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Destruction to marine ecosystems, thanks to DDT dumping...

#california #oceans #toxic waste #ddt #pacific #legacy toxins #marine mammals #cancer

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Funny how (members of) The Right are always the ones playing the (narcissistic) victim card.  E.g.:  “They’re taking our guns away”; “Why should I pay taxes” to help others; “Allowing gays to marry takes away from our christian heritage”; “Why should employers be required to pay a living wage to their labor force?”.......

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Beautiful Kevin!

📸Kurtis Dallon

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ugh

guys

Why is this so adorable

Gay lions, guys

It’s a gay pride.

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Way to go, Senator (should be President) Warren!

#senator elizabeth warren #elizabeth warren

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That should be posted to Wunderground.  Excellent timing - Superb video!

Filming a rainbow when suddenly.

#double rainbow #storm #lightning #lightning bolt

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Lovely, Loving interspecies friendships/siblinghoods!

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If you want to learn about any or all of these areas, click/tap on the caption to migrate to the article, and below the map is a key for each numbered area. Click on the number in the key, and the story emerges.

Excerpt from this story from The Conversation/EcoWatch:

In what may be the most comprehensive evaluation of the environmental state of play in Australia, we show major and iconic ecosystems are collapsing across the continent and into Antarctica. These systems sustain life, and evidence of their demise shows we’re exceeding planetary boundaries.

We found 19 Australian ecosystems met our criteria to be classified as “collapsing.” This includes the arid interior, savannas and mangroves of northern Australia, the Great Barrier Reef, Shark Bay, southern Australia’s kelp and alpine ash forests, tundra on Macquarie Island, and moss beds in Antarctica.

We define collapse as the state where ecosystems have changed in a substantial, negative way from their original state – such as species or habitat loss, or reduced vegetation or coral cover – and are unlikely to recover.

Ecosystems consist of living and non-living components, and their interactions. They work like a super-complex engine: when some components are removed or stop working, knock-on consequences can lead to system failure.

Our study is based on measured data and observations, not modeling or predictions for the future. Encouragingly, not all ecosystems we examined have collapsed across their entire range. We still have, for instance, some intact reefs on the Great Barrier Reef, especially in deeper waters. And northern Australia has some of the most intact and least-modified stretches of savanna woodlands on Earth.

Still, collapses are happening, including in regions critical for growing food. This includes the Murray-Darling Basin, which covers around 14% of Australia’s landmass. Its rivers and other freshwater systems support more than 30% of Australia’s food production.

The effects of floods, fires, heatwaves and storms do not stop at farm gates; they’re felt equally in agricultural areas and natural ecosystems. We shouldn’t forget how towns ran out of drinking water during the recent drought.

#Australia #ecosystems #collapsing #ecosystem #collapse #habitat loss #coral #vegetation loss #kelp forests #loss #moss beds #Shark Bay #mangroves #savannas #great barrier reef #alpine ash

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Legacy pollutants killing off marine animals.

Excerpt from this story from EcoWatch:

California sea lions (Zalophus californianus) have one of the highest rates of cancer of all mammals, and scientists have long wondered why.

The answer, published in Frontiers in Marine Science in December 2020, is complex. But a key component is exposure to toxic chemicals, from when the California coast was an industrial dumping ground.

“It is extraordinary, the level of pollutants in these animals in California. It is a big factor in why we’re seeing this level of cancer,” study coauthor and Marine Mammal Center pathologist Dr. Pádraig Duignan told the Los Angeles Times.

n the past 40 years, 18 to 23 percent of the sea lions treated at the Marine Mammal Center hospital in Sausalito, California died of a particular type of cancer, the center wrote in a press release. This is unusual, as wild mammals tend not to develop this disease. In fact, the California sea lions have the highest rate of a single type of cancer of any mammal, including humans.

This shocked study lead author Frances Gulland when she first started to work at the Marine Mammal Center 26 years ago.

“Wildlife should not be getting cancer like this, that’s crazy!” Gulland told the Los Angeles Times. “How can that be?”

But the 250,000 or so California sea lions breed on islands off the Central California coast, the study authors noted. This is the same area that saw dumping of DDT in the 1960s, and pollution from industrialization and urbanization in the following decades. Industrial trash, radioactive material and waste from oil refineries was also dumped into the ocean, the Los Angeles Times reported.

“With all the dumping since the Second World War, right up to the 1970s, that’s a lot of stuff out there,” Duignan told the Los Angeles Times. “These legacy chemicals haven’t broken down anything appreciable in intervening years, and nobody knows if they ever will. This is something that they’re going to have to be exposed to for who knows how long.”

#Montrose Chemical Corporation #DDT #Petroleum wastes #Radioactive materials

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True, but well-worth-it!

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HOT, Smooooth babe!

Um... I bet it is hard to cool off when you are this hot.

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Lovely legs!

05/07/15

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Fabulous, smooth physique!

Today was a good day

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Such Smooooth, HOT, BEAUTIFUL Legs!

Progress

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