That, National Geographic has come out and said, is the sorry state of our oceans, as the ongoing search for Malaysian Airlines 370 has tragically demonstrated:
… Read the rest “Enough garbage to hide a jumbo jet.”“This is the first
Ecowatch reveals how our cities act as killing machines, with a new study that’s determined that buildings kill nearly one billion birds every year:
… Read the rest “Buildings kill just about one billion birds a year.”In the most comprehensive study
I’m pretty sure Nature is blazing a new B-movie trail with this report on hormone-disrupting chemicals “rising from the dead”:
… Read the rest “Zombie sex-change pollution”Environmental scientists have discovered
Those questions were raised in, of all publications, Astrobiology Magazine. Why are astrobiologists so concerned about human culture? Because if civilizations can really die out, that… Read the rest “Utopia or catastrophe: How long do civilizations live? (And how can we find another?)”
French beekeepers, Russia Today tells us, were mystified when their hives started producing rainbow-colored honey – but were even more concerned when they found out the not-so-sweet… Read the rest “M&M waste gives bees honey of different colors.”
Guardian takes a look underwater, and what it sees (and, more importantly, what scientists are seeing) really doesn’t look good:
… Read the rest “The reefs are collapsing.”The decline of the reefs has been rapid: in the 1970s,
File this Washington Post story under “unintended consequences,” maybe. Researchers in Yellowstone Park are noting that as wolf populations are rebounding, the number… Read the rest “More wolves, more trees.”
PhysOrg hops on the in-vitro meat bandwagon with a study that concludes lab-grown meat will lower greenhouse gas emissions by 96 percent:
… Read the rest “Test-tube steak will save Earth.”The analysis, carried out by scientists from Oxford
I know I already kinda wrote a song about this (and isopods), but still – the Mother Nature Network has joined the voices marveling over the fact that the closer we look at Antarctica,… Read the rest “Fertile Antarctica”
Nature reports on a hidden side of wetlands conservation, with the discovery that those snorkel-rooted mangrove trees – which are getting pretty scarce most places – are … Read the rest “Mangroves save us. (If we save them.)”
The death of the dinosaurs was just a drop in the bucket compared to some of the real mass extinction events out there. And PhysOrg thinks we may be at the beginning of a really big one:
… Read the rest “Mass Extinction #6”“The
New Scientist offers hope that our amphibian friends might not all die horribly after all:
… Read the rest “Frogs might make it after all.”“It’s happening across a number of species,” says Michael Mahony at the University
The world’s lakes are coming to a boil, reports National Geographic. Only a minute difference in global climate is already causing some major changes in big bodies of water:
… Read the rest “Lakes of Fire”In the
I suppose it’d be shorter to call ’em debate-bots, but Popular Science has the skinny on a new breed of online entity programmed to tirelessly refute the same tired claims: … Read the rest “Anti-climate-change-denier bots.”
SONG: “Run Straight Down” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant. Originally by Warren Zevon.
SOURCE: This is a penitential cover.… Read the rest “SONG: Run Straight Down (penitential Warren Zevon cover)”
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