Janitor Ludwich IV posted:

i found out there really was a female colonel sanders the other day

Armadillo Tank posted:

Don't post your rule 63 booru searches

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As The Arctic Warms, Beavers Move In
Scientists are just beginning to study the impacts of beaver dams on the tundra

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Until a few decades ago, the northern edge of the beaver’s range was defined by boreal forest, because beavers rely on woody plants for food and material to build their dams and lodges. But rapid warming in the Arctic has made the tundra more hospitable to the large rodents: Earlier snowmelt, thawing permafrost and a longer growing season have triggered a boom in shrubby plants like alder and willow that beavers need.

Aerial photography from the 1950s showed no beaver ponds at all in Arctic Alaska. But in a recent study, Ken Tape, an ecologist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, scanned satellite images of nearly every stream, river and lake in the Alaskan tundra and found 11,377 beaver ponds.

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Inupiat people near Kotzebue in northwest Alaska first noticed beavers living in local streams in the 1980s and 1990s. Inuvialuit hunters on the north slope of the Yukon saw their first beaver dams in 2008 and 2009. Because beavers can have such a dramatic impact on the landscapes they inhabit, seeing these animals in the fragile tundra ecosystem sparked concern.

“The Inuvialuit and Inuit people that I’ve heard from do have some big questions about what changes will happen because of beaver arriving in the Arctic,” says the Yukon biologist Jung.

Those concerns have grown as the beaver numbers increased. Tape and his colleagues’ work tracking the expansion of the beaver population has shown that the tundra around Kotzebue hosted only two beaver dams in 2002, but had 98 dams by 2019. In the adjacent Baldwin Peninsula, he has seen the number of dams grow from 94 to 409 between 2010 and 2019.

But how the beavers will affect specific areas and species in the Arctic is an open question.

Erghh posted:

neat https://www.discovermagazine.com/environment/as-the-arctic-warms-beavers-move-in

Microplastics posted:

Mr colonel sir what are you gonna do with that corn *shy blush*

Hubbert posted:

how about

the original recipe

Seatbelts posted:

Is this real? asking for a friend

DancingShade posted:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1121910/I_Love_You_Colonel_Sanders_A_Finger_Lickin_Good_Dating_Simulator/

Official KFC game.

(no idea where the images are from but I figured it was what you were after)

Lackmaster posted:

no, not fuckin anime. they (and I) want to know if the sexy graybeard colonel sanders is real

Kicked Throat posted:

yes that colonel is real.

Janitor Ludwich IV posted:

i found out there really was a female colonel sanders the other day

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Female Colonel Sanders, easy answers, civil war
The whole world at your fingеrtips, the ocean at your door

Hubbert posted:

not as much as you'd think

Gravid Topiary posted:

Microplastics posted:

I just watched a very stupid film called The Arrival in which a SETI guy uncovers a conspiracy whereby aliens have been disguising themselves as humans and building power plants in various places around the Earth to pump out CO2 and make the planet hotter so that it's more suitable for their kind

Laterite posted:

The Arrival is dumb but fun. Also funny because it's a marker for the beginning of Charlie Sheen's washed-up phase and he's like 31 lol

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Is US ready for more Arctic shipping?
Dec 11, 2022 at 7:00 AM

The ability of the U.S. to keep pace with the upward trend of shipping to, from and through the Arctic region is a growing concern and is exacerbated by a lack of assets being deployed in the region, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO).

“Record low levels of sea ice have made Arctic waters navigable for longer periods of time and have increased opportunities for shipping in the region,” testified Andrew Von Ah, GAO’s director of physical infrastructure, at a Wednesday hearing on Capitol Hill. “This change presents potential economic opportunities as well as safety and environmental risks, particularly given the lack of maritime infrastructure in the region.”

Von Ah’s testimony was in support of GAO’s most recent report on Arctic maritime infrastructure. The report cites data showing the number of vessels in the U.S. Arctic, including transits through the Bering Strait more than doubling between 2009 and 2021 (130-347, see chart).


Number of Vessels in the Coast Guard Arctic Area of Interest, 2009-2021
Source: GAO analysis of U.S. Coast Guard data.
Economic advantages to shipping through the region will likely cause that number to grow. Trans-Arctic routes can drastically cut transit times between certain destinations, thereby reducing fuel and labor costs. For example, the route from Shanghai to northwestern Europe via the Northern Sea Route is 27% shorter than via the Suez Canal.

Most traffic in the U.S. Arctic involves transporting goods to and from the region versus shipping through it — but this also is expected to increase, particularly as the U.S. competes for energy and other natural resources extracted from the U.S. Arctic and shipped to international markets.

But GAO asserted that although diminished sea ice has prolonged the shipping season and opened up shipping routes, “environmental changes have also resulted in less predictable conditions, with more volatile weather and sea ice. The unpredictable and harsh weather and ice conditions — combined with the vast distances and lack of maritime infrastructure — pose safety risks that stretch the region’s already limited search and rescue capabilities and slow incidence response.”

Neither the White House nor the U.S. Coast Guard have included in their most recent Arctic strategies a way to measure progress in addressing maritime gaps in the region, GAO stated, including the construction of a deep-draft port, creating “harbors of refuge” in which a vessel can moor during severe conditions or when in need of repairs, and communications infrastructure.

Without the ability to measure progress as GAO has recommended in the past, the agency stated, “the results of government-wide and Coast Guard efforts cannot be demonstrated, and decision makers cannot gauge the extent of federal progress in addressing maritime infrastructure and capability gaps.”

GAO made five recommendations in two previous reports, in April 2020 and June 2016. Two of these recommendations have been implemented and three remain open. The three open recommendations are:

DancingShade posted:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1121910/I_Love_You_Colonel_Sanders_A_Finger_Lickin_Good_Dating_Simulator/

Official KFC game.

(no idea where the images are from but I figured it was what you were after)

Lackmaster posted:

no, not fuckin anime. they (and I) want to know if the sexy graybeard colonel sanders is real

Kicked Throat posted:

yes that colonel is real. google image search is also real.

https://www.esquire.com/food-drink/restaurants/a27101921/kfc-colonel-sanders-instagram-thirst-trap/

Hubbert posted:

not as much as you'd think

biceps crimes posted:

i want colonel sanders to gently caress me

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The International Olympic Committee is delaying the selection of the 2030 Winter Olympics host city after discussing climate change and sustainability during its executive board meeting on Tuesday. The 2030 host city was originally scheduled to be announced after the 2023 IOC session.

The executive board is giving the Future Host Commission more time to look at the preliminary results of academic research that shows a potential reduction in the number of climate-reliable hosts. A proposal to ensure climate reliability would require hosts to show average minimum temperatures of below zero degrees for snow competition venues during the Winter Games over a 10-year period. Another idea discussed was the rotation of the Olympic Winter Games within a pool of hosts.

RandomBlue posted:

what the gently caress is going on in here?

Stereotype posted:

we are talking about the earth and how great it is doing