#avalanches

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[scooby-doo-exploration]

FROM : jacobskevinblog  -   July 8th 2022 ,  Glacier collapsed, AVALANCHE in KYRGYZSTAN, captured by tourists

[dropsofsciencenews]

Between Refuge and Risk: The Avalanche Paradox for Mountain Ungulates

ESP version ITA version In the changing context of mountain environments, climate change manifests with rapid and significant transformations, profoundly influencing sensitive communities and ecological processes. A crucial element in this landscape is represented by the seasonal conditions of snow, which prove to be determinants for the dynamics of mountain ungulate populations. These variations directly affect vital ecological and physiological aspects, such as the energy costs of locomotion, vulnerability to predation, and the availability and quality of forage, both in summer and winter.

A recent study published in Nature explored how mountain goats, adapted to steep terrains to evade predators, paradoxically find themselves at risk due to the frequent instability of these slopes, which can generate avalanches. The research, conducted in southeastern Alaska on 421 goats monitored for 17 years, highlights that avalanches cause between 23% to 65% of annual deaths, primarily affecting the young and small. These steep areas, chosen to mitigate the risk of predation, turn out to be ecological traps due to their high risk of avalanches. This risk is variable, with peaks during the most unstable months for snow, especially at the beginning of winter and during the spring thaw.

The migratory and wintering strategies of ungulates further influence their exposure to the risk of avalanches. For example, mountain goats in Lynn Canal are extremely migratory, moving to low-altitude forested habitats during the winter, while other populations remain at higher altitudes, exposing themselves more to danger.

Climate change exacerbates this dynamic, modifying the frequency and intensity of avalanches, and consequently, the spatial and temporal distribution of these lethal events. Forecasts indicate an increase in wet avalanches compared to those of dry snow, with a potential increase in avalanche mortality rates.

The persistence of this risk in mountain systems, combined with the anticipated rise in the snowline elevation, may reduce the avalanche danger at lower altitudes, but the risk will continue to be a significant component in the ecology of mountain ungulates. However, the demographic influence of avalanches on ungulate populations is likely to persist in the future because both the avalanche danger and the ranges of mountain ungulates are expected to shift upward as the climate warms.

It is essential to emphasize that the growth rates of mountain goat populations are particularly low and can only sustain limited annual removals. Therefore, avalanche mortality, especially among young individuals, can have severe demographic impacts, leading to population decline. These data highlight the need to reconsider conservation and management strategies for these vulnerable populations.

The intensification of climate change and its extreme manifestations, such as avalanches, necessitates a rethinking of conservation policies to protect not only mountain ungulates but also the ecological integrity of mountain environments, which are crucial for global biodiversity.

Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-024-06073-0

Credits picture: NPS/Diane Renkin

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tfw you come across some content (usually a piece of fanfiction) which makes you remember you wanna wear silk ties and sense life deeply, and you start shaking with long-forgotten passion for being fierce and true and vulnerable and dramatic like you're intoxicated with the perfect fantasy you learnt to abandon, and you wanna grab someone hard enough to leave bruises on their skin and let summer flow through you along with coffee and fresh cigarettes, but there's nobody and you're just a lonely quirky man forever imprisoned inside your mind and then you start listening to slow iamx songs

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Library

Avalanches- Wildflower

Prince- Dirty Mind

Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Mosquito

Prince- Prince

Patti Smith- Horses

Beyonce- Crazy In Love

Avalanches- Since I Left You

Prince- Purple Rain

Studio

Grimes- Art Angels

The Drums Portamento

Enon- Grass Geysers... Carbon Clouds

Ariel Pink- Pom Pom

Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti- House Arrest

Enon- Lost Marbles & Exploded Evidence

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Benri is asking you to prom, would you accept? 🥹

[dustedmagazine]

Listed: Equipment Pointed Ankh

Photo: Jennifer Kelly

Equipment Pointed Ankh hammers out intricate rhythmic fever dreams that feel hand-made but actually arise from a complicated deck of digital and electric instruments. The sextet from Louisville, KY has been at it for over a decade and three full-lengths and recently played a mesmerizing set at the Thing in the Spring Festival in Keene, New Hampshire (see photo). Jennifer Kelly reviewed their latest, From Inside the House, earlier this year, noting that, “These tracks bounce and jitter like they want to dance, but then tip sideways into lush string synth lyricism, inscrutable spoken word, and, in one cases, the sound of soda sucked through a straw.” Here are some of the things that inspire them.

Jim Marlowe

Tara Clerkin Trio — Self Titled

Casually excellent clarinet, piano and drum grooves — some live stuff and some studio looping/chopping to great effect. What a great sound. An engaging combo whatever it is. Went nuts after hearing ’em and attempted to find everything else they’ve done. I chose this one but In Spring is another great, very different slice and Live at Bliss Archive is a tough wiggling of jazz tunes through CDJ beer goggles. Calmly unique and cool. One of my most jammed.

Pierre Barouh — Le Pollen

1981 heavy hitting YMO/Mariah and adjacent crews lift up real people chanson singer Pierre Barouh with freshly unboxed synths and a wide-ranging attitude towards song arrangement. The title track is a real highlight for me. Feels like it could have existed as a B-side off Scary Monsters if it was recorded at a restaurant with friends you don't get to see too often. I love it. Trying to think of another superstar group who worked with someone out of their immediate world to such great effect — The Eagles and Joe Walsh? Just kidding.

Ryan Davis

Vacuum Rebuilders — Anything Else Is A Compromise

Not technically a CD, so I'm already breaking the rules here, but I was in Victoria, BC earlier this week and walked into a record store with about 90 seconds to spare before leaving town. This was the first thing that caught my eye, and it was 2 dollars, so I purchased it with the loose change in my pocket and left. My life is better now from having gained this glorious spool of sicko-rock on Calgary’s prestigious Pee Blood label. From the simultaneously brilliant and seemingly microwaved minds that brought you bands like Hairnet, Singing Lawn Chair et al, Arielle McCuaig and Kayla MacNeill are, in this lone Ankhman’s opinion, responsible for some of the most refreshing and exciting rock music to have surfaced from the modern North American underground so far this decade. This specific material is perhaps more sonically aligned with the outsider punk of their Janitor Scum LP on Lumpy than the most recent experimental theater/art-pop/noise-folk shenanigans of their Puppet Wipes project (Looks Real, Siltbreeze), but it's all a part of the same strange and electrifying puzzle as far as my own dumb midwestern ears can conclude.

Gang Starr — Moment of Truth

I’ve listened to rap and hip-hop music throughout nearly every phase of my life since early grade school, but my focus and enthusiasm tend to fluctuate between subgenres therein. And no matter how long I go without listening to it (sometimes years), I always inevitably circle back to what I fell perhaps most in love with growing up, which was early-to-mid 1990s east coast street-wise boom bap shit. Gang Starr’s Moment of Truth, while considered to be of an arguably “post-classic” era by certain purists, is the record of theirs with which I always felt most connected. As of late, it's exactly what I want to hear. Released four years after its predecessor into the freshly treacherous waters of the shiny-suit/jiggy era, the beats, rhymes and ever coolheaded delivery on M.o.T. are as strong or stronger than they were in 1992. If they weren’t already solidified as one of the best emcee/deejay combos to ever do it, they were now. Come for the Inspectah Deck track (shout out Shorty’s “Fulfill the Dream” video from the same year), stay for the truly timeless Guru/Primo magic.

Shutaro Noguchi

José Antonio Méndez — Siempre Estrellas (BMG U.S. Latin)

I sigh every time I listen to this. One of the sexiest male vocals that ever existed on the earth on Si Me Comprendieras. But this CD might possibly be too much of sexy for homosocial ankh van, so I almost went for Perlas Cubanas of his or William Basinski and Janek Schaefer’s …on reflection.

Various Artists — Women of Africa (CSA Records)

Pretty simple but rhythmic melodies and harmonies and just incredible sound choices, phonological elements and beautiful vocals. I almost went for Julia Sarr or Shona’s Mbira CD on Nonsuch. But the first track just made me happy this time around.

Christopher Bush

Daisuke Tobari — Till The End of the Dream

This album is a masterpiece. An idiosyncratic blend of the psychedelic “songbook” (various pages) and the more ritualistic side of far Eastern classical music over seventeen tracks. An intuitive, imaginative and personal set of recordings. At one point, Mr. Tobari sings the words “Happy Birthday.” It is almost too much to get your head around.

Eyes and Arms of Smoke — In Three Houses

Lexington, KY band, active in the mid 2000s. Immaculate sequencing of two tracks, only really do-able in physical format on a CD. First track is a three-minute bongo fever dream with haunted vocals that showcases the song-based home studio sound that they developed on their sole full length, A Religion of Broken Bones. (See Dusted’s 3/9/2006 review). Second track is a twenty-five-minute free-improv mystery that showcases some of the modes unleashed in earlier live sets and tapes. Homespun, disorienting, and other. I cherish this band.

Dan Davis

The KLF — The White Room

This is my shit right now. I can’t really even explain why. It just scratches and itch. Like this is the music made by two dudes who like burned a million pounds or some shit? It’s awesome.

Avalanches — Since I Left You

I’ve been really interested in so called “Plunderphonics” and this record has an insane amount of vinyl samples on it. So, it’s just a fun listen when thinking about the work of making it. Dweeb shit that you can bop to.

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The Noisy Eater - Avalanches feat’ing Biz Markie

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

Winter Landscape - Pekka Halonen // Avalanches (Culla's Song) - A Fine Frenzy

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FROM :  stickey  -  Creeping AVALANCHE in Dagestan, Feb 2021

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[THIS LOOKS BEAUTIFUL. NICE FLAVOR. BUT FLOODS AND AVALANCHES AND EARTHQUAKES? THE PEPPERS. THE SAUSAGE AIN'T BAD.]

[themoosefish]

Dreaming of snow that’s a pleasure rather than a threat. Stay safe and check the avalanche forecast before you go out. Tap the pic to see some avalanche center accounts or visit avalanche.org. — 📍On the lands of the Wenatchi people. — #avalanche #avalanchesafety #avalanches #nwac #snow #snowscience #hiking #snowshoeing #adventure #washington #pnw #pacificnorthwest #northwest #alpinelakeswilderness #mountains #mountainlovers (at Snoqualmie Pass, Washington) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cmj6DDuPvgN/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[patmorganbooks]

Avalanches: A Novel of the Sierra Nevada is a new released book by Patricia Morgan. A mystery unraveling story for the readers.

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The Avalanches - Since I Left You

[semiferalstreetcoyote]

the way i visualize things is frustratingly similar to the frontier psychiatrist music video