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A great egret (Ardea alba) catches a crawdad at Shoreline Lake, Mountain View, California, USA

by doug0013

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patterns left by woodworms on driftwood

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Roe Deer/rådjur. Värmland, Sweden (7 June 2026).

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yes... yes! the condor is out!

condor 1215 (tag yellow 15) being released back into pinnacles national from (as far as i can tell) a checkup. she is 3 years old and was wild born to 589 & 569 ("phoebe the forager"). [1]

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Fluffy Tit (Zeltus amasa), family Lycaenidae, Singapore

photograph by Ben Yeo

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Banded Fishing Spider (Dolomedes vittatus)

Observed by jonahying, CC BY-NC

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A green and black poison dart frog (Dendrobates auratus) in Limon, Costa Rica

by Max Seldes

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This yearling Mule deer buck is still shedding his winter coat: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

(c) riverwindphotography, June 2026

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Happy World Reef Awareness Day 🪸

World Reef Awareness Day on June 1 serves as a call to action for consumers, businesses and organizations to reflect on the delicate ecosystem of our ocean's coral reefs. This important awareness day brings together the general public, influencers and opinion leaders to create active change through education and engagement.

Coral reefs are living communities of colonial organisms made of individual polyps that excrete a bone-like skeleton. This skeleton forms large rock-like structures that are homes for thousands of organisms.

The health of a reef tells us a lot about the health of an ocean. Many fish and ocean animals rely on the protection of the healthy, living reef for spawning season. The reef also provides more than protection; it supplies a rich, thriving food chain, too. From plankton and algae to the largest sea creatures, the reef ecosystem is a significant life support system.

Benefits of a Healthy Reef

The benefits of a healthy reef ecosystem go far beyond the ocean. Coral reefs, specifically, provide coastal protection from waves, biodiversity support for ocean species, and economic opportunities for communities in tourism and fisheries. Coral reefs teem with diverse life. Thousands of species can be found living on one reef. Coral reefs are:

•Essential to the plant and fish life.

•Contribute to a lively fishing industry.

•Protect beaches and coastlines from erosion.

•Act as the oceans filter.

•Provide life-saving medicines.

•Possibly the one animal on the planet capable of consuming plastic.

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Mojave Desert, California

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Superstition Sentinels

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So! This is a perfect case study in situations where you should be wary of misinformation.

Take a moment and ask yourself, a project like this requires a lot of time, money and dedication of resources, why would scientists dedicate that time to something that could just be done by a tree?

The answer is they wouldn't. So that means this claim requires further investigation!

This project is called LIQUID 3, and it's not meant for cities with wide open spaces, it's meant for cities like Belgrade in Serbia. These cities are densely populated and heavily polluted, to the point where pollution actually chokes out current trees and makes creating green spaces difficult.

Liquid 3 was a PhD scientists answer to these problems. The microalgae tank is intended for spaces where you either:

Don't have enough space to plant full trees, or

Don't have enough time to plant trees and wait for them to grow up.

The tank is extremely efficient when you consider the amount of space needed compared to the amount of CO2 turned into oxygen. The tank can operate throughout the winter. And most importantly, it can be quickly set up in areas that desperately need relief from air pollution NOW not in 10 years when trees are done growing. Children currently suffocating on polluted air can't wait for trees to grow, they need to be taken care of now, and Liquid 3 is one of the ways to take care of them. Depending on the species of microalgea used, a number have shown a pretty amazing capacity to pull heavy metals out of the air which is something trees can get choked up by.

The tanks aren't just tanks either! Liquid 3 have solar panels placed on top, they have lighting and mobile phone charging, and they work as public benches. The designers of it want to encourage green spaces where there's room, but where there isn't room or time, Liquid 3 can step in. Realistically, this isn't a replacement for trees. It's replacing boring metal city benches with new, cooler benches that also clean the air (and have at least some heating during the winter).

Not only that, but the microalgea that grows is native to Serbia and all that microalgea has a ton of great uses! It makes for great fertilizer, compost, wastewater treatment, cleaner biofuels and even for helping create new tanks for further air purification. They only require a quick algae divide once a month, and the produced algae can be carted off to where ever it's needed. This makes them effective solutions for areas that can't sustain complex installations.

So yeah, there's actually quite a lot of places that would like these. Lots of people currently breathing in terrible quality air would much rather have their boring city benches replaced with really fucking cool algae tanks that clean the air and can be used to help create + sustain future green spaces in cities. I dunno about you, but I'd take that over a dumb metal bench any day. Put these at every bus stop and I'd be delighted.