Content tagged with “nature”

“ The US Navy owns an entire forest to source a rare wood to repair the historic USS Constitution. ”

“ In the last 20 years, there has been a significant decrease of dead bugs on car windshields. This might be a result of a massive decline in the number of insects in the Earth biome. ”

“ Elephants might be adapting in real-time to limit their danger from poachers. ”

“ A specific bird flew from Alaska to New Zealand, without stopping, and this is typical for the breed. ”

“ There’s a ‘wet spot’ in the California desert that started slowly moving in 2016, and no one knows why. It’s wiggling under highways, train tracks, and other infrastructure, which causes problems. ”

“ There is a ‘forest’ of 47,000 ‘trees’ in Utah that is actually one massive tree, connected underground by a single root system. Each individual ‘tree’ is just a connected offshoot of the same, original tree. ”

“ Footage from a communications tower during a forest fire. You can see how fast it spreads, and at the very end of the video, you can actually see the camera lens and housing melt before the feed cuts out. ”

“ A documentary on how climate change is slowly sinking the Marshall Islands and how that population might be reestablished in the American South. ”

“ Ultimately, climate change is a migration problem. Humanity can survive it, but lots of people are going to have to move, and that causes other problems. ”

“ A photographer on a game reserve in South Africa witnesses a lion die of old age. ”

“ Only 12 people have ever finished this 100-mile race through the backwoods of Tennessee, and even registering for it requires you to navigate a web of lies. ”

“ If climate change continues as projected, humanity can survive, but most of the world will have to move. Also, Russia and Canada will be in charge. ”

“ An unexpected tailwind got a 747 across the Atlantic a full 80 minutes ahead of schedule, breaking the five-hour mark. ”

“ A couple built a man-made island (really, a collection of floating modules), and has lived there for almost three decades. ”

“ When you buy stuff and return it, the retailer often just throws it away instead of repackaging it and reselling it. ”

“ Less than 10% of plastic is actually recycled. We’ve been told otherwise by companies who produce plastic to alleviate our guilt at buying it. ”

“ Interesting statistics and trends on the rise of ‘alt-beef’ and how it might challenge and topple real beef in the years to come. The statistics on how many feed calories, water, and land area it takes to generate beef are eye-opening. ”

“ Published during a brutal European heatwave, this explains that European homes were designed to retain heat, not dissipate it, and how this will be an increasing problem going forward. ”