Collaborate Disseminate
Ben Lecomte began his swim on the coast of Japan and has already swum more than 1,200 nautical miles. Continue reading There Is Plastic ‘Everywhere,’ Says Guy Swimming Across Pacific Ocean
A study published this week in ‘Environmental Science & Technology’ sampled salt brands from across the globe and found 92 percent contained microplastics. Continue reading You’re Literally Sprinkling Plastic On Your Food
For brown bears, the fatter the better, because body fat means strong chances of winter survival. Continue reading It’s Big Boy Season: Vote for the Fattest Bear
Conservation scientists found that 261 out of 1,438 cactus species are unprotected by preserves or conservation regulations, putting them more at risk than mammals and birds. Continue reading A Booming Black Market Is Putting Many Cacti Species in Danger
Nepal is one of 13 tiger-range countries striving to double the world’s tiger population by 2022. Continue reading The Tiger Population in Nepal Has Nearly Doubled Since 2009 Because Conservation Efforts Work
Do you have a couple of minutes? Literally and precisely, two minutes. That’s how long these ten songs play. So what? A short song is not new, but these ten songs are part of a campaign to encourage residents of Cape Town, South Africa to cap their showers at one-hundred-twenty seconds. Some of us do not have to worry about droughts or water bills, but most of us are concerned about one or both of those, and this ingenious campaign alerted people to the problem, gave them the means to time themselves, and made it pleasant, not oppressive. The songs …read more
Ecology is a strange discipline. At its most basic, it’s the study of how living things interact with their environment. It doesn’t so much seek to explain how life works, but rather how lives work together. A guiding principle of ecology is that life finds a way to exploit niches, subregions within the larger world with a particular mix of resources and challenges. It’s actually all quite fascinating.
But what does ecology have to do with Luka Mustafa’s talk at the 2018 Hackaday Belgrade Conference? Everything, as it turns out, and not just because Luka and his colleagues put IoT …read more
Continue reading Hackaday Belgrade: Luka Mustafa on Exploiting IoT Niches
Alkali flies have been a fixture of Mono Lake, California for hundreds of years, but scientists only recently unravelled the secret of their aquatic abilities. Continue reading After Hundreds of Years, We’ve Finally Figured Out How These Flies Can Swim Underwater
It’s the latest chapter in a legal saga over international whaling rules. Continue reading Japan’s Latest Whale Hunt Killed 122 Pregnant Females and 114 Juveniles
A case study in the unforeseen consequences of well-meaning attempts at wildlife conservation in the Pacific Northwest, so protective as to be counterproductive. Continue reading Oregon Wants to Kill More Endangered Sea Lions to Save Endangered Fish