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Airspace reboot after volcano ash cloud

nyfikengron — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 06:32:32 +0000

Bay’s

nyfikengron — Fri, 14 May 2010 06:50:41 +0000

Photo: Anna Elvira

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Jag är tillbaka när björken är klar

nyfikengron — Fri, 07 May 2010 08:47:24 +0000

Photo: Anna Elvira

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An Urban Nature

nyfikengron — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 06:58:49 +0000

Photo: Michael Clesle

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Quarter past 5

nyfikengron — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 07:07:59 +0000

Photo: Debasis

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Reuse, Reduce, Recycle?

nyfikengron — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 06:45:14 +0000

Lady Gaga: Reuse, Reduce, Recycle?

I just love the fact that the reuse concept is taken to heart in so many different places! Don’t you?

Earth Hour Live

nyfikengron — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 22:39:12 +0000

Sunset Hunt

nyfikengron — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 06:40:38 +0000

Image: prozac1

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Snow laden temple in Kyoto

nyfikengron — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:53:45 +0000

This was one of those really cold days at least that’s what I would like to remember it like. I was bicycling in Kyoto, up in the mountains. So at one of the temples there I saw this view. It was a kind of pristine environment. With a lot of trees surrounding the road and everywhere you went. But lately it has been like this in Sweden as well, although more in the north than in the south. -Jonathan Sundqvist

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Planetary Boundary Nr 9: Atmospheric aerosol loading

nyfikengron — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:13:30 +0000

Planetary Boundary Nr 9: Atmospheric aerosol loading

This is considered a planetary boundary for two main reasons: (i) the influence of aerosols on the climate system and (ii) their adverse effects on human health at a regional and global scale. Without aerosol particles in the atmosphere, we would not have clouds. Most clouds and aerosol particles act to cool the planet by reflecting incoming sunlight back to space. Some particles (such as soot) or thin high clouds act like greenhouse gases to warm the planet. In addition, aerosols have been shown to affect monsoon circulations and global-scale circulation systems. Particles also have adverse effects on human health, causing roughly 800,000 premature deaths worldwide each year. While all of these relationships have been well established, all the causal links (especially regarding health effects) are yet to be determined. It has not yet been possible specific threshold value at which global-scale effects will occur; but aerosol loading is so central to climate and human health that it is included among the boundaries.

Morocco

nyfikengron — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:30:15 +0000

Photo: Michael Odevall

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Planetary Boundary Nr 8: Nitrogen and phosphorus inputs to the biosphere and oceans

nyfikengron — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:06:11 +0000

Planetary Boundary Nr 8: Nitrogen and phosphorus inputs to the biosphere and oceans

Human modification of the nitrogen cycle has been even greater than our modification of the carbon cycle. Human activities now convert more N2 from the atmosphere into reactive forms than all of the Earth´s terrestrial processes combined. Much of this new reactive nitrogen pollutes waterways and coastal zones, is emitted to the atmosphere in various forms, or accumulates in the terrestrial biosphere. A relatively small proportion of the fertilizers applied to food production systems is taken up by plants. A significant fraction of the applied nitrogen and phosphorus makes its way to the sea, and can push marine and aquatic systems across thresholds of their own. A concrete example of this effect is the decline in the shrimp catch in the Gulf of Mexico due to hypoxia caused by fertilizer transported in rivers from the US Midwest.

Lite fredagskul!

nyfikengron — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:25:52 +0000

Storm Brewing Over Viking Graveyard

nyfikengron — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:25:22 +0000

Image: Dr Joseph Valks

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Urban Nature or Just Overseen Nature?

nyfikengron — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:14:24 +0000

Oil Field 07/1972 Photo: The U.S. National Archives’ photostream

You might think of us as humans and of our homes as cities. Animals are far out there in the far away forest or oceans or mountains or wherever. This is of course true but, if you think about it, we humans are in the middle of our nature.

That we humans, in fact are animals is something most people rather not think about. And if we admit to being animals we must be a bit better than other animals because we are intellectual. This might be true, but what also is true is that we are as dependent of nature as any other animal. Everything around us: furniture, clothes, food, water, medicine, building materials for our houses, even plastic comes from nature to begin with.

Without nature as a resource for all of this we wouldn’t survive. We are part of nature and the more we fight it the more problems we run into. Acceptance. Live and let live. Do I sound out there? Well thank God today is Thursday Thoughts!