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Still Waters: The Secret World of Lakes – Curt Stager

by Myrna Posted on September 1, 2019

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Still Waters: The Secret World of Lakes

Curt Stager

Genre: Nature

Price: $1.99

Publish Date: May 29, 2018

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Seller: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.


A fascinating exploration of lakes around the world, from Walden Pond to the Dead Sea. More than a century and a half have passed since Walden was first published, and the world is now a very different place. Lakes are changing rapidly, not because we are separate from nature but because we are so much a part of it. While many of our effects on the natural world today are new, from climate change to nuclear fallout, our connections to it are ancient, as core samples from lake beds reveal. In Still Waters, Curt Stager introduces us to the secret worlds hidden beneath the surfaces of our most remarkable lakes, leading us on a journey from the pristine waters of the Adirondack Mountains to the wilds of Siberia, from Thoreau’s cherished pond to the Sea of Galilee. Through decades of firsthand investigations, Stager examines the significance of our impacts on some of the world’s most iconic inland waters. Along the way he discovers the stories these lakes contain about us, including our loftiest philosophical ambitions and our deepest myths. For him, lakes are not only mirrors reflecting our place in the natural world but also windows into our history, culture, and the primal connections we share with all life. Beautifully observed and eloquently written, Stager’s narrative is filled with strange and enchanting details about these submerged worlds—diving insects chirping underwater like crickets, African crater lakes that explode, and the growing threats to some of our most precious bodies of water. Modern science has demonstrated that humanity is an integral part of nature on this planet, so intertwined with it that we have also become an increasingly powerful force of nature in our own right. Still Waters reminds us how beautiful, complex, and vulnerable our lakes are, and how, more than ever, it is essential to protect them.

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Arctic wildfires are releasing as much carbon as Belgium did last year

by baofengscan Posted on August 2, 2019

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Buy American?

by calendarortodox550 Posted on March 3, 2017

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Apologies for the late start this morning. My alarm cat went off at 6:30 and I hit the snooze button. But instead of a ten-minute delay, it didn’t go off again until 7:55. Very unreliable, these American cats. I’m thinking maybe next time I should get something made overseas, even if there’s a tariff on it. Maybe something from Turkey or Siberia.

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Haze fills the air and ash rains from the sky: Just another day in Siberia.

by OzecUrbanymibny Posted on September 23, 2016

This week, cities mark World Car-Free Day, an annual event to promote biking, walking, mass transit, and other ways to get around sans motor vehicles (Solowheel, anyone?).

Technically, World Car-Free Day was Thursday, September 22, but participating cities are taking the “eh, close enough” approach to get their car-free kicks in on the weekend. Said cities include Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Brussels, Bogotá, Jakarta, Copenhagen, and Paris, where nearly half the city center will be closed to vehicle traffic on Sunday.

But going car-free, municipally speaking, is becoming more of a regular trend than an annual affair: Mexico City closes 35 miles of city streets to cars every Sunday; the Oslo city government proposed a ban on private vehicles in the city center after 2019; and in Paris, the government is allowed to limit vehicles if air pollution rises above health-threatening levels.

But even if your city isn’t officially participating in World Car-Free Day, you can be the change you want to see in your own metropolis. And by that, we mean: Just leave your keys at home. Horrible, no good things happen in cars.

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You call it methane, we call it “nature’s bouncy house”

by TaniaGooge4 Posted on July 22, 2016

Imperma-frost

You call it methane, we call it “nature’s bouncy house”

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Bouncy houses are pretty cool — but not necessarily something we’d want to find in nature.

Siberia’s melting permafrost has led to some puzzling geological marvels: first giant sinkholes, and now, grassy methane trampolines. After a particularly warm summer, hitherto frozen tundra has begun to thaw, releasing greenhouse gases that were held captive beneath the ground for millennia.

The Siberian Times reports that methane and CO2 spew out of these waterbed-like bubbles when popped. Researchers found 15 of them on an island off Siberia’s Yamal Peninsula — and judging from this clip, we expect they gleefully stomped on every last one of them. I mean, we would.

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Is this giant chasm in Siberia a portal to the underworld? You decide!

by KayParis74 Posted on June 18, 2016

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Is this giant chasm in Siberia a portal to the underworld? You decide!

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Ever wondered what the underworld looks like? Well get yourself to Siberia, and quick.

According to The Siberian Times, a sinkhole known as the Batagaika crater (or “megaslump”) formed in the Verkhoyansk region of Siberian in the 1960s, after the land was cleared by logging. Without vegetation, the permafrost started to collapse — and it has continued to, for the last 40 years. Locals now refer to the site — which is nearly a mile long and over 300 feet deep — as the “gateway to the underworld.”

While we are unable to confirm that the massive pit is indeed the gateway to the underworld, it’s not hard to see why locals might think so. The pit isn’t just huge — it’s also loud, with large clods of soil constantly crumbling from the edges and falling into the pit.

The crater is growing about 50 feet a year as the permafrost around it continues to thaw. And as the melting continues, it releases greenhouse gases into the atmosphere there were previously trapped underground. It’s a vicious cycle: Greenhouse gases contribute to climate change, climate change melts permafrost, melting permafrost releases more greenhouse gases, and so on.

While giant pits in the ground aren’t wholly uncommon in Siberia, they are troubling. According to geologic records, Siberia hasn’t seen craters of this magnitude since the planet moved out of the last ice age, roughly 10,000 years ago.

But as Batagaika researcher Julian Murton told Motherboard, there may be more slumps in store for Siberia’s permafrost. “I expect that the Batagaika megaslump will continue to grow until it runs out of ice or becomes buried by slumped sediment,” Murtan said, adding that, “It’s quite likely that other megaslumps will develop in Siberia if the climate continues to warm or get wetter.”

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Rare Visitor to Taiwan Is a Bird-Watcher’s Dream

by Myrna Posted on June 2, 2016

The only Siberian crane ever seen in Taiwan set off a frenzy by sightseers, the hiring of a 24-hour guard and environmental efforts to welcome such migratory species. Source article:  Rare Visitor to Taiwan Is a Bird-Watcher’s Dream ; ; ;

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Rare Visit to Taiwan by Siberian Crane Is a Bird-Watcher’s Dream

by Myrna Posted on June 2, 2016

The only Siberian crane ever seen in Taiwan set off a frenzy by sightseers, the hiring of a 24-hour guard and environmental efforts to welcome such migratory species. Link:   Rare Visit to Taiwan by Siberian Crane Is a Bird-Watcher’s Dream ; ; ;

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That Wasn’t a Meteorite That Killed a Man in India, NASA Says

by Myrna Posted on February 10, 2016

A “land-based” explosion was the likely cause, not an object from space, which would have been a first of sorts in recorded history. More:   That Wasn’t a Meteorite That Killed a Man in India, NASA Says ; ; ;

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This map shows where we’ve screwed the oceans most

by JefferyDRJ Posted on November 13, 2014

Here be ocean acidification

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We’ve gotten a lot better at mapping the oceans since the days of “Here There Be Monsters” — thanks, satellite overlords! — and now we have a new map to add to the stack: an up-to-date chart of exactly where the oceans have acidified the most.

A team of geochemists led by Taro Takahashi at Columbia University just published the research in the journal Marine Chemistry as a series of colorful maps (incidentally, our favorite form for groundbreaking scientific research to take). Takahashi and colleagues spent the past four decades collecting the data, which will serve as a benchmark for future measures of acidification.

Here’s a map of pH values in February 2005. Click to embiggen.Takahashi

As you probably know, ocean acidification is the underwater flip side of our atmospheric emissions problem: The oceans have absorbed a quarter of the CO2 released into the atmosphere over the past 200 years. This has led to plunging pH levels (read: spiking levels of acidity) across the oceans as a whole, and in certain places more dramatically: The Indian Ocean is 10 percent more acidic than the Atlantic and Pacific, and the Bering Sea scores highest overall – as you can see from that scary purple blob above.

But the Bering isn’t that acidic all year. In addition to where, the charts also show when the oceans are more or less acidic — since month by month, pH values rise and fall at different parts of the ocean’s surface, with the largest fluctuations found in the waters off Siberia, Alaska, the Pacific Northwest, and Antarctica.

In addition to the where, the maps also show when the oceans are more or less acidic — since month by month, pH values rise and fall at different parts of the ocean’s surface, with the largest fluctuations found in the waters off Siberia, Alaska, the Pacific Northwest, and Antarctica. Blame massive plankton blooms that pull CO2 from waters in the spring and summer, causing seawater acidity to drop. Then winter brings CO2-rich upwellings from the deep, swinging the pH pendulum of surface waters back toward acidic.

We may not know how much the oceans will acidify in the long run, or how bad that picture looks — but for now this study paints a portrait of our rapidly souring relationship to the sea

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This Is Where Humans Have Made Our Oceans Most Acidic

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