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peonybookblog · 10 months
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Hey, new Dan Egan? And I had to find out by myself, while wandering around the bookstore three months after it came out? Anyway, awesome book. For context if you’ve read The Death and Life of the Great Lakes, it’s a bit shorter, but slightly more jargon-heavy/less accessible. This is also the perfect time of year to read it with unseasonably early blue-green algal blooms starting already. (On that note, pay attention to beach closures, especially if you’re there with your dog!)
The Devil’s Element is definitely the 10,000 foot view of phosphorus, and I do (unfortunately for my limited free time) want to read a lot more. Egan covers everything from its discovery, to its use in WWII, to the politics of ethanol, to current issues in Florida’s Lake Okeechobee and the surrounding area. There is also a very brief mention of corporations trying to refuse to change their irresponsible business practices on the basis that it would upset America’s housewives. There are a ton of citations and a bibliography in the back, so if you want to learn more, you’ll have a good place to start!
I read The Devil’s Element through the Libby app (which saves me so much money, and I can’t recommend it enough), but my Bookshop affiliate link if you’d like to purchase your own copy is here. Don’t forget to check if your favorite local indie bookstore as an affiliate page instead!
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wausaupilot · 7 months
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DHS investigating suspected blue-green algae illness at Big Eau Pleine reservoir
As a result, signs have been posted at the beach recommending people and pets avoid entering into water that has signs of blue-green algae.
Wausau, Wis. – The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) is investigating reported illnesses suggesting the presence of blue-green algae in the West Unit Beach of the Big Eau Pleine Reservoir in Marathon County. As a result, signs have been posted at the beach recommending people and pets avoid entering into water that has signs of blue-green algae. “Swimming in or swallowing water with…
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drag-tween · 8 months
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dottie-n-stripes · 2 months
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dottie in a girl gang
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intjsimp · 4 months
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It’s finally beach weather in Fl!!
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lionfloss · 2 years
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mugene-art · 6 months
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Biology Keychains - Diatoms and Soil Bacteria!
Designed by me, available now on my Etsy!
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drafthearse · 1 year
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Algal bloom in Dnipro river.
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incompleteninny · 2 years
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The forty-sixth free, unedited chapter of my upcoming book, “The Heist at Cordia Aquarium” is now available on its website (or click here to read from the beginning).
I’m plain exhausted. It’d be nice to spend all day writing and editing and drafting, but The Energy. It eludes me. Or work steals it all.
Avery's consciousness zips back to the world through a dizzying swamp. A journey of swirling thoughts, fluttering eyelids, and an inexplicably dry mouth. It's gross. Like she's got a shriveled up sponge for a tongue. In a few moments, most of the discomfort passes and the world materializes around her: the subtle scent of lavender and lemongrass; rays of early sunset that tint the world red; a steady, eerie creak.
Comfortable, warm, and haunting. Waking up around this time has always felt like that. Felt weird. The creaking doesn't help.
What happened? Where am I?
Her fluttering eyes shoot open and she props herself up. A plush, violet couch supports her now-awake self, herbs creep up from multicolored pots, and Valerie swivels in an office chair behind a mahogany desk. Avery goes to speak, but the words catch in her throat at a rush of memories. The school trip, the girl who lost control, overexerting herself.
Did I pass out?
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sitting-on-me-bum · 1 year
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Bioluminescent water usually comes from an algae bloom off plankton, which will glow when it’s disturbed by a wave breaking, or a splash in the water at night.
Photographer Callie Chee
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opens-up-4-nobody · 4 months
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I have to write a thing for a radio broadcast and I've spent so long studying cyanobacteria that I don't know what public knowledge is like. So:
In what context have you heard about cyanobacteria/blue-green algae?
What do you know about cyanobacteria?
What would you like to know about them?
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jana-aych-ess · 7 months
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need dick from a girl who blooms. not like a flower, but like an algae. whose countless bodies feed on the runoff of a world that has swallowed itself. whose countless bodies poison the water I swim in. clogging my gills. blocking the light. need to choke on someone who was always there, waiting to become something bigger than I could possibly imagine
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concorp · 4 months
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hahahaha oh my god. we’re giving final presentations in my ecosystems ecology class and one classmate’s is on the red tide. and. they had a slide that looked like this:
contributing factors
[mumbo jumbo sugarcane farm thumbnail]
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clove-pinks · 4 days
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I think a lot about a diary entry from Captain Daniel Cushing at Fort Meigs in May, 1813. The Maumee River was an astonishing source of bounty—you could even fish in it using a red rag for bait.
Fine weather this morning, my men in high spirits, fish plenty, no want of provisions, all that is wanting to have things complete is a little whisky. I took sail in a small canoe this morning and caught 62 white bass that would weigh about one pound each; returned before dinner; caught them with a hook and line baited with a red rag.
There is a lot of talk of fishing in Captain Cushing's diary, and in other Fort Meigs narratives. The men started fishing for food very early in the year (and who can blame them).
Fast forward 210 years and the same place is vastly transformed. I know that I will never see the Maumee like Captain Cushing did, but at least in 2022 the ban on eating fish from the Maumee River was lifted.
I think the article "Learning to Love the Great Black Swamp" is excellent, but overly pessimistic. Since it was written in 2017, the restored Howard Marsh Metropark was created, and there have been other successful restoration projects.
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brothfan1997 · 11 months
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screaming for just a minute part of my new job is doing tide pool interpretation and it is so fucking fun it is unreal. i get asked the most obscure weird questions because i talk to so many tourists and people who have never seen the pacific ocean and its just SO FUN i got to talk to someone for 20 minutes today about deoxugenation and the effects of climate change on our local ecosystems and its just so interesting i LOVE IT!!!!
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lionfloss · 1 year
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