11/28/24
11/25/24
YOUR INTERNET CONNECTION IS NOT ABOUT SATELLITES IT'S ABOUT CABLES UNDER THE SEA@
Excerpt : Ninety-nine percent of the world's digital communications rely on subsea cables. When they break, it could spell disaster for a whole country's internet. How do you fix a fault at the bottom of the ocean? ... There are 1.4 million km (870,000 miles) of telecommunication cables on the seafloor, covering every ocean on the planet. Laid end to end, these cables would span the diameter of the Sun, and are responsible for the transfer of 99% of all digital data. But for something so important, they are surprisingly slender – often little more than 2cm in diameter, or about the width of a hosepipe.
11/21/24
SS UNITED STATES BEING TURNED INTO ARTIFICIAL REEF
GOOD NEWS NETWORK : OCEAN LINER SHIP BEING TURNED INTO ARTIFICIAL REEF
Excerpt: Now, the Okaloosa County Board of County Commissioners has approved a contingent contract to see the United States off on her final voyage to Destin-Fort Walton Beach, Florida, where she would be sunk to join a collection of 500 other artificial reefs that provide a true spectacle for divers.
11/11/24
CRAFTING SEA CREATURES ...
I'm going to post some YouTube videos that feature sewing and crochet to create sea creatures by sewing, crocheting, or embroidering.
I think these could be fun to learn to make and would also make good presents...
However, I ask you, when making stuffed animals to use cotton or other NATURAL products for the stuffing - such as cotton or bamboo , as much as possible and to also RECYCLE FABRICS, BUTTONS, and so on from OLD CLOTHING or whatever you already have around in order to make these as ECOLOGY SENSITIVE AS POSSIBLE!
When it comes to PLASTICS in art projects, use what you have but because plastic is a pollution problem and a health problem for all creatures (including us) to find or make some sort of substitute.
Siren
11/9/24
HOW DOES ANTARCTICA's BLUE ICEBERGS FORM?
EROS USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center
Excerpt:
The ice appears blue as a result of the absorption of solar radiation at yellow and red wavelengths. Deeply penetrating light is uniformly scattered at blue wavelengths by the enclosed air bubbles.
Blue ice areas are also noteworthy for their role in preserving fallen meteorites. Over time, the ice has trapped and preserved asteroid fragments, and scientists frequently scour these areas to collect them.
11/5/24
THE ROSS SEA PROJECT : JOHN WELLER ARTIST, ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVIST
UNIVERSITY OF BOULDER (COLORADO) NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM check out this beautiful site and John Weller
Excerpt:
John Weller: Artist Statement
It had been a long time since I cried in public. But on October 28th, 2016, I was not the only one openly weeping in a stone fortress in the center of Hobart, Tasmania, as I witnessed 24 Nations and the European Union establish the world’s largest marine protected area in the Ross Sea, Antarctica.
I had been a professional photographer for 6 years when I first heard about the Ross Sea. The effort to protect it would consume the next 12 years of my life. It started for me in 2004 when I read a paper by Antarctic ecologist David Ainley, who outlined the story of the Ross Sea, identifying it as the last large intact marine ecosystem left on Earth. This idea—that we had but one pristine place left in the entire ocean—got under my skin. It was an itch that I couldn’t scratch, and I eventually called David. We met some weeks later and committed to work together to build a campaign for a marine protected area in the Ross Sea...
11/2/24
THE LAST OCEAN : ANTARTICA'S ROSS SEA PROJECT : SAVING THE MOST PRISTINE ECOSYSTEM ON EARTH
A fantastic book (think of it when gifting!) full of adventure and amazing photography. Some of the subjects... way more than I could put in labels... Emperor Penguins, Adelie Penguins, Minke Whales, Killer Whales, The Ross Ice Shelf, McMurdo Research Station, Shakelton's Hut (circa 1908 - a historical monument to survival), underwater Antarctica, Weddell Seals....
HOW SEALS USE THEIR LUNGS TO DIVE DEEPER AND THIER INCREASED CAPACITY TO USE OYGEN.
THE FORMATION OF SEA ICE... BLUE ICEBERGS...
BY THE EARLY 1970's THE WHALE POPULATION HAD PLUMMETED BY 90%.
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