Both of these fish tanks were filled with the same dirty water from the Chesapeake Bay, but the tank on the left has 20 oysters in it. The Oyster Recovery Partnership ran the experiment, and after 5 hours, this was the result.
Oysters are filter feeders. They pump water across hair-lined gills, trap algae, sediment, and other particles in mucus. In the process, oyster reefs also help remove nitrogen from the water and can capture some heavy metals.
A single adult oyster filters somewhere between 3 and 50 gallons of water per day, depending on conditions. The Chesapeake's pre-1880 oyster population was so dense that the combined filtration cleaned the entire 19-trillion-gallon bay in a week. Today's population would take over a year to do the same job.
85% of the world's oyster reefs are gone. The reefs that remain are still doing the work, just at a fraction of the historical scale. ORP's restoration plantings at Harris Creek in Maryland now remove the nitrogen equivalent of 20,000 bags of garden fertilizer per year.
20 oysters and 5 hours is what the image shows. Three thousand acres of restored reef is what it takes to put real filtration back into the bay.
It was found in Texas. It destroys cattle too. It was still in other countries and the US put in programs to ensure it wouldn’t enter the US again. 60 years of success.
Until Trump cut the funding, and now it’s back in the US. Are we Great Again yet?
Update on the crimes against humanity documented in the Epstein files:
It’s going to take the general public a while to catch up. We’re still in the gap between revelation and realization.
Remember: the people at the top have had years to prepare for this, and are in charge of when and how you find out (DOJ is withholding millions of files)
Everyone else is just beginning to understand the scale of what they’re looking at.
Why do you think so many of the wealthy and powerful spend so much time planning for contingencies the rest of the public never gets to consider?
And yet, the files show that when one survivor told Epstein she was not 18, he reportedly replied that it would be “their secret.”
This part is textbook manipulation and grooming.
Add your name to those of lawyer Michael Mansfield, former General Charlie Herbert, barrister Daniel Machover, genocide scholar Martin Shaw, Yanis Varoufakis, surgeon Ghassan Abu Sittah, MPs J.Corbyn, J.McDonnell, Diane Abbott and many others, and sign here 👇
🇮🇱"We are prepared to take direct legal action... against British citizens who have joined the IDF".
The International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (@ICJPalestine) announced yesterday its intention to take legal action against Britons complicit in war crimes in Gaza👇
👉NEW -- UK media fails to disclose defence industry ties of most military commentators
by Amy Killingbeck & @iainoverton
Former military officers are weighing in on wars and defence spending without public awareness of their commercial interests
https://t.co/Ye28cPk0JX
Israel yesterday kidnapped four women. Two are footballers in the Palestinian National Team.
Their names are: Natali Abu Dia and Rand Halwani.
Is it normal to kidnap footballers, @FIFAcom? Where are sports media organisations? This story should be the headline everywhere.