In three hours, at 12:43Z, it will be the #Equinox; #Autumnal in the #NorthernHemisphere and #Vernal in the #SouthernHemisphere. It's marked by the #Sun being directly overhead at the #Equator at local #Noon, or somewhere in the eastern #AtlanticOcean this time, Here, there has been persistent heavy rain all morning and it presages the transformation to #Autumn.
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EU climate service: Earth records 12 straight months of record high temperaturesBy Clyde Hughes, UPI
July 8 (UPI) -- "June 2024 was hotter than any June previously on record, leaving people exposed to life-threatening temperatures and more extreme weather, the European Union's #Copernicus #ClimateChange Service said Monday.
"Copernicus researchers found that temperatures worldwide each month for the past 12 months were 1.5 degrees Celsius greater than the average before the #preindustrial age.
"The report said temperatures in Europe were higher on average than in the southeast regions. It added the countries and regions with the hottest temperatures outside of #Europe were eastern #Canada, the western #UnitedStates, western #Mexico, #Brazil, northern #Siberia, the #MiddleEast, northern #Africa, and western #Antarctica.
"'Even if this specific streak of extremes ends at some point, we are bound to see new records being broken as the climate continues to warm,' said Carlo Buontempo, director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service, according to The Guardian.
"'This is inevitable unless we stop adding greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and the oceans.'
"The report said its review of the oceans, air temperatures were higher than average in the #AtlanticOcean and #IndianOcean along with most of the #PacificOcean. Temperatures were below average in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean and smaller regions around the world, like the Bering Sea.
"Copernicus uses measurements from various sources, including airplanes, weather stations, ships and satellites to capture vital climate information worldwide.
"'This is not good news at all,' said Aditi Mukherji, the co-author of the newest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. 'We know that extreme events increase with every increment of global warming and at 1.5 degrees Celsius, we witnessed some of the hottest extremes this year.'"
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Nearly 800 migrants were rescued off the coast of Mauritania last weekend. Despite storms near Europe, the number of people trying to reach Spain continues t...#Senegal #Senegallatestnews #Senegalesenavy #atlanticocean #canaryislands #canaryislandsmigrantinflux #canaryislandsrefugeecrisis #desperatejourneys #europerefugeecrisis #grancanariamigrants #grancanariarefugees #humanrights #migrantrescueoperations #spainafricanrefugees #AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews
Migrants rescued near Spain: Al Jazeera joins Senegalese navy ship
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Ce tirage de ma série Bord de mer (visible sur mon site, dans le portfolio) claque vraiment dans ce cadre noir. Il s'agit d'un détail de la plage d'Ilbarritz je pense, en tout cas c'est la côte basque.
C'est un format 20x20 cm dans un papier légèrement texturé Baryta ni mat ni brillant, ici dans un cadre bois noir.
Je l'ajoute dans la boutique. C'est le premier exemplaire sur 30 maximum. Il peut être tiré en plus grand ou plus petit aussi.
Une belle idée cadeau pour soi ou pour offrir.
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As part of a 2021 North Atlantic Stepping Stones expedition, what is called a potentially "unknown" or "undescribed" red jellyfish in the genus Poralia was captured on camera. The disk-shaped red jellyfish was found floating nearly 2,300 feet below the surface.
An "undescribed" species is the term scientists use to classify a creature that has never received a specific name in a formal scientific publication and is, therefore, previously unknown to scientists.
Quinn Girasek, an intern and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Hollings Scholar with the NOAA Ocean Exploration organization describes the find as part of her role annotating the water column dive that took place in late July.
"As a Hollings intern, I am conducting research to further our understanding of previously unexplored ocean habitats," she explains. "My project this summer focuses on the abundance of organisms within the mesopelagic, or twilight zone (200 to 1,000 meters/ 656 to 3,281 feet depth) in the Atlantic Ocean around the Gulf Stream and within the deep scattering layer."
The red jellyfish is one of the species that Girasek cataloged as part of her research. This beautiful red creature in the genus Poralia is described as one that may be a previously unknown species and was seen during the third transect of Dive 20 of the 2021 North Atlantic Stepping Stones expedition, at a depth of 700 meters (2,297 feet).
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"Overall, a variety of animals were seen, like ctenophores, cnidarians, crustaceans, and Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes). We also saw several undescribed families and potential new species," she continues.
In the image below, the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Deep Discoverer is shown collecting the potentially new species of jellyfish, which also gives a sense of scale to the creature. For reference, the ROV is 10 feet long, 6.5 feet wide, and 8.5 feet tall.
A total of four samples were collected during Dive 20 of the 2021 North Atlantic Stepping Stones expedition using the suction sample on remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Deep Discoverer. Here, Global Foundation for Ocean Exploration ROV pilots deftly maneuver to collect a potential new species of jellyfish during the 1200-meter (3,937-foot) dive transect.
Deep Discoverer is capable of diving to a depth of 3.7 miles (6,000 meters) and can capture high-definition video and uses a set of 20 LED lights to fire 150,000 lumens of light into the darkness of the ocean's depths.
The final dive of the 2021 North Atlantic Stepping Stones expedition was dedicated to the exploration of the water column within Hydrographer Canyon through two series of transects. The first series involved transects at depths of 300, 500, 700, and 900 meters (984, 1,640, 2,297, and 2,953 feet) and the second series started with a transect within the bathypelagic or midnight zone of the ocean at 1,200 meters (3,937 feet) depth and was followed by a transect at a depth of 630 meters (2,067 feet), within the area’s "deep scattering layer" (DSL). The DSL is a region in the water column where there is such a high density of marine organisms that they generate their own sonar signal.
The "deep scattering layer" is a term used by those using active acoustics in the open ocean as a phenomenon that occurs between about 400 and 600 meters (1,312 to 1,969 feet) depth in our geographic region of study. As described by NOAA Hollings Undergraduate Scholar Herbert Leavitt, typically this layer is seen when the sound waves come into contact with a high density of mesopelagic fish or other organisms that live at depth during the day and migrate towards the surface at night to feed.
Many other creatures were observed during the expedition, and while the red jellyfish is the only one that is called out as "undescribed" or undiscovered, there are a host of others that can be seen in detail in images and video from the NOAA.
_Image and video credits: Video and images courtesy of NOAA Ocean Exploration, 2021 North Atlantic Stepping Stones: New England and Corner Rise Seamounts. _
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