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Officials ban sale of staple food item amid public health crisis: 'Our livelihood depends on it'

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The Gulf Stream is on the verge of COLLAPSING, scientists warn - as they find the first concrete evidence of major ocean circulation system weakening | Daily Mail Online

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Investigation uncovers huge smuggling network with shocking cargo: 'What we're seeing is just the tip of the iceberg'

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Photo Daniel Gordon 1896

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Manatee

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🩷🤍💛💚

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To a Whisper

this kind arrival

warm sheer embrace -the season herald

honey’d trees and damp earth underfoot

cool anticipation in our movements and shadows

intoxicated light played between the pleats of your auburn dress

the harvest has found us in quiet beginning

where lovers slow moments and remind the stars why

Euclid’s favored echo

the electric silk we breathe on a watercolor evening

patchwork romance

twilight carousel

our silhouettes among the Iris laugh

the Oak’s face is mighty

the Elm’s -fearful

the Sycamore sheds its yesterdays and we hang in the balance 

of impossible schemes becoming real

jk

artist -Marc Chagall

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American white pelicans at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge.

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from those years

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Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861)　歌川国芳

left panel of the triptych  Fireflies in the Cool Evening　涼みの蛍、 1843-47

from the series Leisure Activities of the Four Seasons　四季有閑

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The Eagle Nebula (catalogued as Messier 16 or M16, and as NGC 6611, and also known as the Star Queen Nebula) is a young open cluster of stars in the constellation Serpens, discovered by Jean-Philippe de Cheseaux in 1745–46.

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Dhritiman Mukherjee, photographer

Critically endangered freshwater gharial. Once numbering over 20,000 in South Asia, fewer than 1,000 adults remain today, with most concentrated in a sanctuary in Uttar Pradesh. Unlike other crocodiles, the unique shape of the gharial's snout prevents it from carrying its babies in its mouth, so the little ones cling to its head and back for protection and connection.