In the English countryside in Autumn, if you’re lucky, you are treated to an ethereal sight. As the sun sets, black clouds begin to rise up above against the rusty sky. They swell like smoke from a forest fire, slow and fast, bulging against the pattern of the wind. And then they ...
What is an example of parasitism in the rainforest? Summarize the life cycle of ascaris. What are parasitic adaptations in members of the phylum Platyhelminthes? Is being multicellular an example of convergent evolution? What are some animal adaptations for living in the ocean? What ...
A renewable resource is a natural material that is replenished in the environment through natural processes. These materials can be used indefinitely, as long as they are not consumed at a rate faster than they can be restored. Conversely, nonrenewable resources are natu...
Observing and quantifying primate behavior in the wild is challenging. Human presence affects primate behavior and habituation of new, especially terrestrial, individuals is a time-intensive process that carries with it ethical and health concerns, especially during the recent pandemic when primates are ...
103 Depending on where one puts the normative emphasis, the standard argument allows for two different interpretations, one which focuses on the idea of benefitting and that it is beneficiaries who should pay for part of the costs of rainforest protection (I call this the Beneficiary-Pays ...
Murphy justifies when it comes to the non-alcoholic drinks, by explaining his ingredient cost: $7-a-pound Comice pears yield so little juice that one drink contains four pears’ worth, and the aromatic honey he uses comes from rare, stingless bees kept by a man in the Yucatan rainforest...
TREE LOSS IN TROPICS CASTS DOUBT OVER CLIMATE GOALS “New research shows that the Amazon is losing resilience much faster than we thought, even reaching a tipping point where vast areas transform from rainforest to Savannah, resulting in massive emissions.” https://phys.org/news/2022-05-tree...
363 square miles of rainforest kaput! Probably not best way forward. BRAZIL’S AMAZON DEFORESTATION SETS FIRST-QUARTER RECORD DESPITE MARCH DIP “Reuters) – Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest fell 15% in March from a year earlier, preliminary government data showed on Friday, but ev...
In economics, the environment is a critical element in all the economy's functioning as it is the home of all elements involved. Therefore, environment refers to the circumstances in which both living and non-living things exist naturally thus ...
Energy is a part of nature affecting every living thing in positive, negative and neutral ways. The Earth itself is a dipole magnet with a north and a south pole. All living things have evolved within the protective cradle of the Earth’s natural geomagnetic fields. In fact, magnetic oscilla...