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torngat mountains | unknown photographer

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Dolgiye Mountains, Russia by Arseny Kashkarov

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The titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum) flower rarely blooms, but when it does, the sight—and smell—can be utterly breathtaking. This plant’s giant bloom can grow up to 9 ft (2.7 m) tall and emits a powerful perfume that resembles the stench of rotting flesh. Why? To some insects, it’s a seductive scent, luring potential pollinators toward the female parts of the flower, where they can pick up pollen and carry it off to fertilize other flowers. This spectacular display is short lived, occurring for only about three days once every two or three years.

Photo: Yash Bhagwanji, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist

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Fixed it.

etherealspacejelly

studying environmental science is great because sometimes you get to sit in a lecture hall for an hour and listen to a man rant passionately about soil and how no one cares enough about soil and how important soil is to literally everything we rely on to survive and you start to feel guilty about not appreciating soil enough

anyways guys did you know that we lose 24 billion tonnes of fertile soil every year to erosion, runoff, pollution, rising sea levels, and degradation? and that it takes 200 years to form one centimeter of topsoil? soil is essentially a nonrenewable resource that we are losing faster than trees and we literally need it to grow all of the food we eat. without soil society would collapse and we would all die.

take some time today to appreciate soil. do it for my sustainable agro-ecosystems professor.

protectoursharks

I learned a cool thing about sharks at the aquarium and was wondering if I could tell you? I mean, you probably already know it. But apparently the reason a lot of shark incidents aren't fatal are because the shark takes a bite, realizes what they're biting isn't food, and so they basically go "my bad, you aren't food" and leave. It was a little "test bite" and the test revealed that what they were biting wasn't food so they left. Or they were just biting because they felt threatened and they weren't actually looking to kill the human, just get the fellow apex predator to please leave them alone. This is why we can touch little sharks in some aquariums, because they're well-fed so not gonna test bite us and they also have a safe escape and so aren't going to bite the people in an effort to be left alone, because they don't like picking fights and if they have an easy out, they'll take it.

I don't know, I just thought this was so cool.

Yes!

The "Mistaken Identity Hypothesis" proposes that sharks have a hard time differentiating humans from their normal prey from below. They take one bite, realize we're not a seal or turtle, and swim away. However,

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bioluminescent phytoplankton glowing off the southern coast of Australia

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so the 2026 temperatures surpass the 2050 (!) forecast now - not just in france - and the atlantic hits a breaking point btw

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if you want butterflies, you need to live with caterpillars.

i am not being metaphorical, i work in a garden center, stop buying plants 'to bring in the bees and butterflies' and then immediately poisoning every caterpillar that dares to consume a single leaf

you will not get butterflies if you kill all the things that turn into butterflies! what are you doing!