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Confirmed: Salmon are spawning in Arctic rivers
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Researchers have confirmed that salmon are spawning in an Arctic Ocean watershed, suggesting that at least some salmon species could be expanding to new territory as climate change reshapes their habitat.

The University of Alaska Fairbanks-led project found about 100 chum salmon in the...
alaska-native-news.com/confirm
#Arctic #change #climate #salmon #spawning #warming

Confirmed: Salmon are spawning in Arctic rivers
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Researchers have confirmed that salmon are spawning in an Arctic Ocean watershed, suggesting that at least some salmon species could be expanding to new territory as climate change reshapes their habitat.

The University of Alaska Fairbanks-led project found about 100 chum salmon in the...
alaska-native-news.com/confirm
#arctic #salmon #spawning #climate #change #warming

Visited Inglis Falls at the weekend. A little downriver, we stumbled across a place where the #salmon were jumping the rapids to get their #spawning ground. It's quite an incredible thing to witness!
I didn't get good video of them in the rapids, but here they are navigating a calmer section of the river...

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@MichaelEMann @geomar_de

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...only ONE remaining #spawning ground in the #BalticSea left.(4)

/s: We surely have a lot to look forward to in 2024 in particular, when the #ElNiño phenomenon is supposed to reach its peak temperature influence, climate models say. /s (1)

In the interview, it becomes clear that at least German researchers were hesitant to speak up and sound...

(4)
(in German at 21:00 min.)

Resonator: RES182 Klimawissenschaftlerin Katja Matthes

i.sonnet.fm/XVTHPbAU5pZ36biM6

sonnet.fmResonator / SonnetDer Forschungspodcast der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft - mit Holger Klein...
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@MichaelEMann @geomar_de

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...global ocean temperature had risen by 0.8°C
The temperature rise in the #BalticSea, in contrast, had increased by 2 to 3 °C in the same period.

The adverse effects had been: extreme growth of #jellyfish, #AlgalGrowth, fish 🐟 getting confused regarding the #spawning period and the strong endangerment of species.

E.g. the once ubiquitous #cod had become so rare that even #fishermen were calling for a a catch moratorium; there is...

As I explained a few days ago here https://masto.ai/@cybeardjm/110441686417732106 the sites I manage were all scanned multiple times for an AI.TXT file (resulting in 404 errors).
A few companies/orgs have decided to create a "standard" like robots.txt or ads.txt but for
#AI crawling of websites.
Read more on
#Spawning https://spawning.substack.com/p/aitxt-a-new-way-for-websites-to-set

They offer a "generator" to create your own ai.txt that's supposed to be placed at the root of sites:
https://site.spawning.ai/spawning-ai-txt
And they even created a special plugin for
#WordPress on #Github https://github.com/Spawning-Inc/spawning-wp-plugin

Mainly, the file contains "disallow" instructions on file types and some garbage ASCII design in a few comment lines.

There are a few problems here IMHO:
* is it safe to put such a "new" file at the root of any website?
* will it be respected, as so far just a handful of companies/orgs are supposed to have joined the org.

So far, I decided not to add the file, and instead used a "noai, noimageai" to inform robots in the header of pages, which might not be followed by crawlers...
And, I redirect all calls to ai.txt to 127.0.0.1 (for fun)...

Your thoughts?

A #pheromone that explains why puffer #fish spawn on beaches under #moonlight phys.org/news/2022-10-pheromon

#Prostaglandin E2 synchronizes lunar-regulated beach #spawning in grass puffers cell.com/current-biology/fullt

Along coastlines around the world, at the time of the spring tide (that is, #NewMoon and #FullMoon), thousands of #PufferFish, gather at the water's edge and perform a writhing motion as they spawn. These fish are known as "semilunar spawners."