#Forests

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ēarth lēssons by Rose Eads via @earthjournalbyawildrose

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winter sunlight

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Beautiful~

[sanseterrer]

During the night, a thin layer of snow covered the ground. The puddles were covered with light ice and well hidden under a blanket of snow. Therefore, sometimes I had to fail.

The moon was still clearly visible, placed in the center of the street, sat down on the sleeping branches of familiar roadside trees.

Such a bright light, the whole world is so bright. Maximum color saturation. Out of habit, my eyes ran over the ditches, over the dry weeds and grasses, searching for the first spring flowers, until over and over again I was overwhelmed by memories of what month it really was.

Winter Solstice; part one

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[reasonsforhope]

"A century of gradual reforestation across the American East and Southeast has kept the region cooler than it otherwise would have become, a new study shows.

The pioneering study of progress shows how the last 25 years of accelerated reforestation around the world might significantly pay off in the second half of the 21st century.

Using a variety of calculative methods and estimations based on satellite and temperature data from weather stations, the authors determined that forests in the eastern United States cool the land surface by 1.8 – 3.6°F annually compared to nearby grasslands and croplands, with the strongest effect seen in summer, when cooling amounts to 3.6 – 9°F.

The younger the forest, the more this cooling effect was detected, with forest trees between 20 and 40 years old offering the coolest temperatures underneath.

“The reforestation has been remarkable and we have shown this has translated into the surrounding air temperature,” Mallory Barnes, an environmental scientist at Indiana University who led the research, told The Guardian.

“Moving forward, we need to think about tree planting not just as a way to absorb carbon dioxide but also the cooling effects in adapting for climate change, to help cities be resilient against these very hot temperatures.”

The cooling of the land surface affected the air near ground level as well, with a stepwise reduction in heat linked to reductions in near-surface air temps.

“Analyses of historical land cover and air temperature trends showed that the cooling benefits of reforestation extend across the landscape,” the authors write. “Locations surrounded by reforestation were up to 1.8°F cooler than neighboring locations that did not undergo land cover change, and areas dominated by regrowing forests were associated with cooling temperature trends in much of the Eastern United States.”

By the 1930s, forest cover loss in the eastern states like the Carolinas and Mississippi had stopped, as the descendants of European settlers moved in greater and greater numbers into cities and marginal agricultural land was abandoned.

The Civilian Conservation Corps undertook large replanting efforts of forests that had been cleared, and this is believed to be what is causing the lower average temperatures observed in the study data.

However, the authors note that other causes, like more sophisticated crop irrigation and increases in airborne pollutants that block incoming sunlight, may have also contributed to the lowering of temperatures over time. They also note that tree planting might not always produce this effect, such as in the boreal zone where increases in trees are linked with increases in humidity that way raise average temperatures."

-via Good News Network, February 20, 2024

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@river-puppy

Wizard staff that started as a pitchfork before its owner went off to wizard school. It’s got some curlicues and inscribed wards now but it’s better than any other staff when it comes to magically lifting and/or throwing things. Very useful when the wizard comes home to help with the harvest each year!

Wizard robe that was once a raincoat. It’s yellow and has tiny blue embroidered droplets on it. The wizard is immune to all but the most powerful water-based magics.

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Not much Fall color yet, but the park was still pretty

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Old growth on the Olympic Peninsula

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Wild garlic season

Etsy shop

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"Through all these times

Our love will stay true!"

love love love !!!!

[janshiren]

remembering autumn

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Bilder zum Anschauungs-Unterricht für die Jugend - 1839 - via Staatsbibliothek Berlin

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