Wildlife pond
Makes me want to build something like this…
#Nature
56 posts tagged Nature
Comet Ice
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Could I cool down the Earth by capturing a comet and dropping it in the ocean, like an ice cube in a glass of water?
Daniel Becker
No. In fact, it's honestly sort of impressive to find a solution that would actively make the problem worse in so many different ways.
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Outer space is a lot higher up than Niagara Falls,[citation needed] so the plunge down into the atmosphere at the bottom of Earth's gravity well adds a lot more than 0.1 degrees worth of heat. A chunk of ice from space that falls to Earth gains enough energy to warm the ice up, melt it, boil it into vapor, and then heat the vapor to thousands of degrees. If you built an icy waterfall from space, the water would arrive at the bottom as a river of superheated steam.
Fable of the Dragon Tyrant
Fitting for Global Warming (and likely plenty of other weird stuff humans got accustomed to), but apparently the story is about death.
Shifting Baseline Syndrome
“Due to short life-spans and faulty memories, humans have a poor conception of how much of the natural world has been degraded by our actions, because our ‘baseline’ shifts with every generation, and sometimes even in an individual. In essence, what we see as pristine nature would be seen by our ancestors as hopelessly degraded, and what we see as degraded, our children will view as ‘natural’.”
Source: Dense Discovery
In the US, since the first European settlers arrived, 90% of virgin or ‘old growth’ forest has been destroyed. Today’s forests could be better described as ‘tree farms’ as they do not resemble the richly biodiverse forests that once were.
Gecko
Using Van Der Waals force, geckoes are able to stick to pretty much any surface, including slippery windows. Their feet have millions of tiny hairs.
Pretty damn cool -- never thought about it (*) until Nerdland talked about it.
(*) Singapore has a lot of geckoes. They are considered to be pests here... But I love them... :)
Our global food system is the primary driver of biodiversity loss
- A new Chatham House report highlights that the global food system is the primary driver of biodiversity loss.
- Biodiversity loss will continue to accelerate, unless we change the way we produce food. Further destruction of ecosystems and habitats will threaten our ability to sustain human populations.
- The new report calls for an urgent reform of food systems, suggesting three interdependent actions: changing global dietary patterns, protecting and setting aside land for nature, and farming in a more nature-friendly and biodiversity-supporting way.
Slime Moulds
While I am sadly allergic (... in my eyes, of all places) to moulds -- these things are super pretty. This is the time for humanityto do more research on moulds and mycelium. I am convinced there's hidden potential in fungi.
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