A team of scientists at Universidade Federald de Goiás have worked out, through a complex calculation, that the value of see bird droppings or guano is worth £840 million a year in terms of fertilising crops and delivering nutrients to coral reefs and boosting fish …
Dr. Melvin Vopson of the University of Portsmouth has painted an interesting if not bleak picture of the long-term future of the planet. Digital information is broken down into bits, the smallest unit of data. He says that the number of bits of digital data …
NEWS-VIEWS: It seems to me, and to others, that Beluga whales can smile. We don’t know for sure whether they are experiencing happiness at the time. One day we will. And we will understand with certainty that Beluga whales experience a range of emotions like …
It appears that nowadays artificial grass is fantastic quality, highly realistic and more popular than ever before. The popularity probably comes about because year-on-year people are distancing themselves from nature because of urban sprawl and humankind’s natural propensity to become an orphan from nature, and …
NEWS AND OPINION: Rhino poaching has fallen by 63% in Namibia because fines dished out to poachers on their conviction have increased from 200,000 Namibian dollars to 25 million Namibian dollars which is the equivalent of £1.1 million. Also, jail terms have increased. The number …
NEWS AND VIEWS: It appears that somebody in a place called Nidderdale, near Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire, UK is deliberately putting down a cocktail of pesticides which the police have nicknamed the “Nidderdale cocktail”. We are not told but it seems that the individual is …
Pygmy hogs are the world’s rarest wild pigs. They are also the world’s smallest and they’ve been placed under a virus lockdown in Assam, India due to a very serious swine fever outbreak. The entire population of pygmy hogs could be wiped out. The 25 …
Laboratory grown coral has been successfully transplanted into the sea where they have survived and it is hoped that they will develop and expand to repair coral reefs damaged by years of disease, pollution and the warming of the oceans. To be clear, corals are …
NEWS/VIEWS – COMMENT ON THE NEWS: From the shores of England to those of Hong Kong discarded coronavirus facemasks are rapidly developing into a new hazard to marine wildlife and wildlife habitats. It is intriguing that I have picked up news stories on this topic …
