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💡 Too much artificial light at night promotes the growth of blue-green algae in #lakes. This has been shown in a large-scale field experiment. If #LightPollution continues to increase, potentially toxic cyanobacterial blooms could become more common in the future. Read more: igb-berlin.de/en/news/light-po

www.igb-berlin.deLight pollution stimulates cyanobacterial growth and metabolic processes in lakes | IGB

In another place, I'm doing a thread of islands I've visited, because it fits my username. One photo every day or so. But sometimes an extra photo slips in that I can't use (because one photo per island) so I'll have to share it here.

St Tredwell's Loch, on Papa Westray, one of the smaller islands of Orkney. I don't know why a lake on an island seems so odd, but it does. Maybe because of how close it is to the sea. (You might be able to see the strip of blue sea behind the loch.)

Photo is taken from St Tredwell's Chapel, the ruins of a Medieval chapel built over Iron Age remains, or an overgrown bunch of rocks on a hill. (As you can in the foreground.)

If you're into photos of islands, the thread starts here:
bsky.app/profile/islandhopping

I arrive in predawn darkness to venture into the Fernhill Wetlands preserve. My eyes glance upward to the nighttime sky already graying in the east. The moon pushes night toward the western horizon, fleeing the advent of morning light. My ears catch the dim hum of traffic hanging at the edges of quiet.

#wetlands #birdwatching #flowers #sunrises #sunsets #rainbows #clouds #mountains #lakes #Oregon #industrialism #landscapephotography #naturephotography #photoessay

sacredwonderland.us/fernhill-w

Sacred Wonderland · Fernhill Wetlands: From Human Waste to Thriving LifeA photo-essay featuring birds, flowers, and scenery of the Fernhill Wetlands in Forest Grove, Oregon, where human waste nourishes wildness.
There is a place that I like very much for trek and photo: Plitvice Lakes NP.
The Plitvice Lakes is the oldest and the largest national park in the Republic of Croatia. The exceptional natural beauty of this area has always attracted nature lovers. As a result of that, it was declared the first national park of the Republic of Croatia as early as 8 April 1949. The process of tufa formation, through which tufa barriers and subsequently lakes are formed, is the outstanding universal value for which Plitvice Lakes received international recognition on 26 October 1979, when it was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

#photo #photography #landscape #landscapes #nature #natur #natura #paysage #paysages #unesco #helloworld #lake #lakes #digitalart #beauty #travel #traveler #europe #croatia #croatian #waterfall #waterfalls #landschaft #landschaftspark #landscapephotography