Thank you so much for your support, Linda! We'll keep bringing you great content, so make sure to activate notifications so you don't miss anything! 🤗😉
I also just watched a brilliant documentary on this site about the dessertification of Australia. Extremely well done and informative!The quality of information is incredible.
Leaf litter is acidic. This is where rainwater harvesting catchments like bioswales would help. Bioswales capture water, leaf litter, etc and sequester it to soil instead of letting the litter run to the ocean via storm/sewer drains. Bioswales in cities would have many cost/social/environmental/mainenance benefits over expanding other systems, and we need to gravitate towards them.
@@SLICE_Earth look up Brad Lancaster on making bioswales. He hasn't covered leaf litter, per se, but bioswales are something to consider. Bioswales have many positives including reducing erosion of topsoil (topsoil is high carbon).
Agree with you about bioswales. Run-off is a HUGE problem everywhere. It isnt just leaf litter, here in New Zealand we get rural runoff polluted by intense dairying and other animal farming practices. We get acidic leaching from runoff from our massive Pinus Radiata forests [ pine trees]. The leaves, branches, and trunks contain acids. The forestry workers cut off the growing young tree's branches, allowing them to fall to the ground. Whenever there is heavy rain or a cyclone, this "slash" as it's called, gets washed downriver into our estuaries and inshore fisheries. In suburban locations, everything from storm water, to pesticides, roof algae treatments, and car-wash water all ends up in our harbours and seashores. In urban centres, motorway polluted runoff is mostly treated, but other pollutants like plastics, garbage, and manufacturing processes still enter our local waters. The beaches are sterile, dead, and the shore birds are starving. The oceans are becoming more acidic every decade. It is a well-known scientific analysis. But sadly, there is no end to the wilful misuse of land, the misuse of natural habitats, and no end to man's wilful ignorance and greed. 😢
Something i have learned from a lifetime of mistakes is just because something is pristine and beautiful right now doesn't mean it has always been that way and doesn't mean it has to stay that way to be that way in the future. Most of the time part of the life cycle of beautiful things has a death and a rebirth in order to maintain an existence.
Every place I SCUBA dive is having serious problems with algy blooms worse than at any time in the last 50 years. Algy growth is driven by high PH! Could someone please find a way to acidify the oceans before it is too late?
On The Ph scale neutral is 7.0. Current ocean levels are 8.1 Alkaline. Rainwater is 5.6 Acidic. They keep repeating the Acidification of the ocean but carefully avoid giving any PH readings. The single most important indices of their investigation.
the oceans are not becoming acidic they are becoming less alkaline pH is a scale from 0 to 14 7 is alkaline 7 is neutral the oceans are pH 8.1 which is alkaline
Prior to the Industrial Revolution, average ocean pH was about 8.2. Today, average ocean pH is about 8.1.
I think its safe to assume that it at some point it will naturally fluctuate at a much wider range then that.
Thanks!
Thank you so much for your support, Linda! We'll keep bringing you great content, so make sure to activate notifications so you don't miss anything! 🤗😉
I also just watched a brilliant documentary on this site about the dessertification of Australia. Extremely well done and informative!The quality of information is incredible.
Leaf litter is acidic. This is where rainwater harvesting catchments like bioswales would help. Bioswales capture water, leaf litter, etc and sequester it to soil instead of letting the litter run to the ocean via storm/sewer drains.
Bioswales in cities would have many cost/social/environmental/mainenance benefits over expanding other systems, and we need to gravitate towards them.
It seems really interesting! Do you have any articles about it you would recommend?
@@SLICE_Earth look up Brad Lancaster on making bioswales. He hasn't covered leaf litter, per se, but bioswales are something to consider.
Bioswales have many positives including reducing erosion of topsoil (topsoil is high carbon).
Agree with you about bioswales. Run-off is a HUGE problem everywhere.
It isnt just leaf litter, here in New Zealand we get rural runoff polluted by intense dairying and other animal farming practices.
We get acidic leaching from runoff from our massive Pinus Radiata forests [ pine trees].
The leaves, branches, and trunks contain acids.
The forestry workers cut off the growing young tree's branches, allowing them to fall to the ground. Whenever there is heavy rain or a cyclone, this "slash" as it's called, gets washed downriver into our estuaries and inshore fisheries.
In suburban locations, everything from storm water, to pesticides, roof algae treatments, and car-wash water all ends up in our harbours and seashores.
In urban centres, motorway polluted runoff is mostly treated, but other pollutants like plastics, garbage, and manufacturing processes still enter our local waters.
The beaches are sterile, dead, and the shore birds are starving.
The oceans are becoming more acidic every decade.
It is a well-known scientific analysis.
But sadly, there is no end to the wilful misuse of land, the misuse of natural habitats, and no end to man's wilful ignorance and greed.
😢
Something i have learned from a lifetime of mistakes is just because something is pristine and beautiful right now doesn't mean it has always been that way and doesn't mean it has to stay that way to be that way in the future. Most of the time part of the life cycle of beautiful things has a death and a rebirth in order to maintain an existence.
How long have PH meters been around? We have no history of what it’s been
Every place I SCUBA dive is having serious problems with algy blooms worse than at any time in the last 50 years. Algy growth is driven by high PH! Could someone please find a way to acidify the oceans before it is too late?
On The Ph scale neutral is 7.0. Current ocean levels are 8.1 Alkaline. Rainwater is 5.6 Acidic. They keep repeating the Acidification of the ocean but carefully avoid giving any PH readings. The single most important indices of their investigation.
I guess nobody watches this because it's a depressing reality. Nice photography.
Thank you ! yes maybe.. still a comment, like or share goes a long way..
the oceans are not becoming acidic
they are becoming less alkaline
pH is a scale from 0 to 14
7 is alkaline
7 is neutral
the oceans are pH 8.1
which is alkaline