Conservation
Spreading around the world at the speed of light, COVID-19 has now infected more than 2.5 million people and killed almost 177,000. Although the virus’s origins are still a little murky, it’s highly likely that it jumped from species to species, until it hit ours. Trading diseases with wildlife isn’t new.
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There’s a village just 40 miles southeast of Shanghai, China, that might be the greenest in the world. No, it’s not because of its CO2-sequestering buildings, recycling programs or eco-friendly neighborhoods. It’s because it’s literally green: it’s covered in plants.
Nature & Wildlife
Forests are important in our warming world. As we burn fossil fuels—such as coal, gas and oil—and cut down and burn forests for agricultural fields, the released carbon dioxide spreads across the planet. That, in turn, captures and traps the solar heat that would otherwise be radiated out into space, and our Earth heats up.
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With our warming climate, some plants are managing to hitch a ride to Antarctica. Will they colonize and thereby change the continent?
Videos
At this time of year, the minds of Hollywood TV and film producers aren’t the only ones full of thoughts of zombies, those rather stiff and stumbling, hungry and insatiable beings who want to eat the rest of us. Some creatures found in nature, too, have had their brains transformed, turning them into real-life zombies.
Galapagos Islands
Invasive species are often bad news. This is especially true in a place like the Galapagos Islands, where a single introduced species can wreak havoc on sensitive ecosystems and have a devastating impact on endemic flora and fauna, which haven’t evolved to cope or compete with new arrivals.
News & More
Animal advocates and wildlife enthusiasts like you and me are always excited when new research comes out demonstrating the intelligence of the “others” among us; for example, how crows solve problems or whales have complex cultures.
Conservation
One of my favorite things about writing a regular eco-travel and environmental column is getting to read the comments that come in. Sometimes readers are complimentary, sometimes they are critical and sometimes they challenge me. Such is the case with an article I recently wrote on soil and climate change.
