All tagged Nature

Listening to the Forest with Bioacoustics

Observing the health of ecosystems is important as it helps with species preservation, population monitoring, stress detection, and climate monitoring. In fact, “biodiversity loss is ranked as one of the top five global risks, both in impact and likelihood” (European Commission). Keeping an eye and or ear on an ecosystem over time can be hard for a person to do without any tools as there are many different sounds from animals coming from different directions, overlapping, etc. 

Light: More Than Meets The Eye

Throughout the tapestry of human history, none has captured our collective imagination more than the profound enigma of light. This luminous entity has been the subject of enduring fascination. With questions as ancient as our existence, we have probed the very essence of light: its composition, its absence, and the way it bathes our world in its glow. 

Do We Humans Deserve to Have a Geological Period Named After Us?

Nature has been an integral part of human society throughout history—from religion to poetry to our very livelihood. Today the relevance of nature lives on, redressed in the language of science. One scientific concept linking humanity with nature is the Anthropocene, a proposed geological epoch that describes the current period where human activity has been the dominant influence on climate and ecosystems. 

Do We Humans Deserve to Have a Geological Period Named After Us?

Nature has been an integral part of human society throughout history—from religion to poetry to our very livelihood. Today the relevance of nature lives on, redressed in the language of science. One scientific concept linking humanity with nature is the Anthropocene, a proposed geological epoch that describes the current period where human activity has been the dominant influence on climate and ecosystems.