Monarchy slows efforts to save kelp, seagrass
 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY JEFF OVERS, BBC NEWS & CURRENT AFFAIRS/GETTY IMAGES | | You probably didn’t know that a 96-year-old woman owns the seabed for 12 miles beyond Great Britain’s shores. And that Queen Elizabeth II’s ownership has led to obstacles in the United Kingdom’s attempts to restore coastal waters.
The obstacles “have chased a kelp farmer to a more welcoming reception in southeast Asia” and threaten Britain’s biggest effort to replant seagrass, Matthew Ponsford writes in our story, out today, which is World Oceans Day.
Nearly 90 percent of the coast’s seagrass has vanished and most of the U.K.’s 26,000 square miles of kelp forests may be gone by 2100.
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY GLYN KIRK, AFP/GETTY IMAGES | | The British monarch’s holdings include the seabed below the Seven Sisters white cliffs in East Sussex (pictured at top) and the seabed extending from the shore in Brighton (pictured above).
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY JOHAN HERMANS | | Land of 1,000 orchids: The stunning Cymbidiella pardalina (above), with its scarlet lips, is among a thousand (and counting) species of orchids decorating Madagascar. The orchids remarkably resistant to the drought that’s hit this southeast Asian island, which is better known for its lemurs. Orchids with underground tubers act as survival powerhouses, says Jeannie Raharimampionona, a Malagasy botanist, conservationist, and Nat Geo Explorer.
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| | This doctor makes horse calls: In the hills of Georgia’s remote Tusheti region, Dr. Irakli Khvedaguridze often gets to his patients on his white horse, Bichola. In the winter, he sometimes takes skis. “Each time you step out, no matter the season or weather, you know that anything could happen,” the 80-year-old mountain doctor tells Nat Geo. “This is wild nature.” Tomer Ifrah’s image (above) has been liked by nearly 200,000 readers since it was posted last month on our Instagram page.
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| | The Super Strawbery Moon: As darkness falls Tuesday, the year’s second supermoon will rise. June’s full moon, popularly known as the Strawberry Moon in North America for the time berries begin to ripen, will ascend in the eastern sky. (Catch how the moon is electric, particularly during a full moon.) Tomorrow and Friday nights, see a pairing of the moon and the brilliant blue-white star Spica in the southern sky. Over the next few two months, Northern Hemisphere skywatchers may see eerie, electric-blue clouds that are created by ice crystals forming around meteor dust falling into Earth’s atmosphere. Catch them about 45 minutes after sunset, where they appear as glowing, silver-blue wisps some 50 miles above Earth. — Andrew Fazekas
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY ALEX KROWIAK | | Sea caves and seals: It’s just 26 miles off the California mainland, but Santa Rosa Island (above) seems like a million miles away. The virtual natural history museum is still inhabited by the Chumash Indians, who have deep ties to the Channel Islands’ land and sea. Visitors on a three-hour boat trip can spot whales, sea lions, dolphins, and abundant avian life, among them California brown pelicans, Cassin’s auklets, Brandt’s cormorants, and Scripps’ murrelets, Julie Tumamait-Stenslie tells Nat Geo.
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| Today’s World Oceans Day newsletter has been curated and edited by David Beard, Heather Kim, Jen Tse, and Monica Williams. Have an idea for us, or a favorite ocean? We'd love to hear from you at david.beard@natgeo.com. Thanks for reading. | |
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