pickI don't usually pick up books about the environment, but this was a fascinating look at our changing oceans.
A thanks to the Women's Prize for NF as I wouldn't have picked it up otherwise!
...efforts are already underway to clean up the plastic debris floating in the ocean. The Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit organisation, was founded in 2013 by a then-teenage entrepreneur, Boylan Slat, from the Netherlands. Outraged by disastrous plastic pollution... began sending out ships towing U-shaped barriers to skim floating plastic from the infamous Great Pacific Garbage Patch....
https://theoceancleanup.com/
Elsewhere, coral species are gathered up, and their cells, sperm, and eggs are frozen. It's a similar scheme to seed banks, which aim to preserve all the world's plants, so people in the future can use them to breed the crops they need or replant species that are lost from the wild. Coral DNA is also being sequenced and archived to preserve the genetic codes that would be lost forever if those species went extinct.
The puffadder shyshark lives on coasts around the tip of South Africa. They are small and slender, brown with rusty orange saddles resembling the markings on their namesake, the puffadder snake. When disturbed, these sharks curl up in a tight circle and hide their eyes with their tails....
😍
(Also known as Happy Eddie...
https://saveourseas.com/worldofsharks/species/puffadder-shyshark)
If corporations and governments do nothing to decelerate the climate crisis, emperor penguins will dwindle within the lifetime of human babies now being born. Not long after 2100, the species will most likely be extinct-if not sooner. But this is not an unstoppa-ble fate for these giant, ice-walking birds. There is still a chance to prevent them from becoming little more than memories of a species that people knowingly allowed to disappear.
I colored this picture of a sea turtle and wrote this story about it.
#haiku #haikuhive
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It‘s poetry. A love letter. It‘s words to balm an aching soul, words that helped me survive. It‘s a story of magic and depth and grief. It‘s a topic we don‘t tolerate well enough.
I would be honored, to have a few poetry lovers and mothers pick this up. My audience is small but I hope it reaches those who need it. ✨
Saltwater by CordeliaGrey Oriana Allen
Available on Amazon
#poetry #grief #loss #motherhood #magic #ocean #author #love #saltwater
pickIn telling the story of Ken Nedimyer, a sea conservation pioneer and marine life protector, Kate Messner and Matthew Forsythe create a stunning tribute to the wonders of nature and the power of human hope. Stunning illustrations!
#Read2025 #Bookspinbingo #LitsyAtoZ #Pantone2025
I colored this picture on Zen Color. I‘ve seen sea turtles hatch on nature shows and they really do this. They hatch on the beach and go out to sea quickly so they‘re not eaten by predators and I root for them.
Sea turtles have hatched out of their shells on the beach
They‘re going out to sea now
They need to go out to sea quickly before they get eaten by predators
🌊Go sea turtles! Go! 🌊
#haiku #haikuhive
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A day late but here I am joining in! #Tuesday #Scavengerhunt #Ocean #youreit
@marleed your it!
