This US Creek Was Dying — Then a Physicist Used Rocks to Bring the Water Back In Silver City, New Mexico, a dying desert creek had spent more than a century cutting deeper into the landscape while groundwater beneath the region continued to decline. Then physicist Van Clothier began using native rocks, water-harvesting structures, …
How to get shot.
It likely won a Darwin Award.
Trout evolution in a human lifetime.
Meta version Trout in Wyoming’s high country evolved new feeding anatomy in less than a human lifetime. A 2023 study in *Evolution*, led by Lucia Combrink at the University of Wyoming, looked at alpine lakes in the Wind River Range that were completely fishless until managers stocked them and wrote down the date. That gave …
Adirondacks off the grid map
Adirondacks off the grid map I thought I posted something equivalent for the west recently but I can’t find it. The west wasn’t much better. It was very hard to get away from the road. 4.5 miles for the ’dacks and about the same in the west if I remember right.
More Miyake storms
A recent report detailed by Phys.org reveals that Earth’s magnetic shield does not cap or “saturate” energy during extreme solar storms, meaning extreme space weather could impact our planet much harder than previously assumed.What the New Study FoundNo Energy Cap: Scientists previously thought the magnetosphere acted like a safety valve, leveling off the amount of …
Red-footed falcons
For years, scientists wondered where all these falcons went. Now they know Red-footed falcons spend their summers scattered across thousands of miles of Europe and Asia before migrating roughly 6,000 miles to southern Africa. GPS trackers eventually pointed researchers toward one tiny, 1.5-square-mile area in central Angola — where, for about six weeks each …
India and Rain.
I was suprised NE India was so wet but it make sense. The following was not directly tied to rain but it is a threat for future events. This was big in the news on Aug 26th. It is easy to see why. One video showed scars on the valley walls where the slope was …
Swimming Bat
I didn’t know they could swim this well. That would drive a big trout to a frenzy.
Olaf Stapledon
In his 1930 novel “Last and First Men,” Olaf Stapledon imagined humanity’s future across two billion years, following civilizations as they rise and fall and tracing 18 successive forms of humanity through extinction, evolution, and strange rebirth.Stapledon called the novel “an essay in myth creation.” Rather than focus on individual characters, he considered humanity from …
Wendell Berry has passed.
Wendell Berry, Writer Who Extolled America’s Agrarian Past, Dies at 92 A prior post.