#carolina marin

[midesastremanifiesto]

Nooo Carolina 😭😭

[badmintonstorefan]

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[plldaily]

PRETTY LITTLE LIARS S06E15 - Do Not Disturb

[pyotrkochetkov]

Forecast calls for drip 🥶

[kooshnok]

- stomolophus meleagris.

Commonly known as the cannonball jellyfish.

Found on Edisto Island, South Carolina.

[carbone14]

Musée du cuirassé USS North Carolina (BB-55) – Wilmington – Caroline du Nord – Etats-Unis – 20 juillet 2006

Photographe : Doc Searls

[davidnajewiczphotography]

Another beach walk, another jellyfish - Kiawah Island, SC

[corvidist]

Mercury Ace - Charleston SC

[memenewsdotcom]

Debris from missing F-35 found

[quotesfrommyreading]

The desire to return the ocean to a pristine, natural state and to go back to the way things were before the oil companies arrived, before human beings began engineering the ocean, seems hopelessly naive. The serpent is already in the garden, and everything has already changed: there is no way to pretend that we have not been here and that we have not already engineered a new environment. The ecosystem that develops under a platform—or a wind turbine, or any other structure we put into the ocean—is modified by technology and possibly amplified by it, but it is still a system that supports reef life. In this sense, it is what ecologist Richard Hobbs referred to in a 2006 paper as a “novel ecosystem” and later defined as “a system of abiotic, biotic and social components that, by virtue of human influence, differ from those that prevailed historically, having a tendency to self-organize and manifest novel qualities without intensive human management.” But the term remains politically charged and subject to interpretation. Aren’t ecosystems always changing? And in the Anthropocene, can we say that anything on this planet has escaped human influence?

In 2015, writing in Ensia, biologists Daniel Simberloff and Carolina Murcia cautioned that calling an ecosystem “novel” could be used as a kind of “Get Out of Jail Free card for companies or individuals trying to avoid investing in research, mitigation or restoration by claiming they are producing novel ecosystems that will provide ecosystem services.” Those who see the value in and wish to work with novel ecosystems tend to find themselves at odds with restoration ecologists and conservationists who say that things should go back to the way they were before human beings began to meddle with them. Some are accused of being apologists for the oil companies; some are funded by them.

In 2019, Australian researcher Marie-Lise Schläppy, together with Hobbs, observed in Global Change Biology that “when an altered system cannot be restored to a chosen historical baseline, the value of the novelty needs to be the focus of research.” Novel ecosystems, they suggest, might be a form of triage for ecosystems and species that are under threat. But they also acknowledge that our understanding of novel ecosystems is not purely biological—there is always a social component that informs our view.

  —  Oil Rigs Are a Refuge in a Dying Sea

[goalhofer]

[primepaginequotidiani]

PRIMA PAGINA Marca di Oggi giovedì, 12 settembre 2024

[plldaily]

PRETTY LITTLE LIARS S04E19 - Shadow Play

[conandaily2022]

Why San Diego, California police can't declare Charles Benfield missing

Charles Alex Benfield, 26, of Gastonia, North Carolina, United States is a U.S. Marine Corps corporal. He is a field artillery cannoneer assigned to Battalion Landing Team 1/5, 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit at Camp Pendleton in San Diego County, California, USA. Benfield went to Frank W. Cox High School in Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA and Hunter Huss High School in Gastonia. He is Charles…

[lildoodlenoodle]

Ok North Carolina Stingray situation -

Some details for those who haven’t been briefed:

- female stingray in a tank with no male sting rays to be seen

- she has not been around male stingrays in 8+ years

- there are multiple male white spotted bamboo sharks in this tank

- the female stingray becomes pregnant AND supposedly has “mating bites” from one of the sharks

- in an extremely rare process female sting rays can impregnate themselves, ‘nature finds a way’

- she will give birth within the next month to possibly at least 4 pups

- Her name is Charlotte