After a 15-year study from 2005-2019 scientists from UPV/EHU and the Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Évolutive in Montpellier (CEFE-CNRS) Decided that global warming is making the plumage of blue tits less colourful. They call this a “plastic change” as opposed to a genetic change in …
This is a good POV (point of view) short video on TikTok which shows us what it is like to survive in Kentucky’s floods by climbing onto the pinnacle of your house’s roof with your dog and wait to be rescued. Chloe Adams wisely took …
Farmers in Hungary have reported historic drought damage affecting about 550,000 ha of land. Andras Eordogh breeds horses in (or near) Jászszentlászló, a village in the southern Great Plain region of southern Hungary. His horses are playing and kicking up the dust after a scorching …
Australians are famous for blaming the approximate 2 million feral cats on their continent for the loss of millions of animals of native species primarily marsupials and mammals. A lot of effort has gone into eradicating the ‘pest’ of feral cats from the continent in …
This is my opinion, essentially, although I did a bit of reading up on it before putting pen to paper. Cats don’t decide to ‘isolate’ themselves to die. It’s the wrong word. Firstly, in my opinion, domestic cats don’t know that they are dying. They …
You didn’t realise, and neither did I, that whale excrement is so important to the oceans’ ecosystem. And of course, because humans have been mercilessly killing whales for the past century, the amounts of whale excrement have been reduced dramatically to the point where the …
Funnily enough, both whales and washing machines including other household items can help reduce greenhouse gases. I don’t expect anything other than a tiny change. But ‘every little helps’ in the words of Tesco, a supermarket chain in the UK. Whales Unbeknownst to humankind, the …
COMMENT AND NEWS: The desire by governments in any country to reforest their landscape because it has been deforested for commercial reasons is admirable as it is designed to curb global warming because trees absorb carbon dioxide. Global warming damages nature, wildlife and the lives …
Scientists have learned from the camel about how to keep things cool. They’ve developed a product which can keep objects such as shipping containers at 7°C below the ambient temperature without electrical power. It all happens naturally and is based upon the way camels survive …
