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Award for polar bear photo shows that images of these magnificent creatures have the power to move
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Nima Sarikhani’s winning photograph of a polar bear off of Norway’s Svalbard archipelago.

After taking this photo they started bucking up like a horse, probably trying to scare me. I saw a bunch of them on a walk I took yesterday they were kinda all over. Was pretty big like the size of my thumb

Carpocoris purpureipennis is a species in the shield bug family, Pentatomidae. With a length of , its body color varies from purple or reddish-brown to yellowish.

Sure like how the soil just falls into the river 'cause you got nothin' holdin' it there. All them bare patches bein' taken over by invasive species nothin' knows how to get nutrients from, lovely. I would hate to see someone ruin all this with one little 1:1:1 mixture of clay/wildflower seeds/compost.

Possums live in my backyard. I saw this one by the bird feeder/bath near a couple scrub oak in the very corner of my yard. Im unsure if its the same family group but for the last 8ish years ive had possums living in my back yard. Once or twice a tear i notice a new mama with babies on my back porch eating the cat food i put out for the couple outdoor cats that took up residence back there. By this time in my area the babies are all grown up and scattered around. I dont have photos but every now and then i find a baby that fell off the mama, and i keep them in a box, feed them kitten formula and then let them go in a week or two.

In captivity Possums live about 4 years. Wild Possums live about two years. They dont suffer from rabies incidences because their body temps are too low for the rabies virus to take hold. They do carry parasites, tularemia , tuberculosis and leptospirosis. Contrary to popular belief, they dont eat actually eat ticks to any degree that they have an effect on the tick population.

Anyway, Happy Mothers Day.

6 second exposure on my Galaxy S23. To the naked eye it's still visible without colour, just tall bands of light.

This stuff gets complicated. It seems to be partially leucistic.

From another site

Leucism prevents pigments from reaching some — or sometimes all — of a bird’s feathers.

Friend of mine that lives in Gerlach got it at about 11 last night. Crazy that it made it this far south.

I'm very happy with how the pic turned out, it looks even better than it did in real life!

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Closing scene: Speech given at the Alaska State Capitol building in Steven Seagal movie, "On Deadly Ground."

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I'd like to start out by saying 'thank you' to all the brothers and sisters who have come here representing this cause.

I've been asked by Mr. Itaka and the Tribal Counsel to speak to you and the members of the Press about the injustice that has been brought against us by the government and big business.

How many of you out there have heard of 'alternate engines' -- engines that can run on anything from alcohol to garbage or water; or carburetors that can get 100s of miles to the gallon, or electric or magnetic engines that can practically run forever? You haven't heard about them because if they were come into use, they [would] put the oil companies out of business.

The concept of the combustion engine has been obsolete for over 50 years, but because of the oil cartels and corrupt government regulations, we in the rest of the world have been forced to use gasoline for over 100 years.

Big business is primarily responsible for destroying the water we drink, the air we breath, and the food we eat. They have no cure for the world they've destroyed. [They care] only for the money they make in the process.

How many oil spills can we endure? Millions and millions of gallons of oil are now destroying the ocean and the many forms of life they support. Among these is Plankton, which supplies 60-90% of the Earth's oxygen, and supports the entire marine ecosystem which forms the basis of our planet's food supply. But the plankton is dying.

I thought, 'Well, let's go to some remote state or country -- anywhere on earth' -- but in doing a little research, I realized that these people broker toxic waste all over the world. They basically control the legislation; and in fact, they control the law. The law says no company can be fined over $25,000 a day. For companies making 10 million dollars a day by dumping lethal toxic waste into the ocean, it's only 'good business' to continue doing this.

They influence the media so that they can control our minds. They have made it a crime to speak out for ourselves; and if we do so we are called 'conspiracy nuts' or laughed at.

We're angry because we're all being chemically and genetically damaged, and we don't even realize it. And unfortunately, this will effect our children.

We go to work every day, and right under out noses we see our car and the car in front of us spewing noxious and poisonous gasses that are accumulative poisons. These poisons kill us slowly, even when we see no effect.

How many of us would have believed 20 years ago that on a certain day we wouldn't be able to see 50 feet in front of us; that we wouldn't be able to take a deep breath because the air would be a mass of poisonous gas; that we wouldn't be able to drink out of our faucets; that we would have to buy water out of bottles; that the most common and God-given rights have been taken away from us; and unfortunately, the reality of our lives is so grim nobody wants to hear it.

Now I've been asked what we can do. I think we need a responsible body of people that can actually represent us, rather than big business. This body of people must not allow the introduction of anything into our environment that is not absolutely biodegradable or able to be chemically neutralized upon production.

And finally, as long as there is profit to be made from the polluting of our earth, companies and individuals will continue to do what they want. We have to force these companies to work safely and responsibly, and with all our best interest in mind, so that when they don't, we can take back our resources and our hearts and our minds to do what's right.

These fuckers have been spreading like wildfire so now Parks Canada has invoked the nuclear option. This is a bit of a test case and I really hope it's successful and shows that zebra mussels can be stopped given appropriate and possibly even temporary restrictions. Of course to Canadians the natural world has no value beyond its use as their playground so a lot of people are gnashing their teeth online about this. Fuck em.

they don't usually look like this he's just all floofed up

Aphid devourer. Poison spitter. Demon of the bug world.

This bug holy shit

The New Caledonian giant gecko (Rhacodactylus leachianus) is the largest extant gecko in the world and is considered an example of island gigantism. This species can live over 20 years in captivity.

Rhacodactylus leachianus

Link to the article here

Lithops fulviceps

Lithops fulviceps is a species of plant in the family Aizoaceae. It occurs in a small region of southern Namibia and northern South Africa. Its natural habitats are rocky areas and cold deserts. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Arctic foxes are incredibly hardy animals that can survive brutal freezing temperatures as low as -50C (-58F). The animals have furry-soled paws, short ears and a short muzzle to help them manage cold climates.

In winter food for the fox is scarce and they often follow larger predators, like polar bears, to eat their leftovers. They live on average for three to six years in the wild and weigh up to 7.5kg (17 lbs).

The ultimate fate of the fox is unknown – the GPS tracker stopped working in February this year.