I never heard of some of them. Some places have so few cattle I can see why.

Scientists are concerned that if the AMOC were to collapse, it could trigger drastic climate shifts, especially in Europe, where temperatures could plummet. How a shift in the Gulf Stream could signal the collapse of a major ocean current system When that hits it will be hard to predict how bad things will get.

The philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau duly lamented in 1761 that “the Frenchman reads a lot, but only new books; or to be precise, he leafs through them, not in order to read them but to be able to say that he has read them.” Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose LOL Digitization is merely …

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  The subtleties in this painting don’t photograph very well and is much better to view it in the flesh. This you will be able to do at Aberglasney gardens in April. Sparrowhawk in a rain soaked forest. David Cowdry Art

A post-medieval packhorse bridge in an ancient woodland, Penmachno, north Wales….. I love it.

Kentucky meat shower Just when you thought you heard it all.

​Hopeful but likely a lot more to it. Likely needs massive amounts of fresh water. I never thought it would be this much of a problem.

​ Incan Engineering, earthworks and stone work have been fascinating people for a long time. There is much that the public doesn’t hear about like this example. The inhabitants spent a lot of time modifying their environment. Incans get the credit but they were only one culture in a long chain of them there. Outside the Andes, …

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Somewhat interesting that they may have ranged that far. The reference he cites is intriguing.

Falconer Les Boyd passed away in 2019, but his conservation legacy lives on in this rubber hat. Boyd designed the copulation hat (a.k.a. insemination hat or sex hat) in the early 1970s and as a result, saved a species. (Boyd appears a photo from the Peregrine Fund wearing an early version of his hat.) In …

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