THE RETURN OF THE NESS!!!......From ‘Emergence’ Magazine…. Woolly Bear…. Steve Drury And the Moho Discontinuity….
by Bernie Bell - 09:11 on 07 June 2023
THE RETURN OF THE NESS!!!......
https://www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/catch-up-on-last-years-dig-ahead-of-2023s-seven-week-excavation/
‘Nuff said!!!
V. excited….
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From ‘Emergence’ Magazine….
by Nathaniel Rich
“I am living in a place built by human beings but never seen by anyone else, a swamp that is newer and stranger with each passing hour. All this miracle and marvel and jungle swelter—all this life—is gathering into existence on acreage that was, less than five years ago, the open sea.”
Louisiana recently unveiled its latest Coastal Master Plan, a 50-year, $50-billion climate mitigation project aimed at restoring coastal wetlands that are being washed away as the climate warms and sea levels rise. Funded by a combination of public money, private foundations, and the legal settlement from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the plan involves diverting the Mississippi River and dredging the riverbed and ocean floor to increase water and sediment flow into deteriorating marshes. The relocated sediment will eventually cohere into hundreds of square miles of new wetlands, in a coarse imitation of the natural process that created the Gulf Coast eight thousand years ago. But can this project actually re-engineer the natural ecosystem that once thrived in its place? Or will it create merely a nightmarish simulacrum of the habitat lost?
In this week’s short story, acclaimed author Nathaniel Rich imagines a project like this one just a few years down the road, blurring the line between science fiction and our emerging, engineered future. In “Hidden Bayou,” an actuary-turned-field-biologist follows an endangered bird through Nieux Swamp, a man-made climate mitigation project funded by a multibillion dollar corporation. When a surprising encounter disrupts his duties, he is left to confront his own role in the eerie, manufactured landscape. “
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Woolly Bear…
A Woolly Bear in our garden!
Well…it’s actually the caterpillar of a Garden Tiger Moth – which is also known as a Woolly Bear.
When he was a little boy, one of my nephews used to sing a song about ‘Woolly Bear’ caterpillars….
“Arabella Hiller-Miller
Saw a furry caterpillar
First it crawled upon her brother
Then upon her baby sister
‘Help - Oh - Help!’
Screamed Arabella
Take away
This caterpillar.”
He’s now over 6ft tall and a grandfather, but I still sing his song when I see a furry caterpillar!
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Steve Drury And the Moho Discontinuity….
https://earthlogs.org/2023/06/05/new-drill-core-penetrates-the-mohorovicic-discontinuity-the-moho/
Sounds like a good name for a band!
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Here’s one I made earlier…. https://theorkneynews.scot/2021/09/13/a-close-shave/
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