Great uplifting video filmed where my son is currently residing just a couple of blocks from the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
Source: montereybayaquarium.org
Really good in full screen mode.
Great uplifting video filmed where my son is currently residing just a couple of blocks from the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
Really good in full screen mode.
"Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change" is an excellent story in the NY Times chronicling a period between 1979 and 1989 when the US and the rest of the world tried and failed to take action that would have seriously addressed climate change (global warming) ...
A new super-high-resolution Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica (REMA) has been published that is the highest resolution map ever created of any continent according to an article on Gizmodo's Earther page ...
This map image is from smokymountains.com. On the linked website the map is interactive. The user can slide the button along the date bar and see the status of leaves across the country for the selected autumn date.
The site also contains interesting information on why and how leaves change their colors and fall to the ground prior to the onset of winter.
Since it is rutting season and a lot of it is going on in my neighborhood, I'm sticking with that theme for awhile. Here is a big boy relaxing on my neighbor's lawn (with his harem gathered around but not pictured):
And here he is encouraging a reluctant cow (maybe the same one that was browsing in our yard yesterday). She is not interested, he pretends he doesn't care by doing a little grazing.: