by Larry Shultz | Jan 5, 2024 | Biodiversity, Ecology, Scale
Peter Brannen: “Deep Time, Mass Extinctions, and Today” | The Great Simplification
by Larry Shultz | Jan 2, 2024 | Biodiversity, Biology, Botany, Ethnobotany, Evolution, Uncategorized
Mushrooms may ‘talk’ to one another with up to 50 words | Science | AAAS
by Larry Shultz | Dec 25, 2023 | Biodiversity, Biophysical Economics, Cities, Democracy, Ecology, Education, Energy, Scale, Science
Consumption-based CO₂ emissions per capita vs. Human Development Index, 2021 (ourworldindata.org)
by Larry Shultz | Dec 23, 2023 | Biodiversity, Botany, Ecology, Education, Physical Geography, US West
vegetation_1970_lg.jpg (3000×1984) (codex99.com) Note climate has changed since this map was produced. Also, there is a greater understanding of how Native Americans changed vegetation type by fire. LS
by Larry Shultz | Dec 23, 2023 | Biodiversity, Biology, Education, Evolution, Scale
50 years ago, scientists thought they had found Earth’s oldest rocks (sciencenews.org) Single cell life, on Earth has been in existence for 3.7 billion years 17,000 times longer than the recent faith that creation was 6000 years ago. The oldest rock known is 4.4...
by Larry Shultz | Nov 29, 2023 | Biodiversity, Biology, E O Wilson, Education, Energy, Evolution
“There is grandeur in this view of life, with its dissipative powers, having been originally induced into many forms of far from equilibrium dissipative systems; and that, whilst irreversible processes on this planet have produced entropy according to the fixed second...