Shannon Kirshner
@shstone82.bsky.social
Mum, ecologist, town planner, and gardener. Plant enthusiast and bird advocate. All views my own.
Plant species in the US are now flowering 3 to 4 weeks earlier than they were in the 1850s. Using historical citizen science data, Florida scientists are developing methodologies to predict future bud break and flowering dates. www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/scie...
Scientists can now predict how climate change will alter plant growth cycles
On February 2, 1887, residents of Punxsutawney Pennsylvania consulted a large rodent regarding the arrival of spring, marking the first official celebration of Groundhog Day. According to Rob Guralnic...
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January 12, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Plant species in the US are now flowering 3 to 4 weeks earlier than they were in the 1850s. Using historical citizen science data, Florida scientists are developing methodologies to predict future bud break and flowering dates. www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/scie...
Is this the future for many more of our beloved seabirds? Please don't make it so. www.fws.gov/project/moni...
Monitoring the Common Murre Mass Mortality in Coastal Alaska | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Sentinels of ocean health: counting a climate catastrophe Common murres help us understand the health of Alaska's marine ecosystems – and sound a warning when there is trouble below the waves.
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December 13, 2024 at 8:47 AM
Is this the future for many more of our beloved seabirds? Please don't make it so. www.fws.gov/project/moni...
Support the farmers. And read every word in this article. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
What are the inheritance tax changes affecting UK farmers?
Farmers to protest in central London as they say changes will destroy family farms
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November 19, 2024 at 8:00 AM
Support the farmers. And read every word in this article. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Nothing good happens when you destroy family farms. Farming margins are so tight as it is and yet as a cash-poor business, small farmers would have to break up their farms to pay the inheritance tax. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘You betrayed us’: how UK farmers swiftly turned on Labour over inheritance tax plans
Despite winning a swathe of rural seats, the government’s budget has caused a rupture with the farming community, who have vowed to ‘fight their corner’
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2024 at 9:51 AM
Nothing good happens when you destroy family farms. Farming margins are so tight as it is and yet as a cash-poor business, small farmers would have to break up their farms to pay the inheritance tax. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
We don't need fireworks anymore. I know that's going to be disappointing to the kids but the disappointment can be softened with an explanation that it harms helpless animals, like this highly endangered red panda cub. And countless birds. www.google.com/amp/s/amp.th....
Fireworks blamed for baby red panda’s death at Edinburgh zoo
Royal Zoological Society of Scotland calls for tougher laws after three-month-old Roxie dies from Bonfire Night stress
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November 16, 2024 at 8:45 AM
We don't need fireworks anymore. I know that's going to be disappointing to the kids but the disappointment can be softened with an explanation that it harms helpless animals, like this highly endangered red panda cub. And countless birds. www.google.com/amp/s/amp.th....
The iconic African penguin is now critically endangered, primarily from a lack of food. Sign and share this petition to call on the South African government to expand and enforce the no-take fishing zones off their coast. Thank you! only.one/act/save-afr...
November 13, 2024 at 2:39 PM
The iconic African penguin is now critically endangered, primarily from a lack of food. Sign and share this petition to call on the South African government to expand and enforce the no-take fishing zones off their coast. Thank you! only.one/act/save-afr...