Siberia’s wildfires seen from 1 million miles away: even the tundra is burning
Greenpeace claim authorities underestimate the scale of destruction, amid warnings of lack of resources to fight fires. These exceptional images show how the smoke trails of wildfires over Siberia can be seen from outer space. The pictures were made by the EPIC camera on NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory spacecraft some 975,074 miles – or 1,569,229 kilometres from Earth on 21 July this year. Hovering between the Earth...
On World Environment Day, Profiting From Death, Devastation And Destruction Is The Norm
Author: Colin Todhunter The scaly anteater is considered to be the most trafficked mammal on earth. Over a million of these have been taken from the wild in the past decade alone. The illegal trade in live apes, including chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans, is also rife, and many other species across the planet are being trafficked. It is estimated that rhino poaching in South Africa increased by as much as 8,000% between...
Shifting Bird Distribution Indicates Changing Arctic
Shifts in the distribution of Spectacled Eiders, a predatory bird at the top of the Bering Sea’s benthic food web, indicate possible changes in the Arctic’s marine ecosystem, according to new research in The Condor: Ornithological Applications. Matt Sexson of the USGS Alaska Science Center and his colleagues compared recent satellite telemetry data from molting eiders with data from the mid-1990s. They found that in two of the...
More sea turtles survive with less beach debris
Clearing the beach of flotsam and jetsam increased the number of nests by as much as 200 percent, while leaving the detritus decreased the number by nearly 50 percent, report scientists at the conclusion of their study. Conventional wisdom says removing beach debris helps sea turtles nest; now, as sea-turtle nesting season gets underway, a new University of Florida study proves it. In the study, clearing the beach of flotsam and...
Here’s What’s Destroying the Rain Forest and What YOU Can Do About It
Amazon Rain Forest — One glance at the following pictures of the Amazon — devastated by a single industry — should have us rethinking our fix for burgers and fries. When one considers that the rare rain forests of the Amazon account for more than 7,000 medical compounds, leaving thousands more uncategorized or even named, it will literally make us sick to keep clear-cutting the Amazon for cattle ranching and pig farming. Yet that’s...
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