Bats are important insect predators, pollinators, and seed dispersers. Bats live on all continents except Antarctica and are on the decline worldwide. Up to 80% of plants in a jungle are disseminated by bats. http://www.nps.gov/pinn/naturescience/bats.htm
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Myth Defunk: “Bats Are Just Pests.”
Posted: October 31, 2010 in Education, EnvironmentTags: bats, dispersing, ecology, insects, pollination, seeds, symbiosis
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World Clock Displays Facts About Living on Earth in Real Time
Posted: December 31, 2009 in Environment, extinct, Military Expenditure, pollution, population control, Technology, transportationhttp://www.peterrussell.com/Odds/WorldClock.php
Scientists Begin Testing Mussels for Pollutants in the San Francisco Bay
Posted: December 31, 2009 in Environment, pollutionSAN FRANCISCO — California scientists hope studying 180 black mussels pried from algae-covered rocks in San Francisco Bay will provide clues into how many drugs and chemicals are polluting waters across the nation. Dominic Gregorio, a senior environmental scientist with the State Water Resources Control Board will probably put together a report in few years! [...]
In response to allegation that the National Forest system allows private companies to do clear cutting inside our National forest: “Google does its own thing and is not related to us. The satellite is a picture of the earth so obviously does not show ownership boundaries. The area south of Union Valley and Ice House [...]
Eight new natural wonders, including the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in Mexico and what has been dubbed “the Galápagos of the Indian Ocean,” have been added to the World Heritage List. World Heritage Sites are named by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The sites, both cultural and natural, added to the [...]
LOS ANGELES – California faces an almost certain risk of being rocked by a strong earthquake by 2037, scientists said Monday in the first statewide temblor forecast. New calculations reveal there is a 99.7 percent chance a magnitude 6.7 quake or larger will strike in the next 30 years. The odds of such an event [...]
SANTIAGO (Reuters) – A lake in southern Chile has mysteriously disappeared, prompting speculation the ground has simply opened up and swallowed it whole. The lake was situated in the Magallanes region in Patagonia and was fed by water, mostly from melting glaciers.
