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.”
Hakai takes a sociological look at an ecological problem, with research that shows marine environments are measurably healthier in areas where fishermen communicate openly about what… Read the rest “Fishermen who communicate make the environment healthier.”
And, The Guardian adds, we also inhale about that much plastic into our lungs as well. The study, published in Environmental Science and Technology, is the first hard look at how much microplastic… Read the rest “Human beings swallow 50,000 microparticles of plastic per year. More, if you like bottled water.”
The Guardian has a conservative (in the original sense) take on our biggest ecological challenge, with a science-based campaign to fight climate change by restoring forests, beaches,… Read the rest “Fix the climate… by making things the way they used to be.”
Australia’s WA Today reveals how one stray cat killed 40 chicks and forced a protected bird colony to move elsewhere to try to survive:
… Read the rest “A single feral cat destroys a colony of endangered birds.”The Mandurah fairy tern breeding program has
SONG: “Rats Get Into Everything”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Nature, 11 July 2018, “Seabirds enhance coral reef productivity and functioning in the absence of invasive… Read the rest “SONG: Rats Get Into Everything.”
Nature reveals that natural gas is quite a bit more polluting than we thought – with less-than-airtight facilities leaking 60% more methane than estimated, or about $2 billion in… Read the rest “Natural gas: Not all that clean (but we can fix it!)”
The New Yorker leaves their modern city to plunge into a genuine wilderness on an expedition into La Mosquitia, a long-abandoned settlement in the jungles of eastern Honduras – where… Read the rest “Exploring a Lost World”
The Guardian looks at the journal Energy and Environmental Science to find out just how well the U.S. could handle switching over power supplies right now:
… Read the rest “Wind and solar (and batteries) could supply all of America’s power: Carnegie Science study”For instance, solar power generation
Nature gets a little provocative with research that seems to show that as much air pollution comes from our houses as our cars:
… Read the rest “Household chemicals cause as much smog as cars now?”Volatile organic compounds contribute to the formation of
Nature, reporting on the effects of droughts and logging, reveals that the world’s jungles are now producing more CO2 than they’re socking away out of the atmosphere:
… Read the rest “Tropical rainforests have become carbon *producers*, not carbon sinks.”Whereas
Nature gets to the fundamentals of the filthy lucre we’re finding in filth:
… Read the rest “The poop economy is flourishing.”The facility is called Pivot, and its founder is Ashley Muspratt, a sanitation engineer who lived in Ghana,
Science Daily has one for the “Yeah. Great.” file – research from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health showing that the rising carbon dioxide levels linked … Read the rest “Rising CO2 levels mean we’ll get less protein from our grain crops.”
This isn’t really research, but does speak to what this site has been doing (or pointing at) for the past nine years… so I wanted you, gentle reader, to spend a moment with this.… Read the rest ““Complexity and nuance required”: a conservative ecologist.”
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