As counterintuitive as it may seem, innovative, science-based conservation programs are leveraging the ocean’s version of “healing growth phase” to restore stressed reef ecosystems across the globe. At the heart of the novel approach is breaking corals up into smaller pieces to invoke the accelerated growth associated with the healing process. Crazy, right?
On-line Interview posted December 2024 (An Interview with R.M. Tembreull | Atmosphere Press) Tell us the story of your book’s title. Was it easy to find, or did it take forever? I have to say my book named itself. To “set the table” for the Blighted Earth series, I needed the right set of conditions for Chaos…
Posted by Literary Titan on Aug 30, 2024 (https://literarytitan.com/2024/08/30/fuath-slugair/) Fractured State follows a man entrusted with safeguarding a community of Druids who must navigate a perilous world where reality, mythology, and technology intersect and face relentless threats to survival. What was the inspiration for the original and fascinating idea at the center of the book? Great…
By Janith Kavinda, National Geographic Mycelium, or mycorrysis, is a fungus that expands underground, creating a network of connections between all plant species, something like the Internet, which allows them to not only communicate, but also to take care of themselves, protect themselves, and feed themselves. Stock up on the water. When a tree in…
My meta-environment, My protectorate, Mine within the All-We-One. Here all life respected and equal, Under the light of Grandmother Sun. Over this wonderous meta’en I preside, Knowing nothing but the greatest pride, For this honor Earth Mother has bestowed upon me! I fight for all those without voice, Those bound to natural process without choice,…
Blight can transcend beyond biological living beings. Among the old tribes, he was called “Okaraxta” in a time when the original peoples of this vast land were spiritually connected to the Natural. The Mandan and other tribes perceived the High Sentients as a being or beings, with both equally accurate descriptors. Modern humans—Americans—call his protectorate…
When Manmade communication networks have gaps or degraded areas in coverage, mobile mesh nodes are employed to overcome these ‘holes’ with distributed networks. Why would the Natural not be capable reacting similarly? Do you think humans were the first to think of this? In the human theory of evolution, adaptation is confined to species, but…