a branch of biology and the scientific study of the interactions of organisms with their environment.
Questions tagged [ecology]
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Is it almost impossible to find animals that are not contaminated by chemicals?
From Chapter 3 of Rachel Carson's seminal book, Silent Spring (1962):
FOR THE FIRST TIME in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death. In the less…
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Are 2–4 hour washing machine programs eco friendly?
New washing machine (at least in the EU) often have a special program named with something like "green" or "eco" and that are supposed to be environmentally friendly. These are often for around 2–4 hours, compared to the other programs (on the same…
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Did cultivated amaranth "almost disappear" from the Americas from the 1500s to the 1970s?
Iowa State University claims:
After the arrival of the Spanish Conquistadors in Mexico in the early 1500s, amaranth almost disappeared in the Americas as a crop until research began on it in the U.S. in the 1970s. In the meantime, amaranth had…
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Does light pollution matter for Insect declines and agroecosystems?
Recently it was claimed that the increase in artificial light at night was a significant contributor to the 'ecological armageddon' of decreasing insect populations. It was further argued that the transition to more blue light emitting LEDs made the…
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Can 3D ocean farms provide food and biofuel far more sustainably than other sources?
This article in The Nation contains an excerpt from “Ecological Redemption: Ocean Farming in the Era of Climate Change,” a lecture by Bren Smith given at the Thirty-Fifth Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures on October 24, 2015.. The lecture reads like…
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How fair is "N% lower environment load" claim for lower grammage paper?
This is basically a rephrase of this question from Sustainability SE. Paper manufacturer UPM claims they have paper that has the same key characteristics (as white, as thick and as usable in office equipment) as "usual" office paper but lower…
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Is transportation highly pollution intensive, relative to production?
The text of this paper, Batra and Belladi (2012), claims:
transportation is highly pollution intensive, specially relative to production
They provide some more context:
With international commerce, goods are transported over long distances
over…
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Is climate change causing jellyfish to wash up on the beach?
The following article
Thousands of Venomous Portuguese Man O’ Wars Wash Ashore in Australia: ‘It Was the Stuff Of Nightmares’
details an event where a large number of a jellyfish creatures washed up on a beach in Australia. Mostly, the article is…
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Does forest therapy (Shinrin-yoku) improve the immune system?
According to shinrin-yoku.org, forests help to improve the immune system, including the part that fights cancer:
But in the past several decades there have been many scientific studies that are demonstrating the mechanisms behind the healing…
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Are 100 million sharks culled per year for safety reasons?
Are 100 million sharks culled per year for safety reasons?
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A woman has a 1 in 262,365 chance of being killed by a shark in her
lifetime.
In that very same lifetime she has a 1 in 6 chance of being raped.
100 million sharks are…
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