A biodiversity beetle byte. Yum!<\/p>\n
Nukes for biodiversity<\/a><\/p>\n If we can ignore the Fukushimas and Chernobyls, the uranium mining near the Grand Canyon, (and to be clear we shouldn\u2019t ignore them, just place them in better context, perhaps), nuclear power\u2019s attraction when it comes to minimizing impact on the wilds of the world is fairly obvious. The authors noted that the average person living in a developed nation will use a total amount of energy over his\/her lifetime equivalent that stored within one golf-ball-sized lump of uranium. Check out the chart below to see how that measures up to other power sources.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n Extinction infographic<\/a><\/p>\n …Nature<\/em> pulled together the most reliable available data to provide a graphic status report of life on Earth (see \u2018Life under threat\u2019). Among the groups that can be assessed, amphibians stand out as the most imperilled: 41% face the threat of extinction, in part because of devastating epidemics caused by chytrid fungi. Large fractions of mammals and birds face significant threats because of habitat loss and degradation, as well as activities such as hunting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n George Monbiot<\/a><\/p>\n I remembered that when I read the news that the world has lost 52% of its vertebrate wildlife over the past 40 years. It\u2019s a figure from which I\u2019m still reeling. To love the natural world is to suffer a series of griefs, each compounding the last. It is to be overtaken by disbelief that we could treat it in this fashion. And, in the darkest moments, it is to succumb to helplessness, to the conviction that we will keep eroding our world of wonders until almost nothing of it remains. There is hope \u2013 real hope \u2013 as I will explain, but at times like this it seems remote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n Bees!!<\/a><\/p>\n See ten species of American bee in pin-sharp detail and find out how they live.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n