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Insects are critical to the survival of most other animals, including humans. But many insect species, from beetles to dragonflies to butterflies, are declining in abundance due in part to human activity. For Earth Month, Insectarium host Dr. Jessica L Ware gives tips on small things each of us can do to make a lasting impact and help insects thrive for years to come.

Learn more about insects with Museum Curator Jessica Ware in Insectarium on PBS Terra's YouTube channel.

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[Image: A collage poster, featuring several drawings of different landscapes, and a black-and-white photo of Earth. Title text says Earth Day, and smaller text reads “That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. … It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever had.” Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot. End ID]

there’s no place like home!

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Hey, happy Earth Day! Who wants to talk about climate change?

Yeah, okay, fair, I kinda figured the answer to that would be "ugh do we have to?" What if I told you I have good news though? Good news with caveats, but still good news.

What if I told you that since the Paris Agreement in 2015, we've avoided a whole degree celsius of global warming by 2100, or maybe more?

Current projections are 2.7C, which is way better than the 3-5C (with a median of 3.7C) we were expecting in 2015. It's not where we want to be - 1.5C - but it is big, noticeable progress!

And it's not like we either hit 1.5C and avoid all the big scary consequences or fail to hit 1.5C and get all of them - every tenth of a degree of warming we avoid is going to prevent more severe problems like extreme weather, sea level rise, etc.

This means that climate change mitigation efforts are having a noticeable impact! This means a dramatically better, safer future - and if we keep pushing, we could lower the amount of global warming we end up with even further. This is huge progress, and we need to celebrate it, even though the fight isn't over.

It's working. Keep going.

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Keiko swims with a pod of Ichthyotitan severnensis, a truly gigantic shastasaurid icthyosaur which lived about 205-202 million years ago at the end of the Triassic of what is now southern England and at 25 meters long is possibly the single largest Mesozoic marine reptile ever discovered, in her mermaid form.

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The Blue Veil, 1907 by Glauco Cambon (Italian, 1875–1930)

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weird animal flipbooks i made

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cave painting capybara

(based off this painting!!🧡🧡)

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daily painting - 03-15-2024 - two surgeons. oil on paper. if you would ever like to go insane over a painting, use a weird limited palette.

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Solar Eclipse, Howard Russell Butler, 1925

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II MOST WANTED

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Twin stars always fall to earth together!

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“she should be at the club” well i should be in the green house party paintings by salman toor

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UFL (unidentified flying loach)

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sardard

(do not repost or reuse my art)

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Claudia Williams (British, b. 1933)

Collecting Shells, Moonlight, 1990