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![the international: vOLGADNEP
photos-of-space:
An Antonov An-124 unloads componets of kibo, Japanās science module for the International Space Station, at Kennedy Space Center. Space shuttle Endeavour docked with the ISS and delivered Kibo on 17 July 2009.[3008x2000]](https://pics.conservativememes.com/volgadnep-photos-of-space-an-antonov-an-124-unloads-componets-of-kibo-japanās-67477921.png)
![the international: AMS-02
space-pics:
āA debris shield that was removedā 15 Nov 2019 from the International Space Stationās Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) drifts away. āThe debris shield was detached by the spacewalkers so they could access and begin the repairs of the AMS thermal control system.ā Photo date: 15 Nov 2019 [5568x3712]](https://pics.conservativememes.com/ams-02-space-pics-āa-debris-shield-that-was-removedā-15-nov-66471746.png)
![the international: vOLGADNEP
photos-of-space:
An Antonov An-124 unloads componets of kibo, Japanās science module for the International Space Station, at Kennedy Space Center. Space shuttle Endeavour docked with the ISS and delivered Kibo on 17 July 2009.[3008x2000]](https://pics.conservativememes.com/volgadnep-photos-of-space-an-antonov-an-124-unloads-componets-of-kibo-japanās-65299756.png)
![the international: space-pics:
The atmosphere of Earth photographed from space on 11 October 2018 by the International Space Station (ISS) External High Definition Camera as the ISS orbited above the Western Pacific Oceanās Yellow Sea (latitude 37.1, longitude 126.3) off the west coast of South Korea at 10:26:22 GMT. [4928x2768]](https://pics.conservativememes.com/space-pics-the-atmosphere-of-earth-photographed-from-space-on-11-63366063.png)
![the international: VHD
09
photos-of-space:
āHallway chatā between Canadian Space Agency Astronaut David Saint-Jacques and National Aeronautics and Space Administration Astronaut Christina H. Koch aboard the International Space Station. āOur bedrooms are the size of a phone booth,ā writes Astronaut Koch on 20 June 2019. [4096 x 2790] [OS]](https://pics.conservativememes.com/vhd-09-photos-of-space-āhallway-chatā-between-canadian-space-agency-astronaut-60354971.png)
![the international: Agriculture
Nature
awed-frog:
Prairies are some of the most endangered ecosystems in the world, with the tallgrass prairie being the most endangered. Only 1-4% of tallgrass prairie still exists. Prairies are critically important, not only for the unique biodiversity they possess, but for their effect on climate. The ability to store carbon is a valuable ecological service in todayās changing climate. Carbon, which is emitted both naturally and by human activities such as burning coal to create electricity, is a greenhouse gas that is increasing in the Earthās atmosphere. Reports from the International Panel on Climate Change, a group of more than 2,000 climate scientists from around the world, agree that increased greenhouse gases are causing climate change, which is leading to sea level rise, higher temperatures, and altered rain patterns. Most of the prairieās carbon sequestration happens below ground, where prairie roots can dig into the soil to depths up to 15 feet and more. Prairies can store much more carbon below ground than a forest can store above ground. In fact, the prairie was once the largest carbon sink in the world-much bigger than the Amazon rainforest-and its destruction has had devastating effects.
[source]](https://pics.conservativememes.com/agriculture-nature-awed-frog-prairies-are-some-of-the-most-endangered-48019328.png)
![the international: Agriculture
Nature
bogleech:
revretch:
awed-frog:
Prairies are some of the most endangered ecosystems in the world, with the tallgrass prairie being the most endangered. Only 1-4% of tallgrass prairie still exists. Prairies are critically important, not only for the unique biodiversity they possess, but for their effect on climate. The ability to store carbon is a valuable ecological service in todayās changing climate. Carbon, which is emitted both naturally and by human activities such as burning coal to create electricity, is a greenhouse gas that is increasing in the Earthās atmosphere. Reports from the International Panel on Climate Change, a group of more than 2,000 climate scientists from around the world, agree that increased greenhouse gases are causing climate change, which is leading to sea level rise, higher temperatures, and altered rain patterns. Most of the prairieās carbon sequestration happens below ground, where prairie roots can dig into the soil to depths up to 15 feet and more. Prairies can store much more carbon below ground than a forest can store above ground. In fact, the prairie was once the largest carbon sink in the world-much bigger than the Amazon rainforest-and its destruction has had devastating effects.
[source]
I just have to addāthat extensive root system? Itās not just how the plant eats, and how it keeps itself from getting pulled out of the ground during storms, or dying when its aboveground portion is eatenā¦ itās how it talks to its friends and family, how it shares food with its friends and family, and more than likely, how it thinks. Thatās a whole plant brain weāve domesticated away, leaving a helpless organism that has trouble figuring out when itās under attack by pests, what to do about it, has very little in the way of chemical defense so it can do something about it, and canāt even warn its neighbors. Even apart from the ecological concerns, what weāve done is honestly pretty cruel.
Hereās some more articles on this too!https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/may/02/plants-talk-to-each-other-through-their-rootshttp://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141111-plants-have-a-hidden-internethttps://www.the-scientist.com/features/plant-talk-38209Whether or not you think this should qualify as a form of āintelligenceā as we know it (which in itself as a pretty nebulous and poorly defined thing), plants exhibit complicated interactive behaviors that help them grow and thrive, and the way we harvest a lot of them for our produce just doesnāt even give them a chance to reach their maturity and begin trading nutrients the way theyāre supposed to.](https://pics.conservativememes.com/agriculture-nature-bogleech-revretch-awed-frog-prairies-are-some-of-the-45755250.png)