Tootfinder

"Introduced fish thrive amid Kasmir’s freshwater habitat degradation"
#India #Fish #Animals

Introduced fish thrive amid Kasmir’s freshwater habitat degradation
Native fish in the lakes and rivers of India’s Kashmir Valley are under increasing pressure from pollution, habitat loss, dam construction and other human activities, a recent review finds. These same threats are also likely giving exotic fish introduced to these freshwater habitats an edge, researchers say. “Our indigenous fishes are becoming vulnerable, endangered and […]

Norwegian fish farms polluting fjords with waste likened to ‘raw sewage of millions of people’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/04/norwegian-fish-farms-polluting-fjo…

Norwegian fish farms polluting fjords with waste likened to ‘raw sewage of millions of people’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/04/norwegian-fish-farms-polluting-fjo…

A Surprising Discovery Inside Fish Could Change What We Know About the Ocean
https://scitechdaily.com/a-surprising-discovery-inside-fish-could-change-what-we-know-about-the-ocean/

"arctic char" sounds like a powerful attack that deals both fire and frost damage but it's actually just a medium sized fish

Millions take omega-3 fish oil for brain health but a new study found no benefit #nutrition

Millions take omega-3 fish oil for brain health but a new study found no benefit
Fish oil supplements successfully delivered omega-3s to the brain, but a two-year study found no meaningful benefits for memory, cognition, or Alzheimer’s-related brain changes. The results challenge the idea that fish oil pills can help prevent Alzheimer’s and shift attention toward overall diet and lifestyle instead.

“Which brings them to Twelve Seas—rotting fish heads, stinking sewers, cheap detective. Welcome to the big city.”
#Thraxas

#Python Hypothesis package now requires #RustLang. This is a scale of reverse dependencies I can't handle. I guess this means it's the end of WD40 profiles on #Gentoo, and therefore the end of support for Alpha, ARM<v6, HPPA, M68k, i486 and some other random subsets of architectures and profiles. Thanks for all the fish, etc.
https://github.com/HypothesisWorks/hypothesis/issues/4740

Fish Audio, which offers AI voice models for creators and enterprises and has $21M in ARR, raised a $50M seed led by Coreline Ventures and Capital Today (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/28/fish-audio-ra…

Fish Audio raises $50M seed to build AI voice models for creators and enterprises | TechCrunch
Since launching last year, the startup today has more than 8 million people using the open-source or hosted version of its models, and now generates annual recurring revenue of $21 million.

"Rise of modern marine fishes captured in an early Paleocene Lagerstätte" in the Eastern Desert of Egypt. ⚒️🧪
"helping to fill a 10 million year interval with sparse fossil information about modern fish evolution. Among the findings include the earliest known fossil skeletons of jack, a type of sportfish, moonfish and pipefish, the family to which seahorses belong."
#geology

Fossil discovery fills in missing information about modern fish evolution
After an asteroid slammed into Earth 66 million years ago, there is very little evidence of fish in the fossil record. Now, a research team including University of Michigan graduate student Sanaa El-Sayed has discovered the earliest known examples of six modern fish groups that still swim in Earth's seas today.

In trading for Myles Garrett, the Rams just acquired the NFL's biggest defensive cheat code

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/myles-garrett-trade-rams-defensive-plan/

Fish Audio, which offers AI voice models for creators and enterprises and has $21M in ARR, raised a $50M seed led by Coreline Ventures and Capital Today (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/28/fish-audio-ra…

Fish Audio raises $50M seed to build AI voice models for creators and enterprises | TechCrunch
Since launching last year, the startup today has more than 8 million people using the open-source or hosted version of its models, and now generates annual recurring revenue of $21 million.

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 49 nodes and 110 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

> It is very interesting, your pop cultural references, which are sparse and few...
> Thank you.
— James Harkin and Anna Ptaszynski on the "Little Fish: Moss Moss Mossmoss Moss" episode of No Such Thing As A Fish

Fish shell adding support for Darcs is something I truly didn't have on my 2026 bingo card! It was the first DVCS that clicked with me after I bounced of Arch and before hg/git came on the stage. I could even host source trees on my homepage!
https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/…

Add `fish_darcs_prompt` by toastal · Pull Request #12860 · fish-shell/fish-shell
Improves on the prompts floating around the internet (which I forked a long time ago)—specifically copied the ability to reorder statuses from the other VCSs, added ! for showing that there are mer...

The two coworkers are on a mission to eat their way through Goleta.
“We don’t have breakfast,” Ricardo said. “We power through the first half of the day until noon, and we’re already wondering what we want for lunch.”
The conversation starts early each day, but the destination depends on their mood and even the weather.
“If it’s raining, we might want something warmer like ramen or pho,” he said.
“On hotter days, we tend to go for fresher foods like fish or sushi—thin…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Fish & Roses:
🎵 January
#Fish #Roses
https://open.spotify.com/track/7BTGPzaZyOKuA2Pm5lp3PO

"Europe removes record number of dams in 2025 to restore rivers, help species"
#Europe #Environment #Rivers

Europe removes record number of dams in 2025 to restore rivers, help species
A massive slab of wartime concrete blocked the Pčinja River in Kumanovo, North Macedonia for more than 70 years. A 53-meter-long and 30-meter-wide (174 by 98 feet) structure of reinforced concrete packed with salvaged railway steel impeded the free flow of water and fish for at least 70 kilometers (44 miles) upstream. It was considered […]

A marine heat wave caused seabird deaths off California. El Nino could worsen the die-off https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/07/a-marine-heat-wave-caused-seabird-deaths-off-california-el-nino-could-…

A marine heat wave caused seabird deaths off California. El Nino could worsen the die-off
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Many seabirds are starving to death as a marine heat wave lingers off California and fish seek deeper, cooler waters. That’s according to scientists who say a persistent marine heat wave has shrunk the band of cold, nutrient-rich surface water where krill, anchovies and sardines thrive near the shore. Scientists fear […]

MINI MOVIE REVIEW
"Remarkably Bright Creatures"
This movie was like if a Hallmark or Lifetime movie became watchable and had a budget.
It's simple and fun, and Sally Field still has it.
My wife, as usual, told me I should read the book because it's much better.
#Movies #Netflix

Tim Smell's Smell: What & How
https://timsmell.blogspot.com/p/smell-introduction.html

corook - if i were a fish ft. olivia barton (music video)
#music

From the basement of the Sandusky library, page 29 of the book Sandusky of To-Day proclaims the town to be the
“largest fresh water fish market in the world”.
Two pages later, an image of the lake whitefish, referred to as “Sandusky’s pride”, takes up the entire page.
But the book was published in 1888.
Lake whitefish was a delicacy in this part of North America for centuries.
Indigenous communities centered their lives and traditions on the fish.
By the …

The Great Lakes’ most emblematic fish could be consigned to history books
A delicacy for centuries and a key part of Native tradition, the lake whitefish has seen its population crash. Researchers know why … but stopping it is another matter

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS-UMBRELLAS FOR FISH An International Journal of Absurd & Existential Drama
https://ift.tt/9NydIpX
updated: Saturday, June 27, 2026 - 9:57amfull name / name of organization: UMBRELLAS FOR FISH: An…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Orcas Explode Fish Into Confetti, Possibly for Fun, In ‘Astounding’ New Video https://www.404media.co/orcas-explode-fish-into-confetti-possibly-for-fun-in-astounding-new-video/

coho, the accidental fish

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NewMusicFix
Rosa Brunello:
🎵 Fish Without A Bicycle
#RosaBrunello

Turns out I’m not smarter than a fish.
#DeepThoughtsWhileFishing #HashTagGames

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 79 nodes and 391 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

From birds to fish, how extreme heat causes wildlife to suffer #environment

From birds to fish, how extreme heat causes wildlife to suffer
Like humans, wildlife is increasingly vulnerable as climate change fuels longer and more intense heat waves, disrupting feeding and breeding and, in extreme cases, proving fatal.

"Fish can pass Pfas safety limits one chemical at a time, but cocktail effects reveal a bigger unseen risk – new study"
#PFAS #ForeverChemicals #Fish

Fish can pass Pfas safety limits one chemical at a time, but cocktail effects reveal a bigger unseen risk – new study
An organism can appear compliant under single chemical regulation while still carrying a potentially concerning mixture burden.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Lee “Scratch” Perry:
🎵 Roast Fish And Cornbread
#Lee“Scratch”Perry
https://vprecordsofficial.bandcamp.com/track/roast-fish-and-cornbread
https://open.spotify.com/track/3q5rvr1nXauySGhng6v40Q

Give a man a fish in his hands and he eats for a day. Leave a man a fish in his pockets and "he stinks" for the rest of his life. 🐟
#saying #adaptation #fish #humor

"Engineers blew up 4 dams on a dying river. Now the salmon population is exploding."
#Rivers #Fish #Environment

Engineers blew up 4 dams on a dying river. Now the salmon population is exploding.
The Klamath River Renewal Corporation removed four dams in California and Oregon. The results were even better than scientists anticipated.

Can fish get hooked on phonics?
#DeepThoughtsWhileFishing
#HashTagGames

shit that works fine in bash doesn't port over to fish by switching to fish's semantics
for example, these are equivalents:
$ mkdir `date -I`
> mkdir (date -I)
but these are not:
$ alias dogit='git add. git commit -a -m `fortune zippy`; git push'
> alias dogit 'git add. git commit -a -m (fortune zippy); git push'
Instead, you end up having to do something like
> alias dogit 'git add .; set msg (fortune zippy | s…

Fish and Octopus by Itō Jakuchū, from Doshoku Sai-e (Colorful Realm of Living Beings), c. 1765
(Thanks to @… for alerting me to this one!)
#ItōJakuchū #Japan

@… the interface disappeared after disconnection, I have the commands in my fish history.

RE: https://social.coop/@afewbugs/116907180771031797
Which compels me to mention a good book: Why Fish Don’t Exist.

Introduce yourself with 10 bands you've seen live.
Porcupine Tree
Fish
D-A-D
Archive
Haindling
Marillion
Hubert von Goisern
dicht & ergreifend
My Sleeping Karma
Dream Theater

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 97 nodes and 538 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

One of the world's top centers for brain science is taking a huge gamble on a tiny, transparent fish.
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Research Campus near Washington, D.C., has announcedan effort to use artificial intelligence and an unusual fish called Danionella to understand how the brain controls complex behaviors like social interaction.
Janelia plans to triple the space dedicated to fish to 6,000 square feet, which will make room for thousands of new t…

Shadow boxing fishing

Cleaned fishtank a bit (scraped the algea of the window).
1 fish that definitely got the assignment and just followed my scraper around to have first dibs on the algea I scraped off the window. :gnulightened:

Scientists Gave ‘Aggressive’ Fish Psychedelic Drugs. A Breakthrough Came Next https://www.404media.co/fish-psilocybin-magic-mushrooms-study-psychedelics/

This book cover design drives me nuts.
It looks great but the cover is cut off to let the first page be visible at the edge. That is disturbingly annoying to flip through.

Smaller than a fish!

The water level at the reservoir to which I'm usually cycling (also in the evening) is now so low that fish have to be rescued from isolated "pockets" of water.
The water level is now 5m below summer-average ... the last time I've seen that was when the level was lowered by intent for some improvements & repair. Now it's "simply" a lack of rain ... We need some rain very soon ...

Niedriger Wasserstand: Fischereiverein befreit Tiere aus Todesfallen
Durch den sinkenden Pegel im Sylvensteinspeicher entstehen abgeschnittene Senken, in denen Fische verenden. Ehrenamtliche setzen die Tiere in tiefere Bereiche um.

#throwbackThursday

@… My math is 2000 gallons, at a minimum, but since there are no fish or other animals in the reflecting pool I agree that 5000 would be better. (I have a pond in my DC yard.)
These clowns continue to be incompetent.

#TheNeedling is ON universal douchebag #IgorLytvynchuk.
"Just don’t be surprised if on his next visit to Pike Place Market someone throws a giant fish at his head.” 🤣
✅ Judge Orders Everyone to Know This Piece of Shit from Covington, Not

Judge Orders Everyone to Know This Piece of Shit from Covington, Not Seattle
This week a Seattle judge who ordered the man that threw a rock at an endangered monk seal return to Hawaii for court also ordered the general public to know this piece of shit is from Covington, n…

Remember, you can tuna piano but you can’t tuna fish.
#DeepThoughtsWhileFishing
#HashTagGames

I don’t bother with regular supermarkets, but a little later this morning I’m going to take a trip to Costco and stock up on some meat and fish. I should be there and back within the hour. I get in, get what I want and go. I’m a reluctant shopper at the best of times!

"Conservationists Successfully Tackle Invasive Trees and Fish in Vital South Africa Ecosystems"
#SouthAfrica #Conservation

Conservationists Successfully Tackle Invasive Trees and Fish in Vital South Africa Ecosystems
Invasive species of plants and animals cost the African continent's crop, fisheries, livestock, and eco-tourism industries some $65 billion

Arctic Ocean passed a tipping point and scientists say it may never recover #Arctic

Arctic Ocean passed a tipping point and scientists say it may never recover
The Arctic Ocean may have crossed a dangerous tipping point. Scientists say the rapid disappearance of sea ice is triggering a hidden chemical shift that is stripping the ocean of nitrate — a nutrient essential for the tiny plankton that support Arctic life. As nitrate levels plunge, the entire food web could feel the impact, from fish and seabirds to whales and polar ecosystems.

"Wait, Mother's Day is TODAY??" and then the kids go rush to prepare a raw fish & squeezeup plate for our two momma cats 🙄

Garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis) yesterday at the mini-pond. I assumed it was there for a drink but can't rule out that it was looking for frogs or fish. I need to get the trail cam back at this location. #snake #pond

Gotta love that midwestern sense of humor.

🐚 Hooks exist for bash, zsh, tcsh, fish, elvish, powershell, murex and nushell on any Unix-like OS (macOS, Linux).
🔧 A stdlib of utility functions is available inside .envrc, e.g. PATH_add bin instead of export PATH=$PWD/bin:$PATH. Own functions can be added via ~/.config/direnv/direnvrc.

Coinbase's Jesse Pollak says Jordan Fish, aka "Cobie", will now lead the Base app team after acknowledging some of Base's bets on social features fell short (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/408504/coinba

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Kelis:
🎵 Friday Fish Fry
#NowPlaying #Kelis

"Norwegian fish farms polluting fjords with waste likened to ‘raw sewage of millions of people’"
#Norway #Fish #Environment

I hope I won't get in trouble for saying this runner looks like Sylvester Stallone but he's more handsome!
#photo #photography #running

We have done a setup test for #IWP9 today, everything looking good! 😌
Then had fish 'n' chips for lunch.
Anthony Estey is being very nice hosting us at the UVic Faculty of Engineering and Comphter Science.
Things I hadn't seen before: "Earthquake" button in the elevator.
Finally, we now got the schedule up on

Trump administration allows killing of species threatened with extinction
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service could soon declare that pygmy rabbits or Florida manatees are threatened with extinction.
But under a policy change issued by the Trump administration on Friday, Americans could still kill, trap and harass them.

That action
— paired with another issued Friday that requires regulators to consider the economic toll of habitat protection
— is part of Trump…

Trump administration allows killing of species threatened with extinction
Regulatory changes to reinterpret the Endangered Species Act also demand that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service consider the economic toll of habitat protection.

by https://www.reddit.com/user/Fatbeard91/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PixelArt/comments/1v0idlz…

Fish are at risk as warming world chokes off oxygen in rivers | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/rivers-oxygen-loss-dead-zone-global-warming-38b9116cc127f4212b1c20da08af0416

It’s good to be able to let things go, but sometimes it’s even better to hold onto things tightly. Don’t get confused between the pole and the fish.
#DeepThoughtsWhileFishing
#HashTagGames

@… thanks.
A thought. In the r/freebsd subreddit, it's not unusual for people to be EXTREMELY critical of perceived problems with design etc. The absence of a storm of protest is, I think, a compliment.
The FreeBSD Forums is, naturally, a very different kettle of fish. It's primarily for existing users of FreeBSD …

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 69 nodes and 187 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

fish is breaking my brain

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
The Count & Sinden:
🎵 After Dark (feat. William Rees & Kai Fish)
#TheCount #Sinden
https://open.spotify.com/track/25dk302jkLW6QbxGtt5pRg

@… @… Surprisingly, hydrogen peroxide is safe for fish at 1 ml per gallon. So I don't think it will kill any animals, just algae. But the administration is completely incompetent.

Trump, who has lately taken to issuing warnings about a communist plot to take over America,
posits that an island of 9.6 million people
— nearly 90 percent of whom live in extreme poverty amid extended blackouts due to decades of U.S. economic warfare
— is an existential threat to the U.S.
This accusation is not meant to be rational.
It, like the charge that our elections are manipulated, is a transparent excuse to go after institutions and individuals that are…

Trump’s Phantom Enemies
Your Death is My Command – by Mr. Fish The Trump administration is laying the groundwork for blacklisting and criminalizing all left-wing, progressive, anti-war and anti-imperialist dissent. …

Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire on Friday
with the largest initial public offering in stock market history for his rocket and AI company SpaceX.
The company is based in South Texas in a city controlled by Musk known as Starbase,
which SpaceX has operated from since 2014.
💥Environmental and conservation groups recently filed a federal lawsuit seeking to block a land swap approved by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that would give SpaceX more than

“Land Grab”: Trillionaire Elon Musk Sued in South Texas to Block SpaceX’s Takeover of Wildlife Refuge
Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire on Friday with the largest initial public offering in stock market history for his rocket and AI company SpaceX. The company is based in South Texas in a city controlled by Musk known as Starbase, which SpaceX has operated from since 2014. Environmental and conservation groups recently filed a federal lawsuit seeking to block a land swap approved by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that would give SpaceX more than 700 acres of a national wildl…

@… @… @… Hydrogen peroxide is quite safe for fish at 1 ml per gallon, so I doubt this…

🚀 Written in #Rust. Works with zsh, bash, fish, nushell, xonsh & powershell (tier 2).
Your old history file is never replaced, and you get stats like your most-used commands for free.
https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has repeatedly pulled the driving records of more than a dozen of its critics,
especially targeting those who opposed its bear hunt.
Both the Orlando Sentinel and the Miami Herald blew the lid off this scandal over the weekend.
“FWC secretly investigated outspoken environmental activists, records show,” the Sentinel reported,
while the Herald announced, “FWC looks at its critics’ info in database meant for criminal…

Scientists warn that the world’s rivers are running out of oxygen #environment

Scientists warn that the world’s rivers are running out of oxygen
Rivers around the world are quietly running out of oxygen — and climate change is emerging as the main culprit. A sweeping global analysis of more than 21,000 river systems found that nearly 80% have been steadily losing dissolved oxygen over the past four decades, threatening fish, biodiversity, and the overall health of freshwater ecosystems. Surprisingly, tropical rivers are being hit the hardest, even more than rivers in rapidly warming polar regions.

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 79 nodes and 391 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

1. modern "traditional" desktop environments waste WAY too much screen space by default
2. tiling desktops are absolutely fucking bizarre and I don't like how much control I'm expected to hand over to the system
3. fish is weird

Quitobaquito Springs in south-west Arizona has been called a biological wonderland with few equals.
The springs are an oasis in the vast Sonoran desert along the US-Mexico border, held sacred by the O’odham people, who call it A’al Vaipia.
Here, water flows out of an aquifer at the bottom of a hill, runs along a short concrete channel and collects in a pond.
The pond is home to Sonoyta pupfish, which are small and silvery, with upturned jaws.
In the channel are found …

‘Total chaos’: the biological wonderland threatened by Trump’s border wall
Environmental groups are sounding the alarm over plans that threaten a desert spring that’s home to rare fish and turtles and sacred to the O’odham people

"Tuna are rebounding. The work is far from done."
#Tuna #Fish #Oceans

Tuna are rebounding. The work is far from done.
Tuna offer a useful case study for World Ocean Day because their recovery has come through the least sentimental parts of conservation: quotas, enforcement, stock assessments, and years of difficult diplomacy. By the early 2010s, several tuna stocks were in serious trouble. Atlantic bluefin had become a marker of overfishing. Pacific bluefin had fallen to […]

@… I've got some aquarium and a pond and from time to time I've got algae. But if I didn't have fish in them it would be quite easy to get rid of the algae. More incompetence from the administration.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheBethDittoShow
Ibibio Sound Machine:
🎵 The Talking Fish (Asem Usem Iyak)
#IbibioSoundMachine
https://ibibiosoundmachine.bandcamp.com/track/the-talking-fish-asem-usem-iyak
https://open.spotify.com/track/5GiF47sH8uuDOztMdGzRxz

Trump Administration Fails to Protect Endangered Wildlife From Atrazine https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/trump-administration-fails-to-protect-endangered-wildlife-from-atrazine-2026-05-18…

Trump Administration Fails to Protect Endangered Wildlife From Atrazine
The Trump U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has finalized a review of atrazine that concludes the potent, cancer-linked endocrine disruptor does not pose an extinction risk to any threatened or endangered animals or plants. The court-ordered final review, which came in response to a legal challenge by the Center for Biological Diversity, was released to the Center late Friday afternoon. The controversial finding contrasts sharply with a 2021 Environmental Protection Agency determination that the …

"Sightings off Southern Africa suggest blue and fin whales may be rebounding"
#Africa #Fish #Animals

Sightings off Southern Africa suggest blue and fin whales may be rebounding
Sightings of blue whales and fin whales off Southern Africa’s Atlantic coast have increased in recent years, according to a newly published study. This could signal recovery of the marine mammals after being virtually eliminated from the area by commercial whaling in the 20th century, the study authors say. Scientists estimate around 350,000 Antarctic blue […]

"Cocaine exposure drives salmon to alter movements"
#Fish #Animals #Environment

Cocaine exposure drives salmon to alter movements
Young Atlantic salmon exposed to cocaine and its breakdown product, benzoylecgonine, swim farther and more widely in the wild, a new study shows. This behavioral change can put them in risky situations, researchers say. “[T]he effects of illicit drug pollution on aquatic wildlife is not just a laboratory finding — it can measurably alter wildlife […]

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 113 nodes and 832 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

"Egyptian teens use robots for ‘smarter and more responsive’ way to protect Earth"
#Egypt #Animals

Egyptian teens use robots for ‘smarter and more responsive’ way to protect Earth
Mudskippers are amphibious fish that can live both in water and on land. Usually found in muddy landscapes, the big-eyed creatures dig tunnels through the mud with their mouths, wrapping themselves in air pockets to maintain healthy levels of oxygen. A group of Egyptian boarding school students from Giza in the Greater Cairo region found […]

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 49 nodes and 110 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

Study finds microplastics in tadpoles in the Amazon for the first time https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/05/study-finds-microplastics-in-tadpoles-in-the-amazon-for-the-first-time/

Study finds microplastics in tadpoles in the Amazon for the first time
Researchers have recorded microplastics in frog tadpoles and their pond habitats in the wild in the Amazon for the first time, according to a new study. This confirms widespread microplastic contamination in the Amazon Rainforest, the researchers say.   Previous studies from the region have found microplastic contamination in fish, invertebrates, soil and water samples. […]

"Efforts to Save Kelp Forests from Ocean Warming Are Ramping Up"
#Kelp #Oceans #Environment

Efforts to Save Kelp Forests from Ocean Warming Are Ramping Up
At one time, kelp forests — which shelter fish, slow erosion, and sequester carbon — grew along a third of the world’s coastlines. Now, scientists are working to bolster heat-stressed kelp by attacking the urchins that prey on them and transplanting hardier kelp varieties.

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 58 nodes and 117 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

Rare earth mining is poisoning Mekong River tributaries, threatening 'the world's kitchen' #environment

Rare earth mining is poisoning Mekong River tributaries, threatening 'the world's kitchen'
Perched on the bow of his long-tail fishing boat, 75-year-old Sukjai Yana untangled a handful of small fish from his net, disappointed by his catch and fretting over whether he can sell them.

"A 10-year whale shark satellite study helps create new protected area in Indonesia"
#Indonesia #Satellites #Environment

A 10-year whale shark satellite study helps create new protected area in Indonesia
“The whale sharks are a good omen for the fishers because they know when the whale sharks come, that means that lots of small fish or anchovies are around,” says Edy Setyawan, the lead conservation scientist of the Elasmobranch Institute Indonesia. It is the relationship between whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) and fishers in Indonesia that […]

"Brazil’s expanding offshore oil frontier puts biodiversity at risk: study"
#Brazil #Biodiversity

Brazil’s expanding offshore oil frontier puts biodiversity at risk: study
In late August 2019, fishing communities along the northeast coast of Brazil reported black oily stains washing up on beaches, with crude clumping between the roots of mangroves, on the shells of turtles and on growing numbers of beached fish. The origin of the spill was never confirmed: Then-president Jair Bolsonaro first blamed a Venezuelan […]