It’s happening now, the CS Monitor writes. The entire Lake Michigan ecosystem is collapsing:
… Read the rest “The Michigan extinction event.”The quagga [mussel] is found in all of the Great Lakes; the invasive species was introduced
The BBC exposes a secret experiment by the man who brought us evolution: an island that Darwin turned into an artificial ecosystem:
… Read the rest “Charles Darwin: Terraformer”Ascension was an arid island, buffeted by dry trade winds
SONG: “Rising Like the Sun”. (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Antidepressants in water cause shrimps… Read the rest “SONG: Rising Like the Sun”
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!
… Read the rest “Take a hike, kid.”[A] growing body of evidence is starting to show that it’s
Nature reveals a hidden connection between Sahara dust and the Amazon rainforest:
… Read the rest “Desert feeds jungle.”Significant amounts of plant nutrients have been found in atmospheric mineral dust blowing from a vast
Nature wades into the controversy, asking scientists what would really happen if we killed all the mosquitoes:
… Read the rest “The mosquito conundrum: Why not kill ’em all?”A stronger argument for keeping mosquitoes might be found if they provide
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 at what happens when the Gulf oil spill reaches the… Read the rest “Once it hits the Gulf Stream….”
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 much longer:
… Read the rest “Washing away.”[Jim] Titus, the Environmental
“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 impact a predator has on its habitat –… Read the rest “Cookbook ecology”
New Scientist has a lovely brochure for a summer place down south – far, far south:
… Read the rest “Our Antarctic Getaway”The cool climate of Antarctica was a refuge for animals fleeing climate change during the biggest
Or, at least, do less harm. The folks at Gizmodo are touting the concept of the future-friendly paint-free Coke can:
… Read the rest “Coke Silver could save the world.”So using only classic Coca-Cola’s daily sales figures, that means
The circle of life, seen as a straight line. With a bird of prey at the top.
There’s something totemic about it, I think… King Bird looking over his food subjects.… Read the rest “Science Art: Food chain-2, Nordisk familjebok”
OK, sorry for that headline. Ahem. But here! There are these two kids in Nepal who figured out how to make solar energy a heck of a lot cheaper to harness:
… Read the rest “Affordable solar? Hair’s the ticket.”Milan Karki and Harihar Adhikari, have
Johns Hopkins University is unleashing a wave of… no, wait. It’s farms. Johns Hopkins is just warning about it. Farms, however, are unleashing a wave of antibiotic terror… Read the rest “Terror from the farm.”
This image, a recent Picture of the Day at NASA’s Earth Observatory, takes a big view of something very small – lots and lots and lots of single-celled organisms multiplying… Read the rest “Science Art: Barents Sea in Bloom (BarentsSea_TMO_2009231)”
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