New research documents the positive impacts that Afro-descendant populations have had on tropical ecosystems in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Suriname.
The study found that deforestation rates are between 29% and 55% lower in Afro-descendant lands than in protected areas.
This is the first scientific study to employ statistical, geographical and historical data to assess the contribution of Afro-descendant communities in conservation.
According to the researchers, Afro-descendant populations and their good practices are at risk due to a lack of legal recognition, invisibility of their contributions, and extractive activities in their territories.
commanding my battalion of bemeasled children to descend upon the local antivax politicians town hall with utmost haste
it’s crazy to me that every seed in existence is a little chemical computer taking readings of temperature and moisture and minerals and all that to see if it’s able to grow yet and they’re doing crazy stuff like going into full dormancy and waiting for species-specific conditions etc etc and some seeds will do this in the size of a dust particle (see: orobanche) and some will pack in extra starch and food and do it in the size of a coconut or something… just dissected this flower seed at work that was a woody two-compartment capsule with one embryo per compartment, the whole seed a little smaller than a dime, and I swear to god it had a full soybean’s worth of embryo and food packed in there. it’s just unfathomable to me
Slumber was a performance/installation: whenever it was shown, the artist lived in the gallery, weaving
during the day and sleeping with an EEG machine recording her Rapid Eye Movement (REM) at night.
The REM is an analogue to Antoni’s dreams, and she weaves this pattern into the blanket that covers her
bed while she sleeps. In this piece, an uneasy truce exists between contemporary medical technology,
ancient myths of weaving and the mysterious world of dreams.
