Bioluminescence is light produced by a chemical reaction. This reaction is a type chemiluminescence that runs inside a living organism. As all metabolic activities running in a cell, this process is precisely coordinated and controlled. Thus it is a cold light, this means that it’s more than 80 % effective and less than 20 % of the …
Fungi have existed roughly 5/6 of the earth’s existance. They have had a lot of time to adapt to every environment on earth. For comparison, the humanoid species has existed 0,01 % of earth’s time (from the first speciments of the genus to Homo sapiens). Fungi are everywhere – they are so widespread, they make …
For the biologist, dolphin research presents challenges and opportunities in trying to understand individual species in their marine ecosystems. Marine mammals are highly mobile, cover large areas, move in three spatial dimensions, and spend most of their lives under water. So for most species of delphinids, basic aspects of their evolution, physiology, ecology, behavior and …
Fishing intensity keeps increasing throughout the world, which has negative impacts on nontarget species, including marine mammals. Thus bycatches have become a critical issue for marine mammal populations. Every year fishing industry removes about 80–90 million tons of fish and other marine organisms from the world’s oceans. Another 7–8 million tons of unwanted animal biomass …
Lately or in the last few years we can often come across vlogs and blogs titled »things I’ve stopped buying« or something in that style. Having a minimalistic lifestyle has become somewhat trendy, which is, in its core, good for the environment. But how about never starting with all the consumerism in the first place? …
Sometimes, with too much time on our hands, we get lost on YouTube. Sounds familiar? 😉 In my case, I “waste” my time on, among others, some beauty and fashion vlogs (even environmentalists fall for the cute things, guilty). The ones I come across are pretty likeable and relaxing with occasionally some good advice. What …
By Jared Diamond The author concentrates on why and how some of the ancient as well as some modern civilizations have collapsed or succeeded and also how or why some of the modern ones are possibly going to fail. It all seems that many, so called mysterious, society collapses have been caused at least partially …
