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Few days ago we wrote about recent encounter with the world’s rarest whale. Well, there is no end to great discoveries – especially if it comes to rare animals! (more…)
Archive for the ‘biodegradation’ Category
Eco News #31: Oncilla, the rarest cat, caught on camera
December 1st, 2012Eco News #30 – rarest whale known to humanity seen recently
November 25th, 2012Hello Greenzoners! 🙂
Recently, a new discovery on the coast of New Zealand proved our little knowledge about ocean depths. The rarest whale known to the humanity was seen for the first time after very long time (more…)
Eco News #29 – streams are affected by urban development
November 19th, 2012According to the new studies by the USGS, streams are more vulnerable to urban development than it was previously thought. Growing and spreading inhabited areas lead to the indirect contamination of nearby streams. As scientists claim, “streams are not only water – they are communities of aquatic life”. And, because of pollution, important and sensitive aquatic species living in the streams die out.
What do you think about it, dear Greenzoners?
Eco News #28 – shrinking glaciers in Himalayas
November 17th, 2012Hello Greenzoners!
Geology professor and scientist, Summer Rupper recently stated that the progressing global warming is affecting the Himalayas.
Yes – the highest mountains in the world are suffering from rising temperature, which leads to the shrinking of glaciers by melting, – leading to huge amounts of water coming down from the mountains. (more…)
Eco News #27 – Habitable Super-Earth?
November 11th, 2012Hi Greenzoners! Any one of you is into astronomy? 😉
A planet that could sustain life was just discovered. It’s called HD 40307G and is located in a “habitable zone” – that is in area, where the planet is not too close or too far from its sun, so that liquid water can exist.
Eco News #26 – Sharks – Friends or foes?
November 7th, 2012All of you have probably seen an article about shark attacking humans, a picture showing aggressive shark or at least watched Jaws by Steven Spielberg. ;)|
But are those sharks really that dangerous?
This topic was recently discussed among the ecologists. How many times do we see news about sharks attacking people, and how often do we see articles about preservation of their species?
Statistically, over 60% of coverage and news present sharks in negative image, while only 7% talks about species’ preservation, biology and ecology.
The truth is that sharks are not as dangerous as we portrait them – most human casualties are the reason of sharks feeling threatened or mistaking humans with seals. (more…)
Eco News #25 – Declining orangutan population
November 5th, 2012Hello Greenzoners! We already spoke about phytoplankton, sea otters and others. Now let’s talk about something more exotic – orangutans. 🙂
Recently orangutan’s populaion on Sumatra island (south-east Asia) have undergone significant decline. For now there’s only 6,600 individuals left and orangutans are now endangered species. The reason of this reduction is, as it often occured, massive deforestation of tropical areas. (more…)
Eco News 24# – declining mountain meadows
November 4th, 2012Hello Greenzoners, I hope you are having good day in which we greet you with new Eco News. 😉
Mountain meadows are slowly declining and being destroyed in the Northern Pacific areas. Once huge tracts of green grass and rare, wild flowers, now they are being dominated by spreading trees and other thick and territorialy invasive plant species. The reason behind this is progressing global warming and rising temperature (more…)
Did you know: phytoplankton
November 2nd, 2012…wondering what is this? 😉
It’s a phytoplankton, a small underwater organism that can absorb the excessive amounts of CO2 in atmosphere.
Because of global warming and rising seas’ temperatures, their population is decreasting.
Eco News #23 – Energy from wood – good idea? Discussion in comments!
October 30th, 2012Hi Greenzoners! 🙂
As we are consuming more and more petroleum in our cars and heating systems, it is inevitable that our oil reserve is going lower and lower. We are running out of oil faster than we could expect, so that many scientists and industrial companies are making their efforts in discovering new types of energy.
It was discovered that we can obtain energy from carbohydrates, which is to be found in some food products or wood. The second one consists of cellulose and hemicullulose, which is carbohydrades and lignin. It was already used during the production of paper, when 50% of wood was burnt and converted into bioenergy. (more…)