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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSerious climate stuff
Mother Earth, Mother to us all, if we try to undo what we have done, please forgive us.
The biggest number of winter ticks that Peter J. Pekins ever found on a moose was about 100,000. But that moose calf was already dead, most likely the victim of anemia, which develops when that many ticks drain a mooses blood. So it was probably a lowball estimate, because some of the ticks had already detached.
Its about as grody a picture as you can imagine on a dead animal, said Dr. Pekins, a professor of natural resources and the environment at the University of New Hampshire. (A warning: The pictures below are, indeed, grody.)
Between 2014 and 2016, Dr. Pekins counted ticks on moose calves at two locations in New Hampshire and Maine. He wanted to see how the moose were faring, given that climate change has been delaying snows arrival in New Englands winters.
Its about as grody a picture as you can imagine on a dead animal, said Dr. Pekins, a professor of natural resources and the environment at the University of New Hampshire. (A warning: The pictures below are, indeed, grody.)
Between 2014 and 2016, Dr. Pekins counted ticks on moose calves at two locations in New Hampshire and Maine. He wanted to see how the moose were faring, given that climate change has been delaying snows arrival in New Englands winters.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/18/climate/moose-ticks.html
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Serious climate stuff (Original Post)
Miigwech
Jan 2019
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2naSalit
(86,948 posts)1. Oh no.
That's awful. Ticks were bad in Southern NH when I lived there in the late 60s, early 70s. I am not going to look at the pictures.
Miigwech
(3,741 posts)2. Creation is perishing all around us, because of man
so,so, sorry to witness this in my lifetime
2naSalit
(86,948 posts)3. Same here.
I didn't want to be around to see this. Guess I lost that round. I worry about all these people who go without considering what's going on, and I wonder what people having children are thinking.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)7. My husband's side of the family has produced 2 grandchildren recently.
talk about having mixed emotions over what is normally a joyous occasion.
Menawhile, my 2 now middle aged sons have stuck to their guns about NOT having children.
again, mixed emotions, but more and more I I feel relief that I...or the sons..won't have to worry about their future.
related: I am seething because recently I heard that Trump, and sadly many like him, has said..."What do I care. I'll be dead by then".
Apparently children and grandchildren have nothing of value for him and his ilk. Even worse, I am becoming convinced that his adult children, even Ivanka, are not that concerned for their own kids, either.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,554 posts)4. acceleration
The acceleration of our suicide from greed is increasing.
We're killing everything else along the way.
Miigwech
(3,741 posts)5. Truth
Doremus
(7,261 posts)6. Wish they could box them up and send them to the rain forest birds
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2018/10/15/hyperalarming-study-shows-massive-insect-loss/?utm_term=.103748cd06ab
We're destroying our world in so many ways.
We're destroying our world in so many ways.
Raine
(30,541 posts)8. THANKS for posting this
the environment is ignored by the media, they wouldn't want to offend their corporate master sponsors.
akraven
(1,975 posts)9. 4 above when it should be 24 below?
Hell, yeah, we take it serious. The moose here (big guys) are not doing well.