Victoria

It's a win for habitat restoration. It's a win for marine life. It's a win for all of the people who helped make it happen.

It's a fucking win and it makes me happier than words can describe.

For public libraries, one of the ways we secure funding year to year is lending. Governments don’t want to fund more books if they’re not being used and the way we measure use is by issues. Regardless of whether you read it or not, whether you have it for a day or a month, if you issue it to your library card, we get the stats! It makes the library look good!

B - billion

The tree of life, Bahrain

The southern portions of the island of Bahrain are a desert, not particularly hospitable to life. However, while traveling through that desert, one may come upon roadsigns directing a traveler to the “Tree of Life”, the small bit of greenery seen here.

The tree of life is a type of tree/shrub known as Prosopis cineraria, a relative of the Mesquite commonly seen in the western hemisphere deserts.