Squirrel Appreciation Day 🐿❣

My Secret Treasure Trove - Squirrel Appreciation Day

 A tryst with nature #SquirrelAppreciationDay

Dwindling Fog

Climate change knows no borders. It will not stop before the Pacific islands and the whole of the international community here has to shoulder a responsibility to bring about a sustainable development. - Angela Merkel

Fog is a natural weather phenomenon which occurs when the water vapour present in air condenses to several tiny droplets forming a cloud close to the ground. Depending on the humidity levels, fog can be either thick or thin. There are several types of fog.

• Radiation fog: It is formed when heat absorbed by the Earth’s surface during the day is radiated into the air. This heat is transferred from the ground to the air resulting in tiny water droplets forming fog.
• Ground fog: It is a radiation fog formed over the surface of ground and does not reach as high as clouds overhead.
• Advection fog: It forms when warm, moist air passes over a cool surface condensing water vapor and causing fog. Coastal fog is a type of advection fog and is very common along the Pacific coast of the United States of America.
• Valley fog: It is formed during winter in mountain valleys when the cliffs prevent the dense air from escaping.
• Freezing fog: Happens when the liquid fog droplets freeze to solid surfaces. Mountain tops that are covered by clouds are often covered in freezing fog. As the freezing fog lifts, the ground is blanketed by a layer of frost.
• Coastal fog: Coastal fog brings moisture to dry ecosystems and agricultural fields. It cleans the air pollutants and reduces air temperatures during summer.

Due to climate change the coastal fog has reduced over the years. The California coast has seen fewer foggy days. This threatens the health of the majestic redwood trees which lose more water during the dry summer leaving them more susceptible to drought.

Some animals and insects in desert climates depend on wet fog as a primary source of water. A few coastal communities use fog nets to extract moisture from the atmosphere where groundwater pumping and rainwater collection are insufficient. As greenhouse gasses trap more of the sun’s heat on the planet’s surface the key ocean currents are shifting which affect the position and direction of winds that form fog. A reduction in fog threatens ecosystems that depend on it.

A tryst with nature #fog

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Daybreak

“Every day a million miracles begin at sunrise!” - Eric Jerome Dickey.

A tryst with  nature #Daybreak

Vibrant Colours of Nature

“Colours are the smiles of nature” - Leigh Hunt

The riot of colours in nature never fails to lift your spirits. Mandarin ducks enhance the beauty of the pond with their stunning plumage. Sharing the beauty of these exotic water birds. Watching these gorgeous Mandarin ducks really made my day.

A tryst with nature #mandarinduck.

A Breath of Fresh Air

"Every breath of air that we take, every mouthful of food that we take comes from that the natural world. If we damage the natural world, we damage ourselves." — Sir David Attenborough

Air pollution is the presence of pollutants in air which are detrimental to human health and other life systems around. It is the prime reason for climate change.

Carbon dioxide in air traps the sun’s heat in the earth’s atmosphere causing Green House Effect and makes the environment of earth hotter and hotter. Continous extraction and burning of fossil fuels like coal and oil release carbon dioxide which remains in the atmosphere for several years.

Short lived pollutants like black carbon, methane and ground-level ozone have a higher warming potential. Incomplete combustion of fuels produce these pollutants. Even though black carbon has a lifetime of 4-12 days, the warming impact due to it's presence remains 460-1,500 times higher than carbon dioxide on the climate. Methane gas has a lifetime of 12 years and a warming impact of 84 times higher than carbon dioxide.

Ground-level ozone is formed by the reaction of sunlight with other pollutants like carbon monoxide, methane and nitrogen oxides. It has a lifetime of a few hours to a few weeks and strongly impacts cloud formation, evaporation rates and precipitation levels.

Hence it is essential to reduce air pollution and few activities like promoting ultra low-carbon vehicles, renewable sources of electricity which do not involve combustion, energy efficiency measures and reducing agricultural demand for nitrogen contribute a lot in this context. 

Finally to say, the quality of the air we breathe depends mainly on the lifestyle choices we make and by altering our life style wisely reducing air pollution, we will preserve and protect our climate!

A tryst with nature #freshair

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Misty Sunrise

 "The golden hue..the mist... all pervading silence... speak a language only a few can understand."

The best way to rejuvenate is to be in communication with nature. Presenting a few click of today's beautiful sunrise.

A tryst with nature #sunrise