The U.S. Forest Service is floating a new rule to potentially grant “perpetual rights of use and occupancy” for carbon waste injection under national forests and grasslands. Such rights may include constructing extensive infrastructure such as pipelines, injection wells, and
Boreal forests’ northward advance has been slower than expected, but their southern retreat has been faster.
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While a wealth tax still has a long way to go to make a major comeback in Europe, there is movement in Brussels.
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In 2006, Pam Longobardi traveled to Ka Lae, the southernmost tip of Hawaii’s Big Island, for a residency. Cradled by a rugged coastline and high cliffs towering over the Pacific Ocean, the point marks a confluence of currents where marine life and debris gather on shore, making it a popular fishing spot and unintentional waste collection site. “There I saw an immense multitude of colors and forms of plastic that was being vomited out of the ocean, piled so deep it was beyond my arm’s reach to the bottom,” Longobardi tells Colossal. More
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Aerial fields of vision emerge from Victoria Rose Richards’ embroidered landscapes. Setting scenes from above, the artist (previously) uses thread to achieve a variety of patterns and textures, implementing satin stitches and French knots to form curiously shaped fields, patches of trees, and bodies of water. The majority of her pieces take at least 10 to 25 hours each, with every meticulous detail shining through at the end.
Richards is inherently connected to her natural surroundings. More
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