Koala populations in parts of Australia are being controlled to prevent them eating their main food source – manna gum trees – to extinction Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2263654-koalas-are-being-given-birth-control-to-fight-overpopulation/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
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Would you eat a python to save the Everglades?
Invading pythons are causing problems for the native wildlife in Florida. Should people start eating them and are they even safe to eat? Source: https://www.livescience.com/should-people-eat-invasive-pythons-florida.html
Are there benefits to following a raw food diet?
Eating predominantly uncooked food is a fad that goes back hundreds of years, but not one we need to follow, writes James Wong Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24833140-200-are-there-benefits-to-following-a-raw-food-diet/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Astronauts Grow Radishes in a Microfarm on the International Space Station
From a report: The thought of eating “astronaut food” brings to mind a kind of instant food that is far from “farm to table.” However, recent experiments aboard the ISS are improving our understanding of how to bring the farm directly into space itself. Astronauts just ran a Veg-PONDS 02 experiment on the International Space Station. The experiment used food that…
New sunspot cycle could be among strongest on record
A study of oppositely charged magnetic field bands, moving in the sun’s northern and southern hemispheres, suggests the coming sunspot cycle – Cycle 25 – will be a particularly strong one. This result contradicts an earlier expert forecast, suggesting a weak Cycle 25. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/sunspot-cycle-25-among-strongest-on-record-says-ncar…
Nearly all land animal species could lose part of habitat by 2050
If current agriculture growth continues, nearly 90 per cent of land animal species could lose some habitat by 2050. However, steps such as changing our eating habits could prevent almost all of the projected loss Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2263544-nearly-all-land-animal-species-could-lose-part-of-habitat-by-2050/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Deadly ‘brain-eating amoeba’ has expanded its range northward
You can thank climate change for this too. Source: https://www.livescience.com/brain-eating-amoeba-expanded-range-northern-united-states.html
How People Across the World Spend Their Time and What it Tells us About Living Conditions
How people spend their time is similar in many ways across countries: we all sleep, work, eat, and enjoy leisure. But there are also important differences in the freedom people have to spend time on the things they value most. Studying how people across the world spend their time provides an important perspective for understanding living conditions, economic opportunities, and general…
Earth spent 500 million years creating and eating dead continents
For more than a billion years, Earth covered itself in new continents. New research shows that those continents were quickly swallowed up again but their deaths fertilized life on the surface. Source: https://www.livescience.com/earth-lost-continents.html
‘It’s Time For Movie Theaters To Die So Movies Can Live Again’
Joshua Topolsky, writing at Input Mag: Movies are, by their very nature, good. Movies are one of the best things to have happened to the human race, probably ranking right up there in the top 5 with eating, sex, indoor plumbing, and music. We’ve probably all had formative experiences in one way or another around movies, and for many of us…