Matcha-Latte-Lover

🌳 Depuis 2007, Elizabeth Black cultive et distribue gratuitement des arbres dans le Colorado. Grâce à sa passion et à sa persévérance, plus de 12 000 jeunes plants ont déjà trouvé une nouvelle maison. Chaque arbre contribue à améliorer la qualité de l’air, à offrir un refuge à la faune et à rendre les quartiers plus agréables. 

👉 https://actualite-positive.fr/elle-a-offert-plus-de-12-000-arbres-gratuitement-en-20-ans/

🐟 Au large de la côte Est des États-Unis, plus de 2 500 anciennes rames de métro new-yorkaises ont été transformées en récifs artificiels après avoir été entièrement dépolluées. En seulement sept ans, certains sites ont vu leur biodiversité exploser, avec une biomasse jusqu’à 400 fois supérieure à celle des fonds sableux voisins. 

👉 https://actualite-positive.fr/2-500-wagons-sont-devenus-des-recifs-geants-pour-les-poissons/

☀️♻️⚡️ For the first time, wind and solar power generated more energy than fossil fuels in Germany! In 2025, wind and solar generated 44% of Germany’s electricity, while fossil fuels trailed behind at 43%. The numbers represent a milestone for Germany’s “energy turnaround,” a larger national push towards renewable energy and phasing out gas, coal, and nuclear power. This phaseout is proving successful so far, with Germany shutting down its last remaining nuclear power plants in 2023 and being ahead of schedule in weaning off coal, also aided by a boom in wind and solar installations!

While this isn't news to anyone who works in this space, it is useful to have this water-is-wet research to affirm that Indigenous knowledge and land management are extremely effective at storing carbon and protecting biodiversity.

I want to draw special attention to this part of the article:

I get a fair number of asks and comments on my posts expressing sentiments like "human beings are a plague on this Earth", "humans ruin everything, we deserve to be wiped out", "humanity is inherently selfish, evil, and irredeemable".

I don't think the folks saying these things have bad intentions, I know their words come from a place of very understandable pain, fear, and anger. But to act as though humanity's impact on nature is inherently damaging and extractive is to erase thousands of years of Indigenous stewardship of nature. These ecosystems are thriving because there are humans living there.

Obviously, the goal of this experiment is to grow the lobsters until they’re big enough to settle to the seabed and then release them, because they have a much higher likelihood of surviving to adulthood when they’re able to hide. Ideally, captive lobster hatcheries can boost the wild population and keep things stable, so we don’t have a major crash in a decade or two.

The first year we tried this was pretty bad. We had a lot of eggs, but very few babies. It turned out that the CO2 levels in the building spiked as more guests visited throughout the summer, and that settled into the water and threw off the pH and caused a chemical reaction that prevented a lot of the eggs from hatching. I think we ended up releasing three baby lobsters (which is still better than their wild survival rate but not great).

The second year was a little better. We added a de-gasser to the aquarium and got a ton of larval lobsters, but right as they were settling to the bottom we had a disease outbreak that killed most of them. We ended up releasing four babies at the end of the season.

But this year? Oh boy. We have so many lobsters that we had to release the first round early (usually we wait till September or October so guests can see them). We just released a total of FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE baby lobsters, and we still have over a hundred who haven’t settled to the bottom yet. I genuinely don’t even have words to explain how cool this is. OVER FIVE HUNDRED. We just added hundreds of lobsters to the wild population that wouldn’t have been there otherwise.

They have a bunch of very happy "berried hens" (i.e. mother lobsters covered in eggs), a set of (essentially) aquatic centrifuges that rock the baby lobsters around to help build their strength against the currents, and a GIANT 35-year-old blue lobster named MELVIN who wanders around in a big tank living his best life, with a couple of sharks for room-mates.

It's a MARVELLOUS time and they're on course to release 100,000 lobster babies a year!