The Caspian Sea is a land-locked lake, but it is the largest on the planet (371.000 km2), and quite salty. Since the 1990’s, the water level has been dropping a few centimeters every year. This drop will accelerate during the upcoming decades.
“during the last century the North American capitalism shifted as much sediment as would be moved naturally in between 700 to 3000 years.”
“no thread can be pulled without destroying the integrity of the cloth.” Dean Koontz, Deeply Odd
In less than 1 week Orbital Marine Power Ltd exceeded £1million on its investment crowdfund.
B-Lines is a response to the decline of bees and other pollinating insects, a plan for how to reconnect our wild places by creating a network of wildflowers across our landscapes.
“While the aim is, first and foremost, to help secure the future of this species, the initiative also has importance for tropical limestone forest biodiversity more generally. “
New research led by Queen’s University Belfast has found that man-made noise changes the signals of animals, hampering their communication with each other.
“There was a typical mixture of unusual species in late Autumn, spread across most areas of the island, but with bird-watching somewhat curtailed this year there are bound to have been several we did not see or hear of. “
” I was walking up the main street in Stromness, when I saw this….”
A recent study by researchers in the USA has looked at how the interaction between beavers and wolves in the wetland habitat affects that ecosystem.
