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Been going on a lot of camera-less walks recently. On those, if I see something pretty, the phone has to suffice. Here's four shots from three walks (top and bottom left were taken today).

#landscape #landscapephotography #naturephotography #nature #photography #forest #fall #autumn #fog #frost

Sunlight filtering through coniferous trees illuminating otherwise-unseen mist in a valley. A path with a small bridge with wooden railings.
Sunlit fields seen from a hill, trees framing the shot.
Cool colors of a valley on a frosty day. Clear sky.
Fog surrounds a hunting stand overlooking forlorn fall-foliaged forest.
#nature #Photography #landscapephotography #landscape #forest #naturephotography #autumn #fog #fall #frost

The incredible (and often overlooked) mountain landscape of the Isle of Harris, Scotland. This place is rugged and unvisited, partly because the beaches of the island steal away attention and partly because of its unforgiving character. Many of these areas are fairly unexplored in terms of photography and I'm excited to spend a bit more time doing just that over the coming years.

#landscapephotography #landscape #nature #naturephotography #scotland #uk #photography

rocky foreground leads downhill towards a small loch nestled in the mountains with orange grasses surrounding it
#nature #Photography #landscapephotography #landscape #naturephotography #UK #scotland

#ThickTrunkTuesday

The film version of my image Alleviate. I took this frame while exploring the #PNW coasts of #Washington and the #olympicnationalpark area.

I loved the way the sunlight was highlighting the edges of all the moss on these Alder trees. A beautiful display of #nature

📸 Bronica SQA
🎞️ #kodakgold200
⚗️ Lab Developed
🖼️ Self Scanned

#naturephotography #naturephoto #forest #Forestphotography #RealPhotosofRealPlaces #believeinfilm #filmisnotdead

A quiet forest stream winds between old growth alders. Miss covers the branches, with the rising sunrise lights highlighting the edges of the trees. Image taken on Kodak Gold Film.
#nature #forest #naturephotography #filmisnotdead #pnw #thicktrunktuesday #believeinfilm #Washington #kodakgold200 #realphotosofrealplaces #olympicnationalpark #naturephoto #Forestphotography

#SilentSunday
#nature #photography #michigan
A tranquil lake reflects trees in autumn colors, with golden leaves contrasting against a backdrop of bare branches. The sky appears muted, providing a calm atmosphere.
#nature #Photography #SilentSunday #michigan

Crystal Hues
By Erin Hanson ©

#art #mastoart #painting #landscape #nature #trees

Very colourful open impressionist style painting of a large tree with leaves in several colours, and its deep blue shadow in front of it on a colourful field. on the right is more high colourful foliage. The sky is coloured soft blue and soft pink.
#art #mastoart #nature #painting #landscape #Trees

#SilentSunday
#nature #photography #michigan #sunset
From 1 year ago today…a sunset that reached down and surrounded me. A dramatic sunset featuring vibrant orange and red clouds reflected on a serene body of water, with a silhouette of a distant hill and a swan swimming in the foreground.
#nature #sunset #Photography #SilentSunday #michigan

American Entomology, or Descriptions of the Insects of North America (ca. 1824–1828)
Print in high resolution by Thomas Say

#art #mastoart #nature

Two large blue butterflies to a light grey background.
#art #mastoart #nature

Misty day in the valley yesterday, but higher up, a dopamine rush of bright sun & mind-sharpening blue.

Bonus: the meteorological weirdness of fast-moving cloud hugging close to Fountains Fell; autumn grasses in tarnished golds; scattered flocks of sheep and plover; the local farmer on his buggy, old sheepdog riding pillion.

Headed back revived.

#landscape #nature #SheepOfMastodon

A bright blue sky, totally clear, except for a low level of cloud tight against the outline of a low hill. In the foreground, open grassland with sheep grazing. The grasses in the distance are autumn-hued.
#nature #landscape #SheepOfMastodon

I had the immense pleasure and honor of seeing a #GiantPacificOctopus in the south Salish Sea today. #octopus #pnw #PugetSound #SalishSea #nature #wildlife
A large giant pacific octopus rests in clear water with rocks and barnacles. Its coloration is pinky. A small bit of the boardwalk covered in moss or lichen can be seen.
#nature #wildlife #pnw #octopus #giantpacificoctopus #pugetsound #salishsea

The European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope is assembling the largest 3D map of the universe ever made.

The first section is now complete. Take a look at what happens when you zoom in...

esa.int/Science_Exploration/Sp… #space #science #astronomy #nature

The huge mosaic released by ESA’s Euclid space telescope on 15 October 2024 accounts for 1% of the wide survey that Euclid will capture over six years. The location and actual size of the mosaic on the Southern Sky is shown in yellow.
This mosaic made by ESA’s Euclid space telescopes contains 260 observations collected between 25 March and 8 April 2024. This is 1% of the wide survey that Euclid will capture during six years. In just two weeks, Euclid covered 132 square degrees of the Southern Sky, more than 500 times the area of the full Moon as seen from Earth. The full mosaic is 208 gigapixels.
This image shows an area of the mosaic released by ESA’s Euclid space telescope on 15 October 2024. The area is zoomed in twelve times compared to the large mosaic. In the middle left, spiral galaxy NGC 2188 is visible edge-on at a distance of 25 million light-years. In the top right corner, galaxy cluster Abell 3381 is now clearly noticeable, 678 million light-years away from us.
This image shows an area of the mosaic released by ESA’s Euclid space telescope on 15 October 2024. The area is zoomed in 150 times compared to the large mosaic. On the left of the image, Euclid captured two galaxies (called ESO 364-G035 and G036) that are interacting with each other, 420 million light-years from us. On the right of the image, galaxy cluster Abell 3381 is visible, 678 million light-years away from us.

Zoom into the first page of ESA Euclid’s great cosmic atlas

On 15 October 2024, ESA’s Euclid space mission revealed the first piece of its great map of the Universe, showing millions of stars and galaxies.
www.esa.int
#nature #science #space #astronomy

Under the #autumn canopy
#nature #photography
Giant tree with yellow orange leaves and sun poking through
#nature #Photography #autumn

I know it's fall but I looked back at some midsummer photos of this Anna's Hummingbird working some beebalm flowers in our front yard. Well, the flowers have all faded now, but the Anna's stay with us all winter. #photography #nature #naturephotography #birdphotography #hummingbird #birds #flowers
An Anna's hummingbird in flight sucking nectar from crimson beebalm flowers.
An Anna's hummingbird in flight sucking nectar from crimson beebalm flowers.
An Anna's hummingbird in flight sucking nectar from crimson beebalm flowers.
An Anna's hummingbird in flight sucking nectar from crimson beebalm flowers.
#nature #Photography #birds #naturephotography #flowers #hummingbird #birdphotography

Computer models designed to simulate slime molds (left) turn out to be exceptionally good at simulating the large-scale structure of the universe (right).

Similar network patterns appear across scales differing by 30 orders of magnitude!

newsroom.nmsu.edu/news/nmsu-as… #science #nature #astronomy

Physarum mold growing on 4” petri dish with flakes of oatmeal for food.
An image from Farhanul Hansan’s paper in the Astrophysical Journal shows the large-scale matter distribution and cosmic “filaments” of the universe are more faithfully captured by the slime mold model than the existing standard framework. (Image courtesy Farhanul Hasan)

NMSU astronomy research uses slime mold to model galaxies

When researchers in Japan conducted an experiment with slime mold that mirrored the Tokyo railway system back in 2010, it sparked the emergence of a theory known as biologically inspired adaptive...
NMSU
#nature #science #astronomy

A newly discovered bacterium, Uabimicrobium helgolandensis, eats other bacteria and is a kind of 'bacteria of prey,' that should not even exist based on previous concepts about microbial cells. It could be a kind of microbial missing link, researchers suggest.

#biology #nature #life #cell #microbiology #science #research

labroots.com/trending/microbio…

The "Incomprehensible" Cell - A Parasitic Prokaryote is Discovered

All complex life forms on Earth, including plants and animals, are made up of eukaryotic cells; they are more sophisticated than bacterial or archaeal cell
Carmen Leitch (Labroots)
#nature #science #Research #life #biology #microbiology #cell

#SilentSunday

Ferns growing atop the root system of a giant ancient redwood tree that fell over.

Photo from the Founders Grove in the Avenue of the Giants, California.

#California #Redwood #Trees #Nature

We are looking at the underside of a stump that is more than 8 feet tall. The stump roots are getting quite weathered and mossy. Fern grow top the log.
#nature #california #Trees #SilentSunday #Redwood

A team of scientists from the University of Bristol recently released research that pushed the date of our Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA) back to about 4.2 billion years ago.

This suggests that the life that is in each of us, and in each of the organisms that make up our very large extended family, runs in an unbroken chain backward for 4.2 billion years.

That’s a pretty considerable investment by the universe in every living thing.

Perhaps we should reflect on that a little more as we continue to muck around on this planet.

It might be time to start fitting in.

aspenproposal.org

#sustainability #philosophy #ClimateChange #biodiversity #nature #politics #economics #religion #Science

A bee, one of our cousins, sips some nectar from a flower in the Kimberley Nature Park.

Shifting the Paradigm | Aspen Proposal

The Aspen Proposal provides a description of a sustainable human civilization 200 - 500 years in the future. This is a goal that will focus our efforts, allow us to backcast and provide hope for those working for change.
Aspen Proposal
#politics #nature #science #Religion #philosophy #climatechange #sustainability #Economics #biodiversity

A perfect day for hiking and the woods offered up this bright bouquet of Honey Mushrooms.

Ringless Honey Mushrooms
[Armillaria tabescens]

#FungiFriday #Fungi #Nature #Mushrooms #Pilze #Mushtodon

Approximately 16 mushrooms growing up from a central spot in the moss. All the mushrooms are fresh and have bright yellow stubby caps with whitish thick stems. The stems also have jagged flaky pieces covering them. There is a tree stump behind them covered with moss and lichen.
#nature #fungi #mushrooms #mushtodon #FungiFriday #pilze

Please, no one tell this little guy that he's not hidden very well. Please don't spoil his dreams.

#photography #wildlife #nature #toad #garden

A picture of a toad, looking into the camera from a side profile, standing on a grey, concrete paving slab. Over the toad's head is a green buddleja leaf, doing a poor job hiding it
#nature #Photography #garden #wildlife #toad

I just realized I haven't shared sandstone #photos. Sandstone is fascinating and #beautiful and forms various crazy shapes. Endless possibilities for both large and small scale #photography. Photo is titled 'Among the Waves'.

#thursday #photo #landscape #landscapephotography #rock #pink #shape #nature #naturephotography #color #australia #photographie

a vertical sandstone landscape with sandstone looking like a wave ahd making two curves. The photo is showing sunset time so both the sky and the rocks are in pink tones.
#rock #photo #nature #Photography #landscapephotography #Australia #landscape #naturephotography #Photographie #color #pink #Beautiful #photos #thursday #shape

Twenty minutes of fireflies in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, near the famous Elkmont campground. The yellow sparkles are Photinus carolinus, the synchronous fireflies that have become a tourism sensation, and the greenish trails are the more enigmatic "blue ghost" Phausis reticulata.

#Fireflies #Nature #Photography #Lampyridae

Night landscape photograph showing a flat gravel path through a mature forest, with orange sparkles dotting the top half of the image, and several erratic green light trails underneath them, lower to the ground.
#nature #Photography #fireflies #lampyridae

Stop APRIL, Indonesia’s ruthless paper and pulp giant!
#nature #biodiversity #Ecosystem #ecosystems #forest #forests #rainforest #tree #trees #deforestation #Petition
rainforest-rescue.org/petition…

Stop APRIL, Indonesia’s ruthless paper and pulp giant!

The paper giant APRIL/Royal Golden Eagle (RGE) and other companies owned by billionaire Sukanto Tanoto have been destroying the Indonesia's rainforests and the livelihoods of local communities for half a century.
www.rainforest-rescue.org
#nature #forest #Trees #tree #petition #biodiversity #deforestation #ecosystem #ecosystems #forests #rainforest

Malaysia plans to give orangutans to countries that buy palm oil | Malaysia | The Guardian
theguardian.com/world/article/…

Uhm, bizarre move

#Malaysia #PalmOil #Nature #Environment


Malaysia plans to give orangutans to countries that buy palm oil

‘Orangutan diplomacy’ strategy aims to ease concern over environmental impact of palm oil production, says minister
Rebecca Ratcliffe (The Guardian)
#nature #environment #Malaysia #palmoil

#Road building almost always precedes #forest loss, and road density is by far the strongest correlate of #deforestation out of 38 #biophysical and #socioeconomic factors.
Findings of the study imply that the most vital #conservation function of protected areas is limiting roads and road-related environmental disruption. They suggest that burgeoning, poorly studied ghost roads are among the gravest of all direct #threats to #tropical forests.

nature.com/articles/s41586-024…

#asia #nature #environment


Ghost roads and the destruction of Asia-Pacific tropical forests - Nature

An effort to map roads in the Asia-Pacific region finds that there are 3.0–6.6 times more roads than other sources suggest, and that unmapped ‘ghost roads’ are a major contributor to tropical forest loss.
Nature
#nature #environment #forest #conservation #asia #deforestation #tropical #road #biophysical #socioeconomic #threats

Powerful eruption occurring now at Ruang volcano in Indonesia's North Sulawesi Province. Hundreds evacuated so far.

Photos show the lava flow, huge ash cloud, and volcanic lightning.

reuters.com/world/asia-pacific… #volcano #science #nature

At least 800 people in Indonesia's North Sulawesi province have been evacuated after multiple eruptions of the area's Ruang volcano, which for days has spewed lava and ash clouds into the sky, the country's volcanology agency said on Wednesday.
At least 800 people in Indonesia's North Sulawesi province have been evacuated after multiple eruptions of the area's Ruang volcano, which for days has spewed lava and ash clouds into the sky, the country's volcanology agency said on Wednesday.
#nature #science #volcano

Fossil stingray (Cyclobatis sp.)
Upper Cretaceous. Approximately 100.5 million to 66 million years ago. When alive, this creature lived in warm, shallow seas and had a very short tail, which was fitted with a venomous stinger. Discovered in Haqil, Byblos, Lebanon. It just happens to look like an ancient space alien. #science #fossil #archeology #evolution #photo #nature #biology #wildlife
Fossil stingray (Cyclobatis sp.) Upper Cretaceous. Approximately 100.5 million to 66 million years ago. When alive, this creature lived in warm, shallow seas, had a very short tail, which was fitted with a venomous stinger.Discovered in Haqil, Byblos, Lebanon.
#photo #nature #science #Evolution #biology #wildlife #fossil #archeology

There is only one planet ever discovered so far, that can support human life.

And that's the one e live on.

#Nature #Earth #environment

#nature #environment #earth

There is still much we have yet to discover…

nytimes.com/2024/03/10/science… #science #nature #giftlink

#nature #science #giftlink

The world's business and finance sectors can do much more to reverse deforestation—here's the data to prove it #nature #forest #deforestation #business #finance #politics phys.org/news/2024-03-world-bu…

The world's business and finance sectors can do much more to reverse deforestation—here's the data to prove it

Big corporations could drive a worldwide shift towards more sustainable supply chains that limit damage caused by deforestation.
Mary Gagen (Phys.org)
#politics #nature #forest #business #deforestation #finance

Dairy farmers accused of ‘radical’ damage to landscape #AnimalRights #nature #environment #milk #dairy thetimes.co.uk/article/dairy-f…

Dairy farmers accused of ‘radical’ damage to landscape

Natural features are being levelled to improve grazing despite laws requiring government approval for such works
Jeremy Watson (The Times)
#nature #environment #animalrights #dairy #milk

Fox Gloves
By Jennifer Lommers ©

jenniferlommers.com

#art #nature #flowers

Painting of a tall green plant with many little pink and purple coloured flowers in it. The background is coloured in shades of soft orange and green.
#art #nature #flowers

The path today - the sense of a boundary line between winter and spring.

#nature #landscape #YorkshireDales

A walled gravel path climbs gradually up the hill towards a rough outcrop of limestone scar. There's some bare winter trees, patches of grass, and the sky is a bright blue with large billowing white clouds. There's a clean feeling to the scene - on the boundaryline of winter and spring.
#nature #landscape #yorkshiredales

Last of the snow.

#landscape #nature

A rough gravel track winds away into the distance, through an open gate in an old stone wall. There are some stark winter trees black against an overcast sky. In the shadow of the wall, there's a deep bank of white snow, echoed by more white strips in the hollows of the hill.
#nature #landscape

Sussex River
By Gill Bustamante ©

#art #nature #river #landscape #trees #birds

Creative painting of a vertical river that is white in the middle and blue on the left, with two white and blue coloured birds flying above it. Left and right next to the river are the abstract blue and green shapes of trees. In the foreground left and right is a layer of somewhat transparant little pink shapes over the painting.
#art #nature #birds #landscape #Trees #river

Im Park
By Eugen Kunkel ©

#art #nature #trees

Bit abstract painting of a large leaveless tree with a thick light brown trunk and many branches, some with red flower ends, The tree is standing on soil that is covered with purple, yellow and green grass. Through the branches you see the light blue sky.
#art #nature #Trees

Guard Old-Growth Forests from Logging
#Petition #nature #biodiversity #Ecosystem #ecosystems #forest #forests #rainforest #tree #trees #deforestation
act.biologicaldiversity.org/Vm…

Guard Old-Growth Forests from Logging

Mature and old-growth forests are a vital part of a healthy planet. They fight climate change, support healthy watersheds and withstand wildfire better than young forests. Sadly, most old-growth forests have been logged. Help save what’s left.
act.biologicaldiversity.org
#nature #forest #Trees #tree #petition #biodiversity #deforestation #ecosystem #ecosystems #forests #rainforest

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