#environmental science

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the vulture conservation post made me look into trophic cascade again, so here's the page I read.

@uzmacchiato for the dividers

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Hey! It's Konya

I write on my Tumblr about fashion, beauty, and knowing how to keep it sustainable. And importantly the cost of what it is doing to the earth.

I help you curate a signature style that feels like you. How can you be seen at next family meet up wearing a cool printed shirt from 1960s? Or maybe, a pair of upcycle earrings from 50s?

I share!

But it's not only about looking great but also knowing how to protect our planet too. I provide some tips on how to make fashionable choices and be more kind on our planet and animals on here.

I do want to emphasize is this very blog designed for causal reading or for someone simply interested in fashion and learning what's the science behind it. Although, it is not ALOT of science I want to really stress I am not a scientists or hold any kind of science degree.

So, what I write is based on knowledge from taking science courses throughout in high school. So, the knowledge is quite elementary. Neither do I own a fashion degree but would like to share a thing or two.

Although, my knowledge is elementary in the sciences, the one subject among the others I did pretty well was environmental science! This also with other subjects help me support my career in the field of environment. This is not career talk, but where possible I will share to inspire you in the right direction.

Right, I'm simply suggesting my puts some of my thoughts into words. I will share some of these to further highlight the need for a cleaner environment.

It's important seeing a future of a clean environment can happen.

So, let's make it happen!

[scienceguy22]

A crustacean's unlikely survival story.

A plastic bottle bobbing off Okinawa, Japan, looked like an ordinary piece of ocean litter until researchers peered inside. They found a live, swimming female three-spot swimming crab inside, still healthy & growing in its prison for 62 days based on goose barnacle growth. The rate at which barnacles grow is a known ecological "clock," allowing researchers to estimate how long an object has been at sea. The crab entered the bottle as a juvenile & was still small enough to slip through the neck of the plastic wine bottle easily. But as it grew inside, the shell (carapace's width) was more than 3x the bottle opening, making escape impossible. The bottle opening was only 0.96 in. (24.5 mm), while its carapace's width was 3.47 in. (88.23 mm). The bottle was high-density polyethylene (HDPE), which made it buoyant & durable, allowing long drift times.

Researchers were puzzled about how the crab managed to stay alive for 2 months trapped in such a small enclosure, so they cut the bottle open & took out the crab, surprised to see it healthy & swimming. But the only way to determine what it ate during the two months was to dissect it to reconstruct its survival conditions. This is standard practice in ecological forensics. It turns out that small fish, like rough triggerfish & Indo-Pacific sergeant fish, swam inside the bottle, & once inside, they didn't recognize the exit "door." To a fish, the bottleneck looks like a dark, dead end, not an exit. This provided the crab with an easy meal. Fish entering the bottle essentially swam straight into the crab's mouth. The crab also ate some green & brown algae that drifted inside the bottle. Since the bottle's neck allowed water flow, it prevented suffocation by supplying oxygen.

Marine plastic pollution usually grabs public attention when larger animals are visibly harmed. Whales turn up with plastic in their stomachs, seabirds feed fragments to their chicks, & turtles mistake drifting bags for jellyfish. This case is poignant in that smaller animals interact with our plastic pollution in ways that eventually lead to their death. Could the crab have lived longer if left inside? Probably not. Eventually, the food supply would decline & waste accumulation would become lethal. Such cases have occurred before, but they are rarely documented. They are likely more common than observed because most trapped die unseen. A single, floating bottle becomes an ecosystem, a dining room, & a dead end.

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Drill rig, Alaska.

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encyclopedia science supplement, 1971.

illustration by charles saxon.

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Why fireflies vanish from cities: rural vs urban secrets

Rural fireflies flash in synchronized patterns visible up to 160 feet away, while urban fireflies cannot flash at all due to artificial light drowning their signals A single streetlight can reduce firefly visibility by 95%, making mate-finding nearly impossible in cities with average illumination of

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Why fireflies vanish from cities: rural vs urban secrets

Rural fireflies flash in synchronized patterns visible up to 160 feet away, while urban fireflies cannot flash at all due to artificial light drowning their signals A single streetlight can reduce firefly visibility by 95%, making mate-finding nearly impossible in cities with average illumination of

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Just went to the British Natural History Museum and I have never seen more disinterested people in a Museum in my whole life.

I am studying environmental science and I love learning about how humans impact the ecosystem as well as animals and how we can help change our planet. And so I saw that in London there is this museum where theres history about our environment and animals. Also theres a really nice section about the Wildlife photographer of the Year

Super cool right yeah.

I have never ever, and i've went to so many museums in worldwide and i've never ever seen people so disinterested in what a museum has to offer. I mean wow there are so many sections in this museum that give such interesting details about certain issues that affect specific animals that I think the world doesn't know about. As well as minerals and rocks. Also how we still dont know how to recycle battery properly and make it reusable completely.

So many scientists came here passionately to talk about what they like and wow. This behaviour is making just question why I even choose to study environmental science. Why am I doing this if nobody will pay attention to it?