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Happy #WorldWetlandsDay - here is a Histosol soil profile (Moosabec Series) showing 3 meters of organic material. Got Carbon?
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It’s fucking snowing and I want to tip my driver accordingly @ChipotleTweets.
Why are you deciding how much tipped workers can make?
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Landscapes of India: Forests
Saloni Solanki from NIFT did a fantastic job depicting the Indian forest scape through texture and dimension. The greenery is captivating and the experiments with various stitches to add texture have gone pretty well. It is a forest of stitches!
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Extreme heat exposure from both climate change and the urban heat island effect has increased by 200% since 1983. One of the many impacts that are already affecting people, and in a very unequal way in the socioeconomic spectrum.
pnas.org/content/118/41/e202…
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Although the Navy agreed to drain the Red Hill fuel facility following the contamination of its water supply in Honolulu, it won’t actually be removing the fuel right away.
Many community members want the defueling to happen immediately and permanently.
civilbeat.org/2022/01/commun…
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Mangroves act as the sponge of coastal cities and towns, breaking the flow of flash floods and absorbing the impact of sea-level rise.
12/ Bring back the mangroves. Mangroves act as the sponge of the city, breaking the flow of flash floods and absorbing the impact. Mumbai lost a lot of its mangrove cover and freshwater drainages, and we need to recover them. BKC was built over hectares of mangroves.
ALT Image: IPCC SROCC Report, SLR = sea level rise.
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The two leading candidates to replace Breyer, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson and CA SC Justice Leondra Kruger, both have a platinum-plated resume every bit as prestigious and rarefied as those of the last several appointees. Including the most prestigious clerkships in the country.
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Costasiella kuroshimae is a species of sacoglossan sea slug, a shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk. It's often called sea sheep due to its aspect and it's one of the only animals in the world that can perform photosynthesis [read more: buff.ly/2t9sPys]
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Astonished to see that my TED talk on Seagrasses as an unsung climate warrior has been viewed 400,000 times since it was released 3 days ago!
🤩🤩🤩
Available here 👇
ted.com/talks/carlos_m_duart…
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Studying, researching or working in the field of soil science?
Are you a BSSS early career member?
Do you want to help provide better value for early career members?
Then this opportunity is for you!!
@Soil_Science #SoilScience #EarlyCareer
We have 2 vacancies on the Early Careers Committee! If you're an EC member and would like to support us delivering activities and resources for our EC members, take a look at the link below! We are particularly welcoming UG and masters students!🌱👏🪱🌲🌻💻soils.org.uk/vacancy/early-c…
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Green facade, Sunset Boulevard. Retrofitting buildings to absorb heat and clean our air only takes a little effort. #GreenCities
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Judges getting briefed! #kilohoku2019 is getting underway. Tune in at bit.ly/LIVEkilohoku
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A climate change solution that's right under our feet (Asmeret Asefaw Berhe | TED2019) ted.com/talks/asmeret_asefaw… via @TEDTalks
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Here are photos of undocumented immigrant children at a U.S. Border Patrol processing center in McAllen, Texas. Photos provided by Customs and Border Patrol.
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“People ask if it’s difficult to blend science fiction and Africa. As far as I know, science and Africa have never been separate."
- Wanuri Kahiu (@wanuri) – at Illinois, USA
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Nigeria’s diaspora remitted $22 billion to Nigeria in 2017. That is almost Kenya’s entire budget for 2018. Our diaspora is the single largest source of FDI into Nigeria. Help me lobby your Senator as I push for a Constitutional amendment to enable them vote in future elections.
