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Photographer Captures Intimate Images of Curious Red Squirrels | My Modern Met
By Emma Taggart on June 24, 2021 These are some photogenic squirrels! Seeing a squirrel in the wild is always an exciting moment, but we rarely get to see the cute creatures up-close. Most of the time, you might just … Continue reading
Dark Fish | Kottke
Sometimes you run across an aspect of reality and it just completely blows your mind. You’ve heard of dark matter, right? Well, meet dark fish: biologists suspect that up to 95% of the world’s total fish population lives in a … Continue reading
Painted Lady butterflies make an extreme migration across the scorching Sahara desert | CNET
Meara Isenberg June 23, 2021 5:50 p.m. PT Monarchs aren’t the only butterflies with migratory muscle, a new study confirms. After a 21-year study, an international team of researchers has presented strong evidence to suggest the Painted Lady butterfly … Continue reading
How quantum mechanics help birds find their way
Some birds can sense Earth’s magnetic field, using it to navigate. But precisely how they do this has long remained a mystery. Now, researchers have confirmed that a protein found in bird eyes displays a quantum mechanical phenomenon which makes … Continue reading
Mathematics and sex | Clio Cresswell | TEDxSydney
[…] Mathematics and sex are deeply intertwined. From using mathematics to reveal patterns in our sex lives, to using sex to prime our brain for certain types of problems, to understanding them both in terms of the evolutionary roots of … Continue reading
Why Brazil’s indigenous people fight for the Amazon rainforest | Nixiwaka Yawanawá | TEDxBedford
Nixiwaka Yawanawá is a member of the Yawanawá tribe — a community of indigenous people who live within the Amazon rainforest — on the Acre River Headwaters Indigenous Land. Like many other Amazonian tribes, the Yawanawá rely on the rainforest … Continue reading
This is what we get wrong about wildfires
Fire is as natural as wind and rain in large forest— and, in fact, needed. The 2020 wildfire season was the worst in California’s recorded history, with more than four million acres burned and almost 10,500 structures destroyed across the … Continue reading
How Indigenous fire management practices could protect bushland | Australian Story
Passed on through the generations, could Indigenous cultural burning save Australia’s landscape from another catastrophic bushfire season? When Victor Steffensen saw horrific bushfires breaking out across large parts of Australia this summer, it was no surprise to him. The amount … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, construction, could Indigenous cultural burning save Australia's landscape from another catastrophic bushfire season? When Victor Steffensen saw horrific bushfires breaking out across large parts of Australia this , design, Environment, it was no surprise to him. The amount of vegetation on the landscape — and the type of vegetation — looked to him like a time bomb waiting to go off. He believes we can look to the past to prevent, Life, nature, Passed on through the generations, science, traditional knowledge, Victor says one of the answers may lie with the fire management techniques practiced by Indigenous people for thousands of years. Read more: https://ab.co/2XvlSZv
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Flower mural by OGMillie and Floratorium in New York, US.
By OG Millie in New York, US. More photos.
Herd of Wild Elephants Take an Adorable Nap Together After 500-Mile Journey
After trekking across 300 miles, these elephants are taking a well-deserved nap! There is nothing like a well-deserved nap after a long day, and these elephants definitely deserved it. This herd of 15 wild Asian elephants embarked on a … Continue reading
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