Quartz reports on a major move toward a cleaner, carbon-neutral future:
… Read the rest “The world’s largest shipping firm is putting $1.4 billion into sustainable engines.”The ships will be built by Hyundai Heavy Industries and are due to be delivered by 2024, each at a price tag of $175 million,
The only answer is “We don’t really know,” but as Reuters explains, that isn’t really good news however you look at it:
… Read the rest “Why are these Patagonian lakes turning pink?”The lakes, located near an industrial park
Scientific American looks at the work of ecologist Suzanne Simard, and her efforts to preserve “mother trees,” which have intelligence, memories, and even look out for their… Read the rest “On the memory of trees.”
Science News has disheartening news for would-be explorers or lovers of virgin wilderness. The latest survey has found that no more than 3 percent of Earth’s land remains untouched… Read the rest “Humans have touched 97% of the Earth’s land.”
The BBC reports on a new use for space hardware: training computers to count elephant populations from 370 miles overhead to keep them from hurtling into extinction:
… Read the rest “Counting elephants from space: satellite conservation.”The breakthrough could
Science has the cheerful results of a study in the U.S. Pacific Northwest that found a compound from rubber tires – a chemical so common, researchers call it “ubiquitous”… Read the rest “Coho salmon are getting killed by road runoff contaminated with rubber-tire chemicals.”
CNN and other outlets are covering some good news about the cutest of marsupial carnivores. Tasmanian devils are doing well enough (and so is their erstwhile environment) that ecologists… Read the rest “Tasmanian devils are being reintroduced to mainland Australia”
Science News breaks down the costs and benefits of restoring a predator like otters to an ecosystem, and finds that the ecological conservation approach pays for itself and then some (unless… Read the rest “Bringing otters back really paid off.”
Reuters reports that, if we didn’t have enough proof that world is turning inside out, the so-called White Continent is now warm enough that its snow is turning green:
… Read the rest “Antarctica is turning green.”Now, using data
The Guardian has grim news for bugs (which include critters like the bees that pollinate our crops) with a little flash of hope. Insect populations have dropped by 25% over the last 30 years,… Read the rest “Insects are dying off – except those living in fresh water.”
Scientific American checks out how fire-prevention efforts are actually apparently hurting bat populations:
… Read the rest “Forest fires boost bats.”In California’s Sierra Nevada ecosystem, bats have adapted to occasional
Science News digs into the science behind leaving the world a slightly more fertile place when you go, by having your body naturally composted after death:
… Read the rest “Compost burials really work.”The results, presented February
Reuters reports on scientists – 400 of them – who have shed the stereotypical dispassionate patience that goes with, you know, gathering data over long periods of time and … Read the rest “Scientists endorse civil disobedience to get somebody to actually do something about climate change.”
Sure, I listen to an episode of Omnibus! here and there, and the latest was on the oddly half-forgotten project that was Biosphere 2.
I mainly remember Biosphere 2 as the … Read the rest “Science Art: Biosphere_2_-_panoramio_(4) by Qygen, 19 Aug 2003.”
Nature shares the sad fact that “freshwater megafish” – in other words, the really big ones, the 60-pounders out there in the rivers and lakes – are in the middle… Read the rest “Fishing ecology: the big ones are getting away.”
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