Lakes of Fire
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 […]
ecology
Anti-climate-change-denier bots.
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 […]
SONG: Run Straight Down (penitential Warren Zevon cover)
SONG: “Run Straight Down” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. Originally by Warren Zevon. SOURCE: This is a penitential cover. There’s no […]
The Michigan extinction event.
It’s happening now, the CS Monitor writes. The entire Lake Michigan ecosystem is collapsing: The quagga [mussel] is found in all of the Great Lakes; […]
Charles Darwin: Terraformer
The BBC exposes a secret experiment by the man who brought us evolution: an island that Darwin turned into an artificial ecosystem: Ascension was an […]
SONG: Rising Like the Sun
SONG: “Rising Like the Sun”. (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Antidepressants in water cause shrimps to ‘swim towards […]
Take a hike, kid.
G’wan. Get out of here. No, you don’t need me to hold your hand. The Guardian says you should go outside and play! [A] growing […]
Desert feeds jungle.
Nature reveals a hidden connection between Sahara dust and the Amazon rainforest: Significant amounts of plant nutrients have been found in atmospheric mineral dust blowing […]
The mosquito conundrum: Why not kill ’em all?
Nature wades into the controversy, asking scientists what would really happen if we killed all the mosquitoes: A stronger argument for keeping mosquitoes might be […]
Once it hits the Gulf Stream….
I didn’t really need a computer simulation to show me this because I know how the Gulf Stream works, but here. Wired provides a look […]
Washing away.
Slate (yeah, not the first place I look for science news, but hey) unearths the sad truth about beaches that aren’t going to be beaches […]
Cookbook ecology
“Trophic level” is a measure of how far up the food chain an animal is. It’s generally used in ecological studies to show how much […]
Our Antarctic Getaway
New Scientist has a lovely brochure for a summer place down south – far, far south: The cool climate of Antarctica was a refuge for […]
Coke Silver could save the world.
Or, at least, do less harm. The folks at Gizmodo are touting the concept of the future-friendly paint-free Coke can: So using only classic Coca-Cola’s […]
Science Art: Food chain-2, Nordisk familjebok
Click to embiggen The circle of life, seen as a straight line. With a bird of prey at the top. There’s something totemic about it, […]