Category: Ecology
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Beatles more than Humans...
A Kansas State University research team has found that despite humans increasing nitrogen production through industrialization, nitrogen availability in many ecosystems has remained steady for the past 500 years. Their work appears in the journal Nature. [1] Building, polluting, creating factories and yet... zero result. If I recall correctly, insects have more effect on the planet's ecosystem. Trying…
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Eagle "natural" beak...
An eagle gets a new artificial beak, with the help of 3D printing technology. [1] Is it "natural"? Who defines "artificial"? Isn't everything we do, as humans, part of Nature and - thus - natural?
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Ecology oppression. Hypocrisy. BBQ.
The pressures of severe air pollution have prompted China's environmental watchdog to consider pushing forward a legal ban on barbecues in densely populated urban areas. (1) Ecology is a trend. But most of all, ecology is an excuse! Because after all, which one of the two below do you really believe is to blame for…
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Chernobyl, Kara Sea, life...
For more than a decade, Western governments have been helping Russia to remove nuclear fuel from decommissioned submarines docked in the Kola Peninsula, the region of Russia closest to Scandinavia. But further east lies an intact nuclear submarine at the bottom of the Kara Sea, and its highly enriched uranium fuel is a potential time bomb.…
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Afrika, lions, fake ecology...
A report says that West African lions on verge of extinction. The UK-based conservation group LionAid says as few as 645 lions remain in the wild in western and central Africa. [1] But why want to keep them alive? For all the WRONG reasons of course... We want them alive so as to see them in documentaries from the…
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