Fresh water is so important to pretty much all life but we only have so much of it. Which is why finding more is so exciting! A new freshwater reserve has been discovered offshore of New Zealand. The new reserve could help areas that regularly struggle with drought.
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Lots of people don’t like insects. We spend a lot of time getting rid of them but we need to change that. Our lives and the lives of insects are locked together and although massive die offs might sound nice, it’s a real problem that we need to help solve.
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The climate crisis puts the world’s biodiversity in danger. As it gets warmer and weather gets more extreme, many plants and animals will not be able to survive these changes. Anywhere from 50-95% of species will become extinct in the next 50 years. That’s a lot.
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Invasive species have made their way into more than half of the national parks in the Untied States which is terrible news for native species. Efforts to stop them are lacking and without intervention, the problem will only get worse.
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No one wants to go to a boring party. If you’re looking for an exciting time, you wouldn’t go to a library, you go where the music is playing. Well turns out that fish feel the same way. In a strange but pretty neat experiment, scientists played healthy reef sounds in dead coral and the fish flocked to it.
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Plastic is getting everywhere. Even rocks! A new kind of stone has formed dubbed plastiglomerates and it is made from all the normal things such as minerals, sand, shells, etc all held together with a melted plastic.
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There’s a lot of focus on climate, and with good reason! But let’s not forget there’s more to earth then the air we breathe and that nature in general is in quite a bit of trouble from our actions. A comprehensive review of the state of nature has been released and there are some key takeaways from it.
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Solitary bees are exactly what they sound like. Bees that live by themselves during their lives. They have no hive, no queen, they are free bees! You can attract more of them to your garden by giving them somewhere to sleep. The Bee Brick is an innovative brick that is a home for bees.
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Plastic is a huge problem for our oceans. The waste ends up in the and wreaks havoc on the ecosystem. But that’s not the only thing that is out there making the seas not so nice. Chemicals also play a role in destroying these natural wonders. And not dumping them, chemicals in your sunscreen. So Hawaii is banning them.
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The natural world is full of mystery and wonder but we’re not all naturalists who can look at a leaf and know it’s not poison (pro-tip: avoid leaves of three and anything kind of waxy looking for starters) but that’s ok! Seek is the app that will help you explore and enjoy the natural world.
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Feel like your life is too comfortable? Why not have a little brush with death then? The Cage of Death allows you to get up close and personal with crocodiles aka a killing machine so perfect it hasn’t changed for a millennium for your next vacation.
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Before we understood natural food systems and cycles of life, humans made some really terrible hunting choices. Like killing all the wolves in an area which causes lack of natural predators and overpopulation of animals like deer which then eat the crops. Japan is trying to save their crops from such issues with the Super Monster Wolf, the animatronic . . . wolf.
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We’ve talked about the bees before (save them) and the serious problems that they’re facing. This is a problem for us because they pollinate a lot of the fruits and vegetables we eat. While we’re battling the issues that are killing them. But there’s been a new idea for a stop gap solution: Robobees made from off the shelf drones.
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Earthquakes happen every day around the world and most of them are just tremors but the ones that are bad, well they’re really bad. Many people lose their lives to earthquakes every year and we have no way of knowing if one is coming until things are falling off shelves. Which is why the news of an algorithm that can predict them is so exciting.
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We’ve talked about the Merlin Bird ID app before but I’m bringing it back up because a new update allows it to do EXACTLY what we’ve always wanted. It can now ID a bird from a picture.
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