learning that most trees do not derive from a single lineage but actually only look and function superficially similarly due to convergent evolution is one of the most fucked up things i’ve ever learned and i will never be the same person as i was before i learned that
Oak trees are quite a bit more closely related to roses than they are to pine trees.
So are apple and cherry and pear trees! But palm trees are basically grass
Like many animal lines have gotten Huge and Lumpy in the ocean, so have plants gotten Tall and Woody in the sunlight.
rick and morty is good actually but no one is allowed to say that because idiot dudebros ruined it for everyone
rick and morty had an episode that combined a political drama, an allegory for tensions between cops and racial minorities, a parody of the film stand by me, and a discussion of class uprising and actually made sense and tied into an earlier narrative but we can’t enjoy that because some entitled assholes took a joke too seriously and acted like jerks at mcdonalds
She, we the helpt of an expert, and volunters, removed 39,602 golf balls from intertidal and nearshore environments near Carmel, California, and combined with concurrent cleanup efforts, they report the retrieval of 50,681 balls, approximately 2.5 tons of debris.
- A harbor seal (Phoca vitulina) swimming near a dense aggregation of golf balls, and a threatened southern sea otter (Enhydra lutris nereis) handles a golf ball.
According to authors of the study, golf ball pollution is likely an underreported problem associated
with coastal courses worldwide. Nearshore marine environments in
close proximity to golf courses may similarly accumulate debris and
should be surveyed to develop context-dependent mitigation strategies.
Marine plastic pollution is a diffuse and seemingly intractable global
problem, but the identification and remediation of known point sources
of pollution is a tangible step in reducing the deleterious impacts of
anthropogenic activity on marine systems
Photo:
Several examples of dense aggregations of hundreds of golf balls encountered in the nearshore environment at the Pebble Beach study site.
I am Silver Tongue, I am an artist. I have many characters and you can check out my art in the art tag. I occasionally practice witchcraft though I don't do anything too complicated. I am girl 2 and don't know what else to put here.
