected to unveil the new rules as early as Monday, according to those familiar with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plan. The final version will give states and electricity companies an extra two years – until 2022 – before they need to start cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Read the rest at the Guardian. See the article here –  Obama Will Use Veto to Defend Climate Change Plan If Necessary ; ; ;

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Here’s a Really Clever Plan to Force the Feds to Deal With Climate Change

by Myrna Posted on July 10, 2015

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Humans really are unprecedented in Earth’s geological history — and that’s a bad thing

by GudrunMcInnes Posted on June 29, 2015

Humans really are unprecedented in Earth’s geological history — and that’s a bad thing

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There’s no doubt that a) humans have messed up the planet big time and b) our ability to maintain our sanity while barreling toward an uncertain and potentially catastrophic future is perhaps our greatest achievement of all time. But in a new study from the latest issue of The Anthropocene Review, researchers explain just how much we’ve f-ed up this beautiful world.

“We think of major changes to the biosphere as the big extinction events, like that which finished off the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous Period. But the changes happening to the biosphere today may be much more significant,” Mark Williams, a geologist from the University of Leicester and leader of the study, said in a press release.

Indeed, Williams and his colleagues claim that not since the evolution of photosynthetic microbes or multicellular animals has the course of Earth’s ecosystem changed so much. Scientists already acknowledge that we’ve entered a new human-induced geological epoch called the Anthropocene (although they disagree on when it began).

“But what is really new about this chapter in Earth history, the one we’re living through?” Williams says in the press release. “Episodes of global warming, ocean acidification and mass extinction have all happened before, well before humans arrived on the planet. We wanted to see if there was something different about what is happening now.”

Here are the four key changes from the press release, that they say define this unprecedented time in Earth’s history:

The homogenisation of species around the world through mass, human-instigated species invasions — nothing on this global scale has happened before

One species, Homo sapiens, is now in effect the top predator on land and in the sea, and has commandeered for its use over a quarter of global biological productivity.  There has never been a single species of such reach and power previously

There is growing direction of evolution of other species by Homo sapiens

There is growing interaction of the biosphere with the ‘technosphere’ — a concept pioneered by one of the team members, Professor Peter Haff of Duke University — the sum total of all human-made manufactured machines and objects, and the systems that control them

On the plus side, if humanity is headed for demise, at least we’re going out with a bang — like that drunk guy who gets tossed out of the bar and triumphantly knocks down every chair on his way to the door.

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Extreme makeover: mankind’s unprecedented transformation of Earth

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These reefs actually stand a chance of surviving climate change

by DoraVSOCejgk Posted on January 16, 2015

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These reefs actually stand a chance of surviving climate change

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Coral reefs, along with polar bears, are basically the sad, rained-on mascots of climate change doom-and-gloom: Every bit of news from them seems worse and worse.

But here’s some good news! Some reefs in some parts of the world actually stand a pretty good chance of rebounding from the bleaching events that are expected to become more and more common with global warming, according to a study out in Nature this Wednesday.

By looking the results of a massive bleaching event that wiped out corals in the Seychelles in 1998, scientists were able to determine what factors may have contributed to the subsequent recovery of 12 out of 21 sites surveyed. From that, they can make pretty good predictions about which reefs will be able to muscle through some of the worst of our climate-ravaged future. From the Guardian:

Looking at just two of 11 factors — water depth and the physical complexity of the coral — the team were able to use modeling to 98% of the time correctly predict whether a reef would recover or not. Deeper water and a more complex structure made a recovery more likely.

This means that northern and offshore parts of the Great Barrier Reef, where the coral is still relatively pristine and protected from human activity, actually seem pretty robust. If conservationists can focus their efforts on those survivor reefs — protecting them from further damage from boat anchors, fishing gear, or sediment dumping — they may be able to stave off some of the worst damage from warming water, as the study’s lead author James Graham told the Guardian:

“If emissions continue as they are, the longer term future is likely to still be bleak, even for those recovering at the moment [from bleaching], because the projections are coral bleaching will become more and more frequent. In a way it’s [the study’s findings] buying us time to keep as many reefs in good shape as we can, while we tackle some of these global, bigger issues.”

Right now, parts of the Pacific are in the grips of a mass coral bleaching that could be the worst seen in 20 years. So let’s do us all a favor and not make things worse than they already are. 

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Papers Find Mixed Impacts on Ocean Species from Rising CO2

by Myrna Posted on August 26, 2013

A new collection of scientific papers provide fresh insights on how the ecology of the oceans is being affected by the global buildup of carbon dioxide released by human activities. See the article here:  Papers Find Mixed Impacts on Ocean Species from Rising CO2 ; ;Related ArticlesDot Earth Blog: Papers Find Mixed Impacts on Ocean Species from Rising CO2Could Climate Campaigners’ Focus on Current Events be Counterproductive?A Closer Look at the Technical and Behavioral Barriers to Action on Global Warming ;

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