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Trump refused manatees endangered species protection; hundreds now dead; Red tide looming.

The Florida Piney Point phosphate plant in Manatee county has been releasing 202 million gallons of wastewater into Tampa Bay since the risk of collapse of the holding reservoir became international news due to a risk of major collapse with flood walls of over twenty feet predicted to inundate local communities and...

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  • April 9, 2021
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Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf is undergoing extensive melting from above; Marine life threatened.

The Independent writes on the intensification of melting on the Antarctic peninsula. Last year's melt season was the highest in forty years of satellite records. Antarctica’s Larsen C Ice Shelf experienced its highest rate of melting since records began 40 years ago from 2019-2020, a new study has found. The unprecedented melt at...

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  • December 11, 2020
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The Daily Bucket–Life Springs.

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These frog eggs sacs presented a vivid image within a few dys of the mating.  Shingy white eggs quivered, suspended in a light green jello. Less than one month later, dense algae has covered these once jelly-clear egg sacs.  Pond scum’s weight has dragged the sacs to the pond’s bottom.  This...

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  • March 20, 2020
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Reef-Building corals show 'disaster traits' and make preparations for extinction.

A City University of New York presser reveals with a new study, published on March 3, 2020, in the journal Scientific Reports that stony corals, the coral that builds the earth warm-water reefs, are reeling from the consequences of our fossil fuel emissions. These corals provide habitat for a quarter...

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  • March 5, 2020
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Reef-Building corals show 'disaster traits' and 'preparing' for extinction.

A City University of New York presser reveals with a new study, published on March 3, 2020, in the journal Scientific Reports that stony corals, the coral that builds the earth warm-water reefs, are reeling from the consequences of our fossil fuel emissions. These corals provide habitat for a quarter...

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  • March 5, 2020
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Adani gets it's filthy hands on QLD's Galilee Basin; Insurers feast on climate refugee misery.

Platypus {Ornithorhynchus anatinus} swimming underwater Tasmania, Australia. Commposite.

The moment of crisis has come. Sir David Attenborough Adani is a global company based in Ahmedabad, India. Adani and its CEO, Jeyakumar Janakaraj, have their fingerprints over some of the worst environmental extraction sites on the planet. The company builds power plants and operates them with coal and gas....

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  • January 19, 2020
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The Daily Bucket–Odyssey of the Ancient Lotuses

A year ago,  I attempted to  resurrect a handful of lotus seeds, that had sat, forgotten, on a high shelf, for almost 20 years.  I dutifully roughed up one corner of the seed with 30 grit sandpaper, to expose the tip that would germinate, like YouTube told me to. I...

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  • December 1, 2019
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Alaskan climate shocks hinder migration of Bowhead whales through the Bering Sea to the Beaufort.

Summer Sea Surface Anomaly 2019

The Arctic has been warming faster than any other region on earth. The marginal sea of the Pacific which divides the most extensive landmasses on earth, Eurasia (Russia) and North America (Alaska), is named the Bering Sea. It is here that the most dramatic changes can be seen observed. Alaska...

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  • November 5, 2019
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A new fast-moving lethal disease has spread from the Florida Reef to the corals of the Caribbean

Stony Coral Disease

“All the diseases I’ve studied in the past could be considered like the flu. They come every year, seasonally, and sometimes there are worse outbreaks. This thing is more like Ebola. It’s a killer, and we don’t know how to stop it.”  Marilyn Brandt, Research Associate Professor, University of the...

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  • October 9, 2019
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Dead bodies piling up on Alaska's beaches due to an extraordinary marine heatwave.

Ice free.

And all those facing outward, towards the planetary, the geologic, the unknown, raised a great cry, a witnessing of the very tide that had been predicted. Homo Colossus did not stir from its dream of currency.  The Greenland Ice Sheet. All of the sea ice has melted around the Alaskan...

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  • August 14, 2019
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Loss of reflective Sea Ice will advance global warming to a catastrophic 2C within 25 years.

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“Because the Arctic’s role in regulating the global climate is a critical link in the chain of climate protection it should be the focus of an all-out effort to keep it strong and safe,” Durwood Zaelke, preident of the Institute of Governance and Sustaninable Development. Scripps issues a  code-red warning...

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  • August 6, 2019
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The Daily Bucket–The $100 Lotus

Last Spring, I went to Washington DC to help AOC write the Green New Deal. /s/  I had a free afternoon so I went to the Kenilworth Lotus Gardens in the northeast corner of town. It was a misty and muddy February so I had the place to myself.  Vultures...

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  • July 21, 2019
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Damage to the Ozone Layer, along with climate change, has formed a worrisome feedback loop.

Scientists measuring solar radiation in Antarctica in October 2015, when the ozone hole reached a record size due to increased volcanic activity.

The earth’s sunscreen is interacting with climate change and is affecting marine and terrestrial systems in the Southern Hemisphere according to new research published in the journal Nature.  From The New Polytechnic at Rensselaer: Increased solar radiation penetrating through the damaged ozone layer is interacting with the changing climate, and the...

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  • July 16, 2019
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Warming forces microbes into dangerous climate feedbacks-proceed at your peril warn scientists.

Sea ice in Antarctica showing a brown layer of algae.

The climate is extremely complicated and overwhelming for those of us that are not scientists. One thing we know for sure about humanity's massive science project with our atmosphere, however, is that pumping unfathomable amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere damages the interconnectivity of Earths ecosystems resulting in a cascading...

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  • June 29, 2019
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The Daily Bucket–The Snail Whisperer

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I recently set up a 5 gallon aquarium and germinated lotuses in it from storied seeds.  I purchased two Japanese “trapdoor” snails to eat the aquarium’s algae.  They just had a half-dozen live young, so I am sort of a grandfather of snails. This covey of snails swiftly ate all of...

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  • March 6, 2019
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The Daily Bucket–Spring Babes

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Spring means renewal, and birth. It means baby birds chirping for food, baby ducks swimming in a row behind mom, lambies frolicking in a green field, and baby snails methodically mowing down algae. Baby snails! I bought two trapdoor snails a couple of weeks ago, to clean up the algae that...

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  • February 22, 2019
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The Daily Bucket–Will a small Buddha sit on the Lotus leaf?

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On the Winter Solstice eight weeks ago, I planted five 15-year-old lotus seeds.  They rapidly germinated and sprouted, filling a small aquarium.  Now they are producing lovely circular leaves.  In a couple of months I’ll move them outside. From eight days ago.  The uncurling leaf in this picture has since...

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  • February 10, 2019
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Trump's ghostwriter: Trump 'really one of the worst' dealmakers ever

Clearly we’re all seeing this unfolding in real time, but for what it’s worth, one former Trump Organization executive who worked for the Orange Teletubbie for years thinks he’s a pretty g’dawful negotiator. Why? He never takes responsibility for anything. Barbara Res, a former VP for Trump’s company, and Tony Schwartz,...

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  • January 11, 2019
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Jennifer Boddicker Joins Progressive Legislative Candidates to Fight Red Tide

Last week, I wrote about several red tide experts running for legislative office here in the Sunshine State. They are banding together to fight this crisis. This is a press release from the Boddicker campaign that I figured needed sharing: TO: Florida News Media            ...

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  • October 22, 2018
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How Dems lose FL in 2018: 1) Ignore our red tide expert candidates 2) Campaign for GOP

First, let me deal with #2 (FL Democrats campaigning for GOP candidates), because this one really pisses me off. If anyone wants to know why I beat my head against the wall in this stupid state, it’s because of crap like this: Kathy Lewis (D-FL Senate Dis 20) Democratic state Senate...

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  • October 17, 2018
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