Ecology

Pacific garbage patch: huge island of trash the size of France

07-02-2024

Pacific garbage patch: huge island of trash the size of France

Imagine the area of France, multiply it by three and flunk all images trash to the brim. Looks like the Great Pacific garbage patch ...

Minamata disease - how the plant secretly killed the Japanese for decades

05-02-2024

Minamata disease - how the plant secretly killed the Japanese ...

Mercury is a liquid silvery metal used in many modern industries. The importance of mercury for metallurgy, energy, the chemical ...

What are waves

28-01-2024

What are waves

Sian ka'an is a unique biosphere reserve, located along the Caribbean coast of Mexico, but going by the currents bring on the ...

10 Fascinating And Terrifying Pics Of The Power Of Winter

25-01-2024

10 Fascinating And Terrifying Pics Of The Power Of Winter

Freeze! No, that wasn't a command; that was an exclamation, you don't need to freeze, pandas. If you're in the Northern Hemisphere ...

Indoor plants that purify the air

06-01-2024

Indoor plants that purify the air

Various household appliances, plastic furniture, chipboard furniture, linoleum, panels, paint, wallpaper, washing powders and ...

Reusable plastic bottles turned out to be dangerous for humans

05-01-2024

Reusable plastic bottles turned out to be dangerous for humans

A lot has been said and written about the dangers of disposable plastic bottles. Many environmental organizations persistently ...

Why buying a live Christmas tree is more useful for the environment than putting an artificial one

20-12-2023

Why buying a live Christmas tree is more useful for the ...

The time is approaching when the Christmas tree hype will begin. Millions of people worried about nature conservation will choose ...

19 items that should not be thrown in the trash

10-12-2023

19 items that should not be thrown in the trash

When something fails or just becomes useless, we readily throw it in the trash. But many of us do not realize that some of these ...

12 Crazy Pics Of Mother Nature Doing Things On Its Own Terms

17-11-2023

12 Crazy Pics Of Mother Nature Doing Things On Its Own Terms

There’s this saying that essentially says there is no bad weather—only bad choices in clothing. Obviously, people who say that ...

The most sensational finds ever discovered in glaciers

17-11-2023

The most sensational finds ever discovered in glaciers

The Earth's ice cover is disappearing, and at a very rapid pace. For example, in Glater National Park in Montana, due to ...

Shocking photos: how much garbage a person produces in just a week

12-10-2023

Shocking photos: how much garbage a person produces in just a ...

The problem of waste disposal is becoming more acute for modern people. The consumer society dictates its own rules, flooding the ...

I Illustrate The Problems Of Modern Society, And Here Are My Newest 11 Works

01-08-2023

I Illustrate The Problems Of Modern Society, And Here Are My ...

What are the things that bother you most about the world today? Is it the wars and economic problems made by powerful people that ...

15 Oldest Trees In The World No Lumberjack Should Touch

29-06-2023

15 Oldest Trees In The World No Lumberjack Should Touch

For the dendrologists of our society, the oldest trees in the world are the sources of study. Like the oldest things in the world, ...

Beauty can be deceiving: Would you bathe in bleach?

14-05-2023

Beauty can be deceiving: Would you bathe in bleach?

From afar, an abandoned quarry in the English city of Buxton looks like a real piece of paradise. But beauty can be deceiving. In ...

10 wonders of the world that may disappear in the next 20 years

14-05-2023

10 wonders of the world that may disappear in the next 20 years

Travel portal Budget Travel has compiled a list of ten wonders of the world that may disappear by 2030. The inevitability of death ...

Stockholm. Hammarby Sjöstad - an eco-quarter on the site of an abandoned industrial zone

24-04-2023

Stockholm. Hammarby Sjöstad - an eco-quarter on the site of ...

Stanislav Kaznov writes: The idea to build an eco-quarter on the site of an abandoned industrial zone arose thanks to an ...

Presents from Neptune

30-03-2023

Presents from Neptune

The ocean depths will definitely return what they have taken, whether it is a child's scoop or jewelry. The only question is ...

Top 10 most environmentally friendly cities in Russia

23-03-2023

Top 10 most environmentally friendly cities in Russia

Ufa, Saransk, Vologda and Moscow took the first four places in the rating of environmentally friendly development of Russian ...

The most unhealthy marathon on the planet

22-03-2023

The most unhealthy marathon on the planet

As a rule, a marathon is a sure way to health. But not everywhere. A few days ago, Beijing hosted probably the most unhealthy ...

a swan song

20-03-2023

a swan song

Kapotnya is considered by many to be the most problematic district of Moscow, primarily due to the oil refinery located there. ...

Ecocapsules for future survival

20-03-2023

Ecocapsules for future survival

In eco-capsules designed by the Bratislava company Nice Architects, you can live a year without electricity. The capsule is ...

Garden in a bomb shelter

19-03-2023

Garden in a bomb shelter

This farm in abandoned bomb shelters under the streets of London is the brainchild of Richard Ballard and Stephen Dring, where they ...

Portrait of breathless Beijing

15-03-2023

Portrait of breathless Beijing

Beijing recently raised pollution levels to orange for the first time this year. For several days, dense gray smog enveloped the ...

Children who die from "living" water

15-03-2023

Children who die from "living" water

A person can live without food for up to 8 weeks. Without water, the period allotted to him is reduced to three days. But what if ...

British celebrities undress in defense of the herring

14-03-2023

British celebrities undress in defense of the herring

Last year, a photo of famed British actress Helena Bonham Carter posing naked and hugging a 27kg tuna fish went viral at an ...

Oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico

14-03-2023

Oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico

On April 20, 2010, 80 kilometers off the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico, an explosion occurred on the Deepwater Horizon ...