In today's news of a continually deteriorating environment (depressing story before this was more roads being built)
The native bushland on Western Australia's central coast would normally be bursting with springtime blooms but after four years of increasingly dry winters, only a handful of plants are starting to bud.
Gorgritch_Umie_Killa - 1.3yr
Na, honeys crap, lets open more gas fields instead! /s
I hadn't thought about flowering plants having varying degrees of pollen before. Makes sense.
This is an incredibly sad business. There mightn't be much we can do about rain, (cloud seeding apparently isn't always feasible), but this State needs to have environmental scale water production facilities to replenish the water tables across this State. I commented in a different post about the fact that I'm sick of WA having 'mega' projects, but this is a mega project i think we have to take on.
hanrahan in environment
Bees 'starving' for pollen as native flowers fail to bloom - ABC News
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-30/drying-climate-leaves-bees-starving-honey-supply/104281078In today's news of a continually deteriorating environment (depressing story before this was more roads being built)
Na, honeys crap, lets open more gas fields instead! /s
I hadn't thought about flowering plants having varying degrees of pollen before. Makes sense.
This is an incredibly sad business. There mightn't be much we can do about rain, (cloud seeding apparently isn't always feasible), but this State needs to have environmental scale water production facilities to replenish the water tables across this State. I commented in a different post about the fact that I'm sick of WA having 'mega' projects, but this is a mega project i think we have to take on.