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Shifting Baseline Syndrome is one of the major reasons ecological collapse and species extinction are often widely underestimated.

Each generation grows up accepting the environment they inherited as “normal", forgetting how abundant wildlife, forests, rivers, and ecosystems once were.

>As biodiversity declines gradually over decades, society adapts to lower & lower ecological baselines instead of recognising the scale of loss and it's tragic consequences.

For centuries, dolphins and other large aquatic species were common in rivers and coastal waterways, but now, these waterbodies are considered too polluted or urbanised for them. Historical records describe dolphins in the canals and lagoon systems around Venice, while the Ganges river dolphin once thrived across much of the Ganges-Brahmaputra river system.

Today, many people view heavily degraded rivers as “normal” like the Seine, simply because they never experienced these ecosystems in their older abundance. What previous generations would have considered ecological collapse is now often mistaken for a healthy or restored environment because collective ecological memory has faded.

However, during Covid years, we saw these vectors changing due to our lack of pressure on environment and that lead to the flora & fauna recovering from our damage and pollution.

Source:

>Pic 1: @emilyebuchananc on Instagram

>Pic 2: @weareparklanelandscapes on Instagram

SBS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shifting_baseline

Dolphin in Venice: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/06/mimmo-bottlenose-dolphin-seen-near-st-marks-square-inspires-venice-rescue-effort

Records of Gangetic Freshwater dolphins: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganges_river_dolphin

Global coral bleaching event 23-25: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023%E2%80%932025_global_coral_bleaching_event

In Alhaurín de la Torre, Málaga.

Original article (in spanish).

https://alhaurindelatorre.es/las-tejedoras-del-gran-toldo-de-la-calle-malaga/

Pierwsze zdjęcie stało się bardzo popularne w internecie, w niektórych kręgach stało się niemal memem.

Za każdym razem, gdy to zdjęcie jest publikowane zawsze (serio, za każdym razem) jest dyskusja jak to pierwsze zdjęcie z 2009 wygląda super, bo toczy się tam życie i są biznesy a na ostatnim z 2023 już wszystkie biznesy poupadały i nic tam nie ma.

Postanowiłem tą szerzącą się dezinformację sprostować i wybrałem się tam dzisiaj na przejażdżkę rowerową, porobić zdjęcia jak to "martwe" miejsce faktycznie wygląda.

Wszystkie zdjęcia zostały zrobione na odcinku tych ~300m, zgodnie z załączoną mapką od prawej do lewej.

Chciałem też pokazać, że jest tam nadal wjazd samochodami, są parkingi, ale auto jest tam takim intruzem, że nie widziałem nigdy nikogo jadącego szybciej niż piesi.

Miłego zwiedzania ;)

Utrecht feels like one of the closest real-world glimpses of Solarpunk urbanism. Not because it is perfect, but because it consciously chose to reverse destructive infrastructure and rebuild around people, water, ecology, and human-scale mobility.

A highway that once cut through the city was removed and transformed back into a living canal system. 💚

Streets prioritize cyclists and pedestrians over automobiles. Green-blue infrastructure cools the city, manages water, and restores biodiversity while still functioning as public space increasing the mental & physical health for its inhabitants.

What makes Utrecht fascinating is that it proves ecological urbanism does not require futuristic megastructures or fantasy technology. Much of it comes from reclaiming space from cars, restoring natural systems, densifying intelligently, and designing cities around livability rather than extraction.

It feels less like “a city of the future” and more like a city remembering how to coexist with its environment again.

A biotech company is turning to nickel-accumulating daisies to help “mine” critical minerals.

The daisy species belongs to a group of about 750 plants known as hyperaccumulators - plants capable of absorbing and storing heavy metals and other contaminants from soil.

The company, Genomines, estimates that up to 40 million hectares of land worldwide have enough nickel-rich soil for plant-based extraction, which, if fully utilised, could produce as much as 14 times more nickel than conventional mining does today.

A recent study also found that waste rock from U.S. mines alone holds enough critical minerals to meet 90% of the country’s annual demand, suggesting that plants like these could help recover those resources while simultaneously rehabilitating degraded land.

Sources: Fast Company, Grist, Genomines

Alsatian half-timber framing is a traditional building method common in the historic region of Alsace — especially cities like Strasbourg and Colmar.

The style is called:

>Colombage in French

>Fachwerk in German

Here's a wikipedia article about the area, and a google streetview link.

Instagram source for the 1st pic. Photo by jameslloydcole.

He goes by ArlingtonAF (the artist, not the knight)