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What a grocery store without bees looks like
MNN - Mother Nature Network
2 mentions — 1 day ago
In an effort to promote awareness about declining bee populations, a market removes all the food that relies on bees from its produce department. This resulted in the removal of 237 out of 453 products – 52 percent of the department's normal product mix. What's missing? There's a ...
BBC Two - Springwatch, 2010, City Living with Simon King, Living roof
BBC Two
2 mentions — 20 hours ago
Dusty Gedge is an ornithologist from east London who is passionate about getting nature up on the top of buildings. People walking around London often only see the sights, they rarely look up and think about what is on top of all the buildlings of the city, but ...
Le chant des oiseaux
Vidéo Dailymotion
2 mentions — 23 hours ago
A l’occasion de la 31ème édition de la Fête de la Musique, Natureparif, l’agence régionale pour la nature et la biodiversité en Île-de-France, vous invite à découvrir des chanteurs pas comme les autres au cours de la rencontre : « Le chant des oiseaux » Animée par : ...
Des libellules à Paris
Ca se passe au jardin
2 mentions — 1 day ago
Les libellules, facile de les reconnaître. Vers chez moi, dans le Val d’Oise (95), lorsqu’on se promène où qu’on pique-nique au bord d’un étang, elles ne sont jamais bien loin.On les distingue à leurs grandes ailes allongées et très nervurées, à leurs thorax trapu et leurs abdomens minces ...
Last Song for Migrating Birds
ngm.nationalgeographic.com
7 mentions — 4 days ago
In a bird market in the Mediterranean tourist town of Marsa Matruh, Egypt, I was inspecting cages crowded with wild turtledoves and quail when one of the birdsellers saw the disapproval in my face and called out sarcastically, in Arabic: “You Americans feel bad about the birds, but ...
A Great Egret Eating A Fish - Steve Creek Outdoors
stevecreek.com
3 mentions — 2 days ago
Wikipedia: The Great Egret feeds in shallow water or drier habitats, feeding mainly on fish, frogs, small mammals, and occasionally small reptiles and insects, spearing them with its long, sharp bill most of the time by standing still and allowing the prey to come within its striking distance ...
Graines de Jardiniers : les abris pour insectes...
les abris pour insectes...
2 mentions — 1 day ago
L'actu des actions et solutions pour préserver la nature et la biodiversité : Corridors écologiques, reboisements, .... Les insectes son indispensable à la biodiversité, et à l’équilibre au jardin. Il est possible de juguler un développement de pucerons si on a suffisamment de chrysopes, de coccinelles, ou perce-oreilles.
Our Work in Sustainable Agriculture
Rainforest Alliance
2 mentions — 1 day ago
Agricultural expansion is responsible for 70 percent of global deforestation, and is the single greatest threat to tropical forests. In these biodiversity-rich regions, farms are often responsible for soil erosion, water pollution and wildlife habitat destruction. Rainforest Alliance certification encourages farmers to grow crops and manage ranchlands sustainably.
PHOTO: This Is Your Supermarket Without Bees
huffingtonpost.com
2 mentions — 1 day ago
Have apples, carrots, lemons or watermelon on your grocery list? Bad news -- without bees, these foods could be much harder to find in the produce section, according to a new campaign from Whole Foods Market.Bees are still having a rough time. The British Beekeepers Association said more ...
It's National Pollinator Week!
movingart.com
2 mentions — 2 days ago
This week is National Pollinator Week! Initiated six years ago by the Pollinator Partnership, this week is designed to educate and empower people to do more to protect the world’s pollinators.“Pollinating animals, including bees, birds, butterflies, bats, beetles and others, are vital to our delicate ecosystem, supporting terrestrial ...
UN challenges government to protect Great Barrier Reef
guardian.co.uk
2 mentions — 22 hours ago
A UN report has urged Australia to ensure expansion of ports doesn't damage the 'outstanding value' of The Great Barrier Reef. Photograph: ReutersThe Great Barrier Reef will be listed as a threatened ecosystem by the United Nations from June next year unless the government meets a raft of ...
Mind how ewe go: the sheep-eating killer plant that’s ready to bloom
The Independent
2 mentions — 21 hours ago
Oscar Quine is a freelance journalist with an interest in politics and popular culture. He is completing an MA in Journalism at Goldsmiths. A sheep-eating plant is set to bloom over the next few days in a Surrey garden. In its natural habitat of the Andes, the 3m-tall ...
From Nukes to Renewables: Japan on Track to be World's Largest Solar Market
EcoWatch: Cutting Edge Environmental News Service
2 mentions — 5 days ago
Japan could be on course to become the world’s largest market for solar energy, just two years after the Fukushima power station melt down took virtually all of its nuclear fleet offline.Analysts at Deutsche Bank suggest that Japan could take over the top spot for solar power within ...
La fertilisation des océans rendra les diatomée...
scoop.it
2 mentions — 1 day ago
Dans les Alpes françaises, les grenouilles, ces amphibiens à sang froid, n’ont pas le temps de badiner.… La saison des amours y est aussi fugace que l’été.Des scientifiques du Smithsonian Institute des États-Unis ont découvert au moins une nouvelle espèce de poisson sur un corail profond, au large ...
RESET
RESET
3 mentions — 2 months ago
To help communities implement biodiverse green infrastructure, for better neighbourhoods and urban climate adaptation.Interdisciplinary training on adapting towns and cities to climate change with natureGary Grant & Dusty GedgeThe theory and practical design and build of small scale green roofs led by UK expertsJohn Little & Dusty GedgeRESET ...
Iceland's fin whales are endangered. Stop this bloody cull
guardian.co.uk
3 mentions — 1 day ago
We know so little about fin whales. The resumption of whaling shows the global market prevailing over common senseWhalers cut open a 35-tonne fin whale on the western coast of Iceland in 2009, before a two-year moratorium came into being. Photograph: Halldor Kolbeins/AFP/Getty ImagesLast night, Hvalur 8 and ...
'To farm I have to rape the countryside. It’s got to be wrong': The true effect of the badger cull
The Independent
2 mentions — 6 hours ago
But the mound is actually a badger sett, home to an unknown number of the animals. Someone has crudely blocked most of the entrances with soil and stones. Spade marks are visible; so too are footprints. Tree branches and undergrowth have been chopped back. Tyre tracks from a ...
Fifteen New Bird Species Discovered in the Amazon
Audubon Magazine Blog
2 mentions — 20 hours ago
Popular opinion holds that the Amazon is practically bursting at the seams with undiscovered mammals, birds, and plants. But rarely do researchers actually uncover a number of species all in one go. Sometimes they do strike it lucky, though. Recently, researchers listed 15 new bird species—the largest number ...
This is what the grocery store would look like in a world without bees
now.msn.com
2 mentions — 2 days ago
This is what the grocery store would look like in a world without bees2 days agoBees aren't exactly having the best couple of years. With many colonies mysteriously collapsing and others not surviving the cold winter, a lot of people are worried about the future of bees and ...
Monsanto's top herbicide is poisoning us and killing our planet.
SumOfUs
4 mentions — 5 days ago
Monsanto has spent the past three decades wrecking our environment, poisoning our bodies, and pushing species of crops to the verge of extinction with a wide array of toxic products. And Monsanto's signature herbacide, Roundup, does all these things at once. Roundup is one of its most damaging ...
Fighting the poachers on Africa's thin green line
The Observer
2 mentions — 2 days ago
On patrol: officers of the wildlife police force train near to the entrance of the lower Zambezi National Park, before heading out on an anti-poaching operation 160km from Lusaka. Photograph: Jason Larkin for the ObserverEsnart Paundi rarely smiled for the camera. One old photo shows her wearing her ...
I fucking love biodiversity
ConservationBytes.com on WordPress.com
3 mentions — 1 day ago
I don’t like biodiversity. I like beef lasagna, I like the British museum and I like everything Jules Verne ever wrote. When it comes to biodiversity, it’s different. I think about it all the time, try to be close to it and suffer emotional distress when I think ...
Petition
U.S. Senator for Vermont
2 mentions — 3 days ago
Sen. Bernie Sandersintroduced the Restore Our Privacy Act to put strict limits on sweeping powers used by the National Security Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation to secretly track telephone calls by millions of innocent Americans who are not suspected of any wrongdoing."We must give our intelligence and law enforcement agencies all of the tools that they need to combat terrorism but we must do so in a way that protects our freedom and respects the Constitution's ban on unreasonable searches," Sanders said.
Conservation group says Florida butterfly extinction shows need for better endangered species protections
Summit County Citizens Voice on WordPress.com
3 mentions — 2 days ago
The Colorado River starts ... here! Join the CFWE for an educational tour of the headwaters region June 20-21.Breckenridge Destinations supports independent journalism. Click for great deals on vacation lodging in Breckenridge.A recent Supreme People’s Court ruling has highlighted the precariousness of contracts behind major foreign investments in ...
On the trail of the large tortoiseshell, the UK's most elusive butterfly
guardian.co.uk
2 mentions — 2 days ago
There have been fleeting sightings of the insect since 1950, but no one can be sure it really exists in Britain's countrysideThe large tortoiseshell is a powerful and mysterious butterfly which vanished from Britain in the 1950s. Photograph: Neil HulmeIt was, joked Matthew Oates, a "lunatic fringe" mission.
Pesticides kill more river life than was thought
The Local
2 mentions — 1 day ago
Published: 18 Jun 13 08:00 CET | Print version Online: http://www.thelocal.de/sci-tech/20130618-50367.htmlPesticides may kill off water insects and other small aquatic life by as much as 42 percent, according to an analysis of German, French and Australian rivers and streams, published on Monday.German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she will ...
Ancient Roman Concrete Is About to Revolutionize Modern Architecture
Businessweek
2 mentions — 3 days ago
After 2,000 years, a long-lost secret behind the creation of one of the world’s most durable man-made creations ever—Roman concrete—has finally been discovered by an international team of scientists, and it may have a significant impact on how we build cities of the future.As anyone who’s ever visited ...
Behind the rhetoric what is really being done to combat desertification?
The Independent
2 mentions — 2 days ago
Thanks to a combination of overgrazing and deforestation, he has watched the countryside around his Senegalese village, Mboula, turn into a dusty, unproductive wasteland.“Trees provide us with many benefits,” explains Mustafa, as we sit on a mat in the centre of his village. “They are good for the ...
Pesticides spark broad biodiversity loss
Nature News & Comment
4 mentions — 1 day ago
Pesticide use reduces the biodiversity of insects like the emperor dragonfly (Anax imperator), a new study finds.Agricultural pesticides have been linked to widespread invertebrate biodiversity loss in two new research papers.Pesticide use has sharply reduced the regional biodiversity of stream invertebrates, such as mayflies and dragonflies, in Europe ...
Die-off in Indian River Lagoon killing dolphins, manatees
Tampa Bay Times
2 mentions — 2 days ago
The Indian River Lagoon on Florida's east coast has long been known as the most diverse ecosystem in North America. Its 156 miles of water boasts more than 600 species of fish and more than 300 kinds of birds.The lagoon is not just an ecological treasure. To the ...
'How on Earth?' - A Book for a New Economy
Indiegogo
3 mentions — 6 days ago
What on Earth is this project?At the Post Growth Institute, we are writing a book: How on Earth? Flourishing in a Not-for-Profit World by 2050. This will be the world’s first book to explore the prospect of not-for-profit enterprise becoming the central model of local, national and international ...
Large-scale biodiversity is vital to maintain ecosystem health
sciencedaily.com
4 mentions — 2 weeks ago
June 7, 2013 — Over the years ecologists have shown how biological diversity benefits the health of small, natural communities. New analysis by ecologists at UC Santa Cruz demonstrates that even higher levels of biological diversity are necessary to maintain ecosystem health in larger landscapes over long periods of time.Think of it as patches on a quilt, says Erika Zavaleta, UCSC associate professor of environmental studies. Each patch may be a diverse habitat of plants, animals, and insects but it is equally important that the landscape "quilt" is made up ...
The Legacy of Murdered Sea Turtle Conservationist Jairo Mora Sandoval
News Watch
2 mentions — 2 days ago
Jairo Mora Sandoval, a young Costa Rican turtle conservationist, was abducted and murdered. Photo: WIDECASTOn Friday, May 31st, while returning from a long night walking a turtle nesting beach near the city of Limón, young Costa Rican conservationist Jairo Mora Sandoval was abducted by unknown assailants, beaten, and ...
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The future of the UK's iconic wildlife hangs in the balance
rspb.org.uk
2 mentions — 2 weeks ago
The character, wildlife and heritage of many of the UK's iconic landscapes - from the Cornish coast to the islands of Scotland - hang in the balance.This is the warning from a coalition of farming, wildlife, environmental and heritage groups, unless there is a way of improving the ...
Al Gore says Obama must veto 'atrocity' of Keystone XL tar sands pipeline
guardian.co.uk
2 mentions — 4 days ago
Former vice-president says oil pipeline is 'really a losing proposition' and demands climate plan promised at inaugurationEnvironmental activists opposed to the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline project demonstrate in Portland, Oregon. Photograph: Alex Milan Tracy/CorbisAl Gore has called on Barack Obama to veto the Keystone XL tar sands ...
Britain's new 'peasants' down on the farm
The Observer
3 mentions — 3 days ago
A determined generation of young smallholders hope to reclaim the British countryside from the grip of corporate food giantsSmallholdings should be the dominant face of farming in Britain, says the Land Workers' Alliance. Photograph: AlamyThe English peasantry may have officially died out in the Middle Ages, but a ...