Tag: Biodiversity - Page 11
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Nature, Biodiversity And NYC? Wildflower Week and PlaNYC Prove These Go Together In Perfect Harmony
Spring is in the air. Flowers and ideas are blooming in NYC. NYC has a new nature focus. The
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The Week in Animal News: Apes Discuss Their Meal, Hummingbird Tongues, and More (Slideshow)
Turns out Bonobos like to talk about their food -- using different call sequences to tell fellow apes when they find the highly-desirable (kiwis) and less-desirable (apples).
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The Week in Animal News: Apes Discuss Their Meal, Hummingbird Tongues, and More
Turns out Bonobos like to talk about their food -- using different call sequences to tell fellow apes when they find the highly-desirable (kiwis) and less-desirable (apples). We also have the surprising way hummingbirds drink, hidden messages in shark fi
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Tilapia Farming Abroad is an Environmental Nightmare
Some time ago John wrote about the environmental benefits and risks of a rise in tilapia farming. While their adaptability and relatively low position on the food chain suggested an
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The Pro-Environment Case for Errecting Deer Fences
Intuitively, I've never been to fond of fences. Symbolically, they were always a reminder of humans' tendency to dominate nature, and on a practical level they seemed like they would restrict the movement of wildlife and
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Why and How Every Gardener Should Go Peat Free
The Chelsea Flower Show may have declared its intentions to go peat free, and peat alternatives for the garden may be increasingly available, but many gardeners continue to use peat despite the fact that peat mining is stripping vital habitats at a far
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Colony Collapse iPhone Game Puts Male Bees in the Hot Seat
Remember Jerry Seinfeld's Bee Movie? It wasn't just the Bee Movie's collaboration with McDonalds that had a lot of nature lovers confused—it was also the fact that it featured heroic male "pilots" flying off to
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The Week in Animal News: Flame Retardants Found in Pets, Inmates Eating Elephants, and More (Slideshow)
Researchers at Indiana University have found flame retardants in the blood of pet dogs at levels five to 10 times higher than typically found in humans. Could dogs be the canary in the coal mine for how accumulating
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The Week in Animal News: Flame Retardants Found in Pets, Inmates Eating Elephants, and More
Researchers at Indiana University have found flame retardants in the blood of pet dogs at levels five to 10 times higher than typically found in humans. Could dogs be the canary in the coal mine for how accumulating polybrominated flame retardants will af
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The Week in Animal News: Invasive Species Attacking Antarctica, Saving Asian Unicorns, and More (Slideshow)
It may be cold and inhospitable in Antarctica, but that hasn't stopped a whole host of invasive species from settling there -- a fact that has biologists quite concerned.
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The Week in Animal News: Invasive Species Attacking Antarctica, Saving Asian Unicorns, and More
It may be cold and inhospitable in Antarctica, but that hasn't stopped a whole host of invasive species from settling there -- a fact that has biologists quite concerned. We also have protected "unicorns," squids bothered by noisy oceans, thriving sardi
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Could Mushrooms Remediate Japan's Nuclear Contamination?
Paul Stamets is famous for his assertions that mushrooms can help heal the world. From myco-pesticides to cleaning up oil spills, he argues that mushrooms are nature's ultimate recyclers and colonizers, and as such can help to meet many of the
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The Week in Animals: Baby Birds Filling Up on Plastic, Zebra Stripes Used as Barcodes, and More (Slideshow)
We know there is a serious problems of plastics in the oceans. We also know that the birds living on Midway Atoll have become an iconic species representing this problem -- we all saw the photos from Chris Jordan detailing this.
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Extinct Plants of New York City
Of the 1,357 plant species that once thrived in New York City, only 771 are still found there. The main reasons behind the loss of most plants from the area are human-related: habitat
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The Week in Animals: Baby Birds Filling Up on Plastic, Zebra Stripes Used as Barcodes, and More
We know there is a serious problems of plastics in the oceans. We also know that the birds living on Midway Atoll have become an iconic species representing this problem -- we all saw the photos from Chris Jordan detailing this. But do we fully comprehend
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Kraig Kraft on Chasing Chiles
There are plenty of great books out there on global warming, all full of dismaying facts and figures. But never before has our changing climate been viewed through the fiery lens of the chili pepper. In Chasing Chiles, Kraig Kraft (along with co-authors
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How to Make Seed Bombs (and Not Get in Trouble Doing It)
I've always like the idea of seed bombs. Little nuggets of clay, compost and appropriately-selected seeds that can be used to help green wasteland and otherwise neglected areas.
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How to Make a Compost Tea Brewer for Under $30 (Video)
I've written before about how to make compost tea and why you should, but when I wrote a round up of how to brew compost tea videos, I somehow missed this gem from PNW gardening on how to make a compost tea brewer for under
