“Complexity and nuance required”: a conservative ecologist.
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 […]
ecology
Air pollution may be four times worse than we thought. (In Europe, at least.)
Science Daily takes a deeper look at the problems with car and truck exhaust fumes: Environmental protection and health agencies base their air pollution management […]
We’ll build skyscrapers out of wood. And do the planet some good….
Nature reveals the new growth of ambitious plans to cool the planet with wooden skyscrapers: Constructed almost entirely from timber in 2014, the 8-storey, 30-metre […]
Discarded computers could bring Israelis and Palestinians together
Nature seems awfully optimistic about a program for recycling and processing “e-waste” in the Holy Land: Electronics are dismantled in nearby villages as part of […]
Polar bears and grizzlies are making global-warming babies.
Washington Post has us – well, not exactly preparing for the end of the world, but definitely on our guard. When polar bears start mating […]
Prozac is making fish… different.
Discover reports on unanticipated consequences of antidepressants getting into the water and changing animal behavior: [Teresa] Dzieweczynski, a psychologist at the University of New England, […]
China goes green.
Amid news of massive layoffs and financial uncertainty, New Scientist sheds a ray of hope on the Middle Kingdom, reporting on China’s new five-year plan […]
SONG: “Jump, Jump, Jump.”
SONG: “Jump, Jump, Jump”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Fish and Adaptation: Mangrove Fish Jumps into Air in Warming Water”, Nature World News, 21 Oct […]
Mealworms can eat our plastic trash.
Science Alert (citing Environmental Science & Technology) shows us a new way to think about chucking out all that delicious “non-biodegradable” garbage: Researchers led by […]
The good news: There are lots more trees than we thought. The bad news: Well….
Washington Post spells out the bad news. There are more trees than we thought, but that means there are a *whole lot* less than there […]
What makes tick-borne diseases so tough?
Nature tries to figure out why we’re not making the headway we should against Lyme, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and the rest of the tick-borne […]
Hope. Hope from frogs. They might just survive.
Nature reports that, in the face of extinction, frogs have a way to adapt to pesticides – a little: Several species of frogs can quickly […]
Live sharks discovered inside a live volcano.
National Geographic reveals an ecosystem my 10-year-old son might have dreamed up. It’s all lava, acid and sharks. Inside the cauldron of Kavachi is a […]
Land planarians are invading the U.S.!
PeerJ has a study revealing how one the planet’s most invasive species has wormed its way into – of course – Florida: The land planarian […]
We don’t have to protect the Eastern Cougar any more. There aren’t any left.
The Guardian has more on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s official extinction verdict: The agency said on Tuesday the four-year review, which included information […]